---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for Chinese Studies Newsletter http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 02 Jun 2002 New in IGCS - Geography: Maps of Shanghai Ed./Corp.: Institut d'Asie Orientale, Lyon, France URL: http://iao.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/francais/cartesh.html Language: French; introduction also available in English. Self description: "The Institute of East Asian Studies has collected a large number of maps of Shanghai in the course of a research project on the history of this large metropolis in the 19th-20th centuries. [...] This collection includes original maps, photographic reproductions, slides and even Xerox copies. Altogether, a hundred maps are deposited in the map collection of the institute. Since Shanghai maps are scattered among many collections all over the world, we hope to provide an overview of available maps through this database. Whenever available, the current location of each original is indicated. The collection presented on this site is not meant to be complete. [...] We also provide an inventory of Shanghai maps we have identified in the collections we visited in China, France, the United States and Great Britain." Description: This extremely useful database is part of the IAO-Databases project. The maps include basic metadata and are searchable according to the following criteria: title; date; subject; place of publication; editor; location of the original. _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno Lecher ([log in to unmask]) INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINESE STUDIES -- editor http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ An archive of this list as well as an subscribe/unsubscribe facility is available at: http://listserv.uni-heidelberg.de/archives/igcs-l.html