Relevant Electronic Resources for Chinese Classical Studies

2. Relevant Electronic Resources for Chinese Classical Studies

Updated on 09/18/2012

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Japanese and Chinese:

Japan Association for East Asian Text Processing (JAET) 漢字文献情報処理研究会: It also published a journal titled "Journal of Japan Association for East Asian Text Processing (漢字文献情報処理研究)", several issues of which could be downloaded as PDF files. There is a E-Newsletter named "Newsletter of Japan Association for East Asian Text Processing (漢情研メールマガジン)" which is sent monthly to the registered email addresses for free.
Sinological Search Engine 中國學網頁搜尋器 (Shift-JIS Encoding): This site is maintained by Kawaguchi Hideki 川口秀樹 (Blog with UTF-8 Encoding & Email). It provides a very good bibliography titled "The Bibliography of the Studies of Novel in Sui and Tang 隋唐小說研究文獻目錄 (1912 - 2001)" and a manual for the studies of novel in Tang dynasty, which is titled "A Manual for Scholars Studying Chinese Novels in Tang Dynasty 唐代小説を学ぶ人のために ― 研究のための手引き―". There is also a Web Guide for Chinese Studies on this site, which is arranged in 5 categories as Classics 經, History 史, Philosophy 子, Belles-Letters 集, Collection 叢, ALL of which are in Shift-JIS Code.
Bibliography of Chinese Bibliography 中國文獻學書籍目錄 (Big5 version): This is a book-list on Chinese bibliography in Jis, Big5 and GB Code, produced in Kyoto University, Japan. For the GB Code version, see GB Code. The information is supplied by Bunri Usami 宇佐美文理 (bunrius@soshi.shinshu-u.ac.jp).
Dokisha 道氣社 ( SEE ALSO in “A. General Resource -- 2. Buddhism” in this webpage as follows): A website established by Mugitani Kunio 麥谷邦夫 from Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University 京都大学人文科学研究所, which provides a Database for Electronic Ancient Chinese Literature 電子版漢籍文庫, two Systems of Electronic Reference Books 電子版工具書 (For details, see below), and also a Refrence Webpage titled "A Breif Reference Webpage of Internet Resources for the Studies on Chinese Intellectual History 中國思想研究者のためのインターネット資源簡介", which lists a set of websites that related to the studies on Chinese Intellectual History.

Rong Xinjiang, Introduction to the Study of Chinese Ancient History 學術訓練與學術規範：中國古代史研究入門, Chapter 8 Section 4 電子文本的檢索 (Searching Electronic Texts), Beijing: Peking University Press, 2011, pp. 161-163. The section provides a list of the most useful websites for searching modern study monographs and papers written in Chinese.

Selected Digital Resources in International Chinese Studies 2010 (2010 年國際漢學數位資源選介), created by Center for Chinese Studies, Taiwan.

English and Western Languages:

The WWW Virtual Library: The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva. Unlike commercial catalogues, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert; even though it isn't the biggest index of the Web, the VL pages are widely recognized as being amongst the highest-quality guides to particular sections of the Web. It contains a number of websites for different disciplines and research fields. For East Asian Studies, please see:
East Asia WWW Virtul Library: This site is a part of the Asian Studies WWWVL. Readers are invited to register with this Virtual Library all relevant networked resources. This site is edited by John Goulde (goulde@sbc.edu) and located on a server provided by Sweet Briar College. There is a MAP of Asia Continent with links to every region in Asia. You will be led to another website dealing with Asian Studies by a click on one region of the map. The website it will lead to for Chinese Studies is Internet Guide for Chinese Studies maintained at the Sinological Institute, Leiden University, Netherlands (see blow).
European Association of Sinological Librarians (EASL) Homepage. This website integrated Internet Guide for Chinese Studies and OGEA - Online Guide East Asia. Internet Guide for Chinese Studies was produced by Hanno Lecher at Heidelberg University in 1995, and now it has been improved substantially. OGEA - Online Guide East Asia developed by the East Asia Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and its project partners and is financially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Mr. Lecher also has been responsible for the development of the Digital Archive for Chinese Studies (DACHS), and is currently managing the Leiden Division of that project.
CHINAKNOWLEDGE - a Universal Guide for China Studies : This site was set up by Ulrich Theobald (theobald_uli@hotmail.com) in 2000. He is now teaching Chinese History at the Department of Chinese and Korean Studies, University of Tübingen.
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
M. Electronic Materials: Online-Reading or Downloadable

A. General Resources

Asian Studies -- Directory of Online Resources: This is a subsite of academicinfo.net, a directory of educational online resources created by Mike Madin. 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 (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au).
China News Digest-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 16 academic or research libraries in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, including Peking University, Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Jiaotong University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, National Taiwan University and the Fu Ssu-nien Library of the Academia Sinica. 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 Matthias Arnold (University of Heidelberg), Martin Gieselmann (University of Heidelberg), Matthias Kaun (Berlin State Library, Germany) and others.

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@l.u-tokyo.ac.jp), Tokyo University, Japan.
National Digital Library of China 中國國家數字圖書館 maintained by National Library of China, contains many original and useful sources which can be viewed on-line in its 特色資源 (Special Resources), such as Republican books and periodicals, Song Dynasty belles-letters, and Shang-Zhou oracle inscriptions.

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 Chinese Cultural Studies: 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.
- Bei Tie Jing Hua 碑帖菁華, a section of National Digital Library of China, contains a large number of fine photos of Chinese historical stone inscriptions and other forms of calligraphy in the collection of National Library of China, with a well-designed search engine.

