Internet resources for all disciplines

The core of China: Culture and Society is the pamphlets
held in the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia
housed in the Carl A. Kroch Library of Cornell University.
Mostly in English and published between c. 1750 and 1929,
and amounting to around 1,200 items in 220 bound volumes,
these rare pamphlets form part of one of the deepest and
most extensive collections of literature on China and the
Chinese in the Western world and constitute a rich
resource for scholars and teachers in numerous
disciplines.The pamphlets have all been digitised in
colour and are full-text searchable. Many are illustrated
and feature lavish cover art.

This digital collection answers a need for clear,
intelligible and informative English-language sources
relating to China and the West, 1793-1980, which can be
accessed online and used in the classroom or in course
packs. Key documents relating to the Chinese Maritime
Customs service, from Robert Hart to Frederick Maze, are
accessible and searchable alongside original reports of
the Amherst and Macartney embassies.There are letters
relating to the first Opium War, survivors descriptions of
the Boxer War, and tantalising glimpses of life in China
from the collected diaries and personal photographs of the
Bowra family. There are also significant sources
describing the lives and work of missionaries in China
from 1869-1970, including extensive and fully searchable
runs of missionary periodicals. In addition, this project
offers over 400 colour paintings, maps and drawings by
English and Chinese artists, as well as countless
photographs, sketches and ephemeral items, depicting
Chinese people, places, customs and events, and provides a
striking visual accompaniment to the documentary images.

ChinaFile is an online magazine published by the Center on
U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society, dedicated to promoting
an informed, nuanced, and vibrant public conversation about
China, in the U.S. and around the world.

Chinaknowledge is an Encyclopaedia on Chinese History,
Literature and Art to a wide public, from academic scholars
to the interested \layman\. It concentrates on certain
aspects insufficiently dealt with by other sources,
especially traditional literature, biographies, historical
terms, economic history. It also offers sources to each
article that are almost exclusively Chinese scholarly texts.
This method provides direct access to Chinese-language
secondary literature to persons not able or not brave enough
to read Chinese.

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型
网站，创立于1995年，是互联网上起步较早的中文法律网站。北大法律
信息
网凭借北大法学院的学科优势，在网站内容的广度、深度方面颇有建树，
下
设法学在线、法律网刊、法律新闻、法律专题等精品栏目。同时，北大法
律
信息网关注法律知识的专业性、系统性，关注技术革新和研发，关注用户
体
验，提供中文法律法规、司法案例、法学期刊、律所实务、专题参考、英
文
译本、法宝视频七大数据库在线检索服务，自主研发的法宝联想全方位立
体
化展示法律信息，清晰便捷。另外，北大法律信息网还提供法律咨询服
务。

chinaSMACK is about Chinese internet users, about what
they’re looking at, and what they’re discussing online.
chinaSMACK is about Chinese internet culture and society.

Published by the Chinese Publicity Bureau in
Vancouver, British Columbia, the Chinatown News
was an English-language biweekly magazine that
represented the interests of the English-speaking
Chinese-Canadians in Vancouver. Topic wise, the
newspaper had an international scope and was
inclusive of all people of the Chinese heritage.
The publicatoin was constant in its effort to
construct a distinct Chinese-Canadian identity and
was a principle instrument of reclaiming a culture
for Chinese-Canadians. It was tarted in 1953 as
\Chinatown\; the title was changed to \Chinatown
News\ in 1956.

This online portal is created by the Multicultural
History Society of Ontario (MHSO) to bring
together over 1,000 historical photographs, 33
oral history interviews and numerous other
archival materials about Chinese Canadian women to
address their life experiences,
challenges and accomplishments. The years between
1923 and 1967 in Canada were marked by
discriminatory immigration policy. During this
period of time, severe restrictions on Chinese
immigration, coupled with prior patterns of
Chinese migration, led to disproportionately few
women within the Chinese Canadian population. In
spite of this, Chinese Canadian women were able to
make a significant impact on their communities and
the country that they called home.

