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Primary Sources
- Ethnomusicology: Global Field Recordings: Catherine Stevens Collection (AM Explorer) Recorded in Taiwan, 1960 by Catherine Stevens, this collection includes 30 sound tape reels featuring recordings from Hernan Opera, Herbeei Opera, Peking drum singing, Buddhist chants, and story singing.
- Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files 1960-1969 (ProQuest History Vault) This link opens in a new window Contains a wide range of materials from U.S. diplomats in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia, including reports on political, military, and socioeconomic matters; interviews and minutes of meetings with foreign government officials; important letters, instructions, and cables sent and received by U.S. diplomatic personnel; and reports and translations from foreign journals and newspapers.
- AM Explorer This link opens in a new window AM Explorer is a cross-collection search of the entire corpus of Adam Matthew's digitized arts and cultural heritage material in subjects including Area Studies, Cultural Studies, Empire and Globalism, Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality, History, Politics, Literature, Theatre, and War and Conflict.
- China: Culture and Society (AM Explorer) 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.
- China: Trade, Politics & Culture (AM Explorer) With documents encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic, this resource collects sources from nine archives to give an incredible insight into the changes in China during this period.
- China, America and the Pacific (AM Explorer) Explore an extensive range of archival material connected to the trading and cultural relationships that emerged between China, America and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries. Manuscript sources, rare printed texts, visual images, objects and maps document this fascinating history.
- Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980 (AM Explorer) The six parts of this collection make available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980:
- Church Missionary Society Periodicals (AM Explorer) Church Missionary Society Periodicals features publications from the Church Missionary Society (CMS), the South American Missionary Society and the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society (CEZMS) between 1804 and 2009.
- Church Missionary Society Archive This link opens in a new window Repository of source materials on the work of this globally influential group, founded in 1799 as an Anglican evangelical movement and still active today. Includes records of both the CMS and the many other missionary societies which have become associated or amalgamated with it over its lifetime.
- China Historical Christian Database (CHCD) This link opens in a new window The China Historical Christian Database (CHCD) quantifies and visualizes the place of Christianity in modern China (1550-1950). It provides users the tools to discover where every Christian church, school, hospital, orphanage, publishing house, and the like were located in China, and it documents who worked inside those buildings, both foreign and Chinese. The CHCD is hosted by the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University.