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:
  - Pure Land Buddhism
  - Tibetan Studies
  - Zen Buddhism
  - Buddhism Internet Resources: Meta-Register
  - Buddhism Major WWW Sites
  - Electronic Resources for the Study of Buddhist Texts
  - Buddhism E-Books; FTP sites, Mailing Lists & Chat-Rooms
  - Tibet Online Bookstore, Zen Online Bookstore
  - Buddhism/Buddhist Electronic Newsletters & Journals, Buddhist Studies Bibliographies
  - Buddhist InfoWeb
  - Buddhist Art
  - Other Religions' Networked Resources
- 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.
- Resources for the Study of Buddhism: This site is maintained by Prof. Ron Epstein (epstein@sfsu.edu), who is currently a research professor at the Intitute for World Religions in Berkeley, California.
- Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA) 中華電子佛典協會: CBETA is a main force to digitalize Chinese Buddhist scriptures, which is founded in Taiwan. It produced Chinese Buddhist scriptures in the form of downloadable ISO file titled "CBETA CD 電子佛典集成光碟 April 2010", which is installable, searchable and copiable.
- WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist Texts (Big 5 Version): It is a comprehensive list of Chinese Buddhist texts. It currently contains 4418 texts by 1513 authors/translators/compilers, and it is now maintained by Christian Wittern (Christian Wittern's Web Space & email). It also has a Japanese Version with Shift-JIS encoding.
- Digital Dictionary of Buddhism 電子佛教辭典: This site was established in 1995. It is a part of the website titled "Dictionaries for the Study of Buddhist and East Asian Language and Thought", which is also edited ans maintained by Charles Muller.
- Online Buddhist Dictionary (FoDict) 佛學辭典在線版: Ed./Corp.: Zhonghua fodian baoku; Xiamen, China--Xiamen shi Nan Putuo si, in Chinese (GB). There is also a Big5 version FoDict online. It also provides a webpage titled "Buddhist Scriptures in Multiple Languages", in which you can find different Buddhist scriptures in different languages.
- An Integrated Electronic Dictionary Containing Foguang Dictionary 佛光大辭典, Buddhist Dictionary Compiled by Ding Fubao 丁福保佛學大詞典, Encyclopaedia of Chinese Buddhism 中華佛教百科全書, The Part of Buddhism in Encyclopaedia of China 中國百科全書 (佛教篇), San Zang Fa Shu 三藏法數, Glossory of Buddhism Compiled by Chen Yixiao 陳義孝佛學常見詞彙, etc. : It is a online-dictionary established by ebud.net, please use GB Code to search in it.
- Foguang Dictionary, the Third Version 佛光大辭典 (第三版): It is a digitalized dictionary based on a paper-based dictionary under the same book name, which was compiled by Fo Guang Shan Monastery 佛光山, Taiwan. Please use Big 5 Code to search in it.
- Digital Library and Museum of Buddhist Studies, College of Liberal Arts, National University of Taiwan 台灣大學文學院佛學數位圖書館暨博物館(English version): This site was founded in 1995 by Prof. Heng-ching Shih 釋恆清 with its first name of "Buddhist Internet Database 佛學網路資料庫", and now it is maintained by Research Center for Digital Humanities, National University of Taiwan. You can also use its Big5 version.
- Buddhist Authority Database Project 佛學名相規範資料庫: This site includes databases as "Time Authority Database 時間規範資料庫", "Person Authority Database 人名規範資料庫", and "Place Authority Database 地名規範資料庫". These databases integrate information from various projects at the Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum Buddhist College 法鼓佛教學院, Taiwan. 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.
- Biographical Database of Chinese Buddhism in Sung Yuan Ming and Qing Dynasties 宋元明清漢傳佛教人物資料庫 is produced by Chung-Hwa Institute of Budhhist Studies, Taiwan, which contains basic information of 1620 historical figures who had written about Budhhism, their works, and modern researches on them.
- Japanese Index of Buddhist Texts 仏教書総目録: It is set up by Bukkyosho Somokuroku Kankokai 仏教書総目録刊行会 in Japan, which provides bibliographical search for published books related with Buddhist topics.
- Dokisha 道氣社: It provides a searchable index for both Daoist Canon 道藏 and Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō 大正新脩大藏經, and also a full-text database for a number of books which are related with Taoism, which is titled "A Searchable Database of Chinese Texts 漢籍テキスト·データベース檢索"(ALL of these systems are in JIS code). Besides, it also provides downloadable books which were published by Dokisha in PDF files, see Books Published by Dokisha 道氣社製作の本.
- 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
- Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0. Compiled in Vienna on Sino-Western cultural relations.
- 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 Memoriam (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.
- The Ricci 21st Century Roundtable: on the History of Christianity in China produced by The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, University of San Francisco, USA. Self-description: "The Ricci 21st Century Roundtable Database adheres to the concept of shared data, and has established strong ties with institutions in China and Europe, so that the most relevant holdings are readily accessible to our users." 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 58 volumes of the searchable full text. Click the 瀚典全文檢索系統 2.0 版 in the middle of the page.
- 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.
- Taoism WWW Virtual Library, the contetns of which includes: Introductions to Taoism; The Lao-tzu Tao Te Ching; The Chuang-tzu; The I Ching; Acupuncture, Alchemy, Feng Shui; Confucianism and Buddhism; Chinese Philosophy; Taoism and Martial Arts; Taoism and Modernity; Chinese Language and Culture; Daoist Commercial Sites; Other Information Sources; Quick Links (China Studies WWW VL, Religion WWW VL). The site is edited by: Dr Gene Thursby (gthursby@religion.ufl.edu), University of Florida., USA.
5. Ethnicity
- Manchu Studies Homepage . Created by Cheryl Boettcher Tarsala, and maintained by Maureen Donovan (donovan.1@osu.edu).
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: Bibliography of Modern Chinese Literature and Film . 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 4,925 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 Studies Group 明清研究會 Website at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Maintained by Lu Miaw-fen at the Institute of Modern History.
- Society for Ming Studies.The Society is a scholarly organization that promotes the study of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). It publishes a journal and a book series, as well as sponsoring panels on Ming topics at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. This site includes both information about the Society and its activities and material of wider interest to scholars of the Ming, which is hosted by the Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia, with support from the Department of Asian Studies. The "Resources" section of the site contains: A guide to reference sources (based on a former page named Guide to Ming Studies by Leo K. Shin, being updated); A selection from Matteo Ricci’s late-Ming map of the world, with an accompanying vocabulary list; A list of other relevant sites; Bibliographies of recent scholarship presented at meetings of the Society. Past issues of the journal Ming Studies are avaible online.
- UCSD Modern Chinese History Website , first established 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). Now the website is designed and maintained by current students in the University of California, San Diego Modern Chinese History program.
- 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.
8. Music
- The Internet Chinese Music Archive 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 5 known mirror sites for this archive on the Internet. You may choose any of these to down-load from as you wish. They are:
  - MetaLab of University of North Carolina, USA (formerly SunSITE):
    http://metalab.unc.edu/chinese-music/
    ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/multimedia/chinese-music
  - SunSITE in Science University of Tokyo, Japan (Mirror Site):
    http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/pub/multimedia/chinese-music
