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.
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. Click on "jinru xitong". Some articles are downloadable with special viewer; see instructions on the
East Asian Library pages.
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.
Chinese periodical index. Click on "user registration (yonghu denglu)" on first page to enter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Annual/ interim/ quarterly reports of A and B share companies in general and financial industries listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 selected full-text and abstracts of many industry and general interest publications. Specify searching material in Japanese, simplified and traditional Chinese scripts by choosing the appropriate language.
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."
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.
Chinese laws, regulations and cases in Chinese (Chinalawinfo) and English/Chinese (Lawinfochina). One concurrent user only.
Includes English-language newspapers, magazines, news agencies and other databases including some from East Asia (such as the Xinhua General News Service, China Daily, and the South China Morning Post).
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.
The PRC national 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.
Access: Available only on selected computers at the East Asian Library; ID and password: guest
Searchable database of Chinese epigraphical material.
Pdf version of Zhongyang Ribao (Central Daily News), Taiwan. Searchable by headings, keywords, or dates.
Worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Anthropology Plus combines Anthropological Literature from Harvard University and the Anthropological Index, Royal Anthropological Institute from the UK.
Bibliographic database with articles from 200+ periodicals in English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish.
Citations and many full-text articles from religion and theology journals.
Note: For later years see World News Connection.
Contains translations or daily broadcasts, periodicals and government statements from 1977 to 1996, for eight regions of the world, including China and East Asia.
Citations and abstracts to over 1,775,000 articles in multiple languages in the humanities and social sciences.
Indexes books and journal articles on the history of the world (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
Digital edition of the Goldsmiths'-Kress collections of books on that document economic and business activity in the West, from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century. Materials include books, pamphlets and ephemera and cover a broad range of topics in political science, history, sociology, and banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing.
Bibliography of literary, linguistic, and folklore scholarship published throughout the world, from 4,400+ journals. For East Asian material, should be used with caution.
Note: Make sure to use the search button provided for; the enter button will not give results.
Image database with texts of art pieces in the (Taiwan) NPM collections.
Citations to articles, books, reports, and select government documents on U.S. and international public policy issue. Generally considered to be a comprehensive index to policy literature.
Indexes periodicals in the humanities and social sciences in English, French, German and other Western languages. The long period covered makes this a unique database useful for early Sinology and Japanology. There is a subject Area Studies-Asia.
Coverage of sociology journals, books, and conference proceedings, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study.
Indexing and abstracting of the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. Covers 2,500 journals, conference papers, dissertations, and book reviews. Includes materials in 30 languages.
Foreign News Alert Service from the U.S. Government. Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, focusing especially on local media sources. Covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events.
