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As part of the Taiwan Resource Centre for Chinese Studies we also offer a list of free e-resources from Taiwan.
The China Centre also has a collection of Chinese films and documentaries. Please contact the Chinese Studies Administrator on how to get access.
E-books
- Chinamaxx
Comprising Duxiu 讀秀, Wenshi Ziliao 文史資料, and SuperStar Digital Library 超星數字圖書館. View notes on how to use it - China Economy, Public Policy, and Security Database (Pishu) /皮書(East View)
Reference works
- China Reference Works Online 中國工具書網絡出版總庫(CNKI)
- Oxford Chinese Dictionary (OUP)
- Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese (Brill)
- Oxford Bibliographies - Chinese Studies (OUP)
- Brill's Encyclopedia of China (Brill)
- Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics (Brill)
- Digital Dictionary of Buddhism 電子佛教辭典 (University of Tokyo)
- China Research Perspective Online formerly published as Yearbooks of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Brill)
Periodicals
- Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) (EBSCO)
- National Index to Chinese Newspapers and Periodicals and Republican Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911-1949)全國報刊索引(Shanghai Library); alternative link
- National Social Science Database (Library of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Open Access Repository. A list of the included journals has been created by our colleagues in Cambridge.
- PerioPath: Index to Taiwan Periodical Literature System 臺灣期刊論文索引系統 (National Central Library)
- China Academic Journals 中國期刊全文數據庫(CNKI) alternative login
- Sinica Sinoweb 經典人文學刊庫 (中央研究院)
- Airitri Library - Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services 華藝線上圖書館(airiti)
- Guocui Xuebao 國粹學報(TBMC) subscription supported through the TRCCS programme of the National Central Library
- Full-Text Image System for Periodicals of Japanese Ruled Period in Taiwan 日治時期期刊全文影像系統(National Taiwan Library)
- Hong Kong Journals Online (Hong Kong University Library)
Newspapers
- China Core Newspapers Database 中國重要報紙全文數據庫(CNKI)
- People's Daily: archive 人民日報
- PLA Daily 解放軍報
- Shenbao 1872-1949申報
- North China Herald 1850-1940 (Brill) alternative link
- Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832 - 1953) (Proquest)
- Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers (1911 -1949)
- WiseSearch (Wisers慧科)
- Old Hong Kong Newspapers (Hong Kong Public Libraries)
- NewspaperSG (Singapore Government)
Classical texts
- Siku Quanshu 四庫全書Please note that this database only works with Internet Explorer.
- Mingqing Shilu 明清實錄(Airusheng) Choose "Ancient Classics" to access the database.
- Chinese local gazetteers 中國方志庫(Airusheng) Please see the instructions and title list.
- Imperial Encyclopaedia 欽定古今圖書集成
- CHANT (CHinese ANcient Texts)漢達文庫 (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- Chinese Text Project (Ctext) (Donald Sturgeon)
- Kanseki Repository (Christian Wittern)
Collections of digital facsimiles
- Serica (Bodleian Library)
- Democracy Wall publications 1978-80 (Bodleian Library). To access browse the subject index for "democracy wall".
- Digital East Asia Collections (Bavarian State Library)
- Digitized Collections (Berlin State Library)
- Cambridge Digital Library (Cambridge University Library)
- Collections de l'Institut des hautes études chinoises (IHEC) (Collège de France)
- Chinese Digitized Material (National Library of Australia)
- Ivy Plus Libraries' Digital Projects on East Asia (Duke University Library)
- East Asian Library Digital Bookshelf (Princeton East Asian Library)
- East Asian Digital Library (Princeton East Asian Library)
- Ling Long Women's Magazine (C.V. Starr East Asian Library)
- Chinese Marriage Documents (1909-1997) (Pittsburgh University Library)
- Chinese Land Records (1584-1978) (Pittsburgh University Library)
- Modern China Studies - 1912-1955 (primary sources and reference tools) (Pittsburgh University Library)
- Ming Qing Women Writers (Mc Gill University Library)
- Digital Silk Road (Toyo Bunko)
- International Dunhuang Project (British Library)
- Naxi Manuscripts (Harvard-Yenching Library)
- Chinese Pamphlets (Center for Research Libraries)
- Digital Taiwan (Academia Sinica)
- Union Catalog of Chinese Rare Books (National Central Library)
- Chinese Rare Book Image Database (National Central Library)
- Database of Chinese Rubbings (National Central Library)
- Contemporary Celebrities' Manuscripts (National Central Library)
- Full-Text Image System for Books of Japanese Ruled Period in Taiwan 日治時期圖書全文影像系統(National Taiwan Library)
- Digital Collections (National Taiwan University Library)
- Digital Images of Rare Books
- Union Catalog of Rare Books Database
- Bronze & Stone Rubbing Database
Statistics and Yearbooks
Please also see the Bodleian Data Library website on Data on China.
- China Statistical Yearbooks Full-text Database 中國統計年鑒數據庫(CNKI)
Please note that to access the latest data the Chinese version of the database should be used. To open the files from the Chinese version the CAJ browser software is needed.
The English version of the database is updated with a delay necessary for translation.- English version, new English interface
- Chinese version
- National Population Census of China (CNKI)
- Chinese Yearbooks Full-text Database (access to Humanities and Information Science) (CNKI)
- China Data Online (University of Michigan China Data Center)
Policies and Laws
- PKU Law 北大法寳(Peking University)
Theses and Dissertations
- China Doctoral Dissertations Full-text Database (CNKI)
- China Masters' Theses Full-text Database (CNKI)
- National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan (National Central Library)
Contemporary China
- Modern Local Gazetteers 新方志(Wanfang)
- Chinese Film and Newsreel Scripts from the Cultural Revolution (Brill) alternative link
- Cultural Revolution Database 中國文化大革命文庫 (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign Database 中國反右運動數據庫(Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- Chinese Great Leap Forward/Great Famine Database 中國大躍進大飢荒數據庫(Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- Chinese Political Campaigns in the 1950s: From Land Reform to the State-Private Partnership (1949-1956) 中國50年代初中期的政治運動數據庫(Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- China Economy, Public Policy, and Security Database (Pishu) 皮書(East View)
- Cambridge Archive Editions, China Political Reports 1911-1960 and 1961-1970 (East View) A collection of reports sent to the British Foreign Office.
- Foreign Office Files for China (1919-1980) A collection of the complete British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Free e-resource collections
- PRC History Group (H-PRC)
- OGEA - Online Guide East Asia (Berlin State Library)
- Chinese Studies on the World Wide Web (Cambridge University Library)
- Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) Resource Center (Ohio State University)
- Manchu tools (University of Leiden)
