Encyclopedia Database

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The Encyclopedia Database is a free and open-access fulltext database containing encyclopedic works of the 19th and 20th centuries from different places in many languages. The purpose of the Encyclopedia Database is to “reveal the hidden grammars of transculturality”. We define encyclopedic writings as works that strive to present a comprehensive account of knowledge. Yet every piece of work is shaped by “hidden grammars”, which means the larger historical background of time and place, the circumstances of writing and publication, as well as people and ideas involved in the creation of a particular piece of work. By unfolding these layers in a clear structure, we want to draw a map of knowledge in space and time, and to trace back the cultural appropriation of key terms and concepts as they unfold their history in encyclopedic writings.

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en

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Encyclopedia Database

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Encyclopaedias

Almanacs of China's Economy

中国经济年鉴

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Yearbooks on China's Economy (<a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/chs/Jahrb%C3%BCcher/China/zg_jingji_nianjian_2002.rdp" target="_blank">2002</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/chs/Jahrb%C3%BCcher/China/zg_jingji_nianjian_2003.rdp" target="_blank">2003</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zg_jingji_nianjian_2005.rdp" target="_blank">2005</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zg_jingji_nianjian_2008.rdp" target="_blank">2008</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zg_jingji_nianjian_2010.rdp" target="_blank">2010</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zg_jingji_nianjian_2011.rdp" target="_blank">2011</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zg_jingji_nianjian_2012.rdp" target="_blank">2012</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/chs/Jahrb%C3%BCcher/China/zg_jingji_nianjian_2013.rdp" target="_blank">2013</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/chs/Jahrb%C3%BCcher/China/zg_jingji_nianjian_2014.rdp" target="_blank">2014</a>)

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cn(s)

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Almanacs of China's Economy

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Yearbooks

China Environment Yearbook

中国环境年鉴

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<a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zg_huanjing_nianjian_2011.rdp" target="_blank">2011</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/chs/Jahrb%C3%BCcher/China/zg_huanjing_tongji_nianjian_2014.rdp" target="_blank">2014</a>

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cn(s)

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China Environment Yearbook

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Yearbooks

China Human Resources and Social Security Yearbooks

中国人力资源和社会保障年鉴

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Yearbooks on China's Human Resources and Social Security (<a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zg_renli_ziyuan_nianjian_2010.rdp" target="_blank">2010</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zg_renli_ziyuan_nianjian_2011.rdp" target="_blank">2011</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/chs/zg_renliziyuan_he_shihuibaozhang.rdp" target="_blank">2012</a>)

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cn(s)

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China Human Resources and Social Security Yearbooks

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Yearbooks

SciVerse ScienceDirect

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ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books. There are currently more than 9.5 million articles/chapters, a content base that is growing at a rate of almost 0.5 million additions per year. Access to selected Journals of SciVerse ScienceDirect via German National Licence.

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en

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SciVerse ScienceDirect

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eJournals

Leiden Weibo Corpus

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An annotated linguistic Corpus of Sina Weibo messages. The Leiden Weibo Corpus (LWC) contains 5.1 million messages from Sina Weibo, China’s premier Twitter-like microblogging service. Data for the LWC was collected in January 2012. As such, it contains many linguistic phenomena that may not be found in older corpora, such as suffixation with “-ing”, an aspectual marker borrowed from English. Furthermore, Sina Weibo messages come with valuable meta data, such as the gender of the user and his location. This information allows the LWC to calculate how often words are used in different provinces and cities across China, which is useful for research into lexical variation across China. Naturally, the LWC also supports searching for single words or grammar patterns, such as “any verb followed by an aspectual particle and then a noun”. This feature may also be of interest to students and teachers of Mandarin who are looking for example sentences.

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en, cn(s)

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Leiden Weibo Corpus

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Language

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

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The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 384,300 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 315,000 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.

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en

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Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

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eJournals

Database of collectors seals

蔵書印データベース

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The database of collectors seals of the National Institute of Japanese Literature contains more than 20.000 records of collectors of Japanese literature. Additionally it includes almost 9000 pictures. It is not only possible to confirm readings of stamps, the identity of the collectors and the span of their collections, but also stamps from bookshops and book lenders have been included, making it possible to trace the trade of historical books and documents during the early modern, the Meiji, Taisho and early Showa period, even up until modern day.

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jp

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Database of collectors seals

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Art, History

EZB: Electronic Journals Library East Asia

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The East Asia Collection of the Electronic Journals Library offers fulltext access to more than 700 journals with relevance to East Asian Studies. The journals are first divided into Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, East Asian Art History as well as East Asia in general. They are then further subdivided according to different categories, e.g. history, law or economy.

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en, de

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EZB: Electronic Journals Library East Asia

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eJournals

NUS eNewspapers

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Collection of digitized newspapers of the National University of Singapore. Includes, among others, scans of important historical newspapers from British Malaya (Malaysia & Singapore). The following newspapers may be accessed:

• Cheng Nam Jit Poh / Zhennan Ribao 振南日报 (1913-1920)
• Chong Shing Yit Pao / Zhongxing Ribao 中兴日报 (1907-1910)
• Jit Shin Pau / Rixinbao 日新报 (1899-1901)
• Lat Pau / Lebao 叻报 (1887-1932)
• Penang Sin Poe / Bingcheng Xinbao 槟城新报 (1895-1941)
• Sin Kok Min Jit Pao / Xin Guomin Ribao 新国民日报 (1919 - 1933)
• Sing Po / Xingbao 星报 (1890-1898)
• Sun-Poo (Singapore Chinese Morning Post) / Xing Zhou Chen Bao 星洲晨报 (1909-1910)
• Thien Nan Shin Pao / Tiannan Xinbao 天南新报 (Chinese Daily News, 1898-1905)

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en, cn(t)

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NUS eNewspapers

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Periodicals

EZB: Japanese Studies

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Japanese Studies Section of the Electronic Journals Library East Asia

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de, en

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EZB: Japanese Studies

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eJournals

Danwei

单位

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Danwei is a website about media, advertising and urban life in China. It frequently references to translations from Mainland Chinese media and keeps tabs on a wide variety of subjects including legal and business stories, media and entertainment gossip, and the environment.

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cn(s), en

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Danwei

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Blogs

Mizue Art Jorunal 1905-1906

みづゑ

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A monthly journal of art "Mizue" was founded in 1905. The founder Tojiro Oshita is a watercolor artist and he had contributed to the spread of the watercolor painting art in Japan. The main purpose of publishing this title was to promote the study of art especially watercolor painting art. However, the journal also contained many articles on western art as well as Japanese art with plentiful illustrations introducing many artists of those days. Though it ceased publishing in 1922, Mizue is an indispensable and basic material to study modern Japanese art history.

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jp

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Mizue Art Jorunal 1905-1906

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Art

Tani Buncho Manuscript Database

谷文晁派（写山楼）粉本・模本資料データベース

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Datenbank mit Kopien ostasiatischer Malerei des einflussreichen Malers Tani Buncho aus dem spaeten 18. Jh.

Language

jp

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Tani Buncho Manuscript Database

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Art

Grove Art Online

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Grove Art Online ist ein umfangreiches Nachschlagewerk zu allen Aspekten der visuellen Kunst von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Behandelt werden die Zivilisationen Europas, Nord- und Südamerikas, Asiens und des Pazifiks unter Berücksichtigung aller Kunstformen wie Malerei, Skulptur, dekorativer Kunst, Architektur, Graphik, Photographie.

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en

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Grove Art Online

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Art, Encyclopaedias

China Development Brief

中国发展简报

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China Development Brief is a Chinese-language online and print publication started in 1998. It was conceived as an “information platform and capacity building tool” for China’s growing nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. It reports on nonprofit organizations and NGOs engaged in public welfare activities. It carries feature articles and interviews on topics of interest to China’s civil society organizations, and exchanges ideas on topics related to the development of China’s civil society. Quarterly issues of CDB are printed and distributed to Chinese NGOs, researchers, international development agencies, and Chinese government agencies engaged in poverty alleviation, sustainable development and social welfare projects. CDB currently has more than 47,000 subscribers to its online newsletter and 5,000 to its print issues.

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cn(s), en

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China Development Brief

Category

Blogs

Stimmen aus China

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Stimmen aus China ist ein Brückenblog, welcher der deutschen Öffentlichkeit Meinungen, Berichte und Diskussionen aus dem chinesischen Internet zur Verfügung stellt. Er widmet sich Meinungen und Stimmen aus China über die Entwicklung der Volksrepublik und chinesische Debatten zu globalen Fragen, die in westlichen Medien kaum wiedergegeben werden.

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cn(s), de

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Stimmen aus China

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Blogs

Human Rights in China

中国人权

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Human Rights in China (HRIC), founded by Chinese students and scholars in March 1989, is an international, Chinese, nongovernmental organization with a mission to promote international human rights and advance the institutional protection of these rights in the People’s Republic of China.

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cn(s), en

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Human Rights in China

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Blogs

EZB: Chinese Studies

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Chinese Studies section of the Electronic Library East Asia.

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de, en

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EZB: Chinese Studies

Category

eJournals

EZB: East Asian Art History

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East Asian Art History section of the Electronic Journals Library East Asia(EZB)

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de, en

Link

EZB: East Asian Art History

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Art

EastSouthWestNorth

东南西北

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EastSouthWestNorth is an English-language China-focused blog written by Roland Soong (宋以朗), a Hong Kong-based blogger. The blog combines English translations of Chinese articles, comments and recommended reading.

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en, cn(s)

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EastSouthWestNorth

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Blogs

China Law Blog

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The China Law Blog discusses practical aspects of Chinese law and how it impacts business there. Its aim is to assist businesses already in China or planning to go into China, not to break new ground in legal theory or policy.

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en

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China Law Blog

Category

Blogs

China Tracker

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China Tracker is a blog from Forbes.com mainly featuring reports, news and analyses about business in China and the Chinese economy.

Language

en

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China Tracker

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Blogs

China Rises

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China Rises is written by Tom Lasseter, the Beijing bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers. It features general news about China.

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en

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China Rises

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Blogs

China Media Project

中國傳媒研究計劃

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The project documents and analyzes the process of media reform in China and the formal and informal factors that influence it. Comparative studies help define areas for further research on the basis of media reform experiences in transitional societies in Eastern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia.

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cn(s), en

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China Media Project

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Blogs

China Brief

中国简报

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China Brief is a primary source of timely information and cutting-edge analysis for policy-makers, intelligence and military personnel, academics, journalists, and business leaders. Through the use of indigenous sources and detailed and objective analysis, China Brief keeps U.S. public and private sector decision-makers alike informed of developments and trends in China.

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en

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China Brief

Category

Blogs

China Labour Bulletin

中国劳工通讯

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A non-governmental organization founded in Hong Kong in 1994, China Labour Bulletin seeks to defend and promote the rights of workers in China. CLB is widely recognized as reliable source of expert opinion on Chinese labour issues, and is regularly quoted at length by international and domestic Chinese media organizations.

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en, cn(s), cn(t)

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China Labour Bulletin

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Blogs

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online

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Access to the English online version of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Based on the 32 volume print edition (2010). Includes 75.000 articles from 4.900 different authors.

Language

en

Link

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online

Category

Encyclopaedias

China Geeks

我看中国

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ChinaGeeks features articles, original essays, translations, news, and relevant links to further the English-language discourse on China. Topics covered include (but are not limited to) history, current events, politics, literature, culture, and philosophy.

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cn(s), en

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China Geeks

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Blogs

China Dialogue

中国对话

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ChinaDialogue publishes in English and Chinese on global environmental issues, with a special focus on China. Its aim is to promote dialogue and the search for solutions to our shared environmental challenges.

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cn(s), en

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China Dialogue

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Blogs

JAANUS: Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System

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This dictionary contains approximately 8000 terms related to traditional Japanese architecture and gardens, painting, sculpture and art-historical iconography from approximately the 1st century A.D. to the end of the Edo period (1868). Terms from related fields such as lacquer, ceramics, textiles and metalwork have been included where they are considered to be of general interest and/or impact on the principal fields of architecture, painting and sculpture. These definitions are not translations from any one Japanese monolingual dictionary, but have been collated from a range of specialist sources and scholarly publications, and from direct observation and study. Many have never before been defined in English.

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en, jp

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JAANUS: Japanese Architecture and Art Net Users System

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Art, Dictionaries

China Beat, The

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Launched in early 2008, The China Beat provides context and criticism on contemporary China from China scholars and journalists. The blog draws on a global group of China watchers in the U.S., China, the U.K., Australia, Japan, Canada, Taiwan, and many other locations.

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en

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China Beat, The

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Blogs

Digital Library from the Meiji Era

近代デジタルライブラリー

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Image database of the books held by the japanese National Diet Library and published in the Meiji, Taisho and early Showa eras, excluding books in Western languages. The images are not coded, so text searches are not possible; however, Japanese-language searches for the title, author, publisher, subject, and table of contents of the works in the database are possible.

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jp

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Digital Library from the Meiji Era

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History, Literature

World Bank eLibrary

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Das "World Bank E-Library Archive" umfasst 2.108 E-Books der Weltbank. Es handelt sich hierbei um Publikationen der Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler der Weltbank. Die Publikationen befassen sich insbesondere mit der sozio-ökonomischen Entwicklung in weniger entwickelten Ländern und Regionen und umfassen Forschungsergebnisse zu Entwicklungspolitik, Wirtschaftspolitik, Außenhandel, Gesundheit, Bildung, Entwicklungshilfe und Armut. Es handelt sich um Publikationen, die bis einschließlich 31.12.2008 veröffentlicht wurden. Darüber hinaus besteht über das Archiv auch Zugang zu zwei E-Journals (438 Artikel) sowie zu ca. 3.328 Arbeitspapieren, die von der Weltbank im Open Access zur Verfügung gestellt werden.

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en

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World Bank eLibrary

Category

eBooks

Digital Bibliography of Chinese Buddhism

中國佛教電子書目

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The bibliography contains 2,273 entries on Chinese-language Buddhist publications dating from 1860 to the 1950s. Information has been sourced from print bibliographies, online catalogues, and first-hand bibliographic research. Each item page includes research links to related resources such as WorldCat, the MFQ(B) article database, and the DDBC Person Authority. Entries can be searched by keyword and the results filtered by publication date. Although other online bibliographies on this topic exist, I hope my contribution will be significant for the thoroughness of its citations and editing, and its links to other useful digital resources.

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en, cn(t)

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Digital Bibliography of Chinese Buddhism

Category

Religion, Bibliography

MetPublications

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Fulltext access to about 300 art related publications, made available online by the Metropolitan Museum.

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en

Link

MetPublications

Category

Art, eBooks

Korean History: A Bibliography

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This bibliography covers many features of Korean history. The subjects include not only political, diplomatic, and economic history, but also historical linguistics, art history, literature, philosophy and religion, and overseas Koreans, for example. Chronologically, coverage concludes in the 1960s. I have not sought to compile a comprehensive list for each subject. Rather, I have provided publications that have appeared since the publication in 1980 of the annotated bibliography Studies on Korea: A Scholar's Guide and recent publications not cited in that work. This bibliography, then, is both an updating of and a supplement to that venerable reference.

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en

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Korean History: A Bibliography

Category

History, Bibliography

Akira Kurosawa Archive

黒澤デジタルアーカイブ

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The archive, put together by Kurosawa’s estate and Ryukoku University Digital Archives Research Center, is a digital collection of over twenty thousand pages of Kurosawa’s screenplays, photos, storyboards, drawings, notes, newspaper clippings, personal scribblings and other materials. Among the high quality scans you can find unfilmed screenplays, screenplay drafts that were later revised, production memos and notes, continuity drawings, and much more. While most of it is in Japanese, there are also some English documents, and of course plenty of pictures to check out.

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jp

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Akira Kurosawa Archive

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Art

Digital Taiwan

典藏臺灣

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Sammlung unterschiedlichster Archive und Webseiten zum Thema e-learning: "As information technology becomes increasingly widespread, the digitization technology, computer and communications technology, and the development of the Internet have influenced our society in an ever more profound way. In the past, information technology has brought about local changes to our daily work. Only with the rapid development of the Internet has information technology had such a comprehensive impact on our ways of social communication, knowledge conveyance, presentation and management, and moreover, on our perceptions of and approaches to research and education. Nowadays, the influence of digitization is society-wide and is increasing in importance all the time. Information technology has gradually altered our activities in our daily life, work, learning and leisure, thereby unveiling a digital era in which culture and education are changing in every aspect. The infrastructure for digital archives and e-learning includes the establishment of electronic databases, user habits, information technology literacy, Internet accessibility, government regulations and policies, advanced academic research environment, capabilities of industrial applications, services and marketing, etc. At present, the proportion of Internet users in Taiwan is one of the highest in the world; all the elementary, junior high, and high schools have Internet access. In addition, projects for e-government, e-commerce, broadband fixed network, e-learning and e-health have been set in motion. Furthermore, academic and research institutions have established solid technology foundations for electronic databases, information retrieval, language processing, the Internet, and multimedia presentation and management. Apart from government and academia, Taiwan's information technology industries and e-commerce services are also making good progress. Most of the required infrastructure for the development of digital archives and e-learning, therefore, has been set up."

