LibGuides: Chinese Studies: Find Books

E-Books in Chinese

Chinamaxx Digital Libraries
Collection of books published in the People's Republic of China with a concentration in Social Sciences and Humanities. It contains an extensive collection of books published since 1949, as well as rare documents from the Ming and Ching epochs. Subject coverage includes works in all major academic disciplines and material from government archives, manuscripts, statistical and other reference works.
Duxiu 读秀学术搜索 Duxiu (www.duxiu.com) is a powerful research/discovery tool for Chinese and Asian Studies. It supports searches in 2.4 million full-text Chinese publications and 3.1 million bibliographies. For the search results, the users can preview 2-3 pages of the original documents and request for the full-text through online document delivery.

Harvard-Yenching Library Chinese Rare Books
530,000 volume of Chinese rare books in Harvard-Yenching Library were digitized and made open access online.
Si ku quan shu 四库全书
台灣華文電子書庫
This e-book database provides free access to 13,778 volumes online. Among which 12, 178 volumes are publications between 1911 and 1949.

iRead eBooks
iRead eBooks, launched by Airiti Inc. in 2008, features a meticulous selection of 80,000 exclusively digitized e-book titles in traditional Chinese characters produced by nearly 3,000 publishers in Taiwan over the years, making iREAD e-Books Taiwan's largest Chinese-language e-book platform.