Multi-volume work on the history of China, containting lengthy chapters written by leading scholars.  An excellent starting point for overview essays and essential bibliography on most topics.

A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the basic problems encountered in researching traditional Chinese civilization and history, with discussions of over 2,500 primary sources and reference works and a selection of 500 of the most outstanding contributions of modern scholarship.

The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges.

A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.

The books and articles you need for your research may not be available from a Tri-College library.  We have two systems to help you retrieve the materials you need.  See this page to place your requests.

The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that is building an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.  The Internet Archive includes more than 300,000 texts, as well as audio, moving images, software and archived web pages.  A good source for books printed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including many travel accounts. 

Online library of more than a million books digitized from the collections of Harvard, Stanford, Michigan, and many other university libraries.  The complete texts are available for books in the public domain - principally books printed before 1923.  A potential source of published travel accounts from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book reviews and dissertations that cover world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada which are covered in "America: History and Life"). Includes publications from 1953-present.

Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.

Provides citations to journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festshriften on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia. Covers 1971-present. Complete citations end with the 1991 records. Since 1992, newly published books are no longer being added.

Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.

Images of approximately 12,000 selected masterpieces from the Chinese imperial collection representing paintings, examples of calligraphy, rare books and manuscripts, sculpture, ceramics, metalwork, jades, decorative arts, and utilitarian objects, from prehistory (Xia dynasty) to the early 20th century.

Comprehensive metasite for information on China and East Asia. Besides information on politics and international relations the site links to web resources on social, cultural, environmental and economic topics with a Chinese or Asian focus.

A global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies.

Comprehensive bibliography of online resources for the study of Chinese history and culture.  Compiled by Benjamin Elman and others at Princeton University.  Revised December 2007.