Daniel Goldstein
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by Daniel Goldstein – December 9, 2021
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“Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies provides an authoritative guide to the key works across the whole field, pointing researchers and practitioners at all levels to the most important scholarship in European languages as well as in Chinese (and Japanese), and giving scholars working in other fields easier access to scholarship on China.”
A completely revised bibliography of Japanese history to the end of the Meiji period, by Peter Kornicki. The original appeared in 1996 (UC-Davis has this copy at H/SS Reference, call no. DS835 K67 1996.) The bibliography is arranged by period and also by topics such as foreign relations 1800-1900 and Meiji economic, intellectual, social, and military history.
The NPCC collects all data gathered from the 2010 population census, including population data at the country, province, centrally administered municipality and county unit levels.
The Oriental Economist Digital Archive is an online version of the print journal Oriental Economist originally published monthly between 1934 and 1985 and weekly between January 1946 and August 1952 in Japan (in 874 volumes in 44,000 pages). It is one of the very few commercial journals in English with a focus on the Asian economy that lasted over 50 years from the pre-war period. While the Oriental Economist included some translations of articles published in the Japanese journal Tōyō Keizai Shinpō (1895-1960) /Shūkan Tōyō Keizai (1960-present), it also published its original contents.
NOTE: There is a limit of 4 simultaneous users systemwide on the JapanKnowledge Platform (for all their resources). Please try later if you can’t get in immediately.
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This is a full-text collection of more than 7400 Chinese-language journals. They represent a wide mix of disciplines, including engineering, agronomy, social sciences, culture, education, philosophy and medicine published from 1949-present.
NOTE: Users have two ways to get full-text articles – downloading a PDF directly from the interface and document delivery. If users see a PDF icon, they can download the article directly. If users see an Email icon, they can click on it, fill in an email address and the verification code (Captcha) and the user will receive the article by email.
NICNP is provided by Shanghai Wenda Information Co., Ltd., based in Shanghai, China. The database provides internet access to titles, authors, and abstracts of newspaper/journal articles published between 1833 to 1979 in China. NICNP covers various subject areas in social sciences and humanities, such as religion, literature, culture, art, politics, economics, and history.
UDNDATA is a newspaper database of the United Daily News Group, the largest news group in Taiwan. UDNDATA covers seven Chinese newspapers in Taiwan, Europe and North America: Lian He Bao 聯合報, Jing Ji Ri Bao 經濟日報, Min Sheng Bao 民生報, Lian He Wan Bao 聯合晚報, Xing Bao 星報 in Taiwan, Ouzhou Ri Bao 歐洲日報 in Europe and Meizhou Shi Jie Ri bao 美洲世界日報 in North America. The online database provides current and searchable full-text articles, as well as searchable images, published on the above seven newspapers. It is not only a major information source in Taiwan, but also an important information sources on overseas Chinese in Europe and North America.
COJ is a comprehensive databases in the area of social sciences, arts and humanities, and business and economics. The sub-databases include China Academic Conference Proceedings (Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences), China Online Journals (Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences), Chinese Companies and Products, Dissertations of China(Arts/Humanities/Social Sciences), and Policies and Laws of China. The digital resources are all in PDF, HTML format, with an integrated cross-database search platform. All databases are updated frequently.
TEPS offers full text articles of periodicals published in Taiwan. The subject includes humanities, natural science, applied science, medical & life science, and social sciences.
This is the largest single database on Taiwanese history in the Chinese language, including abstracts and indexing from thousand of books. The database contains 595 books divided into 309 categories. This collection incorporaates local histories, official documents of Ming, Qin and Nan-Ming Dynasties, poetry, and private collections. It covers multiple dimensions of study, including geography, local customs, politics, economics, sociology, laws and culture. Based on the Taiwan Literature Series and edited by Chou Hsien-wen. It is also useful to the research on history of China’s international trades and relations.
Trace 5000 years of Chinese civilization from its early origins to the Qing Dynasty. Edited by Chen Meng-lei, a renowed scholar of the Qing Dynasty. Based on the authoritative 64 volume edition from 1934 with original text, illustrations and punctuation. The collection includes works on astronomy, geography, history, philosophy, literature, politics, economics, art, education, agriculture, medicine and more.
The “People’s Daily” is the official voice of the central government of the People’s Republic of China. This database provides complete official records of the Chinese government from 1946-2005.
