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Asia Art Archive The site offfers online access to digitized material in the Asia Art Archive (AAA) collection. In addition to scanned images, correspondences, artists' personal documents, and streaming audio and video of performance art, artist talks, lectures, and other art events, three Special Collections are currently available online, including 'Materials of the Future: Documenting Contemporary Chinese Art From 1980-1990'; 'The Chabet Archive'; and 'Another Life: The Digitised Personal Archive of Geeta Kapur and Vivan Sundaram.'
Bei da fa lü xin xi wang / 北大法律信息网 Pkulaw Online database of statutes and legal information presented by Chinalawinfo Co. and the Peking University Center for Legal Information, Peking University. Online database of statutes and legal information presented by Chinalawinfo Co. and the Peking University Center for Legal Information, Peking University. The database includes 500,000 statutes, including 400 laws, 2,000 regulations, and 200 judicial explanations for free. Nearly 2,000 full-text English versions of Chinese statutes (fee-based), newly released laws and regulations. Includes cases, research articles of legal studies, searchable by subjects, book reviews, links to online Chinese legal journals, a directory of Chinese law scholars, and information about law making and law enforcement. Link to English information leads to separate Web site.
CEIC data manager CEIC Data contains economic, industrial and financial time-series data. The Global Database offers unprecedented coverage of 221 countries in Asia, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East, Africa and the Americas. EIC also offers 18 macro-economic concepts, and 1,400,000 time series. Data comes from analysts on the ground and the prime national and regional statistical agencies and major industrial data issuing organizations of each country covered. The CEIC Data Manager provides access to the entire CEIC database from within the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet application. Times-series can be directly retrieved from the database and imported into Excel for quick analysis.
CETD Zhong wen shuo bo shi lun wen zi liao ku ji ping tai fu wu / CETD 中文碩博士論文資料庫曁平台服務 Index of master and doctoral disserations from Taiwan. Contains 2,803,329 dissertations from 2004. Some dissertations available in full-text.
CHANT (CHinese ANcient Texts) database 漢達文庫 / Han da wen ku Includes six browsable and searchable database of traditional ancient Chinese texts from the Pre-Han (pre 220 AD) up to the Six Dynasties (581 AD).
China, America and the Pacific China, America and the Pacific explores the cultural and trading relationships that emerged between America, China and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries. Manuscripts, rare printed sources, visual images, objects and maps from international libraries and archives document this fascinating history.
China, trade, politics & culture, 1793-1980 The sources from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Library, London. "This project provides a wide variety of original source material detailing China's interaction with the West from Macartney's first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74."
China Academic Journals by 中国知网 (CNKI) China Core Newspapers Full-text Database is a continuously and dynamically updated newspaper full-text database with academic and informative newspaper literature. The newspaper database has collected and continuously updated more than 500 kinds of important party newspapers, industry newspapers and comprehensive newspapers at all levels published since 2000.
China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960–1998 The Scope and Sources of the Document Set: China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998 pulls together more than 2,000 documents concerning the relationship between the United States and China, with an emphasis on the 1969-1998 time period. The documents include memos, cables, and studies concerning U.S. diplomatic relations with China, records concerning the U.S.-PRC security relationship, documents related to the economic and scientific association with the PRC, and intelligence estimates and studies concerning the PRC's foreign policy objectives, military capabilities, and internal situation. The documents that make up this collection come from the State Department (including the embassy in Beijing and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research), Defense Department, Commerce Department, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, Pacific Command, and the military services (including military service intelligence organizations).
China core newspaper databases Full-text electronic versions of 673 Chinese national, regional and local newspapers or periodicals that appear at least on a weekly basis. The database includes current issues of journals as well as archives of back issues of journals, and is reproduced with original pagination. Special newspapers relate to legal issues in China, the environment, foreign policy, literary production, economics and finance, education and various areas of science and technology.
China core newspaper databases (CNND) by 中国知网 (CNKI） CNND includes full-text electronic versions of 673 Chinese national, regional and local newspapers or periodicals that appear at least on a weekly basis. The database includes current issues of journals as well as archives of back issues of journals, and is reproduced with original pagination. Special newspapers relate to legal issues in China, the environment, foreign policy, literary production, economics and finance, education and various areas of science and technology.
