Internet resources for all disciplines

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.

The site has won awards in Taiwan for its explanation of the
PSDB system of romanized transcription which is being put
forth as the proper method for writing the Taiwanese
language.

The Qiaopi Database is a digital project conducted by the
Shantou University Library to display and promote its
special colleciton of Qiaopi (侨批), remittance receipts
in the form of family letters from overseas Chinese to
their families in China. Most of the surviving qiaopi have
been preserved by archives in Guangdong and Fujian
Province. Qiaopi, as a unique type of historical
documents, has been recognized since 2003 as the world's
documentary heritage on the list of the UNESCO Memory of
the World. This database of Shantou University has
information and digital images about 30,000 pieces of
qiaopi.

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.

Claude L Pickens, Jr. (1900-1985) and his wife, Elizabeth
Zwemer Pickens, were Christian missionaries of the China
Inland Mission (C.I.M.) and had a particular interest in the
category of China's Muslims who are now officially
designated as \Hui\ in China. This digital collection has
over 1,000 photos taken by Pickens, of Muslims and Christian
missionaries working among them in Western China in the
1920s and 1930s. In addition to those, supplemented
resources include several hundred books, pamphlets,
broadsides, etc., in several languages.

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.

Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968), an amateur photographer, was a
sociologist and renowned China scholar. He visited China
several times in the early 20th century to collect data for
social-economic surveys and photographed Chinese urban and
rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary,
etc. After his death, Gamble's photos were donated to Duke
University by his daughter. This digital collection has
more than 5,000 photos, primarily of China, taken between
1908 and 1932.

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.

Taiwan Cinema Yearbook is an annual publication of Taiwan
Film Ditial Archives (TFDA). The latest edition can be
downloaded in full-text on the TFDA webiste.

The chief objective of the Taiwan Colonial Statistics
Database lies in the preservation of official statistical
records from the Japanese colonial period. It contains
digitized materials mainly from the National Taiwan
University and National Taiwan Library collections,
including 684 volumes of Japanese colonial statistical
records, 194,075 digital images, and 103,732 sets of
metadata. There are 29 data categories in total, including
law and law-related areas.

財團法人國家電影中心於103年7月由財團法人國家電影資料館升格設
立，為
文化部所設立的基金會。中心以典藏台灣電影資產、推廣電影文化及促進
電
影產業發展為宗旨。連同前身國家電影資料館，國影中心已有35年歷史。
目
前辦公室仍在台北青島東路，中心設有閱覽室、圖書室、視聽中心與電影
教
室。另外，在樹林工業區則有典藏中心，10座片庫典藏十分可觀的影像史
料，包括華語影片一萬四千餘部、外語影片三千餘部、中外影碟及錄影帶
七
萬兩千餘片/卷，圖書約一萬四千八百餘冊、中外海報二十萬餘幀、劇照
四
萬五千餘張、電影器材四百餘件。

Taiwan Fojiao 臺灣佛教 was published between 1947 and 1970
and contains valuable information on events, practices and
policies that is difficult to find elsewhere. Indeed,
hardcopies of the journal itself are difficult to find and
no complete set seems to have survived. We are obliged to
Dr. Kan Zhengzong 闞正宗 for making copies of his collection
available.

Taiwan Memory uses digital technology, as well as audio
records to properly preserve the historic memories of
Taiwan recorded in over 4 million volumes in National
Central Library, including a rich range of historic
documents on Taiwan, such as Taiwanese post cards from the
Japanese colonial period, old photos from various places
and old homes, local biographies, ancient book logs,
family genealogies, rubbings, video and audio materials,
and digital video files from the daily evening news since
Taiwan TV News began broadcasting in 1962, all collected
through a variety of channels.

Taiwan Review was founded in April 1, 1951. The goal of
Taiwan Review is to provide in-depth discussion of various
aspects of Taiwan including politics, economics, society,
the environment and the arts.

Previously known as the Political Sicence Review, the
Taiwanese Journal of Political Science is published by the
Dept. of Political Sicence of the National Taiwan
University, and is a key academic journal on political
science. The journal was originally issued biannually, but
since June, 2004, it has been published on a quarterly
basis.

Teochew Letters is a website set up and maintained by the
Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communication, Shantou
University, to promote knowledge about qiaopi, a combination
of remittance and correspondence that is also known as the
Teochew Letters (\Qiaopi\ in Mandarin).