Guides: Sources for Modern and Contemporary China: Data and Primary Sources on 20th-century and Contemporary China

Scholarly Literature

China Academic Journals
The most extensive database for mainland Chinese journal literature.
Sinica Sinoweb and Taiwan Journals Search
Wanfang Dissertations of China 万方学位论文
Dai Kanwa jiten 大漢和辞典 (Morohashi 諸橋)
Searchable full text of headwords and major meanings for the entire dictionary (with everything else as images) on the Japan Knowledge platform. Be sure to log out after use.
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Duxiu 读秀
National Social Science Database
Open-access database of publications from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 中国社会科学院. Access is free but requires users to sign up for individual accounts.
Harvard Asia Center E-Books
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Historical Abstracts
Oxford Bibliographies--Chinese Studies

Oral History

CR/10
A collection of 32 oral histories (some with English translation) of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

Full-Text Databases

This massive database provides full page images for Republican-era periodicals held by the Shanghai Library, as well as several late-Qing and Republican newspapers, including 新聞報, 時報, and 上海新報, and more than 400 tabloids, 1897 and 1949.

Global Press Archive: Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers