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Asian Studies
catalog 2020
Over three centuries of scholarly publishing
Contents Highlighted Titles
1 Online Resources
2 Online Resources - Primary Sources
Online - Asian Newspapers and
Magazines
9 Online Resources - Primary Sources
Online
10 Online Resources
18 Asia General
See page 1 See page 1 See page 21
19 China
28 East Asia
31 Japan
33 South Asia
36 Southeast Asia
38 Inner Asia
39 Asian Art
41 Asian Languages
43 Asian Law See page 25 See page 27 See page 32
44 Religion in Asia
48 Journals
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Chinese Iconography Harvard University Asia Center
Thesaurus E-Book Collection
Editor-in-Chief: Hongxing Zhang Author: Various Authors & Editors
Editors: Yi-Hsin Lin and Jin Gao
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The Chinese Iconography Thesaurus (CIT) is freely accessible The Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection is a
and brings together sinology, art history and information studies collaboration between Brill and Harvard University Asia Center.
to create the first alternative classification scheme, especially This collection includes 528 titles published by Harvard University
designed for the Chinese visual culture, with a complementary Asia Center by June 2019. Nearly all titles belong to one of three
image archive. Traditionally iconography has been used to monograph series: Harvard East Asian Monographs (about 410
index and access images of European art. Because of the lack of titles), Harvard-Yenching Institute Monographs (about 90 titles),
alternative models, the contents of non-Western art objects have and the Harvard Contemporary China Series (about a dozen titles).
long been catalogued according to Eurocentric classifications. Around 16-20 new titles will be added to the collection annually. 1
To fill this gap, a research group led by Hongxing Zhang, Senior
Curator of Chinese collections at the V&A London, created the CIT. By country, approximately 50% of the books in this collection are
on China, 40% Japan, 10% Korea, and 1% other (Vietnam, India,
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The CIT website is built and hosted by Brill. The database can be Mongolia and other Asian regions). By field, approximately 50%
consulted in both Chinese and English and is regularly updated; of the books in this collection are on history, 20% literature, 5%
Currently, it contains 10,000 terms extracted primarily from pre- business & economics, 5% religion, 5% politics & policy, 5%
1900 sources and 2700 images of objects from the V&A, the MET, anthropology, sociology & regional studies, 3% art history, 3%
and the NPM Taipei. popular culture & cinema, and 1% law, with a few miscellaneous
topics.
brill.com/cit brill.com/hace
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Online Resources - Primary Sources Online - Asian Newspapers and Magazines
Brill's Asian Newspapers and
Magazines
Brill’s Asian Newspapers and Magazines collection offers an
eclectic but essential range of rare English-language East- and
South-East Asian news sources published from the early 1790s
to the mid-1950s. Spanning more than one-and-a-half centuries
and over a dozen publications, the collection offers unique
contemporary insights into key historical conflicts, systemic shifts
and all the minutiae of social, political and economic change as
Asia moved into the age of modernity.
Essential Primary Sources - Included in this expanding collection
are not only standard requirements for Asianists at all levels of
scholarship, such as the North-China Herald and its weekly edition, North-China Daily News Online
the North-China Daily News, the Japan Chronicle, the Japan/
Nippon Times Weekly and Contemporary Japan, but hitherto “An invaluable primary source for historical research on the
uncollected and barely-researched serial publications such modern period, especially China… This new Online Primary
as Japan News-Week, the North China Standard, the Manchuria Source will enable far-reaching historical research and encourage
Daily News, Hongkong News, and the Chinese Students’ Monthly and the spirit of scholarly enquiry among historians of modern East
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many others. Asia.” -- Liu Wennan Ph.D., Associate Researcher, Institute of Modern
History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Additional imprint material - Wherever possible, each Primary
Source in the Brill Asian Newspapers and Magazines collection “This expanded collection is an essential source for scholars of
includes related editions of the serial, additional supplements the history of international relations in pre- and immediate
and magazines, and books and pamphlets from the imprint, the post-war East Asia … This database set provides not only the daily
publishing arm of the publication. edition, but also substantial holdings of the weekend magazines,
supplements, the Municipal Gazette and books and pamphlets
2 Fully-text searchable, high resolution scans - Wherever possible, from the newspaper’s imprint.” -- Professor Dr. Sven Saaler, Sophia
all titles have been sourced from high-quality originals and University, Japan
reproduced in high resolution colour. All titles are fully text-
searchable and provided in as complete an edition as is currently Brill’s new edition of the North-China Daily News is great news
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available. As new issues and materials emerge, they will be added for scholars of China and East Asia from the 1860s to the mid-19th
to the collection at no extra cost. century. Except for a wartime break, 1941-45, this was the most
influential and informative English-language daily in East Asia.
