Please note: this site is under regular expansion, please send the complier Red Chan your recommendation for new addition. Most titles are specifically about Greater China (Hong Kong; PRC; Taiwan; Chinese diasporas) but some concern E. Asia, e.g. Japan.
Libraries:
- Collections at Warwick University Library
- China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) 中国知网
- National Library of China / National Digital Library of China国家数字图书馆: Full texts in PDF format. Internet Archive
- E-resources on Chinese Studies, C.V. Starr East Asian Studies Library, University of Berkeley.
- Chinese printed books and serials at the British Library: Chinese-language books and serials catalogued after 1993 are included in the UK Union Catalogue of Chinese books which can be searched in simplified characters (GB encoding) or pinyin romanisation.
- Mapping Asia: information about the existence and availability of resources for research on Asia, the Middle East and North Africa housed in university, public or specialised libraries in the UK.
- The US Library of Congress provides the following:
- Online Resources for Chinese Studies in North American Libraries
- Information about Language and Literature in China
- Information about Language and Literature in Taiwan
- Information about 'Chinese culture' (e.g. language, literature, music, theater, art, and architecture). In addition to traditional forms of Chinese culture, this pathfinder also links to sites about more recent cultural forms, such as contemporary art and music and propaganda posters from the Maoist era.
- Bibliographic control of Chinese collectanea in German libraries, in which you can find the Catalogue of Chinese Collectanea in German libraries.
- UK union catalogue of Chinese books
Online materials
- Media and images of China & East Asia
- Useful web links
- Humbul Humanities Hub: Chinese Studies
- Chinese Cultural Studies: Bibliographical Guide
- China and Europe: 1500-2000 and Beyond: From 1000-1500, China led the world in economic development. As trade between China and Europe begins to expand from 1550 onwards, the Chinese economy is, by many measures, more productive than Europe's. This new website set up by specialists Ken Pomeranz and Bin Wong of Columbia University offer you invaluable facts and analysis of China's interaction with Europe in the past 500 years or so. From this site you also get PDF files of (1) Emperors and Reign Period; (2) Timeline of Chinese Inventions; (3) China's Gifts to the West; (4) Chinese Ideas in the West.
- Association of Asian Studies (AAS), the academic association for anyone in the field of Asian Studies. AAS maintains an extensive 'Asia Resources on the World Wide Web', an Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library, and a powerful Bibliography of Asian Studies, BAS (as of July, 2004, the BAS Online contains over 590,000 references to books, journal articles, individually-authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc., published from 1971 until the present day). From AAS homepage you get good links to American grants and fellowships for Asian Studies. Although Warwick library has not subscribed to the AAS publication, Journal of Asian Studies, you can search and download its articles using JSTOR.
- AsPac: the Pacific Regional Body of AAS, the national (and international) association of professionals, primarily academic, interested in Asian Studies. Members come from the West coast of the United States of America, as well as from Canada , Mexico, and most of the countries of the Pacific region such as: China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, India, etc.
- H-Asia, part of the H-Net family and certainly one of the most active. Valuable source for information, comments, CFPs, book reviews, job postings related to China & E. Asia.
- Digital Archive for Chinese Studies (DACHS), maintained by the Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg. From here you find access to Internet resouces for contemporary Chinese Studies, especially useful if you are interested in the social and political discourses articulated through the Internet. See also a related website European Center for Digital Resources in Chinese Studies.
- The China WWW Virtual Library, maintained by Sinological Institute, Leiden University, with support from the Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University, the Berlin State Library, and the German Research Foundation. This is a rich databank of resources not only on China but also East Asia. Search by subjects (History, Education, Economy, Language, Literature, Religion, etc), with links to on-line library resources, bibliography, search engines...
- The Asian Studies WWW Monitor, hosted by the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University (ANU). This is an internet journal (ISSN 1329-9778) established on 21 April 1994 that provides daily abstracts and reviews of new/updated online resources of significance to research, teaching and communications dealing with Asian Studies. This journal is the only publication of this kind in the world. On 4 October 2005, the webmasters announced that 'The email edition of this Journal has now over 4,810 subscribers. Currently (i.e. in Oct 2005) The Monitor has a Google rank #2 among the 68,700,000 'asian studies' web pages published world-wide.'
- Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC), maintained by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University, in conjunction with the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. This site is full of resources on modern Chinese literature, film, art and culture. Particularly useful for the study of translation is the bibliography of modern Chinese literary works in English translation, listed in order of authors.
