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Chinese Studies

A guide to selected digital resources for conducting research in Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan

Databases and Statistical Data

中国研究网络资源导航
National Social Sciences Database 国家哲学社会科学学术期刊数据库
Leading academic Chinese-language journals with Open Access.
China Biographical Database Project 中國歷代人物傳記資料庫
Database of Modern Chinese Buddhism (DMCB) 近代中國佛教檢索
Chinese Women's Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period
Free access to four journals: 女子世界, 婦女時報, 婦女雜誌, and玲瓏.
Ming-Qing Women’s Writings Digitization Project
Harvard Baojuan collection
London Missionary Society digitized collection at the National Library of Australia
Taiping Tianguo digitized collection at the National Library of Australia
Wason Pamphlet Collection @ Cornell University
Shansi: Oberlin and Asia
Historic Climate Data: China Climatological Data
The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 : as seen in prints and archives
淡新檔案
See here for an introduction to this digitized archive.
中華民國財政部統計出版物
Chinese Foreign Policy Database (Wilson Center)
Macau Studies databases
Social History of China, 1949-1979 (Lunds University)
China Health and Nutrition Survey
China Household Finance Survey
China Family Panel Studies
Zhaiyi (摘译) database
香港中文大學中國研究服務中心 (Universities Service Center)
中華民國政府官職資料庫
China Multi-Generational Panel Datasets Series (ICPSR)
Please see here for more China-related data at ICPSR.

Guides, Indices, and Bibliographies

A Scholarly Review of Chinese Studies in North America (edited by Haihui Zhang, Zhaohui Xue, Shuyong Jiang, and Gary Lance Lugar)
Free E-book download at the Association for Asian Studies website.
It contains 21 high-quality introductions to major subfields as they have evolved in Chinese studies over the past three decades.
Classical Historiography for Chinese History
Internet Guide for Chinese Studies
The Online Index of Chinese Buddhism 中國佛教網路資料索引
The Digital Catalogue of Chinese Buddhism 中國佛教數字目錄
National Library of China catalog 中国国家图书馆联机公共目录查询系统
CALIS Online Catalog CALIS 联合目录公共检索系统
Taiwan Citation Index - Humanities and Social Sciences 臺灣人文及社會科學引文索引資料庫
中國文化研究論文目錄(1946-1979)
台灣期刊論文索引系統
Hong Kong Macau Periodicals Network 港澳期刊網
上海图书馆人名规范库

Visual Resources

Portals, Gateways, etc.

Marjorie Chan's China Links
Web Portal of the PRC Government
CBETA 中華電子佛典協會
China Copyright and Media
Full texts of English translation of China Copyright and Media Laws as well as other secondary and primary materials.
China Guiding Cases Project 中国指导性案例项目
China Vitae 中国名人录
Judicial Opinions of China 中国裁判文书网
National Central Library Gazette Online 中華民國國家圖書館政府公報資訊網
The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online
臺灣漢學數位典藏資源導覽