Please see the research guides for A Guide to Chinese Studies and A Guide to East Asian Studies for resources in Chinese. For further assistance, please see Joan Wang, WUSTL Libraries' East Asian and Chinese Studies Librarian.
References to western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.
Chinese History is a subject headings with A LOT of subheadings. Pay attention to the subheading "historiography" and bibliography
Keywords - "economic policy," "economic conditions," "foreign economic relations,"
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada), from over 2,000 journals published worldwide. Learn more about this database.
EconLit with Full Text contains indexing and abstracts, some full text for 400+ journals and 500+ collected works per year. The database provides indexing and full text for articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics, and much more. Updated monthly.
Multidisciplinary
Journals, books, images and primary sources.
Specialty
Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. Thousands of publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers.
Chinese
A periodical database with access to numerous Chinese language periodicals published in or after 1906. A PDF viewer with a Chinese simplified language pack is required to view articles.
Over 3 million Chinese bibliographic entries and 2 million full text scholarly resources in all subjects and formats, including books, journal articles, newspapers, theses, conference proceedings, and video clips.
Library catalogers use the subheading "Sources" at the end of a string of subheadings to indicate anthologies of primary sources. However, cataloging is not a perfect science, so not every collection of primary sources has this subheading. For example, a search for the keyword phrase "documentary sourcebook" in the WashU Libraries' catalog produces seven titles, only three of which have "sources" as a subheading. In other words, performing a subject search will not produce a complete list of all primary source collections. Sometimes the source one wants to find is not in an anthology but cited in a bibliography of another work. You might want to try an advanced search with a combination of subject headings and keywords like “sources,” "sourcebook," "primary sources," "primary documents," etc.
DIGITAL
With documents encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic, this resource collects sources from nine archives to give an incredible insight into the changes in China during this period. Discover over 200 years of Chinese history, charting the monumental social and political upheaval that recreated China as a modern power. Learn more about this database
Spanning three centuries (c1750-1929), this resource makes available for the first time extremely rare pamphlets from Cornell University Library’s Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia. The resource is full-text searchable, allowing for the collection to be comprehensively explored and studied. Learn more about this database
Over 70,000 images of original documents relating to Empire Studies. The images are sourced from libraries and archives around the world, including a strong core of document images from the British Library.
U.S. Government Documents - State Department, et. al.
Other U.S. Government Documents
British Foreign Office documents
Digitized in two parts from the FO 17 series of British Foreign Office Files held at the UK National Archives, Part 1 of Imperial China and the West provides General Correspondence relating to China from 1815–1881; and Part II is from 1865-1905. Here, scholars will find material relating to the internal politics of China and Britain, their relationship, and the relationships between other Western powers keen to benefit from the growing trading ports of the Far East. The FO 17 series provides a vast and significant resource for researching every aspect of China-West relations during the nineteenth century, ranging from diplomacy and war, to trade, piracy, riots and rebellions within China, international law, treaty ports and informal empire, transnational emigration, and translation and cross-cultural communication.
Newspapers
The platform contains three full-text databases of books, periodicals, and newspapers of modern China: 1) Chinese Periodical of Modern China, in specific, The Late Qing Dynasty Periodical 1816-1911 晚清期刊全文数据库 1816-1911 and Chinese Periodical 1911-1949 中文期刊全文数据库 1911-1949; 2) Books of Modern China 1840-1949 中国近代图书全文数据库 1840-1949; 3) North-China Daily News & Herald Newspapers and Hong Lists 1850-1951 字林洋行中英文报纸全文数据库 1850-1951.
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Established in 1872, Shen Bao was the most influential and longest lasting commercial newspaper before the establishment of the People’s Republic. Published in Shanghai until 1949, Shen Bao was founded by Englishman Ernest Major, but, uniquely, as a newspaper for Chinese readers, written by Chinese reporters.
Missionary Society Records
Other
Full-text and full-page-image access to books from 1450-1945, and pre-1906 serials. It focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing.
Open Access
Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) more on material culture you can look at
East Asian Libraries in North America (CEAL)
CALIS Union Catalog (China Academic Library and Infor. System) (CALIS 公共目录检索系统)
Hong Kong Academic Library Link (香港高校圖書聯網)
[Taiwan] National Bibliographic Information Network (NBINet 全國圖書資訊網)