China culture and society : the Wason pamphlet collection, Cornell University Spanning three centuries (c1750-1929), this resource makes available for the first time extremely rare pamphlets from Cornell University Library's Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia. The resource is full-text searchable, allowing for the collection to be comprehensively explored and studied. In addition, China: Culture and Society features a host of secondary resources, including scholarly essays, an interactive chronology, mini guides, and editors' choices from the collection. Published by Adam Matthew Digital, Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK, and Cornell University Library.
China data online / Zhongguo shu ju zai xian 中国数据在线 Comprehensive online database focusing on economic statistics of China, arranged by regions and categories. Includes monthly and yearly reports on China's macroeconomic development, statistical databases about China's population and economy at the provincial, county, and city level, and financial indicators of more than 568 industrial branches. Also includes statistical yearbooks, census data, industrial and marketing surveys, and an atlas of China.
China Dissertations Database 中国学位论文全文数据库 by 万方数据 In the process of updating 万方数据中国学位论文全文数据库（China Dissertations Database），收录始于1980年，年增35余万篇，涵盖基础科学、理学、工业技术、人文科学、社会科学、医药卫生、农业科学、交通运输、航空航天和环境科学等各学科领域。
China geo-explorer II China Geo-Explorer is an intelligence spatial data service offered by the University of Michigan China Data Center, in collaboration with the All China Market Research Co., Ltd and the State Key Laboratory for Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS) of Wuhan University. It offers China demographic and economic data, maps, charts and reports in the web-based delivery system. With this spatial intelligence, users are able to make rapid, accurate spatial decisions with greater confidence for regional planning, business investment, population, housing, environmental assessment, public health and many other spatial applications. Data sources in this database includes demographic and business information for all PRC geographies, including 31 Provinces, 345 Prefecture Cities, 2,873 Counties, and over 50,000 Townships.
China Industry Information Database This journal/periodical database is published by dpa-infografik GmbH, covers research interests of news, publication, cases, law reviews, company info, country info, on the topics of business, criminal justice and political science.
China Laws & Regulations Database 中国法律法规数据库 by 万方数据 In the process of updating 中国法律法规数据库收录始于1949年，涵盖国家法律法规、行政法规、地方法规、国际条约及惯例、司法解释、合同范本等，权威、专业。每月更新，年新增量不低于8万条。
Current digest of the Chinese press Each week, The Current Digest of the Chinese Press presents the reader with a digestible collection of Chinese press materials, all in English. Selected articles cover a wide variety of topics, such as politics, international relations, security, economics, business, public health, environment, education, culture and more. The Current Digest’s mission is to provide the reader with a comprehensive, broad picture of the news published in China, be it domestic, international or related to other states of the Asia Pacific region.
Dacheng gu zhi dui / 大成故紙堆 Comprehensive archival materials database related to Chinese history, literature, political science & etc. Includes Chinese rare books, books published during Republic period; periodicals published during Republic period, local gazetteers and history of Chinese Communist Party. Including 7 databases: Dacheng Old Journal Database, Dacheng Republican Period Books, Dacheng Old Chinese Local Gazetteers, Dacheng Old Chinese Classics, Shen Bao, Shun Tian Shi Bao, and Dacheng Chinese Communist Party History Periodicals. PDF files only, not full-text searchable. 辑录古旧文献，内容涵盖晚清和民国期刊、古籍文献、民国图书、古地方志和中共党史期刊，包含: 大成老旧刊数据库、大成民国书数据库、大成古方志库、大成古籍文献库、大成党史数据库、申报,和顺天时报 7个子库
Dacheng lao jiu kan quan wen shu ju ku / 大成老旧刊全文数据库《大成老旧刊全文数据库》收录了清末自有期刊以来到1949年以前 (1840年至1949 年), 中国出版的6000余种期刊. 期刊文章为电子扫描图像. 多数期刊没能各期都有. 数据库涵盖文史哲理工医农等领域.
