History

Tokyo War Crimes Trial: A Digital Exhibition

After World War II ended, Allied forces established the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known
informally as the Tokyo War Crimes trial, to prosecute the
Japanese officials involved with launching the war. The
trial took place from April 1946 to November 1948 and
resulted in death sentences for seven of the defendants
and prison terms for the remaining war criminals. The
Tokyo War Crimes Trial is a massive digital exhibition of
historical documents related to the trial, posted by the

Taiwan Colonial Statistics Database

The chief objective of the Taiwan Colonial Statistics
Database lies in the preservation of official statistical
records from the Japanese colonial period. It contains
digitized materials mainly from the National Taiwan
University and National Taiwan Library collections,
including 684 volumes of Japanese colonial statistical
records, 194,075 digital images, and 103,732 sets of
metadata. There are 29 data categories in total, including
law and law-related areas.

Asian Pacific American History in Oregon

Asian Pacific American History in Oregon is part of the Oregon History Project undertaken by Oregon Hisotical Society to collect, preserve, and promote access to, the information about Asian Pacific Americans immigrated to America from the continent of Asia (including India). Included in the scope of the project are the Chinese who started to arrive in the Oregon Territory in the early 1850s.

Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project

Between 1865 and 1869, thousands of Chinese migrants
toiled
at a grueling pace and in perilous working conditions to
help construct America's First Transcontinental Railroad.
The Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project
seeks
to give a voice to the Chinese migrants whose labor on the
Transcontinental Railroad helped to shape the physical and
social landscape of the American West. The Project
coordinates research in the United States and Asia in
order
to create an on-line digital archive available to all.

Yizhige

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)

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.

Internet Archive Book Images

This searchable Flickr database contains over 12 million
historical copyright-free images (photos and drawings) that
are sourced from more than 600 million library book pages
scanned by the Internet Archive. Streaching half a
millennium (1500-1922), the vast range of images shows how
the portrayals of things have changed over. The database is
created by Kalev Leetaru, an American academic.

Hong Kong Government Reports Online (1842-1941)

Hong Kong Government Reports Online (HKGRO) is a full-text
image database providing online access to pre-World War II
issues of four major government publications, namely,
Administrative Report, Hong Kong Sessional Papers, Hong Kong
Hansard and Hong Kong Government Gazette. It contains a wide
range of information, such as official notifications,
proceedings of the Legislative Council, statistics, and
reports of government departments and special committees,
which are essential to students and scholars in conducting
research on Hong Kong.