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.

Full text reference works from Cambridge University Press in history and other fields.

Database, largely full-text searchable database of 7,000 Chinese local gazetteers from the National Library of China.

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.

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.

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.

All editions of this important pro-communist newspaper (Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hankou, Hong Kong, Guilin) are included. Full-text search; results are available in snippets or full page pdf.

Has in addition to Chinese, Japanese and Korean information, also Indian, Tibetan and other references.

Documents on some Chinese frontier regions  from the perspective of British India.

Consists of 65 statistical datasets covering China’s macro economy, financial markets, industry, trade, resources and social statistics. The database has a particularly strong focus on city and county statistics. The database allows creation of charts and maps as well as formatting and simple analysis.  Data can be individually selected and downloaded in various formats: Statistics (Excel), charts (JPEG), maps (Excel, PDF, JPEG).

Digitized images of British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. 

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.

Discovery service for digitized Chinese rare books. Clicking on “Search” without a search term allows browsing the books by traditional Chinese classification.

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.

Full-text, no images.

Collection of thirteen Republican newspapers from Beijing, Chongqing, Hankou, Jiaodong (Shandong) and Shanghai covering the period of 1911-1949.

Chinese Poetry Collections.

17 full-text English-language periodicals published on late Qing and Republican China

Image database with texts of art pieces in the (Taiwan) NPM collections.

Comprehensive collection of archives and documents of the National People’s Congress, from the 1st Session of 1st NPC to present, including text, photos and videos. Updated regularly.

Published as the Daily Edition of the weekly North China Herald, this was the most influential foreign daily in East Asia.

The North-China Standard was Japan’s propaganda newspaper in China, influential through its distribution at international conferences.

Party and Government Documents in English (PGDiE) is a unique collection of official documents in English, covering various levels of Chinese government, Communist Party of China (CPC) and National People's Congress (NPC) from authoritative sources from 1921 onwards.

Records of this internationally staffed bureaucracy under Chinese control.

Searchable full text and PDF page images of this historical Chinese newspaper.

Past and (if applicable) current issues in Chinese of some Sinological periodicals published in Taiwan (mostly from the Academia Sinica). Searches retrieve first hits, then snippets, before the option to download appears.

For 1993+, see the Catalog.

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.

Collection of searchable Taiwanese full-text newspapers from the United Daily News group, including the Lianhebao from 1951.

Full text versions of post-1949 Chinese local gazetteers.

Comprehensive full-text articles from Chinese periodicals and journals, mostly post-2001.

Streaming video of international newsreels produced between 1929 and 1966. All are accompanied by transcripts, with those in foreign languages translated into English.

Database of pre-modern Chinese local gazetteers. Use the heji/combined icon.

Searchable database of Chinese epigraphical material.