Oxford LibGuides: Chinese Studies: Home

Finding books for Chinese studies

Oxford has a wide range of ebooks for Chinese studies and printed books, including the main science collection in the KB Chen China Centre library. For more detailed info about our book collections visit our book page and e-Book page of this guide.

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Key databases

Oxford subscribes to many bibliographic databases. They can be used to locate journal articles, conference proceedings, books, patents, images, data and more. You can find some of the key databases for Chinese studies below, but take a look at other pages of this guide for more titles.

Databases A-Z
This is a full, searchable list of Oxford's online databases. A keyword search for ‘China’ will list all China related databases.

China Academic Journals (CNKI) - Chinese

Alternative names: CNKI Databases ; CAJ

This database provides access to the following journals categories:
Literature/ History/ Philosophy
Politics/ Military Affairs/ Law
Education & Social Sciences
Electronic Technology & Information Science
Economics & Management
Environment Science & Resources Utilization
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The resource contains a collection of full-text monographs in Chinese language. Our current selection focuses on Chinese History, Religion, Philosophy and Archaeology as well as primary resources from the Republican Period.
Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980

This resource makes available the complete British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan during one of the most turbulent and defining periods in Chinese history. It includes diplomatic dispatches, letters, newspaper cuttings, maps, reports of court cases, biographies of leading personalities, summaries of events and diverse other materials, providing unprecedented levels of detail into historical events that shaped modern and contemporary China. Topics covered include the formative periods of Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party, the Civil War and the Long March, the War against Japan, Communist Revolution and the foundation of the People’s Republic, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the Reform and Opening up.
Late Qing Dynasty Periodical Full-text Database (1833-1911) & Supplement
全國報刊索引（晚清，民國期刊全文數據庫）（上海圖書館)

Alternative names: Late Qing Dynasty Chinese Periodicals Full-text Database ; 晚清期刊全文數據庫

The database offers full-text access to Chinese periodical publications (academic, popular, literary, professional) from 1832-1949 covering a whole range of subjects including politics, history, law, language and literature, humanities and social sciences.

In addition to Chinese periodicals, the database offers access to archives of several major newspaper titles published in English in China before 1949, including North China Herald and the China Press, among many others.