China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) E-Books service
The Library is excited to announce its continued subscription to the , offering full-text access and the option to download entire books. With over 9,300 high-quality academic titles from China’s most authoritative scholarly publishers, this service covers a wide range of subject areas, including Art, Language & Literature, History, Nationality & Geography, and Philosophy & Religion. It provides invaluable resources for both research and learning.
The CNKI E-Books collection covers a variety of specialised topics, such as:
- Rare Editions Series of Individual Collected Works from Qing Dynasty Authors 清人别集善本丛刊
- Chinese Classical Popular Fictions Series 中国古典通俗小说系列
- Fun Insights into the Chinese Language Series 汉语趣说丛书
- The Northern Warlords Historical Archive Series 北洋军阀史料
- Series of Rare Historical Materials from the Republic of China 馆藏民国珍贵史料丛刊
- Old Shanghai Film Magazine archive 老上海电影画报
- Corpus of contemporary Chinese Thinkers 中国近代思想家文库
- The People's Republic of China Local Gazetteer Series 中华人民共和国地方志丛书
- The Journal of the Geographical Science Archive 地學雜誌
- The Collected Works of Dai Yi 戴逸文集
As one of only two UK libraries with full access to all 10 subjects of the via CNKI, organised into 168 subject-specific areas, we provide access to over 8650 journals worldwide, anytime, anywhere.
These invaluable resources enhance access to authoritative Chinese scholarly content, significantly enriching China-related studies. It is also essential for students working on dissertations and theses that require Chinese-language sources.
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