Database covers sources on Chinese political movements between 1955-1958. Included are more than 10,000 government documents and files, speeches, bulletins and articles labeled “Rightist” at the time. Searchable in both Chinese and English.
NOTE: This CD-ROM database is held offsite. Please request via Interlibrary loan.
Call NUMBER: DS778.5 .Z464 2010 CD-ROM
A collection of 4,000 Chinese local gazetteers and other records published from the Song Dynasty to the Republic Era.
HOW TO ACCESS THIS DATABASE: Leave username and password boxes blank on the linked page and click the login button directly below those boxes. Then click the blue box directly above the name of this database to access it.
PLEASE NOTE: Be sure to log out when you are done so that others may access this resource. The license restricts the number of simultaneous users.
An extensive database of pre-20th Century texts in several subject areas. Materials date from the Zhou Dynasty to the Republican period.
HOW TO ACCESS THIS DATABASE: Leave username and password boxes blank on the linked page and click the login button directly below those boxes. Then click the gold box directly above the name of this database (in red characters) to access it.
PLEASE NOTE: Be sure to log out when you are done so that others may access this resource. The license restricts the number of simultaneous users.
An open-access collection of nearly 600 Chinese journals in the social sciences. It is free, but you must register to use.
This is a Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) program for Japanese ebooks. The full text of more than 3,000 Japanese books are currently available on this site and more will be added every six months. Titles that meet a usage threshold will be permanently added to the collection.
Note: These books do not appear in the library catalog. You must use the Maruzen Web site to see what is available.
The journal, Fūzoku Gahō, was originally published in Tokyo between February 1889 and March 1916 in 518 issues with over 38,000 articles. It is said that Fūzoku Gahō was the first graphic magazine produced in Japan. The articles published on the journal cover a wide range of subjects, including social and cultural trends and conditions in the Edo, Meiji, and Taisho periods, customs, history, literature, things/objects and affairs, geography, war and disasters.
NOTE: There is a limit of 4 simultaneous users systemwide on the JapanKnowledge Platform (for all their resources). Please try later if you can’t get in immediately.
The database reproduces 213 literary works by 67 modern Japanese writers in over 10,000 leaves of hand-written manuscripts, which were originally held by Takita Choin (1882-1925), a chief editor for the popular general-interest magazine Chūō kōron 中央公論 (1887-present), and are currently held by Nihon Kindai Bungakkan. For 209 literary works of those 213, the database also includes the photographic images of typeset texts published in Chūō kōron between 1915 and 1925.
In Advanced Search (or 詳細検索) screen, the database is grouped together with Taiyō and Bungei kurabu under “Nihon Kindai Bungakukan 日本近代文学館.” Users can also browse the texts through authors’ list (https://japanknowledge.com/lib/shelf/choin/) and works’ list (https://japanknowledge.com/lib/shelf/choin/index2.html).
NOTE: There is a limit of 4 simultaneous users systemwide on the JapanKnowledge Platform (for all their resources). Please try later if you can’t get in immediately.
Online access to Japanese-language reference sources, including dictionaries (Japanese, English and multi-languages), encyclopedias (Encyclopedia Nipponica, Encyclopedia of Japan, Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan, etc.), etc. English-language interface: http://japanknowledge.com/en/contents/
CiNii (Citation Information by National Institute of Informatics) is a bibliographic information system for scholarly journal articles, with which users can (1) search article citations originally from various databases, covering ca. 17,000 journal titles in 8 million articles; (2) view photographic image of the full-text articles for ca. 1500 journal titles in 2 million articles; (3) trace articles that were referred to in the article, and trace articles that cite the article, covering ca. 1200 titles in 0.8 million articles. As a periodical index to Japanese academic journal as well as an access to full text articles from some journals, CiNii, at present, is the only resource that provides full text access to Japanese journal articles.
Yomidas Rekishikan is the full text database of the Yomiuri shinbun, Japan’s largest newspaper. Coverage ranges from 1874 to the present. More than 11 million Japanese-language articles from the Yomiuri shinbun 読売新聞 are supplemented by English-language articles from the Daily Yomiuri (1989-present). Am image file and biographical sketches (Who’s Who in Japan) of nearly 26,000 contemporary individuals are included in the database.
