28 Jul 2003

Antique Maps of China Database
Library, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China.
Self-description: "The maps included in this database are from the Special Collections of the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Library. The Antique Maps of China collection includes more than 230 maps, charts, pictures, books and atlases. It represents almost all samples of China maps produced by European cartographers from the 16th to 19th centuries. This cartographic archive vividly records the long history of cross-cultural exchanges between China and the West."
Site contents: WORLD; PACIFIC OCEAN; ASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA: * Burma; * Philippines; * Vietnam; EAST ASIA: * China Anhui, Beijing, Dongbei Diqu, Fujian (Fuzhou, Xiamen), Gansu, Guangdong (Guangzhou, Shangchuan Dao, Zhujiang Kou), Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hong Kong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jilin, Liaoning, Macau, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan (Chin-men hsien, Peng-hu hsien, Zeelandia), Xinjiang, Xizang [Tibet], Yunnan, Zhejiang (Hangzhou, Zhoushan Qundao); * Japan; * Korea; * Mongolia; * Siberia; * Russia (Lake Baikal Region, Russian Far East, Sakhalin).
URL http://lbxml.ust.hk/mp/main.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link suggested by: Steven Leibo (sleibo[use"@"]sage.edu), forwarded by h-asia[use"@"]h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V. Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30