China-Related E-Resources

The law library and the East Asian Library provide access to a wide range of electronic resources useful for conducting Chinese legal research.

Finding laws and regulations

These databases offer bilingual searching functionality but coverage of contents is much broader in the Chinese sites:

• Chinalawinfo     
• Isinolaw              
• Wanfang Policies and laws of China (PLOC)
• Lexis China    

In English only:

• China law and practice (also available in Westlaw)  - the database offers good English translation of major business-related laws and practice-oriented commentaries      

Finding cases

A small selection of cases is included in these databases primarily in Chinese and very selectively in English.

• Chinalawinfo    
• Isinolaw     
• Lexis China         
• China Law Yee (Beida Fa Yi) Court Cases – Chinese only

Finding journal articles

• Chinalawinfo – The journal collection offers searching in English, full text in Chinese only          
• Chinese Academic Journal (CAJ) – it is part of the CNKI knowledge database  with bilingual searching functionality and abstracts in English.  Full text articles, however, are available in Chinese only.
• Wanfang’s Chinese online journals (COJ) – full text in Chinese              

 In English:

• Frontiers of law in China(Springerlink) – it provides English translation of selective noteworthy journal articles published in Chinese legal journals
• JSTOR - includes interdisciplinary East Asian studies journals such as the China Quarterly, China Journal and Modern China
• HeinOnline - includes US and non-US law reviews such as Columbia J of Asian Law, U Penn's East Asia Law Review and UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal
• SSRN Asian law ejournals

Finding newspapers

• People’s Daily online           
• South China Morning Post (also available in Westlaw)
• China Core Newspaper (CNKI) – Chinese only
• Library Pressdisplay – The global newspaper database includes recent issues of SCMP and other China-related newspapers in English and Chinese         

Finding statistical data

• China Data online           
• Chinalawinfo – includes selective volumes of the law yearbook  
• China Yearbook online – only the “Economics and Management” database is included in the University subscription               
• China Infobank              

Finding Disserations

• Wanfang Disserations