Out of copyright books can be read and downloaded from Google Books. For users in the U.S., Google Books currently treats all books published after 1922 as protected by copyright, except for books to which no copyright was ever attached.
Purchased titles are searchable in UCSB Library's catalog.
A collection of Chinese e-books from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao on humanities and social sciences. Available for online reading or checking out to read offline for 7 days as registered user.
Purchased titles are searchable in UCSB Library's catalog. If it shows "对不起，您所访问的资源不存在或未购买“ log in campus VPN, delete ".proxy.library.ucsb.edu:2048" from the link displays in the address bar and press enter for access.
Select "Ancient Classics" and then the log in button to access “中國基本古籍庫.”
Including pre-20th century texts with full-text and images from a variety of subject areas organized into four sections: Philosophy and Science, History and Geography, Art and Literature, and General Works.
Note: One (1) accesses shared among 8 UC campuses. Try again later if refused. Log out after use.
Date Coverage: Before 1900 CE
Materials Indexed: Books
Only purchased 初集 and 二集. A collection of 4,000 Chinese local gazetteers published from Song Dynasty to the Republic Era.
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Date Coverage: 960 - 1949 CE, Song Dynasty to Republic Era
Materials Indexed: Books
Includes 5,574 Chinese e-books. Click "My Resources" after logging in to view all purchased titles. All purchased titles are searchable in UCSB Library's catalog.
文史资料 Wenshi Ziliao has been considered as an important primary source for scholars of twentieth-century China. This database provides full-text access to more than 20,000 volumes of publications arranged by regions and provinces.
Provides 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.
Includes 309 books of classics related to Taiwanese studies from the Tang Dynasty to the Japanese Occupation.
Note: Six (6) accesses shared among all UC campuses. Try again later if refused. Log out after use.
Materials Indexed: Books; Government Documents; Primary Sources
A Chinese encyclopedia first compiled from 1701-1706 by Chen Menglei, during Qing Emperor Kangxi’s reign and later Qing Emperor Qianlong ordered its revision from 1723-1725 by Jiang Tingxi.
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Date Coverage: 1701 - 1725
Materials Indexed: Books; Primary Sources
Select "Ancient Classics" and log in. Sibu Congkan is under the "數字叢書" tab.
(Also called the Four Branches of Literature Collection) It includes 504 titles in 3,134 volumes. The collection was published in 3 series: chu bian 初编, xu bian 续编 and san bian 三编. It is an important compilation of great works in the Chinese scholarly tradition, with an emphasis on Tang and pre-Tang works.
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Date Coverage: 1919-1936 (Books reproduced range from ancient China to the Qing Dynasty)
Materials Indexed: Books
Select "Ancient Classics" and then the log in button to access “四庫系列數據庫-四庫著錄.”
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.
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Date Coverage: 1773 -1782, Qing Dynasty
Materials Indexed: Books
This collection (1,370 titles) is reprints of local gazetteers compiled mainly in Qing Dynasty (1644-1910); a few in Ming Dynasty (1368-1644; and others from the republican era (1911-1949).
A collection of 1,200+ well-known Chinese classics published by the Zhonghua Book Company. Every volume is edited, punctuated, and annotated by modern expert scholars in the field.
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Includes books, periodicals, archives, dissertations, films, and soundtracks from the resources available both in the personal libraries of scholars, on public institutional sites, individual sites, document and archival funds or even on commercial sites. Important titles include 四庫全書存目叢書.
The Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world.
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