Advisor: Dr. Peter O’Connor, Musashino University, Tokyo
Brill’s relaunched North-China Daily News has a greatly expanded
run of the Daily edition from 1869-1949 and some terrific extras,
including unique colour holdings of the Sunday Magazine and
Special Supplements, a significant run of the Municipal Gazette,
organ of the Shanghai Municipal Council from 1908-1940, and a
terrific selection of rare books and pamphlets from the imprint of
the North-China Daily News and its parent publisher, the North-
China Herald.
Published here in full colour 300 ppi scans from original issues and
grayscale, this collection also offers the only complete run of the
works of “Sapajou”, arguably the greatest of all Shanghai’s topical
artists, during his tenure at the North-China Daily News, 1923-1941.
brill.com/ncdo
ISSN: 2589-8221
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Online Resources - Primary Sources Online - Asian Newspapers and Magazines
The North-China Herald Online North China Standard Online
The English-language North-China Herald is the prime printed “The North China Standard (1919–1930) is a crucially important
source in any language for the history of the foreign presence source of insights into Sino-Japanese relations during the 1920s.
in China from around 1850 to 1940s. During this so-called ‘treaty A ‘semi-official’ organ of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
century’ (1842-1943) the Western Powers established a strong the Standard was one of the key English-language newspapers
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presence in China through their protected enclaves in major cities. published in Beijing … an important research source for scholars
of Chinese and Japanese history and East Asian media researching
It was published weekly in Shanghai, at the heart of China’s the environment of multi-power struggle in the region during
encounter with the Euro-American world in a city at the the 1920s.” -- Shuge Wei, PhD. , School of Culture, History and
forefront of developments in Chinese politics, culture, education Language, The Australian National University
and the economy. As the official journal for British consular
notifications, and announcements of the Shanghai Municipal In Japan’s network of newspapers presenting the national case
Council, it is the first -- and sometimes only -- point of reference for expansion and leadership in Asia, the North China Standard
for information and comment on a range of foreign and Chinese (in Chinese, Huabei zheng bao) stands alongside the Japan 3
activities. Regularly it also features translations of Chinese official Times & Mail as a real newspaper, distributing real news written
notifications and news. by real journalists. Derided as a propaganda rag when it first
began publication in December 1919, the Standard read better,
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The Herald had correspondents across the whole of China. These and investigated and reported better quality news to a steadily
supplied a constant stream of news on an extensive range of topics, growing readership in post-WW1 China and Japan. It was also a
as well as news and gossip, such as, trade statistics, stock prices, representative newspaper chosen for international conferences
Chinese news, essays on Chinese culture and language, law reports and delivered gratis to all delegates.
from foreign courts in the settlements, company reports, news on
foreign social, cultural and political life and much more. The North China Standard was founded in December 1919 by John
Russell Kennedy (1861-1928), Anglo-Irish master architect of Japan’s
Its coverage extends well beyond British communities, and modern propaganda programmes. Its most immediate functions,
includes other foreign nationals - the French, Danish, Italian, in the wake of propaganda failures at the Paris Conference and the
German, Dutch…, etc., etc. Although a thriving treaty port press Treaty of Versailles granting Japan continuing rights in Shandong
developed over the century of the foreign presence, no other Province, was to argue Japan’s claim to special rights and advisory
newspaper existed over such an extended period, and covers powers in Chinese affairs, to question the ability of the Chinese
it in such incredible depth and variety. The dense unindexed to govern China, and to maintain British support for the Anglo-
columns of the Herald offer therefore an indispensable, still largely Japanese Alliance. Throughout the 1920s it served as one of Japan’s
unexplored treasure-trove for any scholar of modern Chinese representative newspapers at international conferences, delivered
history. War, revolution and politics have conspired to destroy gratis to all delegates.
