Digital Resources for Chinese Studies

Full text searching and text is available for 聯合報,聯合晚報,經濟日報 and民生報 from 2002 to the present. Full text for the historical 中央日報 (1928-1949) is also available. 

Results may be downloaded, printed, or emailed.

Technical Requirements: Input must be in traditional characters. Firefox is the preferred browser.

Access:The current subscription is for two simultaneous users. If two people are already using the database, you will not be able to log on. Please let Xiao-he Ma know if you frequently experience problems accessing this resource.

Searching: Searching may be done with simplified 简体字 or traditional 繁體字 characters. Full text articles will display only in simplified characters, however, even where the original article was written in traditional characters.

Full text: Full text display is article by article and requires no special installations.

Full image: Full-image reproductions of the entire day's paper (not specific articles) are available in pdf format under 正文. In the libraries, the full-image pdf files are accessible only on the Chinese research workstation in the Harvard-Yenching Library reading room. Please note that Adobe Acrobat 7.0.0 - 7.0.4 does not work with this database; Acrobat 7.0.5 and above will work if a patch is installed (see below).

To be able to download and view these pdfs on your own computer, please go to ftp://ftp.twinbridge.com/Public/PDSetup/ and click on the appropriate version of Acrobat for your computer. Instructions in English and Chinese are given. For Acrobat Reader 7.0.5 or above, please uncheck the "Display PDF in browser" function under Preferences in Acrobat. If you experience font display problems with Acrobat Reader 8, try installing the Simplified Chinese font support from the Adobe website.

To see a list of Chinese publications in Factiva.com, try the following:

1. Click on Source.
2. From the Select Source Category drop-down menu, choose Publications - By Region (you may view by language by choosing Publications - By Language).
3. Click on the + icon next to Asia.
4. Click on the + icon next to Eastern Asian Countries.
5. Click on the + icon next to China or Hong Kong or Taiwan.

To see a list of Chinese publications in Lexis-Nexis Academic, try the following:

1. Choose World News from the Step One: Select a news category drop-down menu.
2. Choose Asia/Pacific News Sources the Step Two: select a news source drop-down menu.
3. Click on Source List to see browse titles from that area.
4. Click on About This Title to see information about how often holdings are updated and what is included in the subscription.

To browse a list of publications in Ethnic Newswatch:

1. Click on the Publications tab.
2. Enter a search term (e.g. China, Asia* - the asterisk lets you search for different forms of the word) to search the list of titles.
3. Alternately, you may browse by letter.

Chinese-language newspapers at Harvard are primarily held by Harvard-Yenching Library, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Collection of the Fung Library, and the Law Library. To see a list of many of these newspapers in HOLLIS, try running this search:

Other News Sources at Harvard
Widener Library also collects newspapers published in Asia, primarily those published in Western-languages. You can search their newspaper holdings on microfilm by city and country of publication.

For English-language translations of news reports from China and other foreign countries, please see the World News Connection entry above.

The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Collection of the Fung Library provides a list of currently subscribed periodicals, including newspapers, on its website.