APSIG newsletter no. 59: November 2005

NLA acquisitions news

Showa no Yomiuri Shinbun [electronic resource] 1926-1946.
Publisher: Yomiuri Shinbun, 2002.
Searchable full text of the Yomiuri Shinbun, one of Japan's three major daily newspapers, for the period 1926 to 1946. A major primary resource for scholars of modern Japan, this is the first full text online Japanese newspaper to have been made available to foreign countries. Cost of A$16 900.

Shanghai dao qi [Land title deeds issued to foreigners in Shanghai during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries] 30 vols.
Shanghai : Shanghai gu ji chu ban she, 2005. A$10 600
A 30 volume limited edition, reproducing in facsimile the title deeds to land in Shanghai granted to foreign governments from 1847 to 1930. After the signing of the Treaty of Nanking between China and Great Britain in 1842, foreign governments were permitted to lease land in the main Chinese trading ports, including Shanghai. The Shanghai dao qi documents are a unique and complete record of this period, containing letters, reports, maps and certificates in both Chinese and English. Extremely valuable to the study of the social and economic history of Shanghai in its most turbulent period.