arybin on Oct 15 2009 | Filed under: East Asian, Images on the Web
One of the most extensive collections of rare Chinese books outside of China will be digitized and made freely available to scholars worldwide as part of a six-year cooperative project between Harvard College Library (HCL) and the National Library of China (NLC)…
…The first phase, beginning in January 2010, will digitize books from the Song, Yuan [...]
mmacken on Aug 13 2008 | Filed under: East Asian, Photography
Duke University Libraries has launched an online digital collection of about 5,000 photographs shot primarily in China between 1917 and 1932.
The photographs were taken by Sidney Gamble, the grandson of Procter and Gamble co-founder James Gamble, and provide a glimpse into daily life unlike any other photographs from this period. A sociologist, China scholar, and [...]
mmacken on May 17 2007 | Filed under: ARTstor, Ancient, East Asian
ARTstor and the University of Michigan will digitize slides from the archive associated with Asian Art Photographic Distribution, which focuses on the art of East Asia. Areas strongly represented in the archive include Chinese painting, sculpture, bronzes and ceramics, Central Asian Art, and Japanese painting. Many of the objects represented in the archive [...]
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