Internet resources for China

This database covers production, cast and crew, awards and
biographies, reviews and books, and many other information
of Chinese language movies made in mainland China, Hong
Kong, Taiwan, and other regions. Starting from 2006, the
Database also includes TV programmes. In total there are
16563 feature films, 509 TV programmes, 18453 unique
individules, and 1204 companies in the Database
(statistics).

The database has mass education materials
published in Hong Kong and in Mainland China,
particularly Shanghai, in the years 1947-1954.
These cartoon books, pamphlets, postcards and
magazines, on topics such as foreign threats to
Chinese security, Chinese relations with the
Soviet Union, industrial and agricultural
production, and marriage reform, were produced by
both Kuomintang (Nationalist) and Gongchantang
(Communist) supporters.

The Center for Chinese Studies at the University of
Michigan
possesses a stunning collection of rare propaganda
papercuts
from the Cultural Revolution--a period of massive
political
upheaval in China that began in 1966 and lasted about a
decade. The papercuts were scanned and made available as
high-resolution digital images in this collection by the
University Library Digital Library Production Service
(DLPS).

Chineseposters is a continually growing web-database that
presents Chinese propaganda posters through vitural
exhibitions, theme presentations, etc. Most of the featured
posters are from the collections of Stefan Landsberger and
the Interantional Institute of Social History (IISH,
Amsterdam, Netherlands). The website is maintained by the
Chinese Posters Foundation.

The Institute of Oriental Cultures, University of
Tokyo, has a collection of over 100,000 volumes of
Chinese rare books. The Institute has selected the
most precious titles of the collection, digitized
them and made the contents accessible through the
portal of The Chinese Rare Books Full Image
Database. Currently, this database provides free
access to full images of over 4,000 Chinese rare
books and partial access to some 600 rare book titles.

The Chinese Rubbings Collection results from a project to
catalog and digitize the entire collection of East Asian
rubbings (the majority of which are from China) at the Fine
Arts Library of Harvard University. The rubbings were made
from ancient stone stelae, tomb tablets, Buddhist and Daoist
scriptures on stelae and rocks, as well as inscriptions and
designs copied from bronze vessels, jade objects, ceramics,
tomb bricks, and roof tiles, objects dating from the Qin
Dynasty (221-207 BCE) to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE).

The creation of this website was funded substantially by the
S.C.Van Foundation (Daloon Foundation), Denmark.The website
provides a wealth of resources on the field of Chinese
Storytelling, arranged under the following headings: Oral
and Written Literature; Professional Storytelling; History
and Milieu; Masters and Disciples; Elements of Performance;
Sagas of Storytelling. Added to the site in 2013 is the
Chinese Storytelling Reserch Database.

The Chinese-Australian Historical Images in Australia
(CHIA) database is a catalogue of historical images of
Chinese, Chinese immigrants and their descendants held in
Australia. It primarily draws on the photographic holdings
of the Chinese Museum but also includes photographs from
other online archives, publications and private family
collections. Digital copies of many of these images are
available for research purposes. CHIA also includes the
beginnings of an encyclopaedia of Chinese-Australian
history, complete with bibliography, aimed at providing
contextual information for database images.

The online database, Christian Sources in New Local
Gazetteers of China, is the result of a seminal project
undertaken by the Hong Kong Christian Council and Hong Kong
Spirit Seminary College (of the Roman Catholic Church). The
database specializes in delivering digitalized Christian
sources excerpted from the New Local Gazetteers of China,
published between the 1980s and the 2000s. It covers
Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, Nestorian and Judaic sources
as are recorded in the New Local Gazetteers of various
administrative levels.

Chung Sai Yat Po was published in San Francisco from Feb.
1900 to 1951. It has a long publishing history and almost
all its issues survived. It provides readers important
sources about the history of Chinese immigration in the
first half of the twentieth century. The collection includes
14 microfilm reels and 1,460 online items. Selected issues
can be viewed on the website.

Started in 2006, ChurchChina is an online magazine that is
concerned with the
current state and development of Christian churches in
China. It has professional theological articles from
scholars as well as autobiographical ones for general
readers.

The handwritten manuscripts in the collection come in a
large variety of forms, which include poetry, prose, novels,
letters, diaries, scripts and reviews. In addition, this
collection also focus on different kinds of brushworks by
well-known contemporary artists and writers, such as
calligraphy, Chinese ink paintings, sketches, watercolors
and oil paintings.

The handwritten manuscripts in the collection come in a
large variety of forms, which include poetry, prose, novels,
letters, diaries, scripts and reviews. In addition, this
collection also focus on different kinds of brushworks by
well-known contemporary artists and writers, such as
calligraphy, Chinese ink paintings, sketches, watercolors
and oil paintings.

The Daoist Studies website is a portal designed to assist
researchers and scholars of Daoism, practitioners, and
interested members of the public in furthering knowledge
about Daoism. The website features an extensive bibliography
of secondary sources as well as links to collections of
Daoist texts including the an index to the Daozang 道臧 and
PDF facsimiles of the Zangwai Daoshu 臧外道書 and other e-
texts.

The online archive results from a digitization project
undertaken by the Chinese University of Hong Kong to
digitize the works and papers of Professor David Hawke,
including his original translation manuscript of The Story
of the Stone (石頭記, Chapter 2~Chapter 80).

This project is based on Mr. Fu Ssu Nien’s collection of
Shang Zhou bronze objects which have great values in various
academic fields, such as philology, ancient history and
history of art. In order to enable these materials to be
widely known among people, and to extend the lifespan of the
objects, this project has been working on digitalization of
the objects, and has also publicized these digitalized
materials on the internet.

This is the website for the Temple Gazetteer Project at
Dharma Drum Buddhist College. The project is funded by the
Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies. The aim of the
project is to tap into this wealth of information in order
to deepen our understanding of Chinese Buddhist history.
Between 2007 and 2010, 237 gazetteers were digitized and
are distributed on this website. Of these 13 gazetteers
were digitized as full-text archives and marked up with
TEI/XML, identifying all persons and place names as well
as dates. A print edition of these enhanced versions is
under preparation.

本资料库整理校对与数位化的典藏品是中央研究院历史语言研究所收藏的汉
简，其中以西元1930~1931年瑞典考古学家贝格曼（Folke Bergman）等人
在内蒙古与甘肃境内之额济纳河流域发掘的「居延汉简」为主，约11000馀
枚，另外还包括西元1930、1934年黄文弼在新疆盐泽发现的「罗布淖尔汉
简」（58枚），以及西元1944、1945年夏鼐、阎文儒勘查玉门关、阳关及
汉代边防烽燧遗址路线，所发现的「敦煌小方盘城汉简」（76枚）、「武威
剌麻湾汉简」（7枚）。

This project began in 2004 with the establishment of the
digital archive of oracle bone rubbings, an important
objective of the process being storing the Institute of
History and Philology's oracle bone rubbings, in excess of
about forty thousand articles. They may be divided into two
categories: rubbings of archaeologically excavated animal
bones and tortoise shells, and rubbings of bones and shells
got from purchased collections.

历史语言研究所金文工作室建置的「殷周金文暨青铜器资料库」（系统由中
研院计算中心开发，GIS则与中研院地理资讯科学研究专题中心合作），已
于2009年五月免费开放学界申请使用。资料库目前收录《殷周金文集成》、
《新收殷周青铜器铭文暨器影彙编》，两书共约14000件青铜器资料，完整
呈现了每件铜器的器影、铭文拓片、器名、时代、出土资讯、现藏地、流
传、尺寸、纹饰及着录等各项讯息，并结合「GIS地理资讯系统」，即时观
看青铜器历史地图，了解器物出土地分布状况；依考古报告绘製的「墓葬平
面图」，标志各器物出土时在墓葬的实际位置，提供研究者详实且便捷的青
铜器和金文知识。