The online database VerreTaal was launched in 2008 as the result of a collaboration between the Department of Chinese Studies and the Sinological Library at Leiden University and the Research Centre for Translation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Using English as the interface language, VerreTaal aims to provide a research tool for translation studies, (comparative) literary studies, (inter)cultural studies and area studies, Chinese studies and other academic fields — and for the general reader and library user.

The database lists Dutch-language, direct and relay translations of works originally written in Chinese. It includes book titles in poetry, fiction and non-fiction, and drama, as well as journal publications. Entries in multiple-author anthologies contain individual author names, story / essay titles and corresponding page numbers where available.

VerreTaal can be browsed by authors, translators, titles and subjects, or searched using traditional and simplified Chinese and Hanyu Pinyin. It is updated regularly.