Internet resources for Premodern

by Washington University
Format:
guides, digital libraries
in English

The goal of this \visual sourcebook\ is to add to the
material teachers can use to help their students understand
Chinese history, culture, and society. It was not designed
to stand alone; we assume that teachers who use it will also
assign a textbook with basic information about Chinese
history.

by Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica
Format:
databases
in Chinese

「中央研究院古汉语语料库」是应汉语史研究需求而建构的语料库。这个语
料库又可依是否经过断词及加标词类而分成两类,即未加标的素语料库以及
有标注的标记语料库。目前素语料库所蒐集的语料已含盖上古汉语(先秦至
西汉)、中古汉语(东汉魏晋南北朝)、近代汉语(唐五代以后)大部分的
重要语料,并己陆续开放使用;在标记语料库方面,上古汉语及近代汉语都
已有部分语料完成标注的工作,并视结果逐步提供上线检索。

by Institute Of Linguistics, Academia Sinica Of Taiwan
Format:
databases
in Chinese

该语料库目前提 供《红楼梦》、《金瓶梅》、《平妖传》、《水浒传》、
《儒林外史》、《醒世姻缘》、《西游记》 、《关汉卿戏曲集》、《元刊
杂剧三十种》、《永乐大典戏文三种》等十部古典文献语料线上检索。在查
询功能方面,可以在显示词项及其词类的同时,显示例句的出处,便于历史
语法的研究者使用;在断词标类的凭准方面,也因着眼不同而作了一些变
动,如动补结构标示的较详尽即为一 例。

by Academia Sinica of Taiwan
Format:
databases, encyclopedias
in Chinese

This is a large online database of Chinese works complied by
Academia Sinica in Taiwan. It contains very rich contents
that span across Chinese historical classics, Buddhism
scripts, various local gazetteers of Taiwan, as well as
other primary resources on Taiwan and its history.
Particularly, it has an online version of the Encyclopedia
of Taiwan (臺灣文獻叢刊).

by Library of Congress; University of California Berkeley
Format:
databases, archive
in English

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates
nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration
to California through about 8,000 images and pages of
primary source materials. Included are photographs,
original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters,
excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal
documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches,
sheet music, and other printed matter. These documents
describe the experiences of Chinese immigrants in
California, including the nature of inter-ethnic tensions.
They also document the specific contributions of Chinese
immigrants to commerce and business, architecture and art,
agriculture and other industries, and cultural and social
life in California. Chinatown in San Francisco receives
special treatment as the oldest and largest community of
Chinese in the United States. Although necessarily
selective, such a large body of materials presents a full
spectrum of representation and opinion. The materials in
this online compilation are drawn from collections at The
Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley; The
Ethnic Studies Library, University of California Berkeley;
and The California Historical Society, San Francisco.

by Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica Of Taiwan
Format:
databases
in Chinese

「考古资料数位典藏资料库」是一个以中央研究院历史语言研究所考古工作
成果为主的考古资料库,目前开放查询的部分以本所考古报告及相关出版品
已发表的材料为限。本系统的特色有二,其一为採取考古学的系络关係,而
分为遗址、遗迹、遗物三个子资料库。其二,本系统也收纳各种媒体资料,
包括与考古工作及研究相关的各式照片、线绘图、拓片、田野记载表、墓葬
记载表、地图等各式记录,且不限其数位化后为影像、声音、记录影片等媒
材形式,皆收录在本系统的多媒体影像资料库中。

by Independent
Format:
guides, photographs & images
in English

The online journal for the study and exhibition of the
religion and arts of Asia. Asianart.com is dedicated to all
aspects of Asian art. It offers a forum for scholars,
museums and commercial galleries. It displays highlights of
exhibitions in public and private institutions and
galleries; present new discoveries by scholars and
connoisseurs; and, by providing space for private galleries
to present their works, offer the visitor a selection of
fine Asian art worldwide.

