China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) E-Books service
18 May 2026
The Library is excited to announce its continued subscription to the CNKI E-Books service, offering full-text access and the option to download entire books.
With over 9,300 high-quality academic titles from China’s most authoritative scholarly publishers, this service covers a wide range of subject areas, including Art, Language & Literature, History, Nationality & Geography, and Philosophy & Religion. It provides invaluable resources for both research and learning.
The CNKI E-Books collection covers a variety of specialised topics, such as:
- Rare Editions Series of Individual Collected Works from Qing Dynasty Authors 清人别集善本丛刊
- Chinese Classical Popular Fictions Series 中国古典通俗小说系列
- Fun Insights into the Chinese Language Series 汉语趣说丛书
- The Northern Warlords Historical Archive Series 北洋军阀史料
- Series of Rare Historical Materials from the Republic of China 馆藏民国珍贵史料丛刊
- Old Shanghai Film Magazine archive 老上海电影画报
- Corpus of contemporary Chinese Thinkers 中国近代思想家文库
- The People's Republic of China Local Gazetteer Series 中华人民共和国地方志丛书
- The Journal of the Geographical Science Archive 地學雜誌
- The Collected Works of Dai Yi 戴逸文集
As one of only two UK libraries with full access to all 10 subjects of the China Academic Journals via CNKI, organised into 168 subject-specific areas, we provide access to over 8650 journals worldwide, anytime, anywhere.
These invaluable resources enhance access to authoritative Chinese scholarly content, significantly enriching China-related studies. It is also essential for students working on dissertations and theses that require Chinese-language sources.
- Access the CNKI E-books service