Relevant Electronic Resources for Chinese Classical Studies

2. Relevant Electronic Resources for Chinese Classical Studies

See:

Bibliography of Chinese Bibliography (Big 5 version). This is a book-list on Chinese bibliography in Jis, Big5 and GB Code, produced in Shinshu Univ., Japan. For the GB Code version, see GB Code. The information is supplied by Bunri Usami (bunrius@soshi.shinshu-u.ac.jp).

Chinesisch and Computer. German journal that concentrates on Chinese and CJK software, including reports on database and word processing utilities. Automation features of East Asian Libraries are featured. Published by Thomas Hahn, Librarian, who now is at Cornell University.

Annelies de Deugd, International Institute for Asian Studies Internet Guide to Asian Studies. Published in Leiden. Includes user's guide and directories.

European Association of Sinological Librarians Homepage. This site is readable only with a browser which supports Netscape's Frames extension. The system is useful to those with the most recent browsers and lots of RAM on a computer. It includes Links to Sites on: Literature; CND Text-Archives; Databases online; Academia Sinica; Philosophy, Daoism and Confucianism, Buddhism; Linguistics

Hanno Lecher at Heidelberg University, has produced an Internet Guide For China Studies for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore.

Peter Zhou, "Current Electronic resources for Chinese Studies: An Overview,"Committee on East Asian Libraries Bulletin 106 (June 1995): 25-34.

Index

A. General Resources
B. Bibliographies
C. CD Roms
D. Databases and Electronic Texts
E. Dictionaries
F. Electronic Journals
G. Home Pages of Individuals and Research Groups
H. Indexes/ Concordances
I. Library Catalogs
J. Maps and Geography
K. Useful Online Tools
L. Web Exhibits and Images

A. General Resources

Asian Studies -- Directory of Online Resources. This is a subsite of academicinfo.net, a directory of educational online resources maintained by Mike Madin. Many links are briefly annotated, mostly using the site's self description. Sorting is alphabetical by page title.
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library. This is a global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with a given field of expertise. In the case of Asian Studies WWW VL all links are inspected and evaluated before being added. This facility is provided by the Australian National University (ANU) and is regularly updated. It is edited by Dr T.Matthew Ciolek.
China News Digest: This site is sponsored by the Asian American Network and includes: "Schools of Thought," "Chinese Philosophical Lists," and the Chinese Classics page. This gives a number of electronic classical texts in Big 5 Code.
The East Asian Gateway Service at the East Asian Library of the University of Pittsburgh is an information retrieval and document delivery service center for scholars, researchers and students who seek information related to China or Chinese studies. At this center, library users can conduct subject-based searches of electronic databases currently on the World Wide Web. They can also request full-text Chinese journal articles or information delivery from this Center which has access to collection resources in The University of Pittsburgh, Peking University and Shanghai Jiaotong University in China, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Fu Ssu-nien Library of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. This is a new global information service aimed at providing fast information to library users of Chinese studies.
Institute for Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University: Internet Guide For Chinese Studies. Maintained by: Hanno Lecher (Heidelberg University, Germany), in collaboration with Eva Baloch-Kaloianov (Vienna University, Austria): News Media; Martin Gieselmann (Heidelberg University, Germany): Film; Matthias Kaun (University of Kiel, Germany): Libraries; Fabrizio Pregadio (Stanford University): Bibliographies.
List of Internet Resources for East Asian Studies. Compiled by Charles Muller.
The Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center, maintained by Kirk A. Denton of Ohio State University, includes English language bibliographies on modern Chinese literature, film, art, music, and education. Also includes an image archive and a database of course syllabi relating to twentieth-century China. This site is extremely useful for teaching, but the bibliograhies are so detailed that the site is also a good place to start for any research project dealing with the Twentieth Century.
Resources for the Study of East Asian Language and Thought. Site contents: 1.WWW CJK-English Dictionary Database 2.Dictionary of East Asian CJK ("Chinese-Japanese-Korean") Buddhist Terms; 3.Korean Buddhism WWWVL Page. Directory of Web sites and other information related to the study of Korean Buddhism; 4.Home Page for the Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative (EBTI); 5.E-texts and reference works by Charles Muller and others: HTML articles; translated Chinese classics; E-texts of Buddhist, Confucian and Taoist classics; guide to graduate studies in Asian Philosophy and religion; other reference materials; self-introduction, and more; 6.Directory of on-line CJK E-texts; 7.Scholarly Web Resources in Buddhism; 8.Scholarly Web Resources in Confucianism and Taoism; 9.WWW CJK Character Lexicons The AS WWW VL Associate since 9 Apr 1998. The site is edited by: Dr Charles Muller (acmuller@gol.com), Toyo Gakuen University, Japan.

1. Art

Art & Material Culture of China, edited by Oliver Moore, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands in English.
Digital Scrolling Paintings Project Ed./Corp.: Center for the Art of East Asia. See also The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Qing Southern Inspection Tour Scrolls: "Recording the Grandeur of the Qing -- The Southern Inspection Tour Scrolls of the Kangxi and Qianlong emperors," created in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Visual Media Center of Colmbia University's Art History and Archaeology Department. The website explores Qing art, government, and commerce through the presentation of four artworks of the period, which is supplemented by topical essays on the Qing.
See Images for paintings, archaeological materials, maps, etc. This page contains a summary of all the picture files available on the Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture Web site, along with their sources. The images are divided into the following categories: Maps, Archaeology, Art, Divinities, People, Historical Sites, Historical Illustrations, Technology, Customs, Stereotypes, Middle Eastern Images.

Research in Buddhist Art Administered by Sarah E. Fraser.

2. Buddhism

Buddhist Studies: WWW Virtual Library. This document keeps track of leading information facilities in the field of Buddhism and Buddhist studies. Maintained by Australia National University:
- Buddhist Studies - Table of Contents
- Buddhism WWW Resources:
- Buddhism - General
- Nichiren
- Pure Land
- Theravada
- Vajrayana
- Yogacara
- Zen - Chan - Son
- Buddhism Gopher & FTP Resources
- Buddhism & Buddhist Studies databases
- Miscellaneous Buddhist Studies Resources
- Buddhism/Buddhist Electronic Newsletters & Journals
- Buddhist Organisations
East Asian Buddhist Studies: A Reference Guide. First Compiled by Robert Buswell. Revised and Expanded by William Bodiford. CJK Glyphs initially inserted by Charles Muller. With subsequent contributions by James Benn, Shayne Clarke, Hisayo Suzuki et al.
Japanese Index of Buddhist Texts.
Index to Zokuzokyo.
Online Buddhist Dictionary ¦ò ¾Ç Ãã ¨å. Ed./Corp.: Zhonghua fodian baoku; Xiamen, China--Xiamen shi Nan Putuo si, in Chinese (GB).
Virtual Religion Index -- Buddhist Tradition. This site is maintained by Mahlon H. Smith of the Religion Department at Rutgers University. It is a part of the Virtual Religion Index. There is also a section on East Asian Studies with links to Confucian and Daoist resources. The links are well-annotated, and include content on several branches of Buddhism, including Nichiren, Pure Land, Tibetan, and Chan traditions.