    ftp://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/pub/multimedia/chinese-music
  - FTP Site at Engineering Faculty of Chinese University of Hong Kong (Mirror Site):
    ftp://ftp.erg.cuhk.hk/pub/multimedia/chinese-music
  - FTP Site of PSINet, USA (Mirror Site):
    ftp://mirror1.ftp.psi.net/sunsite.unc.edu/multimedia/chinese-music
  - SunSITE in Qinghua University, China:
    (There is only a partial collection at this site. It is not a regular mirror of the content at UNC SunSITE.)
    http://sunsite.net.edu.cn/exhibits
9. Philosophy/Classics
- Yanzi Academy：中國經典電子版工程. A well-designed digital text website, containing the most important classics of China.
- Hong Kong Society of Humanities. This site mainly focuses on studies on Chinese philosophy. Useful sources include: digital philosophical classics from various historical periods; guide to sources of Confucian studies; full-text of the journal of the society; index of philosophical research articles in Chinese.
Also see materials in the Data Bases and Electronic Texts, and Dictionary sections.
10. Science and Medicine
- Ka Wai Fan, A Guide to Chinese Medicine on the Internet, New York: Routledge, 2008. See Amazon.com.
  The author of the book is Ka Wai Fan 范家偉, who is now a full-time lecture in the Chinese Civilization Center 中國文化中心, City University of Hong Kong 香港城市大學 (See Website). This book collected abundant online resources about Chinese medicine, which includes websites of digital museums, databases, bibliographies, organizations, schools and libraries, etc.
- 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's medicine links, from FOREAST: the Internet East Asian Library, provides links to a number of websites containing pre-modern medical texts in East Asia:
  - 1. Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine Library Rare Books, provides full images of some medical books and periodicals from the 19th century 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.
  - 6. 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.
- 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."
  - Center for Cultural Studies on Chinese Science and Technology sponsored by Technische Universitaet Berlin, Faculty I, Humanities.
  - Digital Library Database on the History of Science and Technology in China 中國科技史數字圖書館資料庫, by Tsinghua Unviersity, Beijing. Useful contents: full-text search database of sources in history of Chinese science; Chinese science terminology database. User name and password are both "user".
  - Digital Library on the History of Mechanical Technology in China 機械史數字圖書館, by Tsinghua Unviersity, Beijing.
  See also Alchemy, Science 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 116,150 individuals as of January 2012, primarily from the 7th through 19th centuries. The data is meant to be useful for statistical, social network, and spatial analysis as well as serving as a kind of biographical reference." Contents: (1) Home; (2) About Us; (3) Sources and Coverage; (4) Methodology; (5) Conferences and Workshops; (6) Download; (7) 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 Asian Studies (BAS): This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains 787,165 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. (For a brief introduction to BAS, please see About the Bibliography of Asian Studies Online ) There was a printed version of this bibliography in 1991. It should be noticed that MONOGRAPHS published since 1992 have not been added to the database. The online BAS offers users various methods for seeking citations. For the researchers in the field of east asian studies, please click the link "Browse the BAS by Country-Subject" or use the search engine.
  - China Academic Journals 中國知網 (CNKI) (SEE ALSO "F. Electronic Journals" on the Same Webpage Below): the CNKI system includes access to the full-text China Academic Journals database (includes full text and/or full image articles from 2,000+ journals from first issue to date). It is a paid-use system, but you can use it in most of the libraries on campus.
  - Index to Taiwan Periodical Literature System 台灣期刊論文索引系統: This index used to be published under paper edition by National Central Library from 1970 and was formerly named "中華民國期刊論文索引". It primarily includes the periodicals published in Taiwan and partially includes some periodicals from Hong Kong and Macao from 1970. Now it is also backtracking the articles which were published before 1970.
  - Bibliography of Oriental Studies on the Web 東洋学文献類目検索 [Version 6.10]: It includes the articles published in Japan since 1981. If you want to search for some articles published before 1981, please use their Version 5.2α System.
  - Index to Hong Kong Periodical Literature System 香港中文期刊論文索引: It provides a searchable index for over 300 Chinese and bilingual periodicals published in Hong Kong, the citation of which mainly begins from 1980, but also begins from the initial issue for some significant periodicals. For example, it includes the index for the first Chinese periodical in Hong Kong titled Chinese Serial 遐邇貫珍, which was published from 1853.
  - Index to Macau Periodical Literature System 澳門中文期刊論文索引 : It provides a searchable index for over 20 Chinese periodicals published in Macau from 1980s, and it is maintained by University of Macau Library.
  - Index to Works on History of Science in China 科技史論著目錄查詢: This site is maintained by the Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences 中國科學院自然科學史研究所.
  - Full Data Searching System of Japan Legal History Association 法制史学会ＨＰ全データの検索: This site is established and maintained by Japan Legal History Association. It mainly includes the articles in the field of so-called "legal history", but also contains a huge number of articles in other fields of Chinese Studies.
  - Database of Articles on Social History of China 中國社會史研究論文數據庫: It is a database established by Key Research Institute of Social History of China, Nankai University 南開大學中國社會史研究中心 with downloadable DOC files made up of article lists in the field of Social History of China.
  - Catalogues and Databases of Center for Chinese Studies, Taiwan 台灣漢學研究中心典藏目錄及資料庫: You may use the Searching in Different Databases Simultaneously 跨資料庫檢索, but you may also use them separately as 外文期刊漢學論著目次資料庫, 經學研究論著目錄資料庫, 敦煌學研究論著目錄資料庫, 明人文集聯合目錄及篇目索引資料庫, 典藏國際漢學博士論文摘要資料庫, 兩漢諸子研究論著目錄資料庫, etc.
  - Searchable Index for Some Major Periodicals in the Studies of Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature 中國現當代文學研究主要刊物總目錄檢索服務: This site is maintained by Ozaki Humiaki 尾崎文昭 from Institute for Advanced Studies on China 東洋文化研究所, the Univesity of Tokyo. It includes a number of major peridicals in the field of Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature. The search page is HERE. (CAUTION: the system only can be searched with Chinese characters in GB code or Roman alphabet according to Pinyin pronunciation of every Chinese character.)
  - 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.
- 2. Art
  - For a list of publications on Chinese art, see the List produced in Japan (Here links to the Big5 version). 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.
  - East Asian Buddhist Studies: A Reference Guide, prepared by Robert Buswell and William Bodeford, UCLA, EALC.
  - H-Buddhism, provides useful information about newly published books on Buddhism.
  - Indian and Buddhist Studies Treatise Database (INBUDS) , by The Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies (JAIBS).
- 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.
- 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. (Amazon.com)
"The Complete Collection in Four Treasuries" electronic library (project page) 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 經 section. and Shi 史 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 先秦兩漢古籍逐字索引叢刊. Compiled by D.C. Lau 劉殿爵 & F.C. Chen 陳方正. Hong Kong: Shang wu yin shu guan, 1992. 12 vols, and also available on CD-ROM, including:
- A Concordance to the Da Dai Liji 大戴禮記逐字索引.
- A Concordance to the Hanshi Waizhuan 韓詩外傳逐字索引.
- A Concordance to the Huainanzi 淮南子逐字索引.
- A Concordance to the Kongzi Jiayu 孔子家語逐字索引.
- A Concordance to the Liji 禮記逐字索引.
