Princeton users now have trial access to Taiwan Epochal Democracy Magazines 臺灣經典民論雜誌. The database gives access to ten public opinion journals and magazines from Taiwan and Hong Kong. Critical political magazines like 文星雜誌 “Wenxing Magazine”, 臺灣政論 “Taiwan Political Review”, 美麗島 “Formosa Magazine” and 夏潮 “The China Tide”. Journals with wide intellectual influence such as 當代雜誌…

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Dai Kan-Wa jiten has been updated! The approximately 376,000 vocabulary entries contained in the vocabulary index volume (v. 13) and the full text have been digitized. Now users can perform full-text searches in definitions and sources as well as by kanji orthography, reading, and character count. In “JapanKnowledge Lib” https://libguides.princeton.edu/az/japanknowledge-lib, go to 基本検索 (Basic Search)…

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Princeton users now have online access to 근로자 (Kŭlloja = Worker), an official organ of Chosŏn Nodongdang (Workers’ Party of [North] Korea). The coverage spans from 1946 to 2024. Please note some issues are lacking—for example, those form 2020—which are currently not available in electronic format.   Link: https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99126831140706421 (choose the full text link from there)

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Thanks to very generous East Asian Program contributions and efforts, the East Asian Library is extremely happy to be able to announce, that starting Monday October 6, the East Asian Library will revert to (almost) the same schedule as in the previous years. From Monday, October 6, the library will be open: Monday-Thursday:       …

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Princeton users now have permanent access to Bibliographic Database for Chinese Classic Ancient Books from Zhonghua Book Company 中华古籍书目数据库. The database includes detailed individual records for all titles described in the 中国古籍总目, 中国古籍善本书目, 四库全书总目, 续修四库全书总目提要, and the 艺文志 of some of the standard histories. Please note that databases from Zhonghua Book Company operate with an…

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Princeton users now have access to the Periodicals of Modern Chinese Film 中国近代期刊电影专题数据库. This database is a subsection of the Shanghai Library National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals. Other than most other parts of the National Index, this subsection on film is full-text searchable. It gives access to 30 periodicals from the Republican period…

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Princeton users now have expanded access to all seven published sections of The Tabloids (1897-1949) within the Quan guo bao kan suo yin 全國報刊索引 (National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals). The Tabloids is a collection of more than 400 individual titles of tabloids form the collections of Shanghai Library. The latest additions to the…

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Thanks to the generous support of the East Asian Studies Program at Princeton, Princeton users now have permanent access to the three East Asian databases below: The Collection of Korean Geography, Customs and History DB (韓國地理風俗誌 DB)A collection of 400 volumes on geography, customs and history of Korea published between late Chosen and 1945 published…

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Princeton users now have permanent access to part four of this database. The new part adds 2,000 pre-modern local gazetteers dating from the Song to the Republican period with a strong focus on the Qing. There are many ways of searching this full-text database, including by region, title or period, but at the same time,…

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Princeton users now have permanent access to the newly published 總集編 of the poetry database Lidai shiwenji zongku 歷代詩文集總庫 (previously known as Lidai bieji ku 歷代別集庫). The new part gives access to 1,000 poetry anthologies that include writings from more than one author. To access the database please select “ancient classics” from the first landing…

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