This is a full text edition (in Japanese) of the Asahi Shimbun from 1879, when it was first issued to the present. It is possible to compare the Tokyo and Osaka editions of the paper. Among other features, the database also includes articles from two magazines “AERA” and “Shukan Asahi” as well as a roughly 10,000 image photographic archive, taken mostly during World War II.
“”History keyword” system is a distinctive feature of Kikuzo II Visual, which is designed to efficiently search for the articles of the Meiji, the Taisho and the Showa periods. History keywords consist of selected major events of those days and names of historical figures as opposed to regular keywords given in the articles. By searching the database by history keywords, all relevant articles, even those which do not contain the very keywords, can be searched interrelatedly. In addition, a variety of history keyword lists (e.g. its chronological table and one organized by field of activity) further helps one’s search. A click on a keyword on the lists is enough to retrieve all relevant information all at once.”
Note: the license permits only a limited number of simultaneous users so please log off if you aren’t actively searching.
TBRC actively seeks out new publications, rare literature, and electronic texts for incorporation into the TBRC Library full text digital holdings. Tibetan publications from small printing houses, monasteries, and educational institutions in China, India, Bhutan, and Nepal are included. The TBRC Library contains works that span the range of every major literary genre of Tibetan literature. The mission of TBRC is seek out works and organize them in all in a single place. This library is continually expanding.
These are China-specific resources. See the Social Science Data Resources: International Guide, (link below) for resources that also contain statistics about/from East Asia.
The NPCC collects all data gathered from the 2010 population census, including population data at the country, province, centrally administered municipality and county unit levels.
A collection of 41 databases covering a wide variety of topics and regions of China. UCD is trying this resource in 2018. Please send comments to Daniel Goldstein (dgoldstein@ucdavis.edu)
The collection supports the undergraduate programs in Chinese, Japanese and East Asian Studies, and the graduate programs in Chinese history, art history, and comparative literature in the UC-Davis. Although there are some volumes of Korean materials in this collection at present time, systematical collection will be added in the future when programmatic needs arise. Language teaching manuals and readers, scripts for Chinese and Japanese movies, translated works that were originally written in English, and audio-visual materials, such as records and tapes on poetry reading, are usually not collected. Literature for secondary school level will be purchased only at faculty request as materials for student supplementary readings. Albums and portfolios of Chinese and Japanese art will be collected when funds permit. Bilingual dictionaries on all subjects will be collected.
Subject emphases of this collection are: History of East Asia, Languages of Eastern Asia, Fine arts, general works, and reference materials, such as dictionaries, catalogs of other East Asian collection, indices, and encyclopedias. Chronological emphases in history are: from the Qing dynasty to the early Republic period of China and from the Meiji period to the post World War II period of Japan; in literature are: the Modern and contemporary period of Chinese, and the Heian and the modern period of Japanese. Presently the geographical focuses are in the four regions: China, Hong Kong, Japan, and Taiwan.
This collection contains materials mainly in printed form and in Chinese and Japanese of non-Roman or vernacular languages. Microcopies are usually purchased to substitute for titles no longer in print. The collection includes monographs (books), periodicals (journals, magazines, and newspapers), serials (irregular periodicals), microfilms, and some electronic resources, for topics related to and publications from China, Japan and Korea. Materials of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean are inter-shelved in the stacks of the East Asian Languages Collection area. Current periodicals are kept in the lower level of the Shields Library, and older issues are kept in the Main Library Stacks. Multi-languages materials, for example, text of the books written in Chinese and in English, are inter-shelved in the stacks of the main Library collection.
The East Asian Languages Collection is one of the major East Asian collections in the University of California system. As of June 30, 2007, there are 79,014 volumes of books and bound periodicals, of which 48,064 are in Chinese, 28,333 in Japanese, and 2,605 in Korean; also contains 197 titles of current periodicals, 330 titles of Chinese films, some titles of microfilms, and approx. 12 electronic databases.
Most of the collection is located in the Shields Library of the University of California-Davis (UC-Davis). After entering the front entry, turn right or left and walk through the hallway (the courtyard is in the center of this building), the collection is situated in the end of hallway section. In addition, many periodicals are located by call number in the general stacks.
Assistance is available on the second floor of Shields Library at the Research Consult Desk during scheduled hours. Or, please contact library’s East Asian Studies Specialist, Daniel Goldstein, dgoldstein@ucdavis.edu to schedule an appointment.