Recommended Databases for Chinese Studies   Tags: china, chinese, hong kong, macau, taiwan  

This full text article database covers the majority of academic journals published in the PRC in humanities and social sciences.

This full text article database covers many of the journals published in Taiwan in humanities and social sciences.

Maintained by the Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, indexing academic journals published in Hong Kong in Chinese or English from 1990 to date.

More than 3 million digitized books published in the PRC. Users can request the full text of selected books using the interlibrary loan system embedded in the DuXiu scholar search engine.

The full text part covering 1911-1949; the index part covering 1833-1949.

indexing titles of Chinese and Western language periodicals published in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau from 1994. & National Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations in Taiwan 臺灣博碩士論文

15 popular magazines from Mainland of China

full-text image database providing access to selected academic and professional journals, both in English and Chinese, published in Hong Kong.

Includes the economic statistics of China, arranged by regions and categories; monthly and yearly reports on China’s macroeconomic development; statistical databases about China’s population and economy at the county and city level; and financial indicators of more than 568 industrial branches.

There are 630 titles, 3606 volumes of statistical yearbooks and 1353370 entries (including 940371 statistical charts) in the database.

Offers China demographic and economic data, maps, charts and reports in the web-based delivery system

Full text and original image of this daily newspaper. Keywords searchable includes title, author, full text, section, page, column., etc.

A large number of other top-tier newspapers, magazines, newswires, TV and radio broadcasts of Mainland, Taiwan and some Asia Pacific countries and all 18 Chinese and English newspapers of Hong Kong. Daily updates.

A digestible collection of articles from key Chinese newspapers from a wide variety of sources in China, translated into English.

China's only national newsmagazine in English. It is launched in 1958 and published every week in Beijing.

Laws and regulations from Mainland of China, many with English translations; also cases and legal journals articles. one concurrent user.

Original source materials on the activities and observations of British and American diplomats, missionaries, business people and tourists in China, plus rare periodicals, color paintings, maps, photographs and drawings.

Rare pamphlets collection on East Asia plus secondary resources like essays, an interactive chronology and mini guides.

From the National Archives, Kew of Britain; full text files adressing developments in China and assessing US, Soviet, British, European and Commonwealth relations with China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), from 1949 onwards.

An archive of Cultural Revolution-related historical materials. The materials are indexed in both English and Chinese.

Orignial government documents, directives, bulletins,
speeches by Mao Zedong and other officials, editorials of major Chinese newspapers and magazines, articles written by the “rightists", articles published to denunciate the “rightists”, etc.

About 5000 photographs, primarily of China, 1917-1932.

This online version of the Wenyuange Edition includes 3,460 works with a total of more than 36,000 volumes and allows full-text retrieval and full-image browsing.

A collection of film advertisements and transcripts of Chinese films and newsreels. Here's a film title index.

Over 20,000 volumes of Chinese chorographic books, covering 31 provinces and autonomous regions, providing detailed geographic and historical records of provinces, prefectures, cities, and smaller district administration units.

237 gazetteers were digitized and are distributed on this website. Of these 13 gazetteers were digitized as full-text archives.

Bibliographic information for the books, serials, dissertations, etc. held in the library & digitized collections on Minguo publications.