Chinese Collection

Online Databases

  • Zhongguo li dai shi ke shi liao hui bian/中国历代石刻史料汇编（全文检索版） (UI access only)
  • Siku Quanshu (Wenyuange Edition) Internet Version (UI access only): Access (via IP) to Electronic version of the Wenyuange edition of Siku Quanshu is available on most of the computers in the UI Main Library. UI Faculty who want to gain access (via IP) to it in their campus offices need to download and install a client program on their office computers from http://us.subscriptionv3.skqs.com/skqs/download/ (download and installation instructions are provided on the website). The Siku Quanshu features a collection of 3,460 Chinese classical works in 36,000 volumes or 4,700,000 pages, which includes works on philosophy, history, literature and art, political systems, social studies, economics, astronomy and geography, mathematics, medical studies, technology, etc.
  • China Academic Journals (CAJ): Literature/History/Philosophy (UI access only): this database is part of the electronic project of the CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure). It covers journal articles published in China in almost all the subject areas of the Humanities and Arts. It includes back files dated back to 1994. In order to display all the PDF files from the database, you need to install the most recent version of Adobe Reader and then install the Chinese simplified language patch.
  • BAS (UI access only): this on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains over 545,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. Through the 1991 printed version, the BAS included citations to Western-language periodical articles, monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Monographs published since 1992 have not been added to the database, and users seeking such monographs are urged to consult other general resources and databases (RLIN, OCLC, etc.).
  • China National Knowledge Infrastructure (in Chinese)
  • Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library provided hosted at the Australian National University provides online resources on China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
  • Databank for China Studies: Universities Service Center of China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • China the Beautiful: a site provides online resources on China in areas like Classical Chinese Art, Calligraphy, Poetry, History, Literature, Painting and Philosophy
  • Chinese Journal Database
  • Chinese Text Initiative, an effort by University of Virginia to make texts of Chinese literature available on the World Wide Web.
  • JSTOR (UI access only) provides articles in more than a dozen journals in Asian Studies.
  • Project Muse (UI access only) has about a dozen of journals in Asian Studies.
  • Histories of 25 Dynasties and other documents.The collections are in Chinese and need Chinese software with Big5 code to conduct search.
  • Tang and Song Poetry (Full text databases. Need Chinese software with Big5 code to conduct search)
  • PerioPath: Index to Chinese Periodical Literature 1991- (Online Index/2600 Journals in Chinese and English Romanization, Taiwan National Central Library
  • Fuyin Baokan Ziliao Soyin 1978-1998 (A CD-ROM set/Major journals in China, Chinese. Contact Chinese Studies Librarian for usage. UI access only)
  • People’s Daily 1946-1998 (A CD-ROM set/Chinese/Full Text. Contact Chinese Studies Librarian for usage. UI access only)