> Subject Guide - Journalism and Mass Communication 

• Hong Kong Commercial Daily (香港商報)
• Hong Kong Daily News (新報)
• Hong Kong Economic Journal (信報)
• Hong Kong Economic Times (香港經濟日報)
• Metropolis Daily (都市日報)
• Ming Pao (明報)
• Oriental Daily News (東方日報)
• Sing Pao (成報)
• Sing Tao Daily (星島日報)
• SCMP.COM (南華早報網上版)
• The Standard (英文虎報)
• The Sun (太陽報)
• Ta Kung Po (大公報)
• Wen Wei Po (文匯報)

• The China in Africa weekly audio podcast
• The China Global South Project Facebook page
• The China Global South Project on YouTube
• The China Global South Project on X
• Le Projet Chine Afrique
• AfrikChine Podcast (French)
• Akhbar AlSin-Africia on X (Arabic)

Gale Primary Sources databases: One-stop platform is a universal research experience that combines Gale's acclaimed digital archives in a single cross-search interface. This powerful platform greatly enhances the research experience for students and researchers by broadening their discovery of primary source documents through the use of multiple search options and research tools.

The Gale Primary Sources cross-search interface provides access to millions of pages of content spanning many centuries and geographic regions. Users can explore a wide range of content including books, manuscripts, newspapers, photographs, maps, and more.

The collections of Gale Primary Sources includes:
1. Archives Unbound
It is a digital collection of topically-focused archival documents designed to support scholarly research. It offers targeted historical primary source collections across a wide range of subjects including U.S. foreign policy, civil rights, global affairs, and modern history, with millions of pages from over 400 collections available since its launch in 2009.

2. Associated Press Collections Online
It is a digital archive presenting decades of historical news wire copy, correspondence, memos, internal publications, photos, and video footage from the Associated Press (AP). Covering over 170 years, it includes never-before published materials and offers a rich resource for research in journalism, history, political science, and other fields. The collection spans multiple AP bureaus worldwide and provides detailed insights into significant global and U.S. events through primary source documents and media.

3. China and the Modern World
It is a digital archive series featuring primary sources detailing China's transformation from the early 1800s to the 1980s, covering topics such as diplomacy, trade, politics, society, and international relations. It includes rare manuscripts, periodicals, photos, and official documents from major global archives, providing key resources for researching the nation’s dramatic modernisation and global engagement.

4. The Economist Historical Archive (1843–2015)
It is a fully searchable digital archive of every issue of The Economist, offering over 170 years of authoritative, unbiased political, economic, and social analysis. It provides researchers quick access to editorials, news, commentary, country and industry reports, special surveys, and sections on science, technology, book reviews, and obituaries. This archive is a key resource for understanding global and national affairs and complements archives like The Times Digital Archive and the Financial Times Historical Archive. It is widely used for research in business, economics, international relations, history, and political science.

5. Financial Times Historical Archive (1888–2016)
It is a comprehensive, fully searchable digital archive of the London edition of the Financial Times newspaper from its first issue in 1888 through 2016. It includes every article, advertisement, market listing, and supplement such as FT Magazine and How to Spend It, all subject-categorised for fast research. The archive offers detailed coverage of global financial, economic, business, and political events over more than 130 years, serving as an essential and unbiased tool for studying economic and business history as well as current affairs.

6. The Illustrated London News Historical Archive (1842–2003)
It is a fully digitised collection of every issue of the world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper. It vividly documents British and global events through rich words and high-quality color illustrations, covering a wide range of subjects including politics, war, social history, fashion, the arts, science, and more. This archive offers a unique visual and textual perspective on over 160 years of history and culture, making it an invaluable resource for multidisciplinary research. Every page and caption is full-text searchable, with nearly 250,000 pages and around 750,000 illustrations.

