East Asian Studies: Chinese Studies: Public Resources

• Full-text Databases in Chinese Studies
• Dictionaries
• Indexes, Tables of Contents and Guide to Chinese Resources
• Guide to Chinese Language and Literature
• Scientific Information in China
• Conversion Tables: Chinese Calendar, Romanization and Currency
• Chinese Electronic Journals and Newspapers
• Regional Information on East and Southeast Asia
• Resources on Chinese Canadians
• Research Institutes for Chinese Studies
• Academic Associations in Chinese Studies
• East Asian Libraries and Overseas Library Catalogues
• East Asian Librarianship

Full-text Databases in Chinese Studies

• Chinese text retrieval system (Academia Sinica)
  Provides access to full-text searchable databases like Twenty-five Dynastic Histories (Er shi wu shi), Wen xin diao long, etc.

• Chinese text initiative (University of Virginia Library. Electronic Text Centre)
  The first searchable Chinese text available is 300 Tang Poems.

• Database of Taisho shinshu Daizokyo (Taisho Tripitaka)
  Explanation in Japanese, Chinese and English.

• Electronic Hong Kong Collection (University of Hong Kong)
  Includes Hong Kong Government Reports Online (1853-1941), Hong Kong Journals Online, Hong Kong Newspaper Clippings Online, Hong Kong Table of Contents Database, the Hong Kong University Theses Online, etc.

• World Wide Web CJK-English dictionary database

Dictionaries

• Lin Yutang Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage

• Cantonese dictionary

Indexes, Tables of Contents, and Guide to Chinese Resources

• Electronic index to the early Shenbao (1872-1895) (University of Heidelberg)

• Chinese serials database (Australian National University)
  Index to over 100 periodicals from China on economics, law and other areas.

• Index to Chinese periodical literature (National Central Library, Taipei)
  Index to periodicals from Taiwan.

• Current tables of contents of periodicals (University of Minnesota East Asian Library)
  Provides current tables of contents of selected Chinese and Japanese academic periodicals.

• Index to Kuo Mo-jo chÃ??Ã?¼an chi. Wen hsÃ?Â�Eh pien (Complete works of Guo Moruo. Literature section)

• Resources for the study of East Asian language and thought
  Includes resources on Buddhism.

• Asian Studies WWW virtual library

• Internet Guide for China Studies 

Guide to Chinese Language and Literature

• Chinese language

• Chinese literature

• Historical materials on contemporary Chinese literature
• Hong Kong literature database

Scientific Information in China

• Chinese Academy of Sciences

• School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London)

• STICNET (Science and Technology Information Center, National
  Science Council, Republic of China) 
  

Conversion Tables: Chinese Calendar, Romanization and Currency

• 2,000-year Western/Chinese & Chinese/Western calendar interactive conversion (Academia Sinica Computing Centre)

• Pinyin to Wade-Giles conversion 
      Charts supplied by OCLC CJK Users Group

• Wade-Giles to pinyin conversion 
      Charts supplied by OCLC CJK Users Group

• Wade-Giles to zhuyin to pinyin conversion table
     Chart supplied by UCLA East Asian Library

• Currency converter

Chinese Electronic Journals and Newspapers

• Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique
• E-Journal on Hong Kong Cultural and Social Studies 
• Taiwan periodicals online: Yam.com 
• Chinese periodicals online (Chinese University of Hong Kong Library)
• Yazhou zhoukan
• Far Eastern Economic Review
• China Times Interactive (Taiwan)
• Sing Tao electronic daily  
• Apple Daily resources (Hong Kong)
• Taiwan News  
• The Straits Times interactive (Singapore)

Regional Information on East and Southeast Asia

• China homepage

• Central People's Government of China

• Taiwan search guide: Yam.com

• Hong Kong World Wide Web database

• Hong Kong WWW virtual library

• Macau official homepage

• Singapore infomap

Resources on Chinese Canadians

• Asian Canadian homepage

• Chinese Canadian National Council

Research Institutes for Chinese Studies

• Academia Sinica

Academic Associations in Chinese Studies

• Chinese Language Teachers Association (USA)

• American Oriental Society

• Canadian Asian Studies Association

• Association for Asian Studies (USA)

• European Association of Chinese Studies

East Asian Libraries and Overseas Library Catalogues 

• National Library of China

• National Central Library, Taiwan, Republic of China

• University of British Columbia Asian Library

• University of Toronto Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

• The Library of Congress Asian Reading Room

• Harvard-Yenching Library

• Kyoto University. Institute for Research in Humanities (Jinbun Kagaku Kenkyujo)

• Other libraries in China

• National Taiwan University Library

• University of Hong Kong Libraries

• Chinese University of Hong Kong Library System

• East Asian libraries and collections in Canada and the United States

East Asian Librarianship

• Council on East Asian Libraries

• Chinese Librarianship, an international electronic journal
  

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 This guide contains selective resources available through the Internet or at the University of Alberta for Chinese Studies.

Any questions, comments or suggestions about the Chinese Studies area should be directed to:

Louis Chor, 492-1743 (louis.chor@ualberta.ca)    

Updated: March 21, 2007