- A Concordance to the Militarists (Wuzi, Simafa, Sunzi, yuliaozi) 吳子/ 司馬法/ 孫子/ 尉繚子逐字索引.
- A Concordance to the Shangjunshu 商君書逐字索引.
- A Concordance to the Shuoyuan 說苑逐字索引.
- A Concordance to the Wenzi 文子逐字索引.
- A Concordance to the Xinxu 新序逐字索引.
- A Concordance to the Yizhoushu 逸周書逐字索引.
- A Concordance to the Zhanguoce 戰國策逐字索引.
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 中華博碩士論文索引摘要檢索光碟 (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 中華民國出版圖書目錄光碟系統 (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 - 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 唐詩三百首; 2) Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 (Dream of the Red Chamber); 3) Shi jing 詩經 (Classic of Poetry); 4) Gu yao yan 古謠諺 (Traditional Chinese Ballads and Proverbs); and 5) Yu Xuan Ji's 魚玄機 poems 6） Lienü zhuan 列女傳 7） Chinese Literature in Translation.
- Chinese Text Project. The Chinese Text Project is a web-based e-text system designed to present ancient Chinese texts, particularly those relating to 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.The goal of this site is to present accurate and accessible copies of ancient (in particular pre-Qin and Han dynasty) Chinese texts in an organized and searchable format, and to make the best possible use of modern technology to aid in the study and research of these texts, so making them accessible to the widest possible audience.This site is available in several versions: English or Chinese interface, and traditional or simplified characters. You can change these at any time using the links at the top left-hand corner of every page. The heart of the site is the ancient text database, which contains the full text of various Chinese texts of philosophical, historical, or linguistic interest from the pre-Qin era through to the Han dynasty and beyond. Texts are stored in a database format which allows for both browsing and searching. In addition, English and modern Chinese translations are provided (where copyright allows); these translations are attached to the original Chinese paragraph by paragraph, making it possible to read a translation and quickly locate the corresponding original passage, or to read the original text and consult a translation of a particular passage. It also provides: 1) Integrated Dictionary; 2) Auto generated word lists for arbitrary passages; 3) Parallel passage information; 4) Scanned source texts; 5) Concordance and index data; 6) Metadata system; 7) Advanced search; 8) Chinese commentary display; 9) Published Resources Database; 10) Discussion forum and etc.. For details of these recources and functions, see the Introduction Page.
- 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 Han Quan 寒泉 Database，by 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 白沙子全集
  - Hong lou meng 紅樓夢
  - Materials on the Pre-Han Masters 先秦諸子
  - Song Yuan xue an 宋元學案
  - Ming ru xue an 明儒學案
  - Quan Tang shi 全唐詩
  - Si ku quan shu zong mu ti yao 四庫總目
  - Thirteen Classics 十三經
  - Zi zhi tong jian 資治通鑑
  - Continuation to the Zi zhi tong jian 續通鑑
  - Zhuzi yu lei SKCS edition 朱子語類
- 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.
- Digital Archive of Rare Books, National Taiwan Normal University Library. It provides picture viewing of rare books in the collection of the library.
- 1. Alchemy, Science and Medicine
  - Chinese Medical Classics 中國醫學古典 Text Series: Nihon Naikyo Igakkai (道氣社電子版漢籍文庫 see 子部醫家) . Prof. Kobayashi Kenji is the supervising editor of the series. After downloading a file, a utility program that decompresses the LHZ format is required. Includes the: 1. Su wen 素問 (209Kb); 2. Ling shu 靈樞 (168 Kb); 3. Nan jing 難經 (31 Kb); 4. Shang han lun 傷寒論 (180 Kb), 5. Jin gui yao lue 金匱要略 (81 Kb); 6. Shennong ben cao jing 神農本草經 (36 Kb); 7. Bian que - Cang gong lie zhuan 扁鵲倉公列傳 (from the , Shiji 史記) (20 Kb). All texts are encoded in Japanese. The required fonts can be found at a separate website address.
  - Taoist Alchemy Texts, on The Golden Elixir, prepared by Fabrizio Pregadio. The website also provides free pdf books on Taoist alchemy works, including translation (eg. Awakening to Reality, a translation of Wuzhen pian, The Seal of the Unity of the Three, a study and translation of the Cantong qi, and The Book of the Nine Elixirs, an annotated translation of Jiudan jing) and bibliography (eg. 9 Taoist Books on the Elixir, which contains links to the books in online Zhonghua Daozang and Zhengtong Daozang).
  - Yuanxi qiqi tushuo luzui 遠西奇器圖說錄最 (Diagrams and Explanations of the Marvelous Devices of the Far West), by Johann Terrenz Schreck and Wang Zheng 王徵 (1571-1644), on the ECHO Project. A monograph describing Western Mechanical Sciences from 1627. Tian gong kai wu 天工開物 (Heavenly Crafts for Revealing the Uses of Things), by Song Yingxing 宋應星 (b. ca. 1600), also on the ECHO Project. A description of various industries and technologies in Ming China from 1637. For more online historical books, see Chinese Sources section of ECHO, which includes four collections: 1) Collection of Historical Sources on Practical Knowledge Transmission; 2) Collection of Historical Sources on Scientific Voyages to China and Reports on Chinese Cultures; 3) Collection of Sources of the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; 4) Collection of Sources on Chinese Mechanical Knowledge and its Relation to European Science.
- 2. Art
  - Wen xin diao long 文心雕龍, or Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons.See 漢籍電子文獻資料庫.
- 3. Biographies
  - The Chinese Biographical Database contains 3,500 as of 08/30/05. 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, Eastern Oregon University. This pilot project has been funded by a research grant from the Idaho State Board of Education.
  - Shi ji 史記 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 4418 texts by 1513 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 大正新修大藏經; 2. Tripitaka Koreana 高麗大藏經; 3. Zhonghua Dazangjing 中華大藏經; 4. Dainippon Zokuzookyoo 大日本續藏經; 5. 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.
  - Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA).
  - Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Electronic Etext 佛光山電子大藏經.
  - The Taisho Buddhist Canon is available for on-line searching through the Academia Sinica, Taiwan, website. See, for example, the Fo jing san lun佛經三論 (Three Treatises of Buddhist Canon).
  - The Virtual Religion Index for Buddhist Studies includes annotated links to sites on various strands of Buddhism, including General Resources; Siddhartha - Buddha; Theravada; Mahayana; Nichiren; Shin - Pure Land; Vajrayana - Tibetan; Zen.
- 5. Classics/Four Books
  - Analects 論語: click Lun yu 論語, 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 中庸, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Great Learning: Click Da xue 大學, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Mencius: Click Mengzi 孟子, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Shi jing 詩經: Click Book of Poetry (GB Code).
  - Shi san jing 十三經 (Thirteen Confucian Classics full-text database); University of Hong Kong Library.
  - Xiao jing 孝經: 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 易經: click Yi jing (GB Code).
- 6. Confucian/Literati Learning
  - Dai Zhen 戴震, Mengzi zi yi shu zheng 孟子字義疏證: Click Dai Zhen 戴震, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5). Page references are to Volume 6 of 張岱年, ed., 《戴震全書》(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 明儒學案. History of Ming Confucians (Palace Museum, Taiwan) .
  - Qian zi wen 千字文: Click Thousand Character Text (GB Code).
  - San zi jing 三字經: Click Three Character Classic (GB Code).
  - Wang Yangming 王陽明 Chuan xi lu 傳習錄: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 王陽明, 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 張載: Click Zhang Zai ji 張載集, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Zhou Dunyi 周敦頤: Click Zhou Dunyi ji 周敦頤集, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Zhuzi yu lei 朱子語類 on Metaphysics 理氣: click Zhu Xi, Parts 1-6 朱熹; on Learning 學: click Zhu Xi, Parts 7-13 朱熹, on the Great Learning 大學: Click Zhu Xi, Parts 14-18 朱熹, 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, below.
- 8. Dynastic Histories
- 9. Modern Texts
  
