17 Dec 2002

Electronic Index to the Early Shenbao (1872-1895)
Sinologisches Seminar, Universitaet Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Supplied note: "The Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, cheerfully announces the publication of the 'Electronic Index to the Early Shenbao (1872-1895)', a cooperative project made possible through the financial support of the Thyssen foundation. The main objective of this database-project is to provide quick access to the contents of the Shenbao, certainly the most important of the early Chinese-language Shanghai newspapers, and thus contribute to the study of the late Qing press as well as to the paper's exploration as a source for historical and cultural studies. The index covers the years from the paper's foundation in 1872 to the end of the Sino-Japanese war in 1895. It consists of: * an English-language day-by-day record of the subjects treated in the paper's main articles (all editorial articles are included, a large part of them with titles in pinyin transcription, fewer with Chinese characters), * nearly all articles reprinted from the Hong Kong press (among them more than 240 items reprinted from the Xunhuan Ribao during the years 1874 to 1879 and fewer items from the Jinshi Bianlu or the Zhongwai Xinwen), * a selection of news reports, official documents, letters to the editor, etc., * all the zhuzhici (a form of popular poetry describing local customs), and * the names of the authors of signed articles.
The index now consists of nearly 10,000 entries.
The online-publication of the Shenbao-Index marks the completion of the first stage of this project. [...] the future development of the database will not proceed in a systematic way, but follow the specific interests of those working with the Shenbao-materials. - aj."
URL http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/database/shenbao/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this note.]
Link reported by: Andrea Janku (janku@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de), forwarded by Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30