Subject page for Chinese studies
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Subject specialist in China studies
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Selected resources
For remote access to the licensed Chinese language databases you will have to use UiO VPN, UiO Programkiosk or Remote Desktop.
- China Academic Journals
中国期刊全文数据库 Comprehensive Chinese database, containing full-text articles from a wide variety of Chinese academic journals. 3 concurrent users. We have access to the following sections:
(F)Literature/history/philosophy,
(G)Politics/military affairs/law,
(H)Education/Social sciences,
(I) Electronic Technology & Information Science,
(J) Economics & Management. - ChinaLawInfo PKULaw 北大法宝
- Chinamaxx e-books – Contact the subject librarian for acquisition of specific titles.
- National Social Sciences Database 国家哲学社会科学学术期刊数据库 For a list of journal titles in the database, see Crossasia
- Chinese Dictionary Compendium offers access to 120 volumes of Chinese dictionaries and reference works. The centerpiece is a revised edition of the Hanyu Da Cidian (Chongxin Paiban) 漢語大詞典（重新排版）.
- Diaolong database(Fanyun) – we have access to the parts 台灣文獻，近代報刊 and 古籍文獻
Statistics - China Statistical Yearbooks Database (CNKI)
- National population census of China (CNKI)
- National Bureau of Statistics of China
Interdisciplinary databases (in English) - JSTOR
- IBSS-International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
- Project Muse
- Sociological abstracts
Catalogues and bibliographies - Catalogue of holdings in East Asian languages at the Berlin State Library
- Bibliography of Asian Studies – Comprehensive record of scholarly literature on Asia.
- MLA International Bibliography
Newspapers
- Renmin Ribao (1946–today )
- China Core Newspapers Full-text Database – gives access to articles from 633 core newspapers from China from 2000 onwards
- Pressreader – international news database.
- Factiva – international news database.
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.
- Modernhistory.org - ‘Anti Japanese War and modern Sino Japanese relations literature data platform’ (抗日战争与近代中日关系文献数据平台) - contain holdings of digitized newspapers, periodicals, and much more, extending well beyond the war period.
- Early Chinese Periodicals Online
- Chinese women's magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican period
- 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
- Chinese newspapers from Southeast Asia (19th–20th century)
Taiwan - Airiti Library 華藝線上圖書館 – Contains full-text articles from more than 900 Taiwan periodicals of various subjects, mainly since 1991
- Airiti library Chinese electronic theses and dissertations service
- National digital Library of theses and dissertations in Taiwan
- Taiwan e-books – a big collection of open access e-books台灣華文電子書庫
- National statistics of Taiwan
New books
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Teaching Chinese language in Nordic countries : past, present, and future trendsN/A (Springer, 2026)Chinese language learning sciencesMottatt i biblioteket 2026-10-06.
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Wang Meng sanwen suibi xuanjiWang, Meng 1934- (Shenyang chubanshe, 1993)Dangdai sanwen daxi. Di 1 jiMottatt i biblioteket 2026-09-21.
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Lu XunTakeuchi, Yoshimi 1910-1977 (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2026)Mottatt i biblioteket 2026-09-14.
Information on the special collections:
- Catalogue of older Chinese books at the University Library of Oslo
- Supplement to the catalogue of older Chinese books
- Digitized copies of some of the older Chinese books can be found on the Alvin platform.
Manchu collection - Catalogue of older Manchu material at the UiO Library
- Die mandjurische Sammlung der Universitätsbibliothek Oslo,
- Digitized copies of some of the older Manchu books is available in Alvin
Mongolian collection - A description of the Mongolian manuscripts in the university-library Oslo (1959)
- More Mongol manuscripts at the University library of Oslo (1999).
- Digitized versions of the Mongolian manuscripts are available in Alvin
Tibetan collection - The older Tibetan collection (Th. Sörensen collection) at the University of Oslo
- Catalogue over tibetan texts donated by Per Kværne
- Notes on the Tanjur in Oslo, by A. Fonahn
- Khams Brgyad is digitized and available on the Alvin platform
Selected reference books
- Routledge handbook of Chinese studies (ed. by Shei and Wei, 2021)
- Berkshire encyclopedia of China (ed by Cheng & Brown, 2008)
- Routledge handbook of Chinese culture and society (ed. by Latham, 2020)
- Historical dictionary of the Chinese environment (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)
- Encyclopedia of Chinese history (ed.by Michael Dillon, Routledge, 2017)
- The SAGE handbook of contemporary China(ed. by Wu and Frazer, 2018)
- Encyclopedia of modern China (ed. by Pong: Gale, 2009)
- Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics (ed. by Sybesma: Brill, 2016)
Contemporary studies on modern Chinese history (ed. by Zeng Yeying, Routledge, 2021)
- The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture – 306.0951 Cam
- Chinese history: A new manual (Endymion Wilkinson)
/ Ref4 951 Wil - Brill's encyclopedia of China
/ Ref4 951.003 Bri – Ikke til utlån - The Cambridge encyclopedia of China
/ Ref4 951.003 Cam – Ikke til utlån - The Cambridge history of Chinese literature
/ Mes ØST Dc 24 Cam - The Berkshire dictionary of Chinese biography
/ Ref4 920.051 Ber - 当代中国学术思想史丛书 (1949–2019) / 中国社会科学出版社，2019
/ Mes ØST
Other resources
- Yale guide on citation style for Chinese, Japanese and Korean sources
- Selected core journals
- Norwegian publication indicator
- A student's guide to Writing in East Asian Studies
(Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University) - Thesaurus Linguae Sericae (TLS)
An historical and comparative encyclopaedia of Chinese conceptual schemes - Chinese text Project –
An online open-access digital library for pre-modern Chinese texts - Greater China Archival Resources Web Archive
- Chinese grammar wiki
Comprehensive online resource for Chinese grammar - Open Access Resources – A list of selected open access resources for Chinese Studies
- Web Resources – A subject guide to free web resource for Chinese Studies
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