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The Trans-Asia Photography Review is an international
refereed journal devoted to the discussion and research of
historic and contemporary photography from Asia. The journal
aims to bring together the diverse perspectives of curators,
historians, photographers, anthropologists, art historians
and various others in order to investigate as fully as
possible the still nascent field of Asian photography.

Fritz Weiss – a German consul to China – lived and
travelled in China from 1899 to 1917, with diplomatic
postings in various cities such as Chengdu (Sichuan) and
Kunming (Yunnan). From 1911 he was accompanied by his
wife, Hedwig Weiss-Sonnenburg. This exhibition reveals
impressions from the time in which the Weisses were in
China, during the years of upheaval between the end of the
Qing dynasty and the beginning of the First World War. The
pictures were taken by Fritz and Hedwig Weiss during their
travels by ship and on land, in cities and in secluded
minority territories, as well as in their daily lives.

Robert Hegel's book True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century
China: Twenty Case Histories presents a sample of crime
reports from eighteenth-century China in English
translation. All are capital crimes. Since all capital
crimes might carry the death penalty, detailed reports of
all levels of investigation had to be forwarded to the
Emperor for his final decision on sentencing. Capital
crimes required investigation and review at local,
prefectural, provincial, and central levels of the
imperial Qing period (1644-1911) administration. These
reports include information about the victims and what
happened to them, testimony from the accused and various
witnesses, and official correspondence between judicial
officials about the crimes. This project is a supplement
to Professor Hegel's book, an archive of the cases
transcribed in the original Chinese.

It is the virtual home of the University of California, San
Diego Modern Chinese History program. It is a useful
resource of a wide variety of materials, ranging from book
reviews to information about visiting Chinese archives. The
site stopped updating itself in 2010.

Following the successful completion in August 2002 of a
project funded by the Research Support Libraries Programme,
there now exists a UK Union Catalogue of Chinese Books
containing records from the British Library, Cambridge,
Durham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Oxford and SOAS. Particular
attention has been paid to the development of a simple and
intuitive search interface, enabling readers to gain rapid
access to the required information through the entry of
minimal search terms.

The history of Chinese overseas is well over 1000 years.
The rich documentation on these people cumulated over the
years now serves as permanent records of their profound
contributions to the social and economic developments of
their origins and residing places as well as to the
cultural exchange of the world. Being a part of Chinese
history, these documentation and information also help to
strengthen the link, communication, interaction and
cooperation among the Chinese, not to mention their
special value to the Chinese overseas themselves.With a
view to foster resources sharing and support research
activities on Chinese overseas, the libraries of the
University of Hong Kong and the Jinan University jointly
created this database to enable users searching Chinese
overseas materials in their collections effectively.

The Chinatown of Victoria, British Columbia, is a
major historical gateway to the Chinese in Canada. It
was once the major entry port for Asian immigration
to British North America, and later to Canada. From
the late 1850s to the 1860s, it was the primary
springboard for several thousand Chinese gold miners
heading to the Fraser River valley and the Cariboo;
and, in the 1880s it was the main entry point for the
estimated 15,000 Chinese builders of the Canadian
Pacific Railway. It is the oldest Chinatown in
Canadian history, and the earliest settlement of
Chinese people in the Canadian “land of promises.”

The website is created and maintained by the
University of Victor as a major gateway to the past
and present of Chinese Canadians. It features
selected photos, maps, archives, family documents,
oral histories and other data for researchers and
interested members of the public alike.

Dr. Joseph Needham was sent by the British Council to
Southwest China in February 1943, to aid the anti-Japanese
war effort there. He stayed until April 1946, by when he
had travelled extensively throughout Sichuan, Yunnan, and
other parts of South, Southwest and Northwest China that
was
not under Japanese occupation. He took over 1,000
photographs during the period, which have been digitized
and
made available online by the Needham Research Institute.

Wen shi zhe xue bao, an academic journal published by the
National Taiwan University , focuses on the study of
Chinese
literature, arts, history, philosophy, archaeology and so
on. The journal publishes two issues every year in May and
November. Full text articles of the latest issues are now
available online for free at
(http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~bcla/index_ebook.htm), while
the table of contents of each issue can be browsed at
(http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~bcla/content.htm).

Dictionaries (such as WordNet or the Oxford Collocations Dictionary), which are based on word frequency statistics, collocations, semantic relations, and so on.

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the
Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format,
significant primary materials from countries and cultures
around the world. The principal objectives of the WDL are
to: Promote international and intercultural understanding;
Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the
Internet; Provide resources for educators, scholars, and
general audiences; Build capacity in partner institutions to
narrow the digital divide within and between countries.

Xanadu: Encounters with China is a special exhibition of the
National Library of Australia to feature the Library's maps,
pictures, rare booksand its other Asian collection.

Yizhige is an e-book portal of Chinese classic literatures
that makes accessible contents of classic books and supports
full-text search across the classic titles.