ALTERNATE TITLE
中国近代图书库 (1840-1949)

CATEGORY
Local Gazetteers (Historical)

ACCESS
subscription

URL
http://www.modernchina.cn/

DESCRIPTION
Collection of 120,000 late Qing and Republican e-books from Shanghai Library including many rare titles. Books are full-text searchable. Database includes author biographies, and cross-references to other Shanghai Library databases (especially for late Qing and Republican journals and newspapers). Especially interesting for literature and cross-cultural studies. Download of single pages is possible. Database clusters similar titles which is especially useful for research on the history of translation of Western literature or scientific knowledge. The database is part of Shanghai Library’s Quanguo baokan suoyin 全国报刊索引.

SOURCE LIST
Princeton China Studies Research Guide

TAGS


LAST MODIFIED
2026-01-16