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
- National Bureau of Statistics of China
- Catalogue of holdings in East Asian languages at the Berlin State Library.
- 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- )
Renmin Ribao (1946-2020 (Trial) ) - 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
- Taiwan e-books --- a big collection of open access e-books
台灣華文電子書庫
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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Taiwan cinema, memory, and modernity
Zhang, Aizhu (2019)
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One Belt One Road : Chinese power meets the world
Freymann, Eyck (2021)
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Sinophone Malaysian literature : not made in China
Groppe, Alison M (2013)
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Buddhist healing in medieval China and Japan
2020
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The power of weakness
Lu, Xun (2007)
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 - Greater China Archival Resources Web Archive
- 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,
- A description of the Mongolian manuscripts in the university-library Oslo (1959)
- More Mongol manuscripts at the University library of Oslo (1999).
Selected reference books
- Berkshire encyclopedia of China (ed by Cheng & Brown, 2008)
- Routledge handbook of Chinese culture and society (ed. by Latham, 2020)
- 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)
- 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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