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Including the China doctoral dissertations and master’s theses full-text database in the field of basic education in China with the features including the most complete related sources, high-quality literature, and continuous dynamic update.This database has published 508 doctoral degree-granting units' over 567000 doctoral dissertations, and 787 master degree-granting units' 5million master's theses, which dates back to 1984 and covers basic science, engineering technology, agriculture, medicine, philosophy, humanities, social sciences and other fields.

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• China Research Gateway (CRG) This link opens in a new window CRG is a centralized means for discovery and access to a breadth of Chinese resources, including scholarly journals, monographs, statistical publications, government documents, newspapers, dissertations, patents, and more.

• National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan 臺灣博碩士論文知識加值系統 Includes citations, abstracts, and some full text of dissertations and theses from Taiwan institutions. Please note that you need to create a free account with the site in order to access the full-text content.

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• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window Database of dissertations and theses, including more than 1 million available full-text (PDF).
• International Chinese Studies Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts Database 典藏國際漢學博士論文摘要資料庫 Provides citations to 10,000+ dissertations from North American and West European institutions on Chinese studies. Useful for finding dissertations from Europe.
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) Collection of international open access electronic theses and dissertations.
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• China Doctoral Dissertation & Masters' Theses Database The database contains 440,417 doctoral dissertations granted by 493 institutions, and 4,348,310 master theses granted by 770 institutions. Times covered: 1984-2020.

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Searchable full-text database of dissertations and theses from Chinese institutions, covering a wide range of subjects. 

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Includes theses and dissertations from 469 doctor degree awarding programs and 753 master degree awarding programs. Access includes the following modules:

(F) Literature/History/Philosophy (G) Politics/Military Affairs/Law (H) Education & Social Sciences (J) Economics & Management

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• CNKI Dissertations and Theses This new Advanced Search interface of CNKI provides access to Chinese Doctoral Dissertations & Master Theses. Click the "Theses and Dissertations" tab below the search panel to switch to CNKI theses and dissertations.
• Chinese Studies Online -- Dissertations of China (Wanfang) Specializing in aggregating digitized Master and Ph.D. theses published in the People's Republic of China (P.R.C.), Dissertations of China is available as a sub-package of the Chinese Studies Online Database.
• Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new window CETD is a database specializing in aggregating theses and dissertations of Taiwan and other Asian regions.
• Dissertations & Theses Global Closed Collection This link opens in a new window Comprehensive worldwide collection of dissertations and theses from 1746. Full text for most dissertations added since 1997 onwards.
• National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan / 臺灣博碩士論文知識加值系統 This database collects master theses and Ph.D. dissertations of Taiwan universities. Access to this fulltext dissertation database is available through public stations in the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, thanks to the TRCCS (Taiwan Resource Centre for Chinese Studies) program undertaken by the National Central Library of Taiwan.
• T-Space: Digitalized Doctoral and Masters Theses by U of T Graduate Students The School of Graduate Studies will house all available digitalized Doctoral and Masters theses by U of T graduate students on this site. The current collection is but a small sample of that ongoing scholarly work.
• UofT Theses Retrieved from the Library Catalogue A list of UofT theses and dissertations retrieved from the Library Catalogue. Use the options available in the "Refine your search" panel on the left to further reduce the length of the list.
• National Library of China Ph.D. Dissertations Database (中国国家图书馆-中国国家数字图书馆 博士论文)
• CALIS e读 高等教育数字图书馆 This is a CALIS portal to search open access research resources, including theses and dissertations published in China. To search dissertations, open the drop-down menu on the left of the search box to select "学位论文".
• National Chengchi University Electronic Theses & Dissertations (國立政治大學博碩士論文全文影像系統)
• National Tsing Hua University Electronic Theses & Dissertations System(國立清華大學博碩士論文全文系統)
• National Chung Cheng University Electronic Theses & Dissertations System (國立中正大學博碩士論文系統)
• Taiwan University Electronic Theses & Dissertations Service (臺灣大學電子學位論文服務)
• Hong Kong University Theses Online (HKUTO) (香港大學論文在綫) The Open Access thesis database of Hong Kong University.
• HKUST Electronic Theses (香港科技大學學位論文) HKUST Electronic Theses contains full images of the doctoral dissertations and master's theses of our postgraduate students. Access to the database is available globally. The full text of many theses is available to all, where permitted by the author. Access to the full text of non-public theses is available to all authorized HKUST users, except where access is prohibited by the author.
• British Library: EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Services) EThOS is the UK’s national open access thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. There are approximately 350,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 120,000 of these also provide access to the full text thesis, either via download from the EThOS database or via links to the institution’s own repository. Of the remaining 250,000 records dating back to at least 1800, three quarters are available to be ordered for scanning through the EThOS digitisation-on-demand facility.
• NARCIS: The Gateway to Scholarly Information in the Netherlands NARCIS is the search portal that provides access to electronic theses and dissertations produced in the Netherlands, as well as access to a variety of other research and data sets.
• DiVA DiVA is a portal that provides access to electronic theses and dissertations as well as other research publications written at 26 institutions in Scandinavia.
• Network Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations (NDLTD) To search for theses and dissertations, follow the path: for Researchers: Find ETDs >> VTLS Thesis Search. the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
• Theses Canada This link opens in a new window Canadian universities participate in the program voluntarily by submitting approved theses and dissertation to Theses Canada. The collection includes two formats, electronic theses and theses on microfiches. The electronic theses and dissertations on this site are for the personal use of students, scholars and the public. Any commercial use, publication or lending of them in libraries is strictly prohibited.
• Council of Australian University Librarians -- Finding Australian Theses
• DART-Europe E-theses Portal DARTS is a discovery service for open access research theses awarded by European universities.
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• National Library of China Dissertations Database 中国国家图书馆博士论文

Bibliographical information of 100,000 Chinese dissertations; first 24 pages of content maybe available.

​ National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan 臺灣博碩士論文知識加值系統

National Central Library (NCL) provides free on-line services to general public on theses and dissertation of academic degrees, including citation information, abstracts and some full-text works.

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HKUST Electronic Theses (香港科技大学学位论文)

HKUST Electronic Theses contains full images of the doctoral dissertations and master's theses for most of our postgraduate students. Access to the database is available globally.

EThOS  (British Library) EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service) makes United Kingdom theses available by harvesting e-theses from institutional repositories and digitizing paper theses on-demand. You have to create a free account to select and download the free theses.

Dissertations/Theses Index

• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (1861 - ) The complete range of academic subjects appearing in dissertations accepted at accredited institutions since 1861. Abstracts included from July 1980; abstracts for masters theses beginning Spring 1988. Updated monthly. You might also want to look at Dissertations & Theses @ Washington University in St. Louis .

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Wanfang Data (万方数据) Databases of journals, dissertations, and conference proceedings (access to abstracts only)

典藏國際漢學博士論文摘要資料庫 International Chinese Studies Doctoral Dissertation Abstracts Database (Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library (Taiwan)) It has indexed and created abstracts for 9,000 dissertations from North America and Europe relating to Sinology.

Dissertation Reviews-China  / Dissertation Reviews-Chinese Literature

Since 2010, Dissertation Reviews has featured more than 1000 overviews of recently defended, unpublished doctoral dissertations in a wide variety of disciplines across the Humanities and Social Sciences.

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This research guide provides access to all electronic resources in Chinese language available at Princeton in alphabetical order. For a listing of Chinese Studies resources ordered by type of resource please see the Chinese Studies Resources - by type guide.

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Taiwan Government Research Archives (TGRA) The database collects the communiqués of the six branches of the Republic of China political system from 1946 to the present with particular emphasis on the communiqués of the administrative and judicial systems. The communiques can be browsed and filtered by a variety of options including related persons, related institutions and related laws. Entries for the laws are linked to the open Law Database of the ROC. Full-text searches are possible as and the discovered communiqués can be downloaded as PDFs. The PDFs however are not provided in OCRed form and are therefore not searchable after download. Trial access to the database is available on campus. Off-campus access will be added as soon as it becomes available URL: https://www.ainoscotwgov.com/ Trial period: until October 31, 2023

Ainosco Search Conceptually this database is similar to Google Books and Duxiu. The database allows full-text searching for Chinese monographs (mainly from Taiwan) and also includes reading access for a subset of the searchable books as eBooks (again mainly from Taiwan). What is special, is that it allows readers to conduct full-text searches on a broad range of our print books from Taiwan and links the results to our physical holdings of those books via the Princeton catalog, even if full-text access of the eBook is not available via this database. Trial access to the database is available on campus. Off-campus access will be added as soon as it becomes available URL: https://www.ainoscosearch.com/ Trial period: until October 31, 2023

iRead eBooks 華藝中文電子書  (e-books from Taiwan) URL: https://www.airitibooks.com/ Reading access to about 2,000 academic e-books from Taiwan mostly published in the last 5 years. Online reading mode, printing of single pages. Online lending requires personal account and additional software. Pop-ups need to be allowed. Trial has ended. Access to individual titles in this collection can be requested. Please contact the Chinese Studies Librarian if access is needed.

CNKI e-Book platform This trial gives access to almost 11,000 Chinese E-Books from a number of different publishers from mainland China. All of the E-Books can be read online and can also downloaded as PDF. Despite the difficult circumstances, we ask readers to use the PDF download option with moderation. The East Asian Library will make sure to arrange long term access to the contents that is needed and is looking forward to any recommendations for perpetual access. URL: http://book.oversea.cnki.net/CCGBWEB/Book/Navi Trial has ended. Access to individual titles in this collection can be requested. Please contact the Chinese Studies Librarian if access is needed.

Academia Sinica Hanji wenxian ziliaoku = 漢籍電子文獻資料庫

• Academia Sinica Scripta Sinica (Hanji quanwen ziliaoku) This link opens in a new window more... less... Click on \shouquan shiyong\ (authorized access) to enter.

The Academia Sinica Scripta Sinica database with titles digitized by the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica, Taipei, has greatly improved its interface. Read the help screens for more information on its new features. Since the database is now UTF-8, there is no longer a need for downloading any additional font. For a listing of titles included, click on 書目瀏覽, and then search by title with nothing in the search box.

Apabi China Digital Library = 中华数字书苑

• China Digital Library (Apabi) This link opens in a new window

Apabi Digital Library is a collection Chinese e-Books. Records for individual books are in the main catalog, but you may also browse Princeton's collection using the link above and choose "dianji tushu". Books are viewed in a special reader application with many useful features for browsing, organizing, and marking up text. The reader may be installed from the link below (It is preinstalled on the public computers in the East Asian Library.)

• Download Apabi Reader

Please see our user guide for detailed instructions:

• Apabi User Guide

Please note: Currently there are problems with off-site access to this database. To access this database off-site please make sure to first activate Secure Remote Access (Sonic Wall) on your device.

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Apabi Image Database (Tupianku) = 图片库 (中华数字书苑)

• Apabi Tupianku (image) database This link opens in a new window more... less... Choose the tupianku tab.

Choose the tupianku 图片库 tab to use.

This collection is highly organized; the top-level categories (called “museums”) are 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. Each museum has “rooms.” The database contains over 200,000 images; the largest categories are old photographs (75,000), Chinese art (35,000), rare book illustrations (30,000), folk art (13,000) and calligraphy (12,000). Short descriptions of images, as well as the usual image functions including scrolling through an image, are provided. “High resolution” is up to 300 dpi. Images can be downloaded after individual registration. Suggestions for related images are provided.

While the China Digital Library, of which this is a part, has an English interface, very little of this particular database is available in romanization or English; thus, knowledge of Chinese is required.

One can search all divisions at once, or separately; main search criteria are by image title, artist, period, place of origin of the work, and current location. In addition, each museum can be browsed using criteria appropriate to that museum:

• Chinese art by category (portraiture, landscape, bronzes, textiles, architecture...), period, origin, current location
• Calligraphy by style ( xingshu , caoshu , ...), period, origin, current location
• Folk art by category ( nianhua , shadow figures, paper cuts, clothing...), subject (story people, gods...), regional style
• Red (i.e. socialist) art by category (propaganda, movie posters, book covers, oil paintings...), subject (leaders, model figures, women, children...), period (1930-), and topics (Anti-Japanese Resistance, Great Leap Forward...)
• Unearthed objects by category (ceramics and jade only), period, province
• Old photographs by region, subject (history, customs, medicine, religion...), period (19th c. -)
• Ancient design by category (eating utensils, ritual vessels, drinking utensils, weapons, furniture, musical instruments, seals...; 25 categories in total), period, material (gold, silver, bamboo, enamel...)
• Modern graphic design by category (advertisements, posters, book covers, slogans...), industry (clothing, movies and entertainment, hygiene... ), subject (markets, theater, Westernized imports, technology...)
• Historical costumes by categories (commoners, court, army, underwear, advertisements...) and period
• Rare book illustrations by category (portraiture, landscape, stories...), period, editions (collotype, woodblock...)
• Classical painting manuals by category (landscape, birds...), period, topics ( Sanxi tang , Jiezi yuan ...)
• Typography by classification (pictorial, geometric...), topics (life, brand logo, struggles...), period (1930-)
• Pattern design  by classification (abstract, modified traditional, landscapes...), topics (entertainment, congratulatory, propaganda...)

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Apabi Newspaper Database = 数字报纸 (中华数字书苑)

• Apabi Newspaper database This link opens in a new window more... less... Choose the shuzi baozhi tab.

Choose the shuzi baozhi 数字报纸 tab to use.

Newspapers available include the following: Nanfang zhoumo (2011- ; also some issues from 1984-2011) , Renmin ribao Haiwai ban 人民日报∶海外版  (2010-), Wenhuibao 文汇报 (2012-), Zhongguo funü bao 中国妇女报 (2009-), Zhongguo wenhuabao 中国文化报 (2008-), Zhongguo jingji shibao 中国经济时报 (2012-), Zhongguo Wenwu bao 中国文物报 (2007-), Chongqing ribao 重庆日报 (2008-), Tianjin ribao 天津日报 (2008-), Yangchen wanbao 羊城晚报 (2007-), Neimenggu chenbao 内蒙古晨报 (2008-), and Bingtuan ribao 兵团日报 (2017-)  plus 13 others.

These newspapers expand upon our current offerings (which include the newspapers in WiseSearch and Factiva, the Huanqiu shibao , plus historical access to the Renmin ribao , Guangming ribao , and Jiefangjun bao ). However, this database has a very different interface, and includes the newspaper pages as actually published.

