Universities Service Centre for China Studies Collection: Home

In this guide we introduce the Universities Service Centre (USC) for China Studies Collection (中國研究服務中心特藏) and the materials you can find in this collection. We provide information on how to use the LibrarySearch for an easy retrieval of USC material and how to use the USC classification and call number system to find material on the shelf.

• 中国人口普查数据库
  涵蓋：1982-2020
  中國人口普查數據庫是以中國政府統計部門歷次人口普查資料為基礎的全文數據庫和普查數據分析系統，中國全國性人口普查約十年進行一次，至今共計七次，是研究中國社會、經濟、勞動力、住房存量、人口分佈等基本情況和階段性發展變化的第一手數據。數據庫資源收錄：1982年至今，目前已收錄第三到七次人口普查資料。
• 中國統計年鑒數據庫
  涵蓋: 1994至今
  包含統計數據檢索和數據挖掘分析兩部份，共有分成39個地區的624種統計年鑑。讀者可根據研究課題需求，通過定制地區，指標和年份等參數，進行地區發展對比分析，單(多)指標分析，和時間序列分析。
• Database trials

• Exhibition: Ma Hu Pao Lee Theatre – Looking at the Cultural Inheritance of Hong Kong Theatre through the Drama Collection at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library
  Date: 31 May 2024 – 31 December 2024
  Venue: Exhibition Area, University Library, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Universities Service Centre for China Studies (USC) Collection is dedicated to making information and data on post-1949 China available with a special focus on regional and local data.

• Newspapers 報紙, including regional, nationwide, topic related newspapers
• Yearbooks 年鑒, including statistical yearbooks
• Local Gazetteers 地方志, including provincial, city, county, township and village gazetteers, as well as volumes on special topics
• CCP organizational history material 組織史資料, on all administrative levels
• Census material 普查資料, such as population census, economy census, industry census, agriculture census as well as the place name census
• Folk history 民間歷史 collection with published memoirs and biographies as well as collections of letters, diaries, and photographs
• Periodicals 期刊 (Chinese and English)
• Book publications 書籍 (Chinese and English)
• Documentaries 紀錄片
• Miscellaneous material (please contact USC library staff)

• History of Contemporary Chinese Political Movements Series 中國當代政治運動史數據庫系列
  • The Chinese Cultural Revolution Database 中國文化大革命數據庫（1966-1976）
  • The Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign Database 中國反右運動數據庫（1957-）
  • The Chinese Great Leap Forward Great Famine Database 中國大躍進——大饑荒數據庫（1958-1964）
  • Database of the Chinese Political Campaigns in the 1950s: From Land Reform to State-Private Joint Ownership 中國五十年代初中期的政治運動資料庫：從土地改革到公私合營 (1949-1956)
• Databank for China Studies 中國研究數據庫 (DCS)
  Research and survey data sets for quantitative research on contemporary China. Application required for dataset usage (under review, partly not available).

USC for China Studies Collection is housed on the 8/F and 9/F of the University Library.