  By Archive:
  - Digital Library of Western Knowledge in Late Imperial China 西學東漸數碼文庫 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 現代中國研究 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 陳獨秀, Shuo guo jia 說國家: Click Chen Duxiu 陳獨秀, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Chen Duxiu 陳獨秀, Wang guo pian 亡國篇: Click Chen Duxiu 陳獨秀, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Chen Duxiu 陳獨秀, Wang Yangming . . . 王陽明先生訓蒙大意的解釋; Click Chen Duxiu 陳獨秀, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Liang Qichao 梁啟超 Bian fa tong yi 變法通議: 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 梁啟超 Xin min shuo 新民說: Click Liang Qichao 梁啟超, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Liang Qichao 梁啟超 Zi you shu 自由書: 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 譚嗣同 Ren xue 仁學: Click Tan Sitong 譚嗣同, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Wang Guowei 王國維 Ren jian ci hua 人間詞話 Part 1: Click Wang Guowei . For Part 2, click: Part 2 (GB Code).
- 10. Novels
  - San guo zhi yan yi 三國志演義: Click Three Kingdoms Chronicle (GB Code).
  - Hong lou meng 紅樓夢: Click Dream of the Red Chamber (GB Code).
  - Ming Qing Novels database 明清小說全文庫, by Dalian Library 大連圖書館. It provides complete picture viewing of novel rare books.
  - Chapter One of the Hong lou meng 紅樓夢 (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 水滸傳: Click Water Margin (GB Code).
  - Xi you ji 西遊記: Click Journey to the West (GB Code).
- 11. Poetry
  - Poetry of Han, Wei, South and North Dynasties 漢魏南北朝詩: Click Han Wei Nan Bei chao Poetry (GB Code).
  - Database of Tang Poetry 全唐詩庫: This database is maintained by Zhengzhou University 鄭州大學 in China, which collects 42,863 poems written by 2,529 different poets in Tang Dynasty.
  - Quan Tang shi dian nao jian suo 唐詩電腦檢索 (T'ang poetry full-text database); University of Hong Kong Library.
  - Shi jing 詩經: Click Book of Poetry (GB Code).
  - Tang shi san bai shou 唐詩三百首. 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 唐詩三百首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 道德經: Click Laozi 老子or try Zhongwen.com (Big 5). For a GB Code version, click Laozi.
  - Guanzi Nei ye 管子 (內業): Click Guanzi, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Mohist Canons as reconstructed by A.C. Graham: Click Later Mohist Texts 墨子, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Selected Mohist Doctrine Chapters: Click Mozi 墨子, compiled by Steve Angle (Big 5).
  - Sunzi bing fa 孫子兵法: Click Art of War in "online readings" section of Zhongwen.com website (Big 5), or try the China News Daily Sunzi (Big 5).
  - Xunzi 荀子: Click "Quan xue pian" 勸學篇 (GB Code).
  - Zhuangzi 莊子: Click Zhuangzi (Big 5) or Zhuangzi (GB Code).
  - Chunqiu 春秋 and its three major commentaries (known as san zhuan 三傳) : Click Chinese Classics Concordances. The site is maintained by Warring States Project at University of University of Massachusetts Amherst. It also contains other Chinese classics and early commentaries including: Shi jing and Mao shi; Shu jing; Zhou yi; Zhou li; Yi li; Xiao jing; Guodian bamboo manuscripts; Li ji; Meng zi; Lun yu, in total 612022 characters.
- 13. Other
  - Bai jia xing 百家姓: Click Hundred Surnames (GB Code).
  - For Qing dynasty legal case books, see Xing an hui lan 刑案會覽. 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 刑案新編, 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 異體字字典, maintained by the Mandarin Promotion Council, Ministry of Education, R.O.C. Requires knowledge of Chinese. Good alternative to the Kangxi zidian 康熙字典 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.
- The Encyclopedia of Taoism (sample entries). 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 國語辭典 in Big 5 code.
- Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage.
- Ru xue ci dian 儒學詞典 (Dictionary of Confucian literati learning). Organized with short entries according to the following key words: 1) 經典 (Texts); 2) 注疏 (Commentaries); 3) 人物 (Personalities); 4) 概念 (Concepts).
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F. Electronic Journals
- Academic Journal Databases (CNKI).
- 中央研究院近代史研究所集刊. Published by Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. All the issues are put online in electronic version.
- National Taiwan University Journal Database 台湾大學學術期刊資料庫 : This database includes most of the journals published by the academic institutes in National Taiwan University. The journals that should be mentioned here are as follows:
Historical Inquiry 台大歷史學報（See below）;

