Video Introduction to Database Evangelism in China: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1837-1911
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| Description: | Dr Daniel Knorr at the Faculty of History introduced how to navigate and use the database Evangelism in China: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1837-1911. Transcript is available. |
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| Created: | 2023-05-09 14:55 | ||
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| Collection: | Video Introduction to Chinese Studies Electronic Databases | ||
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge | ||
| Copyright: | Cambridge University Library | ||
| Language: | eng (English) | ||
| Keywords: | Chinese studies; Missionary; Evangelism; Correspondence; China; Foreign Mission in China; Religion; | ||
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| Abstract: | Evangelism in China: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions, 1837-1911. Link (Cambridge University Members only): https://link.gale.com/apps/collection/9IOC/GDSC?u=cambuni&sid=GDSC
Introduction to the database: The American Presbyterian Church was committed at its inception to the belief that it is a missionary church and that every member is a missionary. The establishment in 1837 of the Presbyterian Church's Board of Foreign Missions signaled the beginning of a worldwide missionary operation destined to embrace some fifteen countries in four different continents The records offered here provide invaluable information on social conditions in China and on efforts to spread the gospel during the nineteenth century. Documenting the church's educational, evangelical, and medical work, these are records mainly of incoming correspondence from the mission field and outgoing correspondence from the Board headquarters. |
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Transcript
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Hello. My name is Dan Knorr and I teach in the history faculty here at Cambridge.
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Today, I'm going to be introducing one of the databases of electronic primary sources in Chinese that we have access to via a library subscription.
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If you go to the Chinese Studies E-Resources page, we'll see this right at the very top.
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We've got the late Qing full text database (Wan Qing qikan quanwen shujuku)
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and then also linked to it the Chinese periodical Fulltext database 1911 to 1949
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(Minguo shiqi qikan quanwen shujuku). And as you can see, just from these brief descriptions,
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there's a tremendous amount of material included in these databases, material that isn't full text searchable.
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The titles of the articles and periodicals are searchable, but you can download the material as PDFs.
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So it's a really rich and very useful collection of materials that you can look at.
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So we'll go ahead and click on one of these to open it up. They're split apart on the library site, and they're split apart here, too.
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But really, you can use both of them together without any sort of problems.
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We've clicked on the use button and we'll just wait for a minute to open up and
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I'll show you how you can search through both of the databases at the same time.
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It will pop up here on the left side of the screen, this is a full list of all of the databases that are theoretically available through the quanguo baokan suoyin
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slate of products. The ones that we have access to are in this
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kind of darker text and all of them already have green checks next to them.
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So we are going to be searching through both the late Qing and Republican era materials, as you can see here.
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Also by the date range, by default, the interface is opened up to the literature search, advanced search section.
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You can see there are other search options, but really the advanced search is going to be the most useful.
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There's also a literature navigation section that's useful to us, and I'll talk about that in just a minute.
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So those are the kind of two ways of searching through it that you're going to want to use.
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So here you've got a couple of search options to look at.
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Most of these are self explanatory. The literature source means the name of the periodical in question.
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This is a database of periodicals published in this time period.
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I should note that I'm looking at the English language version of the interface on the interface also includes 22 and find it.
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So if you'd rather do that issue is the issue number of the periodical.
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So if you know the periodical that you're looking for and the issue number,
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but maybe for some reason not the title of the article, then you could use those in combination.
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CLEC means Chinese Library Classification System.
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So this is a alphanumeric system of classification to look up different topics to play around with that if you like.
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The abstract search option I haven't found to be especially useful.
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There might be some articles that have abstracts themselves.
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For others, it's just the first couple of lines of text that have been made searchable.
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Again, it's not a full text database in the sense that you're able to search through the entirety of the text of the articles.
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There are a fair number of articles where it's just the title that searchable anyway,
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so you probably don't want to rely too much, at least at the outset on that abstract search function.
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There are few more options over here. You've got a fuzzy versus precise search option.
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Probably be okay sticking with fuzzy most of the time less may be you're searching
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for a name and getting too many irrelevant search results or something like that.
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And then there are a couple of different ways to compound searches on each other.
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You can use this dropdown box here to refine and alter search results, and you can also add multiple search conditions.
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So to give a quick example of how this works, I'm going to search for information articles related to an aspect of history that I work on.
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So I work on a Jinan during the Qing Dynasty, especially in the late 19th, early 20th century.
