Chinese Studies - Digital/Electronic Sources: Language and Literature

The Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. The site attempts to make use of the digital medium to explore new ways of interacting with these texts that are not possible in print. With over thirty thousand titles and more than five billion characters, the Chinese Text Project is also the largest database of pre-modern Chinese texts in existence.

Full text searchable database including access to the "Thirteen Classics" and all 24 Chinese dynastic histories. Click the button that reads "免費使用" to access. Then click 經 to select one of the classics or 史 to select one of the dynastic histories.

可检索的典籍包括十三经、先秦诸子、全唐诗、宋元学案、名儒学案、四库总目、朱子语类、红楼梦、白沙全集、资治通鉴、续通鉴、太平广记、史记、汉书、后汉书、三国志、晋书、宋书、南齐书、梁书、陈书、魏书、北齐书、周书、隋书、男史、北史、旧唐书、新唐书、旧五代史、新五代史、宋史、辽史、金史、元史、明史、清史稿等。

Full-text, on-line database provided by the Institute of Oriental Culture at the University of Tokyo. It contains 4,019 titles, including a large number of rare books from the late imperial period, such as Ming and Qing novels, dramatic works, classics, and legal treatises. All texts are searchable by title and can be read on-line or downloaded as full text images.