Princeton users now have access to My China Roots, a database for researching Chinese genealogy. While the database focuses on genealogical research it has much to offer for the historical study of Chinese immigration to North America in the 19th and 20th century. The database includes Chinese exclusion records, immigration case files, identity certificates, zupus […]

The East Asian Library will close over the holiday period. The library will close early on Monday, December 23 at 5:00pm and re-open on Thursday, January 2 with out-of-term opening hours (Mo-Fr 9am-5pm, weekends closed). During the holiday week, only Firestone Library will be open and only with limited opening hours. For a detailed overview […]

Princeton users now have trial access to three additional sections of the Tabloids 小報 (1897-1949) database from Shanghai Library. The Tabloids (1897-1949) is a sub-section of the Quan guo bao kan suo yin 全國報刊索引 (National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals). The new sections give access to roughly 230 individual titles of tabloids form the […]

Princeton users now have trial access to 中国金石总库. Work on the Chinese Epigraphy database started in 2016 under the auspice of the Chinese Archaeologist Su Bai. It is structured in two parts, one on bronze and one on stone inscriptions. At this moment, the database covers some 80,000 entries (18,000 bronze inscriptions and 63,000 stone […]

Colleagues from the East Asian Library are offering courses during the 2025 Wintersession: Martin Heijdra offers – From Oracle Bones to Ebooks: Short Overview of the Tradition of Chinese bookmaking on January 23, 1–2:30pm https://my.princeton.edu/OCE/rsvp_boot?id=1944994 Marissa Mozek offers – Rip it! Ink it! Say it! – Create your very own mini comic on January 13, […]

Princeton users now have access to the third part of the Song Tomb Inscriptions Database. The third part adds 2,000 new inscriptions to the database. Where available high-quality images of the rubbings have been added to the database and can be viewed side by side with the text. The database is full-text searchable, but operates […]

Following the award of the Nobel prize in literature to Han Kang, the East Asian Library has prepared a display of the library’s collections of her works in Korean and English in the periodical reading room. All the titles on display are available for loan.

Each year, the Friends of the Princeton University Library offer short-term Library Research Grants to promote scholarly use of the Princeton University Library special and distinct collections. Applications will be considered for scholarly use of archives, manuscripts, rare books, and other rare and unique holdings in Special Collections, including Mudd Library; as well as rare […]

Princeton users now have access to the Ichushi web. The database is developed and operated by the NPO Association of Central Medical Journal Publishers and contains bibliographic information in the fields of medicine, dentistry, pharmacology, nursing, psychology, welfare, and related areas, published from 1903 to the present and includes access to the original journal Igaku […]

Princeton users now have access to this collection of 120,000 late Qing and Republican e-books from Shanghai Library including many rare titles. The database is part of Shanghai Library’s Quanguo baokan suoyin 全国报刊索引 which previously only offered access to newspapers and journals. Access to the new Republican eBooks transform the Shanghai Library database into an […]