National Library of China e-resources
Alternate Title
中国国家图书馆数字资源
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Institution
National Library of China
Access
open access
Description
National Library of China e-resources (中国国家图书馆数字资源) provides free public access to 21 specialized databases through the China Ancient Books Protection Network (中国古籍保护网). Databases include: Digital Rare Books (数字古籍) with works dating to Song-Yuan-Ming-Qing dynasties; Digital Gazetteers (数字方志) covering local histories nationwide; China Genealogical Database (中华寻根网) with bibliographic information on nearly 30,000 family histories (家谱) and reading access to more than 2,000, plus over 6,000 gazetteers linked into the system; Zhaocheng Jin Tripitaka (赵城金藏) — rare Buddhist canon; Chinese New Year Prints (年画汀英); Rubbings Database (碑帖精华) supporting full-text searching of transcribed rubbings, with particular depth for the Tang and Qing periods; Collected Works of Song Dynasty Authors (宋人文集, focusing on first editions); Oracle Bones Database (甲骨世界); Tangut Texts (西夏文献) and Tangut Studies Bibliography (西夏论著); Historic Photographs (前尘旧影); Huizhou Genealogies (徽州善本家谱); Classical Chinese Medicine Works (中华医药典籍资源库); Dunhuang Manuscripts from Bibliothèque Nationale de France (法藏敦煌遗书); Yunnan Library Rare Books (云南图书馆古籍); Tianjin Library Rare Books (天津图书馆古籍); Shanghai Library Family Histories (上海图书馆家谱); Toyo Bunko Rare Chinese Books (东文研汉籍影像库); Harvard Yenching Library Rare Books (哈佛大学善本特藏); and the Union Catalog of Chinese Rare Books (中华古籍善本联合书目) — a catalog of 3,481 editions of rare books in Chinese and international collections.
Source List
ACLS Open Database Resource Guide
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5/17/2026 12:20am