Ming Qing Women’s Writings

CATEGORY

Recommended Subject Guides, Bibliographies, and Translations

INSTITUTION

McGill University, Academia Sinica

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). The website was launched in 2005. The on-going project employs new digital technology to preserve and make accessible on the internet this valuable cultural legacy for future generations of scholars, researchers, and other interested publics, thus building intellectual and technological infrastructure and creating possibilities to generate new methodologies in the fields of digital humanities and China studies. The website consists of a virtual library augmented by the online scholarly apparatus designed and implemented by the McGill Library Digital Initiatives team. In addition, it features a link for each writer to the China Biographical Database hosted at Harvard University.