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Online Guide East Asia

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.

Renditions

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

Chinaknowledge

Chinaknowledge is an Encyclopaedia on Chinese History,
Literature and Art to a wide public, from academic scholars
to the interested \layman\. It concentrates on certain
aspects insufficiently dealt with by other sources,
especially traditional literature, biographies, historical
terms, economic history. It also offers sources to each
article that are almost exclusively Chinese scholarly texts.
This method provides direct access to Chinese-language
secondary literature to persons not able or not brave enough
to read Chinese.

Asian Art

The online journal for the study and exhibition of the
religion and arts of Asia. Asianart.com is dedicated to all
aspects of Asian art. It offers a forum for scholars,
museums and commercial galleries. It displays highlights of
exhibitions in public and private institutions and
galleries; present new discoveries by scholars and
connoisseurs; and, by providing space for private galleries
to present their works, offer the visitor a selection of
fine Asian art worldwide.

The International Dunhuang Project (IDP): The Silk Road
Online

The International Dunhuang Project is an international
digitization project that aims to promote the study and
preservation of manuscripts
and printed documents from Dunhuang and other Central Asian
sites through global cooperation. Beginning in 1994, IDP has
till now made tens of thousands of images together with
catalogues, translations, historical photographs,
archaeological site plans and much
more freely available to all on the Internet.

London Missionary Society Collection of Chinese Books

The London Missionary Society's collection of
Chinese books has been digitized and made
available online by the National Library of
Australia. This special collection comprises over
500 printed books gathered by LMS missionaries
during the late Qing period. These include
missionary publications such as Christian tracts,
as well as non-missionary books, manuscript items,
books related to the Taiping Rebellion and so on.
These materials are interesting primary sources
for Chinese history and religion studies.

Hathi Trust Digital Library

HathiTrust is a big digital repository that brings together
the immense collections of 22 major US universities. The
digital collections of Hathi now contain fulltext of more
than two million books. Due to copyright concerns, only 16%
of the books can deliver their fulltexts to readers. Certain
amount of fulltexts can be accessed by members of registered
institutes.

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