Chinese studies (pre- 1949): Selected web sites

This website lists many popular digital resources and reference tools, including databases and websites for traditional Chinese studies.

The website allows access to several digital collections, including archaeological excavation reports, Han bamboo slips, bronze rubbings and inscriptions, Ming and Qing archives, etc. Registration is needed for access.

The web site of the Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library of Taiwan provides access to several special collections databases, and has links to Chinese studies related websites from across the world.

The National Central Library website lists thousands of internet resources, which are grouped by topics. It also includes Chinese studies related resources.

This website was created and maintained by the Center for Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts, Wuhan University. It has information on new publications, a discussion forum, bibliographies and research tools.

This website is maintained by the Society On the Study of Excavated Early Chinese Manuscripts. It is under the directorship of Yuasa Kunihiro 湯浅邦弘 at Osaka University. The website provides a regular newsletter, reports on the society's archaeological digs and visits to Chinese universities and helpful introductions to new excavated or discovered texts.

The website has a bibliography-in-progress of works in Western languages on the period of Chinese history between the end of the Han dynasty and the Sui reunification (220-589), a searchable Six Dynasties tombs database and back issues of the journal of Early Medieval China. Subscription is needed to access the journal.

This website has various resources on Song studies, including newsletters, research groups, book reviews, primary and secondary sources, etc.

A registered society that is dedicated to the study of the history of Qing dynasty. The website has useful resources on Qing historical studies, including newsletters, bibliographes/catalogues, selected important articles etc.

The website was created by Prof. Wu Zhihe. Although the site was not updated after 2007, it still has some useful resources for studying Ming history.

Using the GIS method, this website helps researchers analyze connections between Song poets, their works and places.

The website has collected traditional Chinese poems written by poets in Taiwan from 1662 through 1895. Free access. searchable by keywords in full text.

This project was developed by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, with contribution from Peking University, Fudan University and East China Normal University. It has listed about 100 modern writers and created files for more than 60 of them. These files include the biographies of writers, a list of their works and secondary resources about them.

A database that indexes Ming works held in the Palace Museum, National Central Library, Fu Ssu-nien Library and the National Taiwan Library. It allows full-text searching of these works.

This website was developed by the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Science. Progress on research, archaeological methods and trends, resources and publications on the site are constantly updated.

The database was developed by the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica. It has several important browsable or searchable sub-databases, such as 簡帛金石資料庫, 漢簡漢畫圖象論文目錄 and 武氏祠畫像.

The National Palace Museum (Taiwan) developed this database for researchers to find antiquities held at the museum. Users can search for items using drop-down lists.

The Palace Museum (Taiwan) developed this database to make its collection of Chinese calligraphy and paintings available for online viewing by researchers and the general public. 故宮書畫典藏資料檢索 allows users to search for items by author, name, dynasty, type of work, subject or item number.

This website has a rich collection of Tripitaka texts and useful research tools for Buddhism studies.

The SAT Daizōkyō Text Database Committee has opened its data for public use with the full approval of Daizō Shuppan Kabushiki Kaisha, the original publisher of the Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō. It is easy to browse chapters or search full-text by Chinese characters. This website is maintained by Kyoto University.

This is the homepage of The Study and Creation of Buddhist Lexicographical Resources project, and the website is built and maintained by the Digital Archive Division, Dharma Drum Buddhist College (DDBC). The website has powerful tools for researching Buddhism.

DDBTC is dedicated to collecting and constructing multi-lingual Tripitaka catalogues. Through key words searching users will conveniently acquire comprehensive information on various editions and versions of Tripitaka catalogues, and links to the corresponding full-text.

This project digitizes images of canonical Tibetan Buddhist collections, such as the Kangyur and the Tengyur and makes them available for online viewing. It includes digital images related to Indo-Tibetan medicine.

This site is managed by the Ricci Institute of the University of San Francisco. It focuses on the history of Christianity in China. Archives, bibliographies, institutions and biographies on Christianity in China can be searched.

This online project is developed by the Kingdom Business college in Beijing/China and Globethics.net in Geneva/Switzerland. This collection has already over 35'000 carefully selected full text documents on Chinese Christianity and culture and a detailed classification tree. It is the fruit of the cooperation of many leading institutions on Chinese Christianity.

The Palace Museum (Taiwan) website is an open access database. It allows visitors to browse the fine collection of calligraphy and paintings held by the museum by several themes.

This is the database of Tokyo University. It was created based on 鈴木敬主's 中國繪畫總合圖錄 and the 續編. The website is an union catalogue of ancient Chinese paintings that are held all over the world except for the National Palace Museum.

The Freer Gallery of Art possesses one of the most important collections of Chinese paintings outside of Asia. 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, stylistic conventions and three independent works of calligraphy.

This website allows visitors to search in chronicles of artists and artistic events. It is an ongoing web project. From the home page of the website users can also find research tools and biographical sources.