Alternate Title
Category
Academic Journals and Articles (Late Qing and Republican)
Institution
Heidelberg University
Access
open access
URL
https://ecpo.cats.uni-heidelberg.de/ecpo/
Description
Early Chinese Periodicals Online (ECPO) is an open-access research platform developed by the Heidelberg Research Architecture at Heidelberg University, providing integrated access to digitized Chinese periodicals from the late Qing and Republican eras. The platform currently hosts over 300 publications with approximately 435,000 entries—including 300,000 scans, 85,000 records, and 50,000 agent names—with collections focused on women’s magazines (the WoMag database: four influential titles, 1904–1937) and entertainment newspapers (Xiaobao 小報). ECPO provides fully bilingual metadata in Chinese and English, an API in MODS XML format, and publishes its metadata on heiDATA, Heidelberg University’s research data repository.
Source List
ACLS Open Database Resource Guide
Tags
Republican era (1912–1949) Gender Literature Popular media Newspapers and periodicals Late Imperial (1368–1912) Full-text
Last Modified
5/16/2026 7:44pm