There is a newspaper section in the Apabi interface, with currently only the online version of the Zhongguo wenwubao (2007+; issues to 2004 are available on selected computers in the catalog room, while 2005-2006 are not yet available in electronic format.) A guide is available:

• 中国文物报 (Zhongguo Wenwubao) User Guide

Bianjiang Lishi Dili Shujuku = 邊疆歷史地理數據庫 (Historical Geography of (China’s) Borderlands)

• Bianjiang lishi dili = Historical Geography of (China’s) Borderlands This link opens in a new window

This database has two parts. The first part called 史地經典文庫 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. The second part 邊疆史料文庫 gives access to Republican monographs, periodicals, government gazettes and other documents on the history of the border regions.

The original printed text is displayed side-by-side with a fully searchable digital edition of the text for comparison. Downloading is not possible. Copying (with a maximum of 200 characters at a time (after signing in)) is, but only using the pop-up copy function, not the usual browser function.

To use the database you have to sign in with a user account.

You have the following two choices:

1) You can use one of four generic Princeton accounts with the following details

Username: [email protected]           [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Password (for all of the 4 accounts above): 123123

2) You can register a personal account

To sign in for both options please choose 登录 on the upper left and then switch to 邮箱登录 on the following page (right under the large 登录 button). .

Please note: This database does currently not fully support the Firefox Browser!

Biblioteca virtual de Macao = 澳門虛擬圖書館

• Biblioteca Virtual de Macau = 澳門虛擬圖書館 This link opens in a new window Free digital library for publications from Macao. Includes many journals of local academic institutions and e-books issued by government and educational institutions.

CADAL (China Academic Digital Associative Library)

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CADAL (China Academic Digital Associative Library) is a government-sponsored cooperative project of some 120+ academic libraries (2020), about half of which are from China, to create electronic resources for the use of their patrons. The venture is led by and housed in Zhejiang University, and most major Chinese academic institutions such as Peking, Qinghua, Fudan and Nanjing universities were participants from the beginning. CADAL originally grew out of a China-American Digital Academic Library venture, but only from the mid-2010s  a select group of overseas libraries have received access.

The major resource created by CADAL is a collection of scanned books, both in and out of copyright: 240 thousand ancient texts (including the Xuxiu siku quanshu 续修四库全书), 180 thousand republican works, 155 thousand republican periodical issues, 40 thousand newspaper issues, 800 thousand post-1949 books, 690 thousand works in Western languages, 13 thousand special collection works, 4 thousand videos, 55 thousand audiobooks and 63 thousand images. The collection is constantly increasing. The titles are not full-text searchable; but tables of contents are provided for easy navigation. Lately CADAL has added some special sections for material connected to the Manchuria Railway 满铁 13 thousand titles, modern local gazetteers 17 thousand, material on overseas Chinese 侨批 50 thousand items, and oracle bones from various institutions including from Princeton scanned with Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technology.

(In addition to the e-books database, the navigation bar also gives access to some other resources : calligraphic works ( shufa 书法), a literary timeline ( Zhongguo wenxue biannian shi 中国文学编年史), Chinese medicine ( zhongyiyao 中医药), and Audio ( yinpinku 音频库). Note that the video choice, available only in English, brings one to the main e-books database.)

Access to the books is dependent on the copyright status of the book: while some free access is available, especially to the ancient texts, access to in-copyright books is restricted to registered users at participant libraries: one borrows parts of books, which need to be returned in order to have them become available to other users. Hence, one first has to register ( zhuce 注册), and in subsequent visits to log-in ( denglu 登录). For this please select 登录/注册 from the upper right of the CADAL home page. To register then click on 快速注册. Please note that it is not necessary to add a mobile phone number 手机号 in order to the register and it is also not necessary to retrieve a verification code if one does not want to connect the personal account to a Chinese mobile phone number. The registration process can be soley finished via a valid email. After registration, the system will ask for an affiliation at the first login. Please choose IP range and select “Princeton University” as your affiliation ( suozai danwei 所在单位) . The system will connect your account to Princeton for 180 days. For this to work you must be either using the system from a university computer (including within the library), or access the database via the library link at the top of this database description.

Activities one performs when logged-in, including borrowing books, note-taking etc., are visible to all users from search pages etc.: hence, make sure to log-out especially on shared public computers. One is not logged out automatically, even not after days. To log-out, go to one’s personal account page ( registeredname’s CADAL in the English, registeredname 的 CADAL in the Chinese interface), and click on tuichu 推 出. This account page is available in the top navigation bar, and is also the page from where one returns  books, see one’s borrowing history, etc.  (One can choose to set the interface to English, but only a limited number of top-level screens have been translated.)

Once logged in, and directed to one’s account page, one can perform a simple search in the search box. On the resulting page, one can somewhat refine one’s search by limiting the result to title or author, and by selecting some rough facets of categories (such as ancient books or republican-period books—note that all categories are listed, even if not applicable), tags ( biaoqian   标签 ) or publisher. Under a cover image of each result, one can choose to see more details on the book, or decide to read it by clicking on the book. If choosing to read it, one is brought to a reader interface where one can display the table of contents, navigate forward and backward within a book, and change the display from one page to two pages at a time and vice versa. Printing (by right-clicking, one page at a time) does not work very well—it may be better to take screen shots.

Depending on the copyright status of the book, one will receive a request after viewing a couple of pages to check out the remainder of the chapter ( jieyue 借阅). One receives a message that borrowing was successful (if the item was not borrowed by someone else), and can continue to read.

To return the chapter to the CADAL library, navigate to the borrowing page ( jieyue in the top navigation bar), where one can see the status of one’s checking in-and-out. Click, if not yet selected, on the weihuan 未还button, and then return chapters by clicking on guihuan 归还 after each chapter one has checked out. And remember to log-out (also possible from this page.)

One can look at one’s notes, tags, comments, messages etc.  from the navigation bar, and there may be recommendations listed based upon one’s readings.

CHANT (Chinese Ancient Texts) = 漢達文庫

• Chinese Ancient Texts (CHANT) databases. This link opens in a new window more... less... Click in menu bar on \dengru\, and on resulting page on \For IP User only\.

The CHANT (CHinese ANcient Texts) databases, compiled under the Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 1988, give full-text access (single words, phrases and sentence patterns) to all traditional texts from the Pre-Han (pre 220AD) period up to the Six Dynasties (581 AD) (over 30 million characters.) These texts are divided into two databases: Pre-Han & Han (Xian Qin Liang Han), and Six Dynasties (Wei Jin Nanbeichao). During compilation, different versions of the same texts were carefully compared, and modern punctuation was added. Comparisons with other versions, parallel passages, as well as citations found in Leishu are shown in footnotes. CHANT also includes databases of excavated wood/bamboo and silk scripts (the Zhu-jian-bo shu database), oracular inscriptions (the Jiaguwen database, and bronze inscriptions (Jinwen). includes now a database of extant Chinese encyclopedias (Leishu), which includes the titles listed on the spreadsheet below:

Please note: The database will be unavailable from 5:00 am (ET) on January 28, 2022 to 5:00 am (ET) on January 29, 2022.

To enter, click first on "dengru wenku", and then on "jigou yonghu dengru" ("For IP user only"; no password is necessary as a Princeton user). Initial navigation until entering each database itself is slow, searching the databases themselves is faster. Then choose your database, and navigate using the buttons and menus provided; each database works differently. Note that not all books are categorized properly (a Six Dynasties work might be found in the Han database, and vice versa), and that one has to search within subcategories the content of which is not always self-explanatory. One cannot usually search all works within a database at one go.

To use the databases fully, download and install the specialized fonts available from the download page after logging in.

China Academic Journals / CNKI = 中国学术期刊 / 中国知网

• China Academic Journals (CNKI) This link opens in a new window more... less... Full-text searchable (text delivered may be image-only). Most journals are available from 1994, and many from their first issue, as early as 1915.

Princeton's access to the Literature/ History/ Philosophy, Economics/ Politics/ Law, Education/ Social Sciences, and the Electronic and Information Series components of the CNKI includes access to the full-text China Academic Journals database (includes full text and/or full image articles from 2,000+ journals from first issue to date), as well as access to title indexes in the fields of sciences, conferences, or dissertations. A limited number of dissertations and master theses is also available from a select number of universities in history and literature.

No usernames or passwords are necessary: the link above opens the database with the English interface; after logging in, you can switch to a Simplified Chinese interface if you prefer. Use the PDF format for downloading articles.

Note that Princeton does not subscribe to the "China Core Newspapers", another option given; use WisersNews instead.

China Business Reference (China BRef)

• China Business Reference (ChinaBRef) This link opens in a new window

This database contains hundreds of thousands of Chinese laws and legal commentaries, in both Chinese and English. It can be searched by keyword or browsed by category.

China Comprehensive Gazetteers = 中國綜合方志庫

• China Comprehensive Gazetteers

This China Comprehensive Gazetteers database has been produced in conjunction with the National Library of China. It includes 7,000  Chinese local gazetteers spanning eight centuries 1229-1949.

Chinese gazetteers are a very rich resource available for researching China in multiple aspects, including its political history, literature, and religion, as well as the biographies of famous personages, its culture, economic development and, of course, its geography and natural history.  Because of its varied content, organized to principles also varying from title to title, full-text search capabilities change the way they can be used. The titles included in this particular database (approximately 7,000 titles, 100,000 volumes) have for a large part been compiled using Optical Character Recognition. Because of this automated process, which occasionally produces errors, the 4,000 titles which overlap with the Zhongguo fang zhi ku database, are probably best used in the latter (with much stricter authority control.) However, the China Comprehensive Gazetteers database includes at least 2,000 additional full-text searchable titles.

China Economy, Public Policy, and Security (皮书 pishu) Database

• China Economy, Public Policy, and Security Database This link opens in a new window

A database comprised of the volumes called pishu (皮书) from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), published (often yearly) by the Social Science Academic Press (SSAP). This database should be especially useful for researchers in the economic, political and social sciences of China.

The archive covers all pishu published by SSAP from 1991 onward, and new pishu are uploaded on a monthly basis, between 15-20 new volumes each month. You can see the updated title list here: http://www.eastview.com/Files/UDB-Pishu.xlsx .

You can search within all titles, or by series and/or thematic keyword (click on those headings). The seven series are China Society and Culture (国社会与文化), China Economic Development (中国的经济发展), China Regional Analysis - Provincial  (中国地区分析 - 省级), China Regional Analysis - Municipal  (中国地区分析 - 市政的), China Regional Analysis - Hong Kong/Macau/Taiwan (中国地区分析 - 香港/澳门/台湾), China Industrial Sectors (中国的工业部门),  and Global Economy, Politics, Security  (世界经济，政治，安全). Thematic keywords include advertising, ethnology, etc. The database also includes such titles as the Annual Report on Research on Japan (日本研究报告). An explanatory brochure about the database is available from: http://www.eastview.com/Files/EVPishu.pdf   .

We have only a selection of these works in paper, and ranges may be spotty. Note that almost all titles are Chinese-only, although they do have English alternative titles.

China Geo-Explorer I

• China Geo-Explorer I The China Geo-Explorer offers a Web-based interface to statistical and population census data from China. With this tool maps can easily be created online.

Chinese Population Census Statistics are also available via the Princeton Map collection .

Via the map collection Princeton users have permanent access to the following data sets:

China County Boundaries with Census Data, 1953 China County Boundaries with Census Data, 1964 China County Boundaries with Census Data, 1982 China County Boundaries with Census Data (Part A), 1990 China County Boundaries with Census Data (Part B), 1990 China County Census Short Form Data, 2000 China County Census Long Form Data (L1-L6), 2000 China County Census Long Form Data (L7-L8), 2000 Township Census Data 2000 for each Province China Economic Census Data by County, 2008 China census data by county, 2000-2010 China extended long form census data by province, 2010 China extended short form census data by province, 2010 China extended long form census data by county, 2010 China township population census data, 2010

All the files can be downloaded and either be used in a GIS software or opened with Excel. To open the data in Excel, please download the shapefile and open the file with the extension “.dbs” in Excel.  Under  “Metadata” in each entry additional information about the Excel fields is available.

China Government Gazettes = 中国政报公报期刊文献总库

• China Government Gazettes This link opens in a new window 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

China Monographic Series / CNKI = 中国学术辑刊 / 中国知网

China Monographic Series gives access to journals that are infrequently published in monographic form rather than as continuously published journals. This happens mostly in the Humanities, but to a lesser extent also in the Social Sciences. These journals are not searchable in the main China Academic Journals database and have to be retrieved from a separate interface. The link to the database is available in the lower part of the CNKI welcome page. No usernames or passwords are necessary: the link above opens the English interface; after logging in, you can switch to a Simplified Chinese interface if you prefer. Use the PDF format for downloading articles.

China Premium Database (CEIC)

• CEIC This link opens in a new window Provides macroeconomic and financial time series data for many countries. Contains a wide range of data on topics including national accounts, government and public finance, demographic and labor markets, inflation, foreign trade, foreign direct investment, financial markets, and data on a variety of industry sectors. Includes subnational data for Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, and Russia. Please logoff the database. We have 5 concurrent users. Additional help information can be found on their site . more... less... For off-campus use, connect to the campus network via SRA before utilizing this resource. It does not work with our standard EZproxy service. Please log off the database. We have 5 concurrent users.

China Research Gateway

• China Research Gateway (CRG) This link opens in a new window Academic database collection (scholarly journals, monographs, reference works, statistical publications, government documents, newspapers, dissertations, conference proceedings, patents, standards, images, and videos) including STEM, the Social Science, and the Humanities.

China Statistical Bureau

• China Statistical Bureau Website of the Statistical Bureau of China. Gives access to annual data from China (1990+) and the Population Census Data from 2010. Works best with Internet Explorer.
• China National Statistical Data Portal Gives access to monthly and quarterly statistical Data from China.

Select geo-coded data is contained in the China Geo-Explorer I .

More statistical data from China is available via the CNKI China Statistical Yearbooks , EPS and CEIC .

The latest annual statistics for China can also be found in the Data Planet Statistical Datasets under the source "China Data Institute"

China Statistical Yearbooks Database / CNKI = 中国统计年鉴 / 中国知网

• China Statistical Yearbooks Database (CNKI) This link opens in a new window more... less...

The China Statistical Yearbook Database (CNKI) is a large selection of statistical data published by the Chinese government, including the 2010 census (search for 2010年人口普查). A wide variety of economic, social and environmental topics is covered. There is a data search (with a standard, an index value, and an index definition mode), a data analysis tool (enabling comparison by districts, indexes, years), and one can use yearbook navigation. Because of changes to indexes over the years, and differences in coverage from index to index or district to district, the safest way of searching may be by yearbook navigation.

The database is available from within the general CNKI interface, as used for the China Academic Journals . However, because there is a noticeable time gap between yearbook issues showing up in the Chinese interface, and their appearance in the English interface, users are encouraged not to use the alternative English interface if avoidable. There are also translation and typographical issues with the English version.

