Celebrate the Chinese New Year with Gale Primary Sources

Posted on February 8, 2015

By Masaki Morisawa

CNY1

“… the blessed Chinese New Year has come round, the Post Office has ceased to function, the office boy has burned his fingers lighting fire crackers and the door between my office and the Depot is locked; the doorkeeper has gone home with the key ….”

So writes John Darroch, a British missionary, in the March 1933 issue ofThe Chinese Recorder, one of the seventeen English-language journals published in or about China that will be included in the upcoming digital collectionChina from Empire to Republic: Missionary, Sinology, and Literary Periodicals 1817-1947.

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