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“REFLECTIONS ON THE STUDY OF ‘CIVIL LAW’ IN QING DYNASTY CHINA USING LOCAL COURT RECORDS”
 
A Talk by Prof. Deng Jianpeng 邓建鹏
 
Deng Jianpeng is Associate Professor at the Law School of the Chinese Central University of Nationalities (Zhongyang Minzu Daxue) in Beijing, PRC.  He is a noted historian of Qing dynasty law, whose main research focuses on civil case records found in the archives of Qing dynasty county courts.
 
WHEN: Monday, April 5, 2010, 4:00-5:30 PM
WHERE: Building 200 (History Corner), room 307
 

Simon Shi from Superstar Digital Library (超星数字图书馆) will come to demonstrate some of the latest features of the Duxiu (读秀知识库) and Chinamaxx e-book databases and answer questions.

Location: East Asia Library, 4th floor Meyer Library
Date: February 9, 2010
Time: 12 - 1 pm

Chinamaxx
http://www.chinamaxx.net/
Chinamaxx is a full-text database of hundreds of thousands of books published in China since 1949 covering the social sciences and humanities, medical and biological sciences, engineering, and law among others.

Duxiu 读秀知识库

Do you want to learn how to search for Chinese records in Socrates?
Having trouble finding Chinese journal articles? Want to learn how to
find Chinese e-books and other e-resources in the East Asia Library? If
so, then you are welcome to the library instruction on Chinese
electronic resources!

The instruction session will be held at the East Asia Library on
Tuesday, November 10, 12-1:30pm

For more information about the session, please contact:
Zhaohui Xue (zhxue@stanford.edu | 650 725-3439) or
Charles Fosselman (cfosselm@stanford.edu | 650 725-3438)

Updated April 28, 2009

The East Asia Library has acquired the collection of "deep backfiles" of the China Academic Journals database. The Century Journals Project is the single largest retrospective digital collection of 20th Century Chinese Journals which includes more than 3,500 full-text Chinese Journals. This acquisition greatly expands our electronic journal holdings which before now only went back to 1994. The backfiles go back as early as 1906 and many of the titles cover from the mid-twentieth century through 1993.

The EAL has acquired the following Series:

We now have both on-campus and proxy (off-campus) access to the 2nd edition of the Nihon kokugo daijiten 日本国語大辞典, published by Shoggakan in 2000-2002 .  For access, please see below.

URL: http://nikkoku.jkn21.com/
Select "Roguin (Login Hojin [Corporation])"

The Duxiu e-resource (读秀知识库) is now available for trial use to the Stanford community. Duxiu provides full-text access to over 2 million core Chinese monographs and journals, as well as over 500 yearbooks published in mainland China.

Duxiu can be accessed via Stanford's Chinamaxx interface. The Duxiu search form is located at the lower portion of the Chinamaxx homepage.

For questions on how to use this resource or for comments, please send email to eastasialibrary@stanford.edu.

Please be advised that the Town Hall Meeting to discuss the relocation of the East Asia Library has been moved from the Law School Room 290 to Kresge Auditorium. Date and time remain unchanged: Wednesday, Nov. 28th, 5:00-6:30.

A Town Hall Meeting will be held to discuss preliminary plans for the relocation of the East Asia Library into Green Library after the demolition of the Meyer Library building. The University Librarian, Provost, and Academic Senate library committee chair will present the current plans in detail and listen to comments. Open to the public.

Date and Time: November 28 (Wednesday), 5:00 – 6:30PM
Place: Law School, Room 290.

The East Asia Library is pleased to announce that we now have both on-campus and proxy (off-campus) access to searchable full-text and page images of the Yomiuri shinbun from Meiji 7 (1874) to Showa 35 (1960).

For access, please see below:

URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/asrg/research_help/NERLyomiuri.html