Xanadu: Encounters with China is a special exhibition of the
National Library of Australia to feature the Library's maps,
pictures, rare booksand its other Asian collection.
Claude L Pickens, Jr. (1900-1985) and his wife, Elizabeth
Zwemer Pickens, were Christian missionaries of the China
Inland Mission (C.I.M.) and had a particular interest in the
category of China's Muslims who are now officially
designated as \Hui\ in China. This digital collection has
over 1,000 photos taken by Pickens, of Muslims and Christian
missionaries working among them in Western China in the
1920s and 1930s. In addition to those, supplemented
resources include several hundred books, pamphlets,
broadsides, etc., in several languages.
The Open Collections Program (OCP) is the \online window\
that showcase the scope and the breadth of the extraordinary
collections of Harvard University. OCP has created six
subject-specific, web-accessible collections that focus on
making available unique historical materials of Harvard.
Taiwan Fojiao 臺灣佛教 was published between 1947 and 1970
and contains valuable information on events, practices and
policies that is difficult to find elsewhere. Indeed,
hardcopies of the journal itself are difficult to find and
no complete set seems to have survived. We are obliged to
Dr. Kan Zhengzong 闞正宗 for making copies of his collection
available.
This database contains records for over 140,000 articles
published in Chinese Buddhist Journals of the Republican Era
(1911-1949). These are all articles collected in the Minguo
fojiao qikan wenxian jicheng 民國佛教期刊文獻集成, (Complete
Collection of Republican-Era Buddhist Periodical Literature)
(MFQ), and its supplement the Minguo fojiao qikan wenxian
jicheng bubian 民國佛教期刊文獻集成．補編, (MFQB). Both MFQ and
MFQB were compiled under the leadership of Huang Xianian 黃夏
年 and published in 2006 and 2007 respecively.
The database contains two parts: Digital Silkroad Museum and
Silk Road: Spatialtemoral platform Sino-India cultural
exchange. Silk Road is a link of ancient cultural, business,
religion, and art, exist in the past and present even in the
future, always in people's minds. Sincerely invite you to
join the research community of Silk Road culture, to discuss
and exchange together.
This is the website for the Temple Gazetteer Project at
Dharma Drum Buddhist College. The project is funded by the
Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies. The aim of the
project is to tap into this wealth of information in order
to deepen our understanding of Chinese Buddhist history.
Between 2007 and 2010, 237 gazetteers were digitized and
are distributed on this website. Of these 13 gazetteers
were digitized as full-text archives and marked up with
TEI/XML, identifying all persons and place names as well
These databases integrate information from various projects
at the Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum
Buddhist College. By providing information on Chinese
calendar dates, as well as an onomasticon of person and
place names from Buddhist sources they help with
disambiguation and geo-spatial referencing of names and
dates. The data is openly available through various web-
services, including a Google search plug-in for Firefox.
The Digital Archive Projects t at Dharma Drum Buddhist
College contains several projects: Scripture and Canon,
Buddhism in Taiwan, Bibliographies, Catalogs and
Publications, Miscellaneous projects, Multi-media Archives,
and Collected Works.
Started in 2006, ChurchChina is an online magazine that is
concerned with the
current state and development of Christian churches in
China. It has professional theological articles from
scholars as well as autobiographical ones for general
readers.