Internet resources for Modern

Taiwan Fojiao 臺灣佛教 was published between 1947 and 1970
and contains valuable information on events, practices and
policies that is difficult to find elsewhere. Indeed,
hardcopies of the journal itself are difficult to find and
no complete set seems to have survived. We are obliged to
Dr. Kan Zhengzong 闞正宗 for making copies of his collection
available.

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).

The history of Chinese bookbinding has always suffered
owing to a lack of material evidence. This site, by
combining textual descriptions with diagrams illustrating
binding techniques and photographs of the actual objects,
aims to give a comprehensive introduction to the different
kinds of Chinese bookbinding contained in the Dunhuang
collection of the British Library. Site contents: Some
characteristics of the Dunhuang booklets; Butterfly
binding (hudie zhuang); Stitched binding (xian zhuang);
The Chinese pothi (fanjia zhuang); Whirlwind binding
(xuanfeng zhuang); Concertina binding (jingzhe zhuang);
Wrapped-back binding (baobei zhuang); Bibliography.

The HKUL Digital Initiatives have implemented digitization
projects that are now providing open online access to local
collections originally in print format. These include Basic
Law Drafting History Online, Beijing Historical Geography
Database, China through Western Eyes, Historical Laws of
Hong Kong Online, Hong Kong and the West until 1860, Hong
Kong Government Reports Online (1853-1941) and Hong Kong
Journals Online.

The International Collections database showcases some of
the visual materials held by the Special Collections
Division
that focus on collections beyond the scope of the Pacific
Northwest region. In this digital collection we feature
selected photographs and postcards from Asia and South
America including scenes from China, India, Indonesia, the
Philippines, and Japan, 1870s-1930s. Represented are
historical events, typical street scenes and native people
in traditional dress.

A Digital Archive of Documents & Photographs from
American Missionaries Who Witnessed the Rape of
Nanking. The project is from the Special
Collections of the Yale Divinity School Library.

The North China Herald is the prime printed source for the
history of the foreign presence in China from around 1850 to
1940s. No other newspaper existed over such an extended
period, and covers it in such incredible depth and variety.
The fully text-searchable North China Herald Online will be
one of the primary resources on a period which continues to
shape much of China’s world and worldview.

The Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL) is a publisher of
websites, information services, and networking facilities
relating to the Tibetan plateau and southern Himalayan
regions. THL promotes the integration of knowledge and
community across the divides of academic disciplines, the
historical and the contemporary, the religious and the
secular, the global and the local. Data includes text,
audio-video, images, maps, immersive objects, reference
works, and interpretative essays.

The Universal Library is created to foster creativity and
free access to all human knowledge. It provides a free-to-
read, searchable collection of one million books, available
to everyone over the Internet. Within 10 years, it is
expected that the collection will grow to 10 Million books.
The result will be a unique resource accessible to anyone in
the world 24x7, without regard to nationality or
socioeconomic background.

The Sin Kuo Min Press, later entitled Sin Kok Min Jit Pao,
is one of the most influential official newspapers and
journals published by the Kuomintang in cities where many
Overseas Chinese were residing. It is an invaluable
historical source for the study of modern Chinese revolution
and Chinese Overseas during that period of time. This
project presents a collections from 1919 to 1933.

The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC) contains more
than 9,615 works (25,115 volumes totaling over ten million
digital pages), making this online repository one of the
most extensive collections of Tibetan literature.

After World War II ended, Allied forces established the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known
informally as the Tokyo War Crimes trial, to prosecute the
Japanese officials involved with launching the war. The
trial took place from April 1946 to November 1948 and
resulted in death sentences for seven of the defendants
and prison terms for the remaining war criminals. The
Tokyo War Crimes Trial is a massive digital exhibition of
historical documents related to the trial, posted by the
Virginia Law Library. At the heart of the collection is a
treasure trove of more than 20,500 original documents
donated to the Law School in 1978 by the family of Frank
Stacy Tavenner, a 1927 graduate of the University of
Virginia School of Law, who was the assistant chief
prosecutor of the Tokyo War Crimes trial.

The Trans-Asia Photography Review is an international
refereed journal devoted to the discussion and research of
historic and contemporary photography from Asia. The journal
aims to bring together the diverse perspectives of curators,
historians, photographers, anthropologists, art historians
and various others in order to investigate as fully as
possible the still nascent field of Asian photography.

Fritz Weiss – a German consul to China – lived and
travelled in China from 1899 to 1917, with diplomatic
postings in various cities such as Chengdu (Sichuan) and
Kunming (Yunnan). From 1911 he was accompanied by his
wife, Hedwig Weiss-Sonnenburg. This exhibition reveals
impressions from the time in which the Weisses were in
China, during the years of upheaval between the end of the
Qing dynasty and the beginning of the First World War. The
pictures were taken by Fritz and Hedwig Weiss during their
travels by ship and on land, in cities and in secluded
minority territories, as well as in their daily lives.

It is the virtual home of the University of California, San
Diego Modern Chinese History program. It is a useful
resource of a wide variety of materials, ranging from book
reviews to information about visiting Chinese archives. The
site stopped updating itself in 2010.

The history of Chinese overseas is well over 1000 years.
The rich documentation on these people cumulated over the
years now serves as permanent records of their profound
contributions to the social and economic developments of
their origins and residing places as well as to the
cultural exchange of the world. Being a part of Chinese
history, these documentation and information also help to
strengthen the link, communication, interaction and
cooperation among the Chinese, not to mention their
special value to the Chinese overseas themselves.With a
view to foster resources sharing and support research
activities on Chinese overseas, the libraries of the
University of Hong Kong and the Jinan University jointly
created this database to enable users searching Chinese
overseas materials in their collections effectively.

The Chinatown of Victoria, British Columbia, is a
major historical gateway to the Chinese in Canada. It
was once the major entry port for Asian immigration
to British North America, and later to Canada. From
the late 1850s to the 1860s, it was the primary
springboard for several thousand Chinese gold miners
heading to the Fraser River valley and the Cariboo;
and, in the 1880s it was the main entry point for the
estimated 15,000 Chinese builders of the Canadian
Pacific Railway. It is the oldest Chinatown in
Canadian history, and the earliest settlement of
Chinese people in the Canadian “land of promises.”

The website is created and maintained by the
University of Victor as a major gateway to the past
and present of Chinese Canadians. It features
selected photos, maps, archives, family documents,
oral histories and other data for researchers and
interested members of the public alike.

Dr. Joseph Needham was sent by the British Council to
Southwest China in February 1943, to aid the anti-Japanese
war effort there. He stayed until April 1946, by when he
had travelled extensively throughout Sichuan, Yunnan, and
other parts of South, Southwest and Northwest China that
was
not under Japanese occupation. He took over 1,000
photographs during the period, which have been digitized
and
made available online by the Needham Research Institute.

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).