by University of Vienna
Format:
portals
in Multilingual

Undertaken by two Austrian scholars, Dr. Monika Lehner and
Dr. George Lehner, both of whom are experts with Chinese
rare books, Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0 is a project that aims at
collecting information and links of freely available e-books
on China and Sino-Western encounters from various open
access repositories.

by Buddha Dharma Education Association
Format:
e-books, guides
in English

BuddhaNet is a nonsectarian organization aiming
to link up with the growing worldwide culture of
people committed to the Buddha's teachings and
lifestyle. Without focusing on any sect's beliefs
or practices, its website provides a diverse
variety of quality resources about Buddhism in
general, including a World Buddhist Directory,
BuddhaZine-Online Magazine, Insight Meditation
Online, and the Buddhist eLibrary. In particular,
the Buddhist eLibrary is set up to support the
free dissemination of digital Buddhist educational
materials around the world.

by Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan
Format:
databases
in English; Chinese

These databases integrate information from various projects
at the Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum
Buddhist College. By providing information on Chinese
calendar dates, as well as an onomasticon of person and
place names from Buddhist sources they help with
disambiguation and geo-spatial referencing of names and
dates. The data is openly available through various web-
services, including a Google search plug-in for Firefox.

by University of Cambridge
Format:
digital libraries, databases
in English

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.

by Ohio University
Format:
databases, digital libraries
in English

The Center for International Collections (CIC) currently
maintains five separate databases covering various aspects
of Asia, all of which are freely accessible to the public.
The purpose of these specialized databases is to promote and
enhance public access to the CIC’s extensive holdings by
making full use of all the latest available tools and
technologies.

by Harvard University
Format:
biographies
in English; Chinese

The China Biographical Database is an online relational
database with biographical information about approximately
328,000 individuals as of October, 2013, primarily from the
7th through 19th centuries. The data is meant to be useful
for statistical, social network, and spatial analysis as
well as serving as a kind of biographical reference.

by Harvard University
Format:
databases
in English

The China Historical Geographic Information System, CHGIS,
project was launched in January 2001 to establish a
database
of populated places and historical administrative units
for
the period of Chinese history between 221 BCE and 1911 CE.
CHGIS provides a base GIS platform for researchers to use
in
spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and
representation of selected historical units as digital
maps.

by Adam Matthew (U of T subscribed)
Format:
archive, digital libraries
in English

China, America and the Pacific explores the cultural and
trading relationships that emerged between America, China
and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th
centuries. Manuscripts, rare printed sources, visual images,
objects and maps from international libraries and archives
document this fascinating history.

by Adam Matthew (U of T subscribed)
Format:
digital libraries
in English

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.

by Adam Matthew (U of T subscribed)
Format:
archive, digital libraries
in English

This digital collection answers a need for clear,
intelligible and informative English-language sources
relating to China and the West, 1793-1980, which can be
accessed online and used in the classroom or in course
packs. Key documents relating to the Chinese Maritime
Customs service, from Robert Hart to Frederick Maze, are
accessible and searchable alongside original reports of
the Amherst and Macartney embassies.There are letters
relating to the first Opium War, survivors descriptions of
the Boxer War, and tantalising glimpses of life in China
from the collected diaries and personal photographs of the
Bowra family. There are also significant sources
describing the lives and work of missionaries in China
from 1869-1970, including extensive and fully searchable
runs of missionary periodicals. In addition, this project
offers over 400 colour paintings, maps and drawings by
English and Chinese artists, as well as countless
photographs, sketches and ephemeral items, depicting
Chinese people, places, customs and events, and provides a
striking visual accompaniment to the documentary images.

by Tübingen University
Format:
encyclopedias
in English; Chinese

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.

by Academia Sinica Of Taiwan
Format:
databases, guides
in English; Chinese

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.

by National Library of China
Format:
digital libraries
in Chinese

Chinese Memory is a digital project undertaken by the
National Library of China (PRC) to showcase its digitized
collections and exhibit selected highlights of the NLC's
collections of Chinese rare books and historical resources.
The website also publishes research papers about the studies
of Chinese rare books.