This research guide is designed to provide an overview of both online and print resources related to Chinese studies available at the USC libraries and on the internet.
CRG is a centralized means for discovery and access to a breadth of Chinese resources, including scholarly journals, monographs, statistical publications, government documents, newspapers, dissertations, patents, and more.
Includes thousands of Chinese journals in the humanities and social sciences from mainland China from 1997 on. Also includes select monographic series titles, such as 元史及民族与边疆研究集刊, 藏外佛教文献, etc.
Known as Chinese Google Scholar, Duxiu provides access to a huge amount of full-text scholarly resources in all subjects and formats, such as books, theses & dissertations, journal & newspaper articles, conference papers, etc.
Paste this link in the browser https://libraries.usc.edu/sites/default/files/duxiu_instructions.pdf for instructions about how to request full-text content from the database.
'Pishu' (皮书, which literally means ‘cover-books’) are high-value analytical reports intended to guide policymaking in the People’s Republic of China. They are published by the prestigious Social Sciences Academic Press, a branch of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Covered topics include a variety of issues of importance to China's government and research community, including international relations, agricultural policy, and industry competitiveness. They may be considered somewhat analogous to United States Congressional Research Service reports and analysis reports published by the RAND Corporation.
A government-sponsored open access journal database. Provides 1000+ important Chinese journals, including a complete run of 500+ titles. Please note that you need to create a free account with the site in order to access the full-text content.
Provides full-text access to academic journals, theses and dissertations from Taiwan (mostly), mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and other countries in all disciplines.
A full-text image database providing access to selected academic and professional journals, both in English and Chinese, published in Hong Kong. Titles included in this database cover a wide range of disciplines including law, medicine and education.
Includes digitized part of the personal archive kept by Mr. Augustine Chiu-yu Mok about the work he has done with his friends of The 1970's syndicate and Asian People's Theatre practitioners.
Developed by the National Central Library in Taiwan. Provides citations and some full texts of Chinese and Western-language journals primarily published in Taiwan and some in Hong Kong and Macau since 1970. Also includes some journals published prior to 1970.
Developed by the Shanghai Library, Late Qing/Republican Periodicals Database provides full-text access to thousands of periodicals and magazines published in China from 1833 to 1949.
Only 1 user is allowed to access the database at one time.
Please note that you need to create an individual account with the site in order to access the full-text content and use “borrow/read 借阅” function for each title. Please refer to their FAQ section for more instructions. CADAL includes thousands of journals and newspapers from the Republican period. The titles are not full-text searchable, but they provide tables of contents for easy navigation and virtual loan.
An online index of first and second series of Photocopied Collections of Republican Buddhist Journals compiled by Huang Xianian 黃夏年. USC libraries have all the photocopied journals in print.
The Missionary, Sinology, and Literary Periodicals (1817-1949) Collection includes:
• Bulletin of the Catholic University of Peking (1926–1934)
• The Canton Miscellany (1831)
• The China Critic (1928–1946)
• The China Mission Year Book (1907–1939)
• The China Quarterly (1935-1941)
• The China Review, or Notes and Queries on the Far East (1872-1902)
• The China Year Book (1912–1939)
• The Chinese and Japanese Repository (1863–1865)
• Chinese Miscellany (1830, 1845, 1849)
• The Chinese Recorder (1867–1941)
• Educational Review (1907–1938)
• The Indo - Chinese Gleaner (1817-1822)
• New China Review (1919–1922)
• Notes and Queries on China and Japan (1867–1869)
• T’ien Hsia Monthly (天下, 1935–1941)
• West China Missionary News (1899-1943)
• Yenching Journal of Social Studies (1938-1949)
Contains citation records and some full texts on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published in Western-languages from 1971 to the present.
Through the 1991 printed version, the BAS included citations to Western-language periodical articles, monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Monographs published since 1992 have not been added to the database, and users seeking such monographs are urged to consult other general resources and databases (RLIN, OCLC, etc.). The online BAS offers users various methods for seeking citations. A separate screen allows users to set their preferences for displaying and downloading data in different formats and character encodings. The BAS is updated regularly, with batch posting of thousands of new entries in each upload.
A full-text English-language scholarly journal database. Includes a subject list of Asian and Pacific studies journals.
As of January 2012, Project Muse has added thousands of University Press ebooks to its collection. However, USC DOES NOT have access to them. If you are interested in one of these titles, please search Homer or Quick Search to see if we have a copy.