Literature

Hong Kong Literature Database is the first database on Hong
Kong literature. The Database is powered by various
searching functions. Full-text is available in a major part
of the database.

The handwritten manuscripts in the collection come in a
large variety of forms, which include poetry, prose, novels,
letters, diaries, scripts and reviews. In addition, this
collection also focus on different kinds of brushworks by
well-known contemporary artists and writers, such as
calligraphy, Chinese ink paintings, sketches, watercolors
and oil paintings.

Robert Hegel's book True Crimes in Eighteenth-Century
China: Twenty Case Histories presents a sample of crime
reports from eighteenth-century China in English
translation. All are capital crimes. Since all capital
crimes might carry the death penalty, detailed reports of
all levels of investigation had to be forwarded to the
Emperor for his final decision on sentencing. Capital
crimes required investigation and review at local,
prefectural, provincial, and central levels of the
imperial Qing period (1644-1911) administration. These

The Red Brush project is a collection of texts in Chinese
from a wide range of writings from Imperial China, by and
about women writers. The website for this collection is
available in both English and Chinese.

The handwritten manuscripts in the collection come in a
large variety of forms, which include poetry, prose, novels,
letters, diaries, scripts and reviews. In addition, this
collection also focus on different kinds of brushworks by
well-known contemporary artists and writers, such as
calligraphy, Chinese ink paintings, sketches, watercolors
and oil paintings.

The Thesaurus Linguae Sericae (TLS) is designed as as a
collaborative forum for discussion on the close reading of
Chinese texts. It provides a corpus of classical Chinese
texts, links the texts incorporated with an analytic
dictionary of the Chinese language, and also systematically
organises the Chinese vocabulary in taxonomic hierarchies of
synonym groups. TLS develops a system of rhetorical devices
for the analysis of Chinese texts.

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.

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.

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.

民国中文期刊资源库以书目数据、篇名数据、数字对象为内容，提供简单检
索、高级检索、二次检索、关联检索和条件限定检索。现提供4351种期刊电
子影像的全文浏览。资源库遵循边建设边服务的原则，将不断追加更新资源
库内容。