Alternate Title
中国国家图书馆数字资源
Category
Classical Texts
Institution
National Library of China
Access
open access
URL
http://read.nlc.cn/
Description
The National Library of China (NLC) has opened 31 databases on its 中国古籍保护网 to the public, with additional databases on Republican materials and national minorities added recently. All databases are freely accessible. Sub-collections include: 数字古籍 Digital Rare Books; 数字方志 Digital Gazetteers (side-by-side transcribed text and image; not full-text searchable); 中华寻根网 China genealogical database (bibliographic information on 30,000 jiapu, reading access to over 2,000 titles, biographical entries for 14,000 individuals); 赵城金藏 Zhaocheng Jin Tripitaka (scan access only); 年画撷英 New Year prints; 碞帖精华 Rubbings database (full-text searchable transcriptions); 宋人文集 Collected works of the Song; 甲骨世界 Oracle Bones; 西夏文献 Tangut texts; 名家手稿 Famous author manuscripts; 徽州善本家谱 Huizhou Jiapu; 中华医药典籍资源库 Classical works of Chinese medicine; 法藏敦煌遗书 Dunhuang collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France; rare book collections from Yunnan, Tianjin, Yangzhou, Shanghai Library, Toyo Bunko, Harvard Yenching, and Shandong University; 民国时期文献 (approx. 100,000 titles of Republican e-books); 民国法律 Republican laws; 民国期刊 (approx. 8,000 Republican journal titles); 民国报纸 selected Republican newspapers; 电子图书 modern e-books; 博士论文 doctoral thesis index; 民族文字古籍特藏库 national minorities rare books; 日本细菌战资源库 Japanese Bacteriological Warfare database; 东京审判资源库 Tokyo Trials database (note: different from the Tokyo Trials Literature Database developed by Shanghai Jiaotong University); and 中华古籍善本联合书目 Chinese Shanben Catalog. NLC does not currently provide a central search index across all databases; most collections are listed in the Zhongguo Yanjiu Faxian discovery system.
Source List
Princeton China Studies Research Guide
Tags
Tibet Dunhuang Republican era (1912–1949) Buddhism Military Law Biography Medicine Full-text Genealogy Early China (before 220 CE) Local history
Last Modified
5/19/2026 3:34pm