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东洋学文献类目  

http://www.kanji.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/index.html.en

Also known as Toyogaku bunken ruimoku, this is a large-scale bibliography of scholarship in Chinese, Japanese and Western languages on China. It is the creation of Kyoto Univeresity's Institute for Research in Humanities. You don't need to know Japanese to use this database.

Bibliography of Asian Studies  

http://0-ets.umdl.umich.edu.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/b/bas/

1971- .

References western-language books, chapters in edited volumes, journal articles, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften on all parts of Asia. Allows browsing by subject, journal title, or by country/region or search by topic. Covers the social sciences as well as the humanities.

Location: Ref. Z3001.B53 1971-1991

China Academic Journals (CAJ Full-text Database)  

http://0-china.eastview.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

Full-text electronic versions of selected articles from Chinese academic periodicals. Database is Series F, part of CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), a national project to digitize all Chinese knowledge-based information resources. Subject coverage of Series F: literature, philosophy, history, archaeology, music, arts, sports, folk custom, language, and news. Chiefly in Chinese. Some articles have English abstracts.

General/Many Subjects

East Asian Gateway Service for Chinese and Korean Academic Journal Publications  

http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/eal/Gateway-Home.htm

Provides free delivery of full-text copies of Chinese language academic journal articles to any researcher in the U.S. Journal publications are transmitted digitally from China and Taiwan

JSTOR   RefWorks Enabled

http://0-www.jstor.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu

Full text (in PDF format) of selected, important scholarly journals in a number of fields. Note: journals in JSTOR usually do not include the most recent three to five years. For more recent articles, use one of the other indexes listed in this section.

Background Information

Dictionaries

Chinese-English Dictionary  

http://www.mandarintools.com/worddict.html

An online Chinese-English dictionary

English-Chinse Dictionary  

http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict.html

An online English-Chinese dictionary

Books & Library Catalogs

Electronic Books

Siku Quanshu  

http://us.subscriptionv3.skqs.com/skqs/download/

The SKQS is the single largest collection of literary works in the world, with 3,460 works and 36,000 volumes. Compiled by edict of China's Emperor Qianlong during the period from 1773-1782, its title can be translated as the Complete Library of Four Treasures (Classics, History, Literature and Biography). Requires installation of client program. Install setup.exe file.

Data & Statistics

Statistical Resources

China Data Online  

http://0-chinadataonline.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/eng/ereg/ceitgroup.asp

1997-

Statistical data at the national, provincial (31), county (over 2000), and city (over 700) level. The Website contains annual macroeconomic, industry, and socioeconomic data, with some monthly data. A few market research reports and trade data (in Chinese). Authorized by the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics.

Location: Lau Ref HA4631 .C47 (1985- )

Government & Legal Resources

International Resources

Development research center of the state council of P.R. China  

http://www.drc.gov.cn/

A policy research and consulting institution directly under the State Council of the People's Republic of China

Government Information Office, Republic of China (Taiwan)  

http://www.gio.gov.tw/

A website which lists the main government offices in Taiwan.

Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China  

http://www.gov.hk/en/residents/

This webpage list out the basic information about Hong Kong, from the form of government to the languages used.

Internet Resources

Web Sites

china.provost.georgetown.edu  

http://china.provost.georgetown.edu

As the Georgetown University's page on China, it provides all the important information on the academic exchange programs between Georgetown and China's renowned institutions of higher education, Georgetown scholar's research on China and the core academic resources.

News Sources

General News Sources

World News Connection  

http://0-wnc.dialog.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/

July 1994- .

Provided by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Contains translations of worldwide news and commentary from foreign television and radio broadcasts, newspapers, and periodicals from July 1994 to the present. World News Connection replaces Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). For earlier FBIS Daily Reports, consult the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports database (digitized, full text) or use the FBIS Index to the microfiche content. Microfiche are located on the first floor in Government Documents and Microforms.