Index to Ming Dynasty Paintings

Index to Ming Dynasty Paintings. Compiled by James Cahill (Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley) and hosted by Harvard Fine Arts Library, this resource “contains over 10,000 records including three types of data: 1) artist biographies, 2) artwork descriptions and 3) a bibliography covering the Ming Dynasty period, mid-fourteenth through mid-seventeenth centuries in China.” Please note that [...]

Nichibunken Databases

Nichibunken Databases. Developed by Nichibunken, the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, this page lists a variety of useful databases related to Japanese studies, including full texts, images, biographies, bibliographies, directories, and indexes, covering a wide range of subjects such as history, literature, art, geography, and social sciences. What do you think of this resource?

Academic Research Database Repository 学術研究データベース・リポジトリ

Academic Research Database Repository 学術研究データベース・リポジトリ. Developed by the National Institute of Informatics, this resource provides integrated search service for 29 subject-specific indexes or bibliographies. What do you think of this resource?

Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database)

Chinese Christian Texts Database (CCT-Database). Edited by Ad Dudink and Nicolas Standaert of the K.U. Leuven in Netherlands, this bibliographical database “is a research database of primary and secondary sources concerning the cultural contacts between China and Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (from 1582 to ca. 1840)… The primary sources are ca. 1050 [...]

Korean Historical Connection

Korean Historical Connection. Maintained by the faculty and students at Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea, the Korean Historical Connection provides online searchable bibliographies on history, including Korean history, Asian history, and Western history. The works covered in the bibliographies are written in Korean. What do you think of this resource?

Korean Art History Connection

Korean Art History Connection. Maintained by faculty and students at Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea, the Korean Art History Connection provides online searchable bibliographies on art history: history of sculpture, history of painting, and history of craft. The works covered are written in Korean. What do you think of this resource?

Contemporary Taiwan Literature Sources System 當代文學史料系統

Contemporary Taiwan Literature Sources 當代文學史料系統. Developed by the National Central Library, this system can be used to search biographical and bibliographical information about the contemporary (1949-) literary authors active in Taiwan. In addition, photographs about authors and information about literature awards are also available. However, fulltext articles are only available for access inside the NCL [...]

The Silk Road Project: Reuniting Turfan’s Scattered Treasures

The Silk Road Project: Reuniting Turfan’s Scattered Treasures. Result of a three-year project (1996-1998) funded by the Henry Luce Foundation, this site includes multiple resources on Turfan : a searchable database of most important published materials from Turfan (both excavated texts and artifacts), abstracts of papers presented at a conference concluding the project, a multilingual [...]

WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist texts

WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist texts. Compiled by Christian Wittern (Kyoto University), 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. Buddhist texts exist in many languages and cultural environments. Currently, this list contains only texts in Chinese, authored by people [...]

Bibliography of English-language Publications on Taiwan History 台灣史英文資料類目資料庫

Bibliography of English-language Publications on Taiwan History 台灣史英文資料類目資料庫. Compiled by Prof. Chen Joshui, currently of National Taiwan University, this online bibliography includes books, articles, and dissertations on Taiwan history. What do you think of this resource?