Internet resources for Premodern

The website provides some links to other organizations and
to online resources of potential interest to CHINOPERL
members, including
Association for Asian Performance (AAP), Association for
Chinese Music Research (ACMR), Chinese Storytelling, and
European Foundation for Chinese Music Research (CHIME).

The Institute of Oriental Cultures, University of
Tokyo, has a collection of over 100,000 volumes of
Chinese rare books. The Institute has selected the
most precious titles of the collection, digitized
them and made the contents accessible through the
portal of The Chinese Rare Books Full Image
Database. Currently, this database provides free
access to full images of over 4,000 Chinese rare
books and partial access to some 600 rare book titles.

The Chinese Rubbings Collection results from a project to
catalog and digitize the entire collection of East Asian
rubbings (the majority of which are from China) at the Fine
Arts Library of Harvard University. The rubbings were made
from ancient stone stelae, tomb tablets, Buddhist and Daoist
scriptures on stelae and rocks, as well as inscriptions and
designs copied from bronze vessels, jade objects, ceramics,
tomb bricks, and roof tiles, objects dating from the Qin
Dynasty (221-207 BCE) to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 CE).

The creation of this website was funded substantially by the
S.C.Van Foundation (Daloon Foundation), Denmark.The website
provides a wealth of resources on the field of Chinese
Storytelling, arranged under the following headings: Oral
and Written Literature; Professional Storytelling; History
and Milieu; Masters and Disciples; Elements of Performance;
Sagas of Storytelling. Added to the site in 2013 is the
Chinese Storytelling Reserch Database.

Chung Sai Yat Po was published in San Francisco from Feb.
1900 to 1951. It has a long publishing history and almost
all its issues survived. It provides readers important
sources about the history of Chinese immigration in the
first half of the twentieth century. The collection includes
14 microfilm reels and 1,460 online items. Selected issues
can be viewed on the website.

Church Missionary Society Periodicals features publications
from the Church Missionary Society (CMS), the South American
Missionary Society and the Church of England Zenana
Missionary Society (CEZMS) between 1804 and 2009.
Information about Chinese history could be found in this
resource.

Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics is a digital library collection created under the Harward University Library Open Collections Program. It brings together a unique set of resources from Harvard University libraries -- over 500,000 pages of digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts -- to offer valuable insights into the historical context for current epidemiology and contribute to the understanding of the global, social-hisotry, and public-policy implications of disease.

This project is based on Mr. Fu Ssu Nien’s collection of
Shang Zhou bronze objects which have great values in various
academic fields, such as philology, ancient history and
history of art. In order to enable these materials to be
widely known among people, and to extend the lifespan of the
objects, this project has been working on digitalization of
the objects, and has also publicized these digitalized
materials on the internet.

本资料库整理校对与数位化的典藏品是中央研究院历史语言研究所收藏的汉
简，其中以西元1930~1931年瑞典考古学家贝格曼（Folke Bergman）等人
在内蒙古与甘肃境内之额济纳河流域发掘的「居延汉简」为主，约11000馀
枚，另外还包括西元1930、1934年黄文弼在新疆盐泽发现的「罗布淖尔汉
简」（58枚），以及西元1944、1945年夏鼐、阎文儒勘查玉门关、阳关及
汉代边防烽燧遗址路线，所发现的「敦煌小方盘城汉简」（76枚）、「武威
剌麻湾汉简」（7枚）。

This project began in 2004 with the establishment of the
digital archive of oracle bone rubbings, an important
objective of the process being storing the Institute of
History and Philology's oracle bone rubbings, in excess of
about forty thousand articles. They may be divided into two
categories: rubbings of archaeologically excavated animal
bones and tortoise shells, and rubbings of bones and shells
got from purchased collections.

历史语言研究所金文工作室建置的「殷周金文暨青铜器资料库」（系统由中
研院计算中心开发，GIS则与中研院地理资讯科学研究专题中心合作），已
于2009年五月免费开放学界申请使用。资料库目前收录《殷周金文集成》、
《新收殷周青铜器铭文暨器影彙编》，两书共约14000件青铜器资料，完整
呈现了每件铜器的器影、铭文拓片、器名、时代、出土资讯、现藏地、流
传、尺寸、纹饰及着录等各项讯息，并结合「GIS地理资讯系统」，即时观
看青铜器历史地图，了解器物出土地分布状况；依考古报告绘製的「墓葬平
面图」，标志各器物出土时在墓葬的实际位置，提供研究者详实且便捷的青
铜器和金文知识。

The website lists a selection of Harvard Library digital
collections. Collections related to China and Asia have
already been highlighted on the list. Readers can visit the
website to explore collections concerning other areas.

The Digital Silk Road is a research project that archives
and makes accessible historical records about cultural
heritage along the Silk Road. It currently includes several
interesting resources: Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare
Books on Silk Road (in western languages), Digital Maps of
Old Beijing, and Silk Road Maps. So far, more than 116 rare
books written in various languages have been digitized and
made available online in the Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko
Rare Books on the Silk Road.

Edward Bangs Drew joined the Chinese Maritime Customs
Service in 1864 after earning his BA degree from Harvard.
In 1868, Drew was appointed a Commissioner of the Service, a
position he held for decades. During that time he collected
photographs that document clothing, customs, and daily life
in 19th century China, as well as Drew's life and career,
including family and social gatherings, public appearances,
and events and ceremonies.

Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (ECCP) is a
biographical dictionary published in 1943 by the United
States Government Printing Office, edited by Arthur W.
Hummel, Sr., then head of the Orientalia Division of the
Library of Congress. Hummel's chief collaborators were Dr.
Tu Lien-che (杜聯喆) and Dr. Fang Chao-ying (房兆楹), Chinese
scholars of Manchu descent who were married to each other.
The database is developed from the print version to allow
for online searching, reading, and downloading of the ECCP
articles.

此站由新加坡国立大学图书馆设立。主要包括“历史文献中的南洋古
国”、“中外交通史籍中的南洋”，及早期南洋文献、华人移民史料、英属殖
民地华人史料等。

人名权威档係以明清档桉(内阁大库档桉、军机档、宫中档等)为主要参考资
料，另辅以故宫典藏之清国史馆传包、传稿及清史馆传稿，再选取学界公认
具权威性的史料，如《国立故宫博物院清代文献档桉：武职大臣年表》、
《明实录》、《清实录》、《清代官员履历档桉全编》、《明代传记丛
刊》、《清代传记丛刊》，及今人编纂的《清代名人传略》、《清代职官年
表》、《清人室名别称字号索引》等做为参考文献，亦使用《清代职官
志》、《中国官制大辞典》等参考书籍。

全唐诗库共收录唐代诗人二千五百二十九人的诗作四万二千八百六三首，共
计九百卷。可通过四种方式检索，两种方式浏览。

本系统依据现今流传文献中关于沉约与元兢诗学之记载，统理出其中具有规
范性质的格律内容，结合「小学堂汉字古今音资料库」之中古声韵材料，针
对五言四句诗歌，建构「沉约四病」、「元兢四病」与「元兢调声三术」共
三种格律体系、十一项格律规范的分析系统。

「韵书集成资料库」是一个为方便检索及比对各韵书声韵资料而设计的线上
资料库，可提供使用者根据字头查询声韵相关资料，并可依使用者需求自行
选取检索范围及显示欄位。韵书集成资料库由广韵、集韵、中原音韵、中州
音韵及洪武正韵等韵书资料库组成，这些个别的韵书资料库可独立查询，也
可透过韵书集成资料库进行综合查询。