China

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.

NSSD is a government-sponsored open-access database of
academic journals and dissertations published and/or funded
by the PRC government. It makes available hundreds of
Chinese journals, most of which are in full-text.

This database contains records for over 140,000 articles
published in Chinese Buddhist Journals of the Republican Era
(1911-1949). These are all articles collected in the Minguo
fojiao qikan wenxian jicheng 民國佛教期刊文獻集成, (Complete
Collection of Republican-Era Buddhist Periodical Literature)
(MFQ), and its supplement the Minguo fojiao qikan wenxian
jicheng bubian 民國佛教期刊文獻集成．補編, (MFQB). Both MFQ and
MFQB were compiled under the leadership of Huang Xianian 黃夏
年 and published in 2006 and 2007 respecively.

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.

This is the website for the Temple Gazetteer Project at
Dharma Drum Buddhist College. The project is funded by the
Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies. The aim of the
project is to tap into this wealth of information in order
to deepen our understanding of Chinese Buddhist history.
Between 2007 and 2010, 237 gazetteers were digitized and
are distributed on this website. Of these 13 gazetteers
were digitized as full-text archives and marked up with
TEI/XML, identifying all persons and place names as well

These databases integrate information from various projects
at the Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum
Buddhist College. By providing information on Chinese
calendar dates, as well as an onomasticon of person and
place names from Buddhist sources they help with
disambiguation and geo-spatial referencing of names and
dates. The data is openly available through various web-
services, including a Google search plug-in for Firefox.

The Digital Archive Projects t at Dharma Drum Buddhist
College contains several projects: Scripture and Canon,
Buddhism in Taiwan, Bibliographies, Catalogs and
Publications, Miscellaneous projects, Multi-media Archives,
and Collected Works.

The China Historical Geographic Information System, CHGIS,
project was launched in January 2001 to establish a
database
of populated places and historical administrative units
for
the period of Chinese history between 221 BCE and 1911 CE.
CHGIS provides a base GIS platform for researchers to use
in
spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and
representation of selected historical units as digital
maps.

The China Biographical Database is an online relational
database with biographical information about approximately
328,000 individuals as of October, 2013, primarily from the
7th through 19th centuries. The data is meant to be useful
for statistical, social network, and spatial analysis as
well as serving as a kind of biographical reference.

The China-Africa Knowledge Project Resource Hub is a one-
stop shop for researchers and practitioners working on the
China-Africa relationship. As the primary platform for the
work of the Social Science Research Council's China-Africa
Knowledge Project, this site actively builds generative
connections between scholars across disciplines and regions
while organizing a growing and fragmented body of knowledge
and connecting it to important trends in the social sciences
relevant for understanding Africa's new international
relations.