CNKI has recently updated its platform for statistical data from China under the name 中国经济社会大数据研究平台 (China Economic and Social Data Platform). The new interface allows searching by indicator across yearbooks and creation of GIS maps. Access is available to Princeton users via 中国经济社会大数据研究平台 China Economic and Social Data Platform.

CNKI now also offers an alternative English interface called China Data Insight that gives access to the yearbook data by indicators rather than by published yearbook. There are many problems and inconsistencies with the translation of the indicators in this interface. Click “Sign in” to be recognized as a Princeton user by IP (this service requires SonicWall VPN).

Note that more statistical data may be available from other databases like EPS , CEIC , Data Planet , the so-called pishu reports database ( China Economy, Public Policy, and Security Database ), and the China Geo-Explorer I ).

Please note: As of April 1, 2023, the Cybersecurity Administration of China (CAC) imposed new oversight requirements on specific content types appearing in the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI). Due to these requirements, full text downloads of four content types will be temporarily suspended: dissertations, conference proceedings, patents, and statistics. Since April 1, 2023, the Chinese Statistical Yearbooks Database and the surrogate services like the China Economic and Social Data Platform and China Data Insight are not available outside of the People's Republic of China. For more information please see: https://www.eastview.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Chinese_regulatory_actions_impact_map.pdf

In the meantime users can access our other statistical offerings for China:  EPS, CEIC, Data Planet, the so-called pishu reports database (China Economy, Public Policy, and Security Database), and the China Geo-Explorer I which all can be found here: https://libguides.princeton.edu/c.php?g=1071063&p=9192878

Please also note that we do have many of the statistical yearbooks in print. You can find those via the library catalog. Many print yearbooks come with CDs including the data in electronic form in Html and Excel format. We have made efforts to transfer the content of these CDs to the Princeton Data and Statistical Services (DSS) https://library.princeton.edu/dss where Princeton users can download them after login. The whole list of Chinese statistical yearbooks on the DSS server the is available at: https://dss.princeton.edu/catalog?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=china+yearbook

China Vitae = 中国名人录

• China Vitae This link opens in a new window

China Vitae is a foundation-supported activity whose objective is to provide current information on China 's leaders to scholars, analysts, and the general public. It consists of an English language database containing detailed biographies of thousands of Chinese leaders. Free of commercials, pop ups, and banners, the database is highly searchable, using state-of-the-art tools to find officials by name, institution, or location. A special comparison engine allows users to identify similarities in the backgrounds of officials. Another search tool tracks daily appearances of the most important officials.

Chinese Big Set Table of Contents database = 中国大套图书目次库

• Chinese Big Sets Table of Contents database = 中国大套图书目次库 This link opens in a new window

On the Chinese mainland publishers have over the years preferred to publish large collections of primary and secondary print material. At the East Asian Library, we try to give access to the contents of these sets by adding searchable content note fields and scanning table of contents pages that we add to the catalog record, but for many large sets it is not possible to add all the information in a way that would allow easy searching. The Chinese Big Set Table of Contents database tries to address this problem. It provides searchable indexes for 2,500 large sets of from 130 different publishers from mainland China. The covered book sets were published 1985-present, but the database is most comprehensive for 2015-present. The table of contents (ToC) information can be searched and the ToCs can be downloaded in PDF format.

Chinese Civilization in Time and Space = 中國與台灣歷史文化地圖

• Chinese Civilization in Time and Space. This link opens in a new window

A Web-based GIS system with historical maps, integrated with full-text databases from the Academia Sinica. Includes place name search. Can be used without registration, but personal registration (free to Princeton users) is recommended for saving and printing. The basic historical maps come from Tan Qixiang's Zhongguo lishi dituji, and the Shenbao atlas from the 1920s. There are search functions for current and historical place names, gazetteers etc. Some specialized thematic information is available, such as maps of Han archaeological tombs. Enter the GIS system by clicking on "Framework" from the Home page, and then by clicking on "Enter CCTS System." Before first use, one needs to download two special plug-ins available there. The Web-based GIS system follows standard ArcView procedures.

There is also a Taiwan History and Culture in Time and Space available:

• Taiwan History and Culture in Time and Space

Chinese Doctor and Master Dissertations / CNKI = 博硕士学位论 / 中国知网

• Chinese Doctor and Master Dissertations This link opens in a new window Selected dissertations and theses from the PRC in all subject areas. Due to Chinese government intervention access is currently limited to Humanities subjects only.

 Due to Chinese government intervention access is currently limited to Humanities subjects only.

Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertations (airiti library)

• Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertations Service This link opens in a new window more... less... Limit to CETD if desired.

Selected dissertations and theses from various universities in Taiwan, as well as Hong Kong University are available in this database. Starting date varies; HKU starts in 1990, others in the 2000s. The database has moved into the general Taiwanese AiritiLibrary, which includes also Taiwanese periodical literature. To actually retrieve theses, searches have to be limited to "CETD". It. includes many more dissertations than available for free on the NCL website which is available for free:  National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan

Chinese Film and Newsreel Scripts from the Cultural Revolution Online

• Chinese Film and Newsreel Scripts from the Cultural Revolution Online This link opens in a new window

Online access to transcripts of documentary films and newsreels from China, 1946(?)-1985. The bulk of the items are from the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976; all documents are in Chinese. The 1750 items were created by the Zhong yang xin wen ji lu dian ying zhi pian chang (Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio), a cinema company office in Henan province, China, which had nation-wide responsibilities.  This online version is directly based upon a previously published microfilm set entitled The Chinese Filmscript and Advertisement Collection , and the text images are of intermediate quality and not full-text searchable. The collection is arranged into the four series Advertisements and Film Description Series, 1953-1966; Documentary and Newsreel Scripts, 1946 (?)-1985; Feature Filmscripts, undated; and Newspaper Clipping Scrapbook, 1950-1959. For more information, see the home page of the database.  The original items are held at Duke University.

Chinese Reference (Apabi/CNKI) = 工具书

• Chinese Reference Online (CNKI) This link opens in a new window

Selected items from two large Chinese reference databases: the Apabi Reference DB collection (choose "gongju tushu") and the CNKI Chinese Reference Works Online (link given above). Currently we have acquired 169 titles (371 vols.) in the Apabi, and 99 titles (122 vols.) in the CNKI collection.

There are limitations on the number of concurrent users in the Apabi database; you may not be able to enter the database when too many people try this database at the same time. Please make sure to logout when you are done.

In the Apabi interface, make sure you select the option (which shows up automatically in the search box that you want to "search within the entries (zai gongjushu citiao zhong 在工具书词条中检索) to get results.

Included in these reference works are dictionaries, encyclopedias, bibliographies, biographical dictionaries, indexes, even compilations, etc. The two databases differ in their detailed search options, but in both cases you can check all their reference books at one go. For the Apabi books, click on “tushu” and choose “quanwen” for searching full text. Note that you should avoid the browser’s back button. We will arrange introductory sessions at the beginning of the academic year.

We have found and reported individual problems, such as in the 汉语大词典 a lack of easy access to the pinyin pronunciations. Please report any problems you find, or other suggestions for improvement to the Chinese Bibliographer (shown in the right colum of this page) for forwarding to the publisher.

In the Apabi set are included such titles as 汉语大词典, 辞海, 中国大百科全书,著者别号书录考, 佛教大辞典, 京剧剧目概览, 难僻字字典, 道藏书目提要, 外国文学研究论文资料索引(1978-1985), 唐代长安词典, 宋元明清百部小说语词大辞典, 历代避讳字汇典, 中国古代科技史论文索引, 中国丛书目录及子目索引汇编, 中国宝卷总目, 中国历代思想家传记汇诠, 中国年谱辞典, 太平天国大辞典, 明人室名别称字号索引, 现代汉语大词典. For a complete listing, see the spreadsheet below:

• Apabi Reference List

In the CNKI set are included such titles as 本草名著集成, 传统语言学辞典, 古代名人字号辞典, 汉语方言大词典, 简明古籍整理辞典, 钦定理藩部则例, 历代名人室名别号辞典, 新汉英中医学词典, 中国电影电视艺术家辞典, 中国官制大辞典, 中国古代建筑辞典, 中国历代科技人物录, 中国历史地名大辞典, 中国现代文学词典, 中医妇科名著集成, 中医文献学辞典. For a complete listing, see the spreadsheet below:

• CNKI Reference List

Chinese Social Science (Press) eBook Library

• Chinese Social Science (Press) eBook Library This link opens in a new window

This database includes electronic access to more than 18,000 e-Books published by the Chinese Social Science Press 中国社会科学出版社. Searches for books, book chapters, articles and illustrations are all possible. The books can be accessed via two different reading modes: A web reading mode that will show the content as a webpage and an original layout reading mode that is similar to an online PDF reader. Copying of text is possible from both reading modes. A trial of the whole database is currently active until further notice

Chinese Text Project API

• Chinese Text Project (C-Text) API This link opens in a new window

Princeton users can use special features of the Chinese Text Project website. The library provides access to the Chinese Text Project Application Programming Interface (CTP API) which facilitates usage of large amounts of textual data and metadata for text mining purposes and other digital humanities (DH) studies. The API works with external tools such as the C-Text Text Tools and the free DH tool MARKUS.

Because of the large amounts of traffic that is involved in using the API, direct usage of the API is currently limited to on-campus use as the library proxy server does not support API usage. For off-campus use of the API please connect to the University network via Sonic Wall VPN before accessing. An extensive description of the API is available at: https://ctext.org/tools/api

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. This collection may be viewed from the main computer cluster in the EAL.

• CrossAsia Integrated Text Repository (ITR)

A discovery service for full-text cross-database searching in a number of East Asian Studies databases and full-text searching in printed books.

Note: Not all databases covered in this search engine are currently subscribed to by Princeton. The title list below shows titles that Princeton has access to (in green), database for which Princeton currently uses other providers than the ones linked from Crossasia ITR (in orange), and database currently not available in Princeton (in red).

Please use the grey “Provider Link” to gain direct access to the content from the search results. Direct access will only be available for databases currently subscribed to by Princeton. The direct links will only work on campus and via VPN. Princeton NetID is not supported!

The system currently includes:

Adam Matthew - China America Pacific Adam Matthew - China Trade & Politics Adam Matthew - Foreign Office Files China & Japan Adam Matthew - Meiji Japan (only metadata) Airusheng - Local Gazetteer (1, 2) Brill - The Japan Chronicle (1902-1940) Brill - Mobilizing East Asia (1931-1954) Brill - North China Daily News Brill - North China Herald Brill - North China Standard (1919-1927) Diaolong - Classical Works of Japan Diaolong - Daozang jiyao Diaolong - Dunhuang shiliao Diaolong - Gujin tushu jicheng Diaolong - Qingdai shiliao Diaolong - Sibu congkan Diaolong - Sibu beiyao Diaolong - Siku quanshu Dioalong - Yongle dadian Diaolong - Xuxiu Siku quanshu Diaolong – Zhengton Daozang Diaolong – Zhongguo Fangzhi yiji Diaolong – Zhongguo Fangzhi xuji East View - China Comprehensive Gazetteers Gale - China and the Modern World: Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China (1854-1949) Gale - Missionary, Sinology, and Literary Periodicals (1817-1949) Renmin Ribao SBB digital: Asian language collection (selection) SBB digital: Western language Asia collection Ta Kung Pao 大公報 (1902-1949) Ariti - eBooks (Princeton can acquire individual titles upon request) Brill - The Chinese Student Monthly (1906-1931) CNKI - eBooks (Princeton can acquire individual titles upon request) Fulltext search in print books (links to catalog of the State Library Berlin) Adam Matthew - Area Studies: China and Southeast Asia (content mostly available in microform) Adam Matthew - Area Studies: Japan (content mostly available in microform) ISEAS Publishing - Asian Studies eBooks NLC - Early Twentieth Century Chinese Books (1912-1949) (Many titles available in Princeton via CADAL)

Dacheng = 大成老旧期刊

• Dacheng lao jiu qi kan This link opens in a new window

A text-searchable database of ca. 7,000 Chinese periodicals published from late Qing to 1949 in all fields of knowledge:  the humanities, social sciences, exact sciences, as well as popular journals. Examples include the Shidianzhai huabao , Xiandai , Shaonian Zhongguo , Dazhong shenghuo , Guocui xuebao , Qingnian Zhongguo , Minfeng . Listings per subject area are provided. Contents are regularly updated. One can search bykeyword in title in simplified or traditional Chinese, which retrieves article titles; clicking on such a hit retrieves the page with the term, which however is not highlighted.  One can browse by category of publication (use the pop-up menu called +fenlei tixi ). Clicking on a periodical title gives the issues available of that title; clicking on the issue gives a table of content. PDFs can be downloaded. Advanced searching (by article or periodical title) is available. This database complements the Quanguo baokan suoyin database.

Please note:  With the increased access to the Quanguo baokan suoyin access to the Dacheng database will cease December 31, 2023.

Da gong bao = 大公報

• Da gong bao

Database of the important newspaper (1902-1949) Da gong bao (or Ta Kung Pao , L'impartial ).  All editions of this newspaper (Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hankou, Hong Kong) are included. The current Ta Kung Pao was established by the government of the People's Republic of China after the Chinese Civil War. Widely regarded as a veteran pro-communist newspaper, it covered a range of political, economic and cultural topics.Full-text search; results are available in snippets or full page pdf.

Diaolong database collection = 雕龙中日古籍全文检索数据库

• Diaolong database collection This link opens in a new window more... less... Includes 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.

This database of Classical Chinese Texts gives access to various sub-databases including the Zhengtong daozang 正统道藏, the Daozang jiyao 道藏輯要, a collection of Dunhuang Manuscripts from English, Russian and Peking collections 敦煌史料-英法俄、北大等馆藏, the Imperial encyclopedia (Yongle dadian 永乐大典), the Imperial Library (Gujin tushu jicheng 古今图书集成), Collected historical material on the Qing Dynasty 清代史料 (in particular 五朝会典, 清实录, 缙绅全书系列), a collection of old Japanese books 日本古典书籍, two Congshu collections (Sibu congkan 四部丛刊 and Sibu beiyao 四部备要 (here called 续四部丛刊)) as well as the Siku quanshu 四库全书, the Xuxiu siku quanshu 续修四库全书 and includes the Siku catalog 四库存目书, Banned books from the Siku 四库禁毁书, and Supplemental texts to the Siku  四库未收书.

Digital Library of Chinese Rare Books = 古漢籍善本數位化資料庫

• Digital Library of Chinese Rare Books

A collaborative digitization project, sponsored by Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange Program, which includes Chinese rare books digitized from the collections of four participating libraries: the Asian Division of the Library of Congress, tEast Asian Library and the Gest Collection of Princeton University, the Harvard-Yenching Library of Harvard University, and the Fu Ssu-Nien Library of the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan.