7. International Herald Tribune Historical Archive (1887–2013)
It is a comprehensive digital archive presenting the full run of the International Herald Tribune newspaper from its origins as the European Edition of The New York Herald and later the European Edition of the New York Herald Tribune. It offers objective, clear, and internationally focused coverage with over 500,000 pages and 6 million articles, including articles, advertisements, and market listings shown both individually and in the context of daily issues. The archive covers major historical events and cultural milestones from 1887 until its final issue before relaunching as the International New York Times in 2013. It is a valuable resource for research in international news, history, culture, and global affairs, reflecting diverse perspectives beyond the Anglo-American press.

8. Eighteenth Century Collection Online
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a premier digital archive containing over 180,000 titles (around 200,000 volumes) and more than 32 million pages of books, pamphlets, directories, sheet music, sermons, advertisements, and other materials primarily printed in Great Britain from 1701 to 1800, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. It covers a wide range of subjects including history, literature, science, religion, law, and more. ECCO offers full-text searchable access to these rich primary source collections, enabling textual comparisons across multiple editions and supporting scholarly research in the arts, humanities, economics, health, and several other disciplines.

9. Nineteenth Century Collections Online
It is a multi-year global digitisation and publishing program that integrates multiple distinct archives into a single resource of primary source documents from the 19th century, including books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, photographs, maps, and more. It covers a wide range of topics such as industrialisation, technology, revolution, nationalism, colonialism, education, culture, science, and society. The content is sourced from major world and specialist libraries and offers over one hundred types of primary sources to support deep scholarly research on the long nineteenth century and beyond.

10. State Papers Online Colonial
It is a comprehensive digital archive of British Colonial Office files from The National Archives, UK, documenting the governance, administration, and daily life in British colonial territories from the 16th to 20th centuries. It provides researchers with access to primary sources covering key regions such as Asia (including Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, and others), featuring correspondence, reports, official records, and annotated documents. This resource offers deep insight into the political, social, and economic aspects of colonial rule, as well as local perspectives, making it invaluable for the study of colonial history and its ongoing impact.

11. The Sunday Times Historical Archive (1822–2016)
It is a fully searchable digital collection containing over 600,000 pages from Britain's premier Sunday newspaper, known for its cutting-edge investigative journalism. It offers two centuries of news, analysis, commentary, and cultural content, including famous stories like the outing of Soviet spy Kim Philby, the thalidomide investigation, and the publication of the forged Hitler Diaries. This archive covers all issues and supplements, providing a valuable resource for research in history, media studies, politics, literature, and social sciences, and also supports genealogy with birth, death, and marriage announcements.

12. The Times Digital Archive (1785–2014)
It is a fully searchable online facsimile of every page of The Times (London) newspaper from 1785 to 2014. It offers over 200 years of comprehensive coverage including articles, advertisements, illustrations, and photos, providing in-depth, award-winning, and objective reporting of major historical, political, economic, social, and cultural events. The archive supports multidisciplinary research with detailed categorisation of content such as news, editorials, business, people, features, and pictures. It is an essential resource for studying British and global history, politics, science, and culture through the lens of one of the world's most esteemed newspapers.

13. The Times Educational Supplement Historical Archive (1910–2000)
It is a fully searchable digital collection of over 4,300 issues spanning nearly the entire 20th century. It documents the evolution of education practices, reforms, and policies throughout two world wars, the Cold War, and various UK government administrations. Originating as a supplement to The Times in 1910 and becoming independent in 1914, TES became a leading education newspaper focused on public policy and pedagogy, with a readership that expanded beyond teachers to include parents and general readers. The archive is a valuable resource for research in education, social history, public health, women's studies, literature, and the arts, and supports data mining via Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab.

14. The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive (1902–2014)
It is a fully searchable digital archive containing every page of the Times Literary Supplement from 1902 to 2014. It is a comprehensive resource for literary and arts studies, including over 300,000 book reviews, articles, critical debates, original works, advertisements, and letters. The archive features contributions from many influential writers and critics and covers a wide range of topics in literature, the humanities, social sciences, art, history, politics, and more. It reveals the identities of previously anonymous reviewers before 1974, offering rich insight into literary and cultural opinion-making over more than a century.