3. Christianity and Missionaries

The Centre for the Study of Christianity in China. This is a new academic initiative in Oxford, England. The Centre is an independent academic resource for understanding and communicating the history, theology, vitality, and cultural impact of the Christian church in China. Through research, publications, scholarships, seminars, colloquia, conferences, summer schools, public lectures and hosting visiting scholart, the Centre for the Study of Christianity in China is a resource both for the Chinese church and the western Academy. The Centre will provide opportunities for scholars and students from China to spend time in Oxford to undertake research into, or study of, Christianity and the church in China.
Chinese Christian Texts Database; by Ad Dudink and Nicolas Standaert, (CCT-Database). This is a research database of primary and secondary sources concerning the cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (from 1582 to ca. 1840). The cultural contacts comprise documents in the various fields of cultural interaction: religion, philosophy, science, art, etc.
- History: The late Professor Erik Zürcher (1928-2008) took the initiative of compiling a bibliographical list of Chinese primary sources concerning Christianity in China in the seventeenth century. Since the 1980s, Ad Dudink and Nicolas Standaert have continued and elaborated the project and converted the data thus far collected into an online research database. In that form it is an on-going project, which makes it possible to continually add new sources and to update, revise or expand the description of sources already included.
- Structure: The database is set up as a research database, both in regard to its content and search possibilities. The description of primary sources is intended as to be extensive and to allow for multiple links. In addition to the usual bibliographical references such as title, author, impressum or reprints, these references include: a content description, the mentioning of call numbers in major library collections, references to translations or secondary sources, and various notes on the author or text history. The database is multi-lingual in the sense that there are references to documents and publications in a wide variety of ancient and modern Asian and European languages. The primary and secondary sources are given a thematic category, which basically follows the categorisation of the Handbook of Christianity in China : Volume One (635-1800), Leiden : Brill, 2000.
- How to use? The database is divided in "primary" and "secondary" sources. The primary sources are ca. 1050 Chinese texts documents dating from roughly the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They include printed books, manuscripts, pamphlets and maps. There are over 4000 secondary sources, which, if applicable, are linked to the primary sources. Searches can be made in the whole database, or in the primary or secondary sources separately.
- Access: The access to the database is free. You may also freely use its content, but on condition that you acknowledge it in the following way: Ad Dudink & Nicolas Standaert, Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database) (http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/sinology/cct), Sinology K.U. Leuven.
- Additions and mistakes: The description of sources, especially primary sources, is still incomplete and therefore the authors will continuously insert further details and update existing descriptions. If you wish to propose additions or point out mistakes, send emails to: cct.database@arts.kuleuven.be. Substantial addenda or corrigenda will be acknowledged in the 'notes on author', 'notes on contents' or 'notes on text history.'
The Hierarchy of the Catholic Church: Current and historical information about its bishops and dioceses in China from the 1680s to the 1950s. Today's hierarchy in the PRC is illegitimate in the eyes of the Vatican. Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau are up to date.
Hong Kong Catholic Diocesan Archives, Hong Kong, China. Language: English, Chinese (Big5). Contents: (1) Historical Documents; (2) The Archives Holdings (1841-1969); (3) Rare Books; (4) Illustrated Catechism; (5) The Cathedral; (6) Church Buildings; (7) Leading Events (1841- ); (8) The Succession Line (1841- ); (9) Statistics (1705- ); (10) In Memory (short biographies of important figures of the Catholic Church in Hong Kong); (11) List of Popes (including the Chinese translations of their names); (12) 120 Chinese Martyrs; (13) Web Site Links.
An International Database for the Study of the History of Christianity in China produced by The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, University of San Francisco, USA. Self-description: "Our primary focus is the construction of the archival, biographical and bibliographical sources of China mission history, but because of the vast historical scope of this field of study, many related subjects are necessarily included in the database: analyses of the Chinese social landscape, religious and philosophical questions, the scientific, technical, and educational contributions of the missions." Site contents: News; Archives; Bibliographies; Biographies; Directory; Images; Institutions; Locations; Sounds.
Missionaries and mandarins: The Jesuits in China. Part of Vatican Exhibit Main Hall, by the Library of Congress.

4. Daoism

See the Academia Sinica (Wenzhe suo) online Zheng tong dao zang , which includes some volumes (16 of 61; but seems to include some important texts) of the long awaited searchable full text. Click the zi liao ku from the link above.
Materials useful for Taoist studies are contained in the website built by Prof. Mugitani Kunio of Kyoto University. The first section includes historical, literary, Buddhist and Taoist texts. Among them is the whole Zhengao, encoded in Japanese characters. Other texts, some of which are also available from other sites, are encoded in Chinese and/or Japanese. The second section allows searching in catalogues of Taoist and Buddhist collections and in twenty Taoist texts. The catalogues include the Daozang, the Daozang Jiyao and the Daozang Quejing Mulu. Among the searcheable texts are the Zhengao, the Wushang Biyao, the Duren Jing Sizhu, the Wuzhen Pian, and the Laozi Xianger Zhu. These texts can be searched only in Japanese.
The URL (only in Japanese) is: here.
Taoist Studies List: Majordomo@coombs.anu.edu.au.
Taoism WWW Virtual Library Site contents, which includes: Introductions to Taoism; The Lao-tzu Tao Te Ching; The Chuang-tzu; The I Ching; Feng Shui; The Sun-tzu Art of War;Confucianism and Buddhism; Taoism and Chinese; Philosophy; Taoism and Alchemy; Taoism and Martial Arts; Taoism and Modernity; Chinese Language and Culture; Commercial Ventures; Other Information Sources; Quick Links (China Studies WWW VL, Religion WWW VL, Asian Studies WWW VL). The site is edited by: Dr Gene Thursby (gthursby@religion.ufl.edu), University of Florida., USA.

5. Ethnicity

Manchu Studies Homepage. Maintained by Cheryl Boettcher Tarsala: "tarsala@earthlink.net".

6. Film and Photographs

Chinese Cinema: Scholarly Works and Articles in English:
- 1: Pre-1949 Chinese cinema
- 2: China's Fifth Generation
- 3: Chinese Urban Drama
See also: China-Related Literature and Film Links. Maintained by Kirk A. Denton, Ohio State University.

Chinese Pictures database of the modern period by Nanjing Library. This is a new project wit about 35,000 images already digitized and 4,324 are available online. The modern period is defined as 1840-1949, however for the initial stage the Nanjing Library is working primarily on 1911-1949. All images were taken from published works and not from original photographs. Although a date is provided, the source is not indicated at this time.

7. History

Ming-Qing History Website at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Maintained by Lu Miaw-fen at the Institute of Modern History.
Ming Studies Guide. Maintained by Leo Shin of the University of British Columbia.
Modern Chinese History Website, prepared by Joseph Esherick and others at the University of California, San Diego. This site contains a bibliography of modern and contemporary Chinese history (Qing, Republican, and PRC).
Song Research Tools is a guide to bibliographies, indexes, dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases and chronologies of use to those interested in all aspects of Chinese society during the Song Dynasty (960-1279). Peter Bol, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, published the first edition of Sung Research Tools in 1990. With the publication of the online guide in 2003 Song Research Tools went into its third edition. The online guide, now edited by Hilde De Weerdt, enables you to 1) browse the guide; 2) download the guide; 3) add and view comments (corrections or notes on use) to titles listed in the guide; 4) submit new titles; 5) search titles. For general comments and suggestions, contact Hilde De Weerdt at hdeweerd@utk.edu. Two hundred titles have been added since the previous update.

Tribute Missions to China, 960-1126. This site is a digitized version of Robert Hartwell's unpublished book, which was printed for private distribution.

8. Music

The Chinese Music Archive's main depository is located at the SunSite, University of North Carolina. The site includes model Beijing Opera, Chinese traditional music (various instrumental), ceremonial songs and music, historical voices, "Northwestern Wind" style songs, folk songs and local opera, and songs and music from TV series "Hong Lou Meng." There are 3 known mirror sites for this archive on the Internet. You may choose any of these to down-load from as you wish. They are:
- 1. SunSite in Science University of Tokyo, Japan: at http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/pub/multimedia/chinese-music
- 2. FTP Site at Engineering Faculty of Chinese University of Hong Kong: at ftp://ftp.erg.cuhk.hk/pub/multimedia/chinese-music
- 3. FTP Site of PSINet, USA (Mirror Site): at ftp://mirror1.ftp.psi.net/sunsite.unc.edu/multimedia/chinese-music

9. Philosophy/Classics

Chinese Philosophy Page: click Steven A. Brown. This site lists electronic materials related to Chinese Philosophy and Chinese culture.

