History Of China

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History of China

Classic Texts

A Mencius Reader: For Beginning and Advanced Students of Classical Chinese.
Chinese Text Project

An online digital library that makes pre-modern (pre-Qin and Han, post-Han) Chinese texts available online. Includes annotations, overlayed dictionary entries, references, English translations, and more.

Ming Qing Women's Writings

A digitized collection of writings from women in late imperial China (1368-1911).

Guides

Asia for Educator

Includes resources for studies on East Asia. Navigate by theme or time period.

Early Republican Period - Present For current UWest patrons only.

A brief overview of Chinese history from the early republican period (1912) to present.

Reference (Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Bibliographies)

Chinese Civilization in Time and Space Abstract only.

Enables search of historical place names in Chinese history.

Chinese-English Dictionary of Ming Government Official Titles 明代職官中英辭典
Resource List for the Study of Buddhism in China, 1850-1949 Abstract only.
Southeast Asia in the Ming Shi-lu

An English translation of the Ming Shi-lu, which can be searched and browsed by year.

明實錄衛所事件 Ming Shi-lu

A searchable database for events recorded in the Ming Dynasty's Ming Shi-lu as written in Chinese. An English translation of the Ming Shi-lu can be found here.

Periodicals (Journals, Magazines, and Newspapers)

Chinese Studies in History For current UWest patrons only. Mixed abstract and full-text.
Republican China Min guo
国家图书馆·民国期刊数据库

民国中文期刊是国家图书馆保存的民国时期文献之一。为了有效的保护文献、利用文献，国家图书馆早已完成馆藏民国期刊的缩微胶片制作，近年来又开展缩微胶片的数字扫描工作，预计将在三年内完成近600万拍缩微胶片的数字转换。
 
　　民国中文期刊资源库以书目数据、篇名数据、数字对象为内容，提供简单检索、高级检索、二次检索、关联检索和条件限定检索。现提供4351种期刊电子影像的全文浏览。资源库遵循边建设边服务的原则，将不断追加更新资源库内容。

近代中國史硏究通訊 Newsletter for modern Chinese history