Bulletin of the Department of Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University 台大中文學報；

Humanitas Taiwanica 台大文史哲學報（See below）;

Chung Wai Literary Quarterley 中外文學；

National Taiwan University Studies in Taiwan Literature 台灣文學研究集刊；

Taida Journal of Art History 美術史研究集刊；

Journal of Archaeology and Anthropology 國立台灣大學考古人類學刊

National Taiwan University Philosophical Review 國立台灣大學哲學論評

National Taiwan University Studies in Japanese Language and Literature 台大日本語文研究

National Taiwan University Book Series of History and Literature Studies 文史叢刊 (Not a journal), etc.
- Historical Inquiry 台大歷史學報：Publishied by Department of History, National Taiwan University. All the issues are put online in electronic version, and a query System is also provided online. The department is also publishing a newsletter titled "Newsletter Department of History, National Taiwan University 台大歷史學術通訊", the full copies of which can be downloaded from the website.
- Humanitas Taiwanica 台大文史哲學報: Published by College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan University 台灣大學文學院. The contents of all the articles can be viewed online from the first issue (June 1950), and the full copies of the journal can be downloaded from Vol.58 (May 2003).
- Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies 清華學報 (台灣).
- Chinese Studies 漢學研究: Published by Center for Chinese Studies 漢學研究中心, Taipei. The center provides the full copies of this journal in electronic version from Vol.18, No.1 (June 2000) to the latest issue.
- Newsletter for Researches in Chinese Studies 漢學研究通訊: This is another journal published by Center for Chinese Studies, Taipei. The full copies of articles in PDF are provided from Vol.19, No.1 (February 2000) to the latest issue.
- NPM (National Palace Museum) Text 故宮文獻: The Natioonal Palace Museum, Taiwan offers a database to browse the National Palace Museum publications online, which include The National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art 故宮文物月刊, The National Palace Museum Quarterly 故宮季刊, The National Palace Museum Research Quarterly 故宮學術季刊.
- Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy 中國文哲研究集刊: Published by Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica. All the issues are put online in electronic version.
- Newsletter of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy 中國文哲研究通訊: Published by Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica. All the issues are put online in electronic version.
- Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies 台灣東亞文明研究: Published by Program for East Asian Classics and Cultures 人文社會高等研究院, National Taiwan University. All full copies of this journal are provided in PDF version online.
- Twenty-First Century 二十一世紀: Published by Published by Institute of Chinese Studies ????????, the Chinese University of Hong Kong ??????. The journal used to be divided into a paper-based version and a online version ???, but now the online version is not been maintained any more. The back issues of the online version still can be viewed online. The contents of the articles that were published in its paper-based version can be viewed from the first issue (1990), and the full copies in electronic version can be downloaded from No. 87 (February 2005) to the latest issue.
- Journal of Chinese Studies 中國文化研究所學報: Published by Institute of Chinese Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The full copies of articles in PDF are provided from Vol.45 (2005) to the latest issue, and the contents and abstracts of the articles can be viewed from Vol.37 (1997).
- Journal of East Asian Cultural Interaction Studies 東アジア文化交渉研究: Published by Institute for Cultural Interaction Studies, Kansai University 関西大学文化交渉学教育研究拠点. All the issues are put online in electronic version.
- Chinese Social History Review 中國社會歷史評論: Edited by Key Research Institute of Social History of China in Nankai University. Some issues can be download from their website.
- WAKUMON 或問: A journal edited by Professor Shen Guowei 沈國威 in Kansai University. The website established by Professor Shen provides some full-text articles published in WAKUMON in PDF version.
- Oriens Extremus: Journal for the Language, Art and Culture of the Far East: Published in University of Hamburg, and the publication of Oriens Extremus is sponsored by the German Science Foundation (DFG). The journal has been appearing since 1954. Its contributions and reviews written in German and English are mainly concentrating on the history of cultural and intellectual history of Premodern China and on the relations between China and the cultures of Japan, Korea and the countries of South-East Asia. Major fields of interest are history, literature and philosophy. Now some of the articles published in this journal can be downloaded from its website in PDF version.
- 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.
- d'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.
- Lingnan Journal 嶺南學報: From 1929 to 1952.
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G. Home Pages of Individuals and Research Groups
- Center for Research on Ancient Chinese History, Peking University 北京大學中國古代史研究中心.
- 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.).
- 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 論孟老莊 texts, various Taiwan gazetteers, three Buddhist texts, notes on the Wen xin diao long 文心雕龍, 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." See also Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0.
- 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 March 2012, the index consisted of more than 11,000 entries.
- Xian Qin liang Han gu ji zhu zi suo yin cong kan 先秦兩漢古籍逐字索引叢刊. ICS Ancient Chinese texts concordance series, published by Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 1st series, 1992. (CHANT).
- Zhonghua Minguo qi kan lun wen suo yin guang die xi tong 中華民國期刊論文索引光碟系統 (Index to Chinese Periodical Articles on CD-ROM, 1500 journals, 314,000 records for IBM PC compatible); National Central Library, National Taiwan Unversity Library. See WWW version.
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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 (marked as RM) 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. See also Babelstone.
- 3. Hong Kong
  - Chinese University of Hong Kong, University Service Centre Collection Catalog (Washington, Yale)
- 4. Japan
- 5. Mainland China
  - Beijing da xue tu shu guan 北京大學圖書館 (Beijing University Library). See the online catalog of the rare books collection 秘籍琳琅.
  - Guo jia tu shu guan 中國國家圖書館 (National Library of China On-Line Catalog). See also: The online public access catalog of National Library of China , for the fifth largest library in the world. This uses GB Code for Chinese characters.
  - National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences 中國科學院國家圖書館. See rare book search system.
- 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 論孟老莊 texts, various Taiwan gazetteers, three Buddhist texts, notes on the Wen xin diao long 文心雕龍, and part of the "New History of the Ch'ing."
  - Zhong yang tu shu guan shan ben shu mu 中央圖書館善本書目 (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 香光尼眾佛學院圖書館.
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J. Maps and Geography
- The China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS) project was launched in December 2000, with funding from the Luce Foundation. The CHGIS will establish a standardized coding system to identify historical administrative units for different periods in Chinese History, and will also provide a base GIS platform for researchers to use for spatial analysis,temporal statistical modeling, and representation of selected historical units as digital maps. The project will begin with several temporal slices from the Qing Dynasty and work backwards in time, allowing for additional information about intervening points in time to be added at any stage in the process. The objective is to create a flexible tool that can be used to investigate any sort of geographically specific data related to China. The CHGIS geocodes can be used as unique identifiers in databases, or to mark up texts, which will enable users to import their own datasets into the CHGIS platform. Users will be able to sort, query, and display their data, for different historical periods, or at different levels of aggregation. In addition, the CHGIS is designed to allow for alternate versions of both feature attribute tables, and their related spatial objects. This will enable users to create their own interpretations of historical administrative changes, should they wish to do so, and to store them in a separate spatial data table. In this way, alternate versions and interpretations of Chinese History can be displayed, overlayed, compared, and analyzed statistically. Similarly, alternate feature data tables can be associated with the spatial data in CHGIS, which could be used to generate tables and maps in different languages, or for analysis of highly specialized data, such as environmental change, population studies, the spread of religions, historical linguistics, etc. As part of the CHGIS Project, several useful free search utilities, i.e., non-interactive, are available online:
