LibGuides: Foreign Law by Jurisdiction: China

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China Law Info
ChinaInfoLaw contains primary materials in English and Chinese, including statutes, regulations, cases, government policies, legal news, treatises, and law review articles. Link defaults to Chinese-language site. Select "English" in the top right-hand corner to access the English version.

Jurisdiction: China
China Research Gateway
The China Research Gateway (CRG) database is a centralized means for discovery and access to an array of Chinese resources, including scholarly journals, monographs, statistical publications, government documents, newspapers, and dissertations. Contains CNKI databases, including China Academic Journals and many others.

Jurisdiction: China
China Online Journals
China Online Journals ((COJ), 万方数据 - 期刊) provides full-text from core journals published in China. The online collections are broadly categorized into subjects.

Jurisdiction: China
NYU subscribes to the following categories: Philosophy/Politics/Law, Social Sciences, Economics/Finance, and Education/Literature/Art.

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 the database Chinese Academic Journals (linked in this guide).

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

Update: Finding Chinese Law on the Internet, GlobaLex
By Joan Lijun Liu
Update: Guide on Researching Chinese Mass Media Law, GlobaLex
By Alex “Xiaomeng” Zhang
Update: Macau Special Administrative Region of People’s Republic of China Jurisdiction, GlobaLex
By Raquel Ferreira Alves

Chinese Law in the Library

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