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cn(t)

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Digital Taiwan

Category

Bibliography

Academia Sinica Digital Resources

中央研究院数位典藏資源網

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As a preeminent research organization in Taiwan, Academia Sinica has devoted to the preservation of its academic resources. Since 1980, Academia Sinica has started digitizing the archives and collections of its institutes. The Scripta Sinica database, officially accessible online since 1995, can rival the famous huge Chinese Ancient books database, Si Ku Quan Shu, in Ch'ing Dynasty. This online system has received much attention and has been used in Taiwan and worldwide. Since 2002, Academia Sinica has enlarged the digitization projects of its important collections, and made them available over the Internet. The contents include Taiwan's fishes, shells, aboriginal artifacts, paleography, ancient maps and contracts, and also include modern China's historical maps, remote sensing imagery, diplomatic and economic records, Chinese historical artifacts (such as archeological materials, engraved stones, stone and bronze rubbing, bamboo scripts, rare books, ethnological collection of Southwestern China, and the lexicon of Ming-Qing Archives), and Mandarin Chinese and Formosa language archives. There are nearly one hundred digital resources. Users can access these resources online via Internet, without needs to be physically present in the library, museum, or archive centers. There are 150 websites and over 1 million items of digital archives, accessible through the Internet portal, Academia Sinica Digital Resources. This is the world's largest Traditional Chinese digital database.

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cn(t)

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Academia Sinica Digital Resources

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Bibliography

Tulips tsukuba

日本美術シソーラス・データベース絵画編 : 索引集(試験運用版）

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Nach Künstlernamen, Epochen, Werktiteln usw. geordneter Thesaurus zur japanischen Kunstgeschichte.

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jp

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Tulips tsukuba

Category

Art

The Seattle Art Museum’s Collection of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy

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The Seattle Art Museum is home to a premier collection of Chinese art in North America, which was formed largely in the twentieth century during the directorship of museum founder Dr. Richard E. Fuller (director 1933-73). Although Seattle’s Chinese collection is best known for its jades, ceramics, and later Buddhist sculpture, during the directorship of Mimi Gardner Gates (director 1994–2009) and shaped by successive curators Jay Xu, Hsueh-man Shen and Josh Yiu, the collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy grew substantially, adding important works of the Ming and Qing dynasties as well as the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. While varied in quality and modest in size, Seattle’s collection of 152 Chinese painting and calligraphy has never been studied in depth and is heretofore largely unpublished. For the first time, it is being introduced and made universally accessible through this newly developed online catalogue, which features thoughtful and provocative essays about major works by renowned scholars, with high-resolution, zoom-able images of the works of art, and thorough documentation—including transcriptions and translations of inscriptions and colophons, and seals which are transcribed, identified and located.

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en

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The Seattle Art Museum’s Collection of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy

Category

Art

Langenscheidt Online-Dictionaries

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Das Portal beinhaltet neben Langenscheidt-Wörterbüchern für die meisten europäischen Sprachen u.a. auch Wörterbücher für Chinesisch und Japanisch, diverse technische Wörterbücher als auch mehrere Duden-Wörterbücher (z.B. Rechtschreibung, Synonyme, Fremdwörter...)

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many

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Langenscheidt Online-Dictionaries

Category

Dictionaries

National Library of China Image Collections

中国国家图书馆图片专栏

Information

Search and access platform for various image collections of the National Libary of China in Beijing. The platform grants access to 7 different picture collections that can be accessed simultaneously:

1.) Oracle Bones(~7500)

2.) Rubbings of Oracle Bones (~4500)

3.) Rubbings of bronze and stone inscriptions (~30000)

4.) New Year Pictures (~700)

5.) Documents of the Western Xia Kingdom (1038 - 1227) (~5000)

6.) Documents about the Western Xia Kingdom (~1200)

7.) Historical Photos (~3000)

Language

cn(s)

Link

National Library of China Image Collections

Category

Art

Database of Taiwanese Old Photos

臺灣舊照片資料庫

Information

Collection of Taiwan University of approximately 37.000 historical photos from Taiwan under Japanese rule.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Database of Taiwanese Old Photos

Category

Art

National Palace Museum Antiquities Digital Archive

故宮器物典藏資料檢索系統

Information

Ongoing digitalization project of the National Palace Museum in Taibei, Taiwan. In November 2011, approximately 175.000 museum exhibits had already been added to the database. The entries to the exhibits include photos and explanations as well as information to material, function, size and time period.

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cn(t)

Link

National Palace Museum Antiquities Digital Archive

Category

Art

Antique Maps of China

Information

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. This cartographic archive vividly records the long history of cross-cultural exchanges between China and the West.

Language

en

Link

Antique Maps of China

Category

Art

Apabi Yearbooks

中国年鉴资源全文数据库

Information

Access to the collection of subscribed Apabi yearbooks.

Language

cn(s), cn(t)

Link

Apabi Yearbooks

Category

Yearbooks

North China Herald Online

字林星期周刊

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The English North China Herald is universally acclaimed as the prime printed source in any language for the history of the foreign presence in China from around 1850 to the 1940s. During this so-called ‘treaty century’ (1842-1943) the Great Western Powers established a strong presence in China through their protected enclaves in the major cities. It was published in Shanghai, at the heart of China’s dealing with the Euro-American world and a city at the forefront of developments in Chinese politics, culture, education and the economy. As the official journal for British consular notifications, and announcements of the Shanghai Municipal Council, it is the first – and sometimes only – point of reference for information and comment on a range of foreign and Chinese activities. Regularly it also features translations of Chinese official notifications and news. The Herald had correspondents across the whole of China. These supplied a constant stream of news of an incredible variety, such as, apart from news and gossip reflecting the social, cultural and political life of the foreign settlements; trade statistics, stock prices, Chinese news, essays on Chinese culture and language, law reports from foreign courts in the settlements, company reports, news on foreign social, cultural and political life, maps, cartoons, photographs, stock prices and law and company reports, advertisements, tables of tea, silk and cotton exports, or long-forgotten facts about missionaries, birth, marriage, and death announcements, facts about other foreign nationals – the French, Danish, Italian, German, Dutch, and so on. Although a thriving treaty port press developed over the century of the foreign presence, no other newspaper existed over such an extended period, and covers it in such incredible depth and variety. The dense unindexed columns of the Herald offer therefore an indispensable, still largely unexplored treasure-trove for any scholar of modern Chinese history. War, revolution and politics have conspired to destroy library holdings or frustrate access to publications from China’s treaty century. The fully text-searchable North China Herald online is one of the primary sources on a period which continues to shape much of China’s world and worldview.

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en

Link

North China Herald Online

Category

Periodicals

Digital Scrolling Paintings Project

Information

Database of Chinese handscroll paintings in a scrolling digital format.

Language

en

Link

Digital Scrolling Paintings Project

Category

Art

Prometheus

Information

Prometheus is a digital image archive for Art and Cultural Sciences. Prometheus enables the convenient search for images on a common user interface within different image archives, variable databases from institutes, research facilities and museums. Currently you are able to search in 62 art historian, design, architectural, theological, historian and archaeological image databases with 828,969 images in total.

Language

de, en

Link

Prometheus

Category

Art

Visual Cultures in East Asia

Information

Visual Cultures in East Asia is the new generic platform of the Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies (LEAS) for the development and display of research projects and collections that involve the use of visual and cartographic materials.

Language

en, fr

Link

Visual Cultures in East Asia

Category

Art

e-Museum Japan

Information

This site provides high definition images of national treasures and important cultural properties owned by four national museums (Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National Museum, Nara National Museum and Kyushu National Museum) that belong to the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, together with their descriptions in multiple languages (Japanese, English, French, Chinese and Korean).

Language

fr, en, cn(s), jp, kr

Link

e-Museum Japan

Category

Art

HeidICON

Information

HeidICON is provided by Heidelberg University Library and is the "Virtual Slide Collection" in progress of organization of Heidelberg University. In addition to record graphic material on current interest for research and teaching, the University departments and institutes can digitize and transfer their already existing slide collections.

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de, en

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HeidICON

Category

Art

ARTstor

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The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.

Language

en

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ARTstor

Category

Art

Freer/Sackler Gallery: Song and Yuan Dynasty Painting and Calligraphy

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The Freer Gallery of Art possesses one of the most important collections of Chinese painting outside Asia, and its holdings from the Song and Yuan dynasties (10th–14th centuries) are particularly significant. The collection includes an extraordinary group of eighty-two paintings—illustrating a range of themes, compositions, and stylistic conventions—and three independent works of calligraphy, two of which take the form of rubbings. More than ninety other examples of Song and Yuan calligraphy are featured in frontispieces, inscriptions, or colophons attached to paintings. Many of the eighty-five Freer works have assumed near-iconic status in the study of Chinese brushwork in the West. Despite their exceptional quality, however, most are being thoroughly published for the first time on this website. This pioneering project enables web users around the globe to study these artworks in their entirety and, through the comprehensive documentation of all associated texts and accessories, gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for one of the world's great artistic traditions.

Language

en

Link

Freer/Sackler Gallery: Song and Yuan Dynasty Painting and Calligraphy

Category

Art

EBSCOhost E-Books

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Access to about 1.000 E-Books of the following fields: Business and Economics, Science and Engineering, Social and Behavioral Sciences,Humanities, Area Studies. In addition, about 3.400 free ebooks of all fields may be accessed.

Language

en

Link

EBSCOhost E-Books

Category

eBooks

United Daily News

聯合知識庫

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Full text access to all issues of the newspapers 聯合報, 經濟日報, 聯合晚報, upaper, 美洲世界日報, 民生報, 星報 and 歐洲日報 of the Taiwanese news group "United Daily News".

Language

cn(t)

Link

United Daily News

Category

Periodicals

Apabi Reference Books

Apabi 工具书库

Information

The collection gives access to a broad selection of Chinese dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias etc. including 中国大百科全书， 汉语大词典，辞海 and numerous smaller and specialized reference books. Searches can be performed on the fulltext or confined to head entries, to a certain kind or subject group of reference books and to one specific title. Individual titles can be browsed and read online and scans of the original pages are provided.

Language

cn

Link

Apabi Reference Books

Category

eBooks

Bejing Review

北京周报

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The resource contains not only the full set of the English version of the Beijing Review (or Peking Review respectively 北京周报) from its first issue in 1958 on, but also the full sets of its printed German, French, Spanish and Japanese equivalents, i.e. the Beijing Rundschau (Peking Rundschau), the Beijing Information (Pekin Information), the 北京周報 (pekin shuho) and the Beijing Informa (Pekin Informa), which all started in 1963/1964 (with the exception of two Japanese issues in 1957) and stopped being published in paper in 2000. They are now continued in electronic form and only the English version has a parallel paper version. These electronic versions are currently not included in the database as is the Chinese version.

The Beijing Review:

The Beijing Review reports and comments on the country's social, political, economic end cultural affairs, policy changes and latest developments. It also offers in-depth analysis on major regional and international events, and provides consulting and information services. Over the past 50years, Beijing Review has strived to maintain objective and comprehensive reporting, and is regarded highly, both domestically and internationally, for its effort to serve the needs of its readers, with a circulation of over 70,000 per issue Beijing Review is distributed throughout China and in 150 countries and regions worldwide. Its readers include statesmen, business leaders, government officials, company executives, economists, researchers, scholars and white-collar workers, In addition to the English-language print edition, Beijing Review also publishes online editions in simplified Chinese, English, French, German and Japanese.

Language

en

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Bejing Review

Category

Periodicals

Bibliography of Asian Studies

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This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains over 767,255 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.

Language

en

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Bibliography of Asian Studies

Category

Bibliography

Brockhaus-Enzyklopädie Online

Information

Diese Online-Ausgabe (21. Aufl.) enthält die komplette Textsubstanz der 30 Print-Bände incl. Aktualisierungsservice, d.h., die rund 300.000 Artikel unterliegen einer ständigen Bearbeitung, um einen aktuellen Stand zu sichern. Viele dieser Artikel enthalten neben den ausführlichen Texten auch multimediale Elemente wie Videos, Animationen, Bilder (dpa-Bilddatenbank) oder Tondokumente sowie Zusatzinformationen, wie z. B. Tabellen, Literaturhinweise oder interessante Ergänzungen zum Thema. Daneben finden Sie auch Links, mit deren Hilfe Sie zu verwandten Artikeln im Lexikon oder auch direkt ins Internet zu Websites mit verwandten Themen wechseln können.

Language

de

Link

Brockhaus-Enzyklopädie Online

Category

Encyclopaedias

Buddhist Authority Database Project

佛學名相規範資料庫

Information

These databases integrate information from various projects at the Library and Information Center at Dharma Drum Buddhist College. 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.

Information on Chinese calendar dates

Information on personal names from Buddhist sources

Information on place names from Buddhist sources with latitude and longitude

Language

cn(t), en

Link

Buddhist Authority Database Project

Category

History

Center for Daoist Studies

道學中心

Information

The Center for Daoist Studies (CDS) provides various resources for the study of Daoism.

Language

en, cn(s), cn(t)

Link

Center for Daoist Studies

Category

Religion

CHANT: Pre-Han and Han traditional texts concordance series

漢達文庫

Information

CHANT offers access to different types of Ancient Chinese texts. It consists of the following databases: oracle bone inscriptions (甲骨文文庫: Jiaguwen database), bronce inscriptions (金文文庫: Jinwen database), texts on bamboo slips or silk (竹簡帛書文庫: Jianbo database), texts dating from Han and Pre-Han periods (先秦兩漢文庫) and from the Six Dynasties (魏晉南北朝文庫). While the first four databases assemble transcriptions and images of excavated text written on the different materials, the latter two only give typed texts. You will have to install a special font for each of the first four databases.

Language

cn(t)

Link

CHANT: Pre-Han and Han traditional texts concordance series

Category

Religion

Chinaboard Dictionary

Information

Chinese-German/German-Chinese of the Chinesisch-Deutsche Gesellschaft e.V. Hamburg with 149.199 Chinese entries and 179.803 German translations (Feb.2011).

Language

de, cn(s)

Link

Chinaboard Dictionary

Category

Dictionaries

Chinamaxx E-Book library

Information

Abgeschlossene Volltext-Datenbank chinesischer Publikationen vornehmlich von der Republikzeit (1911-1949) bis in die Gegenwart mit einem Schwerpunkt auf Publikationen aus der Zeit vor 1976. Hierbei handelt es sich um im Ausland schwer beziehbare Titel, da der Buchmarkt für die VR China erst nach den späten 70er Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts im großen Maßstab verfügbar war. 700.000 Titel (Monographien (E-Books), Sammlungen, teilweise Zeitschriften aus der Republikzeit und andere Textformen) aus allen Fachbereichen inklusive Literatur und Archivmaterial. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf den Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften.

Language

cn(s)

Link

Chinamaxx E-Book library

Category

eBooks

China Academic Journals

中國學術期刊

Information

CAJ enthält Volltexte chinesischer wissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften aller Fachgebiete in der Originalsprache. Abgedeckt sind die aktuellen Jahrgänge mit Archiv ab 1994, teilweise bereits retrospektiv ab 1979 oder früher. Insgesamt umfasst die Datenbank etwa 7.450 Zeitschriften mit mehr als 18 Millionen Artikeln (Stand: Juli 2006) und bietet diverse Retrievalmöglichkeiten (inklusive Volltext).

Language

cn(s)

Link

China Academic Journals

Category

eJournals

China Bibliography

Information

This website offers a complex bibliography to china-related topics. The site is structured as follows: general references, selected topics and dynastic histories.

Language

en

Link

China Bibliography

Category

Bibliography

China Biographical Database Project

Information

The China Biographical Database is an online relational database with biographical information about approximately 93000 individuals as of September 2010, primarily from the seventh through nineteenth 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. The long term goal of CBDB is systematically to include all significant biographical material from China’s historical record and to make the contents available free of charge, without restriction, for academic use.

Language

en, cn(t)

Link

China Biographical Database Project

Category

History, Bibliography

Trove

Information

Find and get over 300 million Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more.

Language

en

Link

Trove

Category

eBooks

China Online Journals

Information

The China Online Journals (COJ) database provides full-text access to about 7000 academic journals published in the PRC since 1998. COJ includes journals from the fields of economy, health, science and technology, etc. More than 16 Mio. articles are currently available.

Language

cn(s)

Link

China Online Journals

Category

eJournals

China newspapers full-text database

中国报纸资源全文数据库

Information

The database gives access to a collection of national and regional Chinese newspapers from 2007 until now. Full text, author, title, time range etc. searches, picture search, as well as online reading are avaible for the following selection of newspapers: 解放日报, 东方早报, 北京晨报, 中华合作时报, 中国文物报 starting with 2007; 人民日报, 每日新报, 都市快报, 武汉晨报, 三湘都市报, 南方都市报, 三峡都市报, 西海都市报, 兰州鑫报.