Each library provided some 100,000 images, covering between 171 and 295 titles each.  They have now been made available free of charge to the world. A description of the project is available.

Due to maintenance work the database will be unavailable between September 5 and September 11, 2020.

Digital Library of Qing Archives = 清代檔案檢索系統

• Digital Library of Qing Archives

The newly developed Digital Library of Qing Archives of the National Palace Museum (NPM) in Taibei integrates the former Grand Council Archives Database = 清代宮中檔奏摺及軍機處檔摺件, the Qing Historical Figures Database = 大清國史人物列傳及史館檔傳包傳稿資料庫, and the Index to Qing Archival Volumes Database = 清代文獻檔冊目錄資料庫 as well as other holdings of Qing archives at the NPM. The new database is free and does no longer require usernames and passwords. For their own convenience users can create a free account to use further options like tracking their search history. High-resolution images of the documents are available in three different formats (JPEG, PDF, IIIF) for browsing and in the case of PDF for downloading.

The database may be searched by responsible official, title, matter and document number. The Qing Palace Memorials are the zouzhe memorials directly sent from a local official to the emperor, which were kept, after the emperor made his decisions, at court; a copy was made for the Grand Council Archives. Dates of the decisions, plus original accompanying material, was kept with the copy for the latter office, not with the former originals. The database also functions as a Qing biographical database, based upon 10-plus biographical compilations, for those individuals having submitted memorials.

Part of the database are material used by the Guoshiguan to prepare biographies planned to be included in the Qingshi to be compiled later, held at the NPM. They include the so-called biographical packages (zhuanbao), biographical drafts (zhuangao), and the biographies presented to the court, the Jinchengben Da Qing guo shi ren wu lie zhuan. The biographical packages contain a wide variety of notes, texts, obituaries, memorials, chronologies, memorials, nianpu, even collected writings and other material; 3,536 such packages are included. The 8,384 drafts included are in various stages of compilation, of which only the very the last stage are those made for the Qingshigao. The 2,726 volumes of biographies presented at court to the emperor are official bound biographies of officials of specific ranks. A few are in Manchu.

Alternative Access:

• 圖書文獻數位典藏資料庫

With this system the NPM offers and alternative search system for searching thorough its Qing archives holdings, rare books, and historical maps.

• Duxiu This link opens in a new window more... less... Results are readable on-line, or requestable for email delivery. See fuller Duxiu explanations on EAL pages.
• Duxiu User Guide

Searching using the full text filter, you can read (and print) most articles. Sometimes there is a limit of what you can access at one time, but you can follow up with searches for the words at the end of those pages, etc.

Searching using the book title filter, you can read a limited number of pages directly on-line, but in many cases you can then email to yourself 50 pages or 1/5th of the book (whichever is less) at a time.

Some of the books can be purchased by the library for perpetual access; if you think we should purchase a recent book as an e-book please notify the Chinese Bibliographer (displayed in the rightmost column of this page). These will be available from the general catalog.

• Video: Using Duxiu to access eBooks and request scans from printed books

Dunhuang wenxian ku = 敦煌文獻庫

There are six databases available to Princeton users from the Chinese company Erudition (Airusheng); note that the other databases listed on the Erudition overview page, hatched out, are not available currently. To arrive at the overview page, please select Ancient Classics on the left and then choose login. Once on the specific database's home page, click on jinru (enter).

We have only one concurrent user for each database, and often demand is high; so please logout of the database when finished, in order to open that slot for the next person as soon as possible.

• Dunhuang wen xian ku This link opens in a new window more... less... One concurrent user only. Click on IP Access.

When finished, this database will give access to 30,000 titles and documents. Currently, some 3,000 texts are available, both in searchable and original format. The database is unique in how it also makes available interlinear notes, corrections, overlapping and upside-down characters etc., as well as images. A list of texts available in the first release is available.

EPS China Statistics

• EPS China Statistics (English version) This link opens in a new window 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).

Note that more statistical data may be available from other databases like CNKI Statistical Yearbooks , CEIC , Data Planet , the so-called pishu reports database ( China Economy, Public Policy, and Security Database ), and the China Geo-Explorer I ).

NOTE: To enter the database click "Enter the Database" in the upper right corner on EPS's website.

• EPS China Data (Chinese Version) This link opens in a new window 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).

NOTE: To enter the database click " EPS数据平台 " in the in the middle of EPS's website.

Please also note that some browsers do not support offsite access to both language versions of this database. Chrome, Edge, and Opera all seem to work fine.

• Factiva This link opens in a new window

Full-text database of many major national and regional newspapers, including selected full-text and abstracts of many industry and general interest publications, as well as web pages. Includes many publications from East Asia and Asia in general, both in English as in original languages. Specify searching material in Japanese, simplified and traditional Chinese scripts by choosing the appropriate language in "Publications-by language", add by clicking on the triangle that code to your search, and then search directly in characters. make sure to first set the "Language setting" at the bottom of the page to "All languages" by clicking the X after English, if English is set as the default.

Includes among others: China Daily (1993- ), People's Daily Online (Chinese, English, Japanese) (2010- ), South China Morning Post (1984- ), Xinhua News Agency (Chinese, English) (1989- ).

Fojiao Jingdian ku = 佛教經典庫

• Fojiao Jingdian ku (Buddhist Classics Database) This link opens in a new window 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.

Grand Secretariat Archives = 内閣大庫檔案

• Grand Secretariat Archives (Neige daku) This link opens in a new window

This database contains full text images of hundreds of thousands of government documents from the Ming and Qing dynasties. The database may be searched by responsible official, title, matter and document number.  It is produced by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. To login please click “licensed usage” 授權使用 on the entry website of the database.

Gujin tushu jicheng = 古今圖書集成

• Taiwan Academic Classics This link opens in a new window

The Gujin tushu jicheng , compiled by Chen Menglei et al. and published with movable copper type in 1726-28, is by far the largest leishu to have been printed (6,109 subsections, 852,408 pages.) Under each subsection excerpts from sources are gathered from the beginnings of writing to the 17th century, from a 18th-century standpoint.

The full text is included in the Taiwan Academic Classics Database. You can search the full text, but resulting pages are also viewable as PDFs. To browse individual parts of Gujin tushu jicheng , you can open the menu on the left by clicking on 標點古今圖書集成. You will then be able to browse by different categories. Please also note the possibility to switch the language of the interface to English on the top of the page.

Alternatively the Diaolong database collection also provides access to the Gujin tushu jicheng .

Guangming ribao = 光明日報

• Guangming Ribao This link opens in a new window

Browsable and searchable version of the influential Chinese newspaper targeting intellectuals, founded in 1949 and run by the CPC Central Committee. Coverage: 1949-2018.

Han, Wei, Liu Chao Stone Inscriptions Database = 汉魏六朝碑刻数据库

• Han, Wei, Liu Chao Stone Inscriptions Database This link opens in a new window

The Han, Wei, Liu Chao Stone Inscriptions Database includes 2488 rubbings made from 2466 stone inscriptions. It is based on the 2008 published 《漢魏六朝碑刻校注》by the late historian Mao Yuanming. Additional material from archeological reports ranging up to 2015 has been added. Where available high quality images of the rubbings have been added to the database and can be viewed side by side with the text. The database is full-text searchable, but operates copy protection. Copying of text is only possible via a pop-up that will show when a section of text is marked.

To use the database you have to sign in with a user account. You have the following two choices:

To sign in for both options please choose 登录 on the upper left and then switch to 邮箱登录 on the following page (right under the large 登录 button).

Please also note: The copy protection of this database has issues with some browsers! At the moment Chrome and Edge work fine, while Firefox sometimes does not display the rightly encoded content!

History of Contemporary Chinese Political Movements = 当代中国运动历史数据库

• History of Contemporary Chinese Political Movements This link opens in a new window

Primary sources only, three contemporary Chinese political movements; first the Chinese Cultural Revolution, second the Chinese Anti-Rightists Campaign, third the Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine. There is a fully functional search-engine in both Chinese and English, with data retrievable by author, subject, title, date, keywords, and (new!)  locality (the documents themselves are in Chinese, naturally.) New features further include keyword highlight and toggle between Chinese and English.

The Cultural Revolution database includes primary sources mostly written during the Cultural Revolution; memoirs and interviews are not included. Sections included are CCP documents, directives, and bulletins; speeches, directives, and writings concerning the Cultural Revolution by Mao Zedong, Lin Biao, and other CCP leaders; important newspaper and magazine editorials and articles; important documents of the Red Guards and the Mass Movement; and material regarding “heterodox thoughts.” Materials are indexed in both English and Chinese, but the text is in Chinese. There is a introduction by Yu Yingshi.

The Anti-Rightist database includes more than 10,000 documents (directives, bulletins, speeches, editorials, published views and their denunciations, original archives) including the so-called “rightist” articles themselves. Included are also materials related to contemporaneous campaigns, including the prior Campaign against the Hu Feng Counterrevolutionary Clique, Campaign for Eliminating Counterrevolutionaries, and Socialist Transformation of Industry and Commerce, and the subsequent Debate over Red and Expert, Double-Anti Campaign, Movement for Opening One’s Heart to the Party, and Campaign to Pull Out White Flags and Plant Red Flags.

The Great Leap and the Great Famine database includes more than 7,000 documents (directives, bulletins, internal reports, officials’ speeches, and major media commentaries with detailed citations.) Of the material 50% is from internal archives at various levels, including 3,000 highly classified records and investigative reports filed during the Great Famine. Included are documents on the context of these topics, as on such policies and campaigns as the state monopoly on grain purchase and marketing, the Collectivization of Agriculture, the Campaign to Eliminate Counterrevolutionaries, the Great Debate on “Red and Expert,” the “Dual-Antis” Campaign, the Campaign to “Open One’s Heart to the Party,” and the Campaign to “Pull Out White Flags and Erect Red Flags”.

Hong Kong Literature Database = 香港文學資料庫

• Xianggang wen xue zi liao ku

Hong Kong Periodical Database = 香港中文期刊論文縮印

• Xianggang Zhong wen qi kan lun wen suo yin

Huanqiu shibao (Global Times) = 环球时报

• Huan qiu shi bao This link opens in a new window

Also known as Global Times . Daily Chinese tabloid under the auspices of the People's Daily newspaper, focusing on international issues. Use IE; other browsers have issues. Click on "Please click here to enter."

For searches with names, please add "%" before or after the character, for example "王%" to search for authors with "王" as surname and "%永" for authors with "永" in the name.

Pages in original layout are only available from 2001.  Please be patient: files take a long time to download without any indication that downloading is in progress.

iRead eBooks = 華藝中文電子書

• iRead eBooks This platform gives access to academic e-books from Taiwan. It provides an online reading mode for all titles Princeton has access to and printing of single pages. Online lending requires setting up a personal account and installing additional software on the end-user device. Pop-ups need to be allowed for the website to work correctly. Princeton owned titles are also separately recorded in the main library catalog.

Jiefangjun bao = 解放军报

• Jie fang jun bao (1956+) This link opens in a new window

Full-text version of the Jie fang jun bao (PLA Daily) from 1956 to current. No images are available.

Jinshi Examination Database = 历代进士登科数据库

• Jinshi Examination Database This link opens in a new window

The database is constructed by Zhonghua Shuju and compiled by Professor Gong Yanming from Zhejiang University. It is the first section of the larger Biographical Examination Database 历代科举任务数据库. It aims to record information on all Jinshi degree holders throughout Chinese history and to provide information about their regional and ancestral origin. Currently the database includes information on 102,000 Jinshi degree holders. It provides different search possibilities such as search by regional origin, dynasty, year of degree, last name, etc. Accurate and fuzzy searches are possible. Each entry aims to list historical sources for the recorded information. A number of options for statistical analysis are also provided (for details please see the database help page ).

Kangzhan wenxian shuju pingtai = 抗战文献数据平台

• Modernhistory.org.cn

Even though this free database by the Institute of Modern History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is mainly focused on the Sino-Japanese War and Sino-Japanese relations, it gives access to a wide range of resources from the Republican Period. These include archives, books, newspapers, journals, communist publications, audio recordings, photographs and even musical scores. Reading access is free.

Kao gu = 考古

Kao gu is a monthly, peer-reviewed journal of Chinese archaeology. Many of the articles have English abstracts. We hold an electronic archive of this journal from 1997-2003, including diagrams and photographs. It may be viewed from the main computer cluster in the EAL.

Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers

• Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers (CRL) This link opens in a new window

This database collects 292 local Republican newspapers covering the period of 1911-1949. The newspapers are full-text searchable. Different from most other databases the OCRed text is visible in this database and can be copied. Included are:

東南日報 (Shanghai), 華北新報  (Beijing), 華光日報 (Nanchang), 立報 (Shanghai), 南京晚報 (Nanjing), 羣力報 (Jiaodong (Shandong)), 時事新報 (Shanghai), 實報 (Beijing), 蘇州明報 (Suzhou), 鐵報 (Shanghai), 武漢日報 (Hankou), 西南日報 (Chongqing), 新華日報 (Hankou), 新申報 (Shanghai), 中山日報 (Guangzhou), 中央日報 (Shanghai).

As a member of the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), Princeton University Library supports the development of this database.

Lawinfochina/Chinalawinfo/Chinese Case Studies = 北大法寳

• Law Info China/ China Law Info This link opens in a new window

There are two sister legal retrieval systems for the PRC, Lawinfochina and Chinalawinfo; the former contains English, the latter Chinese material. Included are all laws adopted by the National People’s Congress and its Standing Committee from 1949; all administrative regulations promulgated by the State Council from 1949; many other rules or orders issued by other agencies; important judicial interpretations and other regulations impacting foreign-related activities; judicial cases from the Gazette of the Supreme People’s Court (also in English); Sino-foreign tax treaties; and other legal news and matter. The link provided is for the English version. Once in the English site, click any of the Chinese links to access the Chinese site (and vice versa). Access is only for one concurrent user.

In addition, Princeton users have access to the Chinese case studies contained as a separate database within Chinalawinfo.

Lidai jiao wai she fo wenxian shujuku = 歷代教外涉佛文獻數據庫

• Lidai jiao wai she fo wenxian shujuku This link opens in a new window

This is a database of Buddhist related documents from non-Buddhist sources published by Zhonghua shuju. It collects a wide variety of documents like edicts, monastery records, stele inscriptions, rock carvings from Buddhist sites, philosophical texts, poems, and  images. These documents have been drawn together from a range of sources including 四庫全書,  續修四庫全書, 四庫存目叢書, various inscription collections,  全宋文，全遼文，北京圖書館藏中國歷代石刻拓本滙編, 明清实录, local gazetteers, and many other sources. The collection was assembled and punctuated by Prof Li Shen 李申 from Shanghai Normal University. The collection is divided into 金石佛踨, 史部佛跡, 子部佛影, and 集部佛論. Each section can be browsed individually or also searched through simultaneously.