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One of the things that happens in China is that there's a commercial district that's opened up in the last years of the Jing its Shang Bu,
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so we're going to go ahead and do a quick search for a Shang boom. And we'll limit that to the years that I think I'm going to be interested in.
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Let's say 1900 to 1912 and you'll see, you know, really quick once this loads up the wide range of materials that you're going to get.
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So I've got 709 search results to go through as I start looking through this.
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I like any I've got a young nanchang buju, you know.
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Oh yes, this probably isn't related to Jinan, it's somewhere else. So that's probably true of a lot of these different search results.
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So I want to do a bit of refining in there. So let's go ahead and do a search in results for Jinan to try and narrow things down a bit.
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So we started out with 709 search results and this got us down to 52.
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So that's pretty useful.
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But I'm worried that we might be missing out some things because we're only getting hits on articles that have the word characters genes on in that.
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So if we've got something that's talking about the genome in Chengdu,
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but it doesn't happen to have a gene on somewhere in it, then that's going to be a problem for us.
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So in this case, we've got an article that appears in the genome bar but just has Chengdu in the title.
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Well, okay, there might be other kind of ways to narrow it down.
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Let's try going back to our search for shampoo and we're going to just do the search all over again.
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So we'll get back to our 709 search results. And let's do a slightly broader search to refine things.
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Let's do search in results. We'll keep general.
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But we'll do an awe search. Let's just try Shandong, the name of the province.
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So it's specifying by province instead of by city. Name doesn't happen enough gene on in the title of the periodical.
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Then maybe this will give us some extra heads. And lo and behold, it does.
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We went from 52 search results up to 115.
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So we've probably, you know, expanded the range of materials that we've caught in our search basically,
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and got some more things that are going to be relevant to us that's going to be really useful.
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So if you've got an article that you're interested in,
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you can go ahead and click on that article and that will open up a page that gives you a couple of different options.
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You can browse through the issue of the periodical as a whole.
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You can open up this specific article in a new tab as a PDF and see.
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And then you can download that PDF or you can see what you've got there.
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Or you could just click the download button to just download it directly.
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Of course, if you're downloading individual PDFs,
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make sure to make a notation to yourself of where exactly that material is coming from so that you can site it appropriately.
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One thing you might not notice I think is actually really powerful about the database is that you can not only search for individual articles,
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but you can also browse by periodical issues in old periodicals.
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So this periodical name appears actually a clickable link.
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If you click on it, then it's going to take you to a view of the page for the periodical as a whole,
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it's going to show you the full range of issues by year that are available from this periodical,
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and it also gives you very helpfully brief introduction to that periodical.
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Down at the bottom on this, you can get a sense of the full range of materials from that periodical that are available.
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You can browse entire issues, browse titles from issues,
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and you can use this search within button to open up with a page that lists all of the articles from that given periodical.
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So you can do searches within that. And again, you can download all of these articles to your machine to read for later.
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Now you'll notice that when we've done this search within function, it's taken us to the literature navigation section of the site.
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And this is really useful if you want to find periodicals that match a particular criteria.
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One thing we're going to make sure that we are in the modern periodical section of the interface.
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One thing I think that's really powerful is that it's got this place of publication search option.
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So, you know, we know that there's a lot published in Shanghai, for instance.
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So we've got almost 23,000 total periodicals in the database.
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For fun, let's see how many of those from Shanghai? 6841.
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So more than more than a quarter of those are coming from Shanghai.
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But if you're working on like a smaller city like Jinan, maybe there aren't so many periodicals published there.
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And so if you do a search for things that were published in Jena, and then you get a smaller and more valuable,
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I think a selection of periodicals, you know, available from Jinan.
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If you're someone like me who's interested in the late Xing,
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you can pretty quickly go through and identify the ones that have material related to the lynching based on the year when they were first published.
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So that's really powerful. Just for fun.
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Let's look for one more city. Let's look for Xi'an, another slightly kind of, you know, not so many publications from there as from Shanghai.
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More than Jinan, though. So we've got 223 search results.
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And the other option for searching in here is by the organiser name or the kind of institution that's
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you know, or person that's publishing this. So this first result, for instance, we see there's a xuesheng shenghuo she.
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Say you're interested in students in China in the 1940s or the Republican period
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and you say oh—xuesheng shenghuo she—that sounds like something that might not just be a local thing.
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Maybe they've got a connection to a periodical somewhere else.
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You can use that organiser search option to have a go at that.
