Taiwan Literature Studies Database

Taiwan Literature Studies Database. Developed at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the “online Taiwan Literature Studies database (TLSD) aims at worldwide studies on Taiwan literature in Chinese, English, Japanese and other major languages. The data, as of Spring 1998, contain about two thousand records”. – Taiwan Literature Studies Database. What do you think of [...]

Project Yao 覞工程

Project Yao 覞工程. “A free, publicly accessible permanent database of pre-1920 American literature translations into Chinese. A cooperative bi-national public scholarship project from Arizona State University, Iowa State University, and Sichuan University”. – Project Yao

Renditions Database

Renditions Database. Affiliated with Renditions, a Chinese-English translation journal,  this “database contains details of authors, titles and translators of works that have appeared in Renditions publications.” So basically it is a searchable index to Renditions publications. What do you think of this resource?

University of Wahsington Libraries International Collections Database

University of Wahsington Libraries International Collections Database. Based on the collections in the UW Libraries, this is a “database of over 400 images of views from Asia and South America with special emphasis on China, India, Japan and other southeast Asian countries. Included are photographs and photographic postcards taken between the 1870s- 1930s.” It has [...]

Robert Henry Chandless Photographs

Robert Henry Chandless Photographs. Based on a much larger collection housed at the University of Washington Libraries, this collection includes “74 items from the Robert Henry Chandless Collection of images from China, 1898-1908. They depict images of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, glimpses of diplomatic and commercial life during that time period, and the early [...]

Between Liberation Space and Time of Need, 1945-1950: Rare Korean Literary Works

Between Liberation Space and Time of Need, 1945-1950: Rare Korean Literary Works. Developed by the University of Washington Libraries, this resource provides full-text images of 128 rare literary books that were printed between the end of Japanese occupation (1945) and the outbreak of the Korean War (1950). The books were on exhibition in the UW [...]

American Memory

American Memory. Developed by the Library of Congress, “American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of [...]

Directory of open access journals

Directory of open access journals. Developed by the Lund University Libraries in Sweden, the “aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open [...]

Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882

Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882. Developed by California Digital Library, this themed collection has 21 image files and 50 textual documents related to the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882). What do you think of this resource?

Yahoo! Taiwan Academic Search 奇摩學術搜尋

Yahoo! Taiwan Academic Search 奇摩學術搜尋. Developed by Yahoo! Taiwan, it provides integrated search to six academic databases: Taiwan Dissertations and Theses (National Central Library) PerioPath – Taiwan periodicals index (National Central Library) Wanfang Online Journals (a commercial database; only citations are free) Scholarly Web Resources (National Taiwan University Library and Yahoo! Taiwan) Taiwan Libraries Union [...]