To access the database you have to click on 登录 and choose IP登录 in case you are not automatically recognized as a Princeton user.

For simple reading and searching, no individual registration is needed, but if you wish to copy text, make notes, submit corrections, save searches, etc. you have the following two choices:

Lidai shiwenji zongku = 歷代詩文集總庫: 明前, 明, 清上, 清下

• Lidai shiwenji zongku: Ming qian, Ming, Qing shang, Qing xia This link opens in a new window

The Lidai shiwenji zongku 歷代詩文集總庫 (previously known as Lidai bieji ku  歷代別集庫) consists of the collected poetry writings of individuals. Currently Princeton users have access to 8,000 titles of the full range 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.

Longyuan qikan wang (Dragonsource) = 龙源期刊网

• Long yuan qi kan wang (Dragonsource) This link opens in a new window

Searchable database of current non-academic Chinese periodicals in literature, general culture, news and politics, popular science, economics and law, education, health and lifestyle, history and finance management. The database gives access to more than 3,000 titles, including Caixin-China Economics & Finance, VOGUE, Caijing, Sanlian Zhoukan, Zhongguo Zhoukan, Liaowang Dongfang Zhoukan, Wenwu Tiandi, ZhizuGQ .

• Dragonsource Title List

Mingbao Yuekan = 明報月刊

The Mingbao Yuekan (Ming Pao Monthly) is a Hong Kong-based periodical covering Chinese culture, society, and current events. We hold an electronic archive of the magazine from 1966-2000. It may be viewed from the main computer cluster in the EAL.

Minguo wenxian daquan = 民国文献大全

This database is based on the Republican era collection of CADAL (China Academic Digital Associative Library) . For this database the books, journals and newspapers from CADAL have been processed with OCR (optical character recognition) which allows full-text searching. Most of the search results from books and journals can be directly opened from 民国文献大全. Results from some journals and most of the newspapers however are currently not open to Princeton.

Multimedia Dictionary of Chinese Characters

This is a Chinese Character dictionary that offers several different lookup methods (pinyin, radical, stroke count) and also contains some introductory tutorials on the history and structure of Chinese characters.It may be viewed from the main computer cluster in the EAL.

National Library of China e-resources - 中国国家图书馆数字资源

• National Library of China e-resources
• Alternative Access Link

The National Library of China (NLC) has opened 21 databases on its 中国古籍保护网 to the public.

Included are the following database covering only the collection of NLC (if not otherwise noted):

数字古籍 Digital Rare books

数字方志 Digital Gazetteers (Some of the items are offered with side-by side reading of the transcribed text. The text however is not full text searchable. Most of the gazetteers included here are already available at Princeton in a full-text searchable database China Comprehensive Gazetteers ).

中华寻根网 China genealogical database (The database offers a sophisticated search system. It includes bibliographic information on almost 30,000 家谱, and gives reading access to more than 2,000 (probably mostly from the collections of Shanghai Library). It also provides an overview of family lineages for each family name and has biographical entries for 14,000 individuals. Over 6,000 gazetteers are also linked into this system which makes it quite a powerful tool for genealogical research).

赵城金藏 Zhaocheng Jin Tripitaka (This Buddhist canon was printed between about the ninth year of the Huangtong era of Xizong of the Jin dynasty and is therefore referred to as Jin Tripitaka. The Jin Tripitaka was based on the tenth-century Kaibao Tripitaka. It has great documentary value because many of the sutras in this edition of the canon are missing from other editions. The database only gives access to the scans. Princeton has access to a full-text searchable version of both the Qisha Song Tripitaka and the Zhaocheng Jin Tripitaka via the Fojiao Jingdian ku ).

年画撷英 Chinese New Year prints

碑帖精华 Rubbings database (Particularly strong for the Tang and the Qing. Where available the date of the making of the rubbing is included in the database. The database allows full-text searching of the transcribed text!)

宋人文集 Collected works of the Song (focuses on first editions).

甲骨世界 Oracle Bones (Two sub-databases containing images of original oracle bones and rubbings of oracle bones).

西夏文献 Tangut texts (Mostly of Buddhist nature. The texts are cataloged by Chinese titles).

西夏论著 Tangut Studies Bibliography

前尘旧影 Historic photographs

徽州善本家谱 Collection of Huizhou Jiapu

中华医药典籍资源库（测试版）Classical works of Chinese Medicine (Beta)

法藏敦煌遗书 Dunhuang collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF)

云南图书馆古籍 Yunnan Library Rare Books

天津图书馆古籍 Tianjin Library Rare Books

上海图书馆家谱 Shanghai Library Jiapu collection

东文研汉籍影像库 Rare books from the Toyo Bunko

哈佛大学善本特藏 Shan ben from Harvard Yenching Library

中华古籍善本联合书目 Chinese Shanben Catalog (图录 of 3,481 editions of 善本 in Chinese and international collections. In most cases only the first page of the first juan is available for viewing. The information provided about the holding institutions is rather cryptic.)

Regrettably, NLC does not currently provide a central search index to all of the databases above. Most of the collections however are actually listed in the Guji faxian system. An empty search in this system will bring up a complete list of purely bibliographic entries and entries for scanned rare books from many libraries from China and beyond. Selecting the 开源 option allows browsing the free online collections of all libraries by subject (an extended 四库 classification). This function might in many cases provide better discovery options for the material in the free NLC collections that the actual databases above, but many of the links in Guji Faxian have not yet been update to the free version of the NLC databases.

National Palace Museum Collections = 國立故宮博物院. 典藏資源

• National Place Museum Collections

This websites collects links to a range of free databases offered by the National Palace Museum, including databases with collection information for bronzes, paintings, rare books, decorative motifs, genealogical documents, rare books, Qing dynasty documents.

National Palace Museum eJournals (Airiti)

• National Palace Museum eJournals (Airiti) This link opens in a new window Provides access to the periodicals published by the National Palace Museum in Taibei, Taiwan: the 3 Chinese periodicals Gugong wenwu yuekan (National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art), Gugong jikan (National Palace Museum Quarterly), and Gugong xueshu jikan (National Palace Museum Research Quarterly) as well as the National Palace Museum Bulletin (published in English). All three Chinese periodicals are full-text searchable.

National Palace Museum Open Data

• National Palace Museum Open Data This link opens in a new window more... less... Make sure to use the search button provided for; the enter button will not give results.

This database gives 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. Descriptions can be viewed in Traditional  Chinese and English. One can search by category, dynasty, gallery and multimedia (video or 3D Digital).

National Palace Museums Periodicals Online = 故宮期刊資料庫

• National Palace Museums Periodicals Online This link opens in a new window

This database provides access to images and texs of all issues of the following periodicals published since 1966 by the National Palace Museum in Taibei, Taiwan: the Gu gong wen wu yue kan (National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art), the Gu gong ji kan (National Palace Museum Quarterly), and the Gu gong xue shu ji kan (National Palace Museum Research Quarterly).

National People's Congress Database (PRC) = 全国人大资料信息库

• National People’s Congress Database (PRC) This link opens in a new window

The National People's Congress (NPC) database of the People's Republic of China is a comprehensive collection of archives and documents of the National People’s Congress, from the 1st Session of 1st NPC to present.

The collection includes: Deputy Lists, Agendas, Conference Updates, Documents and Reports, Resolutions and Statements, Leaders’ Activities, Selected Proposals, Suggestions of the Deputies, News Reports, Pictures, Press Conferences, Important Commentaries, Video Reports, etc. With complete, full-spectrum contents, it’s an authoritative database of NPC agendas, topics, resolutions and related reports.

Coverage is from the 1st NPC onward; it includes text, photos and videos, and is updated regularly.

The database works best with the Chrome browser.

National Social Sciences Database (PRC) = 国家哲学社会科学学术期刊数据库

• National Social Sciences Database (China) This link opens in a new window

Since 2012 hundreds of high-level Chinese social science and humanities journals, including those published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, had been pulled out of commercial databases, making more recent issues temporarily unavailable. They are now freely available in the National Social Sciences Database (Guojia zhexue shehui kexue xueshu qikan shujuku). Titles include 城市问题 (Urban Problems), 财经研究 (The Study of Finance and Economics), 当代韩国 (Contemporary Korea), 东南亚研究 (Southeast Asian Studies), 敦煌学辑刊 (Journal of Dunhuang Studies), 当代亚太 (Contemporary Asia-Pacific Studies), 敦煌研究 (Dunhuang Research), 复旦学报：社会科学版  (Fudan Journal, Social Sciences Edition), 方言 ( Dialect), 金融研究 (Journal of Financial Research), 考古 (Archaeology), 历史研究 (Historical Research), 满语研究 (Manchu Studies), 明清小说研究 (The Research on Ming and Qing Dynasties Novels), 美国研究 (American Studies Quarterly), 民族语文 (Minority Languages of China), 南开管理评论 (Nankai Business Review), 清史研究 (Studies in Qing History), 求实 (Truth Seeking), 日本问题研究 (Japan Problem Studies), 人口研究 (Population Research), 世界宗教研究 (Studies in World Religions), 探索 (Probe), 文史哲 (Journal of Literature,History and Philosophy), 文物 (Cultural Relics), 中国经济史研究 (Researches in Chinese Economic History), 中国语文 (Chinese) and 政治学研究 (CASS Journal of Political Science).

Individual titles have also been registered in the catalog; thus, when searching for Kao gu in the catalog, and clicking on "View Princeton's online holdings," there is an additional link to the holdings in the NSSD.

Alternatively access to the content of this database is also available via the:

• National Center Philosophy and Social Science Documentation (China) This link opens in a new window

NCL Taiwan Periodical Literature = 國家圖書館期刊文獻資料訊網 (previous Periopath)

• NCL Taiwan Periodical Literature = 國家圖書館期刊文獻資料訊網 (previous Periopath) This link opens in a new window

This database indexes more than 2 million articles in Chinese (and other languages) published in more than 4,000 Taiwanese periodicals and in several hundred Hong Kong and Macau journals from 1853 to current; it is updated each quarter. It was previously called the Zhonghua minguo qikan lunwen suoyin and Periopath/Taiwan qikan lunwen suoyin . The index is maintained at the National Central Library in Taibei. Some items without copyright are freely available. You can request those which are not through InterLibrary Loan in the usual way. Each citation has a link which allows you to see whether it is listed in an electronic database (電子期刊聯合目錄 ); if the result says CEPS, it is available in the Taiwanese Electronic Periodical System, TEPS .

• PRC History

The PRC History Group is a network of scholars with interests in the history of the People’s Republic of China. Their free website gives access to current book reviews, a number of journals focusing on the cultural revolution, like Remembrance 记忆, Yesterday 昨天, and Past Events 往事. It also links to a wide range of resources on PRC History that are freely available.

Princeton Chinese Archival Handbook Collection = 中国档案馆指南

The East Asian Library at Princeton has built the largest known collection of Chinese Archival Handbooks. These handbooks give detailed descriptions on archival collections within Chinese archives. For ease of use the library is scanning and making accessible table of contents and archival fond list of these handbooks for online browsing.

• Princeton Chinese Archival Handbook Collection This link opens in a new window Geographic interface to the collection of Chinese archival handbooks 档案馆指南 at the East Asian Library of Princeton University. more... less... The East Asian Library at Princeton has built the largest known collection of Chinese Archival Handbooks. These handbooks give detailed descriptions on archival collections within Chinese archives. For ease of use the library is scanning and making accessible table of contents and archival fond list of these handbooks for online browsing.
• Chinese Archival Handbooks collection List of scanned table of contents and archival fonds on the digital library platform.

Princeton Chinese Shadow Figures Collection

• Chinese Shadow Figures Catalog The East Asian Library has a set of over 2,000 pieces of Chinese shadow figures. Made in the Luanzhou 灤州 or Leting 樂亭 style popular in northeast China, to all appearances during the last years of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) or the early years of the Republican Period (1912-1949), they were acquired in the late 1920s for Guion Moore Gest (1864-1948), the founder of the Gest Collection, by his purveyor Irvin Van Gorder Gillis (1875-1948), residing in Peking. The collection was photographed in 2009 and made accessible online.

Princeton Dunhuang and Turfan Manuscripts

• Princeton Dunhuang and Turfan Manuscripts The Princeton collection of Dunhuang and Turfan manuscripts have been digitized and are also available for download. Please make sure to scroll to the end of the linked record to see the documents.

Princeton Oracle Bone Collection

• Princeton Oracle Bone Collection in the China Academic Digital Associative Library (CADAL) This link opens in a new window 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.
• Princeton Oracle Bone Collection - Catalog record The catalog entry gives access to a detailed description of the collection and the individual images.

PubScholar = 公益学术平台

• PubScholar (Chinese) Published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, PubScholar is a free database for academic journal articles, pre-prints, patents and scholarly datasets. Content is mostly focused on the sciences and engineering.

Quanguo baokan suoyin = 全国报刊索引

• Quan guo bao kan suo yin This link opens in a new window more... less... See EAL pages for instructions.

The Quan guo bao kan suo yin 全 国报刊索引 (National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals) databases compiled by Shanghai Library are a group of databases giving access to articles published in Chinese periodicals from 1833 to current. Some are categorized index-only (in Chinese, pian ming shu ju ku 篇名数据库), some have the full-images of the indexed articles; the content itself is not text searchable (confusingly, and wrongly, this database is called in Chinese quan wen shu ju ku , 全文数据库). The image databases are restricted to the late Qing and Republican periods; post 1949 the database includes indexes only, and in most cases it would be better to serach the China Academic Journals database instead.

The two kinds of databases are integrated on one and the same platform . Downloadable articles show a pdf icon.

For most flexible search, click on the "search center" icon (进入检索中心.) You can then specify which database(s) to search, etc.

The full-image databases include the Late Qing and part of the Republican Periodical databases ( Wan Qing qi kan quan wen shu ju ku 晚清期刊全文数据库,1833-1911, and  Minguo shi qi qi kan quan wen shu ju ku 民 国时期期刊全文数据库, 1911-1949).The Late Qing databases includes more than 300 journals (270,000 articles, approximately all those published). The Republican full-image database will continue to expand in the next few years. A guide on how to best use the integrated platform is included here; you can ignore the section on “log-on”, which on the Princeton campus is IP-based and automatic.

The database also includes a large number of Chinese language newspapers that are indexed on the article title level. Full-text searches are not possible. One important feature of the database is that it indexes images (mostly news photography) and advertisements .

