East Asian Studies: Books/E-books

Providing full text of public domain books (usually published prior to 1923) and temporary access to UC copyrighted print collections.

Select "Ancient Classics" and then the log in button to access “中國基本古籍庫.”
Pre-20th century full texts from a variety of subject areas organized into four sections: Philosophy and Science, History and Geography, Art and Literature, and General Works.
Note: Access is restricted to one user at a time.

Providing full text search to 600 million volumes of e-books, dissertations, journals, magazines, web pages and newspapers. Its comprehensiveness and functionality can be best related as the Chinese version of Google Books and Google Scholar.

Including 309 books of classics related to Taiwanese studies from the Tang Dynasty to the Japanese Occupation.

The complete collection of the Qing Dynasty imperial library, including 3,461 books categorized into 經 Classics, 史 Histories, 子 Philosophers, and 集Literary Collections.