Internet resources for Literature

The Thesaurus Linguae Sericae (TLS) is designed as as a
collaborative forum for discussion on the close reading of
Chinese texts. It provides a corpus of classical Chinese
texts, links the texts incorporated with an analytic
dictionary of the Chinese language, and also systematically
organises the Chinese vocabulary in taxonomic hierarchies of
synonym groups. TLS develops a system of rhetorical devices
for the analysis of Chinese texts.

Robert Hegel's book True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century
China: Twenty Case Histories presents a sample of crime
reports from eighteenth-century China in English
translation. All are capital crimes. Since all capital
crimes might carry the death penalty, detailed reports of
all levels of investigation had to be forwarded to the
Emperor for his final decision on sentencing. Capital
crimes required investigation and review at local,
prefectural, provincial, and central levels of the
imperial Qing period (1644-1911) administration. These
reports include information about the victims and what
happened to them, testimony from the accused and various
witnesses, and official correspondence between judicial
officials about the crimes. This project is a supplement
to Professor Hegel's book, an archive of the cases
transcribed in the original Chinese.

Wen shi zhe xue bao, an academic journal published by the
National Taiwan University , focuses on the study of
Chinese
literature, arts, history, philosophy, archaeology and so
on. The journal publishes two issues every year in May and
November. Full text articles of the latest issues are now
available online for free at
(http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~bcla/index_ebook.htm), while
the table of contents of each issue can be browsed at
(http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~bcla/content.htm).

Yizhige is an e-book portal of Chinese classic literatures
that makes accessible contents of classic books and supports
full-text search across the classic titles.