Wen shi zhe xue bao, an academic journal published by the
National Taiwan University , focuses on the study of
Chinese
literature, arts, history, philosophy, archaeology and so
on. The journal publishes two issues every year in May and
November. Full text articles of the latest issues are now
available online for free at
(http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~bcla/index_ebook.htm), while
the table of contents of each issue can be browsed at
The Trans-Asia Photography Review is an international
refereed journal devoted to the discussion and research of
historic and contemporary photography from Asia. The journal
aims to bring together the diverse perspectives of curators,
historians, photographers, anthropologists, art historians
and various others in order to investigate as fully as
possible the still nascent field of Asian photography.
The Internet Archive is a is a non-profit library of
millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites,
and more. Its purposes include offering permanent access for
researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities,
and the general public to historical collections that exist
in digital format.
Formosa is a digital library hosted by Reed College of
Portland, Oregon that specializes in gathering early images,
maps, and texts on the island of Taiwan, which was called
\Formosa\ by foreign visitors in the 19th Century. Scholars
can even find a small sampling of primary linguistic data on
various aboriginal languages collected by early explorers.
Primary source data like this were originally published in
European and North American books and journals during the
19th Century, but have since become hard to access with the
passage of time.
The Digital Silk Road is a research project that archives
and makes accessible historical records about cultural
heritage along the Silk Road. It currently includes several
interesting resources: Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare
Books on Silk Road (in western languages), Digital Maps of
Old Beijing, and Silk Road Maps. So far, more than 116 rare
books written in various languages have been digitized and
made available online in the Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko
Rare Books on the Silk Road.
Undertaken by two Austrian scholars, Dr. Monika Lehner and
Dr. George Lehner, both of whom are experts with Chinese
rare books, Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0 is a project that aims at
collecting information and links of freely available e-books
on China and Sino-Western encounters from various open
access repositories.
This online portal is created by the Multicultural
History Society of Ontario (MHSO) to bring
together over 1,000 historical photographs, 33
oral history interviews and numerous other
archival materials about Chinese Canadian women to
address their life experiences,
challenges and accomplishments. The years between
1923 and 1967 in Canada were marked by
discriminatory immigration policy. During this
period of time, severe restrictions on Chinese
immigration, coupled with prior patterns of
Chinese migration, led to disproportionately few
VIA is a growing online union catalogue at Harvard
University Library, documenting the arts, material
culture,
and social history. It contains descriptive records and
images representing paintings, sculpture, photography,
drawings, prints, architecture, decorative arts, trade
cards, rubbings, theater designs, maps and plans from
participating archives, museums, libraries, and other
collections throughout Harvard University. Included are
thousands of digital images on China, Japan, and Korea.
BuddhaNet is a nonsectarian organization aiming
to link up with the growing worldwide culture of
people committed to the Buddha's teachings and
lifestyle. Without focusing on any sect's beliefs
or practices, its website provides a diverse
variety of quality resources about Buddhism in
general, including a World Buddhist Directory,
BuddhaZine-Online Magazine, Insight Meditation
Online, and the Buddhist eLibrary. In particular,
the Buddhist eLibrary is set up to support the
free dissemination of digital Buddhist educational
materials around the world.
The e-Asia Digital Library is a digital collection
developed by the University of Oregon Library. The
project aims to build \a collection of digitalized
e-books and a database of full text web resources\
to contribute to research and scholarship on East
Asia, while not duplicating nor displacing printed
traditional materials. The focus is on East Asia,
including China, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea (South
and North). It currently holds over 4,000 items.