Chinese History
The purpose of this guide is to list relevant Internet sites, Library databases, electronic journals and printed reference sources relating to Chinese history. This is not a comprehensive guide or gateway but rather a starting point to information in the area. Other useful resources will appear under General History.
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
• Electronic journals generally provide access to the full text of articles via the Internet.
Latest list of Chinese history ejournals, direct from the catalogue
• Current University of Sydney staff and students may access many of these from their home or office using an Extro Account or the Remote Access Service. In some cases, passwords may be available.
NB Remember, there may be printed copies of the journals, especially earlier issues, in Fisher Research Library.
INTERNET RESOURCES
Chinese History WWW Virtual Library
Subject Directory.
Maintained by the Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, it lists and ranks all the major sites.
url: http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ighist.htm#chi
Chinese History Research Site at UCSD
Subject Directory and Full text material.
Produced by the University of California, San Diego, this site contains book reviews and critical essays on the historiography of modern China, as well as a guide to English and Chinese materials in that field; There are links to Chinese archives and a bibliography of English-language works on Qing, Republican, and PRC history.
url: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/
Taiwan Crisis
Full Text Material.
Created by John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists Military Analysis Network. This site contains current and archival news reports, defence anaylsis, maps and links to related websites both official and news services.
url: http://www.fas.org/news/taiwan/
PRINTED RESOURCES
Atlases and Chronologies
China: a provincial atlas / Chiao-min Hsieh, Jean Kan Hsieh.
New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1995.
Fisher Ref 912.51 17
Cultural atlas of China / by Caroline Blunden and Mark Elvin.
New York: Checkmark Books, c1998. Rev. ed.
Fisher Ref 951 113 A
Modern China: a chronology from 1842 to the present / Colin Mackerras,
with the assistance of Robert Chan.
London: Thames and Hudson, c1982.
Fisher Research and Undergraduate 951.00202 1
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
Cambridge encyclopedia of China / editor, Brian Hook
Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 2nd ed.
Fisher Ref 951.003 3
China: a historical and cultural dictionary / edited by Michael Dillon.
Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1998.
Fisher Ref and Fisher Research 951.003 6
Encyclopedia of China: the essential reference to China, its history and culture / Dorothy Perkins.
New York: Facts on File, 1999.
Fisher Ref 951.003 5
Modern China: an encyclopedia of history, culture, and nationalism / editor Wang Ke-wen.
New York: Garland Pub., 1998.
Fisher Ref and Undergraduate 951.003 4
Who was who in the People's Republic of China / by Wolfgang Bartke.
MÜnchen: K.G. Saur, 1997. 2 vols.
Fisher Ref 920.051 11
Bibliographies
China in books: a basic bibliography in Western language / compiled by Norman E. Tanis.
Greenwich, Conn.: Jai Press, 1979.
Fisher Ref 016.951 8
China monthly data / Institute of Asian Affairs.
Hamburg, Germany : The Institute, 1993+
"Political and economic data & bibliography on the People's Republic of China,
Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau."
Fisher Research 016.951 6
Index to Survey of China Mainland press, Extracts from China Mainland magazines, and Current background.
Hong Kong: American Consulate General; Springfield, Va.: Reproduced by National Technical Information Service.
Nov. 1, 1950-Oct.-Dec. 1973; Jan.-Mar. 1974-Oct.-Dec. 1976; July-Dec. 1977.
Fisher Research 915.105 2
The People's Republic of China, 1949-1979: a documentary survey / Harold C. Hinton, editor.
Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1980. 5 vols.
Fisher Research 951.05 96
Premodern China; a bibliographical introduction / Chun-shu Chang.
[Ann Arbor, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan] 1971.
Fisher Research 016.9501 2
Almanacs and Statistics
China facts & figures annual.
[Gulf Breeze, Fla.] Academic International Press.
Fisher Ref 315.105 1, 2000
Fisher Research 315.105 1, 1(1978)-23(1998)
The Far East and Australasia.
London: Europa Publications, c1969-
Fisher Ref 950.05 5, 1998-2001
Fisher Research 950.05 5, 1969-1997
Statistical yearbook of the Republic of China.
[Taipei]: Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting & Statistics, Executive Yuan, Republic of China, 1975-
Fisher Ref 315.124905 2, 1996-2000
Fisher Research 315.124905 2, 1975-1995
Taiwan statistical data book.
[Taipei]
Fisher Ref 315.124905 1, 1997-2001
Fisher Research 315.124905 1, 1973-1996