Internet resources for Culture

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.

Asia Pacific Perspectives is a peer-reviewed electronic
journal published by the University of
San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim. It welcomes
submissions from all fields of the social sciences and the
humanities with relevance to the Asia Pacific/Pacific Rim.
In keeping with the Jesuit traditions of the University of
San Francisco, Asia Pacific Perspectives commits itself to
the highest standards of learning and scholarship. Papers
adopting a comparative, interdisciplinary approach to
issues of interrelatedness across the Pacific will be
especially welcome.

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.

The Center for International Collections (CIC) currently
maintains five separate databases covering various aspects
of Asia, all of which are freely accessible to the public.
The purpose of these specialized databases is to promote and
enhance public access to the CIC’s extensive holdings by
making full use of all the latest available tools and
technologies.

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.

China, America and the Pacific explores the cultural and
trading relationships that emerged between America, China
and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th
centuries. Manuscripts, rare printed sources, visual images,
objects and maps from international libraries and archives
document this fascinating history.

The core of China: Culture and Society is the pamphlets
held in the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia
housed in the Carl A. Kroch Library of Cornell University.
Mostly in English and published between c. 1750 and 1929,
and amounting to around 1,200 items in 220 bound volumes,
these rare pamphlets form part of one of the deepest and
most extensive collections of literature on China and the
Chinese in the Western world and constitute a rich
resource for scholars and teachers in numerous
disciplines.The pamphlets have all been digitised in
colour and are full-text searchable. Many are illustrated
and feature lavish cover art.

This digital collection answers a need for clear,
intelligible and informative English-language sources
relating to China and the West, 1793-1980, which can be
accessed online and used in the classroom or in course
packs. Key documents relating to the Chinese Maritime
Customs service, from Robert Hart to Frederick Maze, are
accessible and searchable alongside original reports of
the Amherst and Macartney embassies.There are letters
relating to the first Opium War, survivors descriptions of
the Boxer War, and tantalising glimpses of life in China
from the collected diaries and personal photographs of the
Bowra family. There are also significant sources
describing the lives and work of missionaries in China
from 1869-1970, including extensive and fully searchable
runs of missionary periodicals. In addition, this project
offers over 400 colour paintings, maps and drawings by
English and Chinese artists, as well as countless
photographs, sketches and ephemeral items, depicting
Chinese people, places, customs and events, and provides a
striking visual accompaniment to the documentary images.

A great site for learners of Chinese. The site gives the
etymologies of over 4000 Chinese characters, enabling you to
see the connections between them. Searchable by many
different input methods.

The website provides some links to other organizations and
to online resources of potential interest to CHINOPERL
members, including
Association for Asian Performance (AAP), Association for
Chinese Music Research (ACMR), Chinese Storytelling, and
European Foundation for Chinese Music Research (CHIME).

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).

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).

Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is a
peer-reviewed, quarterly online journal that offers its
readers up-to-date research findings, emerging trends, and
cutting-edge perspectives concerning East Asian history and
culture from scholars in both English-speaking and Asian
language-speaking academic communities.

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).

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.

The website lists a selection of Harvard Library digital
collections. Collections related to China and Asia have
already been highlighted on the list. Readers can visit the
website to explore collections concerning other areas.

该网站囊括台湾所有的佛教寺院介绍、文教组织介绍、佛教人物介绍、文化
艺术的发展。此外，该站还有一个很特殊的功能，就是寺院虚拟巡礼，使用
照片的３Ｄ技术，让使用者可以身历其境。