Digital Buddhist Library and Museum DBLM 台大佛学数位图书馆 Collaborative project of the National Taiwan University and Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies to provide access to online Buddhist databases. Presents over 98,000 bibliographies and approximately 2,400 texts. Includes search engine, online language courses in Pali, Sanskrit, and Tibetan, annotated links to resources such as e-journals and magazines, e-books and Buddhist study institutes, and online dictionaries.
Digital National Security Archive The National Security Archive is a non-profit research institute and library in Washington, D.C., which provides unprecedented public access to declassified documents obtained through extensive use of the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Through the Digital National Security Archive, the National Security Archive and Chadwyck-Healey have joined forces to produce the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945.
DuXiu / 读秀 "Duxiu.com" is an aggregated search engine created by SuperStar Digital Library. It searches journals, newspapers, conference proceedings and books, and yields relevant pages for reading. 《读秀学术搜索》= duxin.com, 又名《读秀知识库》是超星数字图书馆设立的多种文献综合搜索平台。它可以对书籍、报纸、期刊、学位论文、会议论文、专利、标准、视频等同时进行检索，对检索结果提供相关几页的试读。
The Earl George Macartney collection This is a collection of a great variety of records related to Earl George Macartney's historic mission to China during 1792-1794. The mission was dispatched by King George III of Britain in the name of congratulating Emperor Qianlong's 83rd birthday. The mission's goals included the opening of new ports for British trade in China, the establishment of a permanent embassy in Beijing, the cession of a small island for British use along China's coast, and the relaxation of trade restrictions on British merchants in Guangzhou (Canton).
Economist Intelligence Unit, the Economist / EIU.com EIU database is a virtual library offering all of the EIU's (Economist Intelligence Unit) publications. Includes Country reports, Country Profiles, Global Forecasting Service, CountryData, Market Indicators and Forecasts, CityData.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily reports FBIS Daily Reports is created by the U.S. intelligence community to benefit policy makers and analysts, FBIS Daily Reports offer foreign views and perspectives on historical events from thousands of monitored broadcasts and publications. Translated into English from more than 50 languages, these comprehensive media reports from around the globe include news, interviews, speeches and editorial commentary. This comprehensive, fully searchable edition of the FBIS Daily Reports covers such topics as political, military and social issues, economics, science and technology for eight world regions from 1941-1996.
Foreign Office files for China This digital collection makes available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980. Allows access to eye-witness accounts, weekly and monthly summaries, annual reviews, reports and anlyses, economic assessments, synopses on Chinese personalities, and much more.
Guo xue bao dian / 國學寶典 Searchable full text of a wide range of Chinese texts, as well as classical, biographical and literary dictionaries and a special module on Tang and Song poetry. Simplified and traditional searching and display is possible. Notations are provided as to the source of the digitized text.
Huan qiu shi bao / 环球時报 The Global Times is a Monday to Friday newspaper, under the auspices of the People's Daily. The database features past daily issues covering from 1993 to present; fully internet version; full text searchable, fully downloadable and printable.
Hua yi xian shang tu shu guan / 華藝線上圖書館具有全台湾最完备之学术典藏资料库，横跨台湾CEPS与中国大陆CJTD，囊括多种国际性期刊，重点院校学位论文。
Lian he zhi shi ku / 聯合知識庫 Udndata, an article-specific database was established by UDN Online in February 2001 to provide news articles from five major newspapers published by the United Daily News Group. The newspapers include United daily news, Min sheng daily, United evening news, Economic daily news, and Star news. Also included are several news magazines such as Global view monthly and some Chinese newspapers published outside Taiwan. Including: 聯合報, 經濟日報, 民生報, 聯合晚報, 星報, 美洲世界日報, 歐洲日報, 遠見雜誌, 科學人雜誌, 動腦雜誌, 動腦人才庫.
