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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There are 52 issues of 思想與時代 (1941-48) on Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There are 138 issues of 現代評論 1924-28 on Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There are over 300 issues of the Chinese education journal 教育雜誌 (1909-1948) on the Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There are 47 issues of 新女性 (1926-1929) on Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

There are 147 issues of the important geography journal 地學雜誌 (1910-1935) on the Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

There are 86 issues of 永安月刊 (1939-1949), the magazine of the Wing On department store on Nanjing Road in Shanghai, on Internet Archive to read and download as PDFs. A great source for exploring material and popular culture, advertising, etc. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

There are 49 issues of the historical geography journal 禹貢(1934-1937) on the Internet Archive to read or download: archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

4/2 If you want to browse all the issues across the three scanned versions, here is a link that allows you to see the three scanned versions of 婦女雜誌 (sometimes two, when one of them is missing an issue) side by side: archive.org/search?query...

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

3/2 This makes it both a) easy to compare versions of the same issues, as scan quality differs significantly between the issues and some copies are missing pages. The tables of contents can also be compared. b) It also makes it easier to download the full PDFs for researchers.

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

2/2 These three versions of 婦女雜誌 can also all be read or easily downloaded as full PDFs on Internet Archive: IA copy of Academia Sinica 204 issues: archive.org/search?query... IA version of ECPO 153 issues: archive.org/search?query... IA version of Wikimedia 130 issues: archive.org/search?query...

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

1/2 There are several collections Chinese women's magazine 婦女雜誌 (1915-31) online including: Academia Sinica: mhdb.mh.sinica.edu.tw/fnzz/index.php ECPO Heidelberg: ecpo.cats.uni-heidelberg.de/frauenzeitsc... (low res, partial) Wikimedia: commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?... (high res, partial)

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

There are 78 issues of 學衡（1922-33) on Internet Archive to read or download. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

There are 52 issues of the Guangzhou pro-Japanese occupation period journal 新亞 (1939-44) on Internet Archive to read or download. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There are 39 issues of 上海婦女 on Internet Archive to read and download 1938-1940. archive.org/details/shan...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There are 78 issues of 東北大學週刊 (1926-1930 Northeastern University at Mukden/Shenyang) on the Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There are 200 issues of 中國青年 1923-1949 on Internet Archive to read or download. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

There are 28 issues of the Chinese women’s magazine 女聲 (1942-1944) on Internet Archive which was a Japanese controlled propaganda magazine in occupied Shanghai edited in turn by two fascinating figures: the Japanese feminist writer 田村俊子 and the CCP underground agent 關露. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

There are 163 issues of the Chinese women’s rights journal 婦女共鳴 (1929-1944) on Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

遠東畫報 1940-2 was a Shanghai Nazi German propaganda magazine published in Chinese. There are almost 50 issues of it on Internet Archive to read or download. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

There are nearly 100 issues of the Japanese-occupation period Chinese periodical 新民报半月刊 1939-43 on Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs. archive.org/details/xinm...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I can’t remember which issues but there are some great (especially for teaching and discussion) juxtapositions of images of women from across “greater” Asia within.

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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

The summer issues from 1942 are a little different from the others, featuring a woman from Bali (L) and Tibet (R). archive.org/details/funu... archive.org/details/funu...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

There are over 50 issues of the 1940-1945 Chinese language journal 婦女雜誌 on Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs. This was a pro-Japanese propaganda magazine produced in Beiping during the Japanese occupation. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

There are over 90 issues of 新民叢報, 1902-6 on Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs. Only some issues have dates in the metadata. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

There are over 300 issues of the travel magazine 旅行雜誌 (1927-1953) on the Internet Archive to read or download as PDFs. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

There are almost 100 issues of 廣播週報 (most 1930s) on the Internet Archive for viewing or PDF download. In addition to its other articles, interesting to explore its radio broadcast schedules. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

There are over 400 issues of the important Shanghai weekly 生活 (1925-33) on the Internet Archive for reading and PDF download. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

6/6 And in most of the reader letters to the magazine.

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

5/6 The war and its hardships also feature in several of these「家庭川柳」and in the humor section.

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

4/6 The war in China permeates periodicals from the time. Domestic life is the front line of preserving national resources, while women outside the home contribute to wartime production. This issue focused on marriage offers advice on remarriage for war widows.