  - Contemporary Counties - Search a list of all 3,389 official Chinese county level administrative units for the year 1990. Based on the National Standard (Guobiao Table #2260), this search engine provides the County names in Pinyin and Chinese Characters (BIG5 encoding) and their corresponding GB code number.
  - Local Histories - Local Histories (difang zhi) held in the Harvard Yenching Library collection can be searched by Province or by title (Wade-Giles romanization). There are 3,700 searchable records of local histories online, which provide title, author, date and publisher information, as well as HYL call numbers. This is only a partial list of HYL holdings, which we hope to expand in the future.
  - Harvard Map Collection - East Asian Map series have been cataloged by CHGIS and can be searched by Chinese region or by keyword. The map index represents some 29,000 map sheets held in the Harvard Pusey Map Library. In addition to title, date, and publication info, the index provides a description of the map series, Pusey Library call numbers, and rough guide maps showing the area of coverage.
  - Qing Dynasty Place names - Some 9,000 place names for the year 1820 can be searched with direct links to CHGIS webmaps. Each record displays the place names (in Pinyin and Chinese Characters, UTF-8 encoding), the prefecture and province where the place is located, and an automatic guidemap showing where the place is located within China and within its respective province. Users may also launch an interactive guide map for zooming and browsing the GIS data.
  - Chinese Place names Database - 140,000 place names (including variations) for more than 80,000 named features in China are available in a streamlined search engine based on the U.S. National Imagery and Mapping Agency dataset. This utility is useful to look up names in Pinyin, Wade-Giles, or Variant romanized forms. Results include an automatic guidemap (showing the general location of the place), the latitude and longitude coordinates, and the feature type.
    No special software or plug-ins are needed to use the search engines. For those who wish to have direct access to the complete datasets, including GIS layers, all CHGIS data is available for free download to academic users. CHGIS users may also obtain the data on CD-ROM. The CD-ROM for the CHGIS Version 1.0 has been available for $7.50 (plus postage) from the Cheng & Tsui Company since May, 2002. Both the website and CD-ROM will provide an account of the project and its development, the current CHGIS datasets, licensing information, and examples of how the data may be used.
  - As of November 2003, the project has added time-series geographic datasets for the years 222 BCE to 1911 CE (covering Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu), revised time-slice datasets for all of the Qing empire as of 1820 CE, and new time-slice datasets for seven provinces as of 1911 CE (Shaanxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Jiangsu). One can access the data by download or by purchase of a CD Rom (available from Cheng and Tsui).
    The CHGIS Version 2.0 Time Series contains 45 layers of data covering: Prefecture Capitals, County Capitals, Towns and Villages, County Boundaries, Prefectural Boundaries, Province Boundaries, Rivers, Lakes, Historical Coastline, Topographic Background Images, administrative hierarchy table, source notes, and numerous other GIS layers. These datasets, and software for viewing them, are also available for free download from the CHGIS website, and can be searched online using the CHGIS search engine. As new time-series data sets and time-slice data for other regions are finished they will be made available through the CHGIS website.
  - For a parallel project under Academia Sinica, Taiwan, see mention of the "Chinese Civilization in Time and Space" project immediately below.
- See also:
  - 1. "Chinese Civilization in Time and Space Project" (CCTS), which is based on the requirements of multi-disciplinary research applications. The goal of this system at Academia Sinca, Taiwan, in the Institute of History and Philology, is to construct an integrated GIS-based application infrastructure on the spatial extent of China, in the timeframe of Chinese history, and with the contents of Chinese civilization. Although target users of this system are primarily set to be scholars, academic experts, and school teachers, most general spatial- and temporal-based applications are also provided. They are expecting to establish a feedback mechanism of collecting research and application results continuously to fertilize contents and elaborate the value of information integration for users. For example, UC, Berkeley, has established a mirror server at the East Asian Library for the use of scholars and students there. For information, contact Dr. I-chun Fan at: ccts@sinica.edu.tw.
  - 2. China In Time And Space (CITAS), which is a project initiated by William Lavely to create and maintain databases of spatially- and temporally-referenced data on China. CITAS aims to provide access to a wealth of contemporary and historical information on China at minimal cost to scholars and other non-commercial users. The project utilizes state-of-the-art geographic information system (GIS) technology to integrate tabular and vectorized map data. An unusual aspect of CITAS is its emphasis on the temporal dimension: one project goal is the capability of reconstructing Chinese administrative geography for specific historical dates, and the ability to compare spatial data at two points in time, whether over years or over centuries. Collaboration with Chinese scholars and organizations is integral to the project goals. CITAS is a partnership of China scholars, sponsored by the Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (JCCS), and the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) . CITAS database management and technical work takes place at several sites, including the University of Washington, the University of Michigan, the University of California at Davis, and at CIESIN in Saginaw, Michigan.
  - 3. The Jingban tianwen quantu (Capital Edition of a Complete Map of the World Based on Astronomy) is available in interactive form from Rice University. Users can click on this 18th century map of the world to zoom in for detailed views of particular areas. Richard J. Smith provides a description of the map and its history.
  - 4. Historical and Commercial Atlas of China by Albert Herrmann. Originally published by Harvard in 1935. 59 digitized maps of China, including maps of prehistoric sites, Zhou through Qing dynasties, maps of capital cities (including Kaifeng, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Beijing), and numerous maps of commercial activities, especially for the Republican period. Click here .
  - 5. The Regional Systems Analysis at UC Davis organized by the G.W. Skinner Research Team, Department of Anthropology Young Hall, University of California, Davis, CA 95616 USA. An interdisciplinary research team led by professors of anthropology, geography, and history is conducting spatial analyses of regional systems in contemporary China as well as early modern Japan and France. For each project they are constructing a spatial framework, referred to as Hierarchical Regional Space (HRS), building on central place theory from Christaller and regional systems theory from von Thunen. Geographic information systems (GIS) and statistical tools facilitate modeling the core-periphery structures of macroregional systems at multiple hierarchical scales. In the societies under analysis here, the HRS model provides a useful framework for explaining the spatial variation in many demographic and ecological phenomena.
  - The HKUST (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library) Antique Maps Database: The maps included in this database are from the Special Collections of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library. The Antique Maps of China collection includes more than 230 maps, charts, pictures, books and atlases. It represents almost all samples of China maps produced by European cartographers from the 16th to 19th centuries.
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K. Useful Online Tools

