Selected Resources for: Chinese Studies


Subject Librarian: Su Chen
E-Mail: suchen@umn.edu
Subject Description:


Abstracts and Indexes

Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
Academic Search Premier Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
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Bibliography of Asian Studies Authentication Required
References principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971 - broad, but not comprehensive.
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China Academic Journals Full-Text 中国学术期刊网 Authentication Required
Chinese Academic Journal Database (CAJ) contains 2424 titles of journals in History/Literature/Philosophy and Education & Social Sciences since 1994. Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty

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China National Knowledge Infrastructure Databases (CNKI) 中国知网

CNKI comprises four databases including Chinese Academic Journals Database (CAJ), China Core Newspaper Database (CCND), China Dissertations (CDMD), and China Conference Proceedings (CPCD). Searching is freely available online.

The China Academic Journals (CAJ) Database puts over 9.5 million full text articles of all academic subjects contributed by over 5,000 serials titles, nearly 2,000 in social sciences and humanities alone, at the fingertips of users. The archive begins with 1994.

With an archive beginning in 2000, the China Core Newspaper Database collects full text articles from hundreds of newspapers from every province of China.

CDMD compiles full text masters and doctoral dissertations on all subjects from over 250 Chinese universities, colleges and institutes. These include the 211 Project universities selected by the Chinese government to receive special funding to support advanced research in crucial subjects.

The China Conference Proceedings Database collects documents and articles from the conferences of over 340 national and international societies and associations holding conferences in China.


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Historical Abstracts Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Covers the world's scholarship in history from 1450 to the present.
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Hong Kong Chinese Periodical Index 香港中文期刊論文索引
Index to articles published on over 300 Chinese and English journals since 1980
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Ingenta Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
This index provides bibliographic citations derived from tables of contents pages of over 26,000 journals.
Remote access available for University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities students, staff and faculty
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JSTOR Authentication Required
Index to JSTOR, full text academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication up to a date defined, on a publisher by publisher basis, by a "moving wall". The moving wall is a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue and the date of the most recent issues available in JSTOR.
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Project Muse Authentication Required
Index to full-text collection of journals in literary theory, classics, history and cultural studies, philosophy, film, theater and performing arts, political science, and mathematics. From Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Wanfang Data Search 万方数据检索
Citations and indexes to data contains in Wanfang database
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
Factiva Authentication Required
Full text source of global news and business information, major daily newspapers, newswires, academic and trade journals, magazines, transcripts of media programs, web sites, images. Covers multiple-language content of 9,000 sources from 152 countries in 22 languages. Background and financial information is also available on 25,000 publicly traded companies and along with market data on equities, funds, and indices. Search the full-text of the Wall Street Journal and other general, business and trade magazines and newspapers. Limited to 7 simultaneous users.
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Factiva.Com How To Get Results
Journal titles not included in this academic version of Factiva
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ProQuest Newsstand Authentication Required
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education.
ProQuest Newsstand provides indexing and abstracting for 150 full-text titles, plus another 200 regional news sources. Full-text titles include The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Barron's, The Boston Globe, The Christian, Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other newspapers of record.
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World News Connection Authentication Required
Full-text summaries of foreign newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. Formerly published as FBIS and JPRS Reports.
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Catalogs and Bibliographies

Bibliographies
Catalog of Extant Ming Gazetteers
Primarily catalog of the extant Chinese local gazetteers produced in Ming dynasty (1368-1644). Please contact Su Chen at suchen@umn.edu for questions.
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Catalogs

MNCAT Classic
Search with MNCAT Classic to find books, journals, etc. owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title, or author for materials on your topic. MNCAT Classic lacks the faceted searching of MNCAT Plus, but can be easier to use if you already have a good idea of what you're looking for.
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MNCAT Plus
Search for books, conference proceedings, journals, maps, and other items in our collection.
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New Books on East Asian Studies
Newly cataloged Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English books on East Asian Studies in MNCAT.
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WorldCat Authentication Required
This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education
Covers all subjects. Provides bibliographic citations of books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films and machine-readable data files published worldwide. Provides holdings information for nearly 30,000 libraries. Producer/Publisher is OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 65 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again.


