Internet Resources for Chinese Studies

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Chinese E-texts Archives

Libraries and Online Catalogues

Bibliographies and Databases

Journals

Online Dictionaries

Scholarly Associations and Newsletters

Publishers and Bookdealers

Other Websites of Interest

 

Stanford users:

Resources marked with the icon are licensed for Stanford University. Some of them include a separate URL for Stanford users.

See a complete list of available databases, databases for Asian studies, instructions for off-campus access, and an important note for Mac OS X users

 

See also:

Taoist Studies in the World Wide Web (for websites and resources dealing specifically with Taoism)

 

Other catalogues of resources for Chinese studies:

All students of Asian civilizations using the Internet for their work are indebted to T. Matthew Ciolek and his Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library

Information on new resources is listed in the Asian Studies WWW Monitor

The Internet Guide for China Studies (hereafter IGCS), edited by Hanno Lecher, is an invaluable repertoire of Internet resources

Asia Resources on the WWW (Association for Asian Studies), the H-ASIA website, and Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks also offer extended collections of links

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Chinese E-texts Archives

• Wenyuange Siku quanshu dianziban neilian wangban, full text of the largest collection of Chinese texts
• CHANT (CHinese ANcient Texts), an excellent collection of early texts ( Stanford access)
• Zhongyang yanjiuyuan Hanji dianzi wenxian (Scripta Sinica), a large repository of primary sources from the Academia sinica, publicly available only in part ( Stanford access)
• Full-text Searchable Archive of Ancient Works (National Palace Museum), with several texts including the Siku quanshu zongmu tiyao
• CBETA (Chinese Buddhist Electronic Texts Association), for texts from the Buddhist Canon
• International Dunhuang Project
• Text Archive for Sinology (Mugitani Kunio)
• Hokkaido Kanseki Database (Katsuyama Minoru), with the bibliographic sections of the dynastic histories
• Chinese Philosophical Etext Archive (Steve Angle), focused on Confucian and Neo-Confucian texts

For Buddhist texts see also the website of the Electronic Buddhist Texts Initiative (EBTI), and Iyanaga Nobumi's Buddhist E-text Resources (visit also the other pages of Iyanaga's website, including the valuable Research Tools and Tips on Chinese and Japanese computing).

For Taoist texts see Taoist Studies in the World Wide Web.

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Libraries and Online Catalogues

The main repertoire of online library catalogues for Chinese studies is Libraries and Library Resources for Chinese Studies, edited by Matthias Kaun (visit the other sections of his website for anything related to books on China).

Libraries in Europe and the USA:

• Library of Congress (USA)
• British Library
• COPAC, a union catalogue of UK libraries, fast and easy to use
• EVOCS (European Virtual OPAC for Chinese Studies) simultaneously searches the holdings of major Sinological libraries in Europe (also includes books in Chinese)
• SOAS (London)
• Sinologisch Instituut (Leiden)
• Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises, Collège de France (Paris)

Libraries in the People's Republic of China:

• National Library of China, in simplified characters (GuoBiao)
• Beijing University Library, in simplified characters (GuoBiao)
• Shanghai Library, in simplified characters (GuoBiao)
• Union catalogue of rare editions (shanben) in People's Republic of China libraries
• For more library catalogues in the People's Republic of China see Online Libraries (Tsinghua University)

Libraries in Taiwan:

• NBI Net is a union catalogue of Taiwan libraries
• National Central Library (Taipei), in traditional characters (Big5)
• The National Central Library also offers several other bibliographic services and databases, including a union catalogue of rare editions (shanben) in Taiwan libraries

Libraries in Japan:

• NACSIS Webcat is a union catalogue of Japanese libraries
• Zenkoku Kanseki Database is a union catalogue of Chinese primary sources in Japanese libraries
• Tokyo University provides several services, including a Book Contents Database ("allows you to search for books held in the libraries of the University of Tokyo by looking at their tables of contents or information taken from their summaries and dust jackets")
• Kyoto University

For libraries worldwide see Libweb - Library Servers via WWW (U.C. Berkeley). In February 2007, this website listed "over 7500 pages from libraries in over 135 countries."

The European Center for Digital Resources in Chinese Studies (ChinaResource.org ) at the Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, offers "on-site, and where ever possible via the Internet, access to the broadest possible array of China-related digital resources. . . . Apart from copyright-protected items, the resources are accessible worldwide. Local research assistants can be hired to handle searches only possible locally." [From description in Asian Studies WWW Monitor.]

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Bibliographies and Databases

Stanford users: See all available databases, databases for Asian studies, instructions for off-campus access, and an important note for Mac OS X users.

Several bibliographies for Chinese studies are listed in Online Bibliographies for Chinese Studies (part of the IGCS).