library holdings or frustrate access to publications from China’s
treaty century. The fully text-searchable North-China Herald
Online will be one of the primary resources on a period which
continues to shape much of China’s world and worldview.
brill.com/ncho brill.com/ncso
E-ISSN 2214-8345 E-ISSN 2589-0883
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Online Resources - Primary Sources Online - Asian Newspapers and Magazines
Manchuria Daily News Online Japan Chronicle Online
“Manchuria Daily News is the single most comprehensive source “Brill’s decision to re-issue the Chronicle online is to be
for information on Manchuria (Manchukuo) in the first half of the welcomed: it will assist research in documenting Japan’s
twentieth century. Compiled under supervision of the Japanese spectacular growth in those fifty years as well as illustrate the
colonial authorities, it was the paper of record for the region. The financial constraints which the non-Japanese press faced and the
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periodic supplements issued by the paper and available as part controversies in which they became engaged.” – Ian Nish, London
of this collection, are a special bonus for scholars. And it’s all in School of Economics and Political Science
English!” -- Ronald Suleski, Suffolk University, Boston, MA
“It is hard to imagine a more useful source for English-language
The Manchuria Collection offers scholars of Japan’s modern history students of Japan during the half century before World War II,
an unparalleled inside view of Japan’s agenda in Manchuria when the British-oriented Japan Chronicle served as arguably the
and its plans for domination in Asia. Founded in 1908 in the leading purveyor of English-language news about that country.
wake of Japan’s victory in the war against Russia, the Manchuria Standing quite tenaciously aloof from the official positions of
4 Daily News set up in Dalian (Darien) at the headquarters of the both Japan and Great Britain (until the late 1930s), the Chronicle
South Manchuria Railway Company (Minami Manshū Tetsudō made available not only the news but much of the most incisive
Kabushiki-gaisha) (SMR). and articulate opinions of the expatriate community.” - James L.
Huffman, Wittenberg University
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Lavishly funded from Tokyo, and with the full resources of the SMR
Research Department behind them, the Manchuria Daily News and The English-language Japan Chronicle Weekly (1900–1940) is the
the associated titles offered here constitute a formidable record newspaper of record for Japan’s engagement with modernity and
of Japanese policy on Manchuria and the Manchoukuo project. its emergence, through war, political and social upheaval and
From 1908-1940 this compact, feisty daily and its associated titles seismic social change in East Asia, onto the world stage in the first
responded to the exigencies of the day, taking requests from a half of the twentieth century. Historians of East Asia have long
variety of official and often competing propaganda bureaux. In seen the Japan Chronicle Weekly as a uniquely valuable resource.
the Manchuria Daily News and in these associated publications, This collection includes the Kobe Weekly Chronicle (1900-1901), the
the SMR presented a powerful case for the Japanese leadership predecessor of the Japan Chronicle Weekly.
of Asia, after 1932 using Manchoukuo as a showcase for Japan’s
technological, cultural and political advancement. The Chronicle provides a unique perspective not only on the
Apart from the early 1908-1912 holdings, and the October 1919 to settler communities in Japan and East Asia but also to the
February 1921 gap when publication was suspended, the 1912-1940 historical development of East Asia as it happened. This supremely
run published here is virtually complete and exclusive to Brill important and uniquely valuable resource, covering the years 1900-
Primary Sources Online. 1941, is now exclusively available in Brill’s East Asia Archive Online,
with the weekly Commercial Supplement.