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

3/6 The issue includes a conversation between the actresses 李香蘭 (Li Xianglan) / 山口淑子 / Shirley Yamaguchi and 轟夕起子. In the article, Yamaguchi preserves the fiction that she is Chinese, merely picking up Japanese in school (though a laugh between them is revealing). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

2/6 This issue includes a 座談会 with Japanese women married to Chinese men (including from Japan's occupation puppet government leadership). The warm depictions of Sino-Japanese marital bonds put Japanese wives at the heart of cultivating Japan's wartime ambitions for a new relationship with China.

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The March, 1940 issue of 主婦之友 (The Housewife's Friend) is on Internet Archive to read or download. Explore this key household magazine during Japan's full-scale invasion of China, but still before Japan's southern advance in 1941. 1/6 archive.org/details/shuf...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

If anyone gives it a try (especially Linux version which is untested) would be nice to know if it worked alright for you and any suggestions.

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I created a simple vibe-coded cross-platform app "Grimmia" (open source and public domain) to help fans of @archive.org search, download, and upload. Read more and download here: github.com/moss-on-ston... The app is not signed, so do read the install instructions for help with install warnings.

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

8/8 Korea is also extensively discussed throughout the run of the periodical. See for example Oct 10 「朝鮮併有の方法を評す」( archive.org/details/chuo... ) or the May, 1930 「朝鮮『自治』問題」( archive.org/details/chuo... )

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

7/8 The periodical is rich with commentary about international politics and the evolving Japanese empire. See, for example, the Sept 1929「滿洲問題の中核」by 蠟山政道 archive.org/details/chuo...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

6/8 Nitobe Inazō has a number of interesting pieces in the journal to explore, including his July 1918 「兩主義の衝突を懼る」on militarism and democracy. ( archive.org/details/chuo... )

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

5/8 Several important essays by Hiratsuka Raichō, including her Jan, 1913 「新らしい女」( archive.org/details/chuo... ) which preceded a series of articles in the journal, starting in June, 1913 on the「婦人問題」( archive.org/details/chuo... )

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

4/8 Several important works by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō in there, including his Sorrows of a Heretic (異端者の悲しみ archive.org/details/chuo... )

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

3/8 Many of Yoshino Sakuzō’s famous writings on political thought and on 民本主義 are found in the pages of 中央公論. For example, 憲政の本義を説いて其有終の美を済すの途を論ず (Jan, 1916 archive.org/details/chuo... ) and 民本主義の意義を說いて再び憲政有終の美を濟すの途を論ず (Jan, 1918 archive.org/details/chuo... )

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

2/8 中央公論 includes several hundred contributions by 吉野作造, and over a dozen contributions each from many important writers and intellectuals including 森鷗外, 谷崎潤一郎, 河上肇, 長谷川如是閑, 與謝野晶子, 新渡戸稲造, 野上彌生子, 菊池寛, 永井荷風, 島崎藤村, and 芥川龍之介.

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

There are 353 issues of 中央公論, 1900-1930 on the Internet Archive to read or download. Together with 改造, many issues of which are also on IA, this is likely the most frequently cited periodical in historical scholarship on modern Japan up to 1945. archive.org/search?query... 1/8

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

2/2 In addition to Ōsugi's "philosophy of life" themed articles, the journal includes a lot of discussion or translations of key Western writers and philosophers including Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, Engels, Bernard Shaw, Turgenev, Nietzsche, and others.

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The 27 issues of the important Taishō period Japanese journal 近代思想 ("Modern Thought"), 1912-1916 are on the Internet Archive to read or download. This was co-edited by the Japanese anarchist Ōsugi Sakae (大杉栄), killed by military police in the Amakasu incident, 1923. 1/2 archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

There are five english annual supplements for the Osaka Aashi from 1927 to 1931 on the Internet Archive to read or download. Rich sources for students of Japanese history to browse. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The pre-1945 Japanese magazine with the highest recorded circulation numbers is キング ("King"), a mass periodical aimed at a very wide readership. There are 13 issues of the overseas edition on Internet Archive to read or download. Would be great to see more there. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

There are 59 issue of the Japanese journal 光, 1919-1926 on Internet Archive, the organ for the spiritual & humanitarian organization Ittōen. The journal includes many pieces by later founder of the new religion 生長の家, but also four articles by philosophers 西田幾多郎 and 和辻哲郎. archive.org/search?query...

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

There are 23 issues of the journal 種蒔く人 (La Semanto), 1921-1923 which is a key periodical in the emergence of the proletarian literature movement. It is a predecessor to the journal 文芸戦線. archive.org/search?query...

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