Chinese Electronic Resources

Since 2004, the Asian Division has acquired a number of Chinese e-resources. Most of these databases are continuing subscriptions and can only be accessed from the Asian Reading Room.

They are listed below.

Academia Sinica databases: contains more than twenty databases originated from Academia Sinica in Taiwan and its various institutes and library.

Academic Conferences in China (ACIC): offers over 600,000 full-text and 800,000 abstracts of national and international conferences held in China since 1986.

Century Journals Social Sciences (CJSS): contains a full-text archive of over 220,000 records from core journals in the social sciences published in Mainland China, with the earliest journal dating back to 1915.

China Academic Journal (CAJ) and China Core Newspapers Database (CCND): both are China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) databases that contain more than 22,000,000 full-text articles from 7,200 journals and over 9,000,000 articles from 700 core newspapers.

China Data Online: provides monthly and annual statistical information and monthly reports on economic development, etc.

China Dimensions Data Collection: offers access to a data collection on natural science and socioeconomic research and educational activities.

Chinese Electronic Periodical Service: provides full text access to Chinese language journals covering the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Applied Sciences and Medical & Life Sciences published in Taiwan and China.

China Infobank: provides access to real time business news, China general news articles and magazines, information and statistics on government, reports and statistics of various industries and regions in China.  It is actually a collection of 14 databases.

China Times (click on the word Enter): provides full text of the Chinese-language newspaper published in Taiwan.

Chinese Cultural Revolution Database: includes primary source materials relating to the Chinese Cultural Revolution such as Chinese Communist Party documents, speeches, and writings by major party leaders and media editorials as well as important documents of the Red Guards.

Dictionary Today: allows users to utilize keyword searches for dictionary definitions, thesaurus options and other resources in Chinese and English.

Dissertations of China (DOC): includes over 800,000 full-text and 1,000,000 abstracts of dissertations from key Chinese universities and research institutions.

DuXiu: is a comprehensive bibliographical index database covering over 2,700,000 books and other materials including periodicals, newspapers, graduate theses, and conference proceedings.

National Library & National Digital Library of China Databases: provides access to numerous databases, including Digital Oracle Bones & Rubbings, Digital New Year Illustrations, Digital Local Gazetteers, Digital China Republican Period Periodicals, Digital Doctoral Dissertations, International Dunhuang Project, Tangut Kingdom Research Repository, and Online Exhibition & Online Video Tutorial.

Soshoo: as part of China Infobank this database includes yearly and monthly statistical data on social and economic situation of China. Users can download data into an Excel sheet.

Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services (TEPS)  offers the most full-text Taiwan periodicals around the world. Currently TEPS contains more than 700 Taiwan Periodicals of different subjects.

The People’s Daily Electronic Version 1946-2005: contains full-text articles of Ren min ri bao, the official organ of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, from the first issue in May 1946 up to 2005.

Wenyuange Si ku quan shu dian zi ban: the electronic version of Wenyuange edition of Si ku quan shu, the largest Chinese encyclopedia compiled during 1773-1782 by edict of Emperor Qianlong, provides full texts in 800 million characters as well as indexes.