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More than 8,000 current PRC journals in humanities, social and exact sciences fully searchable (text delivered may be image-only). Most journals are available from 1994, and many from their first issue, as early as 1915.
Content-based database searching full-text Chinese books, articles, theses, web pages, newspapers. Results are readable on-line, or sendable by email to oneself. See fuller Duxiu explanations on
EAL pages.
Chinamaxx is a subset of purchased e-books.
Note: Print back to 1946 at Firestone Reference (DR) & East Asian Library: (GEST) Z3001 .B49. Prior title covering 1936-40 at Gest Z3001.xB8; Cumulative bibliographies covering 1941-65 at GEST Z3001.C94 & Z3001.C93.
Records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide in Western languages. Includes chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, etc.
Note: One concurrent user only. Click on IP Access.
Largest (10,000+) full-text database of traditional Chinese works. Original images also available. See
EAL pages for content.
One of two Chinese reference databases. Use in conjunction with Chinese Reference Online (CNKI). For details and contents, see the
EAL pages.
One of two Chinese reference databases. Use in conjunction with Chinese Reference Online (Apabi). For details and contents, see the
EAL pages.
Basic introductory encyclopedia to (largely modern) China.
News items from over 1,500 newspapers and other media sources from the Greater China region, both national, provincial and regional. Some English-language sources from Asia are included, as is company news. See the
EAL pages for more info.
Indexes 2 million articles, including Western ones, published in Taiwan.
Up-to-date political and economic news and business information, including statistics, collected from over 1,000 Chinese media sources.
Note: Make sure to use the search button provided for; the enter button will not give results.
Offers full-text of more than 450 Taiwanese periodicals in different subjects.
Taiwanese Chinese illustrated encyclopedic dictionary
Selected dissertations and theses from the PRC; literature, history and philosophy only.
Note: For optimal use download the special additional font; see instructions on the
East Asian Library web pages. For databases marked Shiyusuo (IHP) use the AS Scripta Sinica instead.
Set of 3rd party databases available at the Academia Sinica. Click on the word ziliaoku in the top bar to get to the listing of the constituent databases; use the AS Scripta Sinica for databases produced by the IHP.
Note: Click on "shouquan shiyong" (authorized access) to enter.
Very large database of Chinese works compiled by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Browse subjects and titles using the traditional Chinese siku classification.
Database for the study of modern Asia-Pacific. As the exclusive licensee for the region's most prestigious research institutions, Asia-Studies.com brings together thousands of full-text reports covering 55 countries on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues.
Full text reference works from Cambridge University Press in history and other fields.
Free searchable reports on Chinese companies, in Chinese and English.
Note: If you do not see "Welcome: Princeton University" on the top banner, click on "Direct Access to Institutional Users". Set the encoding of your browser to Simplified Chinese (GB): this will display bullets and other symbols better. Text is always English.
Comprehensive statistical and economic information of China in English.
Searchable free database of Chinese laws and legal commentaries, in Chinese and English.
Tick data for securities traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges.
Detailed biographies of nearly 2500 Chinese leaders, searchable by name, institution, or location. Other tools allow identification of similarities
in the backgrounds of officials and tracking of daily appearances of 200 of the most important officials.
English-language textual and visual sources relating to China and the West, with key documents relating to the Chinese Maritime Customs service, letters, diaries, color paintings, maps, drawings, photographs, and fully searchable missionary periodicals such as the Chinese Recorder, from
mainly British libraries.
Database of often colorful pamphlets held at Cornell University, written mostly in English.
Note: Click in menu bar on "dengru", and on resulting page on "For IP User only".
Full-text access to all traditional texts from the pre-Han (before AD 220) period up to the Six Dynasties (AD 581). More than 30 million characters. Authoritative editions.
Records from the U.S. State Department's Office of Chinese Affairs.
Web-based GIS system with historical maps, integrated with full-text databases from the Academia Sinica. Can be used without registration, but personal registration (free to Princeton users) is recommended for saving and printing. Download of two special plug-ins is necessary before first use.
Note: Limit to CETD if desired.
Selected dissertations and theses from various universities in Taiwan, as well as Hong Kong university. Starting date varies.
Access: Available only on a computer in the East Asian Library Catalog Room; needs special Japanese settings
Searchable index to the printed collection, which includes reduced copies of articles on China in less common Japanese academic journals.
Includes Chinese treasury, enterprise, corporate, convertible, and REPO bonds.
Note: Restricted to academic research by Princeton University faculty and students.
Annual/ interim/ quarterly reports of A and B share companies in general and financial industries listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges.
Note: Restricted to academic research by Princeton University faculty and students.
Chinese close-end funds.
Note: Restricted to academic research by Princeton University faculty and students.
Profiles, annual emolument and number of shareholdings of managerial staffs of China listed companies, changes of equity structure, changes of board chairman and general manager of listed companies and shareholders' meetings of listed companies, as well as executive equity incentives of listed companies.
Note: Restricted to academic research by Princeton University faculty and students.
Basic information of funds, net assets value of funds, entitlement data of funds, finance data of funds, trading information of funds and rate of returns of funds for Chinese open-ended mutual funds.
