Modern

The goal of the Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies
[IDEAS] is to unify digitizing efforts already in progress
at various campuses into a shared searchable database,
open
to anyone with access to the World Wide Web. IDEAS focuses
on the generally underrepresented area of Asia in an
attempt
to make multi-media materials more widely available for
specialists and non-specialists alike. IDEAS is the first
multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, pan-Asian
searchable
database in the country.

This database has been developed by the Academia Sinica of
Taiwan, and is an important online tool to look for
bibliographic and holdings information for Chinese Local
Gazetteers. The database is based on the Union Catalogue
of Chinese Local Gazetteers published in 1985 by the
Academy of Sciences in mainland China, which contains
bibliographic information for 8,200 local gazetteers
compiled before 1949 and currently held by 190 libraries
and institutes across mainland China. In addition, the
database also collects the information of over 2,000 New

Chung Sai Yat Po was published in San Francisco from Feb.
1900 to 1951. It has a long publishing history and almost
all its issues survived. It provides readers important
sources about the history of Chinese immigration in the
first half of the twentieth century. The collection includes
14 microfilm reels and 1,460 online items. Selected issues
can be viewed on the website.

A Digital Archive of Documents & Photographs from
American Missionaries Who Witnessed the Rape of
Nanking. The project is from the Special
Collections of the Yale Divinity School Library.

此站由陕西省图书馆设立。收录53位相关人物及其相关著述全文，671条大
事记，电文、信函、电话记录等史料935条，相关图片1865张，报刊论文索
引2288条，另有影视、旧址等。

此站由新加坡国立大学图书馆设立。主要包括“历史文献中的南洋古
国”、“中外交通史籍中的南洋”，及早期南洋文献、华人移民史料、英属殖
民地华人史料等。

The website is established by Columbia University Libraries,
it provides electronic version of Guba Hua Gong Diao Cha Lu
reproduced from a microfilm of the original printed copy
held in the Special Collection of Starr East Asian Library.

The production of the Web edition of Lin Yutang's Chinese-
English Dictionary of Modern Usage is based on the first
edition of the work (hereafter called \the original
edition\) published in 1972 by the Chinese University Press.
The dictionary comprises a total of 8,169 head characters,
together with 44,407 explanatory entries of grammatical
usage and 40,379 entries of Chinese words or phrases.

Fritz Weiss – a German consul to China – lived and
travelled in China from 1899 to 1917, with diplomatic
postings in various cities such as Chengdu (Sichuan) and
Kunming (Yunnan). From 1911 he was accompanied by his
wife, Hedwig Weiss-Sonnenburg. This exhibition reveals
impressions from the time in which the Weisses were in
China, during the years of upheaval between the end of the
Qing dynasty and the beginning of the First World War. The
pictures were taken by Fritz and Hedwig Weiss during their

This digital collection answers a need for clear,
intelligible and informative English-language sources
relating to China and the West, 1793-1980, which can be
accessed online and used in the classroom or in course
packs. Key documents relating to the Chinese Maritime
Customs service, from Robert Hart to Frederick Maze, are
accessible and searchable alongside original reports of
the Amherst and Macartney embassies.There are letters
relating to the first Opium War, survivors descriptions of
the Boxer War, and tantalising glimpses of life in China