Modern Urban Tabloids Database

Since the “Urban History Research Group” (MHDB, Academia Sinica)) was established, it has engaged in developing urban related research issues and continued to arrange some representative original newspapers and journals images, cataloguing them into metadata. So far, 13 kinds of urban tabloids of Shanghai and Suzhou, comprising almost 890,000 pieces of data has been integrated into “Modern Urban Tabloids Database,” and opened for public use in 2015.

Shanghai and Shuzhou’s tabloids’ releasing time was long and their information is great which is conducive to research tabloids and modern urban social and cultural history. Using tabloids from both places at same time can enable breakthroughs in comparing different cities’ cultural development, facilitating further understanding of competitions for resources and wax and wane between these two cities which broadens the horizon of urban history research.

Otherwise, one of values of Shuzhou’s tabloid is insight into the social life of an occupied city during the Anti-Japanese War. From the perspective of urban history, other than Shanghai’s urban history research, research for other occupied cities still very insufficient. Thus, Shuzhou tabloid, on the one hand, can provide scholarship civil life data about occupied regions; on the other hand, it can be used to reevaluate the Reorganized National Government’s role and function in occupied regions.

(From the original website.)