Note: Restricted to academic research by Princeton University faculty and students.
Includes profiles, annual emolument and shareholdings of managerial staffs of Chinese listed companies, changes of equity structure, changes of board chairman and general manager of listed companies and shareholders' meetings of listed companies, as well as executive equity incentives of listed companies.
Note: Restricted to academic research by Princeton University faculty and students.
Data on stocks returns, market return, and aggregated market returns for the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges. Provides comparable closing prices adjusted for effects on share prices due to rights offering, cash dividend, stock dividend, etc.
Historical Chinese-language periodicals published in China in the humanities, social sciences, and the exact sciences, as well as popular journals.
Has in addition to Chinese, Japanese and Korean information, also Indian, Tibetan and other references.
Access to citations and abstracts for every title in the Dissertation Abstracts database. Dissertations written from 1997 forward are available full text. The database includes citations to dissertations from 1861 to those accepted last semester. Citations for dissertations and master's theses published from 1980 forward have abstracts.
Note: One concurrent user only. Click on IP Access.
Full-text and image database of items discovered at Dunhuang. See
for content.
Access: East Asian Library only.
Complete contents, in full text and image, of the 3460+ titles of the Wenyuange edition of the Siku Quanshu (1782), with 800 million characters (183 CD ROMs). Includes also such large compilations as the Quan Tang shi, Zizhi tongjian, Xu zizhi tongjian changbian, Wenxuan, Peiwen yunfu, Taiping yulan or the 25 Histories. For best use, consult the guide available on the EAL Web pages.
Full-text of many major national and regional newspapers, including the full-text of the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and the Nikkei Weekly. Some titles are abstracted only. Includes selected full-text and abstracts of many industry and general interest publications. For non-English, choose appropriate language
Digitized images of British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Note: For instructions and Princeton passwords see the
EAL pages.
Qing Palace Memorials and Grand Council Archives held in the National Palace Museum, Taibei. Special viewing software is needed. Viewing is
possible on the whole campus; printing is restricted to the East Asian Library.
Note: For instructions and Princeton passwords see the
EAL pages. Printing is restricted to the EAL.
Full text images of hundreds of thousands of government documents
from the Ming and Qing dynasties held at the Academia Sinica,
searchable by official, title, matter and document number. Special
viewing software is needed. Viewing is possible on the whole campus;
printing is restricted to the East Asian Library.
Note: On the first page, click on "IP Address" after the title Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China.
Full-text and image access to the 10,000-chapter 18th century
"Chinese Encyclopaedia."
Browsable and searchable version of the influential Chinese central government newspaper targeting intellectuals
Full-text searching tool for almost 4,000 classical Chinese texts, including some novels, poetry, and plays. Best used as an exploratory tool for finding relevant material, then follow up with printed sources.
Primary sources on the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the Anti-Rightist Campaign, and other related campaigns. Titles searchable in Chinese and English.
Chinese laws, regulations and cases in Chinese (Chinalawinfo) and English/Chinese (Lawinfochina). One concurrent user only.
Comprehensive database of legal materials, including cases, statutes, and regulations of the U.S. government and the various state governments; case law from 1789 to present; current and historical statutes and regulations from 1980 forward. Provides full text of many major global, national, and regional newspapers. For comparisons between Lexis-Nexis Academic and Factiva see
http://firestone.princeton.edu/econlib/universe.html.
Searchable database of current popular non-academic Chinese periodicals in literature, general culture, news and politics, popular science, economics and law, education, health and lifestyle, history and finance management. For list see
EAL pages.
Full-texts of all issues of 3 Chinese Taipei NPM periodicals.
Primary English language newspaper in China, published in Shanghai.
Detailed guide to Buddhism.
The PRC national newspaper.
Note: Use Internet Explorer.
Searchable full text and PDF page images of this historical Chinese newspaper.
Access: Available only on computers at the East Asian Library
Fully searchable collection of 504 original and historical works (3134 volumes) published by the Commercial Press from 1919 to 1936. Original collection used photolithography, which resulted in better editions than the then-available typeset editions. Authoritative editions.
Collection of searchable Taiwanese full-text newspapers from the United Daily News group, including the Lianhebao from 1951.
Chinese policies and laws.
Full text versions of post-1949 Chinese local gazetteers.
Articles given at academic conferences in China. A minority is abstract-only.
Comprehensive full-text articles from Chinese periodicals and journals, mostly post-2001.
Full text doctoral dissertations and master theses from China, mostly post-2000.
Streaming video of international newsreels produced between 1929 and 1966. All are accompanied by transcripts, with those in foreign languages translated into English.
Note: Click on "authorized IP" to enter.
Database of pre-modern Chinese local gazetteers.
Catalog of over 2 million Chinese classical works allowing for the analysis of relationships publication patterns. For guides see the
EAL pages.
Access: Available only on selected computers at the East Asian Library; ID and password: guest
Searchable database of Chinese epigraphical material.
Note: Click on "authorized IP" to enter.
Database of pre-modern Chinese popular literature.
