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Ancient Bronze Vessels
Title: Vessels and Names Project
Description: Database of bronzes and "clan signs" from the late Shang through Early Zhou time period
Format: online database
Contact: Constance Cook
Organization: Lehigh University
URL: http://digital.lib.lehigh.edu/vessels/index.php?lang=english
Buddhist Monasteries in SE China
Title: BGIS: Relational Database of Buddhist Monasteries in China
Description: Historical Database of Buddhist Monks and Monasteries in Southeast China
Format: online database
Contact: Jiang Wu
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson
URL: http://bgis.coh.arizona.edu/
Chinese Biographical Database
Title: Chinese Biographical Database
Description: Searchable Database of Chinese Biographies, including their names, positions, and places of origin
Format: online database
Contact: Marilyn A. Levine
Organization: Eastern Oregon University
URL: http://www.eou.edu/cbiouser/
Chinese Buddhist Biographies Platform
Title: Chinese Buddhist Biographies Platform
Description: Platform for the visualization and analysis of Chinese Buddhist Biographies
Format: Online interfaces and downloadable datasets
Contact: Marcus Bingenheimer
Organization: Dharma Drum Buddhist College
URL: http://buddhistinformatics.ddbc.edu.tw/gaosenggis/
DDBC Authority Databases
Title: DDBC Authority Databases
Description: Database and open API for Buddhist Place and Person Names and East Asian Calendar Dates
Format: Online database, API
Contact: Marcus Bingenheimer
Organization: Dharma Drum Buddhist College
URL: http://authority.ddbc.edu.tw/
Digital Archive of Chinese Buddhist Temple Gazetteers
Title: Digital Archive of Chinese Buddhist Temple Gazetteers
Description: Contains scans and metadata for 234 temple gazetteers (13 of which in full-text (TEI/XML) with referenced place and person names)
Format: Online interface and downloadable, documented datasets
Contact: Marcus Bingenheimer
Organization: Dharma Drum Buddhist College
URL: http://buddhistinformatics.ddbc.edu.tw/fosizhi/
Exemplary Women (Lienu Zhuan)
Title: Traditions of Exemplary Women (Lienu Zhuan)
Description: Liu Xiang's Biographies of Exemplary Women (ca. 18 B.C.)
Format: XML Text
Contact: Anne Behnke Kinney
Organization: East Asia Center, University of Virginia
URL: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/xwomen/
Intl Dunhuang Project
Title: International Dunhuang Project
Description: Catalog, texts, and maps about historical objects from the Silk Road
Format: online databaset
Contact: Susan Whitfield
Organization: British Library
URL: http://idp.bl.uk/
South China Sea
Title: South China Sea World Wide Virtual Library
Description: resources on South China Sea regional development, environment, and security issues
Format: online materials
Contact: David Rosenberg
Organization: Middlebury College
URL: http://cat.middlebury.edu/southchinasea/
Tai Rice Engineering and Culture
Title: Tai Irrigated Rice Engineering and Culture in Southern China
Description: Analysis of Tai Dialects based on geographic distribution in China.
Format: online materials
Contact: John Hartmann
Organization: Center for Southeast Asian Studies
URL: www.seasite.niu.edu/tai/TaiOrigins/index.html
Tibetan and Himalayan Library
Title: Tibetan and Himalayan Library
Description: Online Databases, Maps, Images and Research Tools
Format: online database
Contact: David Germano
Organization: University of Virginia
URL: http://thlib.org
Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center
Title: Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center
Description: Digital Tibetan texts, searchable database of people, places, and teachings.
Format: online database
Contact: Gene Smith
Organization: Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center
URL: www.tbrc.org
Visual Cultures in East Asia
Title: Visual Cultures in East Asia
Description: Electronic Resources in East Asian History, including historic photos of Shanghai and Beijing.
Format: online database of images, maps, virtual histories of Shanghai, Saigon, Hangzhou
Contact: Christian Henriot
Organization: Institute d'Asie Orientale
URL: http://vcea.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/index_en.php