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 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
The project brings treasures from the NPM collection to you
using websites offering thematic introductions. These
thematic websites all provide a full array of visual and
textual materials on artworks as well as various functions
for appreciating them. This is done so in the hope of
creating a multiple learning environment that will yield
greater study and research benefits as well as reach the
goal of digitized educational and promotional efforts.
该网站囊括台湾所有的佛教寺院介绍、文教组织介绍、佛教人物介绍、文化
艺术的发展。此外，该站还有一个很特殊的功能，就是寺院虚拟巡礼，使用
照片的３Ｄ技术，让使用者可以身历其境。
The handwritten manuscripts in the collection come in a
large variety of forms, which include poetry, prose, novels,
letters, diaries, scripts and reviews. In addition, this
collection also focus on different kinds of brushworks by
well-known contemporary artists and writers, such as
calligraphy, Chinese ink paintings, sketches, watercolors
and oil paintings.
The University of Westminster’s Chinese Poster Collection
is an archival collection of some 800 posters
spanning the 1950s to the 1980s. Most of the Collection
dates from the 1960s to the 1970s, making it an important
resource for study of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976),
a period of China’s modern history commonly characterised
as the ‘ten dark years of chaos’ but given increasing
critical attention research, documentary films and
important museum collections. The collection also has a
range of memorabilia from the same period, such as puzzles
The handwritten manuscripts in the collection come in a
large variety of forms, which include poetry, prose, novels,
letters, diaries, scripts and reviews. In addition, this
collection also focus on different kinds of brushworks by
well-known contemporary artists and writers, such as
calligraphy, Chinese ink paintings, sketches, watercolors
and oil paintings.
The Ming dynasty Chinese painters and paintings index is a
searchable dataset that continues James Cahill's print
publication \An index of early Chinese painters and
paintings: T'ang
This project is based on Mr. Fu Ssu Nien’s collection of
Shang Zhou bronze objects which have great values in various
academic fields, such as philology, ancient history and
history of art. In order to enable these materials to be
widely known among people, and to extend the lifespan of the
objects, this project has been working on digitalization of
the objects, and has also publicized these digitalized
materials on the internet.