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Finding research books and articles on individuals
- Searchworks or Socrates. Please note, if one searches in Chinese characters for Chinese materials, for the best results, please use Socrates. Currently the CJK searching functionalities for Searchworks are still under development.
- Bibliography of Asian Studies, This is the online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), referencing principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.
- Historical abstracts with full text, covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, and history of education. Provides selective indexing of historical articles from more than 1,800 journals in over 40 languages back to 1955 as well as the full text of more than 300 journals and over 130 books.
- China Academic Journals, a full text databases covering approximately 6,600 journal titles from the People's Republic of China.
- Taiwan Electronic Periodical Service (TEPS), covers full text articles published in leading Taiwanese academic journals.
- Duxiu 读秀知识库, provides full-text access or bibliographical information to over 2 million core Chinese monographs and journals, as well as over 500 yearbooks published in mainland China.
- National Index to Chinese Newspapers & Periodicals 全国报刊索引, an index database covering information from 1833 to the present. It lists about 18,000 kinds of newspapers and periodicals published in China.
- Chinamaxx, fulltext database of hundreds of thousands of books published in China since 1949 concentrating on social sciences and humanities.
Selected general Chinese reference works
中國人名大辭典 / 臧勵龢等編
中国历代人名大辞典/ 张撝之, 沈起炜, 刘德重主编
中国人名大词典. 历史人物卷/ [廖盖隆, 罗竹风, 范源主编].
中国人名大词典. 当代人物卷
中國古代名人生卒, 歷史大事年譜 / 吴榮光編 ; 陳垣校注
歷代名人生卒錄 / 錢保塘編
二十五史人名大辞典 / 主编黄惠贤 ; 副主编赵泽轩
二十五史外人物总传要籍集成 / 董治安主编
清代名人傳略
古今同姓名大辭典/ 彭作桢辑著
中国近现代人名大辞典/ 主编李盛平
中国近现代人物名号大辞典 / 陈玉堂编著
民國人物大辭典 / 主編徐友春
中华人民共和国人物辞典, 1949-1989 / 王乃庄, 王德树主编
中国人名大词典. 现任党政军领导人物卷 / 《中国人名大词典》编辑部编
Internet biographical resources
China Vitae is a resource of biographical information on more than 4000 Chinese leaders in government, politics, the military, education, business, and the media.
The China Biographical Database is an online relational database with biographical information about approximately 116,150 individuals as of January 2012, primarily from the 7th through 19th centuries. The data is meant to be useful for statistical, social network, and spatial analysis as well as serving as a kind of biographical reference.
The database contains some 3500 biographies on people almost exclusively born between 1890 and the early twentieth century.
This database project is dedicated to the cultural relations between China and the West (1245-2000). It links systematically collected and scientifically validated biographic and bibliographic information. The main items are chronology and names, which are indexed and searchable.
This section contains a listing of individuals who have played a role in the history of Christianity in China. This section includes, but is not limited to, missionaries, teachers, doctors, converts, critics, and the literati.