Chinese Rare Books Site. Includes a broad range of classical sources and historical materials, including medical texts. In Chinese.

Also see materials in the Data Bases and Electronic Texts, and Dictionary sections.

10. Science and Medicine

The ChiMed webpage is managed by an international group of scholars who study the history of medicine in China. This page is still under construction. It is connected to the Needham Research Institute website and will include:
- 1) Directory of scholars studying the history of Chinese medicine.
- 2) Institutional resources: institutions with academic programs in the history of Chinese medicine, or which conduct research pertinent to the history of Chinese medicine.
- 3) Libraries: libraries with significant holdings of materials on Chinese medicine.
- 4) Internet and electronic resources: webpages, internet groups, CD-roms, databases, etc.
- 5) Bibliographies on Chinese medicine.
- 6) Events and special projects: news on seminars, talks, conferences, papers, etc., pertaining in some way to the history of Chinese medicine.
FOREAST Discussion Forum – From the Internet East Asian Library Home Page links to a number of websites containing pre-modern medical texts in East Asia:
- 1. Nagasaki University Digital Collection: Including one of the largest early photograph collections in Japan, and several collections related to history of modern science, medicine and economics in Japan.
- 2. Nukata Bunko Database, Toho University. Based on the Nukata Bunko, a book collection that the Nukata family accumulated over a period of four generations, this resource provides fulltext images of 43 Japanese medical books (in 275 volumes) that were printed from the 17th to 19th centuries. It was made available by Toho University in 2009.
- 3. Princeton University East Asian Libary Digitized Medical Texts: The East Asian Library of Princeton University has for the past few years been engaged in the digitization of some of its rare book. Full processing and the provision of enhanced navigation to each title will only take place at the end of the ongoing project.
- 4. UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection: consists of four hundred Japanese woodblock prints on health-related themes. It is the largest collection of woodblock prints related to health in the United States. – University of California, San Francisco.
- 5. Yale University, Peter Parker Collection?This digital collection consists of 80 paintings of Chinese patients with large tumors or other major deformities. The portraits were painted by Chinese artist Lam Qua in 1830s, under the commission of Peter Parker, the first Protestant medical missionary to China?
Needham Research Institute (Cambridge University) Home Page. See also East Asian History of Science Library for the Needham Research Institute Library, which contains details of the library and its holdings, together with instructions for on-line searching.
Science and Civilization in China Project Home Page.

See also:
- The Group in the History of Health and Healing at Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
- Mathematics: History of Chinese Mathematics Home Page by David Joyce.
- Nathan Sivin's Chinese Science and Medicine Page.
- Solving Scientific and Medical Problems in General Research on China, by Nathan Sivin. "The purpose of this document is to outline basic sources in European and Asian languages for dealing with common problems that come up when reading literary and historical documents. Each section begins with an orientation that suggests how to get started in dealing with that class of problems. It then provides an annotated list of some important reference sources."
- Study Group for the History and Philosophy of Chinese Science and Technology sponsored by Technische Universitaet Berlin, Faculty I, Humanities.
- Taiwanese Science: Study Group for the History of Taiwanese Science. E-Mail: Ping-yi Chu, kaihsin@pluto.ihp.sinica.edu.tw.
- Website on Chinese Medicine and Medical Texts at Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
See also Alchemy and Medicine.

11. Women and Men

Women in Chinese History, compiled and updated by Marilyn Shea, Department of Psychology, University of Maine at Farmington. See also Supplemental Reading List, compiled by Patricia Ebrey.

China Biographical Database Project (CBDB), in conjunction with Academia Sinica, Taiwan, Beijing University, and Harvard-Yenching Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA. Language: Chinese ; English. Cited description: "[...] an online relational database with biographical information about approximately 40,000 individuals as of July 2008, primarily from the seventh through fourteenth centuries. The data is meant to be useful for statistical and spatial analysis as well as serving as a kind of biographical reference. The long term goal of CBDB is systematically to include all significant biographical material from China s history and to make the contents available free of charge, without restriction, for academic use." Contents: (1) Home; (2) History of the CBDB; (3) Collaborating Institutions and Editorial Committee; (4) Methodological Issues; (5) Mapping and Analyzing CBDB Data; (6) Structure of Data; (7) Work Progress; (8) Download CBDB Data; (9) Conferences and Papers; (10) First International Workshop on Biographical Databases for China's History; (11)Discussion Forum; (12) FAQ; (13) Chinese Homepage. Availability: Free. For more Biographical Databases: see Heidelberg University East Asian Studies Database.
Hummel, Arthur W., ed. Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644 1912). 2 vols. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1943-44. The electronic version is a beta version of an online database containing all the biographies in Hummel and is is available at the Dartmouth College Qing Research Portal, coordinated by Pamela Crossley. The database is searchable, although some functions are still in the works. Users are required to download some software (for free).
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B. Bibliographies

1. General
- Bibliography of Tang-Song, Ming-Qing Works, compiled by members of the Institute for History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
- China Bibliography and Collections of Resources, compiled by Marilyn Shea, University of Maine at Farmington. Of particular interest is the Qing list.
- Zhonghua Minguo qi kan lun wen suo yin xian shang cha xun xi tong ¤¤ µØ ¥Á °ê ´Á ¥Z ½× ¤å ¯Á ¤Þ ½u ¤W ¬d ¸ß ¨t ²Î (Republic of China list of serials); National Central Library.
2. Art
- For a list of publications on Chinese art, see the List produced in Japan. The information is supplied by Bunri Usami (bunrius@soshi.shinshu-u.ac.jp). His homepage is here.
3. Buddhism
- Bibliography of Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon into Western Languages. Working bibliography of translations from the Chinese Canon, usually limited to translations from Chinese. The translations are sorted by Taisho number. Chinese characters and pinyin are also provided.
- Buddhist Studies: Scholarly Works. Maintained by the Center for Buddhist Studies, National Taiwan University. See also the Supplement Character Set for Chinese Buddhist Texts. Contents include a glyph database that works with IBM compatible computers using Windows 3.1 and encoded in Big 5 Code. The "Fonts for Buddhist Usage" can be downloaded.
- UCLA Guide to East Asian Buddhist Studies: Reference Works, prepared by Robert Buswell and William Bodeford, UCLA, EALC.
4. Confucian/Literati Learning
- Confucianism: a Bibliography [to the Song Dynasty], prepared by the Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University. The TABLE OF CONTENTS includes: 1. Collections of essays on Confucianism in general; 2. General studies on Confucianism or themes relevant to its context; 3. Early Confucianism; 4. Confucianism: Han to Tang; 5. Neo-Confucianism: General Studies; 6. Collections of Essays on Neo-Confucian themes; 7. Song Dynasty Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism. Very useful for articles in English. See also Professor Colin Jeffcott's "Confuciansm" in Question: A Bibliographical Guide, which includes entries on China, Japan, and Korea.
5. Daoism
- The Taoist Canon: A Guide to Studies and Reference Works, by Fabrizio Pregadio. This is a bibliographic essay on the study of the Taoist Canon (Daozang): history and contents; catalogues; indexes and concordances of Taoist texts; other collections of Taoist works.
6. Film
- Chinese Cinema: Scholarly Works and Articles in English:
  - 1: Pre-1949 Chinese cinema
  - 2: China's Fifth Generation
  - 3: Chinese Urban Drama
See also: China-Related Literature and Film Links. Maintained by Kirk A. Denton, Ohio State University.

