LibGuides: Chinese: Databases

Library Databases for Chinese Studies

Many of the library's databases have articles in Chinese. Use the "language" filter to find results in Chinese. The below databases focus on Chinese-language material.

China Academic Journals Database This link opens in a new window
1994–present. A full-text database of Chinese-language journals. Articles are in Chinese and may be downloaded as PDFs. Searching can be done in English, and some abstracts are available in English as well. We subscribe to Subject Series F: Literature / History / Philosophy.
East & South Asia Database This link opens in a new window
Provides ongoing full-text academic journals that are locally published by scholarly publishing organizations and educational institutions in many East Asian and South Asian countries. Major subject areas of study are represented, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.

AnthroSource This link opens in a new window
1888–present. Full-text online resource serving the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. Developed by the American Anthropological Association.
ATLA Religion Database This link opens in a new window
1949–present. Covers religious and theological scholarship in over a thousand international journals and 14,000 multi-author works.
GenderWatch This link opens in a new window
1970–present. A collection of hundreds of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports, and conference proceedings devoted to the impact of gender across a broad range of subject areas.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Digital repository of complete full-text backfiles of several hundred scholarly journals in the Arts & Sciences, Health & General Sciences, and Ecology & Botany, except for the most recent two to five years.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Subjects covered include the nature, use, and teaching of language as well as linguistics, phonetics, speech, communication, sociolinguistics, philosophy of language, hearing and speech physiology, and related topics.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
1926–present. Online database indexing scholarship on literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Access to the full text of approximately 350 scholarly electronic journals in the arts & humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
1952–present. Includes citations and abstracts for articles in journals, conference papers, books, and dissertations in the social and behavioral sciences.
eHRAF World Cultures This link opens in a new window
A cross-cultural database that provides ethnographic studies of diverse cultures within the United States and around the world. From Human Relations Area Files.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, public policy, and public administration.

Propaganda and the Chinese Press: Global Perspectives This link opens in a new window
1946–1996. A collection of thousands of articles distributed by the New China News Agency (Xinhua), the official media outlet of China’s communist party, gathered and translated by a U.S. government agency that was part of a CIA media-monitoring project. The documents offer new insight into China’s perspective on international events and issues, as well as the role of communist mass media in Chinese culture.
Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers This link opens in a new window
1911–1949. Open-access collection of newspapers from more than 20 cities in China, spanning from the collapse of the Qing imperial dynasty through the years of provisional government and civil war to the birth of the modern People's Republic.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection‎ (1832 - 1953)
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

Coverage: 1832 - 1953

Scripta Sinica This link opens in a new window
The largest full-text Chinese database with digitized materials pertaining to the classics of traditional Sinology. An excellent resource for researching the history and culture of China.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers world history after 1450, excluding the U.S. and Canada. Indexes articles from over 2,000 journals, books, collections, and dissertations.