Chinese Studies

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.

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.

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). (In Chinese only)

A collection of political newspapers, bulletins, announcements, regulations, proclamations, government reports, white papers, and leader speeches from Chinese central and local government publications. Subjects covered include politics, law, military and national defense, rural management and agriculture, industry, transportation, finance, education, science and technology, and tourism. In Chinese, 1979-present

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. Access currently unavailable due to Chinese government intervention for more information see https://library.princeton.edu/news/eastasian/2023-03-20/service-announcement-cnki-resources. If you are looking for Chinese statistical data please use our other statistical database and the DSS service or contact the Chinese Studies or the Economics Librarian. Access to the Chinese only service China Economic and Social Data Platform is available via https://libguides.princeton.edu/resource/44057

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.

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. 1869-1950

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).

The Buddhist Classics Database gives full-text access to collections of Buddhist scriptures. As with other Erudition databases the scans of the original scriptures can be viewed side-by-side with the machine readable text. The first installment of the database includes the Qisha Song Tripitaka 宋碛砂藏 and the Zhaocheng Jin Tripitaka 金赵城藏.

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.

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. 1841-1951

Chinese newspaper with international focus, published under auspices of the People's Daily. Also known as Global Times. Use IE. 1993+

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. 1949+

The Lidai shiwenji zongku consists of the collected poetry writings of individuals. Currently Princeton users have access to 8,000 titles of pre-Ming, Ming, and Qing authors. As all Airusheng/Erudition databases, the texts have been carefully digitized and checked for optimal full-text searching. Please select “ancient classics” from the first landing page, then choose 歷代詩文集總庫 you will see «Ming qian», «Ming», «Qing shang» and «Qing xia» highlighted.

Full-text search database of Republican era books, journals and newspapers based on CADAL collections. Full-text search database of Republican era books, journals and newspapers based on CADAL collections. Some search results are currently not available to Princeton users.

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.

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.

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. 1869-1949

The North-China Standard was Japan’s propaganda newspaper in China, influential through its distribution at international conferences. 1919-1927

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.

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

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.

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

Established in Shanghai in 1907 this newspaper is among the first larger revolutionary newspaper published in China and was shortly among the most widely sold newspapers in Shanghai. The newspaper changed hands several times and was later acquired by Yuan Shikai. Its publication was interrupted between 1926 and 1937 and again between 1941 and 1945. Not full-text searchable, can only be searched on the article title level, but indexes advertisements and images.1907-1946

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.

The newspaper was founded by the Belgian priest Frédéric-Vincent Lebbe in Tianjin. In 1937, it suspended publication until 1938, when it resumed in Kunming. In 1940 it relocated to Chongqing, and after the Second Sino-Japanese War, it resumed publishing in Tianjin in 1945, until its closure in January 1949. Not full-text searchable, can only be searched on the article title level, but indexes advertisements and images.

The newspaper was founded by the Belgian priest Frédéric-Vincent Lebbe in Tianjin. In 1937, it suspended publication until 1938, when it resumed in Kunming. In 1940 it relocated to Chongqing, and after the Second Sino-Japanese War, it resumed publishing in Tianjin in 1945, until its closure in January 1949. Not full-text searchable, can only be searched on the article title level, but indexes advertisements and images. 1915-1949

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.