East Asian Resources

The Xinhua News Agency's internal reference database (1949-1989) is installed on the public computer in the East Asian Library. Users need to visit the East Asian Library to access the database.

Library catalog page of Xinhua News Agency's internal reference database (1949-1989).

The database contains 3,625 issues of the "Internal Reference" published by Xinhua News Agency in mainland China that were historically restricted to senior cadres of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and marked as confidential. 

Princeton University has a Manchu collection. Previously, the only way to see the list of titles was through a PDF of copied title cards with unromanized brief information. Now, the Manchu material collection at Princeton can be found in the search of the online catalog. In addition to the purely Manchu works, the collection includes many multilingual works, as well as some Mongolian items.

Library catalog page of J-DAC: North China Railway Company Related Materials 華北交通関係資料.

Library catalog page of J-DAC: Modern Buddhism Rare Periodicals Collection 近代仏教稀少雑誌コレクション.

Library catalog page of J-DAC: Collection of Magazines on Japanese Mass Entertainment and Sexual Customs 性風俗稀少雑誌コレクション.

Direct link to China Modern Gazetteer Full-Text Database

Library catalog page of China Modern Gazetteer Full-Text Database.

This database aggregates over 3000 county gazetteers compiled since 1949. It includes full-text search functions and also digitizes and verifies tables from the gazetteers, providing downloadable spreadsheets to support data analysis and research workflows.

Direct link to Manhua Digital Archive 漫画月刊

Library catalog page of Manhua Digital Archive 漫画月刊.

Manhua (漫画; 漫画月刊) was a state-sponsored pictorial magazine published in the People’s Republic of China through the 1950s. This database includes complete issues, full-page images and searchable texts.

Direct link to South China Sea Island Disputes: 1877-1988 

Library catalog page of South China Sea Island Disputes: 1877-1988 

South China Sea Island Disputes: 1877–1988 is an assembly of select texts, maps, and official documents from various national archives that present a primary record of multiple international territorial disputes surrounding the South China Sea and its various islands in the period 1877 to 1988. 

Direct link to Shen Bao Digital Archive 申報 (1872-1949).

Library catalog page of Shen Bao Digital Archive 申報 (1872-1949).

Established in 1872, Shen Bao (申報) was the most influential and longest-lasting commercial newspaper before the establishment of the People’s Republic. The collection contains full issues, images, and is full-text searchable.

Direct link to Rural Studies Database 乡村研究数据库

Library catalog page of Rural Studies Database 乡村研究数据库.

The database is about “agriculture, rural areas, and farmers,” urban–rural relations, ethnic minority regions, and overseas rural studies. It includes both published and unpublished materials such as survey reports, survey data, local chronicles, folk documents, official documents, and oral histories, in various formats including books, articles, policies, news, images, audio, and video. 

It consists of three sub-databases: 

• Database for “Three Rural Issues” Research “三农”研究数据库
• Village Investigation Research Database 村落调查研究数据库
• County/City Investigation Research Database 县市调查研究数据库.

University of Maryland has recently add new digitizations and newly acquired papers in the Gordon W. Prange Collection.

New digitizations and acquisitions include:

• Digitized photo albums and loose photos - Mead Smith Karras papers
• Digitized slides - Victor E. Delnore papers
• Digitized slides - Roy W. Simonson papers
• Digitized oral histories audio files & transcripts - Marlene Mayo Oral Histories