China

This project focuses on the Lienü zhuan (Categorized
Biographies of Women) of Liu Xiang (77-6 B.C.), the
earliest extant book in the Chinese tradition solely
devoted to the moral education of women. The book consists
of biographical accounts of female role models in early
China and became the standard textbook for women’s
education for the next two millennia. This digital archive
serves as a publicly accessible tool for scholarly
exploration of early woodblock editions of the Lienü zhuan
held by the National Library of China, as well as other

This is an open-access internet archive that collects works,
poetry, and images by and of Mao Zedong.

Asymptote is an open-access international journal dedicated
to literary translation and bringing together comtemporary
writing in one place. The journal is interested in
encounters between languages and the consequences of such
cross-language/culture/border encounters.

The Center for Chinese Studies at the University of
Michigan
possesses a stunning collection of rare propaganda
papercuts
from the Cultural Revolution--a period of massive
political
upheaval in China that began in 1966 and lasted about a
decade. The papercuts were scanned and made available as
high-resolution digital images in this collection by the
University Library Digital Library Production Service
(DLPS).

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.

Visual Cultures in East Asia is the new generic platform of
the Institute of Asian Studies (IrAsia) for the development
and display of research projects and collections that
involve the use of visual and cartographic materials. It
will actually serve as a portal for the individual as well
as collective projects of the LEAS scholars and graduate
students, as well as their partners.

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.

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.

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.

Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (ECCP) is a
biographical dictionary published in 1943 by the United
States Government Printing Office, edited by Arthur W.
Hummel, Sr., then head of the Orientalia Division of the
Library of Congress. Hummel's chief collaborators were Dr.
Tu Lien-che (杜聯喆) and Dr. Fang Chao-ying (房兆楹), Chinese
scholars of Manchu descent who were married to each other.
The database is developed from the print version to allow
for online searching, reading, and downloading of the ECCP
articles.