Asian Studies Librarian
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Large primary source collections
- AM Explorer This link opens in a new windowPrimary sources from the 15th-21st centuries, including the social sciences, humanities, global history, popular culture, history of media, gender and sexuality, trade history, borders and migrations, and war and conflict.
- Gale Primary Sources This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
Search across newspapers and digitized collections of primary sources from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, including ECCO: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, NCCO: Nineteenth Century Collections Online, The Making of the Modern World, The Times of London, The Illustrated London News, the Times Literary Supplement, The Economist, and many more. Covers 1604 - present (varying by source). - CRL: Center For Research Libraries This link opens in a new windowForeign newspapers, publications, and some dissertations (some digital, some on microfilm). You may request microfilm reels and other materials through Interlibrary Loan, though CRL will sometimes digitize small requests.
Newspapers and Periodicals
- Readex AllSearch This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
Search across all of Carleton's Readex collections at once. Includes historical newspapers, government documents, books, ephemera, and the like. Includes content of: Propaganda and the Chinese Press collection; and American Proxy Wars: Korea and Vietnam collection. - China Research Gateway [CNKI] This link opens in a new windowA centralized means for discovery and access to Chinese resources, including scholarly journals, books, statistical publications, government documents, newspapers, reference material and dictionaries, dissertations, patents, and more.
- China Academic Journals [CNKI] This link opens in a new windowChina Academic Journals and Century Journal Project of CNKI provides full text and full images of Chinese-language journals.
- China Core Newspapers [CNKI] This link opens in a new windowChina Core Newspapers Database (CCND) collects academic and informational literatures from core newspapers in China. Contains 691 Chinese newspapers, both national and local titles, including People's Daily. Covers 2000-present.
- Chinese Newspapers: Global Press Archive This link opens in a new windowHistorical newspapers. Contents include: Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers (1912-1949).
- CRL: Newspapers This link opens in a new windowA collection including foreign newspapers on microfilm, on paper, and digital. Filmed material may be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
Full-text and full-image articles for major newspapers from the United States (including Historical Black Newspapers); plus ABC (Spain), Le Monde, the Jerusalem Post (formerly the Palestine Post), The Korea Times, London Evening Standard, South China Morning Post, and the Times of India. Each paper is available from its first issue through about 2013 (depending on the paper). Earliest papers start in 1827. - HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and digitally accessible. A major source of digitized books and other documents. Some of the collection if available for free to all, and additional content is available to Carleton faculty, staff, and students.
Looking for People's Daily?
- Title varies: 人民日報 / Renmin ribao / Ren min ri bao / Renmin ribao
- Carleton has a paper subscription (only recent issues): Ren min ri bao (Hai wai ban). Hai wai ban = Overseas edition. Beijing: Ren min ri bao she. Carleton Library Newspapers (Alphabetical by title)
- See also (contains indexing): Research Guide to People's Daily Editorials, 1949-1975.
- CNKI Newspapers has access from 2000-present
- Older issues available through...
- CRL Newspapers
- FBIS/JPRS (Readex Allsearch): Citation text = Renmin ribao
- And don't forget Worldcat/ILL!
- People's Daily / 人民日報 / Renmin ribao [CNKI]Full-text access to Chinese-language People's Daily newspaper. 2000-present.
Movies, Images, Maps, Data
- Haldore Hanson's China Collection This link opens in a new windowSearches through citations
Haldore Hanson, Carleton College class of 1934, worked as a freelance war correspondent when Japanese troops invaded China in 1937. This is the collection of photographs he took while working in China between 1937 and 1938. - China Data Online This link opens in a new windowContains monthly and annual socioeconomic statistics at the national, province, county, and city-levels from China. Includes annual statistical yearbooks and industrial statistics. Carleton access is limited to the "China Statistics" portion only. Covers 1949 - current.
- Historical Maps of Asia (Perry-Castañeda Map Library)Digitized historical maps of Asia (UT-Austin)
- Chinese Historical GIS This link opens in a new windowChina Historical Geographic Information System, CHGIS, project was launched in January 2001 at Harvard University to establish a database of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of Chinese history between 221 BCE and 1911 CE.
