Internet resources for all disciplines

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 China Story Project is a web-based account of
contemporary China created by the Australian Centre on
China
in the World (CIW) in the College of Asia & the Pacific
(CAP) at The Australian National University (ANU) in
Canberra. The China Story engages with the shifting
narratives and realities of contemporary China, offering a
range of views on different aspects of the People’s
Republic, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan and the Chinese-
speaking world essayed by scholars, writers, journalists
and
commentators.

The Chinese Foreign Policy Database enhances the ability of
contemporary observers and historians to gain broader
perspectives on Chinese policies. Curating 1000s of
documents from Chinese and international archives, it offers
insights into China’s foreign policy since 1949 and its
relationship to ideology, revolution, the economy, and
traditional Chinese culture.

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 HKUL Digital Initiatives have implemented digitization
projects that are now providing open online access to local
collections originally in print format. These include Basic
Law Drafting History Online, Beijing Historical Geography
Database, China through Western Eyes, Historical Laws of
Hong Kong Online, Hong Kong and the West until 1860, Hong
Kong Government Reports Online (1853-1941) and Hong Kong
Journals Online.

This digital collection includes more than 200,000
photographs of art and architecture from throughout Asia.
The countries included in this collection are Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar (Burma),
Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Thailand.

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.

A Digital Archive of Documents & Photographs from
American Missionaries Who Witnessed the Rape of
Nanking. The project is from the Special
Collections of the Yale Divinity School Library.

This collection provides complete FCO 7 and FCO 82 files
for the entire period of Richard Nixon’s presidency. Top-
level Anglo-American discussions and briefing papers
dominate these papers. There is also a wealth of material
on social conditions, domestic reforms, trade, culture and
the environment. In addition, there is strong coverage of
US policy decisions by the FCO and the British embassy in
Washington; White House staff appointments and UN
discussions; views on Europe; the deployment of F-111
aircraft on US airbases in the UK and Nixon’s battles over
funding from Congress; visits to the US by Harold Wilson
and Edward Heath; and the internal situation in the US and
domestic reform. There are also detailed assessments of
all the changes brought about by the presidential election
of 1972, in which Nixon beat George McGovern by a record-
breaking margin and in every state but one, only to resign
two years later in the face of almost certain impeachment.

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 PRC History Group is a network of scholars with
interests in the history of the People Republic of China. It
manages H-PRC, an H-Net channel that hosts scholarly
discussions in addition to distributing news and
announcements of interest to PRC historians. The Group also
distributes and archives Chinese-language journals as well
as the Group’s own English-language PRC History Review,
which contains research articles and roundtable discussions
on recent scholarship in PRC history.

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.

The Universal Library is created to foster creativity and
free access to all human knowledge. It provides a free-to-
read, searchable collection of one million books, available
to everyone over the Internet. Within 10 years, it is
expected that the collection will grow to 10 Million books.
The result will be a unique resource accessible to anyone in
the world 24x7, without regard to nationality or
socioeconomic background.

The Sin Kuo Min Press, later entitled Sin Kok Min Jit Pao,
is one of the most influential official newspapers and
journals published by the Kuomintang in cities where many
Overseas Chinese were residing. It is an invaluable
historical source for the study of modern Chinese revolution
and Chinese Overseas during that period of time. This
project presents a collections from 1919 to 1933.

The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC) contains more
than 9,615 works (25,115 volumes totaling over ten million
digital pages), making this online repository one of the
most extensive collections of Tibetan literature.

The Thesaurus Linguae Sericae (TLS) is designed as as a
collaborative forum for discussion on the close reading of
Chinese texts. It provides a corpus of classical Chinese
texts, links the texts incorporated with an analytic
dictionary of the Chinese language, and also systematically
organises the Chinese vocabulary in taxonomic hierarchies of
synonym groups. TLS develops a system of rhetorical devices
for the analysis of Chinese texts.

After World War II ended, Allied forces established the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known
informally as the Tokyo War Crimes trial, to prosecute the
Japanese officials involved with launching the war. The
trial took place from April 1946 to November 1948 and
resulted in death sentences for seven of the defendants
and prison terms for the remaining war criminals. The
Tokyo War Crimes Trial is a massive digital exhibition of
historical documents related to the trial, posted by the
Virginia Law Library. At the heart of the collection is a
treasure trove of more than 20,500 original documents
donated to the Law School in 1978 by the family of Frank
Stacy Tavenner, a 1927 graduate of the University of
Virginia School of Law, who was the assistant chief
prosecutor of the Tokyo War Crimes trial.

This project focuses on the Lienü zhuan (Categorized
Biographies of Women) of Liu Xiang (77-6 B.C.), the
earliest extant book in the Chinese tradition solely
devoted to the moral education of women. The book consists
of biographical accounts of female role models in early
China and became the standard textbook for women’s
education for the next two millennia. This digital archive
serves as a publicly accessible tool for scholarly
exploration of early woodblock editions of the Lienü zhuan
held by the National Library of China, as well as other
early Chinese sources offered here in Chinese and English
translation.