Research Guides: Languages: Online Resources

Selected HPU Online Resources

China Today
Presents information about society and culture in contemporary China.

Project Muse
Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community. MUSE is the trusted source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, with over 120 publishers currently participating.

Carrie Gracie presents a series exploring what ten great lives from Chinese history reveal about China today

Podcast of the day by bbcchinese.com gives you the best interview on a hot topic or despatches from our rBBC reporters based in Asia and elsewhere.

Chinese Text Project
The Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. The site attempts to make use of the digital medium to explore new ways of interacting with these texts that are not possible in print. With over thirty thousand titles and more than five billion characters, the Chinese Text Project is also the largest database of pre-modern Chinese texts in existence.
Youdao
Is one of the best Chinese dictionaries. Though its website is Chinese the search bar search is familiar. Typing in the word aloha give you Chinese translations and definitions. If you scroll down you will see that it gives modern sentence usages with both English and Chinese translation.
Zhongwen
"What I used when I first started learning Chinese was this really cool database for learning Chinese characters."