Chinese Studies: Temporarily Available E-Books & Databases (2020-2021)

Includes full text of journals, theses, conference proceedings, and e-books published in Taiwan.

Includes journal articles, theses and dissertations, conference papers, reference work and yearbook entries, book chapters, and a bilingual glossary for social science, humanities, science, and technology fields. Can search in Chinese or English; returns English titles of mostly Chinese texts. UW users have partial access only. Access using Husky OnNet.

Includes Taiwanese social science and humanities journal articles and historical documents. Access using Husky OnNet.

Encompasses 4,000 recent scholarly works in humanities and social science fields. Browse by subject to see available titles: these are marked by orange padlock. Click on EPUB or PDF icon to read online. Download of limited page ranges of PDF titles available (not available for EPUB titles). Searches also return many other works from a larger database available in preview form only. Access using Husky OnNet.

Full text of over 10,000 books published from 1905 to 2019, mostly Chinese but with some English titles. Online browsing only; download not available. Access using Husky OnNet.

HathiTrust has implemented an Emergency Temporary Access Service. Authenticated UW users can browse online (but not download) HathiTrust e-book equivalents of physical books held by the UW Libraries. This provides access to around 45% of the books in UW Libraries' print collections. Click "log in" in the top right corner and choose University of Washington. Only one simultaneous UW reader of a given book is allowed. The available titles will soon be directly accessible from the UW main catalog.

A collection of books that supports emergency remote teaching, research activities, independent scholarship, and intellectual stimulation while universities, schools, training centers, and libraries are closed.

Selection of 2,000 full text academic eBooks in humanities, social sciences, and business management fields, published by nearly 300 Taiwanese publishers. Access using Husky OnNet.

Chinese-language humanities, social sciences, science, and technology books published in China between 1900 and 1949. You can browse full text online, but downloading may be unavailable. Access using Husky OnNet.

Vol. 1 available only. Access using Husky OnNet.

English language journals published in China and proceedings of English language conferences held in China. Access using Husky OnNet.

Provides full text of around 350,000 volumes of the proceedings of national and international conferences, from science, technology, social science, and humanities fields. The earliest date back to 1953, though the focus is on publications from 1999 to the present. Access using Husky OnNet.

Full text of late Qing and Republican period newspapers. Access using Husky OnNet.

Provides articles and chapters from journals, anthologies, and collections. Access using Husky OnNet. Available until 30 June 2020. (You can browse full text online, but downloading may be unavailable.)

A bilingual database of Chinese academic journals, in social science, humanities, science, and technology fields. Access using Husky OnNet.

A set of full text databases of Chinese and English language newspapers published in China from the second half of the 19th century to 1949. Available until 17 July 2020.

Periodical selection, also available in print, of social sciences and humanities articles originally published elsewhere. Full text from 1995, abstracts from 1993, contents index from 1978. Access using Husky OnNet.

Full texts of proceedings published irregularly by Chinese academic institutions. Access using Husky OnNet.

Provides full text digital facsimiles of issues from 1868 to 1941 of "The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal," an English language Christian missionary periodical. Content can be searched via indexed terms, e.g. names of persons, publications, or institutions. Full text search not available. Access using Husky OnNet.

Full text of this official PLA newspaper from its founding in 1956. Access using Husky OnNet. Available until 31 May 2020.

Digital facsimiles of four CPC newspapers, with issues dating from the period 1921-1949: 解放日报, 新华日报, 八路军军政, and 群众. Not full-text searchable.

Four journals published by Taiwan's National Palace Museum: National Palace Museum Bulletin, 故宮季刊, 故宮學術季刊, and 故宮文物月刊. To access them, begin by clicking "Publications" (Chinese version: "出版物") to the left of the search box. In the search box, enter "故宮" then click the search icon. Above the results list, click the "Journal Articles" ("期刊文章") tab. Clicking the tab populates it to reveal the above four journals (before clicking the tab, no results in this category display). Access using Husky OnNet. Available until 30 June 2020.

Journals and other documents from 1979 to the present relating to Party-building, government organs, and democratic parties. Access using Husky OnNet.

Digital facsimiles of over 300 Chinese Communist Party periodicals published prior to the founding of the PRC in 1949. Not full-text searchable. Access using Husky OnNet.

Full text of 202 financial and economic periodicals, and over 4,000 other financial and economic publications, from 1979 to the present. Access using Husky OnNet.

Open access (OA) database of online-first research papers on Covid-19, mostly from mainland China and in Chinese.

Digital facsimiles of premodern editions. Search for title information; no full-text search. Browse by pinyin title in alphabetical order. Access using Husky OnNet.

Full-text searchable recent punctuated editions of premodern texts; source editions are cited. Available until 30 June 2020.

