The Basic Collection of Chinese Ancient Texts 中國基本古籍庫
contains 10,000 titles, 170,000 volumes of ancient Chinese books on a wide variety of subjects, which covers periods from 11 century BCE to the early 20th century.
Si ku quan shu 四庫全書 How to use
Si ku quan shu was compiled between 1773 and 1782 under the edict of Emperor Qianlong 乾隆. It is the most comprehensive collection of Chinese scholarship up to the 18th century. Full text articles and works are available both in their original image and digitized text format.
CHANT - CHinese ANcient Texts 漢達文庫
CHANT provides access to transmitted texts and excavated texts from ancient China (antiquity to late 6th century). Essential Chinese classics are also available. The excavated texts consist of oracle bone inscriptions from the Shang Dynasty as well as bamboo and silk manuscripts from the Han Dynasty.
Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China 古今圖書集成
This ancient encyclopedia contains 10,000 volumes in 6 series, 32 divisions, and 6,117 sections. It includes 800,000 pages and over 100 million Chinese characters. Topics include natural phenomena, geography, history, literature and government, etc.
Taiwan Literature Series 台灣文獻叢刊 The Encyclopedia of Taiwanis a full- text database, containing the most frequently used works by scholars of Taiwan studies. It is made up of 309 books, 48 million characters, and incorporates local histories and official documents of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Si bu cong kan 四部叢刊
This database includes 504 original and historical monographs (3,134 volumes) published by the Commercial Press in 1919-1936. They cover Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing editiones including early manuscripts and rare prints.
Grand Secretariat Archive 内閣大庫檔案
The archives of the Grand Secretariat currently housed at the Institute were originally kept at the Grand Secretariat Storehouse in the Qing imperial palace. There are over four thousand Ming(1368-1644) documents and more than three hundred thousand volumes of Qing (1644-1911) archival materials in this collection, including imperial decrees, edicts, memorials, tribute document, examination questions, examination papers, rosters of successful examination candidates, documents from the offices of the Grand Secretariat, documents from the offices for book compilation, and old documents from Mukden. Memorials make up the bulk these documents.