HIST R1B: War and Revolution in Modern Asia

Primary sources can be found in a variety of library tools:

• Catalogs:  OskiCat and Melvyl
• Online book and text collections
• Primary Source databases provided by the Library
      includes databases for finding newspaper articles, such as Historical Newspapers (ProQuest) or magazine articles, such as Reader's Guide
• Vetted sites on the web:
  
  • Library of Congress
  • Online Archive of California or Calisphere
  • History Matters

For specific search strategies, see the Library's Guide to Finding Historical Primary Sources

Learn more about your topic in advance:

• names of relevant individuals and organizations
• dates of events
• places
• what terminology was used at the time by participants and observers? (ex:  negro or colored instead of african american)

Use the bibliographies of secondary sources and reference sources to find citations to specific primary sources; search OskiCat to locate them on campus, or ask for assistance at the Library.

China Through Western Eyes.
Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, [1996].
MICROFILM.77751
Guide on reel 1

Manuscript Records of Traders, Travelers, Missionaries and Diplomats, 1792-1942
Sources from the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University.
Part I:
Part II:
Part III: The Papers of J.A. Thomas, 1905-1923,
from the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University;
Series 1: Woman, Travel and Empire, 1660-1914
Part 2, Women and The Orient
Part 3, Woman and The Orient Guide
Series 4: African Missions
Parts 23-24

Church Missionary Society Archive.
Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, 1996.
MICROFILM 77848
Guide: MICROFILM.77848.guide

Section II: Missions to Women
*Part 1: Society for Promoting Female Education (FES) in China, India and the East, 1834-1899.
*Part 2: India's Women and China's Daughters, 1880-1939 and
Looking East at India's Women and China's Daughters, 1940 - 1957.
*Part 3: Homes of the East 1910-1948 (including Torchbearer, 1914)
Daybreak 1889, 1893-94 and 1906-1909, and
The Indian Female Evangelist, 1872-1880.
Series 1: Woman, Travel and Empire, 1660-1914
Part 2, Women and The Orient
Part 3, Woman and The Orient Guide

Japan Through Western Eyes: Manuscript Records of Traders, Travelers, Missionaries & Diplomats, 1853-1941.
Marlborough, Eng.: Adam Matthew, 2000.
MICROFILM 77770
Guide: MICROFILM 77770.guide

Part I: Sources from the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University.
Part II: Journals and Essays; William Elliot Griffis Collection, Rutgers University Library
Part III: Griffis Correspondence; William Elliot Griffis Collection, Rutgers University Library

• Foreign Office Files for China, 1949-1980
  The complete British Foreign Office Files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in this period from 1949 (when the Chinese Communist Party won power) to 1976 (the year of Mao Zedong's death). These resources are from the National Archives, Kew, the UK government's official archive. Cross search with other Adam Matthews resources (Confidential Print: Africa and Confidential Print: Latin America) by going to Archives Direct: Sources from the National Archives, UK.
  
• People's Daily (Ren Min Ri Bao)
  Provides a complete archive of the People's Daily, the leading newspaper in China, from the birth of the People's Republic of China to 2002.
  
• Shun Bao
  The first major newspaper in China, has national coverage spanning from 1872 to 1949, from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic Era. It is a primary and critical resource for modern Chinese studies.
  
• Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)
  Primary source material from the nineteenth century and beyond. Particularly strong in British politics and society, European literature from 1790-1840 (via the Corvey collection), Asia and the West, and British popular culture.