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Encapsulating the quintessential elements of Chinese culture, calligraphy can be regarded as the core of Chinese art. To discuss Chinese art without knowledge of calligraphy is nearly impossible. The Chinese Calligraphy and Inscription Collection (歷代書法碑帖集成) offers scholars outstanding examples of Chinese calligraphic inscriptions, with 4,268 significant, classical works presenting approximately 1.7 million characters and variants. Covering the period of the Xia to Qing Dynasty (c. 2070 BC-1911), the collection integrates single-character photos and full-work images with full-text searching, and features the ability to search the Taiwanese Ministry of Education’s landmark reference publication, the Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants.
The Coronavirus Research Database is a collection of journal articles, preprints, conference proceedings, dissertations and more related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. It includes comprehensive research background coverage of past pandemics and epidemics, like MERS and SARS, to give researchers and students context around the current global crisis.
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Rated as “the crown jewels of sinology in Taiwan“ with Academia Sinica, National Palace Museum is acclaimed as a ‘gold mine of Chinese culture’ where accommodates 690,000 artworks that covers the 5000-year long history of China. It is not only a world-class museum where has the richest collections of Chinese arts, but is also the most prestigious artistic brand which is good at combining technologies with modern creativity, bringing the cultural essence to the public. As an essential landmark of Chinese history, National Palace Museum in Taipei has been studied for the latest few decades in diverse fields including museology, art, history, classic literature, social education, creative economy, information science, technology, communication, management, tourism, international trade, law, politics and so on.
The database integrates 4 periodicals that are published by NPM :《National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art》,《National Palace Museum Research Quarterly》,《National Palace Museum Bulletin》and《National Palace Museum Quarterly》.It is the only database of its kind in the past 20 years that exclusively supports readers to do full-text search. This archive includes 923 issues, 7,850 articles, 75 million characters and extra 60 thousand color photos from 1966 to date. It features some exclusive functions to provide the best searching experiences for users, such as color photos accompany black-white pages, English titles of articles/antiques parallel with Chinese translations.
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Rated as “The Crown Jewels of Sinology in Taiwan” with National Palace Museum’s journals, Sinica Sinoweb is the sole full text searchable database of its kind from Taiwan. It collects the core sinological journals of Academia Sinica, and other outstanding Taiwanese journals known worldwide. From the first issue to the present, the collection is exclusively intact, especially on the early rare issues/articles. It is exclusively available for full text search as well. Sinologists around the world highly praise and appreciate its excellent digitization work on rare / difficult characters, such as, Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, and Chinese Studies of National Central Library.
