Section outline

  • In questa sezione sono indicate, complete di URL, alcune risorse online rilevanti per lo studio della Cina, soprattutto dal punto di vista delle relazioni con il mondo occidentale in età moderna e contemporanea

    • Chine ancienne présente, en téléchargement gratuit (formats pdf et doc),  une bibliothèque d'ouvrages du domaine public sur la Chine impériale, sur son histoire, ses coutumes, ses religions, sa morale, ses grands hommes, son art, sa littérature.

    • Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0 explores Sino-Western encounters by ways of texts and images published before 1939 and is intended as an extension of the bibliography Western Books on China in Libraries in Vienna/Austria, 1477-1939.

      Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0 aims to provide information on digitized books on China (published up to 1939) freely available in digital repositories (see: references) all over the world. By this means our project wants to facilitate further research on the various aspects of the history of Western perceptions and Sino-Western relations. To maintain this, references to some major bibliographies are provided.

      1. The Rise and Fall of the Canton System. I. China in the World (1700-1860s) <http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_01/cw_essay01.html>
      2. The Rise and Fall of the Canton System. II. Macau &  Whampoa anchorage <http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_02/cw_essay01.html>
      3. The Rise and Fall of the Canton System. III. Canton & Hong Kong <http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_03/cw_essay01.html>
      4. The Rise and Fall of the Canton System. IV. Image Galleries <http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/rise_fall_canton_04/index.html>
    • The Fairbank Chinese History Virtual Library was founded to facilitate easy access to sources of
      modern Chinese historical information on the internet. This project is dedicated to the memory of Harvard Sinologist John King Fairbank (1907-1991). Many thanks to Wilma Fairbank who gave her consent for this project to bear her husband's name.