Brill has sourced an exciting range of associated English-language
magazines published in tandem with the Manchuria Daily This well-informed, controversial but always readable source of
News. Here for the first time are extensive holdings from the news and opinion on Japan and East Asia offers an intriguing and
irregular publications Manchuria Magazine, Manchuria Month, lively Japanese complement to the North-China Herald Online
Contemporary Manchuria and the Manchuria Information Bulletin. (brill.com/ncho).
brill.com/mdnc brill.com/jpco
E-ISSN 2589-0867 E-ISSN 2214-9627
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Online Resources - Primary Sources Online - Asian Newspapers and Magazines
Israel’s Messenger Online Mobilizing East Asia Online
Newspapers, magazines and books from the
1900s-1950s
Israel’s Messenger was the organ of the Shanghai Zionist Mobilizing East Asia offers a carefully selected collection of
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Association, set up by the industrialist N.E.B. Ezra in 1903. Under extremely rare, many times even unique English-language
an ornate masthead, the Messenger set out its stall as ‘A fearless newspapers, magazines and pamphlets published inside Asia,
exponent of traditional Judaism and Jewish Nationalism”. The following the descent into war in East and South-East Asia from
inner masthead for 3 May 1929 was equally uncompromising, the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s.
describing Israel’s Messenger as “A Jewish Paper devoted to the
interests of Jews and Judaism in the Far East”. This exciting collection of newspapers and illustrated magazines,
often in colour, is now available online for the first time, exclusively
This fully text-searchable holding of the complete Israel’s from Brill. The Collection offers access to unique primary source
Messenger, (in Chinese Youtai Yuebao), 1904-1941, is a core resource material which can be used to pursue research topics in modern 5
for Asian Studies, with a particular emphasis on the Jewish history, Asian studies, politics and war studies.
community in Shanghai. Shanghai Jewry occupied near-outsider
status within the Foreign Settlement. Influential commercial and Features and Benefits:
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political circles around the Sassoon and the Ezra families were • English-language newspapers and magazines published in East
closely attuned to the political agenda of nationalist China and Asia
well-entrenched in key committees of the Foreign Settlements. • Approx. 100,000 pages of over 1,200 print items
Due to financial constraints, publication was suspended February • All content fully searchable
1910 - September 1918. This edition is therefore the most complete • Reproduced in 300 dpi full colour
available. • Sourced from extremely rare, often even unique originals
• Brill has the exclusive online rights to this material for years to
Every issue of Israel’s Messenger conveys the interests and positions come
of the international community in enabling the establishment • Represents the most complete holdings available of these sources
of a Jewish state. The differing sympathies of neighboring Japan, • Updates included, at no additional cost
of the Ottoman Empire, the US, France, and an increasingly
engaged Britain, and the consequences of these nations' growing
acceptance of the Zionist ideal for the political and social position
of Shanghai Jewry and the political economy of Zionism are
debated in zealous detail. The debate is conducted not only by
Shanghai Jews but also by commentators around the world. Israel’s
Messenger thereby constitutes the indispensable journal of record
for both Asianists and scholars of Jewish Studies in the first half of
the 20th century.
brill.com/ismo brill.com/meao
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The Hongkong News Online Contemporary Japan Online
Printed on the abandoned presses of the South China Morning Published from Tokyo under Japanese editorship before, during,
Post, The Hongkong News offers scholars the undiluted voice and and after WWII (1932-1970), Contemporary Japan is now seen
mindset of the Japanese administration of Occupied Hongkong. as a beacon of rationality, especially during the ‘devil’s decade’
This significant Japanese Occupation holding of The Hongkong of the 1930s. While consistently presenting the Japanese case,
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News started publication on 31st December 1941, six days after the Contemporary Japan spoke from the shrinking middle ground of
Christmas Day surrender of the British Crown Colony, and lasted the public sphere.
until August 17, 1945, the day that the Shōwa Emperor’s Rescript
ordered Japanese forces to surrender to the Allies. Run by the semi-official Foreign Affairs Association of Japan,
Contemporary Japan published informed, critical, long-form
The Hongkong News traces Japan’s progress from the Colony’s journalism by leading Japanese and Western commentators on
Imperial overlord to abject surrender, through large-scale East Asia. Disillusioned Pan-Asianists compete with anti-Western
internment and assurances of certain victory. In essence, ‘A close, rhetoric on the road to war against China. Post-war, new voices
6 unvarnished, daily view of the recolonizing mind-set of the new bemoan the ‘reverse course’ of 1947-1952.
masters of East Asia’.