Minguo shi qi qi kan quan wen shu ju ku 1911-1949 / 民国时期期刊全文数据库1911-1949 This database is produced by Shanghai Library (SHL) and contains about 20,000 titles of Chinese periodicals published in the period of 1911 to 1949. The source of the database is Shanghai Library's collection of journals from the Republican period. It contains journals concerned by every discipline/subject existing at the time. The database is a full image database with good indexes (not a full-text database though it uses “全文数据库” in its name). The running length for individual title varies greatly depending on the life of the journal as well as the holdings at Shanghai Library. The database consists of 9 subsets. Six have already been completed and the other three are to be completed no later than 2015. 在内容上集中反映了当时的政治、军事、外交、经济、教育、思想文化、和宗教状况。读者用戶可从标题、作者、刊名、分类号、年份及期号等途径对文献进行检索、浏览并下载全文，用戶还可以使用期刊导航功能，直接浏览和下载期刊原文。截止目前，《民国时期期刊全文数据库》（1911-1949）已出版1-6辑，共收录9500 种期刊的479万余篇文章。-- From 西南交通大学图书馆 WWW site.
Oxford bibliographies Database offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on China across all disciplines. Bibliographies are browsable by subject area and keyword searchable. Contains a "My OBO" function that allows users to create personalized bibliographies of individual citations from different bibliographies.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content. More than 70,000 new full-text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide, and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations. Full-text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image. Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDTGlobal provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.
ProQuest historical newspapers Contains full text of various Chinese newspapers (1832-1953)
ProQuest history vault：Immigration: records of the INS, 1880-1930 Covers the investigations made by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) during the massive immigration wave of 1880-1930. The files cover Asian immigration, especiallyCovers the investigations made by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) during the massive immigration wave of 1880-1930. The files cover Asian immigration, especially Japanese and Chinese migration, to California, Hawaii, and other states ...
Quan guo bao kan suo yin / 全国报刊索引 Indexes of Chinese newspapers and periodicals published since1857- ; some full text also available with charges.
Ren min ri bao tu wen shu ju ku /人民日报图文数据库 People's Daily Journal / Periodical database is updated weekly.
Select Digital National Security Archive The National Security Archive is a non-profit research institute and library in Washington, D.C., which provides unprecedented public access to declassified documents obtained through extensive use of the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Through the Digital National Security Archive, the National Security Archive and Chadwyck-Healey have joined forces to produce the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945.
Shen bao 1872-1949 / 申報 1872-1949 Shanghai-based Shen Bao (Shun Pao) was the longest-lasting newspaper in modern China. It was founded in 1872 and was closed 1949. Its full name was Shenjiang xin bao (Shenjiang New Post, also known as the Shanghai News).
The sixth national population census database 中国人口普查数据库 by 中国知网 CNKI The Sixth National Population Census Database collects all data of population census in 2010 published by China Statistics Press completely and exclusively, including all population data of the whole country, 31 provinces and centrally administered municipalities and 2872 units at county level. The contents of data are name, gender, age, nationality, permanent residence registration, education level, industry, occupation, social security, marriage, fertility, death, housing, migration and etc. It is the most integrated and authoritative census database that is solely and legally authorized and digitally published. All data are displayed in excel form for searching, browsing and analyzing, and all data indicators are translated into English.
A student's dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese This book is the long-desired Chinese & English reference work for all those reading texts dating from the Warring States period through the Tang dynasty. Comprising 8,000+ characters, arranged alphabetically by Pinyin. As a lexicon meant for practical use, it immensely facilitates reading and translating historical, literary, and religious texts dating from approximately 500 BCE to 1000 CE. Being primarily a dictionary of individual characters and the words they represent, it also includes an abundance of alliterative and echoic binomes as well as accurate identifications of hundreds of plants, animals, and assorted technical terms in various fields. It aims to become the English-language resource of choice for all those seeking assistance in reading texts dating from the Warring States period through the Tang dynasty. Previous Chinese-English dictionaries have persistently mixed together without clarification all eras and styles of Chinese. But written Chinese in its 3,000 year history has changed and evolved even more than English has in its mere millennium, with classical and medieval Chinese differing more from modern standard Chinese than the language of Beowulf; or even that of Chaucer differs from modern English.
