{"id":985,"date":"2017-07-05T11:40:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T11:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/?p=985"},"modified":"2018-01-09T10:18:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T10:18:29","slug":"new-to-the-library-history-of-contemporary-chinese-political-movements-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/2017\/07\/05\/new-to-the-library-history-of-contemporary-chinese-political-movements-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"New to the Library: History of Contemporary Chinese Political Movements, 1949-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to let you know that the Library has got a 1-year subscription to <strong>The Database for the History of Contemporary Chinese Political Movements, 1949-<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-990 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2017\/07\/History_Contemporary_Chinese_Political_Movements_banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1122\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2017\/07\/History_Contemporary_Chinese_Political_Movements_banner.jpg 1122w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2017\/07\/History_Contemporary_Chinese_Political_Movements_banner-300x39.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2017\/07\/History_Contemporary_Chinese_Political_Movements_banner-1024x134.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/files\/2017\/07\/History_Contemporary_Chinese_Political_Movements_banner-500x66.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1122px) 100vw, 1122px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The database provides full-text primary source materials relating to the Chinese political movements after the founding of the People\u2019s Republic of China in 1949.<\/p>\n<p>You can access <strong>The Database for the History of Contemporary Chinese Political Movements, 1949-<\/strong> via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/information-services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/library-databases\/databases-a-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Databases A-Z list<\/strong><\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The database includes four different collections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Database of the Chinese Political Campaigns in the 1950s: From Land Reform to the State-Private Partnership (1949-1056)<\/li>\n<li>The Chinese Great Leap Forward-Great Famine Databases (1958-1964)<\/li>\n<li>The Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign Databases (1957-)<\/li>\n<li>The Chinese Cultural Revolution Database (1966-1976)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sources include government documents, directives, bulletins, speeches by Mao Zedong and other officials, major newspaper and magazine editorials, and other types of documents.<\/p>\n<p>Do note all the documents are in Chinese, but the database platform can be switched to English where document titles can be browsed in English.<\/p>\n<p>You can access the database via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/information-services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/library-databases\/databases-a-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Databases A-Z list<\/strong><\/a>. It is listed under its full title <strong>The Database for the History of Contemporary Chinese Political Movements, 1949-<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Access is only available to current students and staff at the University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p><em>Caroline Stirling &#8211; Academic Support Librarian for History, Classics and Archaeology<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to let you know that the Library has got a 1-year subscription to The Database for the History of Contemporary Chinese Political Movements, 1949-. The database provides full-text primary source materials relating to the Chinese political movements after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/2017\/07\/05\/new-to-the-library-history-of-contemporary-chinese-political-movements-1949\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,3,4,164],"tags":[119,56,7,6,60,140,59,17],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7dF2q-fT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/hcalibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}