diglib: New this week at e-Asia

[Robert Felsing <felsing@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>]

This probably is of interest *ONLY* if you have an interest in East Asia.  I
hope to send out, on a weekly basis, a "new books" list for e-Asia.  Rather
than clog the diglib pipe with such notices, please let me know if you would
like to be on the receiving end of the "new books" list  -- otherwise you
will not be bothered.

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Thanks to some weekend work, 14 booklets on the various campaigns of the war
with Japan were added to the online inventory.  Also in the military spirit
of things, a new book -- MiG ALLEY -- which is about the air war in Korea
went online.  Two specific items of possible interest:

1) THE PRINCIPLES OF THE OPEN DOOR IN CHINA AND MANCHOUKUO

        If you like your lawyers slimy and your reading turgid, this is for
you.  Manchoukuo was established as an ethnic (Manchu) state in North China
in 1932 and was headed by China's last emperor, Puyi.  In truth, Manchoukuo
was a Japanese puppet state.  This book is one of the few that provides the
legal defense for a country that (almost) no one recognized.

2) THE JOURNAL OF EDITH MARGARET WHERRY

        A fascinating (but short) journal kept by a 15-year old living in
Beijing in 1891. Includes travel accounts and the description of events.
Edith mentions a number of missionaries operating in China at the time
(Edith was the daughter of a missionary family) -- notables -- some of whom
were to die in the Boxer uprising of 1900.  She also mentions Sir Robert
Hart, arguably the most powerful man in China at the time since he headed
the Chinese customs bureau; Hart was evidentally attracted to teenage Edith.
Quite entertaining.  This journal is held in our Special Collections
Department and was transcribed (and decoded) by Duffy.  Available only from
e-Asia.  The Wherry Collection is extremely interesting -- for example, it
holds perhaps 60-70 photos (that I've never before seen anywhere) of the
seige of the foreign legations in Peking during the Boxer uprising of 1900.

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e-Asia books can be accessed at: http://fluffy.uoregon.edu/read/  Available
only to the UO community.  These are free books for you to use, to keep --
to build your own electronic library.  To read most e-Asia materials you
will need to download and install the free Microsoft Reader available at:
http://microsoft.com/reader/   You will not need to "activate" the reader
unless you intend to purchase commercial e-books online from barnes and
noble or amazon.com.  Virtually all English-language e-Asia materials are
WORD SEARCHABLE.

Regards,

Bob Felsing