The Online CHANT Database

Over 1000 titles of traditional and excavated materials are accessible to readers through the Internet


Established in 1988 under the Institute of Chinese Studies of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the CHANT Centre has built up an electronic database of all traditional and excavated ancient Chinese texts and publishes them via different media to provide a valuable research tools for scholars, academia and the public alike. Since 1996, the Centre started to have the databases published online for readers╴ access through the Internet.

From July 2003 The Chinese University Press is the marketing and subscription agent for these online databases and the projects available at present are as follows:

甲骨文全文電腦化資料庫計劃
A Computerized Database of Oracular Inscriptions on Tortoise Shells and Bones



金文全文電腦化資料庫計劃

A Computerized Database of Bronze Inscriptions


竹簡帛書出土文獻電腦資料庫
A Computerized Database of the Excavated Wood/Bamboo and Silk Scripts


魏晉南北朝一切傳世文獻電腦化資料庫研究計劃
A Database of Traditional Chinese Texts of Weijin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties (220-589AD)


先秦兩漢一切傳世文獻電腦化資料庫研究計劃
A Computerized Database of the Entire Body of Extant Han and Pre-Han (pre-220AD) Traditional Chinese Texts


中國傳統類書資料庫
A Computerized Database of the Entire Body of Extant Chinese Encyclopedias (Leishu)

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