The Universal Library is created to foster creativity and
free access to all human knowledge. It provides a free-to-
read, searchable collection of one million books, available
to everyone over the Internet. Within 10 years, it is
expected that the collection will grow to 10 Million books.
The result will be a unique resource accessible to anyone in
the world 24x7, without regard to nationality or
socioeconomic background.
The goal of this \visual sourcebook\ is to add to the
material teachers can use to help their students understand
Chinese history, culture, and society. It was not designed
to stand alone; we assume that teachers who use it will also
assign a textbook with basic information about Chinese
history.
The website provides some links to other organizations and
to online resources of potential interest to CHINOPERL
members, including
Association for Asian Performance (AAP), Association for
Chinese Music Research (ACMR), Chinese Storytelling, and
European Foundation for Chinese Music Research (CHIME).
The creation of this website was funded substantially by the
S.C.Van Foundation (Daloon Foundation), Denmark.The website
provides a wealth of resources on the field of Chinese
Storytelling, arranged under the following headings: Oral
and Written Literature; Professional Storytelling; History
and Milieu; Masters and Disciples; Elements of Performance;
Sagas of Storytelling. Added to the site in 2013 is the
Chinese Storytelling Reserch Database.
The Center for International Collections (CIC) currently
maintains five separate databases covering various aspects
of Asia, all of which are freely accessible to the public.
The purpose of these specialized databases is to promote and
enhance public access to the CIC’s extensive holdings by
making full use of all the latest available tools and
technologies.
A comprehensive Chinese website on various aspects of China
studies.
CrossAsia offers access to research information for
humanities and social sciences from Asian countries and
about Asia. Academic fields covered by the service range
from philology, history, political science and economics to
ethnology and regional studies. Regardless of the form of
publications, CrossAsia integrates the bibliographic
description of printed and electronic resources.
Taiwan Memory uses digital technology, as well as audio
records to properly preserve the historic memories of
Taiwan recorded in over 4 million volumes in National
Central Library, including a rich range of historic
documents on Taiwan, such as Taiwanese post cards from the
Japanese colonial period, old photos from various places
and old homes, local biographies, ancient book logs,
family genealogies, rubbings, video and audio materials,
and digital video files from the daily evening news since
Taiwan TV News began broadcasting in 1962, all collected
This site is created and maintained By Wei Luo, lecturer of
Law and Director of Technical Services, Washington
University School of Law Library. It intends to provide
links to Chinese (Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong)
legal resources on the Internet, legal research guides and
other information related to Chinese legal research.
Renditions is the leading international journal of Chinese
literature in English translation, covering over 2000
years of Chinese literature from classical works of
poetry, prose, and fiction to recently published works by
writers representing the rich variety of contemporary
Chinese literary expression. Articles on art, Chinese
studies and translation studies are frequently included.
Each issue is illustrated with complementary art,
calligraphy and photographs. Renditions has been published
by the Research Centre for Translation of The Chinese