English Language Sources for the Study of Chinese Foreign Policy

Bibliographies And Source Collections

Chinese Security Homepage (Excellent links to recent speeches, documents, newspaper articles and other sources related to China and East Asia. One stop shopping): http://members.aol.com/mehampton/chinasec.html

Association for Asian Studies, Bibliography of Asian Studies, 1970 --

Association for Asian Studies, Doctoral Dissertations on Asia

China Official Annual Report, 1981 --

China Acktuell "PRC Official Activities and Monthly Bibliography."

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Information China, 3 vol.s (1988)

Hinton, Harold ed., The People's Republic of China, 1949-1979: A Documentary Survey. 5 vols. (1980); 1979-1984, 2 vols. (1986)

Lieberthal, Kenneth and Bruce Dickson, A Research Guide to Central Meetings in China, 1949-1986 (1989)

Lieberthal, Kenneth ed., A Research Guide to Central Documents and Politburo Politics.

Oksenberg, Michel "Politics Takes Command: An Essay on the Study of Post-1949 China." Cambridge History of China. Vol. 14

Dial, Roger ed., Studies on Chinese External Affairs: An Instructional Bibliography of Commonwealth and American Literature. (1973)

Kim, Samuel S. ed., China and the World: New Directions in Chinese Foreign Relations. (1989)

"Bibliography" pp.313-327

Yan Kong "China and Nuclear Proliferation, 1980-1990: A Select Annotated Bibliography of English- Language Publications." (Center for Science and International Affairs Working Paper no.90-3, Harvard University, 1990)


Biographical Sources

William Bartke Who's Who in the PRC, (3rd edition), 1991

William Bartke Biographical Dictionary and Analysis of China's Party Leadership

Central Intelligence Agency, Directory of Officials and Organizations


Foreign Policy Behavior Data Sets

Conflict and Peace Data Bank (COPDAB)

World Events Interaction Survey (WEIS)

Comparative Research on the Events of Nations (CREON)

Correlates of War (COW) data sets on nation-state capabilities, international wars, diplomatic representation, and militarized interstate disputes

Wilkenfeld, Jonathan and Michael Brecher, Foreign Policy Crises Data Set (see their Handbook on Foreign Policy Crises in the Twentieth Century)


Government Documents (available from the Government Documents Library, Lamont Library)

United Nations documents

UNDOC: United Nations Documents Index, 1946 --

Index to Proceedings: contains separate indexes for the General Assembly, Security Council and other UN committees.

US Government documents

United States Government Printing Office Monthly Catalogue

National Foreign Assessment Center (Directorate of Intelligence)

Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress

Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)


Periodicals

Asia and China Related:

American Asian Review Asian Pacific Economic Literature (Australia)

Asian Perspectives (S. Korea)

Asian Survey Asian Wall Street Journal Asiaweek Beijing Review (China)

CCP Research Newsletter

China Aktuell "PRC Official Activites and Monthly Bibliography"

China Business Review

China Daily (China)

China Economic Review

China Information

China Journal (formerly the Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs)

China News Analysis

China News Letter (Japan/ Japan External Trade Organization)

China Quarterly China Reconstructs (China)

China's Foreign Trade (China)

Chinese Historian Contemporary

China Current History

East Asia Review (S. Korea)

Far Eastern Economic Review (Hong Kong)

Far Eastern Affairs (Soviet Union/Russia)

Inside Mainland China (Taiwan)

Issues and Studies (Taiwan)

Japan Quarterly Journal of American-East Asian Relations

Journal of East Asian Affairs (S. Korea)

Journal of Northeast Asian Affairs Modern China Pacific Affairs (Canada)

Pacific Review (UK)

Problems of Communism (Problems of Post-Communism)

Social Sciences in China (China)

South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)

Studies in Comparative Communism

The Journal of Contemporary China

 

International Relations Related (sometimes have China-related articles):

Adelphi Papers

American Political Science Review

Comparative Strategy

Conflict Management and Peace Science

Foreign Affairs Foreign

Policy International Affairs (London)

International Interactions

International Organizations

International Security

International Studies Notes

International Studies Quarterly

Journal of Conflict Resolution

Orbis

Security Studies

Survival

World Politics


Statistical Sources (foreign trade, military capabilities etc.)

Far Eastern Economic Review Yearbook, 1960 --

State Statistical Bureau, Statistical Yearbook of China, 1981 --

World Bank, China: Long-term Development and Options 8 vols. (1985)

Xue Muqiao ed., Almanac of China's Economy, 1981 --

International Institute for Strategic Studies, Military Balance (annual)

for International Institute for Strategic Studies, Strategic Survey (annual)

SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) Yearbook

United Nations Development Program Human Development Report (annual)


Translations of Chinese Materials

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS), 1941 --

Newsbank Index to FBIS, 1975 -- (online)

Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS), 1957 -- (online)

China Report

China Report: Science and Technology

Summary of World Broadcasts (SWB): The Far East, 1939 -- (BBC monitoring service)

Summary of World Broadcasts: Weekly Economic Report

SWB Index, 1989 --

China Daily, 1981 --

Beijing Review, 1958 --; formerly People's China, 1949-1957

M.E. Sharpe Publications

Chinese Law and Government

Chinese Economic Studies

Chinese Studies in History

US Consulate-General (Hong Kong)

Survey of PRC Press (formerly Survey of China Mainland Press SCMP), 1950-1977

Survey of PRC Magazines (formerly Survey of China Mainland Magazines SCMM), 1955- 1977

Current Background, 1950-1977 Supplement to SCMP and SCMM, 1960-1973

Index to SCMP, SCMM and Current Background, 1956-1977