Welcome to the Taiwan Collection of Hamilton Library. The Taiwan Collection acquires materials in support of Taiwanese studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Resources are collected about Taiwan and other Taiwanese communities, written in Chinese, English, as well as other Western languages. The collection covers a variety of subjects in the humanities and social sciences and is particularly strong in history, literature, languages, and minority studies.

News

• Wade-Giles to Pinyin Conversion at UHM Library: starting in October 2000, the library began using Pinyin as the standard romanization system for Chinese. Conversion of retrospective records will be ongoing. Users are advised to use both Pinyin and Wade-Giles to search for Chinese materials in the online catalog during the conversion process.



• Romanization Conversion Table
  from Wade-Giles to Pinyin
  from Pinyin to Zhuyin Fuhao to Wade-Giles

Note: The Chinese characters on this website are encoded in UTF-8.

Library Resources

• Reference sources
• Periodicals in Chinese
• Periodicals in Western languages
• Newspapers - current subscriptions
• Newspapers on microforms
• Selected electronic resources
  
  

Online resources

• Resources by subject
  
  

Taiwan Studies Hotlinks

• Academia Sinica Library Service
• The Government Information Office, Taiwan (Latest news from Taiwan; electronic periodicals; presidential speeches; holidays and festivals in Taiwan; history of Taiwan; government structure and job functions; government agencies on the Web; and Twindbridge Software for downloading; and more.)
• National Central Library
• NATSA North America Taiwan Studies Association