Research Guides: Collections and Resources on China: Journals

Chinese journal databases

CNKI China Academic Jounrals (CAJ) / CNKI 中国学术期刊数据库
Access the China Academic Journals Database (CAJ, 中国学术期刊数据库) via the CNKI advanced search page. Use the tab "学术期刊" below the search panel to focus search results on Chinese academic journal publications. CAJ is the comprehensive Chinese journal database covering all disciplines. UofT now has access to the full span of CAJ contents.
CNKI - landing page
This new Advanced Search interface provides access to various CNKI resources, such as China Academic Journals, and Chinese Doctoral Dissertations & Master Theses.
Chinese Studies Online / 万方中国研究在线
Chinese Studies Online (万方中国研究在线): The CSO e-resources package includes a full-text journal database (1997-), a full-text academic thesis/dissertation and conference proceeding database (1986-), and a database on Chinese regulations and policies.

Chinese Periodical Full-text Database (1911-1949) This link opens in a new window
The database (1911-1949) is produced by Shanghai Library and contains its digitized collection of Chinese periodicals published in the Republican period between 1911 and 1949. The contents represent all disciplines and subjects at the time. The running length of each journal title varies, depending on the history of the journal as well as its available holdings at Shanghai Library.
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Da Cheng Old Journals Full Text Database / 大成老旧刊数据库
Da Cheng Fulltext Database of Old Journals (大成老旧期刊全文数据库) : Da Cheng Old Journal Full-text Database holds a collection of more than 6,600 periodicals, 128,000 issues and 1.3 million articles which were published between the late Qing Dynasty and 1949 in China.
National Social Sciences Database / 国家哲学社会科学学术期刊数据库 (open access)
National Social Science Journals database is a national, non-profit, open core journals databases which includes authoritative social science core journals, academic journals and papers.
Sinica Sinoweb / 經典人文學刊庫
This database collects articles published in journals of the Academia Sinica 中央研究院 (Taiwan). Access to this fulltext journal database is available through computers on UofT campuses, thanks to the TRCCS (Taiwan Resource Centre for Chinese Studies) program undertaken by the National Central Library of Taiwan.
Taiwan Eletronic Periodical Services
Index and full texts of academic journal articles published in Taiwan
台灣日治時期期刊集成 / Japanese Colonial Periodicals of Taiwan
This is a historical archive of dozens of periodicals published in Taiwan during the period of Japanese colonial occupation (1895-1945).

English databases strong in Chinese Studies @ UofT

English journal databases with a strength in Chinese Studies and East Asian Studies:

Project MUSE - Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary search engine of academic journals, newspapers, ebooks, and more.

Other open access journal resources

National Taiwan University Journal Database / 臺灣大學學術期刊資料庫
Taiwan Resource Center for Chinese Studies Subject Databases (臺灣漢學研究中心專題資料庫)
Hong Kong Macau Periodicals Network (港澳期刊網)
An index database compiled by the Chinese University of Hong Kong for journals published in Hong Kong and Macau.
Hong Kong Journals Online
An digital initiative undertaken by the University of Hong Kong Libraries.
香港中文期刊論文索引(HKInChiP)
The database is created and maintained by the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It contains bibliographical index of articles published in Hong Kong's local Chinese periodicals. Check the link http://hkinchippub.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/source.html for the list of periodicals included in the project.

Open access e-journals

Ling Long : Chinese Women's Magazine (玲瓏)
Ling Long is a Chinese magazine on women published in Shanghai between the tumultuous years of 1931 and 1937. Today, the magazine is a valuable resource for researchers studying social life and women’s issues of Shanghai in the Republican‐era (1911‐49) . This digitized collection of Ling Long by Columbia University is one of the most complete holdings of the magazine outside China.
文史哲學報
Wen shi zhe xue bao, an academic journal published by the National Taiwan University , focuses on the study of Chinese literature, arts, history, philosophy, archaeology and so on. The journal publishes two issues every year in May and November. Full‐text articles of the latest issues are now available online for free at http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~bcla/index_ebook.htm, while the table of contents of each issue can be browsed at http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~bcla/content.htm.
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is a peer-reviewed, quarterly online journal published by the University of California, Berkeley, that offers its readers up-to-date research findings, emerging trends, and cutting-edge perspectives concerning East Asian history and culture from scholars in both English-speaking and Asian language-speaking academic communities.
Asia Pacific Perspectives
Asia Pacific Perspectives (ISSN: 2167-1699) is a peer-reviewed electronic journal published by the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim. It welcomes submissions from all fields of the social sciences and the humanities with relevance to the Asia Pacific/Pacific Rim. In keeping with the Jesuit traditions of the University of San Francisco, Asia Pacific Perspectives commits itself to the highest standards of learning and scholarship. Papers adopting a comparative, interdisciplinary approach to issues of interrelatedness across the Pacific will be especially welcome.
Taiwanese Journal of Political Science (臺灣大學政治科學論叢)
Previously known as the Political Sicence Review, the Taiwanese Journal of Political Science is published by the Dept. of Political Sicence of the National Taiwan University, and is a key academic journal on political science. The journal was originally issued biannually, but since June, 2004, it has been published on a quarterly basis.
Qiushi (求是)
Qiushi Journal is an influential publication of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Its contents cover policy-making and theoretical studies, directly related to the governing philosophy of the CPC.
China Comment (半月谈)
China Comment is an influential magazine published by the Chinese Communist Party.
Dian shi zhai hua bao ( 點石齋畫報)
Digitized by and accessible through Bayerische StaatsBibliothek.
Unofficial Poetry Journals from China: Publishing outside the System in Post-Mao China
This online collection results from a digitization project undertaken by the Leiden University Libraries, which opens up thousands of pages from an internationally unique collection of unofficial Chinese poetry for teaching and research. The unofficial journals are published privately, outside the official literary infrastructure in China.
Shanghai Sketch / 上海漫畫

Chinese journal reprints @ EAL

The East Asian Library has reprint copies of historical periodicals originating in China. All information is available through the library catalogue. Below are some select titles of this type of resource:

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