Alternate Title
典津
Category
Institution
Tsinghua University
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subscription
Description
Dianjin (典津) is the successor to the Global Image Catalogue of Ancient Chinese Book Collections (全球漢籍影像開放集成系統 / GIC-ACBC), a digital image retrieval platform for ancient Chinese texts developed jointly by Tsinghua University and CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure). The platform aggregates digitized images of ancient Chinese texts from over 90 databases worldwide, with the current collection comprising over 753,000 entries. It supports comparative textual research, rare edition discovery, and version comparison by providing unified access to dispersed global holdings of Chinese classical texts. Access now requires institutional or individual login registration.
Source List
ACLS Open Database Resource Guide
Last Modified
5/17/2026 12:06am