This guide is an in-depth listing of Chinese Studies resources available to students and faculty at the University of Minnesota.
Resources
- Chinese Women's Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican PeriodThe database is of interest to scholars of cultural history and of Chinese cultural, print, literary, women's, and art history. It offers students and non-experts a window onto the Chinese historical experience that goes beyond the grand narrative of the communist revolution, reductive notions of Asian values, and orientalized images of the sick men and the obsequious and bound-footed women of China.
- Chinese Women and Hong Kong Christianity: An Oral History ArchiveThe project on "Chinese women and Hong Kong Christianity: An Oral History" took place beween 2007 and 2009. It had conducted in-depth interwiews with 22 Chinese Christian women of age above 65 and recorded their respective life stories. These women came from different church denominations and class backgrounds, and each has gone through very different life experiences with regard to family, marriage, career and religious life.
- Funü zazhi 婦女雜誌 (1915-31)Funü zazhi is one of the most long-lived women’s magazines in China. It was published by Shanghai Commercial Press between1915-31.
- Ming Qing Women's Poetry CollectionMing Qing Women's Poetry Collection organized by Chinese American Librarians Association.
- The Ming Qing Women's Writings 明清婦女著作The Ming Qing Women's Writings digital archive and database project is dedicated to the digitization of collections of writings by women in late imperial China (1368-1911).
- Modern Women's Journal Database 近代婦女期刊資料庫Includes 214 titles, about 110,000 records of Women's magazines. Developed and maintained by the Institute of Modern History Institute, Academia Sinica. Free but need registration.
- Online Nüshu Dictionary 在线女书字典Nüshu is a syllabic script derived from Chinese characters that was used exclusively among women in Jiangyong County in Hunan province of southern China. This online dictionary allows people to convert Chinese characters into Nüshu. It is based on the "Dictionary of Nüshu Standard Characters" (《女书标准字字典》) compiled by Gong Zhebing (宫哲兵) and Tang Gongwei (唐功𬀩).
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