digitised. Selections of the digitized materials are searchable down to individual chapters. First results from the Western inventory can be viewed and searched in the digital presentation of the Staats [...] control over Chinese historiography. In the history of Chinese art, however, copper printing remained an episode. Lao Manuscripts The Digital Library of Lao Manuscripts (Digitale Bibliothek Lao Manuscripts [...] Subject Collections East and South-East Asia (Sondersammelgebiet Ost- und Südostasien; SSG): SSG 6,25 Digital With this ongoing project, the East Asia Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin has started

in digitized form. The already digitized manuscripts as well as the digitized book holdings for the region of Southeast Asia can be found under Southeast Asia Collection of CrossAsia’s digitized ressources [...] collected works are given preference, as are bestsellers. From the field of fine arts, reference works and studies on the history of art as selected. The Japanese subdepartment generally tries to cover the whole [...] scientific and scholarly institutions, information science, bibliology, library science, the fine arts, music, theatre and dance. Furthermore, jurisprudence, politics, constitution, administration, party