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Chinese Digital Humanities Index

Digital Humanities tools and resources for Chinese studies.

Last updated: 2025-08-31

China

Pre-modern

Learning

  1. Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598

  2. Asia and the West

  3. Asia for Educators

  4. Asia For Everyone

  5. Baodingshan

  6. Digital Sinology Wiki

  7. Digital 法寶義林 (Hôbôgirin)

  8. Dream of the Red Chamber: Afterlives

  9. H-Buddhism Buddhist Studies Bibliography

  10. IDEAS: Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies

  11. Mapping Advertising Space in modern Shanghai (MADSpace)

  12. Maritime Asia: War and Trade

  13. Online Index of Chinese Buddhism

  14. Ryukyu Cultural Archives

  15. Silk Road Seattle

  16. The Chinese Religious Text Authority 宗教書籍規範索引

  17. The International Dunhuang Project: The Silk Road Online

  18. The Mongols in World History

  19. Ties that Bind: Connecting the U.S. and East Asia

  20. Virtual Shanghai

  21. Women in World History (East Asia section)

Tools

  1. Buddhist Digital Resource Center

  2. China Biographical Database (CBDB)

  3. China Historical Christian Database

  4. China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS)

  5. Chinese Ancient Classics Citation Relationship Database 中国古代经典引用关系资料库

  6. Chinese Buddhism SNA Dataset

  7. Chinese Text Project (ctext)

  8. Digital Archive of Chinese Buddhist Temple Gazetteers

  9. Digital Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese

  10. Elites, Networks and Power in modern China

  11. Medicine and Religion in China

  12. Multi-database Search System for Historical Chinese Characters

  13. Qʰˤraŋ, roŋ, [g]ur: a (new) Old Chinese 周易 zhōuyì transcription

  14. The China Biographical Database Project

  15. Thesaurus Linguae Sericae (TLS)

Textual Collections

  1. Buddhist Studies Authority Database Project

  2. China and the Modern World: Diplomacy and Political Secrets, 1869–1950

  3. CHINA AND THE MODERN WORLD: Hong Kong, Britain and China, 1841–1951

  4. CHINA AND THE MODERN WORLD: Imperial China and the West Part I, 1815–1881

  5. CHINA AND THE MODERN WORLD: Imperial China and the West Part II, 1865–1905

  6. China and the Modern World: Missionary, Sinology and Literary Periodicals

  7. China and the Modern World: Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China, 1854–1949

  8. Chinese Ancient Texts (CHANT) Database - CUHK Digital Classical Chinese Texts

  9. Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA) - Digital Buddhist Texts

  10. CJKV-English Dictionary of Confucian, Daoist, and Intellectual Historical Terms 漢日韓越-英辭典

  11. Database of Tang, Song, and Liao Tombs

  12. Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

  13. Early Chinese Music Resources

  14. East Asia Digital Library

  15. Kanseki Repository

  16. Kotenseki Sogo Database: Japanese and Chinese Classics

  17. Ming Qing Women’s Writings

  18. Prosopographic and Social Network Database of the Tang and Five Dynasties

  19. Scripta Sinica - Classical Chinese Texts Database (漢籍電子文獻)

  20. Silk Road Narratives: A Collection of Historical Texts

  21. Southeast Asia in the Ming Shilu

  22. Stratagems of the Warring States

  23. The Buddhist Digital Archives

  24. The Digital Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese 古漢語詞源字典（網絡版）

  25. The International Chinese Studies Virtual Events Clearing-House

  26. Women in the Study of Asian Religions collaborative database

Visuals and Visualization

  1. Asia and the Eastern Pacific Rim in Early Prints and Photographs

  2. Asian Historical Architecture

  3. China, Art, and Cultural Diplomacy

  4. China: Trade, Politics & Culture

  5. ChinaMap

  6. ChinaX Map

  7. Chinese Civilization in Time and Space

  8. Chinese Civilization in Time and Space (CCTS) - Historical GIS Platform

  9. Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project

  10. Chinese Shadow Figures Catalog

  11. Digital Database of Buddhist Tripitaka Catalogues

  12. Digital Maps of Old Beijing

  13. Digital Special Collections Run Run Shaw Library

  14. East Asian Scroll Paintings Search

  15. Fe doro: Manchu Archery

  16. Historical Photographs of China

  17. Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era

  18. Laures Kirishitan Bunko Database

  19. Local Gazetteers Research Tools (LoGaRT)

  20. Mao Kun Explorer

  21. Music Manuscripts of LAI Cho-tin

  22. Online Spiritual Atlas of the Global East (OSAGE)

  23. Peking University 2025 Visualization Summer School Design Works Series

  24. Petzold Scrolls Collection

  25. Polyglot Asian Medicines

  26. Princeton Oracle Bone Collection

  27. Reading Digital Atlas

  28. Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection

  29. Selected Films about Buddhism

  30. The Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive

  31. The Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty

  32. The Freedom of the Streets

  33. The Mary Griggs Burke Collection

  34. The Mongol Invasions of Japan

  35. The Mongol Yuan Postal Relay System

  36. The Ten Thousand Rooms Project

  37. The Xu Dishan Collection

  38. USC Asian Maps Collection

  39. Visualizing Cultures

Modern

Learning

  1. Asia for Educators

  2. Asia For Everyone

  3. Asian American Little Magazines, 1968-1974

  4. ASIANetwork

  5. Baodingshan

  6. Bodies and Structures: Deep-mapping Modern East Asian History

  7. Chinese Maritime Customs project

  8. Digital Sinology Wiki

  9. Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire: Translated Primary Sources for Teaching Purposes

