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This site allows you to search across 60,000 names of men and women who lived, worked or died in China, between the 1850s and 1940s. The information is drawn from ten different sources, and you can search each one of these individually, but you can also search across all of them. There are many Chinese names here, as well as the names of foreign residents.
The website also includes a list of Chinese, Japanese and English language newspapers published in China and freely accessible online is collated from tweets by @MossonStone1 and other sources.
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China Families incl. Historic newspapers published in China available Open Access online
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