Research Guides: Modern Languages and Literatures: Chinese

Chinese Language Reference Materials

Chinese Language Center at National Taiwan University
Offers online courses and resources for learning Mandarin Chinese.
Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants
A comprehensive dictionary of over 100,000 Chinese character forms.
Du Chinese
An app and website focused on improving Chinese reading skills.
Learning and Teaching Mandarin
A comprehensive Mandarin language guide to improve reading, writing, and comprehension skills for beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels.
MDBG Chinese Dictionary
Comprehensive online Chinese-English dictionary that provides detailed etymological information, character decomposition, and example sentences.
Online Kangxi Dictionary 康熙字典網上版
Chinese dictionary published in 1716 that is considered the most authoritative reference for written Chinese characters until the early 20th century.

Elementary Chinese 1 by Wenying Zhou
ISBN: 9781626101159
Publication Date: 2021
OER textbook designed for those who are learning Chinese as a second/foreign language in their first semester.
Learning Chinese language and culture = 學習漢語與文化 by Weijia Huang & Qun Ao Intermediate textbook for studying Chinese.
ISBN: 9789882377806
Publication Date: 2020

China-US China-US Million Book Digital Library Project (CADAL)
A collaboration between China and the United States to create a free, searchable collection of one million books in the public domain.
Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection
Includes digitized Chinese rare books from the Asian Division of the Library of Congress.
Ming-Qing Women's Writings
A digitized collection of writings by women in late imperial China (1368-1911).
Oriental Studies Bibliographical Search
Western-language database that indexes research on East, Southeast, and South Asia.
Scripta Sinica
A collection of the traditional Chinese classics, with a special focus on titles related to Chinese history.
Tang Poetry Database
A collection of poems from the Tang dynasty (618–907).
Unofficial Poetry Journals from China
Digitized by Leiden University Libraries, this sites contains unofficial poetry publications from China, from the late 1970s to the early C21st.

Regional Literature and the Transmission of Culture: Chinese Drum Ballads 1800-1937 by Margaret B. Wan Drum ballad texts (guci) evoke one of the most popular performance traditions of their day, opening up surprising new perspectives on vital topics in Chinese literature and history.
ISBN: 9781684176076
Publication Date: 2020
The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures As World Literature by Kuei-fen Chiu (Editor); Yingjin Zhang (Editor) This edited volume advances research on world literature by bringing in new developments in Chinese/Sinophone literatures and adds a much-needed new global perspective on Chinese literary studies beyond the traditional national literature paradigm and its recent critique by Sinophone studies.
ISBN: 9789888528721
Publication Date: 2022

China Academic Journals: Literature/History/Philosophy (CAJ-F) This link opens in a new window
A large collection of thousands of academic journals published in China. Click on "Subscribed" in the top header to limit search results to items available to CWRU.
China Doctoral Dissertations & Masters Theses Full-text: Literature/History/Philosophy (CDMD-F) This link opens in a new window
Full-text database containing dissertations and masters theses from China. Click on "Subscribed" in the top header to limit search results to items available to CWRU.
China Legal Knowledge Integrated Database This link opens in a new window
Part of the China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), which has primary and secondary legal resources with an English-Chinese dictionary.

Hong Kong Journals Online (HKJO)
Access to selected academic and professional journals in English and Chinese published in Hong Kong.

People's Daily via Factiva
Aggregates news content from newspapers, journals, magazines, television and radio transcripts

Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers This link opens in a new window
The press of more than twenty cities is represented, spanning the Chinese mainland and the entire half-century from 1912.
North China Herald This link opens in a new window
The English North China Herald is universally acclaimed as the prime printed source in any language for the history of the foreign presence in China from 1850 to the 1940.
World News Connection Archive (1995-2013) This link opens in a new window
Brings news from around the world, translated into English. The information is obtained from newspaper articles, television and radio broadcasts, online sources, conference proceedings, periodicals, and non-classified reports. This information is collected and translated by and for the U.S. Government.