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Yale's subscription has 158 titles (320 volumes) of authoritative Chinese reference books, including Hanyu da cidian 漢語大詞典, Ci hai 辭海, Zhongguo da baike quanshu 中國大百科全書, Xinjiang baike quan shu 新疆百科全书, etc. You can see a complete list of titles in the database from here: http://tinyurl.com/cxxzedx.

A huge content-based database consisting of 800,000,000 full text pages, with very flexible searches (full-text, books, journal and newspaper articles, theses, conference proceedings, etc.).

A compilation of Buddhist technical terminology texts, temples, schools, persons, etc. that are found in East Asian Buddhist canonical sources.

Provides access to monthly and yearly macro-economics statistics, county statistics, census, statistical yearbooks, and more.

Provides access to statistics, business reports, economic news, and legal regulations from contemporary China.

Yale's subscription includes over 300 statistical yearbooks at national, provincial, city and county levels.

The key source for searching scholarly journal literature published in mainland China. Provides access to thousands of Chinese journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and medicine, with many full-text articles dating back as early as 1915.

Another key source for searching journal literature in mainland China. Includes thousands of Chinese journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Collects core newspaper articles from nearly 1,000 newspaper titles published in mainland China since 2000.

The largest full-text database of periodicals published during the Republican Period. It includes more than 20,000 titles, such as Cosmic Wind 宇宙風, The Young Companion 良友 and Shun Pao Monthly 申報月刊. It allows full-text searching and downloading of scanned PDF files from the print periodicals.

As the official organ of the Chinese government, the People's Daily has comprehensive coverage of China's social, economic, and political affairs. Please try to refresh the browser if you see "service temporarily unavailable" error message. If it is not working, please contact us immediately.

Official newspaper of Taiwan during the Japanese colonial period. Includes both Japanese (1898.5-1944.3) and Chinese (1905.7-1911.11) editions, and covers legislation and news as well as cultural activities in Taiwan under Japanese occupation.

The largest Chinese newspaper and periodical online index database created by the Shanghai Library. Covers the period from 1857 till now, with 15,000,000 items from 15,000 newspapers and periodicals published in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The largest Chinese full text database for the study of pre-modern China. IE recommended. Click on "授權使用" button to access the database.

The most comprehensive collection of Chinese scholarship up to the 18th century. Covers a wide variety of subjects in the humanities, science, and social sciences.

Contains nearly 10,000 titles of Chinese gazetteers at all levels from Song Dynasty till the Republican Period. To get to the database, please go to http://tinyurl.com/87eygam for instructions.

Features approximately 310,000 documents originally collected by the Grand Secretariat of the Qing dynasty. Includes imperial decrees, edicts, memorials, tribute documents, examination documents, documents from the offices of the Grand Secretariat, documents from the offices for book compilation, and old documents from Mukden.

Provides metadata searching and full image reproductions of Qing Palace Memorials and Archives of the Grand Council held in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.

Contains more than 7,000 works (17,000 volumes) of Tibetan texts. Each year between 500,000 and 1,000,000 million pages are added.