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Thanks to everyone who followed me here. I have made the move to Mastodon. I've not been active lately, but may run through the posts so far again on other side. You can find me at @mossonstone@zirk.us

I’ve requested archive of my posts here on Twitter and will be leaving this platform soon after. Will move to the 4 legged wooly one. Any suggestions for best instance there for posts sharing historical sources from Internet Archive (u may need to obfuscate the instance link)?

A nice collection on IA: Anarchist and Syndicalist Periodicals from Latin America archive.org/details/anarqu…

Wow, 800 items in our @internetarchive collection! Thanks to our colleagues in @McGillLib Digital Initiatives. Most #NewlyDigitized items are on #ChineseMedicine -- an effort to digitize our East Asian Languages material. Visit us: archive.org/details/mcgill…

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Oh, just one more thing. This one may be especially useful to the digital humanities text wizards: 2.7GB of raw textfiles with the full text of 申報. Filenames missing month/day, but can often match up with internet archive PDFs using URL identifier code. github.com/moss-on-stone/…

@wong_yuen_ming I just checked days of week for a few 1931 days: they match with Gregorian calendar. Maybe there there some mistakes in 1930 issues? Always a problem with newspapers.

@MossonStone1 I checked a few months of 1930 but it looks like whoever dated the files simply took the (Lunar) date on top and applied as if it were Solar

@wong_yuen_ming They should all be solar dates on the newspaper. No lunar dates on most 1930 newspapers as far as I know. If you find an example/evidence let me know!

@wong_yuen_ming My understanding just based on Wilkinson, Chinese History: A New Manual 5th edition Ch 39 on calendars. Was there something special about 中央日報?

@MossonStone1 Hello MoS, I was perusing 中央日報 and I noticed that dating is all wrong in that it follows what stated in the paper that is, however, Lunar and not Solar dates. FYI 🙏🏻

@wong_yuen_ming Just had a quick look. 中央日報 launched in 1928 long after most newspapers switched to solar dates, no? Older pre 1912 papers usually list both calendar dates, but later papers list only one, which should be the 西曆, no?

@wong_yuen_ming Oh that sucks. If you or someone could send along a fixed list with url and correct title, happy to upload fix. In meantime, will see if I can add note of problem in description. Is it true for all years? Dates were set by original scanning library.

Following @MossonStone1 and Prof. @bickers's efforts, I've updated the index database for the Periodicals published during the Late Qing and Republican Eras with another 80 titles. Now the total number of titles is 217. public.tableau.com/views/Periodic…

👋🤪 That is all from moss on stone, for now. Please consider donating to the Internet Archive if you find its many collections useful. archive.org/donate/

新民报半月刊 1939-1943 - There are 99 issues of this Beijing magazine published during the Japanese occupation on the Internet Archive. archive.org/search.php?que…

大亞洲主義 1940-1942 - There are 14 issues of this Nanjing magazine, published during the Japanese occupation, on Internet Archive. archive.org/search.php?que…

小說日報 1939-1941 - There are 826 issues of this Shanghai newspaper on Internet Archive with full issue PDF downloads. Note that this is a different publication than the one of the same name previously linked to from earlier years. archive.org/search.php?que…

小說日報 1922-1923 - There are 281 issues of this Shanghai newspaper on Internet Archive with full issue PDF downloads. Note that this is different from a second newspaper of that name from later years. archive.org/search.php?que…

生活日報 1913-1940 - There are 259 issues of this Shanghai newspaper on Internet Archive with full issue PDF downloads. archive.org/search.php?que…

東南日報 1946-1949 - There are 709 issues of this Shanghai newspaper on Internet Archive with full issue PDF downloads. Rather low resolution, hard to read. archive.org/search.php?que…

奮報 1939-1940 - There are 506 issues of this Shanghai newspaper on Internet Archive with full issue PDF downloads. archive.org/search.php?que…