China Studies: Databases

Brill's Chinese - English Dictionary Online starts off with the Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese. Compiled by Paul W. Kroll and a small group of assisting scholars, it is a practical lexicon of more than 8,000 characters. Arranged alphabetically by Pinyin romanization, this long-awaited tool facilitates reading historical, literary, and religious texts dating from, in the first place, the Warring States period through the Tang dynasty. The dictionary is primarily a zidian 字典, not a cidian 詞典, but in addition to single-graph entries includes an abundance of lianmianci 連綿詞 and important compounds, as well as accurate identifications of plants, animals, and assorted technical terms in various fields. In short, an essential tool and the English-language resource of choice for students of pre-Song texts, and far beyond.

This open-access database provides historical sources on the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance and modern Sino-Japanese relations. The formats include books, journals, newspaper articles, images, archives, video/audio materials, maps and etc. In order to download materials from this platform, please create a free account. The maximum pages to download is 2,000 per month. The materials keep growing and will reach to approximately 13 million pages by the end of 2018.

GW subscription includes Chinese literature, CPC history, military, political science, international affairs and etc.

A very functional search engine by National Library of Germany with comprehensive index of resources from major databases, catalogs and open access materials focusing on Asia studies, especially China studies.

The archive currently holds about 3,400 carefully curated items that address various aspects of how the CCP, in the aftermath of Mao's death, dealt with past injustices. Scholarly introductions provide a starting point for exploring various facets of the available materials. Collections and exhibits showcase highlights from the archive. Translations of selected items allow access for non specialist readers. Other features include the ability to transcribe handwritten Chinese documents that have been uploaded, and a resources section that includes our Zhongfa Directory and extensive bibliography.

The Online Guide East Asia offers access to electronic resources related to East Asian studies - and Asian studies in general - in both western and original language. You may search a term and then filter your results by further criteria such as subject classes, region, language, kind of resource etc.

This database contains four seminal women's or gendered journals-a key genre of the new media-published between 1904 and 1937.
They include Nüzi shijie (Women's World, 1904-07), Funü shibao (The Women's Eastern Times, 1911-17), Funü zazhi (The Ladies' Journal, 1915-31), and Linglong (Elegance, 1931-37).

The Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers collection provides invaluable perspective on this critical period. The press of more than twenty cities is represented, spanning the Chinese mainland and the entire half century. The collection provides researchers a richly comprehensive perspective on Chinese life, culture, and politics throughout the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the years of provisional government and civil war, and the birth of the People’s Republic.

Exploring China Map Library with About 8 Million Maps including maps for Census data 2000 and 2010, Economic Census 2004 and 2008, Basic Unit Census 2001, industry Census 1995, Land Cover and Nighttime Lights.

Arranged alphabetically by Pinyin romanization, this long-awaited tool facilitates reading historical, literary, and religious texts dating from, in the first place, the Warring States period through the Tang dynasty. The dictionary is primarily a zidian 字典, not a cidian 詞典, but in addition to single-graph entries includes an abundance of lianmianci 連綿詞 and important compounds, as well as accurate identifications of plants, animals, and assorted technical terms in various fields. In short, an essential tool and the English-language resource of choice for students of pre-Song texts, and far beyond.

GW students' theses & Dissertations from 2008-2016 are available via GW ScholarSpace. It is an open-access resource. You can use keyword search to retrieve theses or dissertations about China studies.

GW’s comprehensive university-wide information repository showcases our faculty and researchers and their research, scholarship and expertise. You can search and discover more about our researchers and scholars across all disciplines, e.g., with a focus on China studies.

Streaming videos that GW has access including Chinese films and films on China.

The Asia Pacific Database is a bibliographic and fulltext database that provides area coverage (especially for economic development, investment, trade and technological industries) for Northeast Asia and Asia-Pacific. It provides easy bibliographic and fulltext access to journals, newspapers, conference proceedings, press releases, books, manuals, magazines, and ephemera.

Gale Primary Sources is an integrated research environment that allows users to search across all of their Gale primary source collections. Gale Primary Sources takes users beyond a simple search and retrieve workflow, allowing them to analyze content using frequency and term-relationship tools. Through intuitive subject-indexing users will discover new material even in the most familiar of content sets.There are a lot of primary sources related to China studies.

Ongoing full-text academic journals locally published in various East Asian and South Asian countries.The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.