Asia Society. (http://www.asiasociety.org/)
Features the Asia Society, a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization based in Washington, D.C. and dedicated to fostering understanding of Asia and communication between Americans and the peoples of Asia and the Pacific. Includes news items, event information, and publication descriptions.
China Historical GIS (http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Echgis/)
The China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS) was launched on January 8th 2001, with funding from the Luce Foundation. The CHGIS established a database of historical administrative units for different periods in Chinese History, and will also provide a base GIS platform for researchers to use for spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and representation of selected historical units as digital maps. The objective of the site is to create a flexible tool that can be used to investigate geographically specific data related to China. This page requires frames. It can be viewed in English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
Electronic Index to the Early Shenbao (1872-1895) (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/database/shenbao/)
Provides quick keyword access to the contents of the Shenbao, certainly the most important of the early Chinese-language Shanghai newspapers. Includes and English language day-by-day record of the subjects in the paper main articles, nearly all articles reprinted in Shenbao from the Hong Knog Press, a selection of news reports, official documents, and letters to the editor, and selected popular poetry describing local customs. The selection of the other items, such as news reports, official documents, letters to the editor, is based on their length and perceived importance of ongoing debates. Not indexed are the contents of the Shenbao reprints of the Jingbao (Peking Gazette) or advertisements.
Historic Chinese Language Materials in British Columbia / 加華文獻聚珍 (http://www.hclmbc.org/)
A database of over 11,000 records, in Chinese, from archives, museums, and libraries documenting major waves of Chinese settlements on Canada’s west coast. The documents include manuscripts, newspapers, correspondence, genealogical and family records, business records, records of associations, textbooks, photographs, catalogs, books, journals, etc., and links to organizations that hold Overseas Chinese historical materials. From the Asian Library and the Centre for Chinese Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. All fields in the catalog of the database are searchable in English, Pinyin, and Chinese characters.
Western China and Tibet: The Hotspot of Diversity (http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/library/tibet/expeditions.html)
The result of digital project that unites materials [from libraries and museums at Harvard] collected during four Harvard expeditions to South Central China and Tibet between 1924 and 2000, including herbarium and ornithological specimens, historic photographs by botanist/explorer Joseph Rock. A new feature of the Harvard library online catalog allows for searching across several local catalogs.
Yin Yu Tang, A Qing Dynasty House in Massachusetts (http://pem.org/yingyutang/)
The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, has acquired a late Qing (1644-1911) courtyard house and is reconstructing it at the Museum site. It is scheduled to open in June 2003. The website gives historical information on the house, its furnishings, and its occupants, views of its reconstruction, an animated walk-through, quicktime movies of the village where the house stood originally and of the dismantling of the structure. System requirements for using the site are given on the Explore the House page.
Zhongguo xun zheng yi xue zhong xin / 中国循证医学中心 (http://www.chinacochrane.org)
Website of Chinese Cochrane Center (ChiCC), opened in 1999 in Chengdu, with primary aim to promote and foster activities on evidence-based health care in China through preparation, maintenance, dissemication and application of systematic reviews to help health care decision makers make well-informed decisions to improve clinical practice and use health resources efficiently.
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