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And in this case, we see oh yeah, there is another periodical that's connected to this xuesheng shenghuo she
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and that is being published in Changsha.
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So you've got a couple of options there to find periodicals that might be interesting to you.
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So whether you're looking for individual articles on a particular topic or periodicals that were published in a particular place and time,
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there are a couple of different, really useful ways to utilise this database.
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And again, a tremendous amount of resources that are going to be readily accessible to you to download as PDFs from within this database.
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So really, just about any topic that you're working on in late 19th, early 20th century China, in all likelihood,
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you're going to be able to find something that's useful to you in this database if you play around with it a little bit.
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So I'd encourage you to have a go. Good luck with your research. I hope this video has helped you out.
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And thank you so much for watching.
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Hello. My name is Dan Knorr and I teach in the history faculty here at Cambridge.
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Today, I'm going to be introducing one of the databases of electronic primary sources in Chinese that we have access to via a library subscription.
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If you go to the Chinese Studies E-Resources page, we'll see this right at the very top.
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We've got the late Qing full text database (Wan Qing qikan quanwen shujuku)
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and then also linked to it the Chinese periodical Fulltext database 1911 to 1949
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(Minguo shiqi qikan quanwen shujuku). And as you can see, just from these brief descriptions,
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there's a tremendous amount of material included in these databases, material that isn't full text searchable.
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The titles of the articles and periodicals are searchable, but you can download the material as PDFs.
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So it's a really rich and very useful collection of materials that you can look at.
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So we'll go ahead and click on one of these to open it up. They're split apart on the library site, and they're split apart here, too.
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But really, you can use both of them together without any sort of problems.
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We've clicked on the use button and we'll just wait for a minute to open up and
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I'll show you how you can search through both of the databases at the same time.
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It will pop up here on the left side of the screen, this is a full list of all of the databases that are theoretically available through the quanguo baokan suoyin
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slate of products. The ones that we have access to are in this
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kind of darker text and all of them already have green checks next to them.
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So we are going to be searching through both the late Qing and Republican era materials, as you can see here.
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Also by the date range, by default, the interface is opened up to the literature search, advanced search section.
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You can see there are other search options, but really the advanced search is going to be the most useful.
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There's also a literature navigation section that's useful to us, and I'll talk about that in just a minute.
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So those are the kind of two ways of searching through it that you're going to want to use.
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So here you've got a couple of search options to look at.
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Most of these are self explanatory. The literature source means the name of the periodical in question.
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This is a database of periodicals published in this time period.
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I should note that I'm looking at the English language version of the interface on the interface also includes 22 and find it.
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So if you'd rather do that issue is the issue number of the periodical.
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So if you know the periodical that you're looking for and the issue number,
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but maybe for some reason not the title of the article, then you could use those in combination.
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CLEC means Chinese Library Classification System.
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So this is a alphanumeric system of classification to look up different topics to play around with that if you like.
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The abstract search option I haven't found to be especially useful.
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There might be some articles that have abstracts themselves.
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For others, it's just the first couple of lines of text that have been made searchable.
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Again, it's not a full text database in the sense that you're able to search through the entirety of the text of the articles.
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There are a fair number of articles where it's just the title that searchable anyway,
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so you probably don't want to rely too much, at least at the outset on that abstract search function.
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There are few more options over here. You've got a fuzzy versus precise search option.
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Probably be okay sticking with fuzzy most of the time less may be you're searching
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for a name and getting too many irrelevant search results or something like that.
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And then there are a couple of different ways to compound searches on each other.
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You can use this dropdown box here to refine and alter search results, and you can also add multiple search conditions.
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So to give a quick example of how this works, I'm going to search for information articles related to an aspect of history that I work on.
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So I work on a Jinan during the Qing Dynasty, especially in the late 19th, early 20th century.
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One of the things that happens in China is that there's a commercial district that's opened up in the last years of the Jing its Shang Bu,
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so we're going to go ahead and do a quick search for a Shang boom. And we'll limit that to the years that I think I'm going to be interested in.
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Let's say 1900 to 1912 and you'll see, you know, really quick once this loads up the wide range of materials that you're going to get.
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So I've got 709 search results to go through as I start looking through this.
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I like any I've got a young nanchang buju, you know.
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Oh yes, this probably isn't related to Jinan, it's somewhere else. So that's probably true of a lot of these different search results.
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So I want to do a bit of refining in there. So let's go ahead and do a search in results for Jinan to try and narrow things down a bit.
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So we started out with 709 search results and this got us down to 52.
