Primary Sources
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19th Century US Newspapers Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowSearch digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers using advanced searching capabilities. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.
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Archive.orgContains digitized history collections of primary sources.
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East View Global press Archive:Contains Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese newspapers (currently free to access)
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Google Book Search This search tool can pull up some full text books, butt many of the results will just have excerpts and snippets.
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HathiTrust Digital Library This link opens in a new windowHathiTrust is a massive full-text digital library comprising more than 10 million volumes contributed by more than 60 major research institutions and libraries.
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Archives Unbound: Asian Studies CollectionsThis has a number of collections of papers and records regarding China, Shanghai, and Taiwan.
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Ling Long MagazineHas useful primary sources on middle class lifestyles in the 1930s in Shanghai.
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Marxists' Internet ArchiveContains digitized writings that include Chinese leftists and intellectuals.
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Mission Periodicals Online: The Chinese RecorderThere are copies of the Chinese Recorder that are freely online listed on this website.
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PRC HistoryLinks and resources for studying the history of the PRC.
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Virtual Shanghai PlatformContains digitized images and historical material on Shanghai (esp. before the 1950s).
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Archives Unbound: Policing the Shanghai International Settlement, 1894-1945A collection of resources from the British Municipal police force in the international settlement.
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YMCA ArchivesUse the "search collections" tool to search for China. These records are provided by the University of Minnesota.
