LibGuides: Modern and Contemporary China: Primary Sources

Highlights of UT Purchased Primary Source Archives

China Data Online This link opens in a new window
Dates of coverage vary. Unlimited users.
China Statistical Data provides comprehensive and updated information on China's economic development at national, provincial, city, county, and industrial levels. Our subscription includes the following databases:
1. Monthly Statistics
2. National Statistics
3. Provincial Statistics
4. City Statistics
5. County Statistics
6. Monthly Industrial Data
7. Monthly Industrial Data 1999-2002
8. Yearly
9. Yearly Industrial Data 1999-2002
10. Statistics on Map
11. Yearbook Database(updated to 2011 only)
Wan Qing qi kan quan wen shu ju ku. 晚清期刊全文数据库 This link opens in a new window
1833-1911. Unlimited.
晚清期刊全文数据库includes Chinese language journals of all subjects published 1833-1911. 302 journal titles are covered. The database is not truly full-text, but images of articles.
晚清期刊全文数据库 is one of Shanghai Library’s "全国报刊索引" databases. UT has access to two databases in 全国报刊索引: 晚清期刊全文数据库, 1833-1911 and 民国時期期刊全文数据库, 1911-1949.
At the opening page of 全国报刊索引, select "近代期刊“ if you want the search to cover both 晚清期刊and 民国時期期刊. If you want to search only one of the database, click the moving images of 晚清期刊全文数据库, 1833-1911 or 民国時期期刊全文数据库, 1911-1949 on the bottom of the page.
Asian Film Online This link opens in a new window
Dates of coverage vary. Unlimited users.
An online streaming video collection of nearly 600 narrative feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Offers a view of Asian culture as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. Through a selection curated by film scholars and critics, viewers can explore the impact of globalization and urbanization on people’s everyday lives throughout the greater Asian region. Twenty-four countries across the region are represented, with a strong concentration on China, India, Iran, South Korea, and Southeast Asia.
Mobilizing East Asia Online This link opens in a new window
1900s - 1950s. Unlimited users.
Mobilizing East Asia contains English-language newspapers, magazines, pamphlets and books from East Asia from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s. The collection includes titles such as the Hongkong News, Japan Times Weekly, Nippon Times Weekly , Manchurian Daily News, and Trans-Pacific Online

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China political reports, 1911-1960 This link opens in a new window
1911 - 1960. Unlimited
British diplomatic reports. A collection of reports established as an integrated series by R. L. Jarman, F.R.G.S. The documents are listed in detail at the front of each volume and source references given for the benefit of scholars.
Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo guo shi shu ju ku 中华人民共和国国史数据库 This link opens in a new window
Coverage varies. 10 users.
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) National History Database consists of 300 titles containing over 60,000 illustrations. The database carries authoritative materials on the economic, social, cultural and political developments since the founding of the PRC.
Zhonghua jing dian gu ji ku. 中华经典古籍库 This link opens in a new window
Coverage varies. Unlimited
Full texts of 3,000+ titles (and growing) of ancient books, in tens of thousands of volumes, annotated and punctuated. Books are published mostly by Beijing Zhonghua Shu ju, but also by other publishers of classic titles.
Political Extremism and Radicalism, Part III: Global Communist and Socialist Movements This link opens in a new window
1880 - 1960. Unlimited users.
Archive provides insight into how communist, socialist, and far-left groups and figures saw themselves and the world around them during the major political and social events that occurred in the twentieth century. The primary sources in this collection come from multiple regions, offering the opportunity for a comparative study of left-wing thinking and government ideology.
Nineteenth (19th) Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Has a sub-collection of Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange.
A multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the nineteenth century. The content is sourced from the world's preeminent libraries and archives. It consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages.
Access to this resource is partially funded by the Emily Knauss Library Endowment for the Liberal Arts.
Taiwan political and economic reports, 1861-1960 This link opens in a new window
1861 - 1960. Unlimited.
British diplomatic reports. These volumes provide an extensive and reliable research source for study of a 100-year period of Taiwanese history between 1861 and 1960.
Hanyi biannian wenxue kaolu 汉译编年文学考录 This link opens in a new window
1896 - 1949. 1 user.
The Annotated Bibliography of Literature in Chinese Translation chronologically documents historical sources of Chinese translation in literary journals, 1896–1949. It includes times of publication and bibliographic information, and provides full-text access to the primary sources, providing comprehensive access to the historical phenomena related to Chinese literary translation.
Zhongguo dang dai zheng zhi yun dong shi shu ju ku. 中國當代政治運動史數據庫 This link opens in a new window
Coverage varies. Unlimited.
Include four databases:
1. Chinese Cultural Revolution Database. 中國文化大革命文庫
2. Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign Database, 1957- 中國反右運動數據庫, 1957-
3. Chinese Great Leap Forward and Great Famine Database, 1958-1962. 中國大躍進-大飢荒數據庫, 1958-1962
4. Database of Political Campaigns in the 1950s: From Land Reform to State-Private Partnership, 1949-1956. 中國五十年代初中期的政治運動數據庫: 從土地改革到公私合營, 1949-1956

China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960–1998
This collection brings together more than 2,000 documents concerning the relationship between the United States and China, with an emphasis on the 1969-1998 time period. The documents include memos, cables, and studies concerning U.S. diplomatic relations with China, records concerning the U.S.-PRC security relationship, documents related to the economic and scientific association with the PRC, and intelligence estimates and studies concerning the PRC's foreign policy objectives, military capabilities, and internal situation.