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.
The Institute of Oriental Cultures, University of
Tokyo, has a collection of over 100,000 volumes of
Chinese rare books. The Institute has selected the
most precious titles of the collection, digitized
them and made the contents accessible through the
portal of The Chinese Rare Books Full Image
Database. Currently, this database provides free
access to full images of over 4,000 Chinese rare
books and partial access to some 600 rare book titles.
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.
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
The Ricci Roundtable is a database developed and maintained
by the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History
at the University of San Francisco for the use of academic
research on the topic of Christianity in China. The database
has a strong collection of archival, bibliographic and
biographic resources on the history of Christian missions in
China during the past few centuries.
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.
人名权威档係以明清档桉(内阁大库档桉、军机档、宫中档等)为主要参考资
料，另辅以故宫典藏之清国史馆传包、传稿及清史馆传稿，再选取学界公认
具权威性的史料，如《国立故宫博物院清代文献档桉：武职大臣年表》、
《明实录》、《清实录》、《清代官员履历档桉全编》、《明代传记丛
刊》、《清代传记丛刊》，及今人编纂的《清代名人传略》、《清代职官年
表》、《清人室名别称字号索引》等做为参考文献，亦使用《清代职官
志》、《中国官制大辞典》等参考书籍。