A Visual Sourcebook Of Chinese Civilization

[Boleslao Drinker]

Thisvolume is one in a continuing series of books

prepared by the Federal Research Division of the

Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area

Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of

the Army. It is edited by Robert L. Worden, Andrea

Matles Savada, and Ronald E. Dolan and Library of

Congress Call Number is DS706 .C489 1988.

The goal of this \visual sourcebook\ is to add to the

material teachers can use to help their students understand

Chinese history, culture, and society. It was not designed

to stand alone; we assume that teachers who use it will also

assign a textbook with basic information about Chinese

history.

This is a large online database of Chinese works complied by

Academia Sinica in Taiwan. It contains very rich contents

that span across Chinese historical classics, Buddhism

scripts, various local gazetteers of Taiwan, as well as

other primary resources on Taiwan and its history.

Particularly, it has an online version of the Encyclopedia

of Taiwan (臺灣文獻叢刊).

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 the Library of Congress and other

institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places,

and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public

as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates

nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration

to California through about 8,000 images and pages of

primary source materials. Included are photographs,

original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters,

excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal

documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches,

sheet music, and other printed matter. These documents

describe the experiences of Chinese immigrants in

California, including the nature of inter-ethnic tensions.

They also document the specific contributions of Chinese

immigrants to commerce and business, architecture and art,

agriculture and other industries, and cultural and social

life in California. Chinatown in San Francisco receives

special treatment as the oldest and largest community of

Chinese in the United States. Although necessarily

selective, such a large body of materials presents a full

spectrum of representation and opinion. The materials in

this online compilation are drawn from collections at The

Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley; The

Ethnic Studies Library, University of California Berkeley;

and The California Historical Society, San Francisco.

The site is created by the Hong Kong Computer Society and

allows for searches related to a specific English or Chinese

keyword in databases of both Hong Kong and Mainland computer

terminology. Hong Kong Computer Society has a formal

agreement with Chinese Computer Federation to publicize and

promote in Hong Kong and internationally the official set of

computer terms in Chinese published by the Standard

Terminology Assessment Committee of China. It is essential

to promote the use of a standardized vocabulary in Chinese

for technical communication in China and Hong Kong.

Asia Pacific Perspectives is a peer-reviewed electronic

journal published by the University of

San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim. It welcomes

submissions from all fields of the social sciences and the

humanities with relevance to the Asia Pacific/Pacific Rim.

In keeping with the Jesuit traditions of the University of

San Francisco, Asia Pacific Perspectives commits itself to

the highest standards of learning and scholarship. Papers

adopting a comparative, interdisciplinary approach to

issues of interrelatedness across the Pacific will be

especially welcome.

The online journal for the study and exhibition of the

religion and arts of Asia. Asianart.com is dedicated to all

aspects of Asian art. It offers a forum for scholars,

museums and commercial galleries. It displays highlights of

exhibitions in public and private institutions and

galleries; present new discoveries by scholars and

connoisseurs; and, by providing space for private galleries

to present their works, offer the visitor a selection of

fine Asian art worldwide.

Asian Film Online offers a view of Asian culture as seen

through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. Through

a selection of over 1,000 narrative feature films,

documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and

critics, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives

and insights onto themes relevant across Asia, including

modernity, globalization, female agency, social and

political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity. Such

themes are central to any meaningful discussion of

contemporary Asian culture and society.

Asian Law Online is offered to the public as a service to

assist students and scholars of Asian legal systems. It is a

collection of English language materials on Asian laws

available throughout the world and includes books, chapters

in books, journal articles and theses. It does not include

newspapers, magazines or unpublished articles.

Asian Pacific American History in Oregon is part of the Oregon History Project undertaken by Oregon Hisotical Society to collect, preserve, and promote access to, the information about Asian Pacific Americans immigrated to America from the continent of Asia (including India). Included in the scope of the project are the Chinese who started to arrive in the Oregon Territory in the early 1850s.

Asymptote is an open-access international journal dedicated

to literary translation and bringing together comtemporary

writing in one place. The journal is interested in

encounters between languages and the consequences of such

cross-language/culture/border encounters.

The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) is a

research institution established to enhance the existing

capabilities of The Australian National University (ANU).

It

aims to be an integrated, world-leading institution for

Chinese Studies and the understanding of China, or what

has

been called 'Greater China' or the 'Chinese Commonwealth'

(the People's Republic of China, the Hong Kong and Macau

Special Administrative Regions, as well as Taiwan and the

Chinese diaspora), on a global scale.

Basic Law Drafting History Online (BLDHO) is an online

resource providing information and materials from the

drafting history of Hong Kong's constitution, The Basic Law

of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the

People's Republic of China. BLDHO is a joint project of the

Centre for Comparative and Public Law and the HKU Libraries.

Undertaken by two Austrian scholars, Dr. Monika Lehner and

Dr. George Lehner, both of whom are experts with Chinese

rare books, Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0 is a project that aims at

collecting information and links of freely available e-books

on China and Sino-Western encounters from various open

access repositories.

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