China & Inner Asia

The Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. The site attempts to make use of the digital medium to explore new ways of interacting with these texts that are not possible in print. With over thirty thousand titles and more than five billion characters, the Chinese Text Project is also the largest database of pre-modern Chinese texts in existence.

The Dharma Dictionary is an ongoing project involved in compiling Buddhist terminology and translation terms to bridge the Tibetan and English languages. It has slowly grown to a database of approx. 5 megabytes with 65,000 entries.

A collaborative project to publish the first modern English-language account of the approximately 30,000 species of vascular plants of China (one-eighth of the world's flora).

The Himalayan Languages Project of Leiden University is a programme of ongoing linguistic research on hitherto undescribed and little known languages indigenous to the Himalayan region.

This database is powered by various searching functions. Full-text is available in a major part of the database.

A range of freely accessible Chinese language newspapers from the 1870's-1950's, digitised by the Internet Archive.

The Web edition of Lin Yutang's (林語堂 (1895-1976)) Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage is based on the first edition of the work published in 1972 by the Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.

Out-of-print issues of the biannual Chinese-English literary translation magazine, Renditions.

Features a wide spectrum of Taiwanese authors.

Provides etymologies of Chinese characters in order to help students understand, appreciate and remember characters. Over 4000 characters with etymologies in English and genealogical charts highlighting the etymological connections between characters. Also has good links to Chinese language resources.