Internet resources for Premodern

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。

In the 19th and 20th centuries, Harvard University played
a significant role-as underwriter, participant, collector,
and repository-for pace-setting expeditions around the
world. For Internet users, Expeditions and Discoveries
provides selective access to Harvard's multidisciplinary
records of those expeditions. Expeditions and Discoveries
delivers maps, photographs, and published materials, as
well as field notes, letters, and a unique range of
manuscript materials on selected expeditions between 1626
and 1953. It offers important-often unique-historical
resources for students of anthropology, archaeology,
astronomy, botany, geography, geology, medicine,
oceanography, and zoology.

This website hosted by the U.S. National Park Service makes
available five e-books respectively aabout the history of
Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, American Indians,
Black Americans, and Mexican Americans in California.

Formosa is a digital library hosted by Reed College of
Portland, Oregon that specializes in gathering early images,
maps, and texts on the island of Taiwan, which was called
\Formosa\ by foreign visitors in the 19th Century. Scholars
can even find a small sampling of primary linguistic data on
various aboriginal languages collected by early explorers.
Primary source data like this were originally published in
European and North American books and journals during the
19th Century, but have since become hard to access with the
passage of time.

A comprehensive Chinese website on various aspects of China
studies.

HathiTrust is a big digital repository that brings together
the immense collections of 22 major US universities. The
digital collections of Hathi now contain fulltext of more
than two million books. Due to copyright concerns, only 16%
of the books can deliver their fulltexts to readers. Certain
amount of fulltexts can be accessed by members of registered
institutes.

This database project studies the first wave of postcards
with a Chinese subject. Users not only find images of the
postcards, but also their historical context information
about what they are, who produced them and where, how they
were used, and what's their significance. The growing
collection focuses on early (1896-1920) postcards of China
with the bulk back to the time of the late imprial (before
1911). It has stopped updating in 2004 and the 462 images
the site hosts are available to view and download.

This website includes digitized rare books, statistics, and
the archive catalog about the Hong Kong catholic diocesan.

Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) is a database of
over 70,000 images in the U.S. National Library of
Medicine's historical collections. The collections include
portraits, photographs, fine prints, caricatures, genre
scenes, posters, and other graphic art, which illustrate
the social and historical aspects of medicine from the
Middle Ages to the present. Subjects range from medieval
medical practice and 19th-century slum conditions to World
War I hospitals and the international fight against drug
abuse and AIDS. That said, the majority of the images date
back to earlier time periods from before World War II. The
geographical coverage of the database is international,
but the majority of the images is sourced from Europe and
the United States.

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-
based collection of historical materials from Harvard's
libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary
immigration to the United States from the signing of the
Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression.
Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to
the US includes over 400,000 pages from more than 2,200
books, pamphlets, and serials, over 9,600 pages from
manuscript and archival collections, and more than 7,800
photographs. By incorporating diaries, biographies, and
other writings capturing diverse experiences, the
collected material provides a window into the lives of
ordinary immigrants.

The Ming dynasty Chinese painters and paintings index is a
searchable dataset that continues James Cahill's print
publication \An index of early Chinese painters and
paintings: T'ang

The Internet Archive is a is a non-profit library of
millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites,
and more. Its purposes include offering permanent access for
researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities,
and the general public to historical collections that exist
in digital format.

This searchable Flickr database contains over 12 million
historical copyright-free images (photos and drawings) that
are sourced from more than 600 million library book pages
scanned by the Internet Archive. Streaching half a
millennium (1500-1922), the vast range of images shows how
the portrayals of things have changed over. The database is
created by Kalev Leetaru, an American academic.

Lat Pau, the longest running Chinese daily during pre-War
Singapore, was started by Mr See Ewe Lay in December 1881
and lasted 52 years before it finally ceased in March 1932.
Lat Pau is an invaluable historical source for research into
pre-war Singapore as well as Chinese overseas during that
period. Unfortunately the earliest issues of the newspaper
were lost and now the issues extant at the system cover only
the period August 19 1887 to March 31 1932.

This online resource is based on Prof. Lao Sze-kwang’s
manuscript. Users are able to find various Confucianism-
related concepts through the search engine or by categories.

「先秦甲骨金文简牍词彙库」分为词彙检索与全文检索，收录甲骨文、金
文、简牍三种文字材料，依词类、材质做为搜寻条件，展示词彙的词性、时
代、书目来源、释文段落。 特色在于打破材质作为前提的预设，以词彙本
身为焦点，横跨不同时代观察词彙的流变。本资料库所收语料忠实记录了殷
周到春秋、战国时期曆法、官制、地理、战争、法律、土地买卖、赏赐、渔
猎、祭祀、嫁娶、亲属称谓、氏族标志、国际关係等诸多问题，这些丰富的
语文材料正能补充传统文献之不足。

The U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present, has information
of newspapers published in the United States since 1690 and
can help identify what titles exist for a specific place and
time, and how to access them.

The London Missionary Society's collection of
Chinese books has been digitized and made
available online by the National Library of
Australia. This special collection comprises over
500 printed books gathered by LMS missionaries
during the late Qing period. These include
missionary publications such as Christian tracts,
as well as non-missionary books, manuscript items,
books related to the Taiping Rebellion and so on.
These materials are interesting primary sources
for Chinese history and religion studies.

Upto December 2015, the Ming-Qing Women's Writings
Digitization Project has now contained 214 collections of
writings by women of the Ming-Qing period. For biographical
data on the women writers, the user can click on the woman
author's name linked to the China Biographical Database
hosted by the Harvard-Yenching Library.

Over the past few years the National Diet Library in Tokyo
has digitized a large amount of prewar materials. Most are
in Japanese, and a few in Chinese. Many are available
online. It is certainly easier to enter, for example, “支那経
済” (Shina keizai, Chinese economy) in the search box than to
buy an airline ticket to Tokyo. An increasingly important
resource.