Princeton users now have trial access to Chinese News Data Service Platform 人大当代报刊资源服务平台. The database gives access to more than 1,000 titles of Chinese newspapers. Coverage differs from title to title but mostly starts from the mid-2010s. The database includes national, provincial, regional and local newspapers as well as trade specific newspapers and party newspapers.…

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The Digital Humanities Project on Bibliography of Modern Korean Periodicals (BMKP; www.projectbmkp.org) has now been published. This initiative builds upon the Bibliography of East Asian Periodicals (Colonial Korea 1900–1945), completed in 2022, with the goal of creating a more integrated and dynamic bibliographic resource using digital visualization tools. A team of three Korean Studies Librarians: Jude…

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The Lidai shiwenji zongku 歷代詩文集總庫 (previously known as Lidai bieji ku 歷代別集庫) consists of the collected poetry writings of individuals. Currently Princeton users have access to 8,000 titles of the full range of pre-Ming, Ming, and Qing authors. As all Airusheng/Erudition databases, the texts have been carefully digitized and checked for optimal full-text searching. Please…

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Princeton users now have trial 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 access to the Chinese Dictionary Compendium at Hanyucidian.org. The database gives access to 50 Chinese language dictionaries published by 上海辞书出版社 including the extended first edition of the Hanyu dacidian 漢語大詞典 (第一版+訂補) as well as other important dictionaries like the Kangxi zidian 康熙字典, the Foxue dacidain 佛學大辭典, and the Unicode UniHan database. The…

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Princeton users now have access to British Colonial Policy and Intelligence Files on Asia, 1880–1950. The original documents are part of the Oriental & India Office Collections (OIOC, now part of the Asia, Pacific, and Africa Collections), British Library, London. The East Asian parts of this collection include: British Intelligence Files on the Chinese in…

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Princeton users now have access to My China Roots, a database for researching Chinese genealogy. While the database focuses on genealogical research it has much to offer for the historical study of Chinese immigration to North America in the 19th and 20th century. The database includes Chinese exclusion records, immigration case files, identity certificates, zupus…

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The East Asian Library will close over the holiday period. The library will close early on Monday, December 23 at 5:00pm and re-open on Thursday, January 2 with out-of-term opening hours (Mo-Fr 9am-5pm, weekends closed). During the holiday week, only Firestone Library will be open and only with limited opening hours. For a detailed overview…

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Princeton users now have trial access to three additional sections of the Tabloids 小報 (1897-1949) database from Shanghai Library. The Tabloids (1897-1949) is a sub-section of the Quan guo bao kan suo yin 全國報刊索引 (National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals). The new sections give access to roughly 230 individual titles of tabloids form the…

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Princeton users now have trial access to 中国金石总库. Work on the Chinese Epigraphy database started in 2016 under the auspice of the Chinese Archaeologist Su Bai. It is structured in two parts, one on bronze and one on stone inscriptions. At this moment, the database covers some 80,000 entries (18,000 bronze inscriptions and 63,000 stone…

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