Open E-resources for Chinese studies during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Shanghai Library Periodicals Databases 全国报刊索引
- Chinese Communist Party Newspaper Archives Database
- Pishu /皮书
- County Investigation Database
- Village Investigation Database
- Jikan Academic Journal Database
- The Silk Road Historical Archives and Materials Database
丝绸之路西域文献史料辑要数据库 - Archives of Chinese Chambers of Commerce（Baoding Part）
中国商会档案数据库(保定卷) - Faxin (防疫专区)
- History of the Communist Party of China / 中国共产党党史经典文献数据库
- The National History Database of the P.R.C/中华人民共和国国史数据库
- The Complete Collection Database of Culture Relics and Archaeology in Western Regions/ 西域文物考古全集数据库
- iRead Books 華藝中文電子書
- Chinese Recorder Database 教務雜誌
- Han Cloud Research Platform 漢雲平台
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Selected resources
- AsiaPortal A comprehensive platform for databases within Asian Studies, by Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS)
- 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. - China Online Journals
(Wanfang Data) 万方数据
We have access to 4 parts:
1) 期刊 China Online Journals
2) 学位 Dissertations of China
3) 会议 Academic Conferences in China
4) 法规Policies and Laws of China - MLA International Bibliography
- Duxiu Academic search - search engine specializing in Chinese academic materials - including e-books
- Bibliography of Asian Studies Comprehensive record of scholarly literature on East, Southeast and South Asia, written in Western languages.
- National social science database -
国家哲学社会科学学术期刊数据库 - China Data Insight - new and more userfriendly version of China Statistical Yearbooks database
- National Population Census Database
- 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
- Dacheng Modern China Database -covers around 7,000 Chinese periodicals published from late Qing to 1949, covering a wide field of disciplines
- Early Chinese Periodicals Online (ECPO) - joins together several important digital collections of the early Chinese press and puts them into a single overarching framework.
Newspapers - Nanfang zhoumo
The archive of NFZM is lacking issues, mainly 1993-94 and 2000-2011. - Renmin Ribao (1946-2011)
Renmin Ribao (2012-2016)
Renmin Ribao (2016- ) - China Core Newspapers Full-text Database - gives access to articles from 633 core newspapers from China from 2000 onwards
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
- National digital Library of theses and dissertations in Taiwan
News
New databases
- ChinaLawInfo - Provides access to legal news, laws & regulations, judicial cases, law journals, international treaties, white papers, legal glossary and guides to world law
- Chinamaxx digital collection of e-books
- Sinica Sinoweb - provides full-text access to the archive of 14 journals from Taiwan’s Academia Sinica, with the earliest dating back to as early as 1928
Asia in Focus: A Nordic journal on Asia where Master’s and Ph.D. students who are affiliated with a Nordic institution and working on Asia can publish their research.
New books
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Unfree speech : the threat to global democracy and why we must act, now
Huang, Zhifeng (2020)
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"Jiuhuo nongcun" : Minguo xiangcun jianshe yundong huimou
Zhu, Yan (2009)
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A cultural history of modern Chinese literature
Wu, Fuhui (2020)
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Zhongguo xiangcun zizhi wenti yanjiu
Wang, Shengsong (2009)
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Minguo xiangcun jianshe yundong
Zheng, Dahua (2000)
Other information resources
- Selected core journals
- 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 - Chinese grammar wiki
Comprehensive online resource for Chinese grammar - Information on the special collections:
Catalogue of older Chinese books at the University Library of Oslo
Catalogue of older Manchu material at the UiO Library
Die mandjurische Sammlung der Universitätsbibliothek Oslo, Martin Gimm (in German, 1968).
On the Mongolian collection, please refer to Walther Heissigs A description of the Mongolian manuscripts in the university-library Oslo (1959) and More Mongol manuscripts at the University library of Oslo by Marta Kiripolská (1999).
Selected reference books
- Berkshire encyclopedia of China
- Encyclopedia of Chinese history (ed.by Michael Dillon, Routledge, 2017)
- The SAGE handbook of contemporary China
- Encyclopedia of modern China (Gale)
- Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture - 306.0951 Cam
- 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
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