Academia Sinica, Taiwan, has an online Chinese-Western Calendar Converter 兩千年中西曆轉換, which is based on Xue Zhongsan and Ouyang Yi ed. Liang qian nian Zhong Xi li dui zhao biao 兩千年中西曆對照表.

Searchable Database for Names Appeared in Ming and Qing Archival Documents 人名權威：明清人物傳記資料查詢: Established by The Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei. It provides biographical notes for over 14800 historical figures in Qing Dynasty.

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

ARTstor is a non-profit initiative funded by the Andrew Melon Foundation for creating an online database of images. Planned exibits include the Melon International Dunhuang Archive and the Huntington Archive of Asian Art. The images will be available to nonprofit institutions beginning in the summer of 2004.

The Maritime Asia website features an online exhibition of excavations of Chinese and Southeast Asian goods from historic shipwrecks discovered near Malaysia. The seven wrecks cover a period from the 14th to the 19th centuries. This exhibit is truly a fascinating look into the trade in Chinese ceramics.

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.

Chinese Pamphlets: Political Communication and Mass Education in the Early Period of the People's Republic of China: Maintained by Center for Research Libraries (CRL), which collects mass education materials published in Hong Kong and in Mainland China, particularly Shanghai, in the years 1947-1954. These cartoon books, pamphlets, postcards and magazines, on topics such as foreign threats to Chinese security, Chinese relations with the Soviet Union, industrial and agricultural production, and marriage reform, were produced by both Kuomintang (Nationalist) and Gongchantang (Communist) supporters.

Harvard University Library: Visual Information Access: The Visual Information Access (VIA) system is a union catalog of visual resources at Harvard, focusing on artistic and cultural materials. VIA includes catalog records for objects or images owned, held or licensed by Harvard (Browse Collections). Some of the collections are related to Chinese Studies. Access to the catalog is open to the general public: all catalog records and thumbnail images are available to everyone. Access to higher resolution images is usually available to the Harvard community, is always determined by an individual repository, and is often dependent on copyright.
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2. Relevant Electronic Resources for Chinese Classical Studies

Index

A. General Resources

1. Art

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

M. Electronic Materials: Online-Reading or Downloadable