LibGuides: Modern China: Primary Sources

Newspapers in English

Chinese Newspapers in English

People's Daily Online
"The People's Daily is the largest newspaper group in China. The paper is an official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, published worldwide with a circulation of 3 million." Daily editions are searchable back to 2009 in the People's Daily archives, on the homepage
South China Morning Post
"The South China Morning Post, with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong English-language newspaper founded in 1903. It is Hong Kong's newspaper of record, owned by Alibaba Group."

Other Newspapers

Internet History Sourcebook: Asia Since 1900
from Fordham University
China and the Soviet Union in XinJiang, 1934-1949
(from the Digital Archive of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
Conversations with Mao Zedong and Foreign Leaders
(from the Digital Archive of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
China's Great Leap Foward, 1958-1961
(from the Digital Archive of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
China's Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
(from the Digital Archive of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
Reform and Opening in China, 1978-
(from the Digital Archive of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History
(from the National Security Archive)
China, 1989
(from the Digital Archive of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
China's Foreign Aid
(from the Digital Archive of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)

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This collection documents China's foreign aid efforts in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere around the world during the Cold War and postcolonial eras.