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C. CD Roms

See A Bibliography of China related CD-ROM, compiled by Thomas H. Hahn, at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

The Academic Journal Databases of China website has created the Chinese Academic Journal (CD) Electronic Journals Publishing House. Since the Chinese Academic Journal (CAJ) full-text databases were placed online in June, 1999, a series of other databases such as newspapers, patents, monographs, proceedings of conferences and dissertations have been added. At present, CAJ has collected 6,600 journals, covering almost all Chinese Academic Journals since 1994. All involve the following fields: 1) Science-Engineering (A), 2) Science-Engineering (B), 3) Science-Engineering (C), 4) Agriculture, 5) Medicine/Hygiene, 6) Literature/History/Philosophy, 7) Economics/Politics/Laws, and 8) Electronics/Information Science. In addition, CAJ full-text databases have a CD-ROM version, which is issued monthly. For information, contact, Zhang Yimin, Manager, Overseas Distribution Office, Chinese Academic Journal (CD) Electronic Journals Publishing House, P.O.Box 84-48, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. Tel: +8610-6239 6337; Fax: +8610-6239 6355; E-mail: sales@cnki.net; sales@cajcd.edu.cn.

The Columbia I-ching on CD-ROM Richard John Lynn, trans. N.Y. Columbia University Press, 1997.

"The Complete Collection in Four Treasuries" electronic library has been published in CD-ROM form (combined image/full-text version: around 178 CD) by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Digital Heritage Publishing. Another CD-ROM version is being produced at the Modern China Language and Literature Institute, Shandong University, Chinese Information Engineering Research, c/o address: Mr.Wang Li, Department of Computer Science, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, P.R.C. 250100. The size of this electronic library is about 100GB. It strives to keep the original style and features. It not only provides searching by volume, title or author, but it also provides displaying, printing, and the bookbinding in the original manuscript's pattern. The general catalog for "The Complete Collection in Four Treasuries", the Jing ¸g section. and Shi ¥v section have been finished. The remaining sections are in process. If you are interested, please send an E-Mail to: "wlzyx@public.jn.sd.cn."

The ICS Ancient Chinese Text Concordance Series ¥ý¯³¨âº~¥jÄy³v¦r¯Á¤ÞÂO¥Z. Compiled by D.C. Lau ¼B·µÀï & F.C. Chen ³¯¤è¥¿. Hong Kong: Shang wu yin shu guan, 1992. 12 vols, and also available on CD-ROM, including:

A Concordance to the Da Dai Liji ¤jÀ¹Â§°O³v¦r¯Á¤Þ.
A Concordance to the Hanshi Waizhuan Áú¸Ö¥~¶Ç³v¦r¯Á¤Þ.
A Concordance to the Huainanzi ²a«n¤l³v¦r¯Á¤Þ.
A Concordance to the Kongzi Jiayu ¤Õ¤l®a»y³v¦r¯Á¤Þ.
A Concordance to the Liji Â§°O³v¦r¯Á¤Þ.
A Concordance to the Militarists (Wuzi, Simafa, Sunzi, yuliaozi) §d¤l ¡E ¥q°¨ªk¡E ®]¤l ¡E ±LÂ·¤l³v¦r¯Á¤Þ.
A Concordance to the Shangjunshu °Ó§g®Ñ³v¦r¯Á¤Þ.
A Concordance to the Shuoyuan »¡b³v¦r¯Á¤Þ.
A Concordance to the Wenzi ¤å¤l³v¦r¯Á¤Þ.
A Concordance to the Xinxu ·s§Ç³v¦r¯Á¤Þ.
A Concordance to the Zhanguoce ¾Ô°êµ¦³v¦r¯Á¤Þ.

Muller's CJK-English Character Dictionary: a CD-ROM dictionary designed with its own font set for all International versions of the Windows 95 operating system. The dictionary originally contained 6572 characters, and about 1400 compound words. It offers romanized readings (and lookup system) for all three major East Asian languages: Chinese (Pinyin), Korean, and Japanese. The dictionary is originally organized according to the traditional radical/stroke system in an Explorer-like tree arrangement. See Web Resources for the Study of East Asian Language and Thought. Recently a significant update to the WWW CJK-English dictionary was completed. Many new compound words (over 1,000) have been added, along with numerous corrections of earlier data. The major enhancement is in hyperlinking:

1. The CJK Dictionary and Dictionary of Buddhist Terms are now fully interlinked. Users of the Buddhism dictionary may quickly and easily check the non-Buddhist connotations and compounds associated with any given character. The same is true in the reverse direction.
2. The characters in the CJK Dictionary are now linked to those in Rick Harbaugh's online Chinese character dictionary, the Zhongwen Zipu (www.zhongwen.com). Although the same characters are found in both, the divergent emphases of the two lexicons ensures a great deal of complementarity. Harbaugh's dictionary also contains numerous modern compounds not found in Muller's work. The former will list the Mathews and Nelson's numbers, while the latter dictionary lists the Morohashi and Daejaweon numbers. Harbaugh's is also linked to the Cantonese pronunciation dictionary.
3. All JIS-displayable characters and compounds which represent I-Ching hexagrams are linked to Chuck Polisher's I-Ching Lexicon (www.ns.net/~cpolish/).

The Multimedia I Ching: The I Ching or Book of Changes, from the original Wilhelm/Baynes Translation. New on CD-ROM. University Press, 1997.

Zhonghua bo shuo shi lun wen suo yin zhai yao jian suo guang die ¤¤µØ³ÕºÓ¤h½×¤å¯Á¤ÞºKnÀË¯Á¥úºÐ (Chinese Dissertations Retrieval, 60,000 abstracts in Taiwan, PRC, Hong Kong, and USA and Canada, 1960 to present); National Central Library, National Taiwan Unversity Library.

Zhonghua Minguo chu ban tu shu mu lu guang die xi tong ¤¤µØ¥Á°ê¥Xª©¹Ï®Ñ¥Ø¿ý¥úºÐ¨t²Î (Republic of China Chinese national bibliography on CD-ROM, for IBM PC compatible, 350,000 entries); National Central Library, National Taiwan Unversity Library.