• Quanguo Baokan Suoyin User Guide

The index databases for the Late Qing and Republican databases are larger than the full-image databases. This database is to be complimented by the Dacheng laojiukan database. The index databases pian ming shu ju ku 篇名数据库 include more than 30 million citations .

To request articles not available in full-image please write to the Chinese Studies Librarian.

Quan Song shi fenxi xitong = 全宋诗分析系统

• Quan Song shi fen xi xi tong This link opens in a new window

Fully searchable database of Song poetry as published by the Beijing Daxue chubanshe in 72 vols., including the poetry by some 9,000 individuals. Small biographies are included. Searching is possible by order of published text, by full text, but also by rhymes and tones, rhyme and tone schemes, keyword position and genre. The “self-defined poem” search automatically analyzes the rhyme and genre of any given verse, and also allows you to search poems that contain similar content or use similar form. Statistical analysis is also possible. Princeton has only 1 concurrent user.

Quan Tang shi fenxi xitong = 全唐诗分析系统

• Quan Tang shi fen xi xi tong This link opens in a new window more... less... See instructions on EAL pages.

Fully searchable database of Tang poetry made at Peking University, including the poetry by some 3,700 individuals. Small biographies are included. Searching is possible by order of published text, by full text, but also by rhymes and tones, rhyme and tone schemes, keyword position and genre. The “self-defined poem” search automatically analyzes the rhyme and genre of any given verse, and also allows you to search poems that contain similar content or use similar form. Statistical analysis is also possible. Princeton has only 1 concurrent user.

Quanwen faxian = 全文发现

• Quanwen faxian This link opens in a new window

This discovery service for Chinese rare books collects information about digitized Chinese rare books from libraries in China, the US and Europe. The individual entries link back to the original scans hosted by the various institutions. Clicking on “检索” without a search term allows browsing the entire database via a simplified 四库 classification adding maps, gazetteers and congshu as browsing categories. Currently the portal lists about 100,000 editions. Additionally, the database allows to do full-text searches in a number of external resources under the 库外资源检索 option. In many cases Princeton patrons will have access to those resources, but individual document delivery from these resources is also possible. Please contact the Chinese Studies Librarian for individual requests.

Renda funü yanjiu = 人大妇女研究

This is a compilation of articles in women's studies published between 1995 and 2001. It may be viewed from the main computer cluster in the EAL.

Renmin ribao (People's Daily) = 人民日报

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All issues from 1946 of the Chinese national newspaper Renmin ribao (People's Daily) until 2012 are available on-line to Princeton users. For later issues please go directly to the current Renmin Ribao site.

• Renmin Ribao (current issues)

The database contains the full text-online; in addition it has the original pages in PDF format .

• Factiva This link opens in a new window Factiva also includes material from the Renmin Ribao Online edition in Chinese and English (2010- ).

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

• Series of Geography, History and Customs of Manchuria-Mongolia DB This link opens in a new window 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 = 申報

• Shen Bao This link opens in a new window more... less... Use Internet Explorer.

The Shen Bao (also spelled Shunpao) database is full-text searchable and contains PDF page images of this newspaper published from 1872 to 1949. This database, containing more than 2 million articles, works best on Internet Explorer.

Shengjing shibao (Shengjing Times) = 盛京時報 (1906-1944)

• Shengjing shi bao (Shengjing Times) = 盛京時報 This link opens in a new window

In 1906 this Japanese-owned Chinese newspaper was established in Fengtian (today's Shenyang) by the Japanese journalist Nakajima Masao. It was the highest circulation Chinese language daily newspaper and the most important instrument of Japanese press influence in Manchuria and so is a major news resource on events in North-East China. The database is part of Shanghai Library’s Quanguo baokan suoyin 全国报刊索引. Please note that it is not full-text searchable, it can only be searched on the article title level, but it also indexes advertisements and images.

Shenzhou ribao (The National Herald) = 神州日报 (1907-1946)

• Shenzhou ribao (The National Herald) = 神州日报 This link opens in a new window

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. After the foundation of the Chinese Republic the newspaper lost some of its republican fervor. 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 and finally seized publication in 1946. The database is part of Shanghai Library’s Quanguo baokan suoyin 全国报刊索引. Please note that it is not full-text searchable, it can only be searched on the article title level, but it also indexes advertisements and images.

Sibu congkan = 四部叢刊

This electronic database is available on all public computers at the East Asian Library. Fully searchable collection of 504 original and historical works (3134 volumes) published by the Commercial Press in 1919-1936. Original collection used photolithography, which resulted in better editions than the then available typeset editions. Authoritative editions. Alternatively, Sibu congkan is also available via the Diaolong database collection.

Siku quanshu = 四庫全書

This electronic database, published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Digital Heritage Publishing Ltd., contains on at least 183 CD-ROMs the complete contents, in full text and image, of the 3460+ titles of the Wenyuange edition of the Si ku quan shu (1782) plus a few other useful tools. The total content is a staggering 800 million characters, and is arranged under almost 2 million piece titles. Some of the titles contained in the Si ku quan shu are themselves large compilations, such as the Quan Tang shi, Zi zhi tong jian , Xu Zi zhi tong jian chang bian , Wen xuan , Pei wen yun fu , Tai ping yu lan , the 25 Histories . One should realize, however, that the Siku quanshu editions are not always the best ones available, nor are they always complete: as is well known, its compilation involved censorship. The Electronic Si ku quan shu ("e-SKQS") is useful not only for searching, but also for studying: it has linked dictionaries, and the possibility of saving notebooks. Princeton University's license is valid for 3 simultaneous users, and the electronic Siku Quanshu is available from all public computers located in the East Asian Library. The functionality of the database is well thought-out, but its interface is not very intuitive: in addition to consulting a guide, users are advised to ask for explanatory session with the Chinese Bibliographer. Alternatively, Siku quanshu is also available via the Diaolong database collection.

• Siku Quanshu User Guide

Sinica SinoWeb = 經典人文學刊庫

This database gives access to past and (if applicable) current issues to the following Sinological periodicals published in Taiwan (mostly from the Academia Sinica):

中央研究院歷史語言研究所集刊, 中央研究院中國文哲研究集刊, 中央研究院近代史研究所集刊, 中央研究院近代中國婦女史研究, 中央研究院口述歷史期刊, 中央研究院近代中國史研究通訊, 中央研究院臺灣人類學刊, 中央研究院臺灣史研究, 漢學研究, 思与言, 鵝湖學誌, 鵝湖月刊, 食貨月刊, 民俗曲藝

The home page is in English; you may want to change to Traditional Chinese for better results.

This database was previously offered as a stand-alone database and is now hosted as part of the Taiwan Academic Classics database. Please note that there may be other database titles listed in left column of the interface to which Princeton currently does not subscribe.

Song Tomb Inscriptions Database = 宋代墓志铭数据库

• Song Tomb Inscriptions Database This link opens in a new window

The Song Tomb Inscriptions Database is the first section of Zhonghua Shuju’s Chinese Stone Inscriptions Database 《中華石刻數據庫》 . It includes 8,800 items in its first part 初编 and 1,940 items in its second part 续编. The database has been constructed under the direction of the Song Historian Li Weiguo. The texts have been collated from various sources like the 《全宋文》 , archeological reports and from private collections of rubbings. The sources of each epitaph are given on the respective page. Where available high quality images of the rubbings have been added to the database and can be viewed side by side with the text. The database is full-text searchable, but operates copy protection. Copying of text is only possible via a pop-up that will show when a section of text is marked.

Please note: While searching will bring up results from both the 初编 and the 续编, if you want to browse the included items of each part you have to switch manually to the other part of the database. You can do this by selecting the 中华石刻数据库 logo on the top left and then select the respective part from the menu of the individual sub-databases.

To make use of all the database features you have to sign in with a user account. You have the following two choices:

Tabloids 小報 (1897-1949)

The Tabloids (1897-1949) is a sub-section of the Quan guo bao kan suo yin 全國報刊索引 (National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals). This section gives access to more than 400 individual titles of tabloids form the collections of Shanghai Library. The database includes among other titles like Youxi bao 《遊戲報》, Shijie fanhua bao 《世界繁華報》, Jingbao 《晶報》, Fuermosi (Holmes) 《福爾摩斯》 Luobinhan (Robin Hood) 《羅賓漢》, Libao 《立報》and Shehui ribao 《社會日報》. These popular newspapers are a great resource for research into popular culture and modern city life in late Qing and Republican China. Much more than broadsheet newspapers the tabloids are focusing on leisure, entertainment, literature, film, theater and dance and also offer the latest gossip.  Please note that the database is not full-text searchable, it can only be searched on the article title level, but it also indexes advertisements and images.

Taiwan Academic Classics

• Taiwan Academic Classics This link opens in a new window 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.

Taiwan eBook = 臺灣華文電子書庫

• Taiwan eBook = 臺灣華文電子書庫 Free eBook database for Chinese language books published between 1911 and 1949.

Taiwan Electronic Periodicals Service = 台彎電子期刊 (airiti library)

• Taiwan Electronic Periodicals Service (Airiti Library) This link opens in a new window

The TEPS (Taiwan Electronic Periodicals Service) database now included in the Airiti Digital Library offers an archive of several hundred Taiwanese periodicals in various subjects, including natural and applied sciences, medicine, the humanities, and social sciences. Full texts can be downloaded in PDF format. One can browse by title. The TEPS collection is part of the Chinese Electronic Periodical Service (CEPS) database. The majority of the journals included in the database are covered in electronic form from 2000 on-wards, but there are many journals with digital back issues going back to the mid-20th century. The database even includes some 1930s journals.

Taiwan Shinminpō

Available on the traditional Chinese computer in the Catalog Room are the Chinese-language editorials from 1932-1935 of this Japanese-language newspaper. Some Japanese-language appendices (評壇) and (月曜評壇), and the serial 中國經濟與帝國主義的攻勢 are also available.

Tang Tomb Inscriptions Database = 唐代墓志铭数据库

• Tang Tomb Inscriptions Database This link opens in a new window

The Tang Tomb Inscriptions Database is a sub-section of Zhonghua Shuju’s Chinese Stone Inscriptions Database 《中華石刻數據庫》 . It currently includes about 10,000 items, but will eventually include 12,500 items. It has been constructed under the direction of the art historian Peng Xinglin who has privately collected more than 8,000 rubbings and has opened a private gallery the 千唐志金石馆 for his collection in Weifang in 2017. The texts have been collated from Peng Xinglin's private collection and various other sources, like published works and archeological reports. Where available high quality images of the rubbings have been added to the database and can be viewed side by side with the text. The database is full-text searchable, but operates copy protection. Copying of text is only possible via a pop-up that will show when a section of text is marked.

Please note: The copy protection of this database has issues with some browsers! At the moment Chrome and Edge work fine, while Firefox sometimes does not display the rightly encoded content!

Thesaurus Linguae Sericae (TLS) = 漢學文典

• Thesaurus Linguae Sericae

The Thesaurus Linguae Sericae (TLS) is an Historical and Comparative Encyclopaedia of Chinese Conceptual Schemes and is designed as a collaborative forum for discussion on the close reading of Chinese texts for a cross-cultural study of conceptual history. It provides a corpus of classical Chinese texts wherever possible with interlinear translations. TLS links the texts incorporated with an analytic dictionary of the Chinese language.

The Thesaurus was founded by Christoph Harbsmeier (University of Oslo) and is developed by Center for Informatics in East-Asian Studies (Kyoto University). It is hosted by Princeton University, Department of East Asian Studies, in cooperation with Ruhr University Bochum, Forschungszentrum für traditionelle chinesische Kulturen.

Tokyo Trials Literature Database = 东京审判文献数据库

• Tokyo Trials Literature Database This link opens in a new window

This is a full text searchable database of documents covering the Tokyo Trials of World War II Japanese war criminals, collected from sources around the world. The database includes transcripts of the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, court exhibits of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, transcripts of the interrogations by the prosecutors, historical photos, and relevant audio-visual resources.

The resources have been classified and indexed with parallel translations in English, Chinese and Japanese.

The database includes photographs or copies of original texts from the National Archives of the United States and related material acquired from sources around the world and was compiled by the Center for Tokyo Trial Studies at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

The complete collection will be published in stages. The first stage includes the English-language Collection of Court Exhibits of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.  There is cross-referencing among the images, texts, audio and video material. In the future, all documents will be available in English, Chinese and Japanese. At this moment, some parts are already 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.

Udndata = 聯合知識庫

• Udndata This link opens in a new window

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

Please note that an additional log in step might be necessary for the database to recognize you as a Princeton user. For this please use the links 登錄 and 定址會員登入.

Wanfang falü fagui = 万方法律法规

• Wan fang Fa lü fa gui This link opens in a new window

Wanfang’s Policies and Laws of China database. Searches some 500,000 entries. Special facets include currently valid versus discontinued distinctions, and refinement search boxes include issuing agency. Compare with LawInfoChina/ChinaLawInfo . As with all Wanfang databases, once on the Wanfang home page, you can move from database to database via tabs. The “xue shu lun wen” tab combines several databases into one mega-search, and you can also combine searches across databases using the advanced search option.

Wanfang xin fangzhi = 万方新方志

• Wan fang Xin Fang zhi This link opens in a new window

Wanfang’s New Local Gazetteers database. This database searches full-text versions of new (i.e., post-1949) local gazetteers, which are also browsable by region or topic. Pages are readable and downloadable in pdf form in some 6 million small parts by navigating through the Table of Contents ( mulu ), by clicking on “ chakan yuanwen ” (read original excerpt) or “ xiazai yuanwen ” (download original excerpt). You can also read through the complete gazetteers on line, by clicking on “ zhengben yuedu ”  (reading full volume). More advanced searching (Boolean searching, fuzzy searching) is available, and you can narrow down results by using facets or adding refinements to your search (and clicking “search within results.”) As with all Wanfang databases, once on the Wanfang home page, you can move from database to database via tabs.  The tab for the New Local Gazetteers, is somewhat hidden though; it is listed only on the very upper menu, under the “More…” ( geng duo ) category.

NOTE: The reading mode of this database currently does not work correctly when accessed via the library's EZproxy link. To use this feature please connect via Secure Remote Access (SRA/VPN) before entering the database.

Wanfang xueshu huiyi = 万方学术会议

• Wan fang Xue shu hui yi This link opens in a new window

Wanfang’s Academic conference papers database. Searches more than 2 million conference papers. Also browsable by topic and then year. Although an extra function “full text only” is available, differences between “all” and “full-text only” seem to be minimal. As with all Wanfang databases, once on the Wanfang home page, you can move from database to database via tabs. The “xue shu lun wen” tab combines several databases into one mega-search, and you can also combine searches across databases using the advanced search option.

