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Electronic Books and Texts - (includes CD-ROMs)
- AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive - An electronic library features two photo databases: an international photo archive and a Euro/Asian photo archive. It contains The Associated Press’s current year’s photo reports and a selection of photos from their 50 million image print and negative library.
- Contemporary Chinese societies: continuity and change/University of Pittsburgh
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in 1 comp. disc. Located at Main Library Stacks-CD-Rom-DS779.23.C657 2000.
- 1976- . A multimedia view of contemporary Chinese culture and society, including information on customs, economy, politics, the arts, etc.
- A Dictionary of Asian Mythology - Edited by David Adams Leeming and published by Oxford University Press, 2001. Entris address the key mythologies of the regions we now call India, China, Tibet, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Japan.
- The Digital National Security Archive
A collection of primary documents containing more than 40,000 declassified documents including: * China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998
* Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960-1976.
* Philippines: U.S. Policy During the Marcos Years, 1965-1986
- Gutenberg-e - A program brought together by the American Historical Association and Columbia Press to publish books in digital format on a wide array of historical topics , included many articles and books on Asia.
- Harvard Korean studies bibliography
* 80,000 references on Korea/ed. By Frank Hoffman. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.
* 1 computer disc. Located at Ref Desk DS902. H37 1999
- netLibrary -
Includes 16 full text ebooks on China, 14 on Japan, 4 on Asia and others.
- Oral History Online
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A comprehensive index of oral history collections in English. It contains more than 100,000 index entries and more than a million tags to collections, interviews, repositories, interviews with full text, interviews with audio or video. Includes collections for China, Japan, Korea and Asia.
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Si ku quan shudian zi ban
 - This searchable database includes over 3,460 works and 36,000 volumes of books. It is accessible from a dedicated computer in Central Reading Room. Please ask the Ref. Librarian.
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The United States Army and the Korean War - in 3 comp. discs; available at Gov. Doc. DS919 D114.21;K84/v.1-3/2002/CD.
General Internet Resources
- Asia Media: The Asia Pacific Media Network -
It delivers news about all aspects of the media, including its role in regional and national economies, societies, and political debate.
- Asian Educational Media Service - A part of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It helps educators find and use media materials including documentary films, feature films, CD-ROMs, and slide units for teaching about the cultures and peoples of Asia.
- Asian Info - A site for a summary of Asian culture, traditions and general information.
- Asia-Pacific in figures - Home page of United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.
- Asia Source: A Resource of the Asia Society - A resource website developed by the Asia Society. It contains information regarding the cultural, economic, social, historical and political dimensions of Asia.
- Asian Resources on the World Wide Web - This extensive list of online resources has been compiled since July 1996 by Raymond Lum, for publication in the Asian Studies Newsletter. Links to specific countries and newspapers & magazines, videos, journals.
- Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library - A global collaborative project which provides access to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies. This web site was published by the Australian National University.
- Complete Reference to China/Chinese Related Web Sites - It gives comprehensive web site that gives an outline introduction to China and all its aspects.
- A comprehensive information base on today’s China and beyond - It covers general information and all areas of humanities, social sciences, data, travel and who’s who.
- Country Studies - Contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program. At present, 102 countries and regions are covered.
- East & Southeast Asia: An Annotatd Directory of Internet Resources - Created by Robert Y. Eng at Univ. of Redlands with many links to specific countries in the region.
- Gateway Service Center for Chinese Academic Journal Publications - This Digital Document Delivery Center provides FREE delivery of full-text copies of Chinese-language academic journal articles to any researcher in the United States from 9 institutions in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and U.S.
- Institute of East Asian Studies - The home page of Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley.
- The Internet in Asia
- It is published by the Singapore Internet Research Centre at Nanyang Technological University. It post news items and academic research concerning the social, cultural, economic, and political impact of the Internet and other new media technologies in Asia.
- Japanese language learning tools on the web - Links to dictionaries, bookstores, publishers, organizations, news and others)
- Japanese Studies Network Forum - Created by The Japan Foundation. Links to news, grants database, associations, resources etc.
- J-Guide; Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources - A directory of online information resources in and about Japan, with focus on resources about Japan in the English language.
- Korea Collection – Internet Resources - The home page of University of Hawaii Manoa Library.
- PAIR: Portal to Asian Internet Resources - It offers more than six thousand professionally selected online resources in the humanities and social sciences areas.
- Portals to the World - Links to electronic resources from around the world.
- Web Japan: Gateway to all Japanese information - It is sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). It provides highly reliable information and statistics on Japan across many different genres.
Organizations and Associations
- Asia Society - It provides a forum for building awareness of the more than thirty countries broadly defined as the Asia-Pacific region - the area from Japan to Iran, and from Central Asia to New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands.
- Association for Asian Studies - The professional organization of scholars and others interested in Asia.
- Japan Foundation – United States - Provides information on grants, grantees and various links to Japan-US related information.
- Korean Foundation - Links to its publications: Koreana, KF Newsletter etc. and to various grants, internet resources.
- Mongolia Society - It offers lastest version laws of Mongolia, adopted for the purpose of strengthening democracy and developing market economy, as well as information on history and culture of the Mongolian people.
- New Zealand Asia Society (NZAsia) -
It encourages the spread of knowledge about Asia, its history, its culture and its role in international affairs.
- Society for East Asian Anthropology - On diverse topics related to the anthropology of Taiwan; PRC; Hong Kong; Japan; Korea.
- Society for the Study of Chinese Religions - Links to relevant sites in Chinese religions, included internet resources on Buddhism, Christianity in China, Confucianism and Daoism.
- Society for the Study of Japanese Religions
- Taiwan Association for Religious Studies
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