Imperial China 

• On-Campus Collection

• Databases

• Internet Resources

• Selected Journals

• Research Tips

Imperial China is generally understood to begin with the Qin Dynasty in 221 B. C. continuing to approximately 1800.  The suggested electronic resources are available linked from here and from the Electronic Resources section of the library home page. Print resources are available in the PHC on-campus collection. Ebooks are particularly helpful for members of our distance learning (DL) community. If you are accessing online resources from off campus and a log in is required, use your student portal user name and password to access. You may check out the location and availability of an item in the on-campus collection through the online catalog, Voyager, accessed here or through the library home page.

Professional librarians are cheerfully available by email at askalibrarian@phc.edu, in the library, or by phone at 540-441-8400.

Databases

• JSTOR - contains complete back issues of 241 scholarly journals in a wide range of disciplines. Issues from the most recent three to five years for each title may not be included in the collection. If you locate an article that is not available in full-text, check to see if the journal is available on any of PHC's other databases.
• ProQuest - contains the citations and abstracts of over 1,000 titles in the broad areas of social sciences and law. Of those 1,000 titles, 710 provide users with full-text, images and graphics online. Indexing and full-text coverage begins in the early 1990s for most titles.
• eBooks - provides access to over 65,000 academic, full-text, electronic books that can be accessed immediately on your computer. On first use, patrons are prompted to create a user ID and password for future access.

Selected Journals

• Chinese studies in history (Online, 2001-present)
• Early China (Online, 2014-one year ago)
• Late Imperial China (Online, 2002-one year ago)