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.

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.

China Yearbook Full-text Database: (Politics/Military Affairs/Law) covers authoritative data and other information including statistics, activities, events, etc. in the fields of politics, military affairs, and law in China.

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.

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.

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 Index to Chinese Newspapers and Periodicals: covers information from 1833 to the present, and over 16,000 titles of newspapers and periodicals published in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

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.

People’s Daily: With publication started in June 1946 and a current circulation of 3 million, People's Daily is the most influential and authoritative newspaper in China. It is the official voice of the central government of the People's Republic of China For the last over 60 years, the People's Daily has published daily issues that provide the single location where the central government and the Communist Party of China announce their respective policies and disseminate governmental, political, and economic messages to the public and the world. Most importantly, since its inception the newspaper has been the true barometer of the political climate of Chinese society on a daily basis.

People’s Liberation Army Daily: Provides the full text in Chinese for People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the official newspaper of the military of the People’s Republic of China. It covers military news and provides comprehensive military-related information from the perspective of the Chinese Central Military Commission.

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.

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.

WiseSearch is a Chinese and English language database dedicated for published information from Greater China. It is an online multi-media database with materials from 1,500 content providers covering more than 900 major Chinese and English language newspapers, news magazines, TVs, radios, newswires, Web sites, etc. from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, as well as Singapore, Malaysia, and other countries. The database has stored more than 88 million articles since 1998, offering Greater China news reports and feature articles.