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Selected resources
- AsiaPortal A comprehensive platform for databases within Asian Studies, by Nordic Institute for Asian Studies (NIAS)
- The Database of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference 中国人民政治协商会议资料库 collection of archives and documents of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). 2 concurrent users
- JSTOR - Academic articles from journals of the humanities and social science.
- Project Muse - Contains newer articles than JSTOR
- 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. - Century Journals Project - 中国期刊全文数据库（世纪期刊）
- Catalougue of older Chinese books at the University Library of Oslo
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Nanfang zhoumo and Renmin ribao
The archive of NFZM is lacking issues, mainly 1993-94 and 2000-2011.
RMRB's archive goes back to 2012, for older archive see here.
New books
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Politicized society Taiwan's struggle with its one-party past
Mattlin, Mikael (2018)
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Empire, nation, and beyond : Chinese history in late imperial and modern times - a festschrift in honor of Frederic Wakeman
2006
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Chinese Buddhist Texts An Introductory Reader
2018
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Red Swan : how unorthodox policy-making facilitated China's rise
Heilmann, Sebastian (2018)
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Chinese law in imperial eyes : sovereignty, justice, & transcultural politics
Chen, Li (Professor of History and Sociolegal Studies) (2016)
Other information resources
- Selected core journals
- 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 - 汉典
Comprehensive free online Chinese-Chinese Dictionary
Selected reference books
- Berkshire encyclopedia of China
- Encyclopedia of Chinese history (ed.by Michael Dillon, Routledge, 2017)
- 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
More reference works within China studies
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We have trials on these databases:
- Trial 1: 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
- Trial 2: Chinese citation database - includes various search index, data visualization, and analysis of research power of a particular institution or scholar in China
New Databases
- Duxiu Academic search - a search engine specializing in Chinese academic materials based on a huge database of full-texts and metadata on scholarly resources from the early the 1930s to the present in all subjects and formats including books, articles from periodicals, graduate theses and dissertations, and conference proceedings, etc
- Dacheng Modern China Database - covers around 7,000 Chinese periodicals published from late Qing to 1949, covering a wide field of disciplines
Chinese historical newspapers
- includes 12 Chinese newspapers in English covering the period 1832-1953
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.
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