1870 Census of the United States. Proquest has published a CD Rom containing information from the 1870 Census on immigrants from Asia, including over sixty thousand entries for China. Contact Tkemp@HeritageQuest.com.
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D. Databases and Electronic Texts
- The full list of classical texts available from Academia Sinica, Taiwan, follows. Many works are available only to those whose universities have an agreement with Academia Sinica, Taiwan, providing their faculty and staff with full access to their electronic archive of classical texts and rare books.
- China News Digest: This site is sponsored by the Asian American Network and includes: "Schools of Thought," "Chinese Philosophical Lists," and the Chinese Classics page. This gives a number of electronic classical texts in Big 5 Code.
- The Chinese Ancient Texts Centre (CHANT) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong includes databases with inscriptions and texts from before 600 C.E., including sections on oracle bones, bronze inscriptions, writings on bamboo and silk, and encyclopedias. Subscription required, but access is available on Princeton computers.
- The CHINESE TEXT INITIATIVE at The University of Virginia East Asian Library is an effort to make texts of Chinese literature available on the World Wide Web. The texts and images in the Chinese Text Initiative may be downloaded or copied only with permission from the Electronic Text Center. For general conditions of use of the e-texts, see the statement of conditions. The site currently includes: 1) 300 Tang Poems ð ¸Ö ¤T¦Êº ; 2) Hong lou meng ¬õ¼Ó¹Ú (Dream of the Red Chamber); 3) Shi jing ¸Ö¸g (Classic of Poetry); 4) Gu yao yan ¥jÁÁ¿Î (Traditional Chinese Ballads and Proverbs); and 5) Chinese Literature in Translation.
- Chinese Text Project. This is a web-based e-text system to present texts of ancient Chinese philosophy in a well-structured and properly cross-referenced manner making the most of the electronic medium to aid in the study and understanding of these texts. You can either read more about the project or view the full table of contents. The main focus at the moment is on creating the best possible digital version of the Mozi (Mo-Tzu) and the Mohist canons. All the Chinese text is on-line and searchable, and includes Mei's English translation of the text paragraph by paragraph. Many entries in the system are now cross-referenced - clicking on a name in the original text will take you to a simple description of the person, and display links to all other passages referencing them. Words with specific meanings within the Mohist Canons (e.g. gu, lei, etc.) are now cross-referenced in the same way. This site is designed to comply with relevant W3C standards, and so should be usable in any standards-compliant web browser. However, as the emphasis on this site is on usability and not compatibility with legacy browsers, it is recommended that you upgrade to a browser with good CSS support such as Mozilla Firefox to get the most out of the site. Site design and content copyright 2006 by Donald Sturgeon.
- The Database of Early Chinese Manuscripts includes lists of manuscripts and excavation sites for bamboo, wood, and silk manuscripts (and a few on stone, bone, and paper) dating from the Third Century B.C.E. to the Third Century C.E. A few Tang dynasty wooden strips are also included. See also the review article by Enno Giele, "Early Chinese Manuscripts: Including Addenda and Corrigenda to New Sources of Early Chinese History: An Introduction to the Reading of Inscriptions and Manuscripts," Early China 23-24 (1998-99), 247-337.
- The Palace Museum, Taiwan, has put some extremely useful searchable materials in Big 5 Code on their website. While there is some overlap with the Academia Sinica list below and the search is less flexible, there are other materials which are not available on the latter. These include the:
  - Complete works of Qian Baisha ¥Õ¨F¤l¥þ¶°¥þ¤åÀË¯Á.
  - Hong lou meng ¬õ¼Ó¹Ú¥þ¤åÀË¯Á
  - Materials on the Pre-Han Masters¡m¥ý¯³½Ñ¤l¡n¸ê®Æ®w
  - Ming ru xue an ©ú¾§¾Ç®×¥þ¤åÀË¯Á
  - Quan Tang shi ¥þð¸Ö¥þ¤åÀË¯Á( ´ú¸Õª© )
  - Si ku quan shu zong mu ti yao ¥|®wÁ`¥Ø¥þ¤åÀË¯Á
  - Thirteen Classics ¡m¤Q¤T¸g¡n¸ê®Æ®w
  - Zi zhi tong jian ¸êªv³qÅ²
  - Continuation to the Zi zhi tong jian Äò³qÅ²
  - Zhuzi yu lei SKCS edition ¦¶¤l»yÃþ¥þ¤åÀË¯Á ª©¥»¡G¥|®w¥þ®Ñ¥»,
  - The Twenty-Five Dynastic Histories, by Topic ¤G¤Q?shy;¥v ( ¤ÀÃþ ) , or by Historical Dynasty ¤G¤Q?shy;¥v ( ¤À¥v ) ª©¥» : ²M¥v½Z¥~¨Ì¤¤µØ®Ñ§½
- Shuhai Wenyuan: Classical Chinese Digital Database and Interactive Internet Worktable is a project of the University of Hawai'i Department of Philosophy. According to the site description, the intent of the project is to "provide academically rigorous texts and tools in an inovative Worktable format to facilitate the reading, researching, and understanding of ancient Chinese philosophy." The texts are Han and pre-Han. This project makes use of texts from the CHANT project of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- University of Washington Full-text Databases of Confucian and Religious Canons:
  - Baopuzi ©ê¦µ¤l
  - Chu ci ·¡Ãã
  - Da sheng qi xin lun ¤j-¼°_«H½×
  - Da xue ¤j¾Ç
  - Fo jing san lun ¦ò¸g¤T½×
  - Guo yu °ê»y
  - Jin gang jing ª÷è¸g
  - Laozi ¦Ñ¤l
  - Leng yan jing ·«ÅÉ¸g
  - Lun yu ½×»y
  - Mengzi ©s ¤l
  - Miao fa lian hua jing §®ªk½¬µØ¸g
  - Shang shu ©|®Ñ
  - Sheng man jing ³Ó[ ]¸g
  - Shi jing ¸Ö¸g
  - Shi san jing ¤Q¤T¸g
  - Wu liang yi jing µL¶q¸q¸g
  - Xin jing ¤ß¸g
  - Xunzi ¯û¤l
  - Yi jing ©ö¸g
  - Yuan jue jing ¶êÄ±¸g
  - Zhong yong ¤¤±e
  - Zhuangzi ²ø¤l
- 1. Alchemy, Science and Medicine
  - Chinese Medical Classics ¤¤°êÂå¾Ç¥j¨å Text Series: Nihon Naikyo Igakkai. Prof. Kobayashi Kenji is the supervising editor of the series, which is maintained by Mugitani Kunio, at the Institute for Humanistic Studies, Kyoto University. After downloading a file, a utility program that decompresses the LHZ format is required. Includes the: 1. Su wen ¯À°Ý (209Kb); 2. Ling shu ÆF¼Ï (168 Kb); 3. Nan jing Ãø¸g (31 Kb); 4. Shang han lun ¶Ë ´H ½× (180 Kb), 5. Jin gui yao lue ª÷¹¼n²¤ (81 Kb); 6. Shennong ben cao jing ¯«¹A¥»¯ó¸g (36 Kb); 7. Bian que - Cang gong lie zhuan ½gÄNÜ¤½¦C¶Ç (from the , Shiji ¥v°O ) (20 Kb). All texts are encoded in Japanese. The required fonts can be found at a separate website address. With consent of its editor, the whole series is also available Here converted into Chinese traditional characters (Big5) by Fabrizio Pregadio, University of Venice.
  - Chinese E-Texts on Chinese Alchemy prepared by Fabrizio Pregadio.
  - Yuanxi qiqi tushuo luzui »·¦è©_¾¹¹Ï»¡½×³Ì (Diagrams and Explanations of the Marvelous Devices of the Far West), by Johann Terrenz Schreck and Wang Zheng ¤ý¼x (1571-1644), on the ECHO Project. A monograph describing Western Mechanical Sciences from 1627.
