UVIC Library has recently subscribed to a new database called British Foreign Office Files for China. This database covers the complete British Foreign Office Files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan from 1949 to 1976. The content includes:… more »

Chinamaxx Digital Libraries contains Chinese publications in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The greatest proportion of these books are published after 1949. UVIC Libraries subscribes to around 500 titles in this database. UVIC users can do a "… more »

This post comes from the Subject Librarian for Pacific and Asian Studies. The China Yearbook Fulltext Database is a type of chronicle almanac which records facts, statistics, activities, events and other national or regional conditions in an intensiv… more »

As reported in an article in the UK Guardian newspaper June 2, China is moving to block access to social popular networking websites, such as Twitter, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests. Books and films… more »

New resource: Si Ku Quan Shu Si Ku Quan Shu（四库全书）is the main collection of Chinese pre-modern texts from antiquity up to 18th Century. It includes more than 3,400 Chinese works in the fields of classics, hist… more »