This lively Primary Source offers a window into Japan’s most
• J apan’s perspective on East Asian and world news published from rational and yet most engaged debates of the day. Contemporary
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Occupied Hongkong (1941 - 1945) Japan ceased publication in 1970 and Brill has secured the entire
• The complete Occupied Hongkong holding, December 31 1941 - 17 run from Vol.1, 1932 to Vol. 29, 1970, (with considerable gaps from
August 1945 1954 - 1970, see full list of issues) but limits this first series to the
• English-language period 1932-1954.
• 5000+ pages
• high-quality originals Note: virtually complete for the important years 1932 - 1954
• full-text-searchable (lacking two volumes: volume 9, no. 3 (1941) and volume 12, no.
•n ot available elsewhere in full-text searchable format – exclusive 1 (1943). Not complete for the years up to 1970. Should currently
to Brill missing volumes emerge, these will be included at no extra cost to
•h oldings of the School of African and Asian Studies (SOAS), purchasers.
University of London
A NOTE ON COVERAGE:
This collection begins with volume 30 of The Hongkong News.
The first 29 volumes of The Hongkong News in all probability do
not exist anymore, or never even existed in the first place. Like
other newspapers in other Asian regions, The Hongkong News first
functioned as a ‘shell publication’ installed in readiness for the
actual imminent Japanese occupation, in September 1941.
brill.com/hkno brill.com/cjo
ISSN: 2589-7977
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Online Resources - Primary Sources Online - Asian Newspapers and Magazines
Japan Times Weekly and Japan News-Week Online
Nippon Times Weekly Online
As flagship pictorial organs of Japan’s Greater East Asia Co- Japan News-Week was the last independent, foreign-owned English-
Prosperity Sphere The Japan Times Weekly (November 1938 language newspaper published in Japan before the Pacific War.
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– December 1942) and its successor Nippon Times Weekly, were Brill’s exclusive holding runs from the first issue of November 1938
priceless investments in the expression of Japan’s master narrative to within 6 months of the newspaper’s closedown on November
(i.a., the victimization of China and Southeast Asia by Western 30 1941. A week later, on the eve of Pearl Harbor, the 8th November
interests) and therefore published in colour at a time of extreme issue was scrapped and publisher W.R. “Bud” Wills and editor
newsprint shortages. Phyllis Argall were arrested by Special Higher Police (Tokubetsu
Kōtō Keisatsu) on espionage charges.
As an optional, limited giveaway with the main newspaper Japan
(Nippon) Times, these weeklies are now extraordinarily rare. Each issue, published on Saturdays, ran for 8 pages across 7
This Primary Source from Brill therefore focuses on the wartime columns, with the weekly schedule giving Wills and his team 7
holdings, 1938-1944, of these consecutive titles showcasing Japan’s time to commission features excavating issues rather than simply
martial and geopolitical achievements in the all-out war in China reporting news, journalism desperately needed between the
and then in the Pacific War. Of the seven years of the wartime breakout of all-out war in China in July 1937 and the competing
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holdings, this Primary Source offers almost five years of the total. drumbeats of the press on both sides of the Pacific in the run-up to
Pearl Harbor.
Completeness: Of the Japan Times Weekly, this Primary Source
runs from the 2nd issue (September 1938) to November 1942, close The weekly edition carried a conventional mix of news reports and
to the end of the title. The Nippon Times Weekly runs from the first interpretative features, arts reviews, cartoons, light entertainment
issue of 1st January 1943 to the end of January 1944. Should any columns, radio schedules and advertising. Besides its editorial
further issues emerge after all, these will be added to this PSO at no priority on balanced coverage from all sides, almost all Japan News-
extra cost to customers. In addition to the Weekly magazine, both Week features carried by-lines and the newspaper declared that it
the parent newspapers the Japan Times and its 1943 successor the was entirely “written by foreigners”.
