The guide was edited by the Chinese studies librarians at Princeton and Duke.
The purpose of this research guide is to aid researchers who would like to conduct research on modern and contemporary China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The guide covers a variety of topics of interesting (such as humanities subjects, like literature, pop culture, film, theater, and music). It also includes social science topics such as political science, law, and data sets.
The guide will be of particular use to researchers who have reading proficiency in Chinese, though English and other Western-language resources are also included. This tab includes some introductory information about conducting research for Chinese-language sources and locating important resources about modern and contemporary Chinese humanities that may come in useful. The following tabs contain, respectively: a list of helpful web portals and databases, a list of important tertiary resources in Van Pelt's collection, a list of helpful digital community resources, a listing of the location of Chinese-language books about different aspects of modern Chinese humanities in Van Pelt, and a similar listing of such books in English and other Western languages.
Please reach out to the Chinese studies librarian if you have any questions or feedback.
List of New databases!!!
Print Resources at Van Pelt Library:
Chinese characters can be typed directly into the search box, using either traditional or simplified characters. In case the search engine does not recognize the search terms when they are entered as characters, they may also be entered as pinyin. When using pinyin to search, take care to use Library of Congress formatting. The main principles are that each separate syllable of pinyin words should be separated (e.g. pin yin). The main exceptions are names of geographical entities and of people (e.g. Zhongguo, Shen Congwen). For a complete list of Library of Congress formatting principles regarding pinyin, see the following link:
