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China
Beijing Review (北京週刊)
(http://www.bjreview.com.cn/).
Language: English.
Description: Formerly known as "Peking Review", the weekly Beijing Review was established in March 1958 as a successor to the semi-monthly "People's Daily" (1950-1957). It is published in more than twenty languages and covers "[...] China's economic and social developments and carries important documents of the Chinese government and speeches made by state leaders" (self description). Short articles deliver the official view on China's economic and social developments.
Archive: Back issues of last few months are available, but no search is possible. The on-line edition offers only a selection of the articles available in the paper edition.
Information supplied by Rolf Melheim.
Added 20 Sep 1997, last revised 17 Jun 2001 (HL)
今日上海月刊 (Shanghai Today) (News Office of Shanghai Municipal Government)
(http://china-window.com/shanghai/today/cindex.html).
Language: Chinese (GB and Big5).
Description: The Chinese equivalent of the Shanghai Daily, this is a monthly magazine mainly offering local news of Shanghai. Site contents: 本期焦點 (Focus); 經濟縱橫 (Business); 都市新氣象 (New Shanghai); 人物特寫 (Personal Profiles); 文娛休閒 (Culture and Leisure).
Note: Frames capable browser needed! User guidance on top page is not very obvious: you have to enter by clicking on one of the two fields in the middle of the page. Links below lead to other places!
Added/revised on 13.05.1998 (HL)
今日中國 (China Today)
(http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/).
Language: English, Chinese (GB).
Description: The well known former China Reconstructs magazine published by the Chinese Government.
Information supplied by Rolf Melheim (Norway).
Added/revised on 08 Aug1998, last revised 17 Jun 2001 (HL)
Shanghai Daily
(http://china-window.com/shanghai/shdaily/index.html).
Language: English.
Description: Shanghai's electronic daily newspaper, providing local economic and business news, with an archive going back one year.
Note: Frames capable browser needed!
Added/revised on 13.05.1998 (HL)
Shanghai Today (News Office of Shanghai Municipal Government)
(http://china-window.com/shanghai/etoday/index.html).
Language: English.
Description: The English sister of Jinri shanghai Yuekan 今日上海月刊, this is a bi-monthly magazine focusing on local news and offering "comprehensive coverage of Shanghai's rapidly developing economic, financial and commercial scene" (self description). Features: Focus (News of the Month; ...); Tourism; Business; Country; Others. Includes links to the Shanghai Daily and an on-line newspaper digest in Chinese (GB).
Note: Frames capable browser needed! User guidance on top page is not very obvious: you have to enter by clicking on the name of Shanghai Today on top of the page. Links at the end lead to other places!
Added/revised on 13.05.1998 (HL)
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Asia, Inc. On-line
(http://www.asia-inc.com/).
Language: English.
Description: Published in HK, this "is an electronic version of Asia, Inc., distributed via the World Wide Web. It contains, among other things, articles from Asia, Inc., discussion forums, Asian financial information and Asia, Inc.'s radio show, The Asia, Inc. Report."
Asiaweek on-line (Time Inc. Asia, HK)
(http://www.pathfinder.com/asiaweek/).
Language: English.
Description: On-line access to their articles with background information and round table discussions on Asian politics, business, technology, arts, and science. Also contains a "Gallery of 20 Great Asians, 1975 - 1995", with portraits of political leaders and opinion leaders.
Archive: All issues since June 1995, unfortunately without keyword search.
Added/revised on 05.08.1998 (HL)
CSIS Hong Kong Update (Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC, USA)
(http://www.csis.org/html/hongkong.html).
Language: English.
Self description: "The purpose of this bulletin is to gauge accurately the continuing evolution of Hong Kong by presenting a broad spectrum of views on developments in the new Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)."
Description: A valuable source on political and economic developments in Hong Kong, featuring guest commentaries by leading figures both in Hong Kong and in Washington, and further in-depth perspectives by well known journalists and government and business executives.
Archive: All back issues beginning with Sept. 1997 are fully available on-line. No search facility provided.
Added/revised on 27. Feb. 1999 (HL)
Far Eastern Economic Review
(http://www.feer.com).
Language: English.
Description: One of the most important weekly journals on Asia is also available on-line!Note that articles of the latest editions are only incomplete versions.
Archive: This site also offers a key word search database going back to 1995.
Note: Site uses frames!
Added/revised on 10.02.1999 (HL)
九十年代 (The Nineties Monthly)
(http://www.nineties.com.hk/).
Language: Chinese (Big5, GB).
Description: The famous weekly from Hong Kong on China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong affairs, covering culture, politics, and economy, had to close down. Read the epilogue in Big5 or GB.
亞洲週刊 = Yazhou zhoukan (Yazhou Zhoukan Ltd., Hong Kong, China)
(http://www.yzzk.com/).
ISSN: 1015-5015.
Numbering: 1.1 (1987) - .
Frequency: Weekly.
Language: Chinese (Big5).
Self description: "The only international Chinese Newsweekly."
Description: Established in 1987 as Chinese edition of AsiaWeek, Yazhou zhoukan today is part of the HK Ming Pao Group, with a 50% share held by the big Hong Kong Internet company TOM.COM (TOM.COM is also the owner of the very popular Chinese portal 163.net). According to a TOM.COM announcement, the paper "enjoys a worldwide Chinese readership and is widely read by business executives, senior government officials and opinion leaders in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China and South East Asia".
Availability: Back issues are available on-line from vol. 15, no. 16 (22 Apr. 2001). Older issues down to vol. 13, no. 1 (3 Jan. 1999) can also be accessed using the URL http://www.yzzk.com/yyyynn/yzmain.htm, where yyyy represents the year (four digits) and nn the number (two digits). No search possible.
Added 22 Jul 2001 (HL)
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破周報 (CyberPots = Pots, the voice of generation next) (Taiwan Libao she, Taipei, Taiwan)
(http://www.pots.com.tw/).
Numbering: 1.1995 - .
Frequency: Weekly.
Language: Chinese (Big5).
Self description: "[POTS] was created to sketch the spirit of this town, to display the vitality and the charisma of life and art. [...] At other places we often find periodicals like POTS, such as "Time Out" in London, "Village Voice" in NY, "Pia" in Tokyo, "Beat" in Australia, and "HK" in Hong Kong. They meticuously describe the current activities in town, and dig out all hot topics of the time. [...] " [trsl. from Chinese by HL]
Description: An important and critical youth journal covering topics such as Activist; Open City; Q-gender; Books; Performance; Arts; Music; Movie; TV Film; TV etc. Especially on topics like Gender, Women, Homosexuals, Art and Culture, and City planning, POTS is without comparison in Taiwan.
Availability: All articles are fully available on-line.
Archive: All back issues are still available; includes a search index.
Resource suggested by Jens Damm (FU Berlin, Germany).
Added 19 Aug 2000 (HL)
新新聞 (The Journalist)
(http://www.journalist.com.tw/).
Language: Chinese (Big5).
Description: A wellknown Taiwanese news weekly. The on-line version only contains selected articles (about one third). Editions are available since 1995. A mirror provided by Sinanet is available at http://magazines.sinanet.com/thejournalist/. They also provide GB encoding and a Gif version as well as access to back issues down to Vol. 484 (June 15, 1996).
Added/revised on 07.10.1998 (HL)
遠見 (Global Views Monthly) (Global Views Magazine, Taiwan)
(http://www.sinanet.com/globalviews/currentf/index.html).
Language: Chinese (Gif).
Description: Only a small part of the articles is fully available on-line. Back issues are provided beginning with April 1996.
Added/revised on 12.10.1998 (HL)
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China Brief: A Journal of Information and Analysis = 中國簡報 (The Jamestown Foundation, Washington, DC, USA)
(http://www.jamestown.org/pub_china.htm).
Numbering: 1.1 (12. Jul 2001) -.
Frequency: Semimonthly.
Language: English, Chinese (GB).
Self description: "The Jamestown Foundation's mission is to contribute to U.S. understanding of its strategic adversaries that pose a threat to democracy and freedom. The foundation collects information from expert sources with firsthand knowledge of the goals, strategies and decisionmaking processes of these adversaries. It then extracts and distills both information and analysis and distributes it to policymakers, journalists, academics and corporations worldwide. Through this unique global network of political experts, Jamestown provides independent, nonpartisan and objective analysis of current and emerging anti-Western political trends in Eurasia."
Description: A source of well informed articles on current issues pertaining to the PR China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, written by well known analysts mainly from Asia and the US. However, bear in mind that though "independent" and "nonpartisan", the articles do reflect Jamestown's view of East Asia as a potential "threat to democracy and freedom" (see above).
Site contents: (1) Subscribe (free email delivery of the monthly newsletter); (2) Search (a powerful search facility with many advanced options); (3) China Brief (current and back issues of the Newsletter in English and Chinese); (4) China Trends (a very useful way to track latest developments in the region and category of your choice: Crime and corruption; Domestic politics; Economics; Foreign affairs; Freedoms; Independence, separatism, integration; Labor issues; Military & weapons proliferation; South China Sea region; Social conditions; WTO); (5) Archives; (6) Authors (access to all articles by and some information on the many contributers)
Availability: All articles a freely available; powerful search facility available.
Added 04 Jun 2003 (HL)
秀才 Xiucai = [Sju Tsai] (Ostasieninstitut, FH Ludwigshafen, Germany)
http://xiucai.oai.de/).
Numbering: 1 (Nov 2002) - .
Frequency: Monthly.
Language: German.
Description: A very refreshing newsletter on society, politics and economy in China.
Availability: All issues freely available on-line
Added 31 May 2003 (HL)
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