Language

cn(s)

Link

China newspapers full-text database

Category

Periodicals

China Reference Works Online (CNKI)

中国工具书书库

Information

CRWO is an authoritative, comprehensive and continuously updated encyclopedia database. It collects 4000 reference works from over 200 China leading publishers, including dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauruses, cyclopedias, illustrated books, table spectrum, biography, quotations, handbooks ,and so on, covering over 15 million entries and 700 thousand images. The content covers such subjects as philosophy, art, social science, culture, education, natural science, engineering, medicine, which are all written by expert. (...) CRWO is a digitalized integration from traditional reference works, including 10 series and 168 subjects. CRWO provides a powerful full-text searching system, allowing users to obtain all the relevant knowledge information in different books on one platform, thus it is a significant breakthrough in the limit of the traditional searching.

Language

cn(s), cn(t), en

Link

China Reference Works Online (CNKI)

Category

Dictionaries

China Statistical Yearbooks Database

中国统计年鉴数据库

Information

By 2.2011 the database collected altogether 626 titles in 3428 volumes of statistical yearbooks containing a total of over 1,3 Mio. entries (including 917.096 statistical charts). The database is regularly updated. The entries and charts are downloadable only separately. PDF and XLS are offered.

Language

en, cn(s)

Link

China Statistical Yearbooks Database

Category

Yearbooks

China Yearbook Full-text Database

中国年鉴网络出版总库

Information

China Yearbooks Full-text Database (CYFD) is the largest, continuously updated yearbooks full-text database in China. It collects various type of yearbooks including national, regional, industry, enterprise yearbooks and so on. By the end of 2009, there are about 2000 titles, 12681 volumes of yearbooks and 12 million entries in all in the database.

Language

en, cn(s)

Link

China Yearbook Full-text Database

Category

Yearbooks

China Vitae

Information

China Vitae is a resource of biographical information on more than 4000 Chinese leaders in government, politics, the military, education, business, and the media. State-of-the-art search tools facilitate research in depth, and a research library provides historical information on politics and government.

Language

en

Link

China Vitae

Category

Encyclopaedias

China's Labour Union Yearbooks: Zhongguo Gonghui Nianjian 1995-2004

中國工會年鑒

Information

<a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/chs/zg_gonghui_nianjian.rdp" target="_blank">1995-2004</a>

Language

cn(s), en

Link

China's Labour Union Yearbooks: Zhongguo Gonghui Nianjian 1995-2004

Category

Economy, Yearbooks

Chinese Characters Dictionary Web

字典網

Information

Many of the Chinese dictionaries on the web are interlinked at a character-to-character level, allowing visitors to jump across dictionaries to check the same character entry without having to search again for the character. Find a character in any of the incorporated dictionaries and you can follow the blue links, jumping between more than a dozen dictionaries spread across seven countries and four continents.

Language

cn(s), cn(t), en

Link

Chinese Characters Dictionary Web

Category

Dictionaries

Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage

當代漢英詞典

Information

The production of the Web edition of Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage is based on the first edition of the work (hereafter called "the original edition") published in 1972 by the Chinese University Press. The dictionary comprises a total of 8,169 head characters, together with 44,407 explanatory entries of grammatical usage and 40,379 entries of Chinese words or phrases.

Language

cn(t), en

Link

Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage

Category

Dictionaries

Chinese Etymology

Information

Etymological databases of ancient as well as modern Chinese characters.

Language

en, cn(t)

Link

Chinese Etymology

Category

Dictionaries

Chinese- Japanese- Korean- Vietnamese- English Dictionary

Information

Ursprünglich Teil des Digital Dictionary of Buddhism, liefert die Datenbank CJKV-English Dictionary englischsprachige Definitionen zu mehr als 20.000 Begriffen aus der chinesischen, japanischen, koreanischen und vietnamesischen Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte, von der Zhou-Dynastie bis zum 19. Jahrhundert. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf dem Chinesischen, dem Konfuzianismus sowie dem Daoismus.

Language

en, cn(t)

Link

Chinese- Japanese- Korean- Vietnamese- English Dictionary

Category

Dictionaries

Chinese Slang Words

Information

This website provides a list of Chinese slang words with English translations. Categories are obscenities, Falun Gong, Chinese officials, political terms, banned media and true mysteries.

Language

de

Link

Chinese Slang Words

Category

Dictionaries

Chinese Text Project

中國哲學書電子化計劃

Information

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. You may wish to read more about the project, view the full table of contents, or consult the instructions. Some texts are available in translation (e.g. Legge).

Language

en, cn(t)

Link

Chinese Text Project

Category

Literature

Chinesische Collectanea in deutschen Bibliotheken

德國圖書館所藏中文叢書目錄

Information

Nachdem die Katalogisierungsarbeiten im Mai 2005 vorläufig abgeschlossen wurden, präsentieren wir mit dem Verzeichnis chinesischer Collectanea in deutschen Bibliotheken (德國圖書館所藏中文叢書目錄) die Ergebnisse unseres Projekts der Öffentlichkeit. Dieses Verzeichnis weist ca. 31.000 Titel aus 91 Collecantea aus den Beständen der Institute in München und Tübingen sowie der Orient- und Ostasienabteilung der Bayersichen Staatsbibliothek nach.

Language

de

Link

Chinesische Collectanea in deutschen Bibliotheken

Category

Encyclopaedias

Chogonka Scrolls: A Japanese Masterpiece of the 17th Century

長恨歌畫卷

Information

The silk scrolls, painted in the seventeenth century by Kano Sansetu, illustrate a ninth-century epic Chinese poem by the renowned Bai Juyi, telling the story of the Emperor Xuan Zong and his favoured concubine Yang Guifei.Each frame of the scroll tells the story of a verse of the poem. The story is told in two scrolls. You can view either Scroll 1 or Scroll 2. The Introduction sets the scene, the History section explains the background of the artist, the medium and the acquisition of the scrolls by the Chester Beatty Library.

Language

jp, en, de, fr

Link

Chogonka Scrolls: A Japanese Masterpiece of the 17th Century

Category

Art

Classical Historiography for Chinese History

中國經典文獻工具書錄

Information

This website offers a detailed bibliography of china-related sources. All entries are alphabetized and romanized in Hanyu Pinyin. A fulltext search enables you to quickly find the relevant information you need.

Language

en

Link

Classical Historiography for Chinese History

Category

Encyclopaedias

Complete classics collection of Ancient China

古今圖書集成

Information

The Gujin tushu jicheng, compiled by Chen Menglei et al. and published with movable copper type in 1726-28, is by far the largest leishu to have been printed (6,109 subsections, 852,408 pages.) Under each subsection excerpts from sources are gathered from the beginnings of writing to the 17th century, from a 18th-century standpoint.

Language

en

Link

Complete classics collection of Ancient China

Category

Encyclopaedias

Dacheng Old Periodicals Database

大成老旧刊全文数据库

Information

《大成老旧刊全文数据库》收录了清末到1949年近80年间中国出版的6000余种期刊、共12万余期、130余万篇文章。采用中国图书分类法期刊分类表分类、共有22个大类、所有涉及哲学经济、政治军事、工农交通、文理史地、天文医药等等各大门类都有收录。具有很强的历史研究价值、科学研究价值、文学研究价值。大成老旧刊全部采用原件高清扫描、很多期刊多属于国内不多见的珍本、史料珍贵、数据独有、内容丰富、检索方便。是研究各个学科发展、科技传承脉络的不可或缺的数据库工具。

Language

cn(s)

Link

Dacheng Old Periodicals Database

Category

Periodicals

Daoist Studies

道教研究

Information

The Daoist Studies website is a portal designed to assist researchers and scholars of Daoism, practitioners, and interested members of the public in furthering knowledge about Daoism. It is not affiliated with, nor does it represent any religious institution. The website features an extensive bibliography of secondary sources as well as links to collections of Daoist texts including the an index to the Daozang 道臧 and PDF facsimiles of the Zangwai Daoshu 臧外道書 and other e-texts.

Language

en

Link

Daoist Studies

Category

Religion, Bibliography

Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

Information

Dieses Wörterbuch ist eine Kompilation buddhistischer Termini, Texte, Personen etc. aus verschiedenen buddhistischen kanonischen Quellen.

Language

en, cn(t)

Link

Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

Category

Language

Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty

Information

The "Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty (DGSD) is the most comprehensive print source for Song geography in any language. DGSD is a MySQL database derived primarily from the Alphabetical List. The Alphabetical List is an index to every jurisdiction in the Song (960-1276) spatial administrative hierarchy named in one or more of the following three Song texts: the Song History (宋史Song shi) Geography Monograph, the 980 Records of the Universal Realm in the Taiping Era (太平寰宇紀Taiping huanyu ji), and the 1085 Treatise on the Nine Territories in the Yuanfeng Reign (元豐九域志Yuanfeng jiuyu zhi). The DGSD is designed to identify the events that transformed the political landscape, and to make the histories of often fluid places as accessible as the names of the jurisdictions.

Language

en

Link

Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty

Category

History

Digital Library & Museum of Buddhism

佛學數位圖書館暨博物館

Information

Digital Library & Museum of Buddhism commits itself to the promotion of the studies of Buddhism by disseminating via the electronic medium in-depth information and writings generously contributed by dedicated and reputable scholars, researchers, academic institutes and Buddhist organizations worldwide. The Scholarly Databases currently holds over 98,000 bibliographies and provides approximately 2,400 full texts on various subjects for free access and download.

Language

en, cn(t)

Link

Digital Library & Museum of Buddhism

Category

Religion, Bibliography

Eighteeth Century Collections Online

Information

Eighteenth Century Collections Online bieten auf der Grundlage des English Short Title Catalogue einen Zugang zu über 180.000 Titeln von primär in Großbritannien erschienenen Büchern, Pamphleten, Essays und Einblattdrucken. Die Sammlung beinhaltet fachlich Werke aus der Geschichte, Geographie, den Schönen Künsten, den Sozialwissenschaften, Sprache und Literatur, Theologie und Philosophie, Recht sowie Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik. Nahezu 40 Millionen Seiten können auf der Basis einer Volltextsuche mit einfachen und erweiterten Sucheinstiegen recherchiert werden.

Language

en

Link

Eighteeth Century Collections Online

Category

Encyclopaedias

EIU Country Reports

Information

Die Datenbank des Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) bietet monatlich aktualisierte Länderberichte (Country Reports) von allen Staaten der Erde. Die Länderberichte umfassen Informationen zur aktuellen und zukünftig zu erwartenden wirtschaftlichen und politischen Entwicklung, zum Außenhandel sowie einen Überblick über die wichtigsten ökonomischen Indikatoren. Das Archiv umfasst alle Länderberichte seit 1996.

Language

en

Link

EIU Country Reports

Category

Economy

English-Chinese Glossary of Computer and Network Communication Terms

英漢計算機及網絡通訊技術詞彙

Information

An alphabetised collection of computer and network related terms provided by Sun Zehua.

Language

en, cn(t)

Link

English-Chinese Glossary of Computer and Network Communication Terms

Category

Dictionaries

Grand Ricci, Le

利氏漢法辭典

Information

Größtes chinesisch-westlichsprachiges Wörterbuch, mit Einträgen zu rund 13.500 Schriftzeichen und 280.000 zusammengesetzten Wörtern und Wendungen. Weitere Besonderheiten sind, dass es sowohl klassisches als auch modernes Chinesisch erfasst, Zeichenformen auch in Orakelknochenschrift angibt und weitere etymologische Hinweise bietet, was in zweisprachigen Wörterbüchern sonst nicht üblich ist.

Language

cn(s), cn(t), fr

Link

Grand Ricci, Le

Category

Dictionaries

Gujin Tushu Jicheng

古今圖書集成

Information

The Gujin tushu jicheng, compiled by Chen Menglei et al. and published with movable copper type in 1726-28, is by far the largest leishu to have been printed (6,109 subsections, 852,408 pages.) Under each subsection excerpts from sources are gathered from the beginnings of writing to the 17th century, from a 18th-century standpoint.

Language

en

Link

Gujin Tushu Jicheng

Category

Encyclopaedias

Guodian Chu Bamboo Texts

郭店楚簡資料庫

Information

Digital version of the 1993 discovered bamboo stripes from Guodian (Jingmen, Hubei) dating back to the Warring States period.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Guodian Chu Bamboo Texts

Category

Literature

Guoxue baodian

国学宝典

Information

"Guoxue baodian" is the largest volume in Chinese Classic Literature study. The contents cover most varieties of subjects in Chinese Classical Literature. For example, it covers most valuable contents of SiKuQuanShu WenYuanGe Version, plus more valuable contents and titles. In addition, the database supplies with punctuated traditional and simplified version, with fine illustrations.

Language

cn(s), cn(t)

Link

Guoxue baodian

Category

Literature

Handian: Zdic.net

漢典

Information

Online dictionary that accepts both simplified and traditional search queries. Entries include pronunciation in both pinyin and zhuyin. Perhaps the best feature is the inclusion of both the Shuowen jiezi 說文解字 and Kangxi zidian 康熙字典.

Language

en, cn(t)

Link

Handian: Zdic.net

Category

Dictionaries

Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online

Information

The Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online is a full-text image database providing access to past revised editions of Hong Kong Laws. The database comprises a total of seven consolidations of the laws of Hong Kong: 1890, 1901, 1912, 1923, 1937, 1950, and 1964 (last updated to 1989).

With the current Laws of Hong Kong available on the web, the Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online database rightly fills the gap in legal research on the historical development of the law of Hong Kong.

Language

en

Link

Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online

Category

Law

Hong Kong Government Reports Online

Information

Hong Kong Government Reports Online (HKGRO) is a full-text image database providing online access to pre-World War II issues of four major government publications, namely, Administrative Report, Hong Kong Sessional Papers, Hong Kong Hansard and Hong Kong Government Gazette. It contains a wide range of information, such as official notifications, proceedings of the Legislative Council, statistics, and reports of government departments and special committees, which are essential to students and scholars in conducting research on Hong Kong.

Language

en

Link

Hong Kong Government Reports Online

Category

Politics

Hong Kong Journals Online

Information

Hong Kong Journals Online (HKJO) is a full-text image database providing access to selected academic and professional journals, both in English and Chinese, published in Hong Kong. Titles included in this database cover a wide range of disciplines including law, medicine and education. The University of Hong Kong Libraries, with a rich collection of Hong Kong journals, developed this database with the objectives of facilitating efficient information retrieval and preserving archival materials. Issues included in this database vary from journal to journal with the earliest going back to 1872. At its first release, more than 170,000 images from over 40 titles will be accessible on the database. More titles with permission granted for digitising their full text will be included to the database. New issues of the titles will also be added as soon as being received. Scholars doing research on Hong Kong will find this an invaluable resource.

Language

en

Link

Hong Kong Journals Online

Category

Periodicals

Human Rights Watch: China

Information

Background and Reports about China from Human Rights Watch, "one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights".

Language

en

Link

Human Rights Watch: China

Category

Politics

Indica et Buddhica: Materials for Indology and Buddhology

Information

Materials for Indology and Buddhology with lexica, machine readable texts and digital instruments for philological research, guides, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc. Access to the material requires free registration.

Language

en

Link

Indica et Buddhica: Materials for Indology and Buddhology

Category

Religion

Journal Storage (JSTOR)

Information

JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a United States-based online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals.

Language

en

Link

Journal Storage (JSTOR)

Category

eJournals

Kaifang Cidian: Cantonese

開放詞典:粵語

Information

Mandarin to Cantonese and vice versa dictionary with transliteration.

Language

can, cn(t)

Link

Kaifang Cidian: Cantonese

Category

Dictionaries

Kangxi Zidian

康熙字典

Information

Initiated on imperial order, the Kangxi zidian 康熙字典 (The Imperial Character Dictionary) was first published in 1716 after about five years of compilation. Emperor Kangxi wrote the preface to the dictionary and thus granted the book and the system of 214 radicals the dictionary uses for structuring its content official status. Containing 47.035 entries it remained the most popular and comprehensive Chinese character dictionary up to time Morohashi's Dai kanwa jiten was published in the 1950ies. The database provides radical, stroke count and pinyin/zhuyinzimu indexes. Full text searches are also possible. For each character its modern reading and the Unicode code point are given. The display of the entries can be switched between simplified and traditional characters and scans from the late Qing Wentong edition (文同書局) are provided for comparison. The original pages may also be printed.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Kangxi Zidian

Category

Dictionaries

Kidai Shôran

煕代勝覧

Information

This application presents the 12-metre-long Japanese "Kidai Shôran" picture scroll from the early 19th century. The unique work shows Tokyo’s most important trading street at that time. Featuring upwards over 1,000 figures, 40 different shops and hundreds of houses, the brightly coloured scroll is testimony to the rich tapestry of life in the Japan of the early 1800s. The presentation gives visitors the opportunity to interact with the past and experience the multifarious content of the original. It offers information on many aspects of life at the time including religion, customs, fashion.

Language

de, jp, fr, en

Link

Kidai Shôran

Category

Art

Kokka Magazine 1889-2007

國華

Information

Kokka magazine(國華) is an important monthly periodical which has continued, with some breaks, from 1889 to the present. Each issue has a number of articles, mostly by Japanese scholars, on Oriental art, history and architecture, with a strong emphasis on Buddhist art. Most issues of the Kokka contain one or more original colour chromoxylographs (a type of woodcut), collotype plates and line drawings.

