Brill’s Asian Newspapers and Magazines collection offers an eclectic but essential range of rare English-language East-, South- and South-East Asian news sources published from the early 1790s to the mid-1960s. Spanning more than one-and-a-half centuries and over a dozen publications, the collection offers unique contemporary insights into key historical conflicts, systemic shifts and all the minutiae of social, political and economic change as Asia moved into the age of modernity.
Asian Newspapers & Magazines
All publications included in Brill’s Asian Newspapers and Magazines collection are available for free 30-day institutional trials.
To arrange your trial, or for more information on how to order, please ask your librarian to contact our Sales department at sales@brill.com.
The Japan Chronicle Online
The North China Herald Online
Mobilizing East Asia Online
The Chinese Students' Monthly Online
North China Daily News Online
Translations of the Peking Gazette Online
About The North China Herald Online
About The Japan Chronicle
A Japan Chronicle Case Study:
the Shaw Affair
Mobilizing East Asia Online:
Newspapers, magazines and books
Features and Benefits BrillOnline Primary Sources
- Social bookmarking
- Alerting services
- Different search and browsing options (e.g. by title, all titles, by subject)
- Search results from products on all BrillOnline platforms
- Many collections feature full-text search options
- Short term access purchase options
- Compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (PAS 78) and WCAG
BrillOnline for Librarians
- Clear distinction between subscribed and unsubscribed content
- Shibboleth login
- COUNTER compliant usage statistics
- SUSHI user statistics
- Admin tool for librarians (incl. open URL preferences)
- Branding options to institutional customers
- No DRM
North China Standard Online
Manchuria Daily News Online
Translations of the Peking Gazette Online
The Hongkong News Online
Israel's Messenger Online
Contemporary Japan Online
Japan News-Week Online
Japan Times Weekly and Nippon Times Weekly Online
Essential Primary Sources
Included in this expanding collection are not only standard requirements for Asianists at all levels of scholarship, such as the Civil & Military Gazette, the North-China Herald and its weekly edition, the North-China Daily News, the Japan Chronicle, the Japan/Nippon Times Weekly and Contemporary Japan, but hitherto uncollected and barely-researched serial publications such as Japan News-Week, the North China Standard, the Manchuria Daily News, Hongkong News, and the Chinese Students’ Monthly and many others.
Additional imprint material
Wherever possible, each Primary Source in the Brill Asian Newspapers and Magazines collection includes related editions of the serial, additional supplements and magazines, and books and pamphlets from the imprint, the publishing arm of the publication.
Fully-text searchable, high resolution scans
Wherever possible, all titles have been sourced from high-quality originals and reproduced in high resolution colour. All titles are fully text-searchable and provided in as complete an edition as is currently available. As new issues and materials emerge, they will be added to the collection at no extra cost.
Available for institutional trials
All publications included in Brill’s Asian Newspapers and Magazines collection are available for free 30-day institutional trials. To arrange your trial, or for more information on how to order, please ask your librarian to contact our Sales department at sales@brill.com.
Japan Year Books Online
Seoul Press Online
Trans-Pacific Online
Hongkong Weekly Press Online
The Civil & Military Gazette Online, 1876-1963