The Selected Archives in Tibetan, Mongolian and Manchu at the Archives of Tibet Autonomous Region have been published with a release ceremony held Tuesday in Lhasa.

The books, 12 volumes in total, which took more than five years to compile, are the first to systematically record the photocopies of thousands of important Mongolian and Manchu archives since the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368).

The archives reflect the relationship between the central government and the local government of Tibet in Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and the history of exchanges between Manchu, Mongolian, Tibetan and other ethnic groups during that time.

A total of 1,394 documents are presented in the books, including imperial edicts from the Yuan and Qing dynasties, as well as documents of the Dalai Lama and local officials in Tibet.