List of online tools and resources useful to the study of Early China. This list is continuously updated. To suggest resources, please email ssec@earlychina.org.
Several major libraries also include lists of online and otherwise resources for Chinese studies. Many of these require subscriptions via libraries, but they are still very useful lists.
Open Access
- Academia Sinica’s tools to work with bronze inscriptions. See overview here.
- Bamboo and Silk Manuscripts, and its searchable database. See overview here.
- CHANT database
- Complete Collection of Ancient and Modern Characters
- CText
- Early Chinese Periodical Online
- Fudan University’s page dedicated to unearthed sources, with short essays and news, https://www.fdgwz.org.cn/.
- Guyin xiaojing 古音小鏡. See overview here.
- HUMANUM 漢語多功能字庫, by the University of Hong Kong. See overview here.
- Open Ancient Chinese Characters Glyphs Database 開放古文字字形庫. See overview here.
- Yundian 韻典 is a comprehensive rhyme-dictionary lookup tool that includes the Guangyun, Zhongyuan Yinyun, Hongwu Zhengyun Jian, Fenyun Cuoyao, and the Old Chinese phonological system.
- Shidianguji 识典古籍.
- Wikipedia list of ancient Chinese manuscripts, Chinese and English versions.
Resources Requiring Subscriptions
Other conversations on all things China
- Sinologists is a private facebook group where Sinologists and scholars interested in Sinophone studies post news and join discussions. It requires a Facebook account to join.
- There is also a Discord channel, also named Sinologists. It requires a Discord account to join.
- Digital Sinology, also a Facebook group, shares information related to DH and Sinology.
- Warp, Weft, and Way, an international website for information about Chinese and Comparative philosophy.
- The European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS), an international organization representing China scholars from all over Europe.
- Sinological Methods has a list of digital resources, including ones useful to the study of early China.
- The Digital Orientalist also covers several tools to work with Chinese sources, some of which specific to early China. Find out more here.