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Spanning three centuries (c1750-1929), this resource makes available for the first time extremely rare pamphlets from Cornell University Library’s Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia. The resource is full-text searchable, allowing for the collection to be comprehensively explored and studied. In addition, China: Culture and Society features a host of secondary resources, including scholarly essays, an interactive chronology, mini guides, and editors’ choices from the collection. The core of China: Culture and Society is the pamphlets held in the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia housed in the Carl A. Kroch Library of Cornell University. Mostly in English and published between c. 1750 and 1929, and amounting to around 1,200 items in 220 bound volumes, these rare pamphlets form part of one of the deepest and most extensive collections of literature on China and the Chinese in the Western world and constitute a rich resource for scholars and teachers in numerous disciplines. The pamphlets have all been digitised in colour and are full-text searchable. Many are illustrated and feature lavish cover art. Types of material in the collection include: Addresses and speeches Annual reports, Assessments, Catalogues, Essays, Examinations, Guides and manuals, Inquiries and studies, Journals, Lecture notes, Letters, Magazine articles, Minutes of meetings, Notes and records.
Teaser: Rare English pamphlets on China (1750–1929)—fully digitized and searchable.
Gesehen am 19.07.2018
Coverage 1750-1929
