Internet resources for History

This is an open-access internet archive that collects works,
poetry, and images by and of Mao Zedong.

民国中文期刊资源库以书目数据、篇名数据、数字对象为内容，提供简单检
索、高级检索、二次检索、关联检索和条件限定检索。现提供4351种期刊电
子影像的全文浏览。资源库遵循边建设边服务的原则，将不断追加更新资源
库内容。

This Mississippi Delta Chinese Oral Histories is part of
Delta State University Archives' Oral History Collection.
The oral history project was funded by the Mississppi
Humanities Council and was completed in 2000. The
Mississippi Delta Chinese Oral Histories consists of
interviews focusing on the history and culture of the
Chinese people in the Mississippi Delta.

The project brings treasures from the NPM collection to you
using websites offering thematic introductions. These
thematic websites all provide a full array of visual and
textual materials on artworks as well as various functions
for appreciating them. This is done so in the hope of
creating a multiple learning environment that will yield
greater study and research benefits as well as reach the
goal of digitized educational and promotional efforts.

This database has been developed by the Academia Sinica of
Taiwan, and is an important online tool to look for
bibliographic and holdings information for Chinese Local
Gazetteers. The database is based on the Union Catalogue
of Chinese Local Gazetteers published in 1985 by the
Academy of Sciences in mainland China, which contains
bibliographic information for 8,200 local gazetteers
compiled before 1949 and currently held by 190 libraries
and institutes across mainland China. In addition, the
database also collects the information of over 2,000 New
Gazetteers published after 1949.

The Open Collections Program (OCP) is the \online window\
that showcase the scope and the breadth of the extraordinary
collections of Harvard University. OCP has created six
subject-specific, web-accessible collections that focus on
making available unique historical materials of Harvard.

The Qiaopi Database is a digital project conducted by the
Shantou University Library to display and promote its
special colleciton of Qiaopi (侨批), remittance receipts
in the form of family letters from overseas Chinese to
their families in China. Most of the surviving qiaopi have
been preserved by archives in Guangdong and Fujian
Province. Qiaopi, as a unique type of historical
documents, has been recognized since 2003 as the world's
documentary heritage on the list of the UNESCO Memory of
the World. This database of Shantou University has
information and digital images about 30,000 pieces of
qiaopi.

Claude L Pickens, Jr. (1900-1985) and his wife, Elizabeth
Zwemer Pickens, were Christian missionaries of the China
Inland Mission (C.I.M.) and had a particular interest in the
category of China's Muslims who are now officially
designated as \Hui\ in China. This digital collection has
over 1,000 photos taken by Pickens, of Muslims and Christian
missionaries working among them in Western China in the
1920s and 1930s. In addition to those, supplemented
resources include several hundred books, pamphlets,
broadsides, etc., in several languages.

The Ricci Roundtable is a database developed and maintained
by the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History
at the University of San Francisco for the use of academic
research on the topic of Christianity in China. The database
has a strong collection of archival, bibliographic and
biographic resources on the history of Christian missions in
China during the past few centuries.

The webpage features Selden Map of China at the Bodleian
Libray of Oxford. Dating from the late Ming period, it
shows China, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia,
Southeast Asia and part of India. The map shows shipping
routes with compass bearings from the port of Quanzhou
across the entire region. This is the earliest Chinese map
not only to show shipping routes, but also to depict China
as part of a greater East and Southeast Asia, and not the
centre of the known world.

The Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association, the Oberlin
College East Asian Studies Program, and the Oberlin
College Archives and Library present this online digital
collection that documents the activity of Oberlinians in
Asia from the 1880s to the 1950s. This teaching and
research collection contains materials from the Oberlin
Shansi Memorial Association Records and personal paper
collections, and it represents a small percentage of the
total amount of materials in the College Archives that
relate to the work of missionaries and Shansi
Representatives in China and as well as other countries.

Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968), an amateur photographer, was a
sociologist and renowned China scholar. He visited China
several times in the early 20th century to collect data for
social-economic surveys and photographed Chinese urban and
rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary,
etc. After his death, Gamble's photos were donated to Duke
University by his daughter. This digital collection has
more than 5,000 photos, primarily of China, taken between
1908 and 1932.

The database contains two parts: Digital Silkroad Museum and
Silk Road: Spatialtemoral platform Sino-India cultural
exchange. Silk Road is a link of ancient cultural, business,
religion, and art, exist in the past and present even in the
future, always in people's minds. Sincerely invite you to
join the research community of Silk Road culture, to discuss
and exchange together.

The Ming Shi-lu (明實錄) (also known as the Veritable
Records of the Ming Dynasty) is a collective name for the
successive reign annals of the emperors of Ming China
(1368-1644). Among the unique materials contained within
the Ming Shi-lu (MSL) are a wide range of references to
polities and societies which today we consider to be parts
of \Southeast Asia\. Given the annalistic nature of the
MSL and the difficulties of searching such a huge corpus,
many of these have long remained unknown. This work
identifies all of the references to Southeast Asia
contained within the MSL and provides them to readers in
English-language translation.

This web site contains materials relating to the history of
Buddhism in Taiwan, including journal articles (full text in
many cases), indexes to books and journal articles,
transcripts of interviews, historical documents, multimedia
resources, etc.

The chief objective of the Taiwan Colonial Statistics
Database lies in the preservation of official statistical
records from the Japanese colonial period. It contains
digitized materials mainly from the National Taiwan
University and National Taiwan Library collections,
including 684 volumes of Japanese colonial statistical
records, 194,075 digital images, and 103,732 sets of
metadata. There are 29 data categories in total, including
law and law-related areas.

Taiwan Memory uses digital technology, as well as audio
records to properly preserve the historic memories of
Taiwan recorded in over 4 million volumes in National
Central Library, including a rich range of historic
documents on Taiwan, such as Taiwanese post cards from the
Japanese colonial period, old photos from various places
and old homes, local biographies, ancient book logs,
family genealogies, rubbings, video and audio materials,
and digital video files from the daily evening news since
Taiwan TV News began broadcasting in 1962, all collected
through a variety of channels.

Teochew Letters is a website set up and maintained by the
Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communication, Shantou
University, to promote knowledge about qiaopi, a combination
of remittance and correspondence that is also known as the
Teochew Letters (\Qiaopi\ in Mandarin).

There are over four thousand Ming(1368-1644) documents and
more than three hundred thousand volumes of Ch’ing(1644-
1911) archival materials in this collection, including
imperial decrees, edicts, memorials, tribute document,
examination questions, examination papers, rosters of
successful examination candidates, documents from the
offices of the Grand Secretariat, documents from the offices
for book compilation, and old documents from Mukden.
Memorials make up the bulk these documents.

The Chinese Foreign Policy Database enhances the ability of
contemporary observers and historians to gain broader
perspectives on Chinese policies. Curating 1000s of
documents from Chinese and international archives, it offers
insights into China’s foreign policy since 1949 and its
relationship to ideology, revolution, the economy, and
traditional Chinese culture.