Author: jseufert

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.…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…