Someone managed to get a call for freedom of speech and assembly (but with unlikely claim that Wang Jingwei was on board) into front page of the 30 March, 1945 (!!) issue of Shenbao in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. In article calling for following Sun Yat-sen’s legacy. https://baokan.pages.dev/shenbao/1945/1945%20-%2089%20-%204925499?view=view-hsplit #histodons #china #primarysources

I’m at the National Council on Public History conference in Montreal https://ncph.org/conference/2025-annual-meeting/

In the session on Collaborative Management of Folklife & Oral History Archives

Local Learning: National Network for Folk Arts in Education https://locallearningnetwork.org/

Scanned and posted another issue of the Hong Kong magazine 家庭與婦女 (Aug, 1964) to IA. Several pieces on Singapore/Malaysia are a reminder that a significant proportion of their readership was there (the issue originally found in Singapore). https://archive.org/details/jiating-yu-funv-1964.8.25-n-65 #china #hongkong #primarysources

Really fantastic collection of mostly Chinese and Malay language sources here related to labour and political movements in Singapore and the Malay peninsula. http://xingmarenmin.com/ #primarysources

I picked up some old magazines during my last trip to Singapore. I've scanned this 1957 issue of the Hong Kong magazine 好家庭 and posted it to Internet Archive. I have more I'll post, as IA is recovering from recent attacks and upgrades but still a bit slow. #china #primarysources

https://archive.org/details/hao-jiating-1957.2

I see that Internet Archive, despite their challenges of late, now has a few dozen issues of the pro-PRC China Monthly Review from 1950-1953. https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A(china+monthly+review)&and[]=year%3A[1949+TO+1955]

Looking about at sources related to Global Maoism, I didn't realize that "The Crusader" newsletter (1963-9) by Robert Williams is available on marxists.org: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/1960-1970/crusader/index.htm

I have one of the issues myself.

The US military government in Korea (1945-1948) left behind a nice copy of the Seoul (Keijō) Japanese colonial period telephone book from 1944, together with their own 1947 and 1948 occupation government additions #histodons #primarysources #korea https://archive.org/details/telephone-directory-1944-1947-1948

For students studying early post Mao China and only working with English language primary sources, the United States Foreign Broadcast Information Service materials are fun way to explore events day by day in China. Over 2,500 of these daily reports from late 1970s to early 1990s are on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/fbis-reports-peoples-republic-china?sort=date

I'm at the Teaching with Primary Sources virtual conference https://tpscollective.org/events-and-opportunities/tpsfest2024/

session: Toolkit for Successful Collaboration with Instructors https://tpscollective.org/guidelines-toolkit/

2022 report on measuring impact of primary sources
https://www.arl.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/2022.12.09-toolkit-for-demonstrating-and-measuring-impact-of-primary-sources.pdf

1/x Browsing through some materials on IA and always find interesting new things. A few examples of today's finds:

The Great East Asia Sphere Language Handbook (Japanese, Russian, Malay, Hindi, Thai, French, Mandarin, and English) https://archive.org/details/dai-toa-ken-nichiyogo-hayawakari/mode/2up

Some old issues of 歴史写真 and its Manchurian incident specials: https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28Rekishi%20Shashin%29

North Korean English language magazines: https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28Korea%29%20AND%20creator%3A%28Foreign%29%20AND%20collection%3A%28magazine_rack%29

1/2 My mother recieved a small collection of 1920s and 1930s issues of the Danish women's weekly magazine Hjemmet ("The Home") from a (Norwegian) relative. Founded in 1904, a year before Norway's independence, a magazine of the same name is still a popular magazine in Norway too today. Would be interesting to see how similar these Danish versions are to the Norwegian Hjemmet, apparently founded in 1911.

We held a Map Open House yesterday for faculty and staff. My colleague, Stacy Collins, created this LibGuide for faculty teaching with maps that includes links to our extraordinary map collections, links to map collections at other places, and ideas for lessons.

https://owhlguides.andover.edu/TeachMaps/phillips

Nice collection of scanned online materials from the collection of former Doshisha professor Otis Cary's works related to Japan: https://library.doshisha.ac.jp/en/guide/specially/cary/list.html

The Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection is such a phenomenal online resource for overseas Japanese newspapers:

https://hojishinbun.hoover.org/

But another newspaper collection I saw mentioned recently is The Japanese American News (日米), which I didn't know was available online through Berkeley's online collection:

https://digicoll.lib.berkeley.edu/search?f1=subject&as=1&sf=title&so=a&rm=&m1=p&p1=Japanese%20--%20United%20States%20--%20Newspapers&ln=en

More info at the catalog entry for original microform: https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/1thfj9n/alma991048644469706532

My former student Rory Gill has greatly expanded the materials linked up on our open access resource page:

Primary Sources: History of Burma
https://froginawell.net/frog/sources/primary-sources-history-of-burma

The list of linked up open access books/documents related to Burma/Myanmar in the last section now includes over 1,100 entries, many of them on archive.org. #myanmar #burma #histodons #primarysources

There is a wonderful 1947 documentary film on "Making Books" on Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/MakingBo1947

If the link doesn't work on mobile, try this direct link to video file:

https://archive.org/download/MakingBo1947/MakingBo1947_512kb.mp4