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 Qiaopi, as a unique type of historical
documents, has been recognized since 2003 as the world's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
This is the browse list of the digital collections at the
University of Michigan Library.
EThOS is the UK’s national open access thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. There are approximately 350,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 120,000 of these also provide access to the full text thesis, either via download from the EThOS database or via links to the institution’s own repository. Of the remaining 250,000 records dating back to at least 1800, three quarters are available to be ordered for scanning through the EThOS digitisation-on-demand facility.
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.
This is a sub-collection of the Moving Image Archive (of the Internet Archive). It has digitized feature films, shorts, silent films, and trailers from around the world.
This digital library contains digital movies uploaded by users of the Internet Archive, which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
After World War II ended, Allied forces established the
International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known
informally as the Tokyo War Crimes trial, to prosecute the
Japanese officials involved with launching the war. The
trial took place from April 1946 to November 1948 and
resulted in death sentences for seven of the defendants
and prison terms for the remaining war criminals. The
Tokyo War Crimes Trial is a massive digital exhibition of
historical documents related to the trial, posted by the
Asian Pacific American History in Oregon is part of the Oregon History Project undertaken by Oregon Hisotical Society to collect, preserve, and promote access to, the information about Asian Pacific Americans immigrated to America from the continent of Asia (including India). Included in the scope of the project are the Chinese who started to arrive in the Oregon Territory in the early 1850s.
This Mississippi Delta Chinese Oral Histories is part of
Delta State University Archives' Oral History Collection.
The oral history project was funded by the Mississppi
Humanities Council and was completed in 2000. The
Mississippi Delta Chinese Oral Histories consists of
interviews focusing on the history and culture of the
Chinese people in the Mississippi Delta.