Wanfang xueshu qikan = 万方学术期刊

• Wan fang Xue shu qi kan This link opens in a new window

Wanfang’s Online academic journals or Periodicals database . More than 22 million full-text searchable articles, which are also browsable by topic or journal. Covered years are fewer than the China Academic journals database (most journals do not go back further than 2001), and page numbers are only visible when viewing the article itself, not in the index. Hence, searching CNKI’s China Academic Journals should be your first choice for finding articles; yet, with exclusive online contracts on the rise in China, some journals may be only available in one database and not the other. Again, you can narrow down your results not only by using the topical and chronological facets, but also by typing within the tab-looking grey boxes on top of your results: e.g., by typing 2003 to 2008 in the starting and concluding year boxes. As with all Wanfang databases, once on the Wanfang home page, you can move from database to database via tabs. The “xue shu lun wen” tab combines several databases into one mega-search, and you can also combine searches across databases using the advanced search option.

Wanfang xuewei lunwen = 万方学位论文

• Wan fang Xue wei lun wen This link opens in a new window

Wanfang’s Dissertations and theses database. This database includes more than 2 million dissertations and theses, and hence is much larger than the history and literature (doctoral) dissertations and (master) theses parts of the CNKI equivalent previously available. Note that you can narrow down your results not only by using the topical and chronological facets, but also by typing within the tab-looking grey boxes on top of your results: e.g., by typing 北京大学 in the 学校 box. As with all Wanfang databases, once on the Wanfang home page, you can move from database to database via tabs. The “xue shu lun wen” tab combines several databases into one mega-search, and you can also combine searches across databases using the advanced search option.

Wenshi ziliao indexes

• Wenshi Ziliao indexes

Wenshi ziliao are collections on local history that are being published on all administrative levels in form of open-ended series. The collecting and editing of Wenshi ziliao was first suggested in April 1959 by Zhou Enlai to document the experience of modernization 60 years after the reform movement of 1898. Local 文史研究馆所 were set up and supported by the Political Consultative Conference. During the past 60+ years they have often changed from internal to open publications and back. Estimations of the amount of Wenshi ziliao issues are hovering between 80,000 to 100,000 volumes. Here table of contents indexes are available for searching on each administrative level (with some exceptions like Xinjiang), and the underlying PDFs can also be downloaded for local use. Altogether there are about 1,250 documents with about 45,800 pages of article information for about 500,000 articles.

So far online access is only available to a small subset of Wenshi ziliao. Lately the 抗日战争与近代中日关系文献数据平台of the CASS 近代史研究所 made some 16,000 volumes of Wenshi ziliao freely accessible .

WiseSearch = 慧科新闻

• WiseSearch This link opens in a new window more... less... See the EAL pages for more info. 1998+

Note: If you anticipate to need a large number of documents for a bigger research project from this database please contact the Chinese Studies Librarian before starting to download articles in large numbers.

The Wise news archive, also called WiseNews, is updated every day with items from over 1,500 content providers, including all 19 Chinese and English newspapers of Hong Kong, and a large number of other top-tier newspapers, magazines, newswires, TV and radio broadcasts of Greater China. The database currently has more than 88 million articles from since 1998, offering unrivalled breadth and depth of Greater China news reports and feature articles.

Included are national PRC titles such as the 21 shiji jingji baodao , Renmin ribao , Jingji ribao etc.; regional and provincial newspapers such as the Nanfang ribao , Yangcheng wanbao , Zhengquan ribao , Shanghai ribao , Wenhuibao , Beijing ribao , Beijing wanbao ; Taiwan newspapers such as the Taiwan pingguo ribao , China Post , Ziyou ribao ; Macao newspapers such as the Aomen ribao ; Hong Kong newspapers such as the Mingbao , South China Morning Post , Standard ; and other Asian newspapers such as the Daily Yomiuri , Xingzhou ribao , Bangkok Post , Strait Times and the Times of India . Popular magazines such as Taiwan yizhoukan or  Diannao jiating etc. are also included.

There are two interfaces available: WiseSearch and, through a tab within the database, WiseEnterprise. (If necessary, click on “IP Access” to enter.) In WiseSearch you can search by full-text, and limit by region or title. You can also search information by company. In WiseEnterprise you can browse and search by 15 special topic folders, by day, media or region/title. You can easily move between the two functions from the top navigation bars.

The customized folders are: Finance and banking, Economic news, Science and technology, Education, Trade and investment, Public health, International politics, International economy, International relations, Hong Kong news, China economy, China politics, China court cases, Taiwan news, Mainland-Taiwan relations.

Results are full-text; we have not subscribed to the image versions of newspapers.

Both interfaces can be set to English or Traditional Chinese. The latter will give more easily identifiable results regarding the source.

A Chinese-language Powerpoint guide (with a slightly different interface) is available here:

• Wisers' News User Guide

Xin Wen Bao (Sin Wan Po) = 新聞報, 1893-1949

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Along with Shen Bao, this early Shanghai newspaper was one of the most widely circulating Chinese newspapers in Shanghai during the Republican period. The newspaper was established by Chinese businessmen in Shanghai, with the British businessman A.W. Danforth as general director, and Cai Erkang as Editor-in-chief. In 1899 John Calvin Ferguson gained ownership and appointed Wang Hanxi as general director. The newspaper includes the famous literary supplement Kuai Huo lin 快活林 (published from 1914, from 1932 published as Xin yuan lin 新园林). The supplements are part of the database. Please note that it is not full-text searchable, it can only be searched on the article title level, but it also indexes advertisements and images.

Xin Zhongguo guji zhengli tushu zong mulu = 新中国古籍整理书总目录

This is a catalog of recent editions of classical Chinese texts published since 1949. It is a searchable PDF version of the print edition, available in the stacks at Z1029 .X56 2007. It may be viewed from the main computer cluster in the EAL.

Xuxiu siku quanshu = 續修四庫全書

• Xu xiu Si ku quan shu This link opens in a new window

The Xu xiu Si ku quan shu database is a set of 5328 full-text searchable Classical Chinese titles. This database forms an important addition to the Si ku quan shu and Zhongguo ji ben gu ji ku databases already available, and this late-20th century compilation is based upon an assessment of items which became important subsequent to the 18th-century Si ku quan shu compilation, arranged in the same way. Originally published in 1800 thick paper volumes, it is strongest in Qing material, but does occasionally include better versions of items already included in the Si ku quan shu. The original items came from the collections of more than 80 Chinese libraries. The database searches very quickly, you can compare OCRd text with original text, and print or download using a somewhat idiosyncratic decorative, but self-explanatory interface.

Yi shi bao (Social Welfare) = 益世报 (1915-1949)

• Yi shi bao (Social Welfare) = 益世报 This link opens in a new window

The newspaper was founded by the Belgian priest Frédéric-Vincent Lebbe in Tianjin on October 1st, 1915.  On September 15, 1937, it was forced to suspend publication until December 8, 1938, when it resumed in Kunming. On March 24, 1940, it relocated to Chongqing, and after the Second Sino-Japanese War, it resumed publishing in Tianjin on December 1st, 1945, until its closure in January 1949. The database is part of Shanghai Library’s Quanguo baokan suoyin 全国报刊索引. Please note that it is not full-text searchable, it can only be searched on the article title level, but it also indexes advertisements and images.

Zhongguo difang lishi wenxian shujuku = 中国地方历史文献数据库

• Zhongguo di fang li shi wen xian shu ju ku (Chinese Historical Local Archives Database) This link opens in a new window

The documents in this database were brought together by the Center of Local Archives at Shanghai Jiaotong University. The archives (mostly in manuscript form) originate mainly from private collections in the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian, and Jiangxi. Major parts of the collections come from Shicang 石仓 (Zhejiang) and from Huizhou 徽州. Included are contracts, private and company ledgers, examination documents, medical prescriptions, local theater and opera material, court records, letters, family records, and various other types of material. The majority of the documents date from the Qing and Republican period, but there are also some Ming and PRC documents included. Currently, this database is the only one of its type in China. The texts have been arranged according to regions, with archives from families in the same region put together, by village.  Various (full-text and multidimensional) searches and functions are available through searches in simplified and traditional characters.

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Zhongguo falü fagui dadian = 中国法律法规大典

This is a compilation of Chinese laws and regulations from 1949-1997. It may be viewed from the main computer cluster in the EAL.

Zhongguo fangzhi ku = 中國方志庫

• Zhongguo fang zhi ku This link opens in a new window more... less... Click on login to enter (no username / password required)

This database, when finished, will include more than 10,000 pre-modern local gazetteers in the broad sense of the word, thus not only gazetteers of jurisdictions, but also gazetteers of temples, mountains etc. There are many ways of searching this full-text database, including by region, title or period, but at the same time, the form of the original, including maps or tables, is preserved, and shown side-by side. Downloading and printing is possible; individual note-taking in this version is disabled.

As of 2021, three sets of 2,000 each of the planned five parts are available.

Zhongguo gaige kaifang shujuku = 中国改革开放数据库

• Zhongguo gaige kaifang shujuku This freely available database was created by the China Institute for Reform and Development in Hainan 中国（海南）改革发展研究院. It offers a detailed time line of political events from 1978-2018. The events are listed with links to fulltext of speeches, images, articles and oral history recordings. Full use of the website (downloading of articles, images etc.) requires setting up a personal account.

Zhongguo jiben guji ku = 中國基本古籍庫

• Zhongguo ji ben gu ji ku This link opens in a new window more... less... One concurrent user only. Click on login to enter (no username / password required). See EAL pages  for content.

This is a database of 10,000 traditional titles (+4,500 additional editions of the same titles) on a wide variety of subjects, and from many different periods of time. It is full text searchable, while, less conveniently but sometimes usefully, images of the texts can be flipped through as well. Many ways of searching and the setting of limits are provided. It has become the database of choice in the PRC; but note that there certainly are mistakes in the way characters have been converted: it may be necessary to read the image-based texts. A complete list of contents is available below.

• Zhongguo Jiben Gujiku Title List

Zhongguo lidai dianji zongmu = 中國歷代典籍總目

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The Zhongguo lidai dianji zongmu ( Historical Book Catalogue of China ) is a knowledge database of over 2 million Chinese classical works developed by the National Library of China and Peking University.  For library holdings as such it may be better to use the Zhongguo guji shumu ziliaoku at Taibei; Princeton’s holdings e.g. are available in the latter, not in this database. The database uses traditional characters.

In addition to browsing the contents, the database is unique in allowing for the analysis of relationships between people and chronological analysis of publication patterns. A short guide in English, and a fuller guide in Chinese are available. Princeton has 1 concurrent user.

• Zhongguo li dai dian ji zong mu User Guide (English)
• Zhongguo li dai dian ji zong mu User Guide (Chinese)

Zhongguo lidai shike shiliao huibian = 中国历代石刻史料汇编

• Zhongguo li dai shi ke shi liao hui bian This link opens in a new window

A Chinese database for epigraphical material. Click on the blue button 进入产品主页 to open the database .

Zhongguo suwen ku = 中國俗文庫

• Zhongguo su wen ku This link opens in a new window more... less... Click on \authorized IP\ to enter.

This database, when finished, will include more than 10,000 pieces of various kinds of literature, such as bianwen , baojuan , shanshu , huaben , zhanghui xiaoshuo , zaju , chuanqi , zhugongdiao , guci etc., all in full-text format next to the original page (which may be, e.g., manuscript scraps from Dunhuang). You can search the various genres separately.

Zhongguo wenwubao = 中国文物报

• Zhongguo Wenwubao User Guide

Zhongguo Wenwubao (Chinese Cultural Relics News) is a journal of Chinese archaeology and museology. We have access to an online archive that covers 2007-2009, and includes diagrams and photographs. To access it, follow the link above (to "China Digital Library"), then click "数字报纸". Please see our user guide for details.

Additionally, we hold an electronic archive of this journal from 1985-2004, which may be viewed from the main computer cluster in the EAL.

Zhongguo xieben wenxian shuzi ziyuan ku = 中國寫本文獻數字資源庫

• Zhongguo xieben wenxian shuzi ziyuan ku

Operated by the China Academic Digital Associative Library (CADAL) this database includes Dunhuang manuscripts (images included are mostly from China and the UK, but are supposed to increase over the next years) as well as collections of other local manuscripts (currently mostly contracts). The database is freely available. Please note that the image viewer of the database works best with the Edge and Chrome browsers, but seems to have problems with Firefox.

Zhongguo yanjiu wangluo ziyuan daohang = 中国研究网络资源导航

• Zhongguo yanjiu wangluo ziyuan daohang This link opens in a new window

An easy-to-navigate, well-organized site which bring together a large number of databases in Chinese studies available on the Internet (in many different countries). Most are free; some need individual registration; some need individual registration and small payments. The site is created by a Chinese vendor, Zhenben, which sells books to libraries.

Zhonghua jingdian guji ku = 中華經典古籍庫

• Zhonghua jingdian gujiku This link opens in a new window

The Zhonghua Classics Database contains the standard punctuated versions of many important Chinese classical texts in the fields of philosophy, history and literature (such as biji ) as published by Zhonghua Shuju and other major publishers of punctuated editions. The database also includes the 360 volume Quan Song Wen 《全宋文》set as e-books. Quan Song Wen is a collection of Chinese prose dating from the Song dynasty that was first published in 2006 by 上海辭書出版社.

In addition to browsing whole titles, this digitized version has been optimized to search simultaneously variant forms of characters (defaults can be changed in the advanced search), and includes especially useful ways to search variants of biographical data, place names, etc. Dictionaries, chronology converters are included. These functions also pop up whenever you select a character in the main text.

To access the database, you have to click on 登录 and choose IP登录 in case you are not automatically recognized as a Princeton user.

To sign in for both options, please choose 登录 on the upper left and then switch to 邮箱登录 on the following page (right under the large 登录 button).

Advanced searches can be made using the “specialized search” function.

Downloading is not possible. Copying (with a maximum of 200 characters at a time (after signing in)) is, but only using the pop-up copy function, not the usual browser function.

The original printed text is available for comparison; please click on the orange page numbers that are displayed in the running text.

One oddity is the lack of an obvious home/(re)starting page: click on the database title for that function.

Zhongwen guji shumu ziliaoku = 中文古籍書目資料庫

• Zhongwen guji shumu ziliaoku

This online union catalog is maintained by the National Central Library in Taiwan. It includes not only rare books but also books published in traditional formats (mostly stitch-bound) until 1911 and sometimes beyond, held at key institutions in Taiwan, the PRC, and the United States. Holding information of libraries in China is incomplete with the exception of the National Library of China (formerly the National Beijing Library). At present the catalog as a whole contains hundreds of thousands of records. One can use the “General” search mode from any computer; results give only brief bibliographical details, and do not include the holdings of the National Library of China. For most extensive results, use the “Advance” search mode; this function is only available from public computers located in the East Asian Library. Search results provide full bibliographical details, and holdings from the National Library of China are included.

