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Chinese studies

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East Asia Library services under shelter-in-place order | April 20, 2020
New Chinese databases available for Spring 2020 access | April 16, 2020
Maruzen eBook Library and Harvard University Asia Center Ebook Collection now available | March 25, 2020
New online exhibition features photographs from Wang Jingwei regime | January 23, 2020
East Asia Library hosts pop-up exhibition of Chinese painting | October 31, 2019

Topic guides

Chinese art: Traditional
Chinese biographies
Chinese art: Modern and contemporary
Visual History Archive: Testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses
Find Chinese materials in SearchWorks
East Asian studies
Electronic resources for Chinese studies
Gaihozu: Japanese imperial maps
Chinese NPO: Government policies 1988-2016
Chinese NPO: Importance conferences held in China 1998-2016 (under construction)
Chinese NPO: Major events 1989-2016
Asian religions
Early Chinese-Americans at Stanford

Notable collections

  • Ba Xian dang an

    Huang-Bernhardt Collection of Chinese Legal Documents

    Philip C. C. Huang and Kathryn Bernhardt are Professors of Chinese History at UCLA who, over 25 years of research and teaching, amassed a unique collection of legal and administrative documents reproduced from Chinese archives.

  • YWCA photo

    Anderson Photograph Collection of YWCA in China, 1920s-1940s

    The private photography collection of Miss Elsie Anderson, who spent seventeen years in China as a Secretary for Young Women's Christian Association of China (YWCA) 中華基督教女青年會 between 1920s-1940s.

  • Tao Pai-chuan

    Tao Pai-chuan Papers

  • Bai Mao Nü

    Chinese Comic Books

    Chinese comic books (连环画) are a popular medium to entertain and to educate the public in China. The collection contains about 300 comic books, the majority published after 1949, from 50s to 70s and during the Cultural Revolution.

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