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So that's pretty useful.
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But I'm worried that we might be missing out some things because we're only getting hits on articles that have the word characters genes on in that.
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So if we've got something that's talking about the genome in Chengdu,
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but it doesn't happen to have a gene on somewhere in it, then that's going to be a problem for us.
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So in this case, we've got an article that appears in the genome bar but just has Chengdu in the title.
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Well, okay, there might be other kind of ways to narrow it down.
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Let's try going back to our search for shampoo and we're going to just do the search all over again.
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So we'll get back to our 709 search results. And let's do a slightly broader search to refine things.
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Let's do search in results. We'll keep general.
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But we'll do an awe search. Let's just try Shandong, the name of the province.
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So it's specifying by province instead of by city. Name doesn't happen enough gene on in the title of the periodical.
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Then maybe this will give us some extra heads. And lo and behold, it does.
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We went from 52 search results up to 115.
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So we've probably, you know, expanded the range of materials that we've caught in our search basically,
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and got some more things that are going to be relevant to us that's going to be really useful.
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So if you've got an article that you're interested in,
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you can go ahead and click on that article and that will open up a page that gives you a couple of different options.
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You can browse through the issue of the periodical as a whole.
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You can open up this specific article in a new tab as a PDF and see.
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And then you can download that PDF or you can see what you've got there.
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Or you could just click the download button to just download it directly.
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Of course, if you're downloading individual PDFs,
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make sure to make a notation to yourself of where exactly that material is coming from so that you can site it appropriately.
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One thing you might not notice I think is actually really powerful about the database is that you can not only search for individual articles,
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but you can also browse by periodical issues in old periodicals.
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So this periodical name appears actually a clickable link.
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If you click on it, then it's going to take you to a view of the page for the periodical as a whole,
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it's going to show you the full range of issues by year that are available from this periodical,
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and it also gives you very helpfully brief introduction to that periodical.
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Down at the bottom on this, you can get a sense of the full range of materials from that periodical that are available.
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You can browse entire issues, browse titles from issues,
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and you can use this search within button to open up with a page that lists all of the articles from that given periodical.
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So you can do searches within that. And again, you can download all of these articles to your machine to read for later.
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Now you'll notice that when we've done this search within function, it's taken us to the literature navigation section of the site.
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And this is really useful if you want to find periodicals that match a particular criteria.
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One thing we're going to make sure that we are in the modern periodical section of the interface.
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One thing I think that's really powerful is that it's got this place of publication search option.
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So, you know, we know that there's a lot published in Shanghai, for instance.
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So we've got almost 23,000 total periodicals in the database.
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For fun, let's see how many of those from Shanghai? 6841.
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So more than more than a quarter of those are coming from Shanghai.
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But if you're working on like a smaller city like Jinan, maybe there aren't so many periodicals published there.
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And so if you do a search for things that were published in Jena, and then you get a smaller and more valuable,
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I think a selection of periodicals, you know, available from Jinan.
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If you're someone like me who's interested in the late Xing,
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you can pretty quickly go through and identify the ones that have material related to the lynching based on the year when they were first published.
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So that's really powerful. Just for fun.
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Let's look for one more city. Let's look for Xi'an, another slightly kind of, you know, not so many publications from there as from Shanghai.
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More than Jinan, though. So we've got 223 search results.
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And the other option for searching in here is by the organiser name or the kind of institution that's
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you know, or person that's publishing this. So this first result, for instance, we see there's a xuesheng shenghuo she.
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Say you're interested in students in China in the 1940s or the Republican period
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and you say oh—xuesheng shenghuo she—that sounds like something that might not just be a local thing.
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Maybe they've got a connection to a periodical somewhere else.
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You can use that organiser search option to have a go at that.
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And in this case, we see oh yeah, there is another periodical that's connected to this xuesheng shenghuo she
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and that is being published in Changsha.
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So you've got a couple of options there to find periodicals that might be interesting to you.
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So whether you're looking for individual articles on a particular topic or periodicals that were published in a particular place and time,
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there are a couple of different, really useful ways to utilise this database.
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And again, a tremendous amount of resources that are going to be readily accessible to you to download as PDFs from within this database.
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So really, just about any topic that you're working on in late 19th, early 20th century China, in all likelihood,
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you're going to be able to find something that's useful to you in this database if you play around with it a little bit.
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So I'd encourage you to have a go. Good luck with your research. I hope this video has helped you out.
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And thank you so much for watching.