Modern China Studies website announced


The MODERN China Studies, http://digital.library.pitt.edu/e/eal-mcs, is now available. The web site provides access to 36 titles (37 volumes) about Modern China published in the first half of the twentieth century. During the past year, the Digital Research Library (DRL), the East Asian Library, and Preservation Department of the University Library System (ULS) at the University of Pittsburgh have worked closely to digitize selected monographs from the Chinese collection as part of an NEH grant awarded to the ULS. The grant called for the microfilming of 3,000 acidic texts as well as the digitization of several dozen texts that formed a pilot project. We selected the pre-1955 texts that document aspects of the Modern China period. The books are divided into two main categories (Primary Sources and Reference Tools), then subdivided by subject or type. Subjects within the primary sources consist of history, law, literature, political science and social science. The reference tools contain bibliographies, chronologies, directories, handbooks, statistics, and yearbooks. A browse page provides primary access to the digital texts.



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