Skip to Main Content

Research Guide for Chinese Studies

This guide provides tools and selected electronic resources for conducting research on Chinese studies

Data Resources

CEIC Data
China Data Online 中国数据在线
China Geo-Explorer II
Chinese Maritime Trade Customs Datasets Open Access
CNKI. China Statistical Yearbooks Database (CSYD) is 中国经济社会大数据研究平台
more... less...

Open Harvard VPN to access (off-campus).
Access for contents suspended from 2023.4.1.
CNKI. National Population Census of China (NPCC) 全国人口普查数据库
For 1953, 1964, 1982, 1990, 2000, 2010
Contemporary Chinese Village Gazetteers Data (CCVG ) 数字村庄
Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, R.O.C.(Twain) 台灣行政院主計處 OPEN ACCESS
more... less...

Besides information on policy and county and city level reports, this site also holds data from the Social Development Trends Survey.
EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) Country Data
Modern Chinese Economic Indices 近代中国经济指数数据 Open Access
National Bureau of Statistics of China 中华人民共和国国家统计局 OPEN ACCESS
more... less...

The official PRC website for statistics. Provides information about the agency, laws & regulations, statistical standards, survey programs, statistical indicators, statistical data, and links to provincial statistical websites.
Polling the Nations
Proquest Statistical Insight
UNdata
WiseSearch
台灣人口統計資料庫 OPEN ACCESS
台灣日治時期統計資料庫 OPEN ACCESS

Statistical Yearbooks

CNKI. China Statistical Yearbooks Database (CSYD) is 中国经济社会大数据研究平台
more... less...

Open Harvard VPN to access (off-campus).
Access for contents suspended from 2023.4.1.
YearBookChina 统计年鉴分享平台 OPEN ACCESS

Accessibility Privacy

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Except where otherwise noted, this work is subject to a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which allows anyone to share and adapt our material as long as proper attribution is given. For details and exceptions, see the Harvard Library Copyright Policy ©2021 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College.