  - Tian gong kai wu ¤Ñ¤u¶}ª« (Heavenly Crafts for Revealing the Uses of Things), by Song Yingxing §ºÀ³¬P (b. ca. 1600), also on the ECHO Project. A description of various industries and technologies in Ming China from 1637.
- 2. Art
  - Wen xin diao long ¤å¤ßÀJÀs . Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons (Washington), or click The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons.
- 3. Biographies
  - The Chinese Biographical Database contains 2,500 biographies as of 12/02/98. It has developed new ways to utilize historical database materials via the internet. This database project aspires to develop a dynamic, scholarly moderated database that is not for downloading but for utilization and expansion online.The Project Director is Marilyn A. Levine, Lewis-Clark State College. This pilot project has been funded by a research grant from the Idaho State Board of Education.
  - Shi ji ¥v°O Biographies: Click Biographies by Sima Qian (GB Code).
- 4. Buddhism
  - WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist Texts. Comprehensive list of Chinese Buddhist texts. It currently contains 4375 texts by 1349 authors and makes available all texts contained in the following collections or catalogues and provides convenient cross-references among these sources of information: 1.Taishoo Shinshuu Daizookyoo; 2.Tripitaka Koreana; 3.Dainippon Zokuzookyoo; 4. 'A catalogue of the Chinese translation of the Buddhist Tripitaka' by Bunyiu Nanjio, Oxford 1883. Maintained by Christian Wittern. A description of the contents and instructions for use is available here.
  - Fo jing san lun ¦ò¸g¤T½× (Three Treatises of Buddhist Canon).
  - Electric Bodhidharma The largest collection of Buddhist primary text materials on the Internet for Zen Buddhism and electronic texts.
  - The Taisho Buddhist Canon is available for on-line searching through the Academia Sinica, Taiwan, website. See, for example, the Fo jing san lun¦ò¸g¤T½× (Three Treatises of Buddhist Canon).
  - The Virtual Religion Index for Buddhist Studies includes annotated links to sites on various strands of Buddhism, including Theravada; Mahayana; Nichiren; Shin (Pure Land); Vajrayana (Tibetan); and Zen (Chan).
- 5. Classics/Four Books
  - Analects ½×»y : click Lun yu ½×»y , compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5). The China News Digest page also has the analects in Big 5 code: click Analects. The James Legge Translation can be downloaded through Project Gutenberg.
  - Doctrine of the Mean: Click Zhong yong ¤¤±e, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Great Learning: Click Da xue ¤j¾Ç, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Mencius: Click Mengzi ©s¤l, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Shi jing ¸Ö¸g : Click Book of Poetry (GB Code).
  - Shi san jing ¤Q¤T¸g (Thirteen Confucian Classics full-text database); University of Hong Kong Library.
  - Xiao jing §µ¸g: Click Classic of Filial Piety or try the Zhongwen.com site with hypertext links to definitions of each of the characters (Big 5). For the Classic of Filial Piety in GB code, click here.
  - Yi jing ©ö¸g: click Hong Kong Polytechnical University I-ching text (Big 5) or Yi jing (GB Code).
- 6. Confucian/Literati Learning
  - Dai Zhen À¹¾_, Mengzi zi yi shu zheng ©s¤l¦r¸q²¨ÃÒ: Click Dai Zhen À¹¾_, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5). Page references are to Volume 6 of ±i©§¦~, ed., ¡mÀ¹¾_¥þ®Ñ¡n(Anhui:1995), and to John Ewell, trans., Re-Inventing the Way: Dai Zhen's "Evidential Commentary on the Meanings of Terms in Mencius" (Ann Arbor: 1990).
  - Ming ru xue an ©ú¾§¾Ç®× . History of Ming Confucians (Washington)
  - Qian zi wen ¤d¦r¤å : Click Thousand Character Text (GB Code).
  - San zi jing ¤T¦r¸g : Click Three Character Classic (GB Code).
  - Wang Yangming ¤ý¶§©ú Chuan xi lu ¶Ç²ß¿ý: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 ¤ý¶§©ú , compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Wesleyan Neo-Confucian Etext Project Main Page. (E-Mail: Sangle@wesleyan.edu). For the electronic classical texts in Big 5 code prepared by Steve Angle, Profesor of Chinese Philosophy, Wesleyan University, and entered by John Jenkins, Chris Fraser, and Dan Robins, click Indexes or the relevant items below. For the relevant notes to the pre-Ch'in texts that Professor Angle and his staff have prepared, click Text Notes.
  - Zhang Zai ±i¸ü : Click Zhang Zai ji ±i¸ü¶° , compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Zhou Dunyi ©P´°À[ : Click Zhou Dunyi ji ©P´°À[¶° , compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Zhuzi yu lei ¦¶¤l»yÃþ on Metaphysics ²z®ð : click Zhu Xi, Parts 1-6 ¦¶¿Q ; on Learning ¾Ç : click Zhu Xi, Parts 7-13 ¦¶¿Q, on the Great Learning ¤j¾Ç: Click Zhu Xi, Parts 14-18 ¦¶¿Q, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
- 7. Daoism
  - Das Tao Te King von Lao Tse (The Laozi Daodejing) is a compilation of various versions of the Laozi with translations into several languages, including Russian, Hungarian, Czech, Spanish, English, German, and more.
  see also Pre-Han Texts, above
- 8. Dynastic Histories
  - Er shi wu shi quan wen shu ju ku ¤G¤Q¤ ¥v¥þ¤å¼Æ¾Ú®w . Full-text database of Twenty-five Dynastic Histories (UC Berkeley, UCLA, Harvard, Washington, etc.) One of the databases in the Zhong yang yan jiu yuan Han ji dian zi wen xian ¤¤¥¡¬ã¨s°|º~Äy¹q¤l¤åÄm of Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
  - Southeast Asia in the Ming Shilu ©ú ¥v ¿ý: an open access resource. Ed./Corp.: Geoff Wade, Asia Research Institute and the Singapore E-Press, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Self description: "The Ming Shilu (also known as the Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty) is a collective name for the successive reign annals of the emperors of Ming China (1368-1644). Among the unique materials contained within the Ming Shilu (MSL) are a wide range of references to polities and societies which today we consider to be parts of 'Southeast Asia'. Given the annalistic nature of the MSL and the difficulties of searching such a huge corpus, many of these have long remained unknown. This work identifies all of the references to Southeast Asia contained within the MSL and provides them to readers in English-language translation. In addition to the more obvious Southeast Asian polities of maritime and mainland Southeast Asia, this database also includes references to the many Yunnan Dai (Tai) polities which have subsequently been incorporated within the Chinese state. The fact that many of these references predate European sources on Southeast Asia underlines their importance to historians of the region. The collection can be browsed chronologically by Western date or by reign date, or searched by specific terms. To assist in searches, an index of personal and place names, with their Chinese equivalents appended, is provided separately." Site contents: (1) About this source; (2) Browse by year; (3) Browse by reign; (4) Search for place names; (5) Search for personal names; (6) Comments page; (7) Newsletter sign-up page.
- 9. Modern Texts
  
