Institutions, Libraries, or Finding Aids
Chinese-Language Materials
(updated July 2009)

For the most comprehensive list of archives, indices and finding aids in English and Chinese, see Endymion Wilkison, Chinese History: A Manual (Revised and Enlarged) (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000).  See also Ye Wa and Joseph Esherick, eds., Chinese Archives: An Introductory Guide (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, 1996).

 

In China (Mainland or Taiwan)

Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
Within the Academia Sinica, each research institute has its own library.  Of particular value to scholars of Sino-Japanese conflict is the Guo Tingyi tushuguan, the library of the Institute of Modern History.

http://lib.mh.sinica.edu.tw:8080/cgi-bin/jsu/brwhtm.cgi?o=dbrwhtm

Beijing University
http://www.lib.pku.edu.cn/portal/index.jsp

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Shehui kexueyuan tushuguan)
Modern History Institute
Beijing

http://jds.cass.cn/Index.html

Fudan University
http://www.fudan.sh.cn/

Nanjing Library (Nanjing tushuguan)
http://202.119.47.3/

Nanjing Number 2 Archives
http://www.shac.net.cn/

Nankai University
http://www.lib.nankai.edu.cn/

National Library of China (Guojia tushuguan)
http://www.nlc.gov.cn/

Qinghua University
http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/qhdwzy/tsda.jsp

Shanghai Library (Shanghai tushuguan)
http://www.library.sh.cn/english/


In Japan

See also Gendai Chûgoku kankei Chûgokugo bunken sôgô mokuroku (Union Catalor of Chinese Documentation on Modern China).

National Diet Library (Kokuritsu kokkai toshokan)
http://www.ndl.go.jp/en/index.html


Outside East Asia

East Asian Library Websites in North America
http://wason.library.cornell.edu/CEAL/CEALmemberhomepages.htm

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html

British Library
http://www.bl.uk/

Cambridge University
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/Departments/


University Library

King’s College Library
http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/library

Columbia University
C. V. Starr East Asian Library

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/eastasian/index.html

Cornell University
http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/

Council on East Asian Libraries
http://www.eastasianlib.org/

Harvard-Yenching Library
http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvard-yenching/

Hoover Institution
Stanford University

http://www.hoover.org/hila/

See Julia Tung, The Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945: Materials Added since 1984 to the East Asian Collection, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace (New York: International Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the War of Resistance, 1995); and Michiko Kiyohara, China Watching by the Japanese: Reports and Investigations from the First Sino-Japanese War to the Unification of China under the Communist Party: A Checklist of Holdings in the East Asian Collection, Hoover Institution (Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 1987).

Institute of Oriental Studies
Russian Academy of Sciences

http://spb.org.ru/ban/RASL/info.htm

Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/

Princeton University, East Asian Collection
http://eastasianlib.princeton.edu/

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs

School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London

http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/

Sino-Japanese Relations (University of California, Santa Barbara)
http://www.chinajapan.org/
Sino-Japanese Studies (SJS) was conceived as a journal devoted to studies of China and Japan together, irrespective of discipline or time period. For many that would take the form of comparative Sino-Japanese research, while for others that meant actual Sino-Japanese interactions. Everyone involved has been committed to fostering this sub-field which at once both covers both the China and the Japan fields while, at the same time, examines where these two meet.”

Subject Resources for Asian Studies (University of British Columbia)
http://toby.library.ubc.ca/subjects/subjpage1.cfm?id=154

University of British Columbia, Library
http://www.library.ubc.ca/

University of California, Berkeley
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BANC/

University of Chicago Library
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/easia/

University of Michigan Library
http://www.lib.umich.edu/asia/

University of Toronto
Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/east/

University of Washington
http://www.lib.washington.edu/east-asia/

Yale University
http://www.library.yale.edu/eastasian/

 

Other Languages

European Association of Chinese Studies

 
 
 
See also papers from the January 2000 conference in Tokyo.

Chinese-Language Materials on the Sino-Japanese War 1937–1945 A Bibliography by Liu Hong, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. (pdf in Chinese)

A Bibliography of War of Resistance Historical Materials Published between 1984 and 1993 (in Chinese) (pdf format--requires free Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Preliminary Bibliography: The Sino-Japanese War 1931–1945, Works Published in the PRC, 1993–2000 (in Chinese) (pdf format--requires free Adobe Acrobat Reader)