Digital Resources for Chinese Studies

Note: Not all Chinese-language materials in HOLLIS have characters. Some materials can only be found by romanization. Please see the section on romanization for more information and conversion tables.

Note: OASIS does not currently have CJK capability. All searches for East Asian terms must be entered in romanization.

Note: OASIS does not currently have CJK capability. All searches for East Asian terms must be entered in romanization.

Incorporates Chinese records in original script from the British Library, the Bodleian Library, the  Brotherton Library (Leeds), and the university libraries of Cambridge, Durham, SOAS (London) and Edinburgh. For more information about the catalog, see their project page.

Union Catalog of Chinese Ancient Books, a project of China Academic Library and Information system (CALIS), was created by dozens of academic libraries in China. It includes Chinese rare books and books published before 1911. All fields can be searched by either traditional or simplified Chinese. Title, author and subject fields can also be searched by pinyin..

• library catalog: the main online catalog for the university library.
• digitized rare books catalog 北京大学数字图书馆古文献资源库: metadata searching only; full image available if searching from within the Beijing University network. Includes rubbings as well as texts.
• Thesis/dissertation full-text catalog 北京大学学位论文全文库: theses and dissertations submitted to Beijing University after 1981. Metadata searching is open to the world. Later holdings include abstracts, often in both Chinese and English.

C. V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University

Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia, Cornell University

East Asian Collection, Duke University

East Asian Collection, Indiana University

Asian Reading Room, Library of Congress

East Asian Library and the Gest Collection, Princeton University

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Library, Smithsonian Institution

East Asia Library, Stanford University

Hoover Institution Library and Archives, Stanford University

Asian Library, University of British Columbia

East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley

East Asian Collection, University of California, Irvine

Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, University of California, Los Angeles

International Relations and Pacific Studies Library, University of California, San Diego

East Asian Library, University of California, Santa Barbara

East Asian Collection, University of Chicago

Asia Collection, University of Hawai'i

East Asian Library, University of Kansas

East Asian Collection, University of Maryland, College Park

Asia Library, University of Michigan

East Asian Collection, University of Minnesota

East Asian Collection, University of Pennsylvania

East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh

Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto

East Asia Library, University of Washington

East Asian Collection, University of Wisconsin-Madison

East Asian Library, Yale University

European Association of Sinological Librarians -- Libraries and Catalogs
Provides links to sinological libraries throughout the world, with especially detailed coverage for Europe and East Asia.

Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections, British Library

SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) Library, University of London

Le département des Manuscrits (division orientale), Bibliotheque National de France
Includes special catalogs for East and Central Asian manuscripts, particularly from the Pelliot collections. See also the union catalog for France, Catalog collective de France

Institute of Chinese Studies Library, University of Heidelberg

Department of Oriental Collections, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Contains links to their original online Chinese and Japanese catalogs, as well as to the new UK Union Catalogs.

Talen en culturen van China/Sinologisch Instituut, Leiden University
Includes links to their library collections and other research information.

Asian Studies Research Collection, Monash University

East Asian Collection, University of Melbourne

East Asian Collection, University of Sydney

If a book or article you need is not available at Harvard, it may be possible to obtain it through Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Worldcat may help you find your materials at another library. If they are not available through these catalogs, please consult library staff to see if there might be other ways to find them. For instance, the National Diet Library does not participate in Worldcat, but ILL is possible. For East Asian-language materials, FAS affiliates may contact Harvard-Yenching Library ILL services. For Western-language materials, please contact either Harvard-Yenching or HCL ILL services at Widener Library. You may also submit a purchase request suggesting that the library obtain a particular work.

For articles published in Taiwan, it may be possible to request a copy through the ReadNCL document delivery service. Depending on the material, it may be printed from online or the library may request that a copy be delivered by fax or mail. For more information, please consult reference staff at Harvard-Yenching Library.

Harvard-Yenching Library also maintains document delivery and exchange relationships with a number of libraries in East Asia. If you are not able to obtain a needed document through ILL, please consult reference staff at Harvard-Yenching Library or the librarian for the relevant collection (see Harvard-Yenching Library for contact information).