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Shanghai Library Republican Periodicals

This massive database provides full page images for Republican-era periodicals held by the Shanghai Library, as well as several late-Qing and Republican newspapers, including 新聞報, 時報, and 上海新報, and more than 400 tabloids, 1897 and 1949.

Global Press Archive:  Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers