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.
Internet resources for History
Chinaknowledge is an Encyclopaedia on Chinese History,
Literature and Art to a wide public, from academic scholars
to the interested \layman\. It concentrates on certain
aspects insufficiently dealt with by other sources,
especially traditional literature, biographies, historical
terms, economic history. It also offers sources to each
article that are almost exclusively Chinese scholarly texts.
This method provides direct access to Chinese-language
secondary literature to persons not able or not brave enough
to read Chinese.
「汉字古今音资料库」(Chinese Character Readings,简称CCR)是一个
为方便检索汉字古今音而设计的线上声韵资料库，可提供使用者根据字头查
询古今字音，或依需要设计各种检索条件做资料的阅读和分析。
This system consists of three major components: basic
geospatial materials, WebGIS integrated application
environment, and thematic information. The fundamental base
maps are based on Dr. Tan's \The Historical Atlas of China\.
\The Historical Atlas of China\ provides users with Chinese
historical features, covering Chinese history over the past
2000 years, from the ancient time to Qing dynasty.
Furthermore, various historical atlas and remote sensing
imagery are persistently geo-referenced and overlaid into
the system to broaden the spatial and temporal scope.
The Chinese Express 快報 was a Chinese newspaper
publishing daily from 1971 to 1989. It served as a
source of general news, covering world events and
Canadian politics, as well as that of specific
interest to the Chinese community. Its entire run has
been digitized and will be released in the
Multicultural Canada website.
Although it developed later than the British Columbia
community, Chinese immigration to Ontario was already
a significant force in the 1950s. After changes to
immigration policy in 1967 opened the doors to
skilled workers, large Chinese communities began to
form in Toronto, Ottawa, and other Canadian cities.
As a result, the size and internal diversity of
Ontario’s Chinese communities increased dramatically
in the 1970s and 1980s. This increased presence led
to community activism around issues such as
education, language maintenance, and city
development, as well as the formation of the Chinese
Canadian National Council for Equality (CCNC), based
in Toronto. The Chinese Express rode this wave and
was the witness to the expansion of the Chinese
Canadian community in Toronto.
The bulk of the items in the collection are transcripts for
the documentary films and newsreels from the Cultural
Revolution, 1966-1976. Documentary films and newsreels were
two of the major mass media and communication channels in
China from the 1950’s through the 1970’s. They covered all
aspects of social activities, though the emphasis was on
developments in the building of a socialist country.
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 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.
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.
Between 1865 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants
toiled
at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to
help construct America's First Transcontinental Railroad.
The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project
seeks
to give a voice to the Chinese migrants whose labor on the
Transcontinental Railroad helped to shape the physical and
social landscape of the American West. The Project
coordinates research in the United States and Asia in
order
to create an on-line digital archive available to all.
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.
Church Missionary Society Periodicals features publications
from the Church Missionary Society (CMS), the South American
Missionary Society and the Church of England Zenana
Missionary Society (CEZMS) between 1804 and 2009.
Information about Chinese history could be found in this
resource.
Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics is a digital library collection created under the Harward University Library Open Collections Program. It brings together a unique set of resources from Harvard University libraries -- over 500,000 pages of digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts -- to offer valuable insights into the historical context for current epidemiology and contribute to the understanding of the global, social-hisotry, and public-policy implications of disease.
Cross-Currents is an open-access e-journal co-sponsored by
the Research Institute of Korean Studies at Korea
University (RIKS) and the Institute of East Asian Studies
at the University of California–Berkeley (IEAS). It is
published quarterly online and semi-annually in print, and
gives priority to papers that have significant
implications for current models of understanding East
Asian history and culture. It is particularly interested
in promoting scholarship that extends East Asian studies
beyond issues traditionally addressed by Western
humanities and social science jounals and engages with
issues of immediate concern to contemorary scholars in
China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.
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.
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）。