Academic Resources | 学术资源
The University of Manchester
View the University of Manchester Library's subject guide for Chinese studies or explore the links to specific resources below.
The lists below are a collection of resources that the University Library provides to help our researchers identify key information in all the areas of China Studies.
Full text subscribed databases in Chinese for China studies
- China Academic Journals
- China Doctoral Dissertations
- China Masters Dissertations
- Renmin Ribao Digital Archive
- Shen Bao Digital Archive
- Sinica Sinoweb
- Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services
Full text subscribed databases in English for China studies
- Artemis Primary Sources - China from Empire to Republic
- China: Culture and Society: The Wason Pamphlet Collection, Cornell University
- China: Trade, Politics & Culture
- China Data online
- JSTOR
- Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
- Periodicals Archive Online
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection
- South China Morning Post《南華早報》
- Translations of the Peking gazette online
UoM Chinese Special Collection
The UoM Library’s Special Collections provide a rich resource for China Studies. The Library’s printed, manuscript and archival collections are of particular value to Chinese Studies.
The Library’s Chinese and China-related collections encompass a remarkable diversity of material, documenting five centuries of Chinese history and culture.
For advice on these resources, contact Zhang Ruili, Academic Engagement Librarian in Chinese Studies at ruili.zhang@manchester.ac.uk or +44 (0) 161 306 1886 / 0161 306 4930.
Free online Chinese language resources
Non-digitised Chinese language resources will also be made available.
National Taiwan University
Five databases, available in either Chinese or Japanese:
- 館藏南方資料影像系統 = NTL collection of data image systems for Southern Archives
- 館藏舊籍日本文獻影像系統 = NTL Collection of Data Image System for traditional Japanese Materials
- 館藏古文書影像系統 = NTL Collection of Data image system for Gu Wen Shu
- 日治時期圖書影像系統 = Image system for books of Japanese-ruled period
- 日治時期期刊影像系統= Image system for periodicals of the Japanese-ruled period
Disaster History
DisasterHistory.org is an online bilingual resource bringing leading academic research on manmade and natural disaster in Chinese history to the general public.
Oxford and Bodleian and China Centre Libraries
- Chinese E-resources Oxford (also lists many free resources)
- Chinese Catalogues Oxford
- Bodleian Library Chinese Collections
- China Centre Library Collections
- Chinese Special Collections at Oxford (Democracy Wall publications - search for 'democracy wall' in subjects of the Oxford Chinese catalogue)
- Reader's card for the Bodleian Libraries
- Staying in Oxford
British Library
Chinese Language Collections (an un-curated trove of Hong Kong materials)
The British Library
96 Euston Road
London
NW1 2DB
Contact the Chinese Collections Curator, Emma Goodliffe:
- Email emma.goodliffe@bl.uk or telephone +44 20 7412 7144
Needham Research Institute, Cambridge
East Asian History of Science Library
8 Sylvester Road
Cambridge
CB3 9AF
Contact the Librarian, John Moffett:
- Email jm10019@cam.ac.uk or telephone +44 1223 311545
Berlin State Library
- Crossasia (State Library Berlin resources and catalogues)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong | 香港中文大学
Universities Service Centre for China Studies | 中国研究服务中心
Contact the Assistant Director, Gao Qi:
- Email gaoqi1991@gmail.com or telephone (852) 3943 8765