Trials
- Chinese Classic Ancient Books Series Database 中华经典古籍库 (through Jan 31, 2025)
Contemporary Journals, Magazines, Newspapers, and Conference Proceedings
- Airiti Library 華藝線上圖書館
- Biblioteca Virtual de Macau 澳門虛擬圖書館 — Journals
- China/Asia On Demand (CAOD) (Oriprobe Information Services) pay per use journal articles database
- China Online Journals 中国学术期刊数据库 (万方数据)
- CNKI 中国知网 (China National Knowledge Infrastructure 中国知识基础设施工程) English Interface, Simplified Chinese Interface
- Hong Kong Journals Online
- Sinica Sinoweb 中研院經典人文學刊
- Taiwan Open Access Journals 臺灣學術期刊開放取用平台
- EBSCO Discovery Service
- JSTOR
- ProQust
Contemporary Ebooks
- Airiti Library 華藝線上圖書館
- Biblioteca Virtual de Macau 澳門虛擬圖書館 — Eboos
- China-US Million Book Digital Library Project 高等学校中英文图书数字化国际合作计划
- E-Books for NCL’s TRCCS and TADRC Partner Institutions 臺灣學術數位資源中心電子書平臺
- Open Books Hong Kong
- EBSCO Discovery Service
- JSTOR
- ProQust
Dissertations
- Biblioteca Virtual de Macau 澳門虛擬圖書館 — Dissertation
- CNKI 中国知网 (China National Knowledge Infrastructure 中国知识基础设施工程) English Interface, Simplified Chinese Interface
- China Dissertations Database 中国学位论文全文数据库 (万方数据)
- Chinese University of Hong Kong Electronic Theses & Dissertations Collection
- Foreign Sinologists Dissertation Abstract Database 典藏國際漢學博士論文摘要資料庫
- National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan 臺灣博碩士論文知識加值系統 — Personal account required
- University of Hong Kong Theses
- ProQuest Dissertation
Gazette 地方志 and Archives
- Bibliography of Local Gazetteers of Chinese Provinces 中國大陸各省地方志書目查詢系統
- China Local Gazetteers (万方数据)
- China Comprehensive Gazetteers 中国综合方志库
- Hong Kong Chronicles Institute 香港地方志中心
- Hong Kong Government Reports Online (1842–1941)
- Hong Kong SAR Gazette
- Macao SAR Gazette
- 國家檔案資訊網
Historical Materials (Chinese Original Texts)
- Chinese Text Project 中國哲學書電子化計劃
- Digital Archive of Rare Books 善本古籍數位典藏系統
- Reconstruction of the Momijiyama-bunko Library: Digital 紅葉山文庫
- Modern History Databases 近代史數位資料庫 — 清代檔案與史料, 性別與婦女史, 近代城市史料, 海關資料, etc.
- Rare Books Digital Images Database System 古籍與特藏文獻資源 — 金石拓片資料, 晚清期刊, etc.
- Siku Quanshu (Wenyuange Edition) 文淵閣四庫全書電子版 — This is a client database for current students, faculty, and staff of this campus ONLY. For name and password, please contact Wendy Allen Shelburne, shelburn@illinois.edu. Please use IE to download.
Historical Materials (from Foreign Sources)
- Area Studies: China and Southeast Asia (AM Primary Sources)– A varied array of records of traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats, from the mid-seventeenth century to the late twentieth century
- Asian Studies (Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound)
- Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange (Gale Primary Sources: Nineteenth Century Collections Online)– Despatches from U.S. Consuls in China; Missionary Files: Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Correspondence (China, Japan, Korea); Notes from the Chinese Legation in the United States to the Department of State; Selected Records of the U.S. Legation in China
- China, America and the Pacific (AM Primary Sources)
- China: Culture and Society (AM Primary Sources)– Pamphlets from Cornell University Library’s Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia
- China: Trade, Politics & Culture (AM Primary Sources) — Sources from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Library, London: 1793–1980
- China and the Modern World: Diplomacy and Political Secrets, 1869–1950 (Gale Primary Sources) — A compilation of China-related historical documents selected from three series within the India Office Records: the Political and Secret Department Records, the Burma Office records, and the Records of the Military Department
- China and the Modern World: Hong Kong, Britain and China, 1841–1951 (Gale Primary Sources) — Digitized from the British Colonial Office records grouped under the CO 129 Series titled “War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Hong Kong, Original Correspondence”
- CO129 Index (HKU Libraries)
- Foreign Office Files for China, 1919–1980 (AM Primary Sources)
- HathiTrust
- Internet Archive
Historical Newspapers and Periodicals
- Bilingual Database and Annotated Bibliography of Cantonese Popular Periodicals of the Early Twentieth Century 二十世紀初省港澳通俗刊物雙語資料庫
- Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (CNBKSY) 全国报刊索引
- East Asian Newspapers and Periodicals 1850–1950
- Eastern Miscellany 東方雜誌
- Early Chinese Periodicals Online (ECPO) — University of Heidelberg
- Index to the Periodicals Published during the Late Qing and Republican Eras
- Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers — Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
- Ling Long 玲瓏
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection
- ProQuest South China Morning Post
- Shen Bao Digital Archive 申报
- 華人剪報資料庫
- University of Illinois Library Newspaper Database
Selected Digital Projects
- Biblioteca Virtual de Macau 澳門虛擬圖書館
- China Government Employee Database—Qing《缙绅录》
- China Studies Digital Archives Mapping Project — Open databases and primary source repositories — American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)
- Chinese Picture Story Books Digital Library 中国连环画数字图书馆
- Chinese University of Hong Kong Library-Digitized Collections 香港中文大学图书馆-数码馆藏
- Companies & Products of China: China Business Reference (Oriprobe Information Services)
- Digital Dunhuang 数字敦煌
- Digital Silk Road Project
- Grand Secretariat archives 內閣大庫檔案
- University of Hong Kong Libraries Digital Repository 香港大学图书馆-数码馆藏
- Historical Photographs of China
- International Dunhuang Programme (IDP) 國際敦煌項目
- Ivy Plus Libraries’ Digital Projects on East Asia
- My China Roots 中華家脉
- MIT Visualizing Cultures
- Virtual Shanghai Project
- Zhang Letian Fieldwork Database 张乐天联民村数据库
Full Text Delivery
- Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery
- University of Pittsburgh’s East Asian Library: East Asian Gateway Service (EAGS) — The service focuses on free delivery of full-text Chinese and Korean language academic publications to researchers.