Moss on Stone
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Mostly post links to primary sources on East Asian history. A big fan of the internet archive and its amazing collections. moss-on-stone at protonmail dot com.
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These issues can also be downloaded as PDFs from BannedThought here: www.bannedthought.net/China/Magazi...
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There are over 180 issues of the Foreign Languages Press journal "Chinese Literature" (1953-1982) with a wealth of Chinese works, mostly from the PRC period translated into English. Browsable directly or PDF download. #china archive.org/search?query...
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2/ Previous link includes the years after 1940 which are not included in the separate (no need to 'borrow') >1,000 issue collection on IA with PDF download with the previous incarnations (Millard's Review... -1921, Weekly Review... -1923, China Weekly Review -1940) archive.org/details/thec...
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There are over 1,000 issues of the China Monthly Review (China Weekly Review) in the "texts to borrow" collection of Internet Archive (1917-1953) archive.org/details/pub_... 1/
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2/ A very large collection of these are also available as PDF downloads from Marxists.org (www.marxists.org/subject/chin...) and Massline.org (www.massline.org/PekingReview/) so IA version can be seen as a mirror and online browsable version.
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There are over 1,700 issues of the weekly Peking Review / Beijing Review (1958-2000s) browsable on Internet Archive with PDF download. archive.org/search?query... 1/
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There are over 7,400 issues of The Economist (1843-1960s mostly) on the Internet Archive with PDF download: archive.org/details/pub_...
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There are now almost 18,000 issues of the Hong Kong Telegraph (1881-1951) on the Internet Archive with PDF download archive.org/details/@sui... thx to acantonian
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There are over 22,600 issues of the Hong Kong Daily Press (1864-1941) on the Internet Archive with PDF download: archive.org/details/@sui... thx to acantonian!
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A user on Internet Archive "acantonian" (A Cantonian?) has been adding lots of great Hong Kong material to Internet Archive.

There are now over 25,000 issues of the "China Mail" (1866-1961) on the Internet Archive with full PDF download: archive.org/search?query...
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2/ Issues often include English translations of key government statements and regulations, timelines of recent events, Japanese interpretations of its "achievements" during the invasion of China, and domestic developments.
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There are now over 50 issues of the "Tokyo Gazette" from 1937 to early 1942 on the Internet Archive (with PDF download). This publication is a useful English language source for pro-Japanese state perspective on domestic and international affairs. 1/

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Migrated from @MossonStone1 on Twitter to @[email protected] on mastodon to here. Have been mostly inactive for a while but will soon have something new to post.
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Over 200 East Asian Newspapers and Periodicals (1850-1950) on Internet Archive. A total of over 378,000 issues. All of these can be downloaded as PDFs. archive.org/details/east...
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