Internet resources for Premodern

The project brings treasures from the NPM collection to you
using websites offering thematic introductions. These
thematic websites all provide a full array of visual and
textual materials on artworks as well as various functions
for appreciating them. This is done so in the hope of
creating a multiple learning environment that will yield
greater study and research benefits as well as reach the
goal of digitized educational and promotional efforts.

CrossAsia offers access to research information for
humanities and social sciences from Asian countries and
about Asia. Academic fields covered by the service range
from philology, history, political science and economics to
ethnology and regional studies. Regardless of the form of
publications, CrossAsia integrates the bibliographic
description of printed and electronic resources.

This database has been developed by the Academia Sinica of
Taiwan, and is an important online tool to look for
bibliographic and holdings information for Chinese Local
Gazetteers. The database is based on the Union Catalogue
of Chinese Local Gazetteers published in 1985 by the
Academy of Sciences in mainland China, which contains
bibliographic information for 8,200 local gazetteers
compiled before 1949 and currently held by 190 libraries
and institutes across mainland China. In addition, the
database also collects the information of over 2,000 New
Gazetteers published after 1949.

The Open Collections Program (OCP) is the \online window\
that showcase the scope and the breadth of the extraordinary
collections of Harvard University. OCP has created six
subject-specific, web-accessible collections that focus on
making available unique historical materials of Harvard.

The Philosopy Online, supported by Renmin University,
provides online information concerning Chinese philosophy
education,
reaserch, academic exchanging, news, and etc.

The website is the virtual home for the digitized collection
of historical Chinese medical texts of the Princeton East
Asian Library. Sixty-five full-text e-books are freely
available in the PDF format.

Renditions is the leading international journal of Chinese
literature in English translation, covering over 2000
years of Chinese literature from classical works of
poetry, prose, and fiction to recently published works by
writers representing the rich variety of contemporary
Chinese literary expression. Articles on art, Chinese
studies and translation studies are frequently included.
Each issue is illustrated with complementary art,
calligraphy and photographs. Renditions has been published
by the Research Centre for Translation of The Chinese
University of Hong Kong since 1973.

The Ricci Roundtable is a database developed and maintained
by the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History
at the University of San Francisco for the use of academic
research on the topic of Christianity in China. The database
has a strong collection of archival, bibliographic and
biographic resources on the history of Christian missions in
China during the past few centuries.

The webpage features Selden Map of China at the Bodleian
Libray of Oxford. Dating from the late Ming period, it
shows China, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia,
Southeast Asia and part of India. The map shows shipping
routes with compass bearings from the port of Quanzhou
across the entire region. This is the earliest Chinese map
not only to show shipping routes, but also to depict China
as part of a greater East and Southeast Asia, and not the
centre of the known world.

The Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association, the Oberlin
College East Asian Studies Program, and the Oberlin
College Archives and Library present this online digital
collection that documents the activity of Oberlinians in
Asia from the 1880s to the 1950s. This teaching and
research collection contains materials from the Oberlin
Shansi Memorial Association Records and personal paper
collections, and it represents a small percentage of the
total amount of materials in the College Archives that
relate to the work of missionaries and Shansi
Representatives in China and as well as other countries.

The database contains two parts: Digital Silkroad Museum and
Silk Road: Spatialtemoral platform Sino-India cultural
exchange. Silk Road is a link of ancient cultural, business,
religion, and art, exist in the past and present even in the
future, always in people's minds. Sincerely invite you to
join the research community of Silk Road culture, to discuss
and exchange together.

The Ming Shi-lu (明實錄) (also known as the Veritable
Records of the Ming Dynasty) is a collective name for the
successive reign annals of the emperors of Ming China
(1368-1644). Among the unique materials contained within
the Ming Shi-lu (MSL) are a wide range of references to
polities and societies which today we consider to be parts
of \Southeast Asia\. Given the annalistic nature of the
MSL and the difficulties of searching such a huge corpus,
many of these have long remained unknown. This work
identifies all of the references to Southeast Asia
contained within the MSL and provides them to readers in
English-language translation.

This web site contains materials relating to the history of
Buddhism in Taiwan, including journal articles (full text in
many cases), indexes to books and journal articles,
transcripts of interviews, historical documents, multimedia
resources, etc.

There are over four thousand Ming(1368-1644) documents and
more than three hundred thousand volumes of Ch’ing(1644-
1911) archival materials in this collection, including
imperial decrees, edicts, memorials, tribute document,
examination questions, examination papers, rosters of
successful examination candidates, documents from the
offices of the Grand Secretariat, documents from the offices
for book compilation, and old documents from Mukden.
Memorials make up the bulk these documents.

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 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.

The International Dunhuang Project is an international
digitization project that aims to promote the study and
preservation of manuscripts
and printed documents from Dunhuang and other Central Asian
sites through global cooperation. Beginning in 1994, IDP has
till now made tens of thousands of images together with
catalogues, translations, historical photographs,
archaeological site plans and much
more freely available to all on the Internet.

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 Red Brush project is a collection of texts in Chinese
from a wide range of writings from Imperial China, by and
about women writers. The website for this collection is
available in both English and Chinese.

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.