Chinese Studies: Articles, Journals, Magazines, Dissertations

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Full-text open access database of PRC social science and humanities journals.

A database of the literary journal Zhaiyi, which was "internally published" from 1973 to 1976 and presented translations, synopses, criticism and news summaries of works of fiction, film, theater, and poetry from the USSR, US, and Japan. Compiled by the Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University. Free but requires registration.

A full-text image database providing access to selected academic and professional journals, both in English and Chinese, published in Hong Kong. Titles included in this database cover a wide range of disciplines including law, medicine and education. Issues included in this database vary from journal to journal with the earliest going back to 1872. Currently, more than 491,290 images from over 60 titles will be accessible on the database.

An index, with article abstracts, of over 300 Chinese language and bilingual social science and humanities journals published in Hong Kong and Macau. Most journals are indexed from 1980 only, but some more important journals ones are indexed from their first issue, in some cases dating to the 19th century. Maintained by the libraries of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Macau.

Provides bibliographic information on periodicals, newspapers and communiques published in Taiwan, as well as various academic journals published in Hong Kong and Macao and selected newspapers and periodicals published in mainland China before 1945. Does not index individual articles contained in these publications. Search interface available in Chinese and English. Produced by the National Central Library.

Includes various (i) journals, newspapers, and essays published in Taiwan from 1945 to 1948; (ii) journals, newspapers, collections of papers and dissertations published in Taiwan from 1949 to 1979; and (iii) journals and collections published internationally from 1949 to 1979. Produced by the National Central Library (NCL), based on the "Chinese Culture Research Papers Catalogue" jointly edited by the Chinese Culture Renaissance Movement Promotion Committee and the NCL.

National Central Library index to academic journal articles published in Taiwan, drawn from over 5,500 journals. Full-text articles are available for some journals. Formerly known as Periopath: Index to Taiwan Periodical Literature System 臺灣期刊論文索引系統.

Full-text articles of academic journals published by departments of National Taiwan University from 2002 to present.

Provides an index of Chinese language humanities and social journals journals (from the year 2000), dissertations, monographs, and conference proceedings published in Taiwan (or in some cases elsewhere), with citation and impact metrics. Produced by the National Central Library and its partners.

Index of Japanese journal articles; full-text available for some.

Several subject databases, including Full-text Database of CCS Publications, Database of CCS Collections, Foreign Sinologists Dissertation Abstracts Database, Bibliography of Research on the Classics, and Bibliography of Tun-huang Studies etc. Both single and cross-database search interfaces available.

Pre-1949 Chinese-language magazines and xiaobao 小報 (entertainment newspapers) and some China-based foreign-language newspapers. Combines the following databases: 1. “Chinese Women’s Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period” (WoMag); 2. Xiaobao; 3. Modern History Databases 近代史數位資料庫; 4. Funü zazhi 婦女雜誌 (Women's Magazine)

Full-text Database includes 44 volumes and 819 periods of Eastern Miscellany from March 1904 to December 1948, including over 30,000 articles, over 12,000 pictures, and over 14,000 advertisements.

An open access database providing a large number of books, newspapers, and magazines, and a smaller number of archival documents, images, and audiovisual materials, mostly from the first half of the 20th century. Materials relate to many topics, not just the second Sino-Japanese War and modern Sino-Japanese relations. It includes many literary works from the period. Individual registration is required to download materials (as JPG files). Some types of sources are searchable by tables of contents; none support full-text search.

Taiwan's National Central Library provides this free database of digital facsimiles (not full-text searchable) of various late Qing dynasty periodicals held by the library. Current titles include 點石齋畫報, 新新小說, and 游戲世界; others are being added.

“NDLTD-Taiwan“ is the only system that has consistently collected theses and dissertations of colleges and universities in Taiwan from 1956 to the present, covering the disciplines of the sciences, engineering, agriculture, medicine, the humanities and social sciences and continues to promote the concept of free access to unauthorized materials.