Internet resources for Multidisciplinary

This volume is one in a continuing series of books
prepared by the Federal Research Division of the
Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area
Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of
the Army. It is edited by Robert L. Worden, Andrea
Matles Savada, and Ronald E. Dolan and Library of
Congress Call Number is DS706 .C489 1988.

The AGSL collection Includes thousands of photos and maps on
China, Japan, and Korea.

American Memory provides free and open access through the
Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings,
still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that
document the American experience. It is a digital record of
American history and creativity. These materials, from the
collections of the Library of Congress and other
institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places,
and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public
as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

Asia Pacific Perspectives is a peer-reviewed electronic
journal published by the University of
San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim. It welcomes
submissions from all fields of the social sciences and the
humanities with relevance to the Asia Pacific/Pacific Rim.
In keeping with the Jesuit traditions of the University of
San Francisco, Asia Pacific Perspectives commits itself to
the highest standards of learning and scholarship. Papers
adopting a comparative, interdisciplinary approach to
issues of interrelatedness across the Pacific will be
especially welcome.

The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) is a
research institution established to enhance the existing
capabilities of The Australian National University (ANU).
It
aims to be an integrated, world-leading institution for
Chinese Studies and the understanding of China, or what
has
been called 'Greater China' or the 'Chinese Commonwealth'
(the People's Republic of China, the Hong Kong and Macau
Special Administrative Regions, as well as Taiwan and the
Chinese diaspora), on a global scale.

EThOS is the UK’s national open access thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. There are approximately 350,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 120,000 of these also provide access to the full text thesis, either via download from the EThOS database or via links to the institution’s own repository. Of the remaining 250,000 records dating back to at least 1800, three quarters are available to be ordered for scanning through the EThOS digitisation-on-demand facility.

The Chinese collections of the Cambridge Digital Library now
comprise about half a million individual titles, including
monographs, reprinted materials such as manuscripts from
Dunhuang, Huizhou, etc., archival documents and epigraphical
rubbings, 200,000 Chinese e-books (donated by Premier Wan
Jiabao in 2009), 5,000 Chinese e-serials and 3,500 Chinese
microfilm reels. Over 400,000 titles are included in some
2,000 cong shu.

China Historical Images is a commercial database that
claims
to be the biggest electronic depository of Chinese
historical images. The scope of the digital image
collection focuses on late Ming, Qing, and the Republican
era. The database allows searching and browsing by time,
geographical areas, themes, and authors.

The China Story Yearbook is an annual series
publication by the China experts at Australian
National University's Center on China in the
World. The first issue was published in 2012.
Each issue focuses on a specific topic. The
yearbook looks at issues of China with insight and
perspectives one usually does not find in
commercial media.

China Vitae is a resource of biographical information on
more than 5000 Chinese leaders in government, politics, the
military, education, business, and the media. China Vitae
tracks the appearances and travel of approximately 500
leading Chinese officials. Searchable information is
available on date and location of activity, officials in
attendance, topics raised, and source of the data. CV also
records official announcements as they occur of new
appointments to senior Party and government positions.

The China Youth Daily (中国青年报, or 中青报 for
short) is the popular official newspaper of the
Communist Youth League (CYL) of China (中国共青
团). It has been operated by the CYL since 1951.
The newspaper got its online version in 2000
(www.cyol.net). The CYOL.net website hosts an
online archive of the newspaper's past issues
dating back to 2005.

The portal for for China-related digital resources provides
a sortable and searchable list of digital resources that are
either freely available online or via the Centre of East
Asian Studies, the Cluster of Excellence \Asia and Europe in
a Global Context\, the University Library Heidelberg or the
State Library Berlin (CrossAsia).

The core of China: Culture and Society is the pamphlets
held in the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia
housed in the Carl A. Kroch Library of Cornell University.
Mostly in English and published between c. 1750 and 1929,
and amounting to around 1,200 items in 220 bound volumes,
these rare pamphlets form part of one of the deepest and
most extensive collections of literature on China and the
Chinese in the Western world and constitute a rich
resource for scholars and teachers in numerous
disciplines.The pamphlets have all been digitised in
colour and are full-text searchable. Many are illustrated
and feature lavish cover art.

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.

Published by the Chinese Publicity Bureau in
Vancouver, British Columbia, the Chinatown News
was an English-language biweekly magazine that
represented the interests of the English-speaking
Chinese-Canadians in Vancouver. Topic wise, the
newspaper had an international scope and was
inclusive of all people of the Chinese heritage.
The publicatoin was constant in its effort to
construct a distinct Chinese-Canadian identity and
was a principle instrument of reclaiming a culture
for Chinese-Canadians. It was tarted in 1953 as
\Chinatown\; the title was changed to \Chinatown
News\ in 1956.

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.

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 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.

The Digital Archive Projects t at Dharma Drum Buddhist
College contains several projects: Scripture and Canon,
Buddhism in Taiwan, Bibliographies, Catalogs and
Publications, Miscellaneous projects, Multi-media Archives,
and Collected Works.