Resources for Social Science Scholars

China Research Gateway (CRG) opens up a new level of access to Chinese research, including an unprecedented breadth and depth of publications and improved organization and accessibility. With CRG, the whole is better than the sum of its parts. Together these resources can support robust answers to key questions in the social sciences. By combining government resources, popular culture magazines, and statistics, for example, a researcher can develop a more complete picture of population trends, equity issues, or long-term economic growth. By housing numerous Chinese databases in one portal, CRG transforms typical user behavior by encouraging researchers to consider new content types and information sources. With an East View-produced fact sheet available for each database, users are well equipped to weigh and compare these resources.

Strengths in CRG

Social science research depends and thrives on a having a variety of content types. CRG allows social science researchers to build arguments using statistics from China Statistical Yearbooks, government publications from China Government Gazettes, laws and cases from China Legal Knowledge, and news from China Core Newspapers.

New Resources for Social Science Researchers

While some of the databases in CRG, like China Academic Journals, are already familiar to researchers, many databases represent new territory. Among those that most North American libraries have rarely subscribed to before are China Legal Knowledge, China Government Gazettes, and China Monographic Serials.

CRG Coverage of Hot Topics in Social Sciences

CRG is awash in resources for researchers of Chinese-African relations. China Government Gazettes contains government announcements relevant to united efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and African swine fever, China Academic Journals provides the most comprehensive academic journal coverage available from China, including analysis of infrastructure investments, China Core Newspapers highlights Chinese media coverage of cooperation initiatives in Africa, and China Master’s Theses and China Doctoral Dissertations capture emerging academic literature from recent graduates.

Information from CRG gives researchers the tools to present a comprehensive picture of gender dynamics in China. CRG’s coverage includes medical publications relevant to women’s health (China Hospitals Knowledgebase), monographic serials about prominent female characters in literature (China Monographic Serials), regulations about gender discrimination in the workplace (China Government Gazettes), and legal interpretations relevant to women’s rights (China Legal Knowledge).

China’s household registration, or Hukou, system, which designates each citizen as a rural or urban resident, governs the movement of China’s populace and creates manifold inequalities. China Legal Knowledge is a database devoted to the world of legal publications in China and has over 4.2 million articles related to Hukou requirements, covering journal articles, laws and regulations, and cases. China Government Gazettes contains over 28,000 articles about the Hukou system published by local government gazettes. China Monographic Serials, which provides peer-reviewed research series each published as monographs, contains almost 12,500 titles on Hukou, spanning crime rates, reform efforts, and social integration.

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Specialty Social Sciences Databases

CAJ China Academic Journals
中国期刊全文数据库
The most comprehensive full-text database of Chinese journals in the world, covering 99.9% of all academic journals published in China
Download: fact sheet | title list
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CMSD China Monographic Serials
中国学术辑刊全文数据库
The only monographic serials full-text database in China, presenting a collection of irregularly published literature from China
Download: fact sheet | title list


CDMD-CDFD China Doctoral Dissertations
中国博士学位论文全文数据库
The most comprehensive database of dissertations from top Chinese universities and research institutes
Download: fact sheet | title list


CDMD-CMFD China Master’s Theses
中国优秀硕士学位论文全文数据库
The most comprehensive database of theses from top Chinese universities and research institutes
Download: fact sheet | title list


CSYD China Statistical Yearbooks
中国统计年鉴数据库
The leading database of authoritative statistical data in China covering all aspects of China’s technical, economic, industrial, environmental, and social development
Download: fact sheet | title list

CCND China Core Newspapers
中国重要报纸全文数据库
Daily content from hundreds of Chinese newspapers
Download: fact sheet | title list


CGGD China Government Gazettes
中国政报公报期刊文献总库
Authoritative collection of political newspapers, bulletins, announcements and other official regulations, proclamations, and research
Download: fact sheet | title list


CLKD China Legal Knowledge
中国法律知识资源总库 / 中国法律数字图书馆
A comprehensive cross-database legal knowledge discovery service for resources on Chinese laws and regulations
Download: fact sheet


CHKD Chinese Hospitals Knowledgebase
中国医院知识总库 / 中国医院数字图书馆
A comprehensive database offering a centralized data discovery and retrieval experience across a broad range of Chinese and western resources related to medicine and hospitals
Download: fact sheet


CFJD Chinese Primary Education Journals
中国基础教育期刊全文数据库
The largest full-text database of primary education periodicals in China
Download: fact sheet | title list

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