Chinese Studies

Contains OCR-ed e-version of over 120,000 books held by the Shanghai Library that were published between 1840 and 1949.

'Pishu' (皮书, which literally means ‘cover-books’) are high-value analytical reports intended to guide policymaking in the People’s Republic of China. They may be considered somewhat analagous to United States Congressional Research Service reports and analysis reports published by the RAND Corporation.

You can think of Duxiu as a Google Book Search in Chinese.

An online collection of Chinese e-books. It contains a collection of yearbooks and many important reference works such as the 汉语大词典. Requires Apabi Reader software (available from the web site).

Online library of Chinese e-books. Search guide.

Online digital library (a.k.a. "China-US Million Book Project"). Contains over a million Chinese books, many of which (especially those published before the Republic Era) are free to the public.

An open access platform for e-books from libraries in Taiwan. The first phase of 13,000+ titles include books published between 1911 and 1949, government publications, and scholarly materials.

Online book directory. Includes links to many China-related e-books, all of which are free of copyright restrictions.