Explore eighteenth-century Beijing — the Forbidden City, temples, and hutongs — on 乾隆京城全図 brought to the digital world by Toyo Bunko. Click thumbnails on the overview map to access high-resolution images. http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/toyobunko/II-11-D-802/V-1/page/0001.html.en The map can also be viewed on Google Earth http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/geography/historical-maps/toyobunko/II-11-D-802/1.0/all.kmz
“According to the Management Division, the use of matches was limited to one box every two months, but Old Tong used only three matches in the past six months. In the past three years, six towels have been distributed, but he used only one of them. This year, the government gave an extra one for […]
Two databases on trial until 1/31/2013 (Log in with Harvard ID and pin number.) 中国基本古籍库 Database of Chinese Classic Ancient Books http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresour…) The database includes more than 10,000 titles (160,000 juans) across all dynasties to the Republican period, and 1.7 billion characters (12 million pages). Full-text searchable. 敦煌文獻庫 Database of Chinese Dunhuang Manuscripts http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.eresour…) The […]
Chinese Maritime Customs Digitization Project of Harvard Yenching Library is now online. The project covers a wide variety of documents from Chinese Maritime Customs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including statistics, codes of regulations, reports on commodities and local societies, dictionaries, and handbooks for officials, etc. Explore this amazingly rich collection by […]
More than 125,000 high-resolution images of works from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, one of the leading museums in the world, have gone online, and free for all. Paintings and artifacts from East Asia can also be found in its collection. The museum invites the public to become the curator and use them creatively. We encourage […]
Some postcards of colonial Korea in the 1930s. The information of the book on Hollis: http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/R6AHCRYUR1M95… More postcards of early twentieth-century East Asia can be found at The East Asia Image Collection of Lafayette Libraries : http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections…
To what extend was premodern Chinese political culture “meritocratic,” as some political commentators suggested? Read this incisive article appearing on today’s New York Times by Mark Elliott, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History at Harvard University, and find out the answer: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/14/opinio… Photo: 新刊邵榜眼評選舉業捷學宇宙文芒 (Sinʾgan So pangan pʻyŏngsŏn kŏŏpchʻŏphak uju munmang), Korea, […]
Today is the 146th anniversary of the birthday of Sun Yat-sen, the “Father of the Nation” in Republican China, and the “Great Forerunner of Democratic Revolution” in Communist China. Sun was one of major leaders in the protests against the Qing government, which eventually led to the Chinese revolution in 1911 and ended […]
Why the Confucian Analects Is Not as Old as We Might Think? Professor Michael Hunter from Yale University will give a talk in Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard and tell you why. But no matter how old the Analects is, it is certainly old enough to be read by thousands of millions of […]
It is with great sadness to know that Professor Hsiao Chi-ching (Xiao Qiqing 蕭啟慶), a pre-eminent historian of Mongol-Yuan China and a Harvard alumnus, passed away earlier today. He was 75. Professor Hsiao received his Ph.D. from Department of Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations (now EALC) in 1969, under the supervision of Yang Lien-sheng and […]