Language

jp

Link

Kokka Magazine 1889-2007

Category

Art, Periodicals

Law Info China

北大法律英文网

Information

The database offers to access to Chinese laws in English translation as well as some hundred case studies, texts of international collective agreements and WTO-documents. Additionally, there are always up-date-news on Chinese legislation, TOCs of official gazettes and learned journals. Searches can be performed either in Enlish or in Chinese. The results may be displayed in both, English and Chinese.

Language

en, cn(s)

Link

Law Info China

Category

Law

LEO: Chinesisch

Information

Link Everything Online (LEO) Chinesisch-Wörterbuch mit ca. 135.000 Einträgen (Feb.2011).

Language

cn(s), de

Link

LEO: Chinesisch

Category

Dictionaries

Lienü zhuan

列女傳

Information

This project focuses on the Lienü zhuan (Traditions of Exemplary Women) of Liu Xiang (77-6 B.C.), the earliest extant book in the Chinese tradition solely devoted to the moral education of women. The book consists of biographical accounts of female role models in early China and became the standard textbook for women’s education for the next two millennia. The Lienü zhuan offers important insights into the culture, politics, and social structure of early China, as well as into the representation of women in various phases of China’s history. This digital archive serves as a publicly accessible tool for scholarly exploration (in both English and Chinese) of women’s social, legal, and ritual status as represented in the early phase of Chinese history.

Language

en, cn(t)

Link

Lienü zhuan

Category

Literature

Ling Long Women's Magazine

鈴瓏

Information

Ling long women's magazine, published in Shanghai from 1931 to 1937, was popular during a time of dramatic material, social, and political change in China. Today, the magazine offers researchers a unique glimpse into women's lives in Republican-era (1911-49) Shanghai. This site features Columbia University's collection of Ling long magazine, one of the most complete holdings outside China.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Ling Long Women's Magazine

Category

Periodicals

MDBG Dictionary

Information

This website offers more than just a dictionary, it offers various tools such as: flashcards, quizzes, text annotation, Chinese text input and more.

Language

cn(s), en

Link

MDBG Dictionary

Category

Dictionaries

Naver News Library

東亞日報, 京鄕新聞, 每日經濟新聞, 韩係來新聞

Information

Naver is NHN's renowned search engine and portal service, which accounts for approximately 70% of searches performded in Korea. Naver News Library provides high-quality news archive services for four major newspapers in Korea (Dong-A Ilbo, Kyunghyang Shinmun, Maeil Business Newspaper, Hankyoreh). Integrating extensive metadata information, the database enables users to perform searches in a wide range of categories according to subjects and document types. The platform offers powerfull viewer software that allows users to engage in experience very similar to reading the original newspapers.

The Naver News Library platform received the iF Design Award and the Red Dot Communication Award in 2010.

Language

kr

Link

Naver News Library

Category

Periodicals

People's Daily: Renmin Ribao

人民日報

Information

This fulltext-database offers access to all issues of the Renmin Ribao from its earliest appearance in 1946 on up to the present. The latest year will be available only in the following year. All issues are fulltext searchable and PDFs of the original are provided.

Language

cn(s)

Link

People's Daily: Renmin Ribao

Category

Periodicals

Policies and laws of China

中国法律法规

Information

The database gives full-text access to juridical material from the foundation of the PRC in 1949 until the present day. By 12.2010 the database included 357.426 items coming from the areas of national, administrational and regional law and regulations, but also contains international treaties as well as conventions, judicial interpretations and analysis of cases etc. The database is updated regularly (see the Wanfang data main page 首页 for latest update and number of current entries).

Language

cn(s)

Link

Policies and laws of China

Category

Law

Proquest

Information

The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database (PQDT) is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. It is the database of record for graduate research, with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses included from around the world. In addition, nearly one million dissertations and theses are available for download in PDF format.

Language

en

Link

Proquest

Category

Encyclopaedias

Qiushi

求是杂志

Information

Qiushi ("Seeking truth") is the main organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the PRC. From late 2009 on the journal - or excerpts from the journal - also appear in English. The database gives access to the searchable full text of the English edition. PDF for download are provided. The predecessor "Hongqi 红旗", may be accessed here.

Language

en

Link

Qiushi

Category

Periodicals

Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong

毛主席语录

Information

The text is verbatim from the second edition of "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung", printed in Peking in 1967.

Language

en

Link

Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong

Category

Literature

SAT Daizōkyō Text Database

大正新脩大藏經

Information

Full text of 85 volumes of Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō (大正新脩大藏經)one of the most important editions of the Chinese Buddhist Canon and its Japanese commentaries used by scholars in the 20th century.

Language

en, cn(t)

Link

SAT Daizōkyō Text Database

Category

Religion

Scripta Sinica

漢籍電子文獻

Information

The project for the Scripta Sinica database began in 1984. The first aim of this project was to digitize all documents essential to research in traditional Sinology. Secondly, a full-text database was established for academic research. Until present, Scripta Sinica is the largest Chinese full text database to encompass an enormous breadth of historical materials of this scale.

More than 460 titles （new titles） and 402,000,000 characters of materials pertaining to the traditional Chinese classics have been included in the database and have been categorized with meticulous care. The Scripta Sinica database contains almost all of the important Chinese classics, especially those related to Chinese history. In the future, we will continue with the digitalization of more historical materials, and add new features to the system. We hope to provide scholars, students, and the general public with an excellent full-text database and search engine for the study of Chinese history and culture.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Scripta Sinica

Category

Literature

Sibu Congkan

四部叢刊

Information

This completely web-based database comprises two outstanding and huge publications of the 1920s and 1930ies that assembled hundreds of representative traditional or pre-1912 Chinese books, i.e. the Sibu congkan 四部叢刊 ("Printed Collection of the Four Branches of Literature") and the Sibu beiyao 四部備要 ("Essentials of the Four Branches of Literature").

Language

cn(t)

Link

Sibu Congkan

Category

Literature

Siku Quanshu: Complete library in four branches of Literatur

四庫全書

Information

Based on the "Wenyuan Ge (文淵閣)" copy of the Siku quanshu. Wenyuan Ge was the palace library of the Qing Dynasty. It was located inside the Forbidden City of Beijing. In the late 1940s, the entire Wenyuan Ge copy of Siku quanshu was moved to Taiwan and was photo-lithographically reprinted in the 1980. This electronic database, published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Digital Heritage Publishing Ltd. consists of 183 CD-ROMs and contains the complete contents, in full text and image, of the 3460+ titles of the Siku Quanshu. The database comprises 800 million characters, arranged under almost 2 million piece titles.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Siku Quanshu: Complete library in four branches of Literatur

Category

Literature

Song Research Tools

Information

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, Harvard College Professor and Charles H. Carswell 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 edition, last updated in November 2006, contains more than 200 new titles.

Language

en

Link

Song Research Tools

Category

Encyclopaedias

Taibei Palace Museum Classical Documents Fulltext Database

故宮【寒泉】古典文獻全文檢索資料庫

Information

This database is a fulltext collection of the following texts: 13 classics (十三經), Pre-Qin Scholars (先秦諸子), Complete Tang Poems (全唐詩), Records of Song and Yuan Scholars (宋元學案), Records of Ming Scholars (明儒學案), Index of Siku Quanshu (四庫總目), Zhuzi Yulei (朱子語類), Dream of the Red Chamber (紅樓夢), Baisha Quanji (白沙全集), Comprehensive Mirror to Aid the Government (資治通鑑) and Xutongjian (續通鑑).

Language

cn(t)

Link

Taibei Palace Museum Classical Documents Fulltext Database

Category

Literature

Taiwan National Central Library: Index to Taiwan Periodical Literatur

國家圖書館:臺灣期刊論文索引

Information

Contains index of academic articles published in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore from 1970. Some titles allow full text access.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Taiwan National Central Library: Index to Taiwan Periodical Literatur

Category

Literature

Virtual Religion Index

Information

This Virtual Religion Index (VRI) is a tool for students with little time. It analyzes & highlights important content of religion-related websites to speed research. Hyperlinks are provided not only to homepages but to major directories & documents within. Includes Buddhism, Shintoism, Daoism, etc.

Language

en

Link

Virtual Religion Index

Category

Religion

Visualizing Early Chinese Landscape Painting - A Lecture Series

Information

This videotaped and moving-image lecture series, conceived by U.C. Berkeley Professor Emeritus James Cahill, is a legacy of his life's work in the history of the visual arts of China. Composed of short introductions and over 2,200 detailed high-resolution images of selected Chinese paintings and works of pictorial art from the early period up to the end of the Song dynasty in the late thirteenth century, this series was written and narrated entirely by Professor Cahill. For ease of viewing, the lectures contain chapter markers identifying the major works of art discussed. In addition, the names of some artists and works are given in pinyin and traditional and simplified Chinese characters. Lecture notes, which provide further information on the topics discussed as well as suggested readings, accompany the video files. The goal of the project, which began in 2009 and continues into 2011, is the creation of approximately 34 hours of multimedia lecture-style presentations. The first six lectures (in seven files), each lasting one to two hours, are now available.

Language

en

Link

Visualizing Early Chinese Landscape Painting - A Lecture Series

Category

Art

Western Books on China

Information

This new online collection comprises a descriptive, annotated bibliography of 654 early Western books on Imperial China up to 1850, all to be found in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. The collection is based on the book Western Books on China published up to 1850 by John Lust.

The material is of unique historical interest, containing scrutiny of China by Western societies. The material contains an abundance of observations. The books, in a variety of Western languages, testify to the formidable difficulties encountered by Westerners, who attempted to extend their own familiar historical, linguistic and religious perceptions to the Chinese context.

In 1987 the project was published by IDC on microfiche. Now the collection is completely digitized to be published in an online subscription-based environment. The collection offers advanced research tools, such as MARC applications for the bibliographical material. Sources are now ranged by subject and all texts are fully readable. Search on title, author, language, year and place of publication is all possible. All pages can be printed and downloaded.

Language

en

Link

Western Books on China

Category

eBooks

WiseSearch Periodicals Database

慧科資訊

Information

The resource gives access to hundreds of newspapers, magazines, government and company informations etc. from Taiwan, Mainland China, Hongkong and Macao and some "other countries". Via WiseSearch users may search by combinded keywords, confine their searches to a specific time range, to headlines or full text as well as to specific sources selectable under "Search Options". There short a short "info" of the resource can be found. Hit lists can be further "refined" and "filtered by source". Full texts can be viewed online or collected in a TempFolder and then downloaded to your local computer. The package we have currently subscribed starts with the year 1998 and does not include the image and video package. An English userguide is provided on the web page. Citation: "WiseSearch offers the world's largest Chinese and English language database of published information from Greater China. ... WiseSearch is a powerful search engine which allows you to search all news information from hundreds of media sources in Wisers’ high-capacity archive. With our latest search functions and indexing technology, news article search is made more accurate and efficient over the Internet. ... You may input either English or Chinese keyword(s) to retrieve various news archive from our daily updated database built up from over 900 sources (as of Aug 2010). Use alphabetical connectors “and”, “or”, “not”, or symbolic connectors “+”, “/”, “-” to build sophisticated search strings for more targeted results. Check the box “Search with similar words” then bilingual terms (in English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese), abbreviations, and acronyms will be automatically added to your keyword search string."

Language

cn(s)

Link

WiseSearch Periodicals Database

Category

eJournals

WISO Wissenschaften

Information

Die Volltextdatenbank "WISO Wissenschaften" (Portal für Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Sozialwissenschaften) ermöglicht den Zugriff auf über 340 Fachzeitschriften aus den Gebieten Wirtschaftstheorie und Wirtschaftspraxis. Der Teil Sozialwissenschaften liefert Literaturhinweise aus den Gebieten Sozialwissenschaften und Politik ZU Beginn des Jahres 2011 wurden diverse neue E-Books in Wiso integriert. Es stehen jetzt über 1.100 E-Books zu den verschiedensten betriebswirtschaftlichen Fachgebieten sowie aus den Bereichen VWL und Sozialwissenschaften zur Verfügung.

Language

en, de

Link

WISO Wissenschaften

Category

eJournals, eBooks

World Development Report: 1978 - 2001

Information

World Development Reports by the World Bank (1978 - 2000/2001)

Language

en

Link

World Development Report: 1978 - 2001

Category

Economy

World Legal Information Institute: China + Taiwan

Information

WorldLII is a "free, independent and non-profit global legal research facility" affiliated with several academic legal information institutes, among them Cornell's Legal Information Institute and others from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, South Africa, Britain and Ireland, and the University of the South Pacific School of Law. WorldLII provides a single search facility for over 270 databases from 48 jurisdictions in 20 countries, among them China + Taiwan.

Language

en, cn(s)

Link

World Legal Information Institute: China + Taiwan

Category

Law

WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist Texts

Information

The WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist texts is a comprehensive list of Chinese Buddhist texts. It currently contains 4418 texts by 1513 authors/translators/compilers.

Language

cn(t)

Link

WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist Texts

Category

Religion

Youdao Dictionary

有道词典

Information

Online Dictionary that pools together results from various sources. It is also possible to search for phrases and entire sentences with Youdao Dictionary as the search includes many bilingual websites.

Language

en, cn(s)

Link

Youdao Dictionary

Category

Dictionaries

YellowBridge Chinese-English Talking Dictionary

黄桥

Information

Comprehensive Chinese-English Talking Dictionary. Features word and character decomposition, pronunciation, etymologial data and more.

Language

en, cn(s)

Link

YellowBridge Chinese-English Talking Dictionary

Category

Dictionaries

Yomiuri Shimbun

讀賣新聞

Information

Fulltext database of Yomiuri Shimbun(読売新聞), one of the five national newspapers in Japan. This fully searchable database includes every issue of Yomiuri Shimbun from 1889 to 1980.

Language

jp

Link

Yomiuri Shimbun

Category

Periodicals

Harvard Visual Information Access (VIA)

Information

VIA (Visual Information Access) is a growing online union catalog documenting the arts, material culture, and social history. VIA contains descriptive records and images representing paintings, sculpture, photography, drawings, prints, architecture, decorative arts, trade cards, rubbings, theater designs, maps and plans. Participating repositories include archives, museums, libraries, and other collections throughout Harvard University. New material is added to VIA daily.

Language

en

Link

Harvard Visual Information Access (VIA)

Category

Art

Naxi manuscripts collection

Information

Original materials were acquired by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1884-1962) and Quentin Roosevelt (1919-1948). The Harvard-Yenching Library's holdings (510 from Joseph Rock and 88 from Quentin Roosevelt together with three long funereal scrolls) were acquired by Harvard-Yenching Institute in 1945.

Historical Note:

The Naxi (Chinese people) are an ethnic minority in the northwestern part of Yunnan Province in China, near the borders of Tibet and Burma. The population is estimated to be around 250,000, and made up largely of farmers and traders. The Naxi language is the only remaining living pictographic language today.

Language

en

Link

Naxi manuscripts collection

Category

Art

Chinese Pamphlets: a digital collection

連環畫

Information

Political Communications and Mass Education in China in the Early Years of the People’s Republic.

The holdings at the Center for Research Libraries are especially rich in primary documents of political communications. The pamphlets, reports, newspapers, and other kinds of printed materials held by CRL chronicle the activities of political figures, parties and organizations around the globe. Such documents are vital source materials for history and area studies, but tend to be produced erratically and disappear quickly.

The Hunter Collection consists of mass education materials published in Hong Kong and in Mainland China, particularly Shanghai, in the years 1947-1954. These include approximately 200 cartoon books, pamphlets, postcards, and magazines, heavily pictorial in content, on such topics as foreign threats to Chinese security, Chinese relations with the Soviet Union, industrial and agricultural production, and marriage reform. The materials were produced by both Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist) and Communist regimes, and appear to be directed at the general youth and adult populations of China.

Language

en

Link

Chinese Pamphlets: a digital collection

Category

Politics

Qing and Republican Documents Collection

中国清代民国公私文書コレクション

Information

The Qing and Republican Documents Collection consists of image files of almost 300 items from the Qing and Republican periods. It includes contracts dealing with pledge-leasing, rental, property rights, tax, and other private and official documents.

Language

en, jp

Link

Qing and Republican Documents Collection

Category

History

Chinese Text Initiative

中華文學集錦

Information

The Chinese Text Initiative of the University of Virginia Library provides you with Chinese full-texts and English translations of the 300 Tang Poems, Gu Yao Yan, Shi Jing, Hong Lou Meng, Yu Xuan Ji and Lienü Zhuan.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Chinese Text Initiative

Category

Literature

Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books

東洋文庫所蔵

Information

The digital archive (image database) of basic references on Silk Road, including 116 rare books (33 authors : 30,091 pages) through the digitization of whole books from cover to cover.

Language

jp, en

Link

Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books

Category

Literature

Continuous Revolution, A

Information

This database was conceptualized both as an online companion to the printed edition of "A Continuous Revolution: Making Sense of Cultural Revolution Culture" by Prof. Dr. Barbara Mittler and as an online database about Cultural Revolution Culture that can be used independently as a "virtual museum".

Language

cn(s), en

Link

Continuous Revolution, A

Category

History

Chinese Women's Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period

Information

This database of the Heidelberg Research Architecture (HRA) is linked to a collaborative project funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the German Humboldt Foundation. The primary objective of the project is to restore complexity to early-twentieth-century Chinese history by liberating that history from its own reductive discourses on the failings of tradition and the promise of modernity. Our instrument and object of investigation is the popular press, a new medium that dominated the contemporary print market and became one of the prime sites for the dissemination of knowledge and the production of culture. In particular, our focus is on four seminal women's or gendered journals—a key genre of the popular media—published between 1904 and 1937. They include Nüzi shijie (Women's World, 1904-07), Funü shibao (The Women's Eastern Times, 1911-17), Funü zazhi (The Ladies' Journal, 1915-31), and Linglong (Elegance, 1931-37).

Language

cn(t), en

Link

Chinese Women's Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period

Category

Literature

Ming-Qing Archives Name Authority File

明清檔案人名權威資料庫

Information

A collaborative effort by Academia Sinica and the National Palace Museum in Taiwan to create a searchable and cross-referenced database of biographical information for personal names in the Grand Secretariat and Grand Council archives held at their institutions. Searching is by keyword 不限欄位, name 姓名, alternate name 異名, native place 籍貫, and official title 職銜. A GIS component allows mapping of place names. References to information on individuals is also included in the entries. The authority file is open to the world, but a TIF viewer must be installed. This viewer is downloadable from the site.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Ming-Qing Archives Name Authority File

Category

History

Chinese-Western Calendar Conversion Tool

兩千年中西曆轉換

Information

The Chinese-Western Calendar Conversion Tool enables you to convert Chinese to Western dates and vice versa. It works for all dates between 1 AD and 2100 AD.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Chinese-Western Calendar Conversion Tool

Category

History

Japan Center for Asian Historical Records

Information

JACAR is a digital database testifying to Japan's historical relations in Asia as well as elsewhere. This site provides access to official documents of the Japanese Cabinet, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Army and Navy. In an effort to share history as it has been documented, JACAR's archives showcase the original records, including full images of the documents, all in digitized form, on an unprecedented scale.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Japan Center for Asian Historical Records

Category

History

Tripitaka Koreana (info)

八萬大藏經

Information

Another edition of the Korean Buddhist Kanon, the Tripitaka Koreana. It features a lot of historical background, interpretation and picture material.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Tripitaka Koreana (info)

Category

Religion

Taiwan Archives of the Office of the Chief Executive

行政長官公署檔案

Information

The Office of the Taiwan Chief Executive was the special governmental organization set up by the National Government in the early years after World war II, and was mainly occupied with property expropriation and rebuilding affairs. The files of the Office ofthe Taiwan Chief Executive were divided into permanent records and ordinary records, with the content spanning all sorts of documents transferred between departments, committees, bureaus and regional governments. These are further distinguised by type into official records, mail records, and addenda, totaling nearly 320,000 pages in almost 5,525 volumes. The content covers expropriation measures, governmental guidelines, l

Language

cn(t)

Link

Taiwan Archives of the Office of the Chief Executive

Category

History

Taiwan National Museum of History Image Collection

國立歷史博物館典藏資料

Information

This website offers a wide range of photographs and scans of the museums exhibits. The collection is organised by categories such as calligraphy, documents, ivory, glas, porcellain, bronze, etc. and comprises a small selection of meta data.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Taiwan National Museum of History Image Collection

Category

Art

Digital Archive of Bronze Rubbings

青銅器拓片數位典藏

Information

Fu Ssu-Nien Library of the Institute of History and Philology holds more than 10,000 bronze rubbings (bronze script rubbings) which are the treasured collections of the famous connoisseurs Liu Li-zh and Chen Jie-chi from the late Ch'ing to the early Republic of China. Many of these rubbings were made by the renown artisans Chou Kang-yuan and Wang Siou-ren themselves. These beautifully made and carefully sealed rubbings, not only preserving the scripts, decorative patterns and shapes of many bronze artefacts, but also recording the remarks and seals of many past collectors and reviewers, are great works of art. In order to improve both the public access to these precious rubbings and their preservation condition, the Institute has worked hard on their digitalisation for public use on line. In 2004 the Institute officially announced its Bronze Rubbings Digital Archives at a conference on bronze and stone.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Digital Archive of Bronze Rubbings

Category

Art

Buddhist Rubbings Collection

佛教石刻造像拓本

Information

The Buddhist rubbings collection in Fu Ssu-nian Library is the largest one in Taiwan. A majority of these rubbings are from China, including Henan, Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Sichuan and Gansu provinces. These rubbings are dated from the 5th century to the modern time. In addition, several rubbings are from foreign countries, such as the inscriptions of Sakyamuni and Bhaisajyaguru statues in the Golden Hall of Horyu-ji Tempel in Japan. From the seals on the rubbings, we know some former collectors such as Gui Fu, Duan Fang, Zhou Xingyi, Xu Naichang, Ke Changsi, Pan Zuyin and Liu Xihai. Some of the rubbings were collected by Mr. Shi Zhangru, a researcher of the institute, during his field trips in the Yao County, Shaanxi, in the 1940's. The content of the rubbing is generally about the wishes of the devotees, circumstances for making statues, including the organizations of the devotees. Writing of the epigraphy provides important social historical information for ancient China.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Buddhist Rubbings Collection

Category

Religion

Taiwan Palast Museum Calligraphy Digital Archive

故宮書畫數位典藏

Information

This website offers a wide range of photographs and scans of the museums calligraphy exhibits. You may search the them by object name or number. Meta data are substantial including the digitized text of the calligraphies and other valuable information.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Taiwan Palast Museum Calligraphy Digital Archive

Category

Art

Digital Archives of Famous Personages, Diplomatic Records, and Economic Records in Modern China

近代名人暨外交經濟檔案數位典藏

Information

The Opium War instigated the dramatic changes in modern China. Negotiations with foreign powers after the middle of the 19th century became the core of development in Chinese history. Foreigners came to fight for their interests in China; China aimed at building up military might and national wealth as the way of survival. Since the late Qing, Chinese modern history has been focused on foreign issues and national development. The archives collected and store up on the Institute of Modern History of Academia Sinica from Chinese diplomatic and economic offices in the modern era are the jewels in the study of modern Chinese history. The project to digitalize this collections will help the keeping and improve the effectiveness of use of these files and build a more intimate and broader platform for academic dissemination and research needs.

Language

en, cn(t)

Link

Digital Archives of Famous Personages, Diplomatic Records, and Economic Records in Modern China

Category

History

Yearbooks on Chinese Communist Studies

中共年報

Information

<a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zhonggongnianbao2001.rdp" target="_blank">2001</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zhonggongnianbao2002.rdp" target="_blank">2002</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zhonggongnianbao2003.rdp" target="_blank">2003</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zhonggongnianbao2004.rdp" target="_blank">2004</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zhonggongnianbao2006.rdp" target="_blank">2006</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zhonggongnianbao2011.rdp" target="_blank">2011</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zhonggongnianbao2012.rdp" target="_blank">2012</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zhonggongnianbao2013.rdp" target="_blank">2013</a>

Language

cn(s)

Link

Yearbooks on Chinese Communist Studies

Category

Yearbooks

Yearbooks on Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy

中国中医药年鉴

Information

<a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zg_yiyao_nianjian_2008.rdp" target="_blank">2008</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zg_yiyao_nianjian_2009.rdp" target="_blank">2009</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/chs/zg_yiyao_nianjian_2010.rdp" target="_blank">2010</a>, <a href="http://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/rdp/cht/zg_yiyao_nianjian_2011.rdp" target="_blank">2011</a>

Language

cn(s), en

Link

Yearbooks on Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy

Category

Yearbooks

National Taiwan Normal University Electronic Theses & Dissertations

國立台灣師範大學博碩士論文系統

Information

The National Taiwan Normal University Electronic Theses & Dissertations Database comprises over 16.000 fulltext records and over 22.000 abstract records of theses and dissertations written in Taiwan. The collection can be searched by various parameters.

Language

en, cn(t)

Link

National Taiwan Normal University Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Category

Literature

Digital Archive of Japanese Colonial-Age Literature

臺南大學日治時代日文珍本數位典藏計畫

Information

The Digital Archive of Japanese Colonial-Age Literature of the National University of Tainan compromises 58 digitized books and 929 images from the Japanese colonial era on Taiwan. The scans (books and images) are searchable only by keyword/title. No fulltext search is provided. The scans are of high quality. All book scans are free to download as PDF file.

Language

en, cn(t)

Link

Digital Archive of Japanese Colonial-Age Literature

Category

Literature

East Asian Library and the Gest Collection: Medical Texts

普林斯頓大學葛思德東亞圖書館

Information

The East Asian Library of Princeton University has for the past few years been engaged in the digitization of some of its rare titles, or rare editions of titles, most recently as part of a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation-funded cooperative project with the Harvard-Yenching Library of Harvard University, the Library of Congress, and the Fu Sinian Library of the Academia Sinica.

Language

en, cn(t)

Link

East Asian Library and the Gest Collection: Medical Texts

Category

Literature

East Asian Library: Digital Text Collection

Information

This collection of the University of Pittsburgh compromises thirty-six titles (37 volumes) about Modern China published in the first half of the twentieth century. The titles cover two categories: Primary sources and Reference tools.

Language

en, cn(t)

Link

East Asian Library: Digital Text Collection

Category

Literature

Wsearch Digitized Journals

二十世紀中國文化史—重要報刊光盤資料庫

Information

Wsearch provides 20 journals from the beginning of the Republican Era online on this website. Most of the texts are available both as scanned image and searchable fulltext. Journals included are e.g. 向导, 先驱 and 中国青年.

Language

cn(s)

Link

Wsearch Digitized Journals

Category

Periodicals

Republican Journals Collection

民国期刊

Information

This collection of the National Library of China compromises 4.350 scans of journals from the Republican Era.

Language

cn(s)

Link

Republican Journals Collection

Category

Periodicals

Chinese Ancient Books Database

漢籍善本全文影像資料庫

Information

This collection of the University of Tôkyô compromises several digitized ancient works starting from Qin- and Han-Dynasty to the Republican Era. The database provides high-quality scans of the original documents, which can be downloaded as PDF file.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Chinese Ancient Books Database

Category

Literature

Han Nom Special Collection Digitization Project

漢喃古籍文獻典藏數位化計劃

Information

The National Library of Vietnam (NLV) in Hanoi holds a special collection of some 4000 ancient texts in Hán and Nôm, the former ideographic writing systems of Vietnam. Since 2006, the NLV has co-operated with The Vietnamese Nôm Preservation Foundation (VNPF) to preserve this important cultural heritage through the creation of a digital library. What you see in the images and metadata on this website are the first steps for creating a digital library for scholarly research, teaching, and learning in Vietnam and abroad. The goal of this joint project is to create a user-friendly digital library of the entire Hán-Nôm collection at the National Library, using current techniques in digital capture, library science, and information technology. This is the first such digital library of ancient texts in Vietnam. Many of these texts have not been previously presented to the world because of their fragile condition.

Language

cn(t), vi

Link

Han Nom Special Collection Digitization Project

Category

Literature

Chinese Entertainment Newspapers (Xiaobao)

小報

Information

The focus of this website and database is on the entertainment newspapers known as xiaobao and illustrated journals known as huabao of the time period between the 1880s and the 1930s. They are all Shanghai-based because this city had become the entertainment and media capital of China. This was facilitated by its economic muscle as a hub of trade and, increasingly, manufacturing, and the fact that as "foreign settlement" it offered to both foreigner and Chinese substantial freedoms by being outside of the censorship control of the Qing court and later of the Republican government. Other cities in China had little or none of such papers even after the fall of the Qing dynasty. However, Shanghai entertainment papers were available throughout the country through a dense distribution network.

Language

en, cn(t)

Link

Chinese Entertainment Newspapers (Xiaobao)

Category

Periodicals

Harvard Yenching Library Chinese Republican Period (1911-1949) Digitization Project

哈佛燕京圖書館民國時期文獻

Information

The Harvard Yenching Library Chinese Republican Period (1911-1949) Digitization Project comprises numerous image files of 372 Chinese publications from the Republican periods. Most of these publications are government reports.

Language

en, cn(t)

Link

Harvard Yenching Library Chinese Republican Period (1911-1949) Digitization Project

Category

History

Chinese Posters: Propaganda, Politics, History, Art

Information

chineseposters.net is dedicated to the Chinese propaganda poster as it has been produced from 1925 till the present day. These posters literally cry out to be seen. We present them in a gallery of highlights, in web exhibitions ("To Read Too Many Books is Harmful"), and in themes. The site provides over 1.300 images as well as additional information in artists' biographies, a bibliography and a selection of texts on Chinese art, propaganda and posters.

This website is managed by the Chinese Posters Foundation. It contains all information originally found on Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages (1997-2010), and much more.

Language

en

Link

Chinese Posters: Propaganda, Politics, History, Art

Category

Politics

Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library Digitized Book Collection

鄭裕東彤亞圖書館

Information

Archive.org provides a collection of over 2500 digitised books that were contributed by the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library of the University of Toronto. All books are uploaded with a common set of metadata and downloadable as pdf file. You may browse the books by title or author.

Language

en

Link

Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library Digitized Book Collection

Category

Literature

Wanfang New Local Gazetteers

万方新方志

Information

Wanfang data's New Local Gazetteers database gives access to currently (10.2011) 10.931 titles falling into the greater genre of local monographs published in the PRC since 1949. It contains not only the local gazetteers of the different provinces, districts, counties and cities but also special monographs on, for example, the food industry or traffic administration of a certain area, as well as treatises on regional toponyms or famous persons. Local gazetteers are mostly officially sponsored and initiated and follow certain compilation rules. But they contain valuable details and accounts on larger and smaller administrative units of the PRC and thus provide important source materials for studying modern and contemporary China. The database may be searched by region, topic, resource type etc. and also by full text (which was done with OCR). Hit lists may be further drilled down by facets. A PDF of the smallest unit a hit belongs to is provided for reference and download. Together these units amount to more than 3,3 mio. No PDF of the whole title is offered.

Language

cn

Link

Wanfang New Local Gazetteers

Category

History

China at school

Information

This database collects German language school teaching materials for various types of schools (primary, secondary). It includes material for Chinese language classes as well as for the teaching of Chinese culture, history, society, politics, literature and arts.

Language

de

Link

China at school

Category

Language

Tokyo University Historiographical Institute Database Collection

東京大学史料編纂所

Information

The Historiographical Institute has an extensive collection of documents, diaries, and other historical materials, including a National Treasure and designated Important Cultural Properties. The Institute also maintains an up-to-date collection of modern scholarly monographs and academic journals related to Japanese history. All of these items are cared for and managed by the Institute library.

史料の所在

所蔵史料目録,日本古文書ユニオンカタログ,Catalogue Database of the Batavia’s Uitgaand Briefboek

できごとを主題に

大日本史料総合,近世編年,維新史料綱要,近世史編纂支援

図像をさぐる

歴史絵引,肖像情報,史料編纂所所蔵肖像画模本,史料編纂所所蔵荘園絵図摸本,金石文拓本史料,摺物,錦絵,古写真

全文の検索

古記録,古文書,奈良時代古文書,平安遺文,鎌倉遺文

人を主題に

大日本史料総合データベース,中世記録人名索引,花押,肖像情報,史料編纂所所蔵肖像画模本

辞典/字典

応答型翻訳支援システム(On-line Glossary of Japanese Historical Terms),欧文日本古代史料解題辞典(Dictionary of Sources of Classical Japan),電子くずし字字典,『電子くずし字字典データベース』『木簡画像データベース・木簡字典』連携検索,古事類苑－総目録・索引

Language

jp

Link

Tokyo University Historiographical Institute Database Collection

Category

Art, History, Language, Literature, Periodicals

National Digital Library of China

中国国家数字图书馆

Information

Chinese Books (中文图书)

Collection of Chinese digitized books, searchable by various variables such as title, author, publisher and publishing year, free access contains meta data, table of contents and full text reader (scanned images without ocr).

Dissertaions (博士论文)

Collection of dissertations, searchable by various variables such as title, author and academic field, free access contains meta data, table of contents and full text reader for the first 24 pages (scanned images without ocr).

Republican Books, Journals and Laws (民国专栏 )

Collection of Republican books, journals and laws, searchable by various variables such as title, author, publisher and publishing year, free access contains meta data, table of contents and full text reader (scanned images without ocr).

Audio Collection (音视频)

Collection of sound files, searchable by various variables such as title, author and keyword, free access contains meta data and playable sound files.

Local gazetteers (数字方志)

Collection of local gazetteers, searchable by various variables such as title, author, era and place, free access contains meta data and full text reader (scanned images without ocr).

Image Collection (图片专栏)

Collection of images divided into sub-collections: 甲骨实物 (3764种、影像7532张), 甲骨拓片 (4275种、影像4514张), 金石拓 (23650种、影像30232张), 年画 (278种、影像678张), 西夏文献 (124种、影像近5000拍), 西夏论著 (1202种) and 老照片 (3080种、影像3080张), searchable by various variables such as title, author and publisher, free access contains meta data and images

Special collection of ancient books (古籍特藏)

Collection of ancient books and the Anthology of Song Scholars 宋人文集, searchable by various variables such as title, author, era and place, free access contains meta data and full text reader (scanned images without ocr).

Language

ch(s)

Link

National Digital Library of China

Category

Art, History, Literature, Periodicals

Taiwan Classical Chinese Poetry

台灣古典漢詩

Information

The website provides a collection of the following anthologies: 後蘇龕詩鈔, 陶村詩稿, 無悶草堂詩存, 滄海遺民賸稿, 溪山煙雨樓詩存, 劍花室詩集, 窺園留草 and 嶺雲海日樓詩鈔. The following authors are included: 施士洁, 陳肇興, 林朝崧, 王松, 于右任, 陳逢源, 陳渭雄, 林南強, 黃西圃, 清瀨一郎, 黃杰, 李神義, 吳夢周, 丁衣宇, 黃景南, 連橫, 許南英, 丘逢甲. The collection may be searched by title, author, poem collection and fulltext.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Taiwan Classical Chinese Poetry

Category

Literature

Digital Taiwan-Related Archives Project

深化臺灣核心文獻典藏數位化計劃

Information

The "Extended Digital Taiwan-Related Archives Project" is a sub-project of the "National Taiwan University Digital Archives Project," which is sponsored by the NDAP. By participating in the NDAP, NTU has been able to establish a portal providing scholars and researchers gateway services to reach NTU's rich academic legacy. Through these digitization projects, the library will continue to contribute to NTU's portal for a growing digital collection of outstanding diversity.

The collection comprises: Tan-Hsin Archives (淡新檔案), The Yasusada Tashiro Collection (田代文庫), The manuscripts of Kanori Ino (伊能嘉矩手稿), The V.S. de Beausset Collection (狄寳賽文庫), Rubbings of Taiwan Cultural Relic (臺灣古牌拓本), Book of Lyrics from Chinese Opera (歌仔冊).

Language

cn(t)

Link

Digital Taiwan-Related Archives Project

Category

Literature

Sotokufu

臺灣總督府檔案

Information

「臺灣總督府檔案」原收藏於臺灣總督府官房文書課的大書庫內。包括「臺灣總督府公文類纂」永久保存卷冊6789卷、十五年保存卷冊3226卷，這是最為典型的檔案文書。檔案類型及卷（冊）數表列如下。

檔案類型	卷（冊）數	起迄年代
臺灣總督府公文類纂及其他保存文書類：	11,190	明治28年至昭和20年(1895-1945)
1.臺灣總督府永久保存公文類纂	6,789	明治28年至昭和8年(1895-1933)
2.臺灣總督府十五年保存公文類纂	3,226	大正元年至昭和21年(1912-1946)
3.臺灣總督府五年保存文書	88	昭和17年至昭和19年(1942-1944)
4.臺灣總督府一年保存文書	4	大正5年至昭和10年(1916-1935)
5.進退原議	297	明治30年至昭和20年(1897-1945)
6.臺灣總督府法務部（課）、會計課參考書類	415	大正元年至昭和18年(1912-1943)
7.國庫補助永久保存書類	362	昭和16年度至18年度
8.稅賦關係書類	9

Language

cn(t)

Link

Sotokufu

Category

History, Literature

Daoist Special Collection

道教特藏網

Information

本特藏係由中央研究院民族學研究所圖書館及博物館分別典藏、源購自於郭雙富先生所收集之竹山、新屋及新竹三地之道壇道士文物、包括經書、文物、神像、法器等與道士做法事科儀之相關文物、堪稱相當完整。其中新屋徐姓師公壇為客家壇、竹山通玄壇與混真壇則為閩南壇、新竹通靈壇由於地緣關係則為閩、客混合之道壇。

Language

cn(t)

Link

Daoist Special Collection

Category

Religion

CADAL (China Academic Digital Associative Library)

大学数字图书馆国际合作计划

Information

The China Academic Digital Associative Library offers access to 1.5 mio digital objects under copyright protection, including Modern titles (Chinese and English) and Republican periodicals.

Language

cn(s)

Link

CADAL (China Academic Digital Associative Library)

Category

Periodicals

Chinese Rare Book Catalog

中文古籍書目資料庫

Information

In 1998, the NCL published the Taiwan Area Rare Books Union Catalog, providing a record of rare books and general string-bound works in public collections in Taiwan. This publication has been expanded to include rare books in mainland, Hong Kong, Macao, Australian, and other overseas collections. It currently comprises over 630,758 bibliographies. Users can search for materials through 14 search values and both traditional and simplified search interfaces. Search results can be presented in detailed or summarized form.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Chinese Rare Book Catalog

Category

eBooks

Chinese Research Perspectives Online

Information

Brill online has started to offer a selection of their printed reference work titles, bibliographies and text & commentaries volumes via an online platform and in searchable full text. Chinese Research Perspectives with all its six thematic volumes (Economy, Education, Environment, Law, Population and Labor, and Society) is one ressource now available via this platform.

Language

en

Link

Chinese Research Perspectives Online

Category

eJournals

Maisaku

毎索　毎日新聞社のデータベース

Information

Maisaku is the online version of the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shinbun.

Language

jp

Link

Maisaku

Category

Periodicals

Okinawa Times

沖縄タイムス記事データベース

Information

The database covers articles relating to the fields of politics, economy, society and others published in the Okinawa Times since 1997. It consists of full-text text-only files (approximately 800.000).

Language

jp

Link

Okinawa Times

Category

Periodicals

Imperial examination records from the Tianyige Museum

天一阁藏书

Information

This collection assembles 370 volumes of Imperial examinations records stored in and published as print editions by the Tianyige Museum in the years 2006, 2007, and resp. 2010. Among them are 56 volumes of Records of Palace Examinations (登科录) from the years 1371 till 1460, 39 volumes of Records of Metropolitan Examinations (会试录) from the years 1430 till 1580, and 275 volumes of Records of Provincial Examinations (乡试录) from the years 1486 till 1510. Scanned images of the originals are provided. There is no searchable full text of the books.

Language

cn(s)

Link

Imperial examination records from the Tianyige Museum

Category

History

OYA-bunko

Information

Web OYA-bunko is a bibliographic database of Japanese journal articles. It consists of about 3.700.000 entries taken from more than 1400 journal titles since the publication year 1988. About 400 journal titles are currently still running publications. An additional 1.000.000 entries from before 1988 are searchable through the "mokuroku kensaku" (目録検索). Although the database also contains articles from the Meiji period (1868-1912) the focus is on contemporary data. For detailed information about the journals incorporated in the database please see the homepage of the provider. The database offers a simple and an advanced search. In addition a very detailed classification makes a precise topical search possible.

Language

jp

Link

OYA-bunko

Category

eJournals

JapanKnowledge

Information

JapanKnowledge is a website that offers a large number of reference works. The contents include important dictionaries such as Nihon dai hyakka zensho (=Nipponica) (large general Japanese encyclopedia), Nihon kokugo daijiten (Japanese dictionary), Nihon kokushi daijiten (encyclopedia for Japanese history), Nihon rekishi chimei taikei (historic geographical encyclopedia), Jitsû (character dictionary) and also the "Encyclopedia of Japan". In addtion the dictionaries of current words Imidas and Gendai yôgo no kiso chishiki are included. Also fulltexts of books in the Tôyô bunko series and the collection of classic Japanese literature Shinpen nihon koten bungaku zenshû is to be found.

The database offers a simple and an advanced search. Not only the headings of the dictionary entries can be searched, but also the fulltext of the reference works. The advanced search includes also the option to search only the content of several large dictionaries individually (single version). The third search option is called "bookshelf" and offers a browse function with limited search possibilities. Please note that one content, the Kojiruien, is only available through the "bookshelf" menu. In order to activate the browse display please tick on "Flashで本文表示". When a single record is displayed the Knowledge Searcher function can be used. Please click on the respective button which changes from white to lilac colour. When you highlight a term you want to know more about with the activated Knowledge Searcher function another simple search is carried out automatically and the search result is displayed in a new window.

Language

jp

Link

JapanKnowledge

Category

Bibliography, Encyclopaedias

Journal of China Tourism Research

Information

Journal of China Tourism Research is a truly international journal that publishes the latest research on tourism (all articles printed in English with Chinese abstracts) that relates to China and its citizens. It provides a rich forum for exchange of fresh information and ideas among academics and practitioners; fosters and enhances cutting-edge research activities that advance the knowledge of tourism; and discusses the relevance of tourism to Chinese society. The journal encourages interdisciplinary scholarship and commentaries, aims at the highest intellectual level, and only publishes manuscripts that make significant contributions to the subject areas.

Peer Review Policy: All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by two or three anonymous referees.

Language

en

Link

Journal of China Tourism Research

Category

eJournals

Brill Asian Studies Collection

Information

Die Sammlungen umfassen vorwiegend englischsprachige Titel unterschiedlicher Fachgebiete im Volltext. Es wird die ganze Bandbreite der Länder Asiens abgedeckt, sowohl Zentralasien, als auch Ost- und Südostasien.

Language

en

Link

Brill Asian Studies Collection

Category

Bibliography, eBooks

Fûzoku Gahô (

風俗画 報

Information

Die Zeitschrift Fûzoku gahô (Web 版風俗画報(JK Books)) erschien in der Meiji/Taishôn Zeit in den Jahren 1889 bis 1916. Sie ist mit zahlreichen ein oder mehrfarbigen

Darstellungen sowie in ihrem späteren Verlauf auch mit Schwarzweiß Fotos reich bebildert und gilt als die erste illustrierte japanische Zeitschrift. Die Datenbank

umfasst alle 518 Hefte in PDF Form. Eine Volltextsuche ist nicht möglich, aber es kann nach Autoren und Stichworten der Artikelüberschriften sowie nach einzelnen Heftnummern gesucht werden. Das Themenspektrum der Zeitschrift ist breit gefächert. Es werden damalige aktuelle Ereignisse aufgegriffen, wie z.B. Erdbebenkatastrophen, die Verkündung der Meiji Verfassung, Kriegsentwicklungen etc. Über kulturelle, religiöse und sportliche

Events wie Sumô Turniere, Schrein und

Tempelfeste oder Jôruri Aufführungen wird ebenso berichtet, wie z.B. über eine Kabuki Vorstellung

anläßlich des Besuchs des englischen Prinzen Arthur, Herzog von Connaught und Strathearn, im März 1906.

Language

en

Link

Fûzoku Gahô (

Category

Art

Chinese Periodical Fulltext Databases (1833 - 1949)

晚清期刊、民 国时期期刊全文数据库

Information

The interface gives access to the early period of Chinese periodical publishing covering the time from the late Qing up to the end of the Republican period, that is from 1833 to 1949. Divided into two main parts and further subdivided into several batches the database will finally include more the 20,000 journals and more then 15 mio. articles. The material and expertise the project relies on is that of the Shanghai tushuguan and can be seen as a kind of "full text" extension of their Quanguo baosuoyin 全国报刊索引. While the first main part on the Late Qing, the 晚清期刊全文数据库 (1833-1911), is already completed, of the second part on the Republican period, 民国时期期刊全文数据库 (1911-1949), the first three batches have appeared, further two batches are expected for 2012.

Currently access to the 302 different journal titles of the Late Qing part and the first three batches of the Republican period part with more than 3500 journal titles are accessible. Further batches will follow.

The search interface allows users to search by article title, author, journal title, date, etc. and to view and download the respective article as scanned image pages embedded in a PDF. Under 期刊导航 (Browse by Journal) a short description of the publication history and content of each subscribed journal is given as well as the possiblity to get an overview of the issues published and the articles in each issue. Journals that appear in grey are not accessible resp. not subscribed. On the left hand side browsing via subject category is possible. By choosing 晚清期刊 or 民国时期期刊 from the 数据库 pull down menu one may confine the hit list to the respective database.

Note: what is labeled as 全文 (full text) in the database actually means 'complete text'. There is no searchable full text of the articles themselves.

Language

cn(s)

Link

Chinese Periodical Fulltext Databases (1833 - 1949)

Category

Periodicals

China : Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980

Information

This project answers the need for clear, intelligible and informative English-language sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980, which can be used in the classroom or in course packs.

It is also ideal for independent projects on almost any aspect of Chinese history during the two centuries of monumental social and political upheaval that ultimately recreated China into a modern power. It comprises:

A large body of maps, colour paintings, photographs and drawings depicting people, places, customs and events that will enliven any study of China.

Substantial papers of key individuals involved in the Chinese Maritime Customs service from ECM and CAV Bowra to Robert Hart and Frederick Maze.

Records of major diplomatic missions to China ranging from the late 18th and early 19th century missions of Macartney and Amherst to those of Nixon and Heath in the 20th century.

Papers of missionaries active in all regions of China from Canton and Macao to Shanghai and Peking.

Extensive, fully searchable run of the Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal (1867-1941) and North China Mission resp and North China Shantung Mission quarterly paper (1893-1936)

Recently opened files from the National Archives at Kew relating to the thawing of relations with China in the 1970s.

Language

en

Link

China : Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980

Category

Periodicals

Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953)

Information

The database gives access to the following 21 historical newspapers: The Canton Times (1919-1920),

The China Critic (1939-1946),

China Monthly Review (1950-1953),

The China Press (1925-1938),

The China Weekly Review (1923-1950),

The Chinese Recorder (1912-1938),

The Chinese Recorder and Educational Review (1939-1941),

The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal (1868-1912),

The Chinese Repository (1832-1851),

Millard's China National Review (1919-1919),

Millard's Review of the Far East (1917-1919, 1919-1921),

The North - China Herald (1850-1867),

The North - China Herald and Market Report (1867-1869),

The North - China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette (1870-1941),

Peking Daily News (1914-1917),

Peking Gazette (1915-1917),

The Peking Leader (1918-1919),

The Shanghai Gazette (1919-1921),

The Shanghai Times (1914-1921),

The Weekly Review (1922-1923),

and, The Weekly Review of the Far East (1921-1922).

The database allows basic search, advanced search, and search for obituaries. It may be searched by 25 different document types like Article, Banner, Birth notice, and so on. The newspaper content is available for download in Full text PDF format.

Cited Description: This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

Language

en

Link

Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953)

Category

Periodicals

National Diet Library Digitized Contents

国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション

Information

Bilddatenbank wertvoller Manuskripte und Bücher der Parlamentsbibliothek in Japan (auch auf Englisch recherchierbar)

Language

en

Link

National Diet Library Digitized Contents

Category

Art

The Fitzwilliam Museum: Online Resources

Information

The Fitzwilliam Museum was described by the Standing Commission on Museums & Galleries in 1968 as “one of the greatest art collections of the nation and a monument of the first importance”.

Language

en

Link

The Fitzwilliam Museum: Online Resources

Category

Art

Ukiyoe Karikaturen, 1842 - 1905 (Universität Wien)

Information

Die Tenpō-Reformen in den 1840er Jahren zu Ende der japanischen Abschließungsperiode betrafen die Welt der Holzschnitte durch zahlreiche Einschränkungen und Verbote, sie hatten aber auf die Welt der ukiyo-e vor allem einen nachhaltigen Effekt:

Die bisherigen Hauptthemen der Bilder, Kurtisanen und Schauspieler, verloren an Popularität, Karikaturen aller Art von politischen Karikaturen (fūshiga) bis zu harmlosen Scherzzeichnungen (giga) ohne tiefere Bedeutung setzten sich als neues Genre durch. Bis zum Ende der Tokugawa-Zeit blieben Karikaturen ein ungeheuer beliebtes Genre, und auch die Neuerungen der Meiji-Zeit und die autoritären Meiji-Regierung sind ein beliebtes Objekt von Karikaturen.

Dieses Genre ist bisher von der ukiyo-e-Forschung noch wenig erfasst worden, wozu sicherlich der schwierige Zugang - viele Bilder enthalten viel schwer lesbaren Text, die Texte und Bilder sind so verklausuliert, dass sie nur schwer verständlich sind - beiträgt. Dazu kommt, dass die herkömmliche ukiyo-e-Forschung ästhetische Kriterien bei der Auswahl ihrer Forschungsobjekte angewandt hat, die die Behandlung von Karikaturen von vorneherein ausschloss. Erst in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten sind auch die Karikaturen auf ein immer größeres Interesse der Forscher gestoßen, wobei einerseits Subgenres der Karikaturen (Erdbeben-Bilder, Masern-Bilder, Yokohama-Bilder, ken-Bilder) oder Karikaturen einzelner Künstler (Kuniyoshi, Kyōsai, Kiyochika) zusammenfassend darzustellen versucht wurden.

Das vom Fond zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF) finanzierte Projekt versucht eine Datenbank aller Karikaturen auf kommerziellen Holzschnitten von 1842 bis 1905 zu erstellen.

Language

de

Link

Ukiyoe Karikaturen, 1842 - 1905 (Universität Wien)

Category

Art

Hiroshige Research Website

Information

The purpose of this website is to gather information and raise discussion. We use the catalogues of Suzuki Jūzō, Uchida Minoru and Okuda Atsuko as a standard. Since there are many unexplored research areas we will post a new topic every few months. You can join the mailing list through the contact page. Earlier topics and their comments can be found under archive. The results of earlier topics are added to the catalogue page. The website holds a database of more than 5500 images of Hiroshige’s prints, paintings, bookillustrations etc. For copyright reasons it is not possible to publish the database online but if you are looking for a certain image for research purposes you can send an e-mail through the contact page.

Language

en

Link

Hiroshige Research Website

Category

Art

Wiley Online Library

Information

Access to the "Wiley Online Library", a multidisciplinary digital library including over 1.500 e-journals (e.g. "China & World Economy" ) and 8000 e-books. An overview of the available resources may be found here. There is also an archive including the electronic backfiles (up to 2005) of Blackwell Publishing. 241 titles are currently licensed.

Language

en

Link

Wiley Online Library

Category

Art

Lagenscheid Online Wörterbücher

Information

Das Portal beinhaltet neben Langenscheidt-Wörterbüchern für die meisten europäischen Sprachen u.a. auch Wörterbücher für Chinesisch und Japanisch, diverse technische Wörterbücher als auch mehrere Duden-Wörterbücher (z.B. Rechtschreibung, Synonyme, Fremdwörter...)

Language

de

Link

Lagenscheid Online Wörterbücher

Category

Dictionaries

Multi-function Chinese Charakter Database

漢語多功能字庫

Information

A Repository of Chinese Scientific, Philosophical and Political Terms Coined in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Language

cn(t)

Link

Multi-function Chinese Charakter Database

Category

Dictionaries

Database of the National People's Congress

全国人民代表大会资料库

Information

The database collects material from the 1. meeting of the 1. National Peoples Congress in 1954 onwards up to the most recent one. For each meeting 会议 the material is structured into announcements, reports, list of participants and many more. To confine a search to a 类 not listed in the pull down menue, one has to enter for example 图片报道*李 into the 全文检索 slot to search for all photographs with the character 李 in its caption.

Language

cn(s)

Link

Database of the National People's Congress

Category

Law

China : Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980

Information

Cited Description: This project answers the need for clear, intelligible and informative English-language sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980, which can be used in the classroom or in course packs.

It is also ideal for independent projects on almost any aspect of Chinese history during the two centuries of monumental social and political upheaval that ultimately recreated China into a modern power. It comprises:

A large body of maps, colour paintings, photographs and drawings depicting people, places, customs and events that will enliven any study of China.

Substantial papers of key individuals involved in the Chinese Maritime Customs service from ECM and CAV Bowra to Robert Hart and Frederick Maze.

Records of major diplomatic missions to China ranging from the late 18th and early 19th century missions of Macartney and Amherst to those of Nixon and Heath in the 20th century.

Papers of missionaries active in all regions of China from Canton and Macao to Shanghai and Peking.

Extensive, fully searchable run of the Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal (1867-1941) and North China Mission resp and North China Shantung Mission quarterly paper (1893-1936)

Recently opened files from the National Archives at Kew relating to the thawing of relations with China in the 1970s.

Language

en

Link

China : Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980

Category

History

Database of the Chinese Government

中国政府资料库

Information

Description: The database is divided in 5 parts:

1. Government Policies (国家政策信息)

2. Local Policies (各地政策信息)

3. Speeches of Governors and Ministers (省部长言论)

4. Speeches/Publications of Ministerial/Provincial Officers (各类工作报告资料)

5. National/Provincial/Ministerial Government Annual Statements (外交部发言人言论)

The database is updated monthly.

Cited Description: This database includes archives and publications of the Chinese central government, its ministries and subsidiaries, and regional authorities. The following are the main contents: National Policies (2001- present) Regional Policies (2001- present) Speeches/Publications of Ministerial/Provincial Officers (2004- present) National/Provincial/Ministerial Government Annual Statements (1983- present) Foreign Minister's Spokesperson's Statements & Speeches (1997- present) Foreign Minister's Press Conference (2001- present) With the National People’s Congress and the National Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference as its sources, the database provides official, authoritative research information on the Chinese government and other political issues in China. The database is updated monthly or in a real time manner.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Database of the Chinese Government

Category

Politics

Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference Document Database

中国人民政治协商会议资料库

Information

Description: The CPPCC Database is a collection of archives and documents of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), including resolutions and statements, pictures, press conferences, important commentaries, representatives lists, agendas, session updates, reports, leaders'; activities, selected proposals and suggestions from representatives, news reports, video reports, etc. The database starts with the first meeting of the first conference in 1949 and also includes the most recent one. The ressource is updated quarterly or in a real time manner.

Searches may be confined to special conference sections, such as the name lists of the participants (组成名单). To confine searches for example to photographs you will have enter 图片报道*王 into the 全文检索 slot to find any 王 named in the caption of a photograph in this ressource.

Language

cn(s)

Link

Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference Document Database

Category

Politics

LawInfoChina

北大法律英文网

Information

Description: The database offers to access to Chinese laws in English translation as well as some hundred case studies, texts of international collective agreements and WTO-documents. Additionally, there are always up-date-news on Chinese legislation, TOCs of official gazettes and learned journals. Searches can be performed either in Enlish or in Chinese. The results may be displayed in both, English and Chinese. Please note that LawInfoChina is not the English version of Chinalawinfo.com. The earliest documents date from the late 1950ies. The ressource is constantly updated. In case you are not able to see the full texts, please make sure you are logged in correctly. In the upper left corner the text "Welcome spk-berlin" should appear. If not press IP-Logon. If this also does not work, please inform us. You may also try the "old" platform: http://erf.sbb.spk-berlin.de/han/lawinfochinaenglisch/.

Language

en

Link

LawInfoChina

Category

Law

CiNii articles

Information

Description: The records collected in 'CiNii articles' come from various sources and in some cases the database navigates the user to the original source of the record in order to provide the full text of the article. The database offers access to full texts for about one forth of the records. 'CiNii articles' contains an article, an author and a full text search. Via the link "CiNii Journal with full text Directory" it is possible to browse the table of contents of the respective journals.

Cited Description: CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator, pronounced like "sigh-knee") is a database service that enables searching of information on academic articles published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database.

Language

jp

Link

CiNii articles

Category

eJournals

WhoPlus

Information

WHOPLUS is a searchable database of about 330,000 Japanese and international historical and contemporary figures (as of November 2012). Nichigai WHOPLUS is divided into two files: WHO and Jinbutsu odan file (人物ファイル横断, lit. Figures Cross-reference). WHO provides a full text search with the detailed search options while Jinbutsu odan file searches name headings and full text. The setting when entering the database is the Jinbutsu odan file that comprises all data.

Please note, that access to WhoPlus through CrossAsia is a terminal connection. Java runtime 1.5 is needed!

Language

jp

Link

WhoPlus

Category

History

Shitong

十通

Information

This web-based fulltext database of the Shitong 十通 provides image/text comparision and all other features of the Sibu congkan 09 Extended Edition. For more details see there. The Shitong, the "Ten Encyclopedic (or General) Histories", assemble ten central historical works, that aimed at covering all of Chinese history. They mainly focus on governmental institutions and their changes in duty or in name, but also assemble a great variety of sources and material under rubrics such as boarders, regional administration, the examination system, law, astronomy, catastrophes, bibliography, plants and animals etc. The genre was initiated by Du You in the late 8th century with his 200 volume work Tongdian and adapted, modified and extended in scope by the famous scholars Zheng Qiao (1106-1162) and Ma Duanlin (1254-1323). These works soon were published together as the "Three tong" 三通. In the 18th century new interest in the genre arouse and six continuations respectively extensions were published. While the first three works relied on an individual scholar, the Qing works were all imperially sponsored and officially published. Each of the later took one of the early works as his model. In 1927 the Qingchao Xu Wenxian tongkao appeared and the full set of "Ten tong" was published by the Commercial Press 1935-1937. The scanned and digitized version presented here is based on this edition. The compilation is structured according to the line of tradition into 3 “dian”, 3 “zhi” and 4 “kao”. For a chronological list of the ten titles, see below. List of the Shitong with title, author, and number of juan: 1 通典. (唐) 杜佑, 200 j. 2 通志. (宋) 郑樵, 200 j. 3 文献通考. (元) 马端临, 348 j. 4 续通典. (清) 嵇璜、刘墉 等, 150 j. 5 续通志. (清) 嵇璜、刘墉 等, 640 j. 6 续文献通考. (清) 张廷玉 250 j. 7 清朝通典.(清) 嵇璜、刘墉 等 100 j. 8 清朝通志.(清) 嵇璜、刘墉 等 126 j. 9 清朝文献通考. (清) 张廷玉 300 j. 10 清朝续文献通考. (近代) 刘锦藻, 400 j.

Language

cn

Link

Shitong

Category

History

The Complete Database of Magazine and Periodicals from the Meiji Era to the Present

雑誌記事索引集成データベース

Information

This database supplies bibliographical records of journal articles from the Meiji period to the present. It covers all subjects and also includes regional periodicals.

Language

jp

Link

The Complete Database of Magazine and Periodicals from the Meiji Era to the Present

Category

Bibliography

Zhongguo lidai shike shiliao huibian

中国历代石刻史料汇编

Information

The database is the digital equivalent of a 16 volume printed collection of stone inscriptions taken from books about (金石志) or containing reproductions of inscriptions (such as 地方志) published up to 1949. Those materials are reproduced in facsimile but there are no rubbings or photographs of the actual inscribed physical object.

A speciality of the database provider Shutong is the use of a special font, that allows them to transcribe traditionel texts with all their character variants. The stone inscription database has moreover included a reference work for people, places and official names as well as for character variants, words and proverbs and allusions, 成语典故.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Zhongguo lidai shike shiliao huibian

Category

History

Song huiyao

宋會要輯稿

Information

The Song huiyao (宋会要) was compiled by a special office during the Song, collecting important documents on institutions, regulations and constitutions etc. It existed only in manuscript form and got lost later. Larger parts of the Song huiyao were copied into the Ming dynasty encyclopaedia Yongle dadian. From there the texts were recovered by Xu Song 徐松 (1781-1848) and compiled into the work digitized in this database, the Song huiyao jigao 宋會要輯稿 (literally "Draft re-compilation of the Important documents of the Song"). Xu Song's work was never printed. 1936 the Beiping tushuguan published a photomechanical reproduction of his manuscript. The database allows comparison of the digitized full text and the scanned images of the original. The database is fully searchable. (The provider's English title of the database is "Song meeting and essential manuscripts")

Language

cn(t)

Link

Song huiyao

Category

History

YOMIDAS REKISHIKAN

ヨミダス歴史館 (読売新聞)

Information

YOMIDAS REKISHIKAN, the new database service of The Yomiuri Shimbun, is Japan’s first online database service that allows a user to search or browse through more than 10 million articles carried by the newspaper since its inaugural issue in 1874. Images of news pages from the inaugural issue in 1874 up to 1989 have been recorded. 　All news articles can be found using headlines and key words. Old news articles can be found using words in common use today. About 4.8 million news articles of The Yomiuri Shimbun are available from 1986 onward. About 175,000 articles of The Daily Yomiuri are available from 1989 onward. The three databases mentioned above can be searched using “key words,” such as names of persons, places and events; “fields,” such as politics, economy and culture; and “date” of publication. Note that the search by key word is carried out through “YOMIDAS YOGO JISHO,” a glossary developed by The Yomiuri Shimbun, which enables a user to find a news article with ease. In the personality database there are about 26,000 contemporary persons in many fields who are linked to related news articles. Moreover, the new database is equipped with various functions, including “Imidas 2008 (c) Shueisha,” a glossary of the latest terminology of current affairs compiled by Shueisha Inc.

Language

jp

Link

YOMIDAS REKISHIKAN

Category

Periodicals

Kikuzo II visual for libraries

聞蔵 II ビジュアル for libraries (Asahi Shimbun)

Information

The “Kikuzo II visual for libraries” is the electronic version of Asahi Shimbun. The database covers the articles since the initial number in 1879 until today. The years 1879 until 1989 can be searched as PDF files. For the articles since 1985 a full-text search is provided. The database also includes an archive of historical photographs (approximately 10000 pictures) that were taken in various Asiatic countries between the so called Manchurian incident (1931/32) until the end of the World War II. Furthermore the biographical information of approximately 35.000 contemporary persons can be searched. The online version of the dictionary Chiezou is also included in this database. Also the pictoral magazine Asahi Gurafu (= The Asahi picture news) of the years 1923-1945 can be searched.

Language

jp

Link

Kikuzo II visual for libraries

Category

Periodicals

Historical Book Catalogue of China

中國歷代典籍總目

Information

Description: The "Historical Book Catalogue of China" (中国历代典籍总目) assembles currently more than 2 Million entries of historical Chinese titles from more than 20 different catalogues. Further extensions are planned. The resource collects and structures all information on Chinese historical books contained in the bibliographical chapters of the Standard Histories, private and officially compiled historical bibliographies as well as current and historical library and topical catalogues. The entries can be browsed from different angles of research perspective i.e. bibliographical category (經史子集叢), kind of catalogue (歷史著錄、館藏著錄 …), time the book was composed, time of printing, kind of edition (稿本、活字本、刻本 …) and place owning a copy (中國、美國、日本 …). The information of each edition was analysed and filed into different data fields to allow complex searches (高級檢索) and advanced statistic analysis of the data (數據分析). An extensive help manual is provided (see 關於我們).

Language

cn(t)

Link

Historical Book Catalogue of China

Category

Bibliography

Qiushi

求是

Information

Description: Qiushi ("Seeking truth") is the main organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the PRC. From late 2009 on the journal - or excerpts from the journal - also appears in English. The database gives access to the searchable full text of the English edition. PDF for download are provided. For the original Chinese publication of Qiushi please consult the database "Chinese Academic Journals", where access to the complete set of issues back to 1994 is provided. To read older issues or even the predecessor of Qiushi namely Hongqi 红旗, CrossAsia resp. the East Asia Department of the Berlin State Library currently can only offer "paper". Hongqi (Zsn 11972) was started in 1958 and appeared until 1988 when the name was changed to Qiushi (Zsn 73611).

The search slot of the database provides selection buttons for article, image, and news. "News" searches extracts from Xinhua (starting 2011.9) and actually were not published in Qiushi; "image" search returns articles with paragraphs, where the search term and also have a picture appears. Thus the picture and the search term are in some cases not directly connected; "article" searches the full text content of the Qiushi issues 2009 to the present.

Qiushi is offered via the Sinoperi portal which also offers Beijing Review (北京周报), China Pictorial (人民画报) and People's China (人民中国). Currently CrossAsia has only also subscribed Beijing Review. Renmin huabao and Renmin zhongguo can be searched and hit lists showing bibliographical information and the respective text snippet are shown, but no download of fulltext view is possible.

Cited Description: "By selecting and translating important articles from the Chinese edition of Qiushi Journal and its affiliated publication Red Flag Manuscript, and abstracts of theoretical articles from other important Chinese periodicals, with a total of about 70,000 Chinese characters, the English edition of Qiushi Journal aims to promote the CPC and Chinese exchanges with foreign political parties and countries, and function as a platform for authoritative interpretations of the principles and strategies with which the CPC and the Chinese government run the country, as a top communication channel for publicizing China's development theory, path and model and as an important window for political and academic circles and the people of foreign countries to learn about and study Chinese affairs." (http://www.sinoperi.com/qiushi/Default.aspx)

Language

en

Link

Qiushi

Category

Politics

Shenbao-database

申报

Information

Description: The Shenbao-database offers access to the most important historical newspaper in China. Shenbao newspaper was first published in April 30th, 1872 in the Shanghai International Settlement. Under Ernest Major (1841-1908) as editor, Shenbao developed into the first modern newspaper in China and soon became the daily paper most read nationwide.

The database covers the full run of Shenbao, from April 1872 to its cessation in May 1949.

The database makes available searchable full texts and PDF-images of all issues. Advertisements are excluded from the full text. Searches can be confined to an issue or year and also to headings, captions etc.

The "old" version of this database, which provided only PDFs are also still accessible here.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Shenbao-database

Category

Periodicals

Analytical System for the Complete Song Poetry

全宋詩分析系統

Information

The "Analytical System for the Complete Song Poetry" comes as a pair with the <a href="http://erf.sbb.spk-berlin.de:80/han/BeiDaQuanTang" target="_blank">Analytical System for the Complete Tang Poetry</a>. The Song poetry collection consists of 254 240 poems of altogether 9204 authors. For each poem the 平仄 structure can be displayed and identical structures searched within the fundus; for each author a short biography is provided which can also be searched separately. The database allows searches for words (using ? as a wild-card for one and * for one or more characters), authors, rhyme and rhythmic structure. Statistics can be calculated for words, phrases, rhymes etc.</br> A detailed description can be downloaded here: <a href="http://crossasia.org/fileadmin/user_upload/DB_Hilfen/song_help.pdf" target="_blank">song_help.pdf</a> </br> The Song database relies on the "QuanSong shi" compiled and published by the Beijing University (北京大学古文献研究所 编:《全宋诗》. 北京大学出版社).

Language

cn(t)

Link

Analytical System for the Complete Song Poetry

Category

Literature

Analytical System for the Complete Tang Poetry

全唐詩分析系統

Information

The "Analytical System for the Complete Tang Poetry" comes as a pair with the Analytical System for the Complete Song Poetry. The Tang poetry collection contains 57 592 poems of 3721 authors.

For each poem the 平仄 structure can be displayed and identical structures searched within the fundus; for each author a short biography is provided which can be searched separately. The database can be searched for words (using ? as a wild-card for one and * for one or more characters), authors, rhyme and rhythmic structure. Statistics can be calculated for words, phrases, rhymes etc.

A detailed description for both databases can be downloaded here:tang_help.pdf

The Tang database content mainly follows Peng Dingqiu's "QuanTang shi" edition published by the Zhonghua shuju (清) 彭定求 等编:《全唐诗》. 中华书局, 1-25册).

Language

cn(t)

Link

Analytical System for the Complete Tang Poetry

Category

Literature

Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertations Service

中文電子學位論文服務 (CETD)

Information

The CETD (Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertations Service) collects dissertations and theses of all main Taiwan universities and research institutions but also some from abroad (a full list is shown under 校院瀏覽. The "service" startet in 2005 with the aim to collect all dissertations and master theses "from both coasts and all four Chinese regions" (兩岸四地) at one plattform. While most of the dissertations are written in Chinese and derive from Taiwanese institutions, the database also provides quite a number written in English. Currently the database allows searches over the titles, abstracts, table of contents, bibliographies, adviser's names etc. of about 114 000 dissertations and theses; about 80 000 of them are accessible as full text PDF (marked in the hits with a text icon). The full text of the PDFs themselves are not searched via the CETD interface, but the PDFs can be searched and printed after download.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertations Service

Category

eBooks

TKC Law Library

TKCローライブラリー

Information

This database on Japanese law is divided into several parts that offer detailed information and fulltexts concerning law, court decisions, secondary literature on law topics, law journals etc. For descriptions of the contents, please follow this LINK

The database provider has supplied detailed user information, the so called "Quick Guide". Please follow this LINK to obtain the PDF file.

Please do not forget to use the proper "logout button" for closing the database. Otherwise access is not possible for other users until the automatic timeout after 30 minutes.

Language

jp

Link

TKC Law Library

Category

Law

Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC)

藏传佛教资源中心

Information

The "Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center" offers a wide range of Tibetan literature from all spheres of life – traditional medicine, astrology, astronomy, alchemy, art, history, geography, biography, grammar, folk culture, poetics, and so on. Most of the works, however, are religious in character as they comprise traditional Tibetan Buddhist scriptures stretching back over a period of more than 1.300 years. At present, the database offers about 4.000 works in more than 10.000 volumes accessible as PDF files representing scans from manuscripts, blockprints, and books or editions published mainly from India and China. The material can be searched by title, author, subjects, places and a number of other aspects (click "Search By" at the top right).

Founded by Gene Smith in 1999, it is the mission of the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center to preserve, organize and disseminate Tibetan works by using the latest digital technologies in order to ensure that "the treasures of this incredible body of literature will never be lost".

For an introduction to the project and its mission please see here. "

Language

en

Link

Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center (TBRC)

Category

Art

Zhongwen da cidian

中文大辭典

Information

Zhang Qiyun 張其昀, ed. © 2006, Chinese Culture University 中國文化大學 (Taiwan).

Based originally on Tetsuji Morohashi’s 1960 Dai Kan-Wa Jiten 大漢和辞典, the Zhongwen da cidian was the preeminent Chinese dictionary until the publication of the Hanyu da cidian. The online version of the dictionary contains over 370,000 entries, and is fully searchable by single graph or phrase; a native radical-stroke index is also provided.

All entries and search functions are in traditional Chinese characters only.

Language

cn(t)

Link

Zhongwen da cidian

Category

Dictionaries

Sou wen jie zi

搜文解字 (incl. Hanyu da zidian 漢語大字典)

Information

Huang Juren黃居仁, ed. Institute of Linguistics, Academica Sinica中央研究院語言學研究所.

The single-character search function from the Sou wen jie zi dictionary contains the entries from the 54,678 characters in the Hanyu da zidian in a multi-scope searchable digital interface. The “phrase search” function returns standard phrases in which a graph is located, configurable by location within the phrase, length of the phrase, or reduplicated binomes. The “text search” function searches for occurrences of the search term within the following classical texts: the Analects 論語, the Mengzi孟子, the Great Learning 大學, the Doctrine of the Mean 中庸, the Laozi 老子, the Zhuangzi 莊子 and the Three Hundred Tang Poems 唐詩三百首.

Entries and search functions are in traditional Chinese characters only.

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cn(t)

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Sou wen jie zi

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Dictionaries

Chinese Text Project Dictionary

中國哲學書電子化計劃字典

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Donald Sturgeon, ed. © 2006-2013

The CTP Dictionary features a good amount of lexical information, including pronunciations in Mandarin pinyin, Cantonese jyutping, and Stimson’s Tang reconstructions, detailed graph composition information (and other graphs related by component), numeric references to other dictionaries, and full entries from the Shuowen jiezi and Guangyun dictionaries. This dictionary has three additional unique strengths: 1) Full integration with the extensive textual corpora on the site (see its listing in the Encyclopedia section below), featuring a wide range of examples drawn from the texts provided for each graph and many common compounds; 2) The dictionary search function accepts strings of characters, or one can simply use any of the texts on the site, and then provides basic lexical information (pronunciation, meanings, variant graphic forms and links to other dictionaries) for each graph in the order entered; and 3) The Advanced Search function “Text/concept search: Dictionary match” permits searches limited by specific gloss of many graphs, as generated from the English translations.

Searches can be performed in simplified or traditional Chinese, including many variant forms; the ability to parse whole texts and use the individual graphs as dictionary input is a powerful feature.

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cn(t)

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Chinese Text Project Dictionary

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Dictionaries

iCIBA

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Kingsoft Corp., © 2012

The online version of their offline Powerword 金山詞霸 translation software, the bilingual iCIBA dictionary features numerous detailed Chinese-English definitions and a wealth of contextual example sentences for both Chinese and English terms. Compounds, variations and synonyms are also provided for each entry, with encoding and grapheme information also available for Chinese. There is also a browser add-on which provides pop-up definitions and lexical data, for Chinese or English.

Searches can be performed in English, traditional or simplified Chinese, though the lexicon is in simplified characters only. (c) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/9213

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cn(s)

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iCIBA

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Dictionaries

zaixian xinhua zidian cidian

在线新华字典词典

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5156edu.com

The 5156edu website contains several types of lexica, mainly intended for young Chinese students studying Chinese. The dictionary provides most of the main definitions for a character, each accompanied by source citations from classic texts (similar to those in the Hanyu da cidian), followed by compounds and their short definitions. Related idioms and homonyms are listed on the left side.

The 5156edu sites are all in simplified Chinese characters only, including search functions. (c) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/9213

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cn(s)

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zaixian xinhua zidian cidian

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Dictionaries

Lin Yutang’s Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage

林語堂《當代漢英詞典》電子版

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Chinese University Press, Chinese University of Hong Kong 香港中文大學出版社.

The digital version of Lin Yutang’s 1972 dictionary provides his extensive Chinese and English glosses for over 40,000 Chinese graphs and compounds, divided by parts of speech, accessible via a well-designed search system that allows the user to search any parts of the dictionary using a variety of criteria. A full English index and user’s guide is also provided.

The entries for the dictionary are all in English and traditional Chinese; there is no support for simplified characters. (c) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/9213

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cn(t)

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Lin Yutang’s Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage

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Dictionaries

Zhongwen.com

中文.com

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Rick Harbaugh, ed. © 1996-2011

This site is designed for the learner of modern Chinese and includes a number of study aides, sample readings, and links to other sites. The dictionary features simple glosses for Chinese characters and compounds, explanations for graphic composition, and parts of speech (unfortunately all entries are images, so they cannot be cut-and-pasted into other applications). The dictionary’s main strength is that it is arranged by common component, which allows the user to quickly jump to other graphically similar entries.

Searches can be made in English, Mandarin pinyin, or by using the site’s own search functions. (c) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/9213

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cn(t)

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Zhongwen.com

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Dictionaries

Wictionary Chinese

維基詞典

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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Open content: all entries written and edited by volunteers.

The Chinese Wictionary itself is extremely extensive, containing over 800,000 entries, but its main strength is that any searches can return results from all the Wiktionaries in more than 175 languages. The lexical entries are generally quite simple, with standard dictionary references, orthography (including variants), pronunciations (including Cantonese and reconstructions), simple English definitions, and links to related entries, followed by entries for the graph/compound found in other Wiktionaries (in other languages).

Searches can be made in many languages/scripts, but will sometimes fail to return Chinese language data, even for a Chinese character. (c) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/9213

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cn(s)

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Wictionary Chinese

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Dictionaries

Revised Chinese Dictionary (Taiwan Ministry of Education)

重編國語辭典修訂本 (漢漢)

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Taiwan Ministry of Education中華民國教育部, © 1994

This dictionary website run by the Taiwan MOE is in traditional Chinese characters only; basic character information and definitions by part of speech are provided for individual graphs and a large number of compounds, including the locus classicus for each.

Entries and search functions are in traditional Chinese characters only. (c) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/9213

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cn(t)

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Revised Chinese Dictionary (Taiwan Ministry of Education)

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Dictionaries

Kanxi Zidian Online

康熙字典網上版

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kangxizidian.com, © 2009

This website is very much what one might expect: images of pages from the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary are presented alongside essentially the same content in digital form. The dictionary also contains a basic search function.

Entries and search functions are in traditional Chinese characters only. (c) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/9213

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cn(t)

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Kanxi Zidian Online

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Dictionaries

Le Grand Dictionnaire Ricci de la langue chinoise Online

利氏漢法辭典

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Koninklijke Brill NV, © 2012

With nearly 300,000 entries, this dictionary describes itself as “the most comprehensive up-to-date dictionary of Chinese into a modern Western language.” Detailed definitions for each entry are provided, and all entries are in French only.

Single-graph searches in traditional Chinese characters only. (c) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/9213

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cn(t)

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Le Grand Dictionnaire Ricci de la langue chinoise Online

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Dictionaries

Unihan

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Unicode, Inc. © 1991–2013

The Unihan Database is the result of the effort to create one unified character set for all Chinese, Japanese, and Korean graphs; it currently supports tens of thousands of unique graphs, and is now the standard character set for most systems. The website features grid display and two search functions: radical and stroke count, or text search for English gloss or pronunciation in Mandarin pinyin, Cantonese jyutping, Stimson’s Tang pronunciation from T’ang Poetic Vocabulary, Korean hangul, Japanese on, or Japanese kun. On the webpage for each graph, full encoding data, stroke count, dictionary codes, and direct links to the online MDBG, CantoDict, and WWWJDIC dictionaries are provided.

One should be aware that only a subset of all Chinese graphs have been included into the Unicode standard—thereby becoming searchable and independent of modalities such as writing style and format—and only a subset of this is represented in most Chinese fonts. For a more complete coverage it may be necessary to install the CJK Extensions, such as the PMingLiu-ExtB font package. (See also ctext.org: http://ctext.org/font-test-page.)

The database is also freely available for download as code charts in PDF or data text file format. (c) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/9213

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en

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Unihan

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Dictionaries

Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants

異體字字典

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Taiwan Ministry of Education中華民國教育部, © 2000

This well-designed dictionary from the Taiwan MOE is the best online resource for checking the variant forms of a graph. The dictionary features basic definitions and citations in digital text for each variant, and the right side panel contains linked images of citations taken from the pages of a number of standard reference works for graphic forms, including: 說文解字, 古文字類編,漢語古文字字形表, 漢簡文字類篇, 漢隸字源, 隸辨, 金石文字辨異, 偏類碑別字, 碑別字新編, 六朝別字記新編, 敦煌俗字譜, 干祿字書, 龍龕手鏡, 龍龕手鑑, 玉篇, 廣韻, 集韻, 集韻考正, 類篇, 四聲篇海, 宋元以來俗字譜, 字學三正, 字彙, 正字通, 字彙補, 康熙字典, 彙音寶鑑, 異體字手冊, 大陸簡化字表, 角川漢和辭典, 中日朝漢字字形對照, 中文大辭典, 漢語大字典, 中國書法大字典, 草書大字典, 學生簡體字字典, 簡體字表, 佛教難字字典, 中華字海, 古文四聲韻, 宋體母稿異體字, 書法字彙, 重訂直音篇, and 補充資料.

Searches must use the site’s two interfaces (radical and stroke-count), and the site is in traditional Chinese characters. For offline use, a 10-CD set is also available for purchase. (c) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/9213

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cn(t)

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Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants

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Dictionaries

Gg-art China Museum Calligraphy Dictionary

中华博物汉语字典书法字典

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Guangzhou Huan Hui Cultural Development Company, Ltd. 中华博物广州环汇文化发展有限公司

This Chinese dictionary is primarily useful for the many calligraphic and variant graphic forms provided for each character, including links to pages in many standard characters form reference works, but it also contains an array of definitions in Chinese and simple English glosses (divided by parts of speech), followed by compounds from the site’s Dictionary of Common Usage 常用词典.

Entries and search functions are in simplified Chinese characters, though traditional characters can also be used to return stroke order and compositionally related graphs. (c) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/9213

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cn(s)

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Gg-art China Museum Calligraphy Dictionary

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Dictionaries

Bamboo & Silk Manuscripts Paleographic Contextual Database

簡帛網中國古代簡帛字形、辭例資料庫

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Center of Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts of Wuhan University 武漢大學簡帛研究中心. © 2005

The Center has created a database of single-graph images taken from the official publications of the excavated bamboo and silk manuscripts from the ancient states of Chu, Qin, and Han. Users can enter a character or component (pianpang 偏旁) into the main search box to view graphic forms or use the contextual search to see all phrases containing the character; both searches can be further narrowed by selecting specific manuscripts or corpora.

Entries and search functions are in traditional Chinese characters only. (c) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/9213

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cn(s)

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Bamboo & Silk Manuscripts Paleographic Contextual Database

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Dictionaries

Siku Quanshu: Online

中國四庫全書

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Auf der Höhe der Qing-Dynastie beauftragte Qianlong die Siku quanshu, wahrscheinlich um zu beweisen, dass die Mandschu die Yongle-Enzyklopädie (永樂大典) der Ming-Dynastie übertreffen könnten. Die Yongle Dadian von 1407 war die größte Enzyklopädie zu dieser Zeit.

Die Redaktion bestand aus 361 Wissenschaftlern, mit Ji Yun (紀昀) und Lu Xixiong (陸錫熊) als Chefredakteuren. Die Zusammenstellung begann 1773 und war 1782 beendet. Man sammelte und anerkannte über 10000 Handschriften aus der kaiserlichen Sammlung und anderen Bibliotheken. Etwa 3000 Schriften wurden vernichtet, da sie als Mandschu-feindlich eingestuft wurden. Letztendlich wurden 3461 Bücher für die Aufnahme in die Siku quanshu ausgewählt. Sie wurden in 36381 Bänden mit mehr als 79000 Kapiteln gebunden. Auf den ca. 2,3 Millionen Seiten finden sich etwa 800 Millionen chinesische Schriftzeichen.

Vier Exemplare für den Kaiser wurden in extra errichteten Bibliotheken in der Verbotenen Stadt, dem Alten Sommerpalast, Shenyang und der Wenjin Kammer in Chengde aufbewahrt. Drei weitere Kopien für die Öffentlichkeit wurden in Siku quanshu-Bibliotheken in Hangzhou, Zhenjiang und Yangzhou hinterlegt. Alle sieben Bibliotheken erhielten ebenfalls eine Kopie der kaiserlichen Enzyklopädie Gujin tushu jicheng von 1725.

Zwei Kopien der Siku quanshu wurden während des Taiping-Aufstandes vernichtet. Die Britische Armee verbrannte die verbleibende Kopie fast vollständig während des Zweiten Opiumkrieges. Die vier verbliebenen Ausgaben erlitten einige Schäden während des Zweiten Weltkrieges, doch die Kopie der Verbotenen Stadt (bekannt als Wenyuan ge 文淵閣) befindet sich gut erhalten im Nationalen Palastmuseum in Taipeh auf Taiwan. Während der 1980er Jahre wurde es lithografisch in 1500 Bänden nachgedruckt und ist derzeit auf CD-ROM und online verfügbar.

Siku Quanshu Zongmu Tiyao

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cn(t)

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Siku Quanshu: Online

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Literature

CHISE IDS

漢字検索

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This extensive Japanese-language website, designed for graph component analyses, also features images of graphic forms from a huge number of stone carvings (拓本文字), including both single graphs and compounds. Character data, full graph component analyses (including variant forms), and component maps are also provided, as well as an array of links to other graphs and graphic forms.

Searches can be made in traditional or simplified Chinese characters (though they return different results), or Japanese kanji. (c) http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/9213

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jp

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CHISE IDS

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Dictionaries