China Studies: Books, Yearbooks, Gazetteers

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

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.

Chinese language books published in Taiwan provided by the National Central Library, mainly books from 1910-1950s.

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

Includes all 4,200 titles (53,000 stitch-bound volumes) of the Harvard-Yenching Library's Chinese Rare Book Collection, among other collections.

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.

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.

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.

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

Online catalog of the libraries of the Academia Sinica, Taipei.

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

Union catalog of books held in Japanese libraries.

Union catalog of 8 Hong Kong university libraries.

Online catalog of the National Central Library, Taipei.

Online catalog of the National Library of China, Beijing.

General online catalog of Shanghai Library.

Enter keywords in the search box at the top ("Search Library of Congress Subject Headings") to find relevant Library of Congress Subject Headings. Then from the UW Library home page, select Advanced Search then Browse Search. Choose "Browse by - Subject" in the drop-down menu. Enter your Library of Congress Subject Heading to browse publications relating to this subject. Try multiple subject headings: some headings are similar or overlapping.
Or, do a keyword search in the UW catalog, click on a book or journal that matches your needs, then click on relevant subjects listed under "LCSH and PCI subjects" to find publications on similar topics.

Click on a relevant category to open a PDF file with more detailed call number breakdowns. Look for the call number ranges of fields of interest (e.g. Chinese literature - collections: PL2450-2659). Then from the UW Library home page, select Advanced Search then Browse Search. Choose "Browse by - Library of Congress call numbers" in the drop-down menu. Enter a call number from your selected range. Use the arrows in the bottom right corner to browse forwards or backwards. This allows you to virtually browse the shelves of not just the library stacks, but auxiliary storage locations also.
Or, identify call numbers of interest through keyword searches in the UW or Worldcat catalogs, and browse the UW catalog using the same method.