Chinese Religious Text Authority
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Chinese Religious Text Authority
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The Chinese Religious Text Authority (CRTA) is an open-access, international collaborative digital humanities project providing reliable bibliographic and academic information about Chinese religious texts produced prior to 1949. CRTA connects bibliographic information across collections, archives, and private libraries worldwide to map detailed webs of relationships among producers, publishers, and distributors of religious texts, with over 6,230 entries as of April 2026. The first phase focuses on pre-1949 Chinese religious texts included in major reprint collections. By creating a comprehensive bibliographic authority system, CRTA enables researchers to discover formerly unknown associations between texts, publishers, distributors, and religious communities, serving as critical infrastructure for scholars of Chinese religions studying textual transmission and the networks of religious text production and circulation in modern China.
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ACLS Open Database Resource Guide
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