Culture

The history of Chinese bookbinding has always suffered
owing to a lack of material evidence. This site, by
combining textual descriptions with diagrams illustrating
binding techniques and photographs of the actual objects,
aims to give a comprehensive introduction to the different
kinds of Chinese bookbinding contained in the Dunhuang
collection of the British Library. Site contents: Some
characteristics of the Dunhuang booklets; Butterfly
binding (hudie zhuang); Stitched binding (xian zhuang);
The Chinese pothi (fanjia zhuang); Whirlwind binding

This online resource is based on Prof. Lao Sze-kwang’s
manuscript. Users are able to find various Confucianism-
related concepts through the search engine or by categories.

This project began in 2004 with the establishment of the
digital archive of oracle bone rubbings, an important
objective of the process being storing the Institute of
History and Philology's oracle bone rubbings, in excess of
about forty thousand articles. They may be divided into two
categories: rubbings of archaeologically excavated animal
bones and tortoise shells, and rubbings of bones and shells
got from purchased collections.

The Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC) contains more
than 9,615 works (25,115 volumes totaling over ten million
digital pages), making this online repository one of the
most extensive collections of Tibetan literature.

The Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL) is a publisher of
websites, information services, and networking facilities
relating to the Tibetan plateau and southern Himalayan
regions. THL promotes the integration of knowledge and
community across the divides of academic disciplines, the
historical and the contemporary, the religious and the
secular, the global and the local. Data includes text,
audio-video, images, maps, immersive objects, reference
works, and interpretative essays.

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

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).

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.

Constituting a visual record of early European contacts
with Asia and Africa, Images of Colonialism Collection is
a primary visual resource for historical and socio-
cultural studies. Made up largely of late-19th and early-
20th century trade cards and illustrated European
newspapers, this collection of more than 700 images offers
insight into European perspectives on varying aspects of
colonial experience by documenting how popular perceptions
of Asia and Africa were created and disseminated. The
collection can also be used to draw contrasts between

Edward Bangs Drew joined the Chinese Maritime Customs
Service in 1864 after earning his BA degree from Harvard.
In 1868, Drew was appointed a Commissioner of the Service, a
position he held for decades. During that time he collected
photographs that document clothing, customs, and daily life
in 19th century China, as well as Drew's life and career,
including family and social gatherings, public appearances,
and events and ceremonies.