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ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers
https://www.proquest.com/hnpchinesecollection/index?accountid=11929
[provided by Graduate School of Letters, Graduate School of Law, Institute for Research in Humanities and Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Institute for Research in Humanities]

Gain insight into Chinese political and social life during the turbulent 120 year period from 1832 to 1953 with 12 English-language Chinese historical newspapers. Included are critical perspectives on the ending of more than 2,000 years of imperial rule in China, the Taiping Rebellion, the Opium Wars with Great Britain, the Boxer Rebellion and the events leading up to the1911 Xinhai Revolution, and the subsequent founding of the Republic of China. In addition to the article content, the full-image newspapers offer searchable access to advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and classified ads that illuminate history.

List: "P" https://www.kulib.kyoto-u.ac.jp/erdb?c=erdb_alpha_p&lang=en
User Manual: https://proquest.libguides.com/hnp/about

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Tel: 075-753-6954
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Due to system maintenance, services below will be temporarily unavailable.
We are sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

　Period：from 11 am. to 11 pm. on July 25, 2021 (JST)

　Services to be affected :
　　・The Bible in English
　　・British Periodicals
　　・Early English Books Online
　　・Early European Books
　　・ERIC
　　・Health & Medical Collection
　　・Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers
　　・History Vault
　　・Digital National Security Archive
　　・Library and Information Science Abstracts
　　・Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
　　・Materials Science & Engineering Database
　　・New York Times
　　・Periodicals Archive Online
　　・Periodicals Index Online
　　・ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Global
　　・Research Library
　　・The Royal Shakespeare Company Collection
　　・Sociological Abstracts

　*Ebook Central is not a target for maintenance.

[Main Library Academic Support Section]

The Graduate School of Letters of Kyoto University and the Kyoto University Museum have been carrying out the restoration and digitization of an important cultural property Dainihonshi hensan kiroku held by the Graduate School of Letters since academic year 2017. Two hundred fifteen images of the restored volumes 11-14 are now available in Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive.

▼Important Cultural Property - Dainihonshi hensan kiroku (G.S. Letters)
 

Dainihonshi hensan kiroku (大日本史編纂記録) is a collection of more than 6,000 letters (copies) exchanged between Shokokan (彰考館; Mito Domain’s office for history compilation) in Mito (currently in Ibaraki Prefecture) and Edo (currently Tokyo) and their Kyoto office regarding the compilation of Dainihonshi (*1) by Tokugawa Mitsukuni (徳川光圀; 1628-1701). A total of 42,810 people and organizations and 15,159 historical records and literature works are mentioned in the letters and the content covers a wide range of aspects of the time, such as history, literature, Confucianism and Japanese classical literature, as well as the publishing culture during the Genroku Period, which makes this rare material a first-class historical record.

The rare material, before being restored, consisted of 248 volumes of about 10,000 sheets (one sheet folded in half to form a pouch makes two pages) in the form of fukuro-toji yotsume-toji (袋綴四つ目綴装) with sheets of papers folded at the fore edge and sewn at the back edge at four points. However, the rebinding and restoration done to the material during the Edo period were not appropriate to secure its long-term preservation; they also made it impossible to read the majority of the volumes without damaging them, because the text near the back edge was sewn inside the spine. Therefore, a restoration project was launched in academic year 2018, with a plan to restore first 20 volumes funded by the Sumitomo Foundation. The Graduate School of Letters has also set up Kyoto University Fund for the restoration of its library collection and the Kyoto University Museum acquired the university's special budget for this project in 2018.

Each volume of Dainihonshi hensan kiroku is to be released on the Internet through Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive upon the completion of restoration and digitization processes. As of June 25, 2021, the Digital Archive provides 1,663,322 images of 20,564 titles.

The Maintenance work was completed (2021/6/16 11:45) and the service has been restored.

Kyoto University Rare Materials Digital Archive will suspend its service due to system maintenance for about 1 hour from 11:00am, June 16, 2021.
The service will be restored as soon as the maintenance work has been completed. 
Thank you for your understanding.