The character dictionary gives four different ways to search
for characters, including English Look-up, Pinyin Look-up
(Tone number at the end of the pinyin is optional),
Cantonese Look-up (Type in a Cantonese string using the Yale
romanization system. Tone number is required), and
radical/stroke Look-up.

「汉字古今音资料库」(Chinese Character Readings,简称CCR)是一个
为方便检索汉字古今音而设计的线上声韵资料库，可提供使用者根据字头查
询古今字音，或依需要设计各种检索条件做资料的阅读和分析。

A great site for learners of Chinese. The site gives the
etymologies of over 4000 Chinese characters, enabling you to
see the connections between them. Searchable by many
different input methods.

The site brings together 13 major Chinese-language
dictionaries on the web and allows you to quickly and
conveniently search them all in one place. Many of the
Chinese dictionaries on the web are interlinked at a
character-to-character level, allowing visitors to jump
across dictionaries to check the same character entry
without having to search again for the character. Find a
character in any of the 13 dictionaries and you can follow
the blue links, jumping between more than a dozen
dictionaries spread across seven countries and four
continents.

This system consists of three major components: basic
geospatial materials, WebGIS integrated application
environment, and thematic information. The fundamental base
maps are based on Dr. Tan's \The Historical Atlas of China\.
\The Historical Atlas of China\ provides users with Chinese
historical features, covering Chinese history over the past
2000 years, from the ancient time to Qing dynasty.
Furthermore, various historical atlas and remote sensing
imagery are persistently geo-referenced and overlaid into
the system to broaden the spatial and temporal scope.

The Chinese Express 快報 was a Chinese newspaper
publishing daily from 1971 to 1989. It served as a
source of general news, covering world events and
Canadian politics, as well as that of specific
interest to the Chinese community. Its entire run has
been digitized and will be released in the
Multicultural Canada website.

Although it developed later than the British Columbia
community, Chinese immigration to Ontario was already
a significant force in the 1950s. After changes to
immigration policy in 1967 opened the doors to
skilled workers, large Chinese communities began to
form in Toronto, Ottawa, and other Canadian cities.
As a result, the size and internal diversity of
Ontario’s Chinese communities increased dramatically
in the 1970s and 1980s. This increased presence led
to community activism around issues such as
education, language maintenance, and city
development, as well as the formation of the Chinese
Canadian National Council for Equality (CCNC), based
in Toronto. The Chinese Express rode this wave and
was the witness to the expansion of the Chinese
Canadian community in Toronto.

The bulk of the items in the collection are transcripts for
the documentary films and newsreels from the Cultural
Revolution, 1966-1976. Documentary films and newsreels were
two of the major mass media and communication channels in
China from the 1950’s through the 1970’s. They covered all
aspects of social activities, though the emphasis was on
developments in the building of a socialist country.

This research network brings together scholars in the UK,
China, other parts of Asia, Europe and the USA who are
working on film festivals in Chinese-language territories
and cultures (including the People's Republic, Taiwan, Hong
Kong, and elsewhere). It aims to interrogate the rapid
growth of Chinese film festivals from a cultural translation
perspective?

Chinese Memory is a digital project undertaken by the
National Library of China (PRC) to showcase its digitized
collections and exhibit selected highlights of the NLC's
collections of Chinese rare books and historical resources.
The website also publishes research papers about the studies
of Chinese rare books.

This database covers production, cast and crew, awards and
biographies, reviews and books, and many other information
of Chinese language movies made in mainland China, Hong
Kong, Taiwan, and other regions. Starting from 2006, the
Database also includes TV programmes. In total there are
16563 feature films, 509 TV programmes, 18453 unique
individules, and 1204 companies in the Database
(statistics).

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 database has mass education materials
published in Hong Kong and in Mainland China,
particularly Shanghai, in the years 1947-1954.
These cartoon books, pamphlets, postcards and
magazines, on topics such as foreign threats to
Chinese security, Chinese relations with the
Soviet Union, industrial and agricultural
production, and marriage reform, were produced by
both Kuomintang (Nationalist) and Gongchantang
(Communist) supporters.