Stanford East Asia Library
The Chinese collection consists of approximately
350,000 volumes, plus another 28,300 reels of microfilm. The collection deals with politics, law, economics,
public finance, sociology, statistics, education, and defense. Other
emphases include historical and geographical works, language and literature, and science
and technology, including both industry and agriculture.
An unusually comprehensive set of some 13,000 serials (of which
over 1,300 are currently received) includes many pre-1949 government
documents, statistical reports on commerce, and other periodicals.
EAL materials cataloged since 1984 are listed in Stanford's public-access
catalog, Socrates, and
the Research Libraries Information
Network (RLIN) database. Please note that vernacular display
of RLIN records works reliably only with Internet Explorer. Four
Internet-connected public terminals are available for public use.
The collection's rich resources on the history of the Chinese
Communist Party are represented in two bibliographies by Xue Jundu:
The Chinese Communist Movement, 1921-1937 (1960) and
The Chinese Communist Movement, 1937-1949 (1962). Others
are cataloged in Hoover Institution Microfilms (1965)
and its Asian Supplement (1977), which lists 128 microfilm
reels describing communist base areas during the Chinese civil
war.
Republican China's hasty adoption of Western educational reforms
resulted in student activism demanding political and legal reforms.
John Israel's The Chinese Student Movement, 1927-1937
(Hoover Institution Press, 1959) cites many Hoover materials that
refer to these events.
Other collection strengths include organized labor, rural markets,
railroads, urban banks, and the leasing and renting of land in
villages (see G. William Skinner and Winston Hsieh, eds., Modern
Chinese Society: An Analytical Bibliography. Publications in Chinese,
1644-1969, Stanford University Press, 1973).
Other Finding Aids for the Chinese Collection
Hoover Archives Holdings on China
Online
Resources for China Studies
Reference Contact and Recommending Library Purchases
For reference help with the Chinese collection
or to suggest a Chinese-language title for purchase, please contact:
