History

The Hopkins Archive was begun in 1968 with reel-to-reel
magnetic tape on an Uher portable recorder. Since then the
media has changed but the archive is still maintained. It
now consists of over three thousand hours of authentic
oral transmission on many scholarly and cultural aspects
of Tibetan Buddhism, including many traditional Buddhist
philosophical topics, Tibetan medicine, Tibetan history,
and so forth. The archive includes four hundred hours of
teachings by the Fourteenth Dalai Lama and thousands of

This website includes digitized rare books, statistics, and
the archive catalog about the Hong Kong catholic diocesan.

The HKWCT Collection provides details of, and access to, the
case files of 46 trials involving 123 persons who were tried
in Hong Kong for war crimes committed during the Second
World War. Due to restrictions imposed by the copyright
holder, The National Archives, it is only possible for
persons based at one of the universities in Hong Kong to
have full access to the case files. However, other
documents are available to everyone.

Church Missionary Society Periodicals features publications
from the Church Missionary Society (CMS), the South American
Missionary Society and the Church of England Zenana
Missionary Society (CEZMS) between 1804 and 2009.
Information about Chinese history could be found in this
resource.

China, America and the Pacific explores the cultural and
trading relationships that emerged between America, China
and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th
centuries. Manuscripts, rare printed sources, visual images,
objects and maps from international libraries and archives
document this fascinating history.

The North China Herald is the prime printed source for the
history of the foreign presence in China from around 1850 to
1940s. No other newspaper existed over such an extended
period, and covers it in such incredible depth and variety.
The fully text-searchable North China Herald Online will be
one of the primary resources on a period which continues to
shape much of China’s world and worldview.

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.

「汉字古今音资料库」(Chinese Character Readings,简称CCR)是一个
为方便检索汉字古今音而设计的线上声韵资料库，可提供使用者根据字头查
询古今字音，或依需要设计各种检索条件做资料的阅读和分析。

本资料库整理校对与数位化的典藏品是中央研究院历史语言研究所收藏的汉
简，其中以西元1930~1931年瑞典考古学家贝格曼（Folke Bergman）等人
在内蒙古与甘肃境内之额济纳河流域发掘的「居延汉简」为主，约11000馀
枚，另外还包括西元1930、1934年黄文弼在新疆盐泽发现的「罗布淖尔汉
简」（58枚），以及西元1944、1945年夏鼐、阎文儒勘查玉门关、阳关及
汉代边防烽燧遗址路线，所发现的「敦煌小方盘城汉简」（76枚）、「武威
剌麻湾汉简」（7枚）。