  10. H-Buddhism Buddhist Studies Bibliography

  11. IDEAS: Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies

  12. Mapping Advertising Space in modern Shanghai (MADSpace)

  13. Online Index of Chinese Buddhism

  14. Ryukyu Cultural Archives

  15. The Chinese Religious Text Authority 宗教書籍規範索引

  16. The Jivaka Project

  17. Ties that Bind: Connecting the U.S. and East Asia

  18. Virtual Shanghai

  19. Women in World History (East Asia section)

Tools

  1. Buddhist Digital Resource Center

  2. China Historical Christian Database

  3. Chinese Linguistic Data Consortium (CLDC)

  4. Elites, Networks and Power in modern China

  5. Exploring Republican China in the USC Digital Library

  6. Multi-database Search System for Historical Chinese Characters

  7. READCHINA: The Politics of Reading in the People’s Republic of China

  8. Revised Mandarin Chinese Dictionary

  9. The China Biographical Database Project

  10. Unofficial Poetry Journals from China

Textual Collections

  1. AsiaAvenue

  2. Bannedthought

  3. Buddhist Studies Authority Database Project

  4. Catalog Database of Republican Era Buddhist Journals

  5. Chater Collection

  6. China and the Modern World: Diplomacy and Political Secrets, 1869–1950

  7. CHINA AND THE MODERN WORLD: Hong Kong, Britain and China, 1841–1951

  8. CHINA AND THE MODERN WORLD: Imperial China and the West Part I, 1815–1881

  9. CHINA AND THE MODERN WORLD: Imperial China and the West Part II, 1865–1905

  10. China and the Modern World: Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China, 1854–1949

  11. China Families

  12. China Society of Southern California Collection

  13. China’s Cultural Revolution in Memories: The CR/10 Project | Digital Pitt

  14. Chinese Commercial Advertisement Archive - Nanjing University Visual Culture Project

  15. Chinese Foreign Policy Database

  16. Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Collection, ca. 1880-1933

  17. Contemporary Chinese Village Gazetteer Data

  18. CrevicEchoes

  19. Digital Humanities Asia

  20. Early Chinese Periodicals Online

  21. East Asia Digital Library

  22. Ecological Awareness in Chinese Contemporary Art

  23. HKUL eBooks

  24. Hoover Institution Library & Archives Digital Collections

  25. Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers

  26. MADSpace

  27. Massline.org

  28. Migration to New Worlds

  29. Missionary Research Pamphlets (Series 5: East Asia)

  30. Shanghai Library Open Data Platform - Linked Data and Library Resources

  31. The Buddhist Digital Archives

  32. The China Collection

  33. The International Chinese Studies Virtual Events Clearing-House

  34. The Nanking Massacre Project

  35. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1985: as seen in prints and archives

  36. Wilson Center Digital Archive: International History Declassified

  37. Women in the Study of Asian Religions collaborative database

  38. X-Boorman: Biographical Dictionary of Modern China

Visuals and Visualization

  1. 1973 Guardian Tour of China

  2. Asia and the Eastern Pacific Rim in Early Prints and Photographs

  3. Asian Historical Architecture

  4. Bell Historical Postcard Collection

  5. China and Africa

  6. China and Far East Through Western Eyes

  7. China Visual Arts Project Archive

  8. China, America and the Pacific

  9. China, Art, and Cultural Diplomacy

  10. China: Culture and Society

  11. China: Trade, Politics & Culture

  12. ChinaMap

  13. ChinaX Map

  14. Chinese Civilization in Time and Space

  15. Chinese Immigrants in Cuba: Documents from the James and Ana Melikian Collection

  16. Chinese Pamphlet Digitization Project

  17. Chinese Papercut Poster Collection

  18. Chinese Papercuts

  19. Chinese Railroad Workers in North America Project

  20. Chinese Shadow Figures Catalog

  21. Chinese Women’s Magazines in the Late Qing and Early Republican Period

  22. Chineseposters.net

  23. Digital Archive for Chinese Studies

  24. Digital Maps of Old Beijing

  25. Digital Special Collections Run Run Shaw Library

  26. Down to the Countryside Movement

  27. Fe doro: Manchu Archery

  28. Flora Sinensis

  29. Gaihozu: Japanese imperial maps

  30. Historical Photographs of China

  31. Lafayette East Asia image Collection

  32. Laures Kirishitan Bunko Database

  33. Love and Desires: Female Characters Depicted by Eileen Change

  34. Mao Era in Objects - Digital History Project on Material Culture in Maoist China

  35. Mapping Digital Collections on Chinese Studies in the US and Canada

  36. Morrison Collection

  37. Music Manuscripts of LAI Cho-tin

  38. Nanyang Sites GIS Data

  39. Naxi manuscripts collection, 1826-1910

  40. Norman Spencer Photographs of China

  41. Online Spiritual Atlas of the Global East (OSAGE)

  42. Palmer & Turner Collection

  43. Pedro Loureiro Collection

  44. Polyglot Asian Medicines

  45. Posters of the Chinese Independent Film Festivals

  46. Reading Digital Atlas

  47. Schulich-Woolf Rare Book Collection

  48. Selected Films about Buddhism

  49. Sidney D. Gamble Photographs of East Asia

  50. Sir John Newell Jordan, 1852-1925 Collection

  51. The Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive

  52. The Freedom of the Streets

  53. The Mao Era in Objects

  54. The Mary Griggs Burke Collection

  55. The Memory Project

  56. The People’s Map of Global China

  57. The PRC History Group

  58. The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China

  59. The Ten Thousand Rooms Project

  60. The Xu Dishan Collection

  61. Virtual Shanghai Map Collection

  62. Visualizing Cultures

  63. 東北省鼠疫 Plague Pandemic in Manchuria

Unclassified

  1. 香港、大陸、台灣 - 跨地區、跨年代漢語常用字頻統計 Chinese Character Frequency Statistics

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