Chinese studies

Specialists

Zhaohui Xue

Chinese studies librarian

(650) 723-3451

zhxue@stanford.edu

Chinese studies
Jidong Yang

Head, East Asia Library

(650) 644-8657

jdyang@stanford.edu

Chinese studies

East Asian studies

Libraries

East Asia Library

Today:

(650) 725-3435

eastasialibrary@stanford.edu

Library website

Hours & access

Blogs

New exhibition at East Asia Library: "Traversing China's Multiethnic Passage -- Jingui Zhang's Solo Art" | May 24, 2019

Chinese brush painting exhibition at East Asia Library | May 21, 2019

Chinese landscape paintings exhibited at East Asia Library | May 9, 2019

Two new databases added to East Asia Library collections | April 9, 2019

East Asia Library hosts workshop on IIIF technology | March 4, 2019

Topic guides

Chinese art: Traditional

Chinese biographies

Chinese art: Modern and contemporary

Visual History Archive: Testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses

Find Chinese materials in SearchWorks

East Asian studies

Chinese contemporary music

Electronic resources for Chinese studies

Gaihozu: Japanese imperial maps

Chinese NPO: Government policies 1988-2016

Chinese NPO: Importance conferences held in China 1998-2016 (under construction)

Chinese NPO: Major events 1989-2016

Asian religions

Early Chinese-Americans at Stanford

Notable collections

Huang-Bernhardt Collection of Chinese Legal Documents

Philip C. C. Huang and Kathryn Bernhardt are Professors of Chinese History at UCLA who, over 25 years of research and teaching, amassed a unique collection of legal and administrative documents reproduced from Chinese archives.
Anderson Photograph Collection of YWCA in China, 1920s-1940s

The private photography collection of Miss Elsie Anderson, who spent seventeen years in China as a Secretary for Young Women's Christian Association of China (YWCA) 中華基督教女青年會 between 1920s-1940s.
Tao Pai-chuan Papers
Chinese Comic Books

Chinese comic books (连环画) are a popular medium to entertain and to educate the public in China. The collection contains about 300 comic books, the majority published after 1949, from 50s to 70s and during the Cultural Revolution.