---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for Chinese Studies Newsletter http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 31 May 2003 (HL) New in IGCS - databases: Shuhai Wenyuan Ed./Corp.: Department of Philosophy, University of Hawai'i, Hawai'i, USA. URL.: http://www.shuhai.hawaii.edu/ Language: English, with parts in Chinese (Big5). Self description: Shuhai Wenyuan provides academically rigorous texts and tools in an innovative Worktable format to facilitate the reading, researching, and understanding of ancient Chinese philosophy. Description: An impressing project in simple design, but with a wealth of resources in the background: all Han and pre-Han texts from the Chinese Ancient Texts (CHANT) project of the Chinese University of Hong Kong are to be included (work in progress), a full text version of Pulleyblanks celebrated Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar is there, and behind all you'll find a dictionary put together from various sources such as deFrancis' ABC Chinese-English Dictionary (for Pinyin transcriptions), Charles Muller's Dictionary of East Asian Literary Terms (for meanings), Baxter's reconstructions of pre-modern Chinese pronuciation, and others. Contents: (1) Worktable (currently available texts: Daxue, Laozi Daodejing, Lunyu, Mengzi, Morals of Confucius, Shangshu, Shijing, Yijing, Zhongyong, Zhuangzi; Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar by E. Pulleyblank; more to be included); (2) Content; (3) Customize; (4) Optimize; (5) Personnel; (6) Endorsements; (7) Technical; (8) Cite; (9) FAQ; (10) Contact; (11) Copyright. Note: Frames capable browser needed! For full access to the database a free account has to be established. Resource suggested by Jan Ischebeck, Bonn, Germany. _______________________________________________________ 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