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This research guide will support you in discovering Chinese Studies resources at UW-Madison and beyond. The Chinese Studies Collection at UW-Madison contains over 210,000 physical volumes and other digital resources in the Chinese language. The collection also consists of large volumes and electronic resources in non-Chinese languages related to Chinese Studies. 

The Memorial Library at UW-Madison started to collect Chinese materials in 1917. In that year, a Chinese student donated some books and journal titles to our libraries. In 1965, the Memorial Library hired the first Chinese Studies librarian. 

With the development in over one century, the Chinese Studies Collection has emphasized Chinese history, literature, art, linguistics, and frontiers. The collection also developed the Women's Studies, economics, and foreign relations associated with Chinese Studies. The primary Chinese Studies books and periodicals are located on the 4th floor, Memorial Library. The Chinese rare books are located at the Special Collections. Other significant collections of Chinese materials are accessible at the College Library, Law Library, Mills Music Library, Steenbock Library, Kohler Art Library, as well as the Wisconsin Historical Society Library.

What's New

Digital Resources

  • new 观箴 · 清宫档案数据库 (Campus network or VPN connection)
    The collection includes numerous original archives from the Qing Palace, as well as nearly 250,000 art object records. It contains the complete Qing Palace collection, display arrangements, and manufacturing records from the imperial workshops, allowing for item-by-item provenance tracing of royal treasures.
     
  • new AiritiLibrary (華藝線上圖書館) (NetID required)
    The AiritiLibrary contains a wide range of Chinese periodicals, conference proceedings, and eBooks from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. It covers broad subject areas, including humanities, science, social sciences, technology, medicine, and life sciences.
     
  • new Database of Chinese Local Records I-III (中國方志庫 I-III) (NetID required)
    It contains from Volume I to Volume III from Erudition (爱如生) with more than 10,000 local gazetteers from the Song Dynasty to the Republican era. It is comprised of more than 10 million pages of images and texts and is fully searchable by various methods, including region, title, period, or classification. Due to the limited number of users for the database, please log out when done in order to allow others access to the database without delay.
     
  • new CSMAR: China Stock Market and Accounting Research Database (NetID required)
    This research-oriented database focuses on China's Finance and Economy and contains macroeconomic and industry statistics. UW-Madison users have access to China Industry Research Series (行业研究系列) and subdatabases in the China Economic Research Series (经济研究系列), covering Macroeconomic, Regional Economy, Industrial Statistics, County-Level Economic, Rural Finance and Economics, Education, Marine Resource Economics, Patent, and Culture Research.

 

Monthly New Books

Notice

Access to certain CNKI content has been temporarily suspended due to new oversight requirements on the Chinese government. This suspension affects full-text access and downloads for certain content types, and it took effect on April 1, 2023. The resumption date is yet to be announced. This suspension has impacted our digital resources. However, we have identified the following alternative resources:

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and will keep you updated on any new developments.

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Events & Exhibits

  • The Compound Eye: Faceted View and Poly-narrative of the Landfills in Wang Jiuliang's Beijing Besieged by Waste
    ALC Grad Students Professional Development Research Talk
    Luwei Wang, UW-Madison
    May 5th, 4:00 pm
    @254 Van Hise
Subjects: East Asia