Over 4,000 Ming (1368-1644) documents and more than 300,000 volumes of Qing (1644-1911) archival materials. Available until 30 September 2020.
Institutional login required: Select 授權使用 (Authorized access). On the Login page, enter the following details: 群組 (group): LIB; 帳號 (User ID): seattlelib; 密碼 (password): seattlelib.
After logging in the first time, click (English Version) in the bottom banner to download the desktop reader. After locating a text through searching or browsing, download its file to your computer by clicking the hyperlinked number in the first column of the results list; then click the downloaded file to open it in the desktop reader. Texts cannot be read directly online. To export summary data of selected items in a results list, check their boxes at the left, click 選取 (select), then in the right top corner click 下載輸出 (download exports). In the top left corner of the next page, click 下載輸出 to download the list.

Comprises four separate databases (not searchable in combination): Han Wei Liuchao Stone Inscriptions 汉魏六朝碑刻数据库; Tang Tomb Inscriptions 唐代墓志铭数据库; Song Tomb Inscriptions 宋代墓志铭数据库; and San Jin Stone Carvings 三晋石刻大全数据库. Includes full-text searchable punctuated transcriptions, and usually images of rubbings, of inscriptions. Access using Husky OnNet.

Facsimile images of 500 premodern Chinese medical works. Searchable by section titles but not full text. Access using Husky OnNet. On the login page, click 机构用户 (institutional user). You can browse full text online, but downloading may be unavailable.

Over 10,000 examples of calligraphy, from Shang to the Republican period, with textual transcriptions. Access using Husky OnNet.

Biographical information of over 100,000 Jinshi degree holders from Sui to Qing Dynasty. Access using Husky OnNet.

Digital facsimiles of 363 pre-1949 historical works on western regions; not full-text searchable. Access using Husky OnNet.

Digital facsimiles of 3,400 pre-1949 local gazetteers. Not full-text searchable. Access using Husky OnNet.

Allows simultaneous searching of a wide range of reference works in humanities, social sciences, science, and technology fields. Interface and content are in Chinese only. Access using Husky OnNet. Available until 31 May 2020.

Full text of over 11,000 dictionaries, handbooks, encyclopedias, atlases, and chronicles. Search separately using simplified and traditional characters: the search engine does not automatically convert between the two. Access using Husky OnNet.

To access, click 登录 (log in) in the top right corner, then use seattlelib as both user name (用户名) and password (密码).

Tables of contents of large book sets and collections, premodern and modern.

Chinese language reports and studies from the PRC. Access using Husky OnNet.

Important Party archival documents, including documents from successive National Party Congresses; documents relating to the Party’s central leadership; works by, and biographical information on, central Party leaders and senior revolutionaries; Party and government policy decisions; and records of major events. Access using Husky OnNet.

Scholarly reports and analysis on the urban development, economy, demography, transportation, and ecology of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration. Access using Husky OnNet. Online reading only: downloading is unavailable.

Books, reports, data, videos, and reference materials relating to Chinese and international economic and social development. Chinese language materials with English abstracts. Access using Husky OnNet. Online reading only: downloading is unavailable.

Ethnographic field notes and publications. Access using Husky OnNet. Online reading only: downloading is unavailable.

Scholarly writings, archival documents, and policy documents relating to poverty alleviation. Access using Husky OnNet. Online reading only: downloading is unavailable.

Full text of gazettes, reports, and announcements from PRC Party and government organs at central and municipal/provincial levels, 1979-present. Use Husky OnNet to access.

Data from, and texts of, 1,096 yearbooks featuring economic and social statistics. English language version of 中国经济社会大数据研究平台, though with fewer texts. Access using Husky OnNet.

Full text of 2,306 statistical yearbooks. Access using Husky OnNet.

Full-text yearbooks database, featuring yearbooks on particular industries or provinces, 1949-present. Access using Husky OnNet.

Background information, reports, and analysis on the regions, countries and industries of the BRI, from economic, developmental, strategic, diplomatic, environmental, and historical perspectives. Access using Husky OnNet. You can browse full text online, but downloading may be unavailable.

Reports, analysis, and data on world regions and countries, international organizations, and global thinktanks. Access using Husky OnNet. You can browse full text online, but downloading may be unavailable.

Content from periodicals produced by Taiwanese associations celebrating hometown affiliations with regions in mainland China. Access using Husky OnNet. You can browse full text online, but downloading may be unavailable.

Includes albums, images, and writings related to art and art history. Access using Husky OnNet. After clicking on a resource, select IP 登录 (IP Login); or click 登录 in the top right corner of the home page.

Historical photographs.

Nearly 2.94 million images focusing on history, literature, philosophy, and economics. Access using Husky OnNet. After clicking on a resource, select IP 登录 (IP Login); or click 登录 in the top right corner of the home page.

Full-text doctoral dissertations. Access using Husky OnNet.

Access using Husky OnNet.

Descriptions of and links to temporarily available databases already activated for UW users.

A frequently updated list of licensed online resources to which vendors are offering temporary access during the coronavirus outbreak. Some may require personal registration. We advise patrons to use UW Libraries' conventional subscription resources wherever possible, but additional resources such as these may satisfy unmet needs.