Internet resources for all disciplines

by Reed College
Format:
databases, photographs & images
in English

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.

Format:
newspapers
in English; Chinese

Founded in April 2009, the English-language Global Times is
one of the most dynamic players among Chinese media, and has
rapidly become the major English newspaper in the nation.
The Global Times’ readers, both foreign and Chinese, include
ambassadors, business leaders, politicians, and
intellectuals.

by 北京国学时代文化传播股份有限公司
Format:
databases, guides
in Chinese

A comprehensive Chinese website on various aspects of China
studies.

by Harvard University
Format:
databases, photographs & images
in English

VIA is a growing online union catalogue at Harvard
University Library, documenting the arts, material
culture,
and social history. It contains descriptive records and
images representing paintings, sculpture, photography,
drawings, prints, architecture, decorative arts, trade
cards, rubbings, theater designs, maps and plans from
participating archives, museums, libraries, and other
collections throughout Harvard University. Included are
thousands of digital images on China, Japan, and Korea.

by Independent
Format:
archive
in Multilingual

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.

Format:
photographs & images

The Harvard-Yenching Library holds some 5,000 photographs
and 10,000 negatives taken by Hedda Hammer Morrison (1908-
1991) while resident in Beijing from 1933 to 1946. All of
the photographs contained in the 28 albums assembled by
Hedda Morrison have been cataloged and digitized and can be
viewed in VIA (Visual Information Access), the union catalog
of visual resources at Harvard. This site provides
information about the collection and strategies for
effectively searching for Hedda Morrison photographs in VIA.

by Institut d'Asie Orientale (IAO) in Lyon, France
Format:
databases, posters & postcards
in English

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.

Format:
guides
in English

Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online is a full-text image
database providing access to past revised editions of Hong
Kong laws. The database comprises a total of six
consolidations of the laws of Hong Kong: 1890, 1901, 1912,
1923, 1937, 1950, and 1964 (last updated to 1989).

by Hong Kong University
Format:
databases
in English

Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online is a full-text image
database providing access to past revised editions of Hong
Kong Laws. The database comprises a total of seven
consolidations of the laws of Hong Kong: 1890, 1901, 1912,
1923, 1937, 1950, and 1964 (last updated to 1989). The
Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online database is a valuable
source for legal research on the historical development of
the law of Hong Kong.

by Visual Cultures in East Asia, Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies
Format:
photographs & images
in English

This project results from a collaboration between scholars
at the University of Bristol, University of Lincoln, the
Institut d'Asie Orientale and TGE-Adonis. It aims to locate,
archive, and disseminate photographs from the substantial
holdings of images of modern China held mostly in private
hands overseas.

by The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Format:
databases
in Chinese

Hong Kong Literature Database is the first database on Hong
Kong literature. The Database is powered by various
searching functions. Full-text is available in a major part
of the database.

by Hong Kong Film Critics Society
Format:
journals & magazines
in Chinese

Hkinema is the quaterly magazine published by Hong Kong Film
Critics Society. The magazine was started in December 2007,
and the PDF versions of archival issues can be downloaded
from the Hkinema website.

Format:
archive, catalogues
in English; Chinese

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

by Hong Kong Film Critics Society
Format:
archive, institution
in Chinese

Established in 1995, Hong Kong Film Critics Society is a
cultural organization that advocates independence for film
critics and takes it as its mission to use film criticism
to
promote the development of Hong Kong film industry. The
Film Critics Society is behind many film activities of
Hong
Kong. Its website publishes articles of its members and
makes available the current and archival issues of
Hkinema,
the quarterly magazine of the Society.

by Hong Kong University
Format:
databases
in English

Hong Kong Government Reports Online (HKGRO) is a full-text
image database providing online access to pre-World War II
issues of four major government publications, namely,
Administrative Report, Hong Kong Sessional Papers, Hong Kong
Hansard and Hong Kong Government Gazette. It contains a wide
range of information, such as official notifications,
proceedings of the Legislative Council, statistics, and
reports of government departments and special committees,
which are essential to students and scholars in conducting
research on Hong Kong.

by The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Format:
journals & magazines, databases
in Chinese

「港澳期刊网」目前主要收录在香港及澳门出版的中文及双语期刊,内容方
面以人文科学及社会科学为主。引用的期刊共超过三百种;大部份期刊之索
引资料从一九八零年开始,但重要之学术期刊则从创刊号开始。

by Hong Kong University
Format:
databases
in English

The HKU Scholars Hub is the current research information
system of The University of Hong Kong. As a key vehicle of
HKU's Knowledge Exchange Initiative, the Hub strives to
prmote HKU authors and their research.

by Hong Kong University
Format:
thesis, databases
in English

HKU Theses Online is the open Access thesis database of Hong
Kong University.

by University of Hong Kong
Format:
databases
in English

The HKWCT Collection provides details of, and access to, the
case files of 46 trials involving 123 persons who were tried
in Hong Kong for war crimes committed during the Second
World War. Due to restrictions imposed by the copyright
holder, The National Archives, it is only possible for
persons based at one of the universities in Hong Kong to
have full access to the case files. However, other
documents are available to everyone.

by Dharma Drum Buddhist College
Format:
archive
in Multilingual

The Hopkins Archive was begun in 1968 with reel-to-reel
magnetic tape on an Uher portable recorder. Since then the
media has changed but the archive is still maintained. It
now consists of over three thousand hours of authentic
oral transmission on many scholarly and cultural aspects
of Tibetan Buddhism, including many traditional Buddhist
philosophical topics, Tibetan medicine, Tibetan history,
and so forth. The archive includes four hundred hours of
teachings by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and thousands of
hours of teachings by numerous lamas of the last
generation of Buddhist scholars to be thoroughly trained
in Tibet.