Finding historical world newspapers at Princeton

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953) Various English-language newspapers and periodicals produced in China. Major titles included are the North China Herald (1850-1941) and the Chinese repository (1832-1851), but included are also large runs of the Chinese recorder (1868-1941) and the China weekly review (1923-1950), as well as some short runs of a handful of periodicals of mainly the Republican period: the Canton Times (1919-1920), China Critic (1939-1946), China Monthly Review (1950-1953), China Press (1925-1938), Millard's China National Review (1919-1919), Millard's Review of the Far East (1919-1921), Peking Daily News (1914-1917), Peking Gazette (1915-1917), Peking Leader (1918-1919), Shanghai Gazette (1919-1921), Shanghai Times (1914-1921), and Weekly Review (1922-1923). Ads, social notices etc. are all separately indexed and searchable.

Primary English language newspaper in China. Published in Shanghai. We also have China Herald (1850-1941) in microform: RECAP MICROFILM S00782

Published as the Daily Edition of the weekly North China Herald, this was the most influential foreign daily in East Asia. 1869-1949

The North-China Standard was Japan’s propaganda newspaper in China, influential through its distribution at international conferences. 1919-1927

1903-2001. For 1993+ see the Catalog.

Weekly collection of Chinese press materials in English translation.

Historical newspapers include Ceylon Observer (Sri Lanka), Indian People (Allahabad), Kayasare hinda (Bombay), Leader (Allahabad), Madras Mail (Madras), Pioneer (Allahabad), and Tribune (Lahore).

1838-2011. For the most recent years, use Newsbank.

Well-informed, but controversial newspaper founded and based in Kobe, tracing Japan’s engagement with modernity and its emergence onto the world stage. Includes the weekly Commercial Supplement. 1902-1940

English newspaper in Japan since 1897. Archive includes the Japan Times only, not the back issues of the newspapers it merged with along its history (1918: The Japan Mail, 1940: The Japan Advertiser and The Japan Chronicle.