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 Taiwan is 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.
Xu xiu si ku quan shu (續修四庫全書 Continuation of Siku quanshu); The Continuation of Siku Quanshu includes additional 5,300 titles in 1,800 volumes and was the biggest compiling project after Si ku quan shu.
Si ku cun mu cong shu (四庫存目叢書 Siku Catalogue); The Siku Catalogue contains information about 6,800 titles, which were collected during the initial compiling period in Emperor Qianlong’s reign (1736-1795), but were later excluded from Si ku quan shu because they did not meet with the Qing ideological standards. This set of Si ku cun mu cong shu, published by Qilu Press in 1997, includes 4,509 titles in 1,200 volumes.
Si ku quan shu jin hui shu cong kan (四庫禁毀書叢刊 Banned Books from the Siku); The Banned Books from the Siku covers 634 books banned during the Qing dynasty before 1795.
Si ku wei shou shu ji kan (四庫未收書輯刊 Supplemental Texts to the Siku); The Supplemental Texts to the Siku collects nearly 2,000 titles that have not been included in The Siku. The published parts include 300 volumes and were published by Beijing Press in 2000.
Qing dai ke ju zhu juan (清代科举硃卷 Qing Dynasty Imperial Examination Genealogy and Examination Papers).
Zhonghua Ancient Books Database (中华经典古籍库) This database by Zhonghua Book Company is a comprehensive resource that features edited editions of essential Chinese classics across different genres (經、史、部、子、集部) with key annotations and scholarly contributions. Access includes series 1-11, covering over 8,000 titles.