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Online Databases for Chinese Studies
The following list of electronic resources for Chinese Studies is selected by our area studies specialists. Unless indicated as free internet resource, they are accessible on and off campus to Pitt-affliated users only.
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- Apabi Digital Books: a database of over 500 Chinese e-books covering various subject areas. More titles will be added on an on-going basis. Click here for a quick starting guide on how to use the database.
- Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) Online : contains close to 700,000 references to books, journal articles, individually-authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc., published from 1971 until the present day.
- Century Journal Project : Provides full text to 100 key jounrals in humanities and social sciences since their very first issue up till 1993.
- China Academic Journals: Provides full text to nearly 2,000 Chinese journal titles in humanities and social sciences since 1994 and up till present. Click here for a comprehensive guide on using the database.
- China Data Online: Provides national, regional, and local economic, social, and historical statistics. Includes census data.
- China InfoBank: A web-based online service on China's news, business, legal and statistical information
- Chinamaxx Digital Library: an online collection of over 2,000 volumes of Chinese e-books from SuperStar covering various subject areas, especially materials from government archives, manuscripts, statistical and other reference works that complement our print collection. More titles will be added on an on-going basis. Click here for a quick guide on using the database.
- CHANT (Chinese Ancient Texts) : Compiled by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the database contains a large number of texts from earliest times (bone and bronze inscriptions) up to the 6th century AD.
- Chinese Civilization in Time and Space (CCTS) System: 中華文明之時空基礎架構 (This is Pitt Mirror Web Server. Click here to visit the original website: http://ccts.ascc.net.)
- Encyclopedia of Taiwan 臺灣文獻叢刊 : The largest collection on Taiwan's history in the Chinese language. Incorporates local histories, official documents of Ming, Qin Dynasties as well as Nan-Ming. Also included are poems and private collections, many of which are sole copies and out-of-print books.
- Scripta Sinica 漢籍電子文獻資料庫： a full-text database containing about 460 Chinese pre-modern works essential to research in traditional Sinology. The Scripta Sinica database is developed by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, in Taipei, Taiwan. It contains almost all of the important Chinese classics, especially those related to Chinese history.
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Free Online Resources
- Modern China Studies : An EAL digital library project which provides access to 36 titles about modern China publication in the first half of the twentieth century. Accessible to any users.
- Scripta Sinica of ACADEMIA Sinica Computing Centre ( 中央研究院漢籍電子文獻 ): Provide full-text to the 13 Classics, 24 dynastic records, complete Tang poems, Taiwan local gazetteers and other primary historic materials on the study of Chinese history. Most are free.
- Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library: Publications includ full-text articles in the journal Chinese Studies (2000- ) 《漢學研究》, and E-Newsletter for Research in Chinese Studies 《漢學研究通訓》電子版
- Ling Long Women's Magazine, Shanghai, 1931-1937 《玲瓏》 婦女雜誌，上海， 1931-1937 : A digital library project by the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University.