Chinese Studies

Core Resources

China Academic Journals (CNKI) 1915+

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.

CNKI Journal Translation Project

English translations from prominent Chinese articles in many fields, from humanities and social sciences to exact sciences including medicine. Also arranged according to current hot topics. The Chinese originals are also included.

Duxiu

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.

CADAL

Trial access to 2.5 million+ Chinese ebooks in and out of copyright. Individual registration required. For detailed instructions, see entry on the East Asian Library pages.

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) 1971+

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.

Chinese-English Dictionary Online

Up-to date dictionary for Classical Chinese usage from 500 BCE to 1000 CE, compiled by Paul Kroll and many other specialists.

Oxford Bibliographies: Chinese Studies

Annotated bibliographies of the most recent and authoritative Chinese studies scholarship.

National Social Sciences Database (China)

Free database of government-funded Chinese social sciences journals. Coverage varies, but includes in all cases 2012+.

Zhongguo yanjiu wangluo ziyuan daohang

An easy-to-navigate, well-organized site which brings together a large number of databases in Chinese studies available on the Internet (in many different countries). Most databases are free; some need individual registration; a few need individual registration and small payments.

China Digital Library (Apabi)

China Digital Library from Apabi is a database collection of Chinese eBooks, reference works, newspapers and images. eBooks are viewed in a special reader application with many useful features for browsing, organizing, and marking up text. Newspapers and eBooks are also cataloged individually in the library catalog.

Chinese Reference Online (CNKI)

One of two Chinese reference databases. Use in conjunction with Chinese Reference Online (Apabi). For details and contents, see the EAL pages.

Brill's Encyclopedia of China

Basic introductory encyclopedia to (largely modern) China.

WiseSearch 1998+

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.

Periopath/ Taiwan qikan lunwen suoyin 1970+

Indexes 2 million articles, including Western ones, published in Taiwan.

Taiwan Electronic Periodicals Service varies, oldest 1991+

Offers full-text of more than 450 Taiwanese periodicals in different subjects.

Quan guo bao kan suo yin 1833+

Index to article authors and titles compiled by the Shanghai Library. Most articles are downloadable as full-image pdfs.

Zhongwen baike dacidian (Chinese Encyclopedic Dictionary)

Taiwanese Chinese illustrated encyclopedic dictionary

Chinese Doctor and Master Dissertations

Selected dissertations and theses from the PRC; literature, history and philosophy only.

Grand Ricci Online

The most comprehensive bilingual dictionary of Chinese, into French, available.

Diaolong database collection

This database of Classical Chinese Texts gives access to various sub-databases including Daoist scriptures (Zhengtong daozang), manuscript collections from Dunhuang, the Imperial Encyclopedia (Yongle dadian), the Imperial Library (Gu jin tushu jicheng), historical material on the Qing dynasty, a collection of old Japanese books, the two collectanea Sibu congkan and Sibu beiyao, the Siku quanshu, the Xuxiu siku quanshu, the Siku catalog, banned books from the Siku, and supplemental texts to the Siku.

Current Digest of the Chinese Press 2012+

Weekly collection of Chinese press materials in English translation. Covers politics, international relations, security, economics, business, public health, environment, education, and culture. Articles originate from major state news sources. All articles are full-text searchable.

Supplementary Resources

Academia Sinica Scripta Sinica (Hanji quanwen ziliaoku)

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.

Apabi Newspaper database

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

Apabi Tupianku (image) database

Chinese images in the categories of Chinese art, calligraphy, folk art, red (i.e. socialist) art, unearthed objects, old photographs, ancient design, modern graphic design, historical costumes, rare book illustrations, classical painting manuals, typography, and pattern design.

Archives Unbound

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.

Asia-Studies Full-text Online

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.

Bianjiang lishi dili = Historical Geography of (China’s) Borderlands

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.

Cambridge Histories Online

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

China Business Reference (ChinaBRef)

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

China Comprehensive Gazetteers (1229-1949)

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

China Economic and Social Data Platform (CNKI, in Chinese)

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).

China Economy, Public Policy, and Security Database

All collected volumes of papers called pishu(皮书) from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), published by the Social Science Academic Press (SSAP). Useful for researchers in the economic, political and social sciences of China.

China Multilingual Journals (CMJ)

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

China Securities Market Level-1 Trade & Quote Research Database

Tick data for securities traded on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges.

China Statistical Yearbooks Database (CNKI)

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.

China Vitae

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.

China, America and the Pacific

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.

China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980

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.

China: Culture and Society (1750-1929)

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

Chinese Ancient Texts (CHANT) databases.

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.

Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations

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

Chinese Civilization in Time and Space.

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.

Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertations Service

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

Chinese Film and Newsreel Scripts from the Cultural Revolution Online

Chinese language transcripts of documentary films and newsreels from China, mainly from the Cultural Revolution.

Chinese Social Science (Press) eBook Library

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.

Chugoku kankei ronsetsu shiryo sakuin.

Searchable index to the printed collection, which includes reduced copies of articles on China in less common Japanese academic journals.

CSMAR China Bond Market Research Database

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

CSMAR China Stock Market Financial Statements Database

Annual/ interim/ quarterly reports of A and B share companies in general and financial industries listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges.

CSMAR Closed-End Funds

Chinese close-end funds.

CSMAR Corporate Governance

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.

CSMAR Open-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.

CSMAR Shareholders

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.

CSMAR Stock Trading

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.

Da gong bao (Ta Kung Pao, L’impartial)

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.

Dacheng lao jiu qi kan

Historical Chinese-language periodicals published in China in the humanities, social sciences, and the exact sciences, as well as popular journals.

Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

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

Digital library of Chinese Rare Books

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.

Diplomacy and Political Secrets

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

Dissertation Abstracts (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: Full Text)

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. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637.

Electronic Siku Quanshu

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.

Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics

EPS China Data (Chinese Version)

Consists of 77 statistical datasets covering China’s population census, 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).

EPS China Statistics (English version)

Consists of 77 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).ACCESS NOTE: Click "Enter the Database" on EPS's website (after following the link below).

Factiva

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.

Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980

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

Germanische Altertumskunde Online GAO database

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

Grand Council Archives (Gongzhongdang zouzhe/ Junjichu dang)

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.

Grand Secretariat Archives (Neige daku)

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.

Gu ji fa xian

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

Gu jin tu shu ji cheng

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

Guang ming ri bao

Browsable and searchable version of the influential Chinese central government newspaper targeting intellectuals

Han, Wei, Liu Chao Stone Inscriptions Database

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.

History of Contemporary Chinese Political Movements

Primary sources on the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the Anti-Rightist Campaign, the Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine, and other related campaigns. Titles searchable in Chinese and English.

Hong Kong, Britain and China

Collection of British government documents on colonial Hong Kong.

Huan qiu shi bao

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

Jie fang jun bao

Full-text, no images.

Jinshi Examination Database

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).

Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers (CRL)

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

Law Info China/ China Law Info

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

Lidai biejiku: Ming qian

Chinese Poetry Collections.

Lidai jiao wai she fo wenxian shujuku

Database of Buddhist related documents from non-Buddhist sources published by Zhonghua shuju. Collects a wide variety of documents like edicts, monastery records, stele inscriptions, philosophical texts, poems, and rock carvings from Buddhist sites.

Long yuan qi kan wang (Dragonsource)

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.

Missionary, Sinology and Literary Periodicals

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

Mobilizing East Asia

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.

National Palace Museum Open Data

Free access to high-resolution images and related description articles of art pieces (painting, documents, calligraphy, ceramics, jades, curios, rare books and bronzes) in the (Taiwan) NPM collections.

National Palace Museums Periodicals Online

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

National People’s Congress Database (PRC)

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.

Nexis UNI (former Lexis-Nexis Academic)

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.

North China Daily News Online

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

North China Herald

Primary English language newspaper in China, published in Shanghai.

North China Standard Online

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

Oxford Bibliographies: Buddhism

Detailed guide to Buddhism.

Party and Government Documents in English (PR of China)

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.

Princeton Oracle Bone Collection in the China Academic Digital Associative Library (CADAL)

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.

Qing Historical Figures

Database of biographical materials (including zhuanbao) from the Archives of the Ch’ing (Qing) Historiography Institute held at the National Palace Museum in Taibei.

Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China

Records of this internationally staffed bureaucracy under Chinese control.

Renmin Ribao

The PRC national newspaper. For current issues, go directly to publisher's site. IMPORTANT: for pdf files, use Internet Explorer, and open files outside the browser directly in Acrobat Reader or Professional.

Series of Geography, History and Customs of Manchuria-Mongolia DB

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).

Shen Bao

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

Sibu congkan

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.

Sinica SinoWeb

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.

Song Tomb Inscriptions Database

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.

South China Morning Post (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

For 1993+, see the Catalog.

Taiwan Academic Classics

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.

Tang Tomb Inscriptions Database

Tang 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.

Tokyo Trials Literature Database

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.

Translations of the Peking Gazette Online

English translations of official edicts and memorials from the Qing dynasty dating from Macartney Mission in 1793 to 1912. The translations are from contemporary English-language sources such as Indo Chinese Gleaner, the China Mail, or the North China Herald, and ultimately go back to items published in the Peking Gazette (Jing bao).

U.S. Intelligence on Asia, 1945-1991

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.

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Chinese Studies Librarian

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