09 Jun 2009

Chinese Ancient Texts (CHANT) Database
Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK, China.
A description of, a guided tour, and online contents of:
* Jiaguwen - A Database of Oracular Inscriptions on Tortoise Shells and Bones [Database Contents: inscriptions found on 53,834 fragments of shells and bones - ed.]]
* Jianbao - A Database of the Excavated Wood/Bamboo and Silk Scripts [Database Contents: Approximately 1.4 million characters from the entire corpus of all published Jianbo texts - ed.]
* Jinwen - A Database of Bronze Inscriptions - [Database Contents: Over 140,000 words from 12,021 bronze vessels - ed.]
* Pre-Han & Han - A Database of The Entire Body of Extant Han and Pre-Han (i.e. pre-220AD) Traditional Chinese Texts.
* Six Dynasties - A Database of Traditional Chinese Texts of Weijin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties (220-589AD) [Database Contents: Over 25 millions words from over 1,000 titles - ed.]
* Leishu - A Computerized Database of the Entire Body of Extant Chinese Encyclopedias (Leishu) [Database Contents: Over 60 million words from all major Leishu texts from the Weijin period until to the Qing Dynasty, including Qunshuzhiyao, Taiping Yulan, Cefu Yuangui and Yongle Dadian - ed.]
[A bi-lingual (CN, EN) website with online databases accessible for a fee to individual or institutional subscribers - ed.]
URL http://www.chant.org/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.chant.org/
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300