LibGuides: Foreign Law by Jurisdiction: China

Chinese Law Databases

China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database/CNKI
The Library does not have a subscription. Search the database for citations and look for full text in Chinese Academic Journals (above).

China Law Data (Law Data/Yue dan fa xue)
This full text Chinese legal database, in the Chinese vernacular, contains the laws and regulations, court decisions, major law journals, and reference materials for Taiwan. It also covers law- related journals of the Peoples Republic of China.
Chinese Academic Journals
Search in English or Chinese. Abstracts and bibliographic citations in English (1994-). Full text available in Chinese via the CAJ Viewer (free download).
Global-Regulation
Contains machine-produced English translations of the legislation and administrative rules of China. Warning: Machine-based translations should not be relied upon in important documents and writings.
Internet Chinese Legal Research Center
Provides links to legal resources concerning Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, as well as legal research guides and other information related to Chinese legal research.
LawInfoChina
Contains primary materials in English and Chinese, including statutes, regulations, cases, government policies, legal news, treatises, and law review articles. From the English interface, click any tab in Chinese to switch to the Chinese interface.
Laws of the People's Republic of China - AsianLII
Lexis Advance
Includes selective coverage, from 1891 to the present, of Chinese laws, regulations, tax information, judicial decisions, and other legal documents, collected from government sources, and translated by LexisNexis China Online (COL) in Beijing.
Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China
China Law Translate
China Law Translate (CLT) is a collaborative translation project dedicated to facilitating communication between Chinese and foreign legal professionals by creating fast and reliable translations of Chinese legal authority. Since its launch in 2013, CLT has become an authoritative English-language source for news and analysis on Chinese law, as well as an indispensable source of quality translations.

Chinese Law Research Guides

A Complete Research Guide to the Laws of the People's Republic of China (PRC), LLRX by Joan Liu and Wei Luo

Finding Chinese Law on the Internet, GlobaLex by Joan Liu

Lee, Zhang, Okuhara, & Ma, Issues and Trends in Collection Development for East Asian Legal Materials, 105 Law Library Journal 321 (2013). PDF. This article includes a survey of the main print and electronic sources for Korean, Japanese and Chinese law.

Chinese Law in the Library

Materials will be located in B2 North (map), with call numbers beginning with KNN and KNQ.