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Bibliography of Japanese literature covering after 1912. Data is taken from the annual bibliography compiled by Kokubungaku nenkan 国文学年鑑. Some 445,000 academic papers are included.

Union Catalog of early Japanese books primarily printed/hand-copiesd before 1868 includes names of holding institutions. Contents are taken from Kokusho somokuroku 国書総目録and Kotenseki sogo mokuroku 古典籍総合目録.

This site provides access to official documents—dating from the Meiji era through 1945—of the Japanese Cabinet, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Army and Navy. The National Archives of Japan, The Diplomatic Record Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Library of The National Institute for Defense Studies of the Ministry of Defense contribute the contents and as of June 2008 over 1.1 million documents are avilable.

Collection of English translation of Japanese Laws and Regulations accompanied by original Japanese texts.

Links to selected internet resources on a range of topics relating to the People's Republic of China.

originally established as the Royal Archives of the Chosŏn Dynasty in 1776, provides digital images of 88 old books in full-text PDF files, which include Kuunmong 구운몽, Kyŏngguk Taejŏn 경국대전(經國大典), Koryŏsa 고려사(高麗史), Kukcho Pogam 국조보감(國朝寶鑑), Taedong Chiji 대동지지(大東地誌), Samguk Sagi 삼국사기(三國史記), and Hanjungrok 한중록(恨中錄). It offers more convenient access to digitized collections available either in full-text or as high-definition digital images. Digitized collections include old maps, books, documents, government records of the late Chosŏn dynasty and during Japanese rule, and historic documents of the Chosŏn dynasty such as Ilsŏngrok (일성록), Pibyŏnsa Tŭngrok (비변사 등록), and Ŭigwe (의궤). The database is easy to browse and provides sophisticated search functions.

The Ming Literature Database contains 17 precious anthologies of Ming writers and poets in the National Central Library; all of them are displayed in colourful electronic images. While users can find part of the database contents on the internet, on the Library's intranet they can view all of the electronic contents and search the database by book title, author, edition, chapter, preface and postscript author, etc. The rare and antique book collection of the National Central Library has the reputation of being one of the important resources for academic research among sinologists around the world because of its holding of more than 12,000 series of rare and antique books including publications, hand-written copies and rare drafts of the Sung, Yuan, Ming, and Chin dynasties across the fields of classics, history, philosophy and belles-lettres. While the collection of rare and antique books were transferred on microfilm at the readers’ convenience, in this information age all the contents of the book collection will be digitalised by photography, scanning and other computer technologies. Given that all the collection of books is now available on microfilm, we will digitalise only selected books in a series of special issues at the early stage of this project. This strategy is chosen because of its flexibility.

The establishment of this digital database seeks to preserve the more than 1,500 Han Dynasty Relief Rubbings held by the Institute of History and Philology and to promote their use in academic research. The rubbings come from shrines and tombs of Shandong, Hunan, S-chuan, Jiang-su, etc. and contain information about mythologies, spirits, and legendary animals, as well as architecture, transportation, hunting and entertainment. Most of the rubbings were acquired from the time of the founding of the Institute in 1928 to the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 by fellows of the Institute, Fu Ssu-Nien, Syu Jhong-shu, Doung Zuo-bin, Lao Gan as well as by donation, exchange, purchase or field research. Many rubbings in the library are rare and are considered to be fine works of art and more complete than other illustrated catalogues published to date in Taiwan and abroad. Because many original sculptures were destroyed or disappeared after the Cultural Revolution in China, these historical rubbings are especially valuable to the study of the society, architecture and cultural life of the Han dynasty. Creator: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica

The Grand Secretariat Archives Project, which was launched in 1981, contains approximately 310,000 items dating from the Ming dynasty to the late Qing dynasty and encompasses a variety of subjects. Much of the project’s early work focused on conservation and cataloging, and since 1996 digitization and metadata management has also been underway. Detailed metadata has been added to each document in order to provide file descriptions and searchable key words. The documents were also scanned, photographed, and stored digitally using the latest technology. The database, which has been available since March 2001, is an ongoing project and is updated constantly. Researchers, students, and the general public may browse through the table of contents free of charge, or search the complete database after registration. Creator: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica

This system, which is a collaborative project between the Institute of History and Philology and the Computing Centre at Academia Sinica, works as a search tool for historical sites in Edsen-Gol from which the Institute's Han Dynasty wooden slips were excavated. Users can compare the spatial and temporal information on the historical maps of Liang Chou Cishibu of the two Han Dynasties with the maps of modern China by overlapping maps. This website also uses maps and menus to link to the Han wooden slip digital archive database at http://140.109.18.243/woodslip_public/System/Main.htm. This database also provides information about excavation sites and excavated Han wooden slips. Creator: Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica