Ming Qing Women’s Writings

INSTITUTION

McGill University, Academia Sinica

ACCESS

open access

URL

https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing/english/index.php

DESCRIPTION

The Ming Qing Women's Writings digital archive and database project is dedicated to the digitization of collections of writings by women in late imperial China (1368-1911), launched in 2005. Close to 5,000 collections of poetry and writings by individual women are recorded for the Ming and Qing periods, though less than a quarter have survived. The website consists of a virtual library augmented by the online scholarly apparatus designed and implemented by the McGill Library Digital Initiatives team. Each writer entry links to the China Biographical Database hosted at Harvard University. Digital assets have been provided by participating libraries including: Harvard-Yenching Library, Peking University Library, Sun Yat-sen University Library, National Library of China, East China Normal University Library, Chinese University of Hong Kong Library, and Hong Kong Baptist University Library.

SOURCE LIST

ACLS Open Database Resource Guide

LAST MODIFIED

2026-01-16