---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for Chinese Studies Newsletter http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 20 Mar 2005, reviewed by Matthias Arnold New in IGCS - Full-text databases (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/igtexts.htm): Shijie ribao quanwen jiansuo xitong (The World Daily fulltext search system) Ed./Corp.: Shih Hsin University, Taipei, Taiwan. URL: http://icd.shu.edu.tw/lipo/ Language: Chinese (Big5). Description: "A daily founded in Beiping in 1925 by Cheng Shewo ??? (1898-1991). The first issue appeared on February 10. It consisted of eight pages (one big sheet) in the beginning, and was later expanded to three sheets or 24 pages. The Shijie ribao was addressed to the political and educational circles; it was famous for its editorials, which were mostly authored by Cheng Shewo; it had special columns for economics, education and women's issues; and it included a pictorial, which later was issued separately. Other supplements followed. Lu Xun belonged to the frequent contributors to the paper. Circulation is said to have reached 40 to 50,000. After Cheng Shewo had been taken into custody by the warlord Zhang Zongchang ??? due to his critique of warlord politics, his comments became more cautious. Publication stopped in August 1937, when the Japanese occupied Beiping. It reappeared on November 20, 1945, taking an anti-Communist stance. Publication stopped on February 25, 1949. Between May 1945 and July 1949, a Chongqing edition was published" (Source: Gan Xifen: Xinwenxue da cidian, Zhengzhou, 1993. Translation kindly provided by Dr. Andrea Janku). The digitization of Shijie ribao is an ongoing project, currently (March 2005) the news articles between 1926 and 1929 and scanned images of the first five issues of May 1926 are available. The search (direct access at http://icd.shu.edu.tw/lipo/search2/index.php) provides three fulltext fields that can be combined with AND, OR or NOT, and two date search fields. Results are displayed in a single list, hits in the title are marked in red (not within the article itself). Unfortunately, the image-files are named using Big5 characters and are thus not easily accessible on western machines. Site contents: (1) Main; (2) About Shijie ribao; (3) News fulltext search; (4) Contact us. _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno E. Lecher INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINESE STUDIES -- editor http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ An archive of this list as well as an subscribe/unsubscribe facility is available at: http://listserv.uni-heidelberg.de/archives/igcs-l.html