  By Archive:
  - Digital Library of Western Knowledge in Late Imperial China ¦è ¾Ç ªF º¥ ¼Æ ½X ¤å ®w includes a searchable database of texts in Chinese (Big 5), mostly published by Westerners in the nineteenth century. Prepared by Joachim Kurtz.
  - Pittsburgh University Library System's Digital Research Library. Thirty-six titles (in 37 volumes) about Modern China Studies ²{ ¥N ¤¤ °ê ¬ã ¨s published in the first half of the twentieth century are available for viewing. The titles cover two categories: Primary sources (by subject: history, law, literature, political science, social science); and Reference tools (bibliograpies, chronologies, directories, handbooks, statistics, and yearbooks). A browse page provides access to the digital texts.
  By Author:
  - Chen Duxiu ³¯¿W¨q, Shuo guo jia »¡°ê®a: Click Chen Duxiu ³¯¿W¨q, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Chen Duxiu ³¯¿W¨q, Wang guo pian ¤`°ê½g: Click Chen Duxiu ³¯¿W¨q, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Chen Duxiu ³¯¿W¨q, Wang Yangming . . . ¤ý¶§©ú¥ý¥Í°V»X¤j·Nªº¸ÑÄÀ; Click Chen Duxiu ³¯¿W¨q, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Liang Qichao ±ç±Ò¶W Bian fa tong yi ÅÜªk³qÄ³: Click Liang Qichao, prepared by Kyoto University's Human Sciences Research Institute. This file is the result of an automatic conversion from JIS to Big-5 by Steve Angle, and the editor also notes that the proof-reading process is not yet complete.
  - Liang Qichao ±ç±Ò¶W Xin min shuo ·s¥Á»¡ : Click Liang Qichao ±ç±Ò¶W , compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Liang Qichao ±ç±Ò¶W Zi you shu ¦Û¥Ñ®Ñ: Click Liang Qichao, prepared by Kyoto University's Human Sciences Research Institute. This file is the result of an automatic conversion from JIS to Big-5 by Steve Angle.
  - Tan Sitong ÃÓ¶à¦P Ren xue ¤¯¾Ç : Click Tan Sitong ÃÓ¶à¦P , compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Wang Guowei ¤ý°êºû Ren jian ci hua ¤H¶¡µü¸Ü Part 1: Click Wang Guowei . For Part 2, click: Part 2 (GB Code).
- 10. Novels
  - San guo zhi yan yi ¤T°ê§Óºt¸q : Click Three Kingdoms Chronicle (GB Code).
  - Hong lou meng ¬õ¼Ó¹Ú : Click Dream of the Red Chamber (GB Code).
  - Hong lou meng dian nao jian suo xi tong ¬õ¼Ó¹Ú¹q¸£ÀË¯Á¨t²Î (Dream of the Red Chamber full text database); University of Hong Kong Library.
  - Chapter One of the Hong lou meng ¬õ¼Ó¹Ú (Dream of the Red Chamber) has been added to the collection of the Chinese Text Initiative at the University of Virginia. This is in both Chinese and English. The Chinese version is an Electronic Variorum edition by Professor David Steelman of Soochow University in Taiwan. This variorum edition includes (embeds) commentaries of several commentators, and also included are Steelman's footnotes. The Chinese Text is in Big5 code. Information provided by C.Ming Lung, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
  - Shui hu zhuan ¤ôâq¶Ç : Click Water Margin (GB Code).
  - Xi you ji ¦è¹C°O : Click Journey to the West (GB Code).
- 11. Poetry
  - Poetry of Han, Wei, South and North Dynasties º~ÃQ«n¥_´Â¸Ö : Click Han Wei Nan Bei chao Poetry (GB Code).
  - Quan Tang shi dian nao jian suo ð¸Ö¹q¸£ÀË¯Á (T'ang poetry full-text database); University of Hong Kong Library.
  - Shi jing ¸Ö¸g : Click Book of Poetry (GB Code).
  - Tang shi san bai shou ð¸Ö¤T¦Êº . Three Hundred Tang Poems (Washington), or click 300 T'ang Poems (GB Code).
    See also the Big 5 Chinese text and English translations for the 310 poems in the original collection of 300 T'ang Poems ð¸Ö¤T¦Êº with additional poems that were added later on. This version contains 320 poems and is based on the Chinese electronic version created by Mr. Weichang Chan from the National Central University in Taiwan. The English translations are taken primarily from those in Witter Bynner's The Jade Mountain. Since there are only 310 poems in Bynner's collection, to complete this expanded collection of 320 poems the compilers added three translations from Perspectives on the T'ang, Yale University Press (nos. 190,191,193) ; and seven from 300 T'ang Poems, the Commercial Press, HK (nos. 001, 003, 039, 040, 042, 083, 084). Some seventy-seven poets are represented here, as are seven forms of T'ang poetry. This is also part of the Chinese Text Initiative at the University of Virginia.
- 12. Pre-Han Texts
  - Dao de jing ¹D¼w¸g : Click Laozi ¦Ñ¤l or try Zhongwen.com (Big 5). For a GB Code version, click Laozi.
  - Guanzi Nei ye ºÞ¤l (¤º·~): Click Guanzi, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Mohist Canons as reconstructed by A.C. Graham: Click Later Mohist Texts ¾¥¤l, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Selected Mohist Doctrine Chapters: Click Mozi ¾¥¤l, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Sunzi bing fa ®]¤l§Lªk: Click Art of War in "online readings" section of Zhongwen.com website (Big 5), or try the China News Daily Sunzi (Big 5).
  - Xunzi ¯û¤l : Click "Quan xue pian" ÄU¾Ç½g (GB Code).
  - Zhuangzi ²ø¤l: Click Zhuangzi (Big 5) or Zhuangzi (GB Code).
  - Zuozhuan: The Digital Indexed Zuozhuan Project in Big 5 code. The site is maintained by John Page and Isabel Garcia Hidalgo. An updated version of the site is here.
- 13. Other
  - Bai jia xing ¦Ê®a©m : Click Hundred Surnames (GB Code).
  - For Qing dynasty legal case books, see Xing an hui lan ¦D ®× ·| Äý. Consult Bodde, Derk, & Clarence Morris, Law in Imperial China. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967. Columbia University has digitized their 1902 version of the 30 vol. Xing an xin bian ¦D ®× ·s ½s, available without restrictions from their catalog.
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E. Dictionaries
- CEDICT Chinese-English Dictionary. This website is a continuation of the CEDICT project started by Paul Denisowski. It aims to provide a complete Chinese to English dictionary with pronunciation in pinyin for the Chinese characters. The text file can be downloaded to a computer, PalmPilot, or mobile phone. Separate programs (available on the site) allow searching. Available in GB or Big 5.
- Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary by Rick Harbaugh. Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998. New Features: Chinese Discussion Board; Chinese Characters Dictionary Web. Readings now include: Dao De Jing, The Analects, Doctrine of the Mean, The Great Learning, Classic of Filial Piety, The Art of War - Sunzi, Ballad of Mulan, Tang Poems, Diary of a Madman - Lu Xun. All characters in this dictionary are "CLICKABLE".
- Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants ²§ Åé¦r ¦r ¨å, maintained by the Mandarin Promotion Council, Ministry of Education, R.O.C. Requires knowledge of Chinese. Good alternative to the Kangxi zidian ±d º³ ¦r ¨å or other alternatives. Very good for taboo characters associated with names of emperors
- A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous.
- Digital Dictionary of Buddhism. The chief editor of this dictionary is Charles Muller of the Toyo Gakuen University. The introduction explains: "This dictionary is a compilation of Buddhist terms, texts, temple, schools, persons, etc. found in Buddhist canonical sources... Since my basic area of interest concerned the Chinese Buddhist canon, the orientation of the dictionary has been toward East Asian sources, and therefore the dictionary was known during its first 15 years of existence, as the Dictionary of East Asian Buddhist Terms (DEABT). Realizing, however, that a large portion of the content was actually concerned with Indian and other cultural manifestations of Buddhism, and not wanting to discourage potential collaborators with other orientations, we renamed it, in 2001, to the present Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (DDB). Thus, while there is a basic layer of East Asian terminology, since much of what East Asian Buddhists have written about is the Buddhism of India, Central Asia, and Tibet, the content of this database/dictionary/encyclopedia/translation glossary is intended to be pan-Buddhist in character." Login required. A limited number of searches is available to all, but for more extensive use the editors ask that you contribute information to the site.
- Taoism and the Taoist Canon. See also the Chinese-French glossary of Chinese alchemy. It contains about 250 terms of waidan ("external alchemy") chosen among the most common names of substances, instruments, operations and other basic terminology.
- Guoyu cidian °ê»yÃã¨å in Big 5 code.
- Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage.
- Ru xue ci dian ¾§¾Çµü¨å (Dictionary of Confucian literati learning). Organized with short entries according to the following key words: 1) ¸g¨å (Texts); 2) ª`²¨ (Commentaries); 3) ¤Hª« (Personalities); 4) ·§©À (Concepts).
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F. Electronic Journals
- Academic Journal Databases
- Asia Major. Third Series, is published by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. It continues the "New Series" published in England from 1949 to 1975. Previously the "First Series" of 10 volumes was published in Leipzig from 1924 to 1935; one issue was published in Leipzig in 1944. The journal covers all periods of Chinese history, literature, ideas, and culture in general, which includes the histories and cultures of other East and Central Asian peoples in their relations with China. All articles since 1924 are fully available online in PDF format, with the exceptionof the most recent volume.
