Internet resources for China

This volume is one in a continuing series of books
prepared by the Federal Research Division of the
Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area
Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of
the Army. It is edited by Robert L. Worden, Andrea
Matles Savada, and Ronald E. Dolan and Library of
Congress Call Number is DS706 .C489 1988.

The goal of this \visual sourcebook\ is to add to the
material teachers can use to help their students understand
Chinese history, culture, and society. It was not designed
to stand alone; we assume that teachers who use it will also
assign a textbook with basic information about Chinese
history.

「中央研究院古汉语语料库」是应汉语史研究需求而建构的语料库。这个语
料库又可依是否经过断词及加标词类而分成两类，即未加标的素语料库以及
有标注的标记语料库。目前素语料库所蒐集的语料已含盖上古汉语（先秦至
西汉）、中古汉语（东汉魏晋南北朝）、近代汉语（唐五代以后）大部分的
重要语料，并己陆续开放使用；在标记语料库方面，上古汉语及近代汉语都
已有部分语料完成标注的工作，并视结果逐步提供上线检索。

该语料库目前提 供《红楼梦》、《金瓶梅》、《平妖传》、《水浒传》、
《儒林外史》、《醒世姻缘》、《西游记》 、《关汉卿戏曲集》、《元刊
杂剧三十种》、《永乐大典戏文三种》等十部古典文献语料线上检索。在查
询功能方面，可以在显示词项及其词类的同时，显示例句的出处，便于历史
语法的研究者使用；在断词标类的凭准方面，也因着眼不同而作了一些变
动，如动补结构标示的较详尽即为一 例。

The site is created by the Hong Kong Computer Society and
allows for searches related to a specific English or Chinese
keyword in databases of both Hong Kong and Mainland computer
terminology. Hong Kong Computer Society has a formal
agreement with Chinese Computer Federation to publicize and
promote in Hong Kong and internationally the official set of
computer terms in Chinese published by the Standard
Terminology Assessment Committee of China. It is essential
to promote the use of a standardized vocabulary in Chinese
for technical communication in China and Hong Kong.

「考古资料数位典藏资料库」是一个以中央研究院历史语言研究所考古工作
成果为主的考古资料库，目前开放查询的部分以本所考古报告及相关出版品
已发表的材料为限。本系统的特色有二，其一为採取考古学的系络关係，而
分为遗址、遗迹、遗物三个子资料库。其二，本系统也收纳各种媒体资料，
包括与考古工作及研究相关的各式照片、线绘图、拓片、田野记载表、墓葬
记载表、地图等各式记录，且不限其数位化后为影像、声音、记录影片等媒
材形式，皆收录在本系统的多媒体影像资料库中。

Asymptote is an open-access international journal dedicated
to literary translation and bringing together comtemporary
writing in one place. The journal is interested in
encounters between languages and the consequences of such
cross-language/culture/border encounters.

Undertaken by two Austrian scholars, Dr. Monika Lehner and
Dr. George Lehner, both of whom are experts with Chinese
rare books, Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0 is a project that aims at
collecting information and links of freely available e-books
on China and Sino-Western encounters from various open
access repositories.

In the earliy years of the 20th century, intrepid Western
plant explorers were sent to 'exotic' lands to gather
economically useful plants and seeds. Botanical and
Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907-1927, is the
digitized collection of Eastern Asian photographs taken by
some of the plant explorers commissioned by the Arnold
Arboretum of the Harvard University. The database features
images of plants, people, and landscapes as were seen and
recorded by the explorers: John George Jack (1861–1949),
Ernest Henry Wilson (1876-1930), Frank Nicholas Meyer
(1875-1918), William Purdom (1880–1921), Joseph Hers
(1884–1965), and Joseph Charles Francis Rock (1884–1962).

BuddhaNet is a nonsectarian organization aiming
to link up with the growing worldwide culture of
people committed to the Buddha's teachings and
lifestyle. Without focusing on any sect's beliefs
or practices, its website provides a diverse
variety of quality resources about Buddhism in
general, including a World Buddhist Directory,
BuddhaZine-Online Magazine, Insight Meditation
Online, and the Buddhist eLibrary. In particular,
the Buddhist eLibrary is set up to support the
free dissemination of digital Buddhist educational
materials around the world.

These databases integrate information from various projects
at the Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum
Buddhist College. By providing information on Chinese
calendar dates, as well as an onomasticon of person and
place names from Buddhist sources they help with
disambiguation and geo-spatial referencing of names and
dates. The data is openly available through various web-
services, including a Google search plug-in for Firefox.

The Chinese collections of the Cambridge Digital Library now
comprise about half a million individual titles, including
monographs, reprinted materials such as manuscripts from
Dunhuang, Huizhou, etc., archival documents and epigraphical
rubbings, 200,000 Chinese e-books (donated by Premier Wan
Jiabao in 2009), 5,000 Chinese e-serials and 3,500 Chinese
microfilm reels. Over 400,000 titles are included in some
2,000 cong shu.

This database contains records for over 140,000 articles
published in Chinese Buddhist Journals of the Republican Era
(1911-1949). These are all articles collected in the Minguo
fojiao qikan wenxian jicheng 民國佛教期刊文獻集成, (Complete
Collection of Republican-Era Buddhist Periodical Literature)
(MFQ), and its supplement the Minguo fojiao qikan wenxian
jicheng bubian 民國佛教期刊文獻集成．補編, (MFQB). Both MFQ and
MFQB were compiled under the leadership of Huang Xianian 黃夏
年 and published in 2006 and 2007 respecively.

The China Biographical Database is an online relational
database with biographical information about approximately
328,000 individuals as of October, 2013, primarily from the
7th through 19th centuries. The data is meant to be useful
for statistical, social network, and spatial analysis as
well as serving as a kind of biographical reference.

China Film Insider is a leading trade publication that
reports on the relationship between China’s film industry,
Hollywood, and the rest of the world. It provides daily news
and in-depth analyses of the exchanges of capital,
information, and talent flowing between China and Hollywood
now at an increasingly fervent pace.

The China Historical Geographic Information System, CHGIS,
project was launched in January 2001 to establish a
database
of populated places and historical administrative units
for
the period of Chinese history between 221 BCE and 1911 CE.
CHGIS provides a base GIS platform for researchers to use
in
spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and
representation of selected historical units as digital
maps.

China Historical Images is a commercial database that
claims
to be the biggest electronic depository of Chinese
historical images. The scope of the digital image
collection focuses on late Ming, Qing, and the Republican
era. The database allows searching and browsing by time,
geographical areas, themes, and authors.

This blog discusses the practical aspects of Chinese law and
how it impacts business.

The University of Westminster’s Chinese Poster Collection
is an archival collection of some 800 posters
spanning the 1950s to the 1980s. Most of the Collection
dates from the 1960s to the 1970s, making it an important
resource for study of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976),
a period of China’s modern history commonly characterised
as the ‘ten dark years of chaos’ but given increasing
critical attention research, documentary films and
important museum collections. The collection also has a
range of memorabilia from the same period, such as puzzles
and toys, badges, handkerchiefs and ration coupons,
tickets and receipts, postcard and print sets, picture
books (lianhuanhua), paper cuts and a small but valuable
library of books on Chinese art of the period.