One can easily obtain bibliographies by searching databases available through the Internet, such as the following:

• Bibliography of Asian Studies: On-line (BAS On-line, Association for Asian Studies), requires institutional subscription ( Stanford access)
• The Bibliography of Oriental Studies on the Web (Kyoto University) allows searches for Japanese and Chinese and Western-language titles
• The extremely useful NACSIS catalogue of articles published in Japanese journals
• A searchable database of books published in the PRC available from NBI Net (Taiwan)
• The Taipei National Central Library offers an online database of articles published in Taiwan journals
• The Bibliography of Western Works on Early Medieval China lists works in Western languages on the period of Chinese history between the end of the Han dynasty and the Sui dynasty
• Another useful resource is the catalogue of Japanese books in print

Online bibliographic guides to Chinese studies include:

• Classical Historiography for Chinese History, by Benjamin Elman
• Reference Works for Chinese Studies, by Leif Littrup
• Chinese Cultural Studies: Bibliographical Guide, by Paul Halsall
• UCLA Guide to East Asian Buddhist Studies: Reference Works, by Robert Buswell and William Bodiford
• Song Research Tools, by Hilde De Weerdt
• Guide to Ming Studies, by Leo K. Shin

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Journals

Note: JSTOR, Project Muse, Infotrac, Cambridge Journals, and Blackwell require institutional subscription. Stanford users: Instructions for off-campus access, and an important note for Mac OS X users.

Asia Major	table of contents
Asian Folklore Studies	JSTOR || Infotrac
B. C. Asian Review	online articles
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies	JSTOR || Cambridge Journals
China Review International	Project Muse || Infotrac || table of contents
Early China	table of contents
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies	JSTOR || Infotrac
History of Religions	JSTOR || Infotrac
Journal of the American Oriental Society	JSTOR || Infotrac || table of contents
Journal of Asian Studies	JSTOR || table of contents
Journal of Chinese Philosophy	Blackwell || Infotrac
Journal of Chinese Religions	table of contents
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society	Cambridge Journals
Late Imperial China	Project Muse
Monumenta Serica	table of contents
Philosophy East and West	Project Muse || Infotrac
Revue Bibliographique de Sinologie	table of contents
Journal of Song-Yuan Studies	table of contents
T'oung Pao	Infotrac

For more links see Asian & Pacific Studies Electronic Journals (a section of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library), and Online Journals (a section of the IGCS).

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Online dictionaries

• Jitsû, a Japanese dictionary of Chinese characters edited by the eminent Japanese philologist, Shirakawa Shizuka ()
• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (Yitizi zidian) is a project of the National Taiwan Normal University promoted by the Taiwan Ministry of Education; contains over 100,000 character variants
• CJKV-English Dictionary, by Charles Muller, is an online CJVK-English dictionary ("CJKV" stands for "Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese") ()
• Digital Dictionary of Buddhism is another project led by Charles Muller ()
• The Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms (Soothill and Hodous) has been digitized by Charles Muller
• Chinese Character Genealogy, by Rick Harbaugh, encoded in traditional Chinese (Big5) and in simplified Chinese (GuoBiao)
• Chinese Characters Dictionary Web, by Rick Harbaugh, encoded in traditional Chinese (Big5) and in simplified Chinese (GuoBiao), provides a unified interface to several dictionaries including some of those listed above

For more links see Language (part of the IGCS) and the China page at YourDictionary.com.

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Scholarly Associations and Newsletters

• Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and the AAS Newsletter
• International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) and the IIAS Newsletter
• European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) and the EACS Newsletter
• Early China

For more links see Learned Societies (a section of the IGCS).

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Publishers and Bookdealers

Association of American University Presses Association for Asian Studies E.J. Brill Cambridge U.P. Chinese U.P. Columbia U.P. Harvard U.P. Indiana U.P.

Oxford U.P. Princeton U.P. Stanford U.P. SUNY Press U. of California Press U. of Chicago Press U. of Hawaii Press U. of Michigan Press

For more links see Bookdealers & Publishers (a section of Libraries and Library Resources for Chinese Studies), and Online Bookshops (a section of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library).

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Other Websites of Interest

Buddhism:

• Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library, edited by Matthew T. Ciolek, Joe Bransford Wilson, et al.
• Buddhism (part of the IGCS)
• Encyclopedia of Buddhism, edited by Robert E. Buswell
• Resources for East Asian Language and Thought (Charles Muller)

Chinese science and medicine:

• Science and Medicine (part of the IGCS)
• Needham Research Institute and the home page of Science and Civilisation in China
• East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine
• ChiMed (Chinese Medicine)

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Fabrizio Pregadio (Stanford University - Department of Religious Studies)
URL of this page: www.stanford.edu/~pregadio/chinese_studies.html - Date and time of access: Friday, 25-Jul-2008 12:44:23 PDT
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