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Although published in 1988, the Checklist of Missionary Collection is still an extremely useful guide to materials found in the Special Collections Department of the University of Oregon Library. Difficult to find copies of this small pamphlet. Although updated, this checklist does not have the complete missionary holdings, which have expanded since 1988.

Journal of Edith Margaret Wherry. Never before available outside of the University of Oregon Library Special Collections, this brief diary by a 15 year-old girl documents her experiences in the year 1891. Although some of the information merely provides color to an important period in Chinese history, Edith had encounters with notables in China's foreign community (particularly Sir Robert Hart). For this reason alone, the manuscript is worth the read.

Although not really a production of the e-Asia Digital Library, this online magazine directed toward grades K-12 is closely affiliated with the Digital Library project. Notable for its use of Flash. e-Asia, the magazine, is funded by the Comittee on Councils, Association for Asian Studies and is a joint project of the University of Oregon and Pacific University.

An extremely important,albeit, difficult classical Chinese work. The Chunqiu zuozhuan edition produced by e-Asia requires that your machine have a unicode font installed. The best available, Arial Unicode MS, can be gotten free from Microsoft. e-Asia uses unicode for virtually all of its Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and mixed language texts. For more information see the Unicode FAQ. This work is in simplified Chinese.

This is a book of quips -- not jokes, hence this translated collection, Quips from a Chinese Jest Book (Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, 1925), by Herbert A. Giles is amusing rather than hilarious. Useful for an examination of Chinese humor and cross-cultural implications.

This is the first book converted by the e-Asia project. Wu Tingfang's views, America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat, may seem a little peculiar to Americans; on the other hand, American views of China around the turn of the 20th century could often be fantastic.

This compilation by Martin Schmitt, Catalog of Manuscripts in the University of Oregon Library (Eugene: University of Oregon, 1971) is difficult to find in its print edition. This catalog includes many items of interest to students of East Asia, and it remains valuable despite the fact that it is now thirty years out-of-date..

The reknowned philosopher educator, John Dewey and his wife, paid visits to Japan and China in early 1919. These are their letters (most interesting from the standpoint that they were written by Dewey)

The Nuerjing (The Classic for Girls), as translated by Isaac Taylor Headland, is a rather interesting example of an "aid to living" for teenage and younger girls. While much of the advice seems reasonable enough, the guide has obvious ideological underpinnings. Short but useful.

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