- Chinese History Research Site, maintained by the University of San Diego, for book reviews and critical essays on the historiography of the Cultural Revolution, English and Chinese materials relating to historical research on modern China, etc. Very useful also the (i) searchable catalogues of major university and national libraries in US, Europe, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia and PRC; (ii) long list of China-related websites.
- China Historical GIS: an online gazetteer search engine that gives data of administrative changes from 21 BC to 1911, area by area, in China.
- China Dimensions: a site with a variety of socioeconomic data, including Geographic Information System (GIS) databases that cover the administrative regions of China and socioeconomic data to track China's economic growth, population increases, and environmental change.
Translation and China (cultural translation; China's cultural encounters with the world)
- 翻藝 Paper Republic
- 翻譯工作坊
- TransNator「翻疫終結者」 [useful links]
- China Dialogue 中外对话: a completely bilingual website about environmental issues, with a strong China focus
- Selected bibliography by Dr Red Chan
- A survey of Chinese literature in Dutch translation from 1767 to 1999: compiled by Audrey Heijns (MA), research assistant at the Research Centre for Translation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. This survey shows some two hundred book titles (journal publications are not included) have been translated into Dutch between the mid 18th century and the late 20th century. The survey provides valuable data for work in translation studies and Chinese studies alike, take a look.
- German works in Chinese translation: see this website (in Chinese) for news and publications about Chinese translations of popular German literature.
- Fanyi-l mailing list: an open mailing list serving professional, semi-professional, and lay Chinese-English and/or English-Chinese translators and interpreters.
- Hong Kong Translation Society: incorporated in October 1971, it has become a member association of the Translators' Association of China since 1986 and of the Federation Internationale des Traducteurs since 1988. It publishes the journal Translation Quarterly.
- Translators' Association of China (TAC) 中国翻译协会
- 上海市语言文字
- 中华文苑网 中国作家协会中华文学基金会与香港庄士集团合作建立的互联网站
- 中共中央编译局
Gender, identity and China
- 婦女與性別史研究群 (Academia Sinica, Taiwan): useful articles and resources for the student of gender and Chinese women in China, many downloadable.
- Women and Gender Studies in Chinese Network (WAGNet), affiliated with the European Association of Chinese Studies, a wonderful network of scholars and activists engaged in feminist theorisation and activism of Chinese women today. Useful links.
Institutions; organisations; societies
- British Association for Chinese Studies
- The Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding (SACU), with a member's journal China Eye.
- Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies, a publicly funded service, providing UK-wide support and services for higher education in Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies.
- The European Alliance for Asian Studies (Asia Alliance), established in 1997 and runs annual workshops. It manages the Asia-Europe Foundation with the purpose of promoting better understanding between the peoples of Asia and Europe. Its partners include the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS), Swedish School of Advanced Asia-Pacific Studies (SSAAPS), The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), The Centro de Estudios de Asia Oriental (CEAO, Centre for East Asian Studies) etc.
- Asia House in London: it promotes appreciation and understanding of Asian countries, from Iran in the west to Japan in the east and from the Central Asian Republics in the north to Indonesia in the south. Its activities range from talks to exhibitions and shows, covering arts, religions, literatures and economies. It is the winner of Charity Awards 2005 ('Arts, Culture and Heritage' category).
On-line dictionaries
- Lin Yutang C-E Dictionary
- C-E or E-C dictionaries provided by TigerNT
- C-E dictionaries: by Asinah.Net, by Yellow Bridge, by MDBG.
- CEDICT: Chinese-English Dictionary (in Simplified or Traditional Chinese) for download.
- E-C Computer Glossary
- Chinese dictionary: http://www.zdic.net/
- 國語辭典 (Guoyu Cidian in full-form characters), maintained by the Department of Education of Taiwan.
- Chinese dictionary Ciba, which provides a list of sample sentences using the word sought. It requires simplified characters.
Miscellaneous
- The Chinese central government website
- Online presence of Chinese diaspora: The Chinese Cultures Abroad WWW Virtual Library
- On-line Chinese Tools: a website that provides links to 'Tools for Using Chinese' and 'China Reference Tools'
- China Politics Links (maintained by Prof. William Joseph, Wellesley College, US)
- To learn about young Chinese in the time of Deng Xiaoping, read Dr Ruth Cherrington's Deng's Generation: Young Intellectuals in 1980s China (London: Macmillan Press Ltd., 1997)