China Studies: Books

Union catalog of the holdings of members of CALIS (China Academic and Information System), comprising numerous academic libraries in China.

Online catalog of the National Library of China, Beijing.

Online catalog of the National Central Library, Taipei.

Union catalog of 8 Hong Kong university libraries.

General online catalog of Shanghai Library.

The Airiti platform offers a variety of Chinese language eBooks mainly published in Taiwan, some from Hong Kong and mainland China. Users can recommend titles to subject librarian to be considered for purchase.

Literature and history documents organized by region.

Collection of digital facsimiles of copyright-free books and other material, including Chinese language works. Click "Log In" in top right corner and select University of Washington; in Advanced Catalog Search, choose to filter results by Language. The UW catalog links to some texts, though searching directly in HathiTrust is more reliable.

Includes thousands of public domain Chinese-language books, including many pre-modern editions.

Digital facsimiles of Republican period books from the Harvard-Yenching Library. Click on "Link to Collection on Hollis" for a full list of available titles.

From the National Central Library, mainly publications from 1911-1949.

抗日战争与近代中日关系文献数据平台: open access database providing books, newspapers, and magazines, archival documents, images, and audiovisual materials from the first half of the 20th century. See Database User Guides for more information.

For yearbooks published in mainland China covering literature, history, philosophy, economics, politics, law, and education (F, G, H, and J).