Nippon Times established publishing arms bringing out books and
booklets broadcasting the defining mission of the Daily and the • Impartial but US-tinged perspectives from Tokyo in run-up to
Weekly editions. Pacific War 1938-1941
• Last independent English-language newspaper published in Tokyo
Brill has collected a good holding of these issues, which we will before Pearl Harbor
publish with this Primary Source with its own dedicated tab. Also • 1368 pages
in addition, the material here comes with useful Index issues • Full-color 300 ppi pages from high-quality originals
and extremely rare Supplements, including the Nippon Times • Fully text-searchable
Supplement: News and Views of Greater East Asia. Some issues of • Sourced largely from founding family’s original holdings in USA
this consecutive title are available elsewhere in scattered form, but • Brill exclusive: there are no other holdings of comparable
none are available in such a full run, and none have been digitised duration and quality
in full-text-searchable format.
brill.com/jnto brill.com/jnwo
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Online Resources - Primary Sources Online - Asian Newspapers and Magazines
Translations of the Peking The Chinese Students’ Monthly
Gazette Online Online
Compiled by Lane J. Harris, Furman University
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Translations of the Peking Gazette Online is a comprehensive The Chinese Students’ Monthly is the first magazine published
database of approximately 8,500 pages of English-language by Chinese students in the United States from 1906-1931. This
renderings of official edicts and memorials from the Qing dynasty publication became the official organ of the enlarged Chinese
that cover China’s long nineteenth century from the Macartney student organization: The Chinese Students’ Alliance in the U.S.
Mission in 1793 to the abdication of the last emperor in 1912. As Many important historical figures among Chinese students in
the mouthpiece of the government, the Peking Gazette is the the U.S. during the early 20th century, such as Sao-Ke Alfred Sze,
authoritative source for information about the Manchu state and Wellington Koo, Hu Shi, Chao Yuanren, Xie Bingxin, contributed
its Han subjects as they collectively grappled with imperial decline, their articles to this magazine.
8 re-engaged with the wider world, and began mapping the path to
China’s contemporary rise. The magazine was a most influential publication among the
Chinese students in the U.S. at that time. The overseas Chinese
Culled from a variety of publications, including the Indo-Chinese has been an emerging area of scholarly research. This magazine
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Gleaner, the Canton Register, the Chinese Repository, and the includes valuable information for scholars in this particular
North-China Herald, this full-text searchable database is the largest, field. During its publication, the periodical discussed important
most comprehensive collection of Peking Gazettes, in Chinese movements in China during that period of time: education, social,
or English, in the world. It contains vital information on a wide industrial, agricultural, political, and economical, etc.
range of topics, including the Opium War and other military
conflicts between China and the West, the Taiping Rebellion and In addition, the period (1906-1931) during which the magazine was
other peasant insurrections, the Self-Strengthening Movement published happened to be an important turning period for modern
and other Qing reform efforts, and thousands upon thousands of Chinese history. The Chinese Students’ Monthly Online, a full-text
official documents that contain information about the mundane searchable online product, makes this primary source available to
details of everyday life in nineteenth-century China and thrilling scholars and interested readers on modern China.
accounts of unprecedented events in late imperial times. There is This online product is a result of collaboration between Cornell
no better source for readers who want to understand the interplay University Library and Brill. It is, to the best of our knowledge, the
of complex political themes, social movements, and cultural ideas most comprehensive collection of the magazine so far. This online
in late imperial China. collection of The Chinese Students’ Monthly includes 25 volumes
from Volume 2 to Volume 26 as we have not found any reference
This database is accompanied by a primary sourcebook, available on Volume 1. In addition, we were not able to get a copy of Issue
through separate purchase, entitled The Peking Gazette: A Reader 8 in Volume 12, Issues 3, 4, 5 and 6 in Volume 17, Issues 7 and 8 in
in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History by Dr. Harris. The reader Volume 25 and Issues 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8 in Volume 26. If any individual
contains scholarly introductions to thematic chapters organized or library has a copy of any of these issues, either on paper or
around the most important events and themes in modern Chinese microfilm or any format, please let us know so that we could make
history for use in undergraduate and graduate classes. this collection more complete.
brill.com/tpgo brill.com/csmo
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Chinese Film and Newsreel Compilation of Chinese Colonial Period Korea
Scripts from the Cultural Medicine Periodicals Online
Revolution Online Online, 1897-1952
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Russian Military Russian Military Western Books on China
Intelligence on Asia Intelligence on Asia up to 1850 Online
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Online: Archive series, Online: Secret prints, 1883-
1651-1917 1914
brill.com/miao brill.com/miso brill.com/wbco
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The Times Supplements The Archives of the Church The Archives of the Church
in North India: Archival in North India: Monograph
Collection Collection
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