Chinese Rare Book Digital CollectionNearly 2,000 digitized rare books from the Library of Congress collections, some of which date back to the 11th and 12th centuries.
" This new digital collection brings together printed books, manuscripts, Buddhist sutras, works with hand-painted pictures, local gazetteers, and ancient maps. These materials encompass a wide array of disciplines and subjects in classics, history, geography, philosophy, and literature. The majority are editions from the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and early Qing dynasty (1644-1795), while nearly 30 titles are Song dynasty (960-1279) and Yuan dynasty (1279-1368) editions." (from "About this Collection")