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Provides access to Chinese journals in the areas of politics, law, literature, history, and philosophy. Full text is available.

Note: Due to ongoing copyright legal developments in China, some journals and articles in this database are temporarily unavailable.

This Chinese language dictionary documents the current vocabulary of contemporary standard Mandarin, as well as specialized terminology covering philosophy, history, law, mathematics, medicine and more.

This reference work provides comprehensive coverage of both classic and contemporary philosophical ideas, schools of thought, and figures. Topics range from abstract objects to wisdom, Socrates to Jean-Paul Sartre, ancient Egyptian philosophy to ecological philosophy. The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is written with an international and multicultural focus and also includes such entries as modern Islamic philosophy, Marxist thought in Latin America, and Chinese Buddhist thought.

Includes more than 2,000 articles covering African, Islamic, Jewish, Russian, Chinese, and Buddhist philosophies; bioethics and biomedical ethics; art and aesthetics; epistemology; metaphysics; peace and war; social and political philosophy; the Holocaust; and feminist thought. Also features biographical entries on major figures in philosophical thought throughout history.

Great Dictionary of the Chinese Language is lexicographically compared to the OED and covers usage from classical texts to modern slang. Organized into 23,000 Chinese head character entries with definitions of over 370,000 words and over 1.5 million citations.

Provides invaluable perspective on the late Qing and Republican era in China. The press of more than twenty cities is represented, spanning the Chinese mainland and the entire half century. The collection provides a comprehensive perspective on Chinese life, culture, and politics throughout the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the years of provisional government and civil war, and the birth of the People's Republic. Open Access to this collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.

Articles published by major communist Chinese newspapers, collected and translated into English by the CIA.

The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is the World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. Resources are organized by collection and include books, journal articles, technical papers, country strategy documents, working papers, economic and sector work studies, and speeches. Materials are in English, with over 1000 accompanying documents in other languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Bosnian, French, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Turkish, Spanish, and more.