Intro to Archival Research in East Asian/International Studies

I. Print Sources

Tool: Catalyst Advanced Search
Technique: keyword (topic)+subject (sources/personal narrative/correspondence/biography/interviews/diaries/speeches...)
Samples: Goodnow archives (special collections)

II. General Digital Primary Sources

AM Explorer (Adam Mathews collections)
AM Research Methods
Gale Primary Sources (Gale Primary Sources collections)

III. Digital Primary Sources for East Asian/International Studies

Types of Sources
Diplomacy, East-West relations

• Asia and West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
• China and Modern World;
• Foreign Office Files for China 1911-1980;
• US Declassified Documents Online

Travel, Trade, Missionary: East Through the Eye of Westerner

• AM Scholar
• Church Missionary Society: East Asia Missions

East Asian Sources (in English or East Asian languages)

• Chinese Students Monthly Online
• Japan Times Digital Archive (1897-2015)
• Yumidas Rekishikan
• Chinese sources
  • Digitized books (700,000 in Duxiu; 200,000 in Shanghai Library collection; 15,000 in CNKI Ebooks)
  • Digitized old magazines (Dacheng; Shanghai Library collection) and newspapers (Shenbao, People's Daily)
  • Chinese medicine 
  • Chinese women
  • Chinese diaspora 
  • Chinese cultural revolution
  • Qing Court Documents