One may occasionally have to set the pages manually to the Traditional Chinese encoding system (via View>Encoding>).

Zhongyang ribao (Central Daily News) 1928-1949 = 中央日報

• Zhongyang Ribao This link opens in a new window

A database with pdf's of single pages of the 1928-1949 issues of the Zhongyang Ribao (Central Daily News), Taiwan. You can search by heading keywords or dates.

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    A dissertation is an academic paper for qualifications when the author is applying for the corresponding degree, written on the basis of the author's creative findings and insights in scientific research. D issertations include: bachelor’s dissertation, master’s dissertation, and doctoral dissertation.

    A bachelor’s dissertation is expected to show the author’s good grasp of basic theories, specialized knowledge and basic skills in the discipline concerned, and the initial ability to undertake scientific research or to engage in a special technical work . A master’s dissertation show s  that the author has mastered a solid foundation of theory and specialized knowledge in the discipline concerned, and gained new insights into the research   topic and the ability to engage in scientific research to independently undertake specialized technical work.  Doctoral dissertation is the demonstration of the author’s solid foundation of theory and systematic expertise , and the ability to undertake independent scientific research and make creative achievements.

    I.  Printed dissertations and theses of  NKU   Graduates

    There are three ways to access printed dissertations   of  NKU graduates :

    A. In the Central Library, dissertations and theses of NKU Master and PhD graduates dating from 2000 to the present, with some before 2000, can be accessed   in  the reading area  on the seventh floor.

    (Full coverage: 2000-current ; Partial coverage: before year 2000)

    B. The resource center of each department :  dissertations and theses of its own graduates .

    C. The U niversity Archives:   the most systematic and comprehensive collection of  dissertations and theses.

    II. Electronic versions of dissertations and theses  of  NKU  Graduates

    Dissertations and theses of  NKU graduates can be found in  the following databases:

    A. Database of NKU Master and PhD Dissertation and Thesis Abstract s : contains more than 1000 dissertations and theses of  NKU  Master and PhD graduates dating from 1997 to 2000.

    B. NKU Dissertations and Theses Database:   provides dissertations and theses   of NKU Master and PhD graduates from 2004 to current . T he first 16 pages of them are accessible to readers.

      Domestic  dissertations and theses can be found through the following retrieval systems:

     Foreign dissertations and theses can be found through the following ways:

l ProQuest Dissertations & Theses  (Abstract) includes abstract s  and indexes  of 1.6 million dissertations and theses from more than 1000 universities in Europe and the United States   in the fields of  arts, science, engineering, agriculture ,  and medicine.  The   first  24   page s  s of dissertations and theses after 1997 are available to read ers .

l ProQuest Dissertations & Theses  (Fulltext) provides the full-text of partial records in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (Abstract), mainly including dissertations and theses since 1997. Its data increases annually.

l ETD Center Search : This is a global index of freely available electronic theses and dissertations, provided by major ETD collections around the world. This index lets you search for information about each ETD.

   F or the dissertations that cannot be found through the above ways, readers can access them through interlibrary loan  or document delivery service.

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CAJ China Academic Journals 中国期刊全文数据库 The most comprehensive full-text database of Chinese journals in the world, covering 99.9% of all academic journals published in China Download: fact sheet | title list View Tutorial

CMSD China Monographic Serials 中国学术辑刊全文数据库 The only monographic serials full-text database in China, presenting a collection of irregularly published literature from China Download: fact sheet | title list

CYFD China Yearbooks 中国年鉴网络出版总库 A comprehensive collection of authoritative Chinese yearbooks, including national, regional, industrial, and more Download: fact sheet | title list

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CDMD-CDFD China Doctoral Dissertations 中国博士学位论文全文数据库 The most comprehensive database of dissertations from top Chinese universities and research institutes Download: fact sheet | title list

CDMD-CMFD China Master’s Theses 中国优秀硕士学位论文全文数据库 The most comprehensive database of theses from top Chinese universities and research institutes Download: fact sheet | title list

CRWO China Reference Works 中国工具书网络出版总库 An indispensable reference collection of general and specialized dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, atlases and more Download: fact sheet | title list

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CSYD China Statistical Yearbooks 中国统计年鉴数据库 The leading database of authoritative statistical data in China covering all aspects of China’s technical, economic, industrial, environmental, and social development Download: fact sheet | title list

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CPCD-CPFD China Conference Proceedings 中国重要会议论文全文数据库 The most comprehensive full-text database of proceedings from national conferences in China Download: fact sheet | title list

CPCD-IFPD International Conference Proceedings 国际会议论文全文数据库 A comprehensive collection of international conference proceedings on a wide variety of topics Download: fact sheet | title list

CCND China Core Newspapers 中国重要报纸全文数据库 Daily content from hundreds of Chinese newspapers Download: fact sheet | title list

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Introduction, chinese language learning, reference sources, databases and journals, statistics and yearbooks, primary sources, chinese legal research, referencing and citing.

This subject guide highlights some key discipline resources to get you started with study and research. 

• Refer to the  New Students Library Guide for everything you need to know about Library services and resources.
• Build your researching, reading and writing skills with the Research Essentials Library Guide .
• Streamline your access to online resources with the Library's quick access tools.

Expand the following sections to view some resources you may find useful in your Chinese language studies.

• Chinese-English Dictionary Online The Chinese-English resource of choice for all those reading Chinese texts from the period of approx. 500 BCE to 1000 CE. Allow searching with Pinyin and traditional Chinese characters.
• Oxford Dictionaries. Chinese This link opens in a new window Online Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionaries. Access definitions of words, phrases, and idioms, with advice on style, usage, grammar, and spelling; plus specialist guides for legal and technical writing.
• China Reference Works Online This encyclopedia database contains thousands of China-based reference works, including dictionaries, thesauruses, cyclopedias, illustrated books, and more. Covering subjects across the arts and sciences, this is a great starting point for your research.

Chinese studies-specific databases:

First of all, try searching in one of these subject-specific databases..

• China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database Start your search of any or all CNKI databases subscribed to by Unimelb Library at this homepage of the CNKI database platform.
• China Academic Journals full-text database One of the most comprehensive Chinese academic journals worldwide, with more than 9,000 journals and covering all subject areas.
• Century Journals Project Digitised selection of the most important academic journals published in China from their very first issue until 1993 in an effort to expand the China Academic Journals Full-text Database. The earliest journal dates back to 1887.
• Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services A collection of over 900 full-text journals from Taiwan. The Library has access to the Humanities and Social Sciences collections.
• Hong Kong Journals Online (Open Access) An open access full-text image database of selected academic and professional journals published in Hong Kong (English and Chinese). Covering a range of disciplines, including law, medicine, and education. Earliest content from 1872.
• National Social Sciences Database 国家哲学社会科学数据库 Free access to hundreds of high level academic journals in humanities and social sciences published in China. Register for access to full-text.

Core Arts and Humanities databases:

The databases below are multidisciplinary so you can expect lots of results from different subject areas.

• Discovery (EBSCO) Use Discovery to look for books, ebooks, journal articles and more. It's a great place to start your search but does not give you everything the Library has. We highly recommend searching in at least one other database on this list as well as Discovery.
• Google Scholar Google Scholar is one of the most popular ways to find academic sources for study and research. Did you know you can use it to search for journal articles that the University of Melbourne has access to? You can do this through the link above or set up your Google Scholar preferences to include Library content. .
• JSTOR JSTOR is one of the largest databases the Library has access to. It is a multidisciplinary database so it looks in thousands of journals in over a hundred subjects - many of them related to arts and humanities. Highly recommended as your first or second place to search.

Browse eJournals on Browzine:

For Chinese language journals, please visit the  China Academic Journals full-text Database , and browse journal titles by clicking the  Journal Navigation  button.

You can  view a selection of online Chinese Studies eJournals (English language) that the Library holds by clicking on the button below (this will open in a new window). For a more comprehensive list of eJournals please visit our A-Z eJournals page .

Browse Chinese Studies eJournals

You can access print and eBooks via the  Library Catalogue . To find books on a particular subject, try a keyword search:

To improve your searching skills, see the Research Essentials Library Guide . Note that you can search the catalogue in non-Latin scripts (including Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean). 

For information on access and loans, including material from other libraries, see the borrowing from the library page. The eBook Guide provides information on eBook access.

Books within the General East Asian Collection:

The East Asian Collection  is divided into two parts:

• Rare East Asian Collection  (housed in Baillieu Library and are available via the Baillieu Library Reading Room )
• General East Asian Collection  (able to be borrowed from the ERC Library ). The General East Asian Collection  consists of  both print and electronic research materials in Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. This collection mainly covers the areas of arts and humanities, social sciences and architectural history. 

Search this collection in the   Library catalogue  using Chinese characters (simplified and traditional) or Pinyin Romanisation. If you search with Pinyin Romanisation, please refer to the Library of Congress' Chinese romanization guidelines .

Contemporary eBook databases:

• Chinamaxx Digital Libraries Popular eBook platform in China. The Library has access to selected titles in the humanities and social sciences areas.
• Apabi Digital Library Another popular eBook platform in China. The Library has access to selected titles in the humanities and social sciences areas.
• Airiti Books As a Taiwan platform, Airiti Books provides access to a selection of Chinese ebooks covering a range of topics within Taiwan Studies.
• Digital Collection on China Studies Contains Chinese language eBooks on Chinese culture and society. In the landing page, view titles that UniMelb library has access to under My Library 我的图书馆, or browse the full range of titles under CNKI Books 全部图书.
• China Economy, Public Policy, and Security Database Offers high-value Chinese language analytical reports 'Pishu' (皮书) which are intended to guide policymaking in the People’s Republic of China. Published by the Social Sciences Academic Press, it covers a variety of topics including international relations, agricultural policy, industry competitiveness, and more.
• Ebook Central (Ebook Library, Ebrary) Comprehensive eBook database offering both English and Chinese languages eBooks on China studies.

Classical text databases:

• Gu jin tu shu ji cheng Electronic version of 古今图书集成
• China Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses full-text Database This database is one of the most comprehensive, high quality databases of dissertations and theses in China. Coverage is 1984 onwards and is updated daily. It covers all subject areas.
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This database is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997.
• NLC Digitalized Doctoral Dissertations and Post-doctoral Research Report Database 中国国家图书馆馆藏博士论文与博士后研究报告数字化资源库 Provide free access and download.
• National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan 臺灣博碩士論文失知識加值系統 Registration is required for full-text.
• CALIS 学位论文中心服务系统

Chinese statistics and yearbook databases:

• China Yearbooks full-text database CYFD is the largest, continuously updated contemporary yearbook database in China, covering national/ regional/ industry/ enterprise yearbooks, and more.
• National Population Census of China This link opens in a new window This database includes all published volumes of national, provincial, municipal and county level statistics from the 2010 census, and selected volumes from the 1982, 1990 and 2000 census. Data Analysis function is available.
• China Statistical Yearbooks Database CSYD covers all important statistical yearbook titles published in Mainland China since 1949. It contains over 3,569 volumes census and survey data as well as statistical charts.
• National Bureau of Statistics of China 中华人民共和国国家统计局 Full-text China Statistical Yearbooks, Population Census Data, Statistical Communiqués, as well as various kinds of data, indicators, indexes, etc.

Search tips for finding more statistics and yearbooks:

For print sources, try keywords search in our library catalogue with the following:.

• "tong ji nian jian"
• 第三次人口普查 (1982)

Click on the button below to view more statistical resources that the Library holds/has access to (this will open in a new window). 

Visit the Statistics and Data Library Guide

For more information about finding news, click on the button below (this will open in a new window).

Visit the News and Newspapers  Library Guide

Chinese Historical Newspapers in Microform

Visit the  Baillieu Library  for on-site access to the  University of Melbourne Library's   Chinese Historical Newspapers in Microform   Collection   (this will open in a new window) .

The Rare East Asian Collection and microforms

The Rare East Asian Collection houses more than 20,000 volumes of titles ranging from the 17th century to the 21st century.

Collection items can be requested for viewing in the  Special Collections Reading Room   at Baillieu Library, Level 3. 

The University of Melbourne Library holds a significant Chinese Microform Collection containing a wealth of primary and secondary source material. For example,  红卫兵资料   OR  申報 ;  大公報 .  For more information about accessing the microforms collection, click on the button below (this will open in a new window).

Visit the Microforms Library Guide

Selected primary source databases

Below are selected China-related primary source databases, you can find more by visiting the A-Z eJournals and Databases website.

• Quan guo bao kan suo yin shu ju ku 1857-1992 Developed by Shanghai library, this database covers millions of records of digitized newspapers and periodicals from Late Qing period to contemporary China. The library has access to selected series from 民国时期期刊索引数据库 and 现刊索引数据库.
• Hytung Chinese Old Periodicals Database (1792-1949) Contains thousands of magazines and newspapers printed in China from 1792 to 1949, plus important materials for modern literary studies such as "Dian Shi Zhai Pictorial", "Education World", and more.
• Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980 The six parts of this collection make available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980. Due to the long-unique nature of the relationship between Britain and China, these formerly restricted British government documents, consisting of diplomatic dispatches, letters, newspaper cuttings, maps, reports of court cases, biographies of leading personalities, summaries of events and diverse other materials, provide unprecedented levels of detail into one of the most turbulent centuries of Chinese history.
• Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign Database (1957- ) This database is a major historical archival project containing first-hand original written materials about the 1957 Anti-Rightist Campaign.
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers These historical newspapers provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. The individual titles can be cross-searched alongside all ProQuest Newspaper collections.

Browse all primary source databases

Click on the button below to browse all online primary source databases the Library subscribes to (it will open in a new tab).

You can sort the list by searching with China in the search box.

Click on the button below to view a selection of resources on Chinese legal research that the Library holds (this will open in a new window). 

Browse resources for Chinese legal research

To find more Chinese language resources on Chinese legal studies, try a keyword search  in our library Catalogue   with:

• the publisher name; for example, 法律出版社 ;  人民法院出版社 ; or  中国法制出版社
• OR with this:  法律

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Thesis Database

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CEAS M.A. Theses

All CEAS M.A. students are required to submit a final thesis as part of the degree requirements.  Prior to 2017, all theses were submitted via hard copy and those hard copy theses are located for review in the CEAS offices- Knight Building, 1st floor.  We ask that hard copy theses are reviewed in the office and are not taken from the Knight Building.  Beginning in 2017, CEAS M.A. theses are now submitted electronically to the Stanford Digital Repository and links to these documents are located in the thesis database.