Chinese Studies

Set of Chinese newspapers in original format, first date included differs, most start around 2010.

Digital collections of historical material on many topics. Includes manuscripts, printed books and periodicals, and government documents. Material comes from the U.S. National Archives, the U.K. National Archives, and many other libraries and archives.

The database collects full-text  historical textual material on the Chinese borderlands dating from the Ming Dynasty to the Republic in the punctuated editions by Zhonghua shuju. It also gives access to Republican monographs, periodicals and government gazettes on the border regions.

Free searchable reports on Chinese companies, in Chinese and English.

This database allows cross yearbook indicator searches and online map generation based on the statistical data originating from the officially published Chinese Statistical Yearbooks. Both functions are not available in the original China Statistical Yearbooks Database (CNKI).

Chinese journals meant for foreign consumption. Includes Qiushi, Beijing review.

Large selection of statistical data published by the Chinese government including census data. Chinese-language version offers more up-to-date and reliable results; best to use the yearbook navigation mode.

Material from many libraries and archives that explores the trading and cultural relationships that emerged between China, America and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries.

Database of often colorful pamphlets held at Cornell University, written mostly in English.

Records from the U.S. State Department's Office of Chinese Affairs.

Selected dissertations and theses from various universities in Taiwan, as well as Hong Kong university. Starting date varies.

The e-Book library provides access to eBooks published by the Chinese Social Science Press. Searches for books, book chapters, articles and illustrations are possible. Princeton users have access to a selection of titles.

Includes Chinese treasury, enterprise, corporate, convertible, and REPO bonds.

Chinese close-end funds.

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.

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.

A collaborative digitization project, sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation which includes Chinese rare books from four libraries: the Library of Congress, Princeton University, Harvard University, and the Fu Ssu-Nien Library of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Freely available.

Consists of 79 statistical datasets covering China’s population census (1953-2020), micro-census (1995-2015),  Industrial / Economic census (1985-2018), agricultural census (1996-2016), macro economy, financial markets, industry, trade, resources, and social statistics. The database has a particularly strong focus on city and county statistics. It allows creation of charts and maps and simple analysis. Data can be individually selected and downloaded in various formats: Statistics (Excel), charts (JPEG), maps (Excel, PDF, JPEG). 

The database gives full-text access to collections of Buddhist scriptures. It currently includes the Qisha Song Tripitaka and the Zhaocheng Jin Tripitaka.

GAO: Digital edition of the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (and supplements), which covers Germanic and Northern European cultural history, archeology, and cultural studies.

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. To login please click “licensed usage” on the entry website of the database.

Full-text and image access to the 10,000-chapter 18th century Chinese Encyclopaedia.

Stone inscriptions dating from Han dynasty to the six dynasties collected from a variety of sources, full-text searchable, but copying of text is only possible via a pop-up that will show when a section of text is marked. Where available images of rubbings have been added and can be viewed side by side with the text.

Collection of British government documents on colonial Hong Kong.

Chinese newspaper with international focus, published under auspices of the People's Daily. Also known as Global Times. Use IE.

The database records information on all Jinshi degree holders throughout Chinese history and provides information about their regional and ancestral origin. Accurate and fuzzy searches by regional origin, dynasty, year of degree, last name, etc. are possible. Each entry lists historical sources for the recorded information. A number of options for statistical analysis are also provided (see the database help page).

Also known as Beida fabao, or pkulaw.cn.  Chinese laws, regulations and cases in Chinese (Chinalawinfo) and English/Chinese (Lawinfochina). One concurrent user only.

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.

Tightly organized series of English-language newspapers, books and magazines reporting on developments in East and South-East Asia 1900 to the early 1950s, concentrating on the lead to WWII.

Full-texts of all issues of 3 Chinese Taipei NPM periodicals.

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. 

Primary English language newspaper in China, published in Shanghai.

Detailed guide to Buddhism.

The Princeton Oracle Bones collection (119 pieces), relatively small, is one of several collections assembled by missionary Dr. Frank Herring Chalfant. The oracle bones have been photographed using Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technology, which enables the end-user to decide upon the angle from which an object is lighted. This allows making all of the carvings on the oracle bones clearly visible.

Records of this internationally staffed bureaucracy under Chinese control.

A collection of 200 volumes on geography, history and customs of Manchuria and Mongolia between late Chosen and 1945 published by Governor-General of Korea. Includes original text images in Japanese (searchable).

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.

Song dynasty epitaphs collected from a variety of sources, full text searchable, but copying of text is only possible via a pop-up that will show when a section of text is marked. Where available images of rubbings have been added and can be viewed side by side with the text.

This database collection offers access to a number of different databases from United Digital Publications (Taiwan) including the Scripta Sinica database of Journals by the Academia Sinica and the punctuated full-text edition of the Gujin tushu jicheng.

Full text searchable database of documents and audio-visual resources covering the trials of World War II Japanese war criminals. The collection is published in stages. All documents will eventually be available in English, Chinese and Japanese. At this moment, some parts are available in English, but related books and documents are still largely in Chinese only. To use the database please click on the button “Log In” button in the top menu and choose “Institutional User Login” without filling in anything, to proceed.

Declassified documentary records of the U.S. intelligence community in the Far East during the Cold War (1945-1991). With focus on People's Republic of China, North Korea and North Vietnam. Also covered are Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia.

Chinese policies and laws.

Articles given at academic conferences in China. A minority is abstract-only.

Full text doctoral dissertations and master theses from China, mostly post-2000.

More than 5,000 full-text searchable Chinese classical works, mostly Qing.

Catalog of over 2 million Chinese classical works allowing for the analysis of relationships publication patterns. For guides see the EAL pages.

Database of pre-modern Chinese popular literature.