- Études chinoises, published by the Association Française d'Études Chinoises = French Association for Chinese Studies (AFEC), Paris, France. Language: French; short summary in English.
- Historiography East and West, published by E. J. Brill, Leiden.
- Nan Nu: Men, Women, and Gender in Early and Imperial China, published by E. J. Brill, Leiden.
- Orientations: a journal of the arts of East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia, primarily aimed at collectors.
- T'oung Pao, published by E. J. Brill, Leiden.
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G. Home Pages of Individuals and Research Groups
- Chinese and Japanese Art History Graduate Students. Information on art exhibitions and events.
- Chinese Historical Society of New England. Conducts research on the history of Chinese in New England and publishes a Chinese-English newsletter.
- History of Medicine and Culture in China. Homepage of Marta Hanson.
- Research in Buddhist Art. Administered by Sarah E. Fraser.
- Society for the Study of Early China. This group sponsors the Early China Website, which includes news about research projects covering earliest times through the end of the Han dynasty (220 C.E.).
- Study Group for the History of Taiwanese Science. E-Mail: Ping-yi Chu, kaihsin@pluto.ihp.sinica.edu.tw.
- Taiwan Academic Network: See, for example, Academia Sinca. For access to all the Academia Sinica full-text databases click the Academia Sinica URL. From here you can access not only the Twenty-Five Dynastic Histories (see above), but also the Lun Meng Lao Zhuang ½×©s¦Ñ²ø texts, various Taiwan gazetteers, three Buddhist texts, notes on the Wen xin diao long ¤å¤ßÀJÀs , and part of the "New History of the Ch'ing."
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H. Indexes/Concordances
- Cordier Online. Cordier's classic index of works in Western languages on China, the Bibliotheca sinica is indexed online as part of rarebooks.info. The site is password protected, but from the Princeton Library Website, one can access the rarebook.info by going to "Databases and Reference Tools," then "R," then "rarebook.info."
- Shenbao index. The "Electronic Index to the early Shenbao" has been published online at the Institute of Chinese Studies in Heidelberg here. Includes an English language subject index to the leading articles of the Shanghai daily Shenbao from 1872 to 1895(with the years 1894-1895 still being added). The index also includes all items the Shenbao reprinted from Hong Kong papers such as the Hunhuan Ribao. One can find names of authors of single articles as far as they are indicated in the paper. As of January 2003, the index consisted of about 10,000 entries.
- Xian Qin liang Han gu ji zhu zi suo yin cong kan ¥ý ¯³ ¨â º~ ¥j Äy ³v ¦r ¯Á ¤Þ ÂO ¥Z . ICS Ancient Chinese texts concordance series, published by Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 1st series, 1992. (Washington).
- Zhonghua Minguo qi kan lun wen suo yin guang die xi tong ¤¤µØ¥Á°ê´Á¥Z½×¤å¯Á¤Þ¥úºÐ¨t²Î (Index to Chinese Periodical Articles on CD-ROM, 1500 journals, 314,000 records for IBM PC compatible); National Central Library, National Taiwan Unversity Library.
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I. Library Catalogs
- 1. Australia
  - Australian National University Guide to Asian and Pacific Studies
  - National Library of Australia Guide to Chinese Collections
- 2. Europe
  - Le CNRS, la science au service des hommes (National Scientific Research Centre, Society Science Department), Catalog, Paris: http://dodge.grenet.fr:8001/ or http://dodge.grenet.fr:8001/english/.
  - Institute d'Extreme-Orient: for Big 5 search of books in Chinese (also Japanese) in the Chinese Catalog of the Institute d'Extreme-Orient, see "SIGXOR: Etudes chinoises": CJK Open Access Catalog; A helpful list of subject headings appears at the European Association of Sinological Librarians website.
  - Leiden University's Sinological Institute Online Catalog (Netherlands) is also now public, although work on the catalog is not completely finished. To access the CHINABASE Catalogue, choose: Open Library Network (OBN); go into the Open Library Network (OBN); then choose: alphabetical list of databases; finally choose: Chinabase. Maintained by Marc van der Meer, Bibliotheek, Leiden Sinologisch Instituut. The catalog focuses on congshu titles, such as the recent Si ku quan shu, Si ku quan shu cun mu, and other large collections.
    Morrison Collection of Chinese Books at School of Oriental and African Studies, London. The site provides information on the collection and on obtaining the catalog of the Dr. Robert Morrison collection and also provides information on the collections of William Marsden and George Staunton.
- 3. Hong Kong
  - Chinese University of Hong Kong, University Service Centre Collection Catalog (Washington, Yale)
- 4. Japan
- 5. Mainland China
  - See Asian Studies: Online Chinese Libraries. As of June 2001 this site is no longer being maintained.
  - Beijing da xue tu shu guan Zhong wen wen xian shu mu shu ju ku ¥_¨Ê¤j¾Ç¹Ï®ÑÀ]¤¤¤å¤åÄm®Ñ¥Ø¼Æ¾Ú®w (Beijing University Library On-Line Catalog, 40,000 records).
  - Beijing tu shu guan Zhong wen wen xian shu mu shu ju ku ¥_¨Ê¹Ï®ÑÀ]¤¤¤å¤åÄm®Ñ¥Ø¼Æ¾Ú®w (National Beijing Library On-Line Catalog, 10,000 records). See also: The online public access catalog of Beijing Library, for the fifth largest library in the world. This uses GB Code for Chinese characters.
- 6. North America
  - Library of Congress Asian Reading Room
  - Harvard University: Harvard-Yenching Library Guide.
  - National Library of Canada. This site includes a link to the Theses Canada Portal, with online access to theses and dissertations published since 1998.
  - Princeton University Gest Library
  - University of California, Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies Library
  - University of Michigan Asia Library
- 7. Taiwan
  - Catalog of the Qing Grand Secretariat Archives at Institute for History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
  - Taiwan Academic Network: See, for example, Academia Sinica. For access to all the Academia Sinica full-text databases click the Academia Sinica URL. From here you can access not only the Twenty-Five Dynastic Histories (see above), but also the Lun Meng Lao Zhuang ½×©s¦Ñ²ø texts, various Taiwan gazetteers, three Buddhist texts, notes on the Wen xin diao long ¤å¤ßÀJÀs , and part of the "New History of the Ch'ing."
  - Zhong yang tu shu guan shan ben shu mu ¤¤¥¡¹Ï®ÑÀ]µ½¥»®Ñ¥Ø (Catalog of Rare Books, 26,000 records); National Central Library, Taiwan. Most rare books are also included in the main catalog.
  - Library of Luminary Buddhist Institute Catalog »¥ú¥§²³¦ò¾Ç°|¹Ï®ÑÀ] .
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  K. Useful Online Tools
  - Academia Sinica, Taiwan, has an online Chinese-Western calendar converter ¨â¤d¦~¤¤¦è¾äÂà´«. However, it does not give seasons.
  - The East Asian Gateway Service at the East Asian Library of the University of Pittsburgh is an information retrieval and document delivery service center for scholars, researchers and students who seek information related to China or Chinese studies. At this center, library users can conduct subject-based searches of electronic databases currently on the World Wide Web. They can also request full-text Chinese journal articles or information delivery from this Center which has access to collection resources in The University of Pittsburgh, Peking University and Shanghai Jiaotong University in China, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Fu Ssu-nien Library of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. This is a new global information service aimed at providing fast information to library users of Chinese studies.
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  L . Web Exhibits
  - The Nianhua Gallery features woodblock prints from the early Twentieth Century. According to the site "Most of the prints found on this site are reprints - meaning that they were printed in modern times from wooden printing blocks that were in use during the early part of the 20th century. The prints, therefore, date from the 1980s and 90s, but they do accurately reflect much older designs and themes. The prints originate with the traditional nianhua printing centres of Yangjiabu in Shandong province, Zhuxianzhen in Henan, Fengxiang in Shaanxi and Mianzhu in Sichuan." Includes sections on Making Nianhua; Stove Gods; Door Gods; Honor, Wealth, and Glory; Theater and History; Customs and Folklore; Auspicious Images; and New Nianhua. A bibliography is also provided. Edited by James E. Flath of the University of Western Ontario.
    
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2. Relevant Electronic Resources for Chinese Classical Studies

Index

A. General Resources

1. Art

2. Buddhism

3. Christianity and Missionaries

4. Daoism

5. Ethnicity

6. Film and Photographs

7. History

8. Music

9. Philosophy/Classics

10. Science and Medicine

11. Women and Men

B. Bibliographies

1. General

2. Art

3. Buddhism

4. Confucian/Literati Learning

5. Daoism

6. Film

C. CD Roms

D. Databases and Electronic Texts

E. Dictionaries

F. Electronic Journals

G. Home Pages of Individuals and Research Groups

H. Indexes/Concordances

I. Library Catalogs

1. Australia

2. Europe

3. Hong Kong

4. Japan

5. Mainland China

6. North America

7. Taiwan

J. Maps and Geography

K. Useful Online Tools

L . Web Exhibits