Modern

The Cheekungtong (also known as Chinese Freemasons)
of Victoria, British Columbia, was founded in 1876
and functioned as an unofficial organization to
maintain order in the Chinese communities.

This digitized collection consists of records that
reflect the functions of the Chinese Freemasons of
Canada, especially in Victoria and Vancouver; their
activities supporting the Chinese communities in
Canada; the lives and concerns of their members in
British Columbia; and their ties with China, spanning

The Chinatown of Victoria, British Columbia, is a
major historical gateway to the Chinese in Canada. It
was once the major entry port for Asian immigration
to British North America, and later to Canada. From
the late 1850s to the 1860s, it was the primary
springboard for several thousand Chinese gold miners
heading to the Fraser River valley and the Cariboo;
and, in the 1880s it was the main entry point for the
estimated 15,000 Chinese builders of the Canadian
Pacific Railway. It is the oldest Chinatown in

The Chinese Express 快報 was a Chinese newspaper
publishing daily from 1971 to 1989. It served as a
source of general news, covering world events and
Canadian politics, as well as that of specific
interest to the Chinese community. Its entire run has
been digitized and will be released in the
Multicultural Canada website.

Although it developed later than the British Columbia
community, Chinese immigration to Ontario was already
a significant force in the 1950s. After changes to
immigration policy in 1967 opened the doors to

Cross-Currents is an open-access e-journal co-sponsored by
the Research Institute of Korean Studies at Korea
University (RIKS) and the Institute of East Asian Studies
at the University of California–Berkeley (IEAS). It is
published quarterly online and semi-annually in print, and
gives priority to papers that have significant
implications for current models of understanding East
Asian history and culture. It is particularly interested
in promoting scholarship that extends East Asian studies
beyond issues traditionally addressed by Western

This is an open-access internet archive that collects works,
poetry, and images by and of Mao Zedong.

This is a large online database of Chinese works complied by
Academia Sinica in Taiwan. It contains very rich contents
that span across Chinese historical classics, Buddhism
scripts, various local gazetteers of Taiwan, as well as
other primary resources on Taiwan and its history.
Particularly, it has an online version of the Encyclopedia
of Taiwan (臺灣文獻叢刊).

Teochew Letters is a website set up and maintained by the
Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communication, Shantou
University, to promote knowledge about qiaopi, a combination
of remittance and correspondence that is also known as the
Teochew Letters (\Qiaopi\ in Mandarin).

The Qiaopi Database is a digital project conducted by the
Shantou University Library to display and promote its
special colleciton of Qiaopi (侨批), remittance receipts
in the form of family letters from overseas Chinese to
their families in China. Most of the surviving qiaopi have
been preserved by archives in Guangdong and Fujian
Province. Qiaopi, as a unique type of historical
documents, has been recognized since 2003 as the world's
documentary heritage on the list of the UNESCO Memory of
the World. This database of Shantou University has

Dr. Joseph Needham was sent by the British Council to
Southwest China in February 1943, to aid the anti-Japanese
war effort there. He stayed until April 1946, by when he
had travelled extensively throughout Sichuan, Yunnan, and
other parts of South, Southwest and Northwest China that
was
not under Japanese occupation. He took over 1,000
photographs during the period, which have been digitized
and
made available online by the Needham Research Institute.

Visual Cultures in East Asia is the new generic platform of
the Institute of Asian Studies (IrAsia) for the development
and display of research projects and collections that
involve the use of visual and cartographic materials. It
will actually serve as a portal for the individual as well
as collective projects of the LEAS scholars and graduate
students, as well as their partners.