Some free e-resources within China studies

                                                    General resources

• Pubscholar is a free platform for academic papers, journal articles, dissertations and papent documents established by the National Science Library of The China Academy of Sciences. The platform holds approx. 170 million searchable resources, including around 80 million free full-text documents, a large part from CAS own publications, so mainly within natural sciences and science and technology.             

                                               Classical studies/Religion

• Chinese text project 中國哲學書電子化計劃
  A digital library project that assembles collections of  early Chinese texts.
• TLS: The Thesaurus Linguae Sericae (TLS) is designed as as a
  collaborative forum for discussions on close reading of
  Chinese texts. It provides a corpus of classical Chinese
  texts and links the texts incorporated with an analytic
  dictionary of the Chinese language.
• Guoxuedashi  ---- contains among other things the Siku Quanshu
• DigitialSinology - modern methods in early China studies
• 全国古籍普查平台

• Database of Chinese Medieval Texts (by Ghent centre for Buddhist studies and Dharma Drum institute)

• Chinese religious text authority - seeks to collect and present reliable bibliographic and scholarly information about religious texts in Chinese produced prior to 1949

• Baimiao OCR for Chinese texts

• Chinese religious studies: A research guide (Barend J. Ter Haar)

• NTU Digital Library of of Buddhist Studies

• Chinese Buddhist Electronic Texts Association

• Full-text database of Warring States manuscripts - 戰國竹簡全文資料庫

• Bamboo and Silk database by Wuhan University 中國古代簡帛字形辭例數據庫

• Open Ancient Chinese Characters Glyphs Database 開放古文字字形庫
  
  
                         Historical newspapers and magazines

• Historic newspapers published in China available Open Access
• Late Qing and Republican-era Chinese newspapers(1911-1949) Open Access collection of Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers.

• Internet Archive - East Asian Newspapers and Periodicals 1850-1950 includes a range of East Asian newspapers, journals, and magazines published in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese languages from 1850-1950.

• The Old Hong Kong Newspapers Collection is a selective collection of major old Hong Kong Newspapers published from early Hong Kong to nowadays
  
                                          Literature, folklore and art

• Shuoshu - Chinese storytelling, a research tool for the investigation of Chinese storytelling, by Vibeke Børdahl
• CHINOPERL, an organization devoted to the research, analysis and interpretation of oral and performing traditions of China
• Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Literature  清華中文學報
• MCLC Resource center: includes bibliographies of mostly English-language materials on modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film/media, visual arts, music, education, and culture.

• Ethnic China Lit - Writing by and about non-Han peoples of China

• Unofficial Poetry Journals from China, digitized by Leiden University Library

• Malaysian Chinese literature digital library 马华文学电子图书馆

• Chinese Iconography Thesaurus  -  freely accessible and brings together sinology, art history and information studies to create the first alternative classification scheme, especially designed for the Chinese visual culture, with a complementary image archive

                                                 Family and population

• China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) The studies focus on the economic, as well as the non-economic, wellbeing of the Chinese population, with a wealth of information covering such topics as economic activities, education outcomes, family dynamics and relationships, migration, and health. Registration required. 

• Chinese household income project (1988, 1995, 2002)
  2007, 2008, and 2013 data can be applied for directly through the China Institute for Income Distribution

• China population and development research center 
  中国人口与发展研究中心

• National Bureau of Statistics of China

                                                  Politics and media

• China Leadership Monitor
• Oxford Bibliographies, Political Science - Asian politics
• Chinese Foreign Policy Database by The Wilson Centre

• China Media Project  By the The University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Center 

• The Decoding China Dictionary - seeks to serve as a guide to understanding the official Chinese meaning of key terms in international relations and development cooperation.

• China Unofficial Archives 中國民間檔案館 -  Open access site "dedicated to making accessible the key documents, movies, blogs, and publications of a movement of Chinese people seeking to reclaim their country's history."

• 人民政协文史资料专题库 Open access database of Wenshi ziliao. 

• 中国共产党新闻网  - This website provides information about the daily news and activities of the Communist Party of China, as well as publications and archives of the Communist Party since its establishment in 1921.

• 中国政协网 - covers the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference's daily activities and provides its working reports and documentation.

• 中华人们民共和国中央人民政府网  - gateway to all government information and services in China, and an interactive channel between government and the public. Besides daily news and discussions of current issues, the website provides publications of the Chinese central government, its ministries and subsidiaries, and regional authorities.

• 抗日战争与近代中日关系文献数据平台  Digtized books/journals/newspapers, hosted by the Institute of modern history at the Chinese academy of social sciences. Also includes quite some sub-databases, including 人民政协文史资料专题库

                                                  Digitization projects

• National digital library of China -- The National Library of China  provides free access to the content of many section of their Digital collections of Ancient books. The collection includes 文研汉籍影像库、法藏敦煌遗书、哈佛大学善本特藏、天津图书馆古籍、云南图书馆古籍、上海图书馆家谱、数字古籍、赵城金藏、中华医药典籍、碑帖菁华、敦煌遗珍、甲骨世界、年画撷英、前尘旧影、数字方志、宋人文集、西夏论著、西夏文献、中华古籍善本联合书目、徽州家谱20个资源库.
• 全球漢籍影像開放集成系統
• Digitized Chinese books at Harvard University Library 
• 中华古籍资源库  Collection older digitized books by the National Library in Beijing, does also contain books from other institutions 
• Library of Congress Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection

• Chinese collections digitization project at Bodleian Library, Oxford University
  Printed books, maps and manuscripts from the Bodleian's Chinese special collections.

• Union Catalog of Rare Books Database - containing older Chinese books from more than 80 institutions worldwide. Hosted by the National Central Library of Taiwan.
• 全国古籍普查平台                            

                                                             Taiwan

• Digital resources at the National Central Library
• Digital resources at the National Taiwan Library 
• Taiwan e-books - a big collection of open access e-books 台灣華文電子書庫
• National digital Library of theses and dissertations in Taiwan
• National statistics of Taiwan
• National Chengchi University (NCCU) digital archive 國立政治大學圖書館數位典藏
• NCL Taiwan periodical literature 國家圖書館期刊資訊網
• The archives of institute of Taiwan history,
  Academia Sinica
• 臺灣文獻叢刊資料庫, by Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica
• Research Center for Digital Humanities, National Taiwan University
  臺灣大學數位人文研究中心
• Taiwan history digital library 台灣歷史數位圖書館
• Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies,
• Taiwan studies digital library 臺灣學數位圖書館
• Taiwan studies newsletter 臺灣學通訊
• NTL collection of data image system for Southern Archives 南方資料影像系統
  含蓋範圍為日治時期日本、中國(滿洲及華南)、韓國(朝鮮)及南洋資料

                                                      Hong Kong 

• Hong Kong literature database 
• Hong Kong Journals Online 
• Libguide for Hong Kong studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library
• Theses and dissertations from Hong Kong
• Old Hong Kong newspapers
• Hong Kong journals online 香港中文期刊论文索引 
• Hong Kong in transition (1995-2020）an open access photographic archive of Hong Kong

                                                        Biographical resources

• China Biographical Database project - Joint project by Harvard, Academia Sinica and Beijing University. The China Biographical Database is a freely accessible relational database with biographical information about approximately  535,181 individuals as of February 2024, primarily from the 7th through 19th centuries.

• China Vitae    中国名人录

                                                           Other resources

• Antique maps of China - consists of more than 270 maps, charts, pictures and atlases. It has samples of almost all maps of China produced by European cartographers from the 16th to 19th centuries.