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General Reference Sources

Country Studies

Library of Congress Country Studies
The Library of Congress Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world. The series examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
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Dissertations and Theses
Digital Dissertations Authentication Required
Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities. Doctoral dissertations are indexed for almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Masters theses from selected schools only. Provides bibliographic citations for older titles. Abstracts are included for dissertations since 1980 and for masters theses since 1988. Some dissertations, beginning with 1997 publication dates, are available digitally. These include the University of Minnesota and other CIC member universities.
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Dissertation abstract from China 中國國家圖書館
Abstract of over 120,000 dissertations from Chinese universities on various subjects
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Dissertation abstract from Taiwan 台湾博碩士論文資訊網
Abstract of dissertations and theses from Taiwan on various subjects
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Encyclopedias

Field Guides

Industry Profiles
China Industry Reports Authentication Required
Provides industry information on China. IBISWorld analysts use a variety of sources in their research ranging from the National Bureau of Statistics, and industry associations, to company reports, surveys and personal contact.
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Internet Resources

Blogs

Electronic Books
ChinaMaxx 超星中文电子书 Authentication Required
ChinaMaxx contains over 710,000 full-text Chinese e-books from cover to cover on wide range of subject areas. Selected titles also can be found in MNCAT. For accessing the e-books, please follow the brief instructions contained in the login page. ChinaMaxx only works with the Internet Explorer browser. Firefox and Safari are not supported. You will need to install a plug-in to view e-books.
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Scripta Sinica 漢籍電子文獻資料庫 (中央研究院 歷史語言研究所) Authentication Required
"Han ji dian zi wen xian zi liao ku" developed and maintained by the Academia Sinica since 2000. This database contains over 441 Chinese classic titles such as 《明史》、《明實錄》、《明經世文編》、《清史稿》、《清朝文獻通考》、《清朝續文獻通考》、《清實錄》等。
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Siku Quanshu 四庫全書 Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
Please note: Requires Internet Explorer (IE) 5.0 or above. This resource does not work with Firefox, Safari, or other browsers.
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Web Sites


Multimedia Materials

Audio Resources
Learning Japanese Online
Learning Japanese Online (LJO) is designed to provide self-studying tools for Japanese language learners. With generous support from ALC Inc, the website was created with materials of Nihongo Journal, a monthly magazine for Japanese learners.
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Image Resources
Discovering Chinese Culture through Arts
The project digitizes and catalogs 1,260 Chinese art objects selected by the renowned ceramic scholars Harry Garrner and Margaret Medley from 75 museums around the world found in Chinese Art in Three-Dimensional Colour(donated by Mr. Jonathan R. Gross to the East Asian Library)
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Photographs of pre-1949 China in the YMCA Archives
The project digitized and cataloged 717 black and white photos took by YMCA employees in China filed between 1896 and 1949.
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Propaganda through Popular Media: Film, Photograph, Poster, and Slide from China, Japan and Korea
COMING SOON--The project aggregates a group of visual materials including film, photograph, poster, and slides, centered on the theme of propaganda and its promotion through popular media from China, Japan and Korea. These unique visual resources can be accessed online for authorized users.
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Videos and Films



Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions

News Sources
People's Daily 人民日报 Authentication Required
The full-text and full-image database of the Peoples' Daily offers intuitive interface and full-text search and browse functions.
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PressDisplay Authentication Required
Full-page digital archive updated daily with current news from 650 national and international newspapers. Rolling 90-day archive. A number of newspapers feature translation, audio and more (example: Le Figaro). Tip: Quickly browse sources using the Select Title-dropdown in the upper right corner.
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Primary Source Materials

Archival Materials
Grand Secretariat Archives 內閣大庫檔案 (中央研究院 歷史語言研究所) Authentication Required
There are approximately 310,000 items in the Grand Secretariat Archives at the Institute of History and Philology. These include imperial decrees, edicts, memorials, tribute documents, examination questions, examination papers, rosters of successful examination candidates, documents from the offices of the Grand Secretariat, documents from the offices for book compilation, and old documents from Mukden. Memorials make up the bulk of these documents. The archives contain valuable source materials for institutional, social and economic historians. They record general administrative activities and legal cases, many of which cannot be found in Ch'ing legal compendia.
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Historical Documents
Chinese Ming History Seen through Illustrated Maps

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Statistics and Data

Data Resources
China Data Online Authentication Required
Current and historical statistics on population and economics at the national, provincial and local level. From the China Data Center at the University of Michigan.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides

Bibliography Software



RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager Authentication Required This database is enhanced by Find It: the University Libraries Linking Service.
RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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University of Minnesota

Related U of M Web Sites
East Asian Library Web Page
The East Asian Library contains books and periodicals in Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. -- In addition to library information, this site includes links to selected journals and Internet Resources.
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InterLibrary Loan (if not in MNCAT)
-- - Faculty, students and staff in the Health Sciences may request materials not held by the University Libraries, University of Minnesota Twin City Campus Libraries.
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Requst Chinese Academic Journal Articles from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong
The free service made available by the East Asian Library at University of Pittsburgh for scholars, students and research individuals.
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Library Information

Primary Subject Location


Chinese, Japanese, and some Korean vernacular materials.
Campus: West Bank, Minneapolis Campus
Address: S-75 Wilson Library
Telephone: 612-624-9833
Main URL: http://eastasian.lib.umn.edu/
Reference URL: http://infopoint.lib.umn.edu/
Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/OMWL/index.html
Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/fetch_hours.phtml?LibID=11