Internet resources for History

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。

This is a digital archiving project undertaken by the
National Tsing-Hua University of Taiwan that aims at
digitizing and making publicly accessible a batch of
historical records including correspondences, postcards,
calligraphy and painting works, and other archival
materials
dating back to the period when Taiwan was under the
colonial
rule of Japan. Images of the archival documents are
available online in PDF files, and the portal makes it
possible for users to browse and search for the index and
information.

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.

The Digital Collections is the National Library of
Medicine's free online archive of biomedical books and
videos. All of the content in Digital Collections is freely
available worldwide and, unless otherwise indicated, in the
public domain. Digital Collections provides unique access to
NLM's rich, historical resources.

U.S. National Library of Medicine has understaken a great
number of digital projects to create free online archives of
biomedical resources that are in the public domain, and make
them freely available worldwide. This web page has a list
of the NIH digital projects and allows users to browse and
identify relevant digital resources by subject.

The Digital Silk Road is a research project that archives
and makes accessible historical records about cultural
heritage along the Silk Road. It currently includes several
interesting resources: Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare
Books on Silk Road (in western languages), Digital Maps of
Old Beijing, and Silk Road Maps. So far, more than 116 rare
books written in various languages have been digitized and
made available online in the Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko
Rare Books on the Silk Road.

Visual Cultures in East Asia is the new generic platform of
the Institute of Asian Studies (IrAsia) for the development
and display of research projects and collections that
involve the use of visual and cartographic materials. It
will actually serve as a portal for the individual as well
as collective projects of the LEAS scholars and graduate
students, as well as their partners.

The e-Asia Digital Library is a digital collection
developed by the University of Oregon Library. The
project aims to build \a collection of digitalized
e-books and a database of full text web resources\
to contribute to research and scholarship on East
Asia, while not duplicating nor displacing printed
traditional materials. The focus is on East Asia,
including China, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea (South
and North). It currently holds over 4,000 items.

This page is a subset of texts derived from the three major
online Sourcebooks: Internet Ancient History Sourcebook,
Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Internet Modern History
Sourcebook along with added texts and web site indicators.
It covers the history and culture of China, Japan, and Korea
in premodern and modern periods.

Edward Bangs Drew joined the Chinese Maritime Customs
Service in 1864 after earning his BA degree from Harvard.
In 1868, Drew was appointed a Commissioner of the Service, a
position he held for decades. During that time he collected
photographs that document clothing, customs, and daily life
in 19th century China, as well as Drew's life and career,
including family and social gatherings, public appearances,
and events and ceremonies.

Elder John Lai's Archives are dedicated to the study of
the history of Christianity in Taiwan with special
emphasis attached to the Presbysterian Church. This
resource is of significant research value for the study of
early history of Christianity in Taiwan. Currently, the
Archives contain three parts: 1. the full text of Prof.
John Lai’s “Kau-hoe-su-oe” 《教會史話》, a collection of
articles on the history of Christianity in Taiwan; 2.
scrapbook files compiled by Prof. Lai, which are valuable
primary sources used for his writings; and 3. Prof. Lai’s
personal bio and family history.

Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (ECCP) is a
biographical dictionary published in 1943 by the United
States Government Printing Office, edited by Arthur W.
Hummel, Sr., then head of the Orientalia Division of the
Library of Congress. Hummel's chief collaborators were Dr.
Tu Lien-che (杜聯喆) and Dr. Fang Chao-ying (房兆楹), Chinese
scholars of Manchu descent who were married to each other.
The database is developed from the print version to allow
for online searching, reading, and downloading of the ECCP
articles.

The website is established by Columbia University Libraries,
it provides electronic version of Guba Hua Gong Diao Cha Lu
reproduced from a microfilm of the original printed copy
held in the Special Collection of Starr East Asian Library.

此站由新加坡国立大学图书馆设立。主要包括“历史文献中的南洋古
国”、“中外交通史籍中的南洋”，及早期南洋文献、华人移民史料、英属殖
民地华人史料等。

人名权威档係以明清档桉(内阁大库档桉、军机档、宫中档等)为主要参考资
料，另辅以故宫典藏之清国史馆传包、传稿及清史馆传稿，再选取学界公认
具权威性的史料，如《国立故宫博物院清代文献档桉：武职大臣年表》、
《明实录》、《清实录》、《清代官员履历档桉全编》、《明代传记丛
刊》、《清代传记丛刊》，及今人编纂的《清代名人传略》、《清代职官年
表》、《清人室名别称字号索引》等做为参考文献，亦使用《清代职官
志》、《中国官制大辞典》等参考书籍。

此站由陕西省图书馆设立。收录53位相关人物及其相关著述全文，671条大
事记，电文、信函、电话记录等史料935条，相关图片1865张，报刊论文索
引2288条，另有影视、旧址等。

In the 19th and 20th centuries, Harvard University played
a significant role-as underwriter, participant, collector,
and repository-for pace-setting expeditions around the
world. For Internet users, Expeditions and Discoveries
provides selective access to Harvard's multidisciplinary
records of those expeditions. Expeditions and Discoveries
delivers maps, photographs, and published materials, as
well as field notes, letters, and a unique range of
manuscript materials on selected expeditions between 1626
and 1953. It offers important-often unique-historical
resources for students of anthropology, archaeology,
astronomy, botany, geography, geology, medicine,
oceanography, and zoology.

This website hosted by the U.S. National Park Service makes
available five e-books respectively aabout the history of
Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, American Indians,
Black Americans, and Mexican Americans in California.

This resource, published in six parts, makes available the
complete British Foreign Office files dealing with China,
Hong Kong and Taiwan during these decades. The documents
combine eyewitness accounts, weekly and monthly summaries,
annual reviews, reports and analyses with a synthesis of
newspaper articles and conference reports, economic
assessments and synopses on leading Chinese personalities.
There is a constant exchange of information between London
and British diplomatic outposts in China and a continual
dialogue on issues relating to East Asia between Britain
and America as well as with European and Commonwealth
partners. Sino-Soviet relations also become a very
important consideration in the Cold War era.