Gazetteers, Calligraphy, Bronze & Stone Rubbings, Contemporary Images of China
This series comprises the classical literatures of China, from archaeological materials to contemporary photography, including: Chinese Intellectual and Cultural Figures Database, China Comprehensive Gazetteers, China Bronze and Stone Rubbings Collection, Biaodian Gujin Tushu Jicheng, Chinese Calligraphy and Inscription Collection, and Contemporary Images of China database. It consists of UDP’s own products and the databases produced by our partners in China and USA as well.
Chinese Intellectual and Cultural Figures Database
Writings, viewpoints, biographies, chronologies, handwriting, portraits, historical status, biography, and research papers/books of representative thinkers from the pre-Qin period to modern times.
A total of 335 thinkers, 1,359 books, 246,000 articles, 150,000 papers, 180 million words
China Digital Local Chronicles Library
Collecting the most numerous rare books, only copies extant, various versions worldwide,
the database contains 12000 ancient books and was published by National Library of China/ Wenjin Bookstore.
China Bronze and Stone Rubbings Collection
Globally exclusive digitalisation of Original Rubbings
Initiated by Centre of Ancient Documents Preservation at Gansu province, this 5-year preservation project aims to digitalise all the existing and upcoming bronze and stone rubbings in China. To date, 51,800 exclusive bronze and stone rubbings from Gansu province were discovered and built into the digital database. This database continues updating its collection whose goal is to accumulate 300,000 original bronze and stone rubbings of China.
Chinese Calligraphy and Inscription Collection
This collection consists of oracle bone scripts, stone rubbings, buddhism manuscripts of Dunhuang, gravestone epitaphs, ancient inscriptions and calligraphy from Shang Dynasty to Qing Dynasty. It accommodates more than 700 calligraphers’ pieces, 1.7 million characters with transcriptions and 4,268 classical Chinese calligraphy and inscriptions. Two sub-databases within the collection — the “Full Work Database,” and the “Single Character Database,” are convenient for review, appreciation and pedagogy.
Contemporary Images of China
Produced by Social Sciences Academic Press (China), the database collects a wide range of images of contemporary China from the Opium War to World War II (1840 –1949), including: relic pictures, maps, old paintings ad photography.
Biaodian Gujin Tushu Jicheng
The most-subscribed Punctuated version in the globe
The “Gujin Tushu Jicheng” is a vast encyclopedic work written in China during the reigns of the Qing Dynasty emperors Kangxi and Yongzheng. It well collects the illustrations and writings from ancient China to Qing Dynasty which is acclaimed as the “Imperial Encyclopaedia” and the largest encyclopaedia in the world as well.