Superstar Journals 超星期刊 Superstar Journals Database is an advanced research platform。
Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS) 台湾电子期刊服务网 The retrieval platform that integrates academic resources from Taiwan and mainland China, including journal papers, dissertations, conference proceedings and other important full-text content, provides global scholars with high-quality and convenient academic knowledge services.
Taiwan nichinichi shinpō / 臺灣日日新報 Taiwan nichinichi shinpo, daily newspaper, was published from 1898 to 1944 in Japanese along with Chinese text from 1905 to 1911. It is an official newspaper published by the Government-General of Taiwan yet one of the dispensable resources to know the condition of Taiwan for these years. The database provides both Chinese and Japanese interface.
Wan Qing qi kan quan wen shu ju ku 1833-1911/ 晚清期刊全文数据库1833-1911 The database contains the full text of over 300 periodicals published in the late Qing Dynasty of China. This represents an almost complete collection of the Chinese periodical publications during that period, the beginning of such literature in China. It is an important resource on the history, literature and social conditions of the late Qing dynasty. It is cross searchable with Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911-1949).
Wason pamphlet collection Art and artefacts Bibliographies Education Exploration and travel Faith and philosophy General histories and surveys International conflict and invasion Language and writing Missionaries and Christianity Opium trade Rebellion and revolution Science, medicine and health Chinese diaspora
Westlaw China Westlaw China is a product of Thomson Reuters Legal, one of the world's leading providers of legal information services. Our legally trained editorial team has designed Westlaw China as a practical product with carefully-edited, high-quality content and a unique organizational system. Through this innovative design, Westlaw China helps legal professionals in law firms, corporations and academic institutions quickly get to the information they need.
Xu xiu si ku quan shu / 續修四庫全書 Database includes more than 5,000 full-text searchable Chinese classical works, mostly Qing.
Zhongguo fang zhi ku / 中國方志庫 by 愛如生數據庫 It's an e-book collection and a searchable database of Chinese local gazetteers. The collection has 2,000 titles of rare and special edition local gazetteers printed in China from ancient time up to 1949. The concurrent user number is only one. The access steps: 1. click on the library resolve URL link, ignore the login and password on the right; 2. On the left side, choose: "If your IP is authorized, please directly click" the triangle. 3. Click only on "Database of Chinese Local Records", and ignore all other grayed unsubscribed databases. 4. Search and use. 5. Click on the upright "X" to exit. If not exiting this way, next user will have to wait for at least 15 minutes to use the database.
Zhongguo ji ben gu ji ku / 中國基本古籍庫 by 愛如生數據庫收錄先秦至民國的歷代典籍10,000種,每種均據通行版本製成數碼全文,另附1-2個善本的原版影像. 數據庫共分哲科, 史地, 藝文及綜合四庫, 具檢索功能, 可進行分類, 條目, 全文檢索.
Zhongguo jin dai bao kan / 中國近代報刊 Tianjin based Da gong bao was founded in 1902 and was relocated 6 times during Sino-Japanese War to Shanghai, Hankou, Chongqing, Guilin and Hong Kong until 1949. This database covers the time period from 1902 to 1949 that published in different locations.
Zhongguo wen hua da ge ming wen ku / 中国文化大革命文库 (Chinese cultural revolution database） Contains historical materials related to the Revolution: Chinese Communist Party documents, speeches and writings by major party leaders and media commentaries. Comprises 10,000 documents in 35 million characters. Users can browse by subject categories and date. It is also searchable by author, keyword and organization.
Zhongguo wen shi zi liao ji cui / 中国文史资料集粹 / Chinamaxx digital library of Chinese e-books The Chinamaxx digital library of Chinese e-books database contains full texts of about 20,000 volumes of publications, which are mostly first-person narratives on history, culture, politics, economy, literature and ethnicity, etc.
Zhongguo Xin Fang Zhi Ku 新方志库 / China Local Gazetteers by 万方数据 In the process of updating
Zhonghua jing dian gu ji ku / 中華經典古籍庫 The database of China Ancient Books now contains 0.4 billion characters and will be updated to approximately 1 billion within next five years. The contents in grey will be gradually updated.

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