Subject: chinese classics: summary

From: Marisa Hawkins <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 May 1994 13:41:32 -0400

over the last week, i have received several useful responses to
my inquiry about finding collections of the chinese classics on cd-rom.
what follows is a brief summary of what i was told:

1.      Academica Sinica has put their chinese system along with the
        25 Histories on a cd-rom.  some university libraries may have
        it in the U.S.  price seems astronomical.  one post said as
        high as $10,000.

2.      Academica Sinica has apparently input the 13 jing zhushu and is in
        the process of proofing it.  what format they will take is unknown
        to me.

3.      Chen Yu-fu at National Taiwan Normal University has put out the
        13 classics on 2 floppies along with concordances.  as of yet,
        i have not be able to get pricing or availability info though.

4.      certain texts of chinese literature and philosophy are available
        from the ftp site: ifcss.org in the china-studies directory.
        many of these are replicated at the gopher site: dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw

        if any new information comes to light, i'll post it.  i'd also
love to hear from anyone with follow-up information.

        i suspect that as time passes, more electronic sources for chinese
classics will become available.  getting the word out about them would
seem like an important service to the china studies community.

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