Asian Studies Resources

The Japanese historical text initiative offered by the University of California Berkeley. A great digital datasource, that offers mostly free insight into many historical texts, which are very important for the development of a national and cultural(ist) consciousness of this nation.

Committed to directing users to Asian area content in the humanities and social sciences, the Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR) is supported by an impressive complement of area studies scholars, bibliographers and subject selectors based at the libraries of the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota and the Ohio State University. Please contact us with any questions or inquiries.

a digital library of primary japanese sources.

A great database including many aspects, students of Chinese and East Asian Studies will get faced with during their studies and research

Frei verfügbares Onlineportal von weniger verfügbaren, relativ seltenen Fachzeitschriften

Sidney D. Gamble Photographs From 1908 to 1932, Sidney Gamble (1890-1968) visited China four times, traveling throughout the country to collect data for social-economic surveys and to photograph urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside. A sociologist, renowned China scholar, and avid amateur photographer, Gamble used some of the pictures to illustrate his monographs. The Sidney D. Gamble Photographs digital collection marks the first comprehensive public presentation of this large body of work that includes photographs of Korea, Japan, Hawaii, San Francisco, and Russia. The site currently features photographs dated between 1917 and 1932; the 1908 photographs will be digitized and uploaded as part of future additions to the site.

I'm sitting in the Taiwanese National Library here in Taipei and just finished looking through an unusual publication put out in December, 1946 by 臺灣新生報社, the publisher of an important newspaper going by that name. It is entitled, 『民主とは何ぞや』(What is Democracy?) What is immediately striking about the pamphlet is the fact that is is published in the Japanese language over a year after the end of the Japanese colonial period in August 1945. The general editor of the 臺灣新生報, Wu Jinlian (吳金煉) discusses the reason for this choice of language in a special explanatory preface:

Most extensive academic research collection of East Asian materials outside of Asia. Includes publications in the humanities and social sciences on traditional and modern East Asia written in East Asian and Western languages. Notable collection of rare books and manuscripts.

Chinese-English dictionary

The Harvard-Yenching Library holds some 5,000 photographs and 10,000 negatives taken by Hedda Hammer Morrison (1908-1991) while resident in Beijing from 1933 to 1946. The photographs, mounted in thematic albums prepared by Mrs. Morrison, and the negatives, were bequeathed to the Harvard-Yenching Library, "the best permanent home for her vision of a city and people that she loved [Alastair Morrison]." All of the photographs contained in the 28 albums assembled by Hedda Morrison have been cataloged and digitized and can be viewed in VIA (Visual Information Access), the union catalog of visual resources at Harvard. This site provides information about the collection and strategies for effectively searching for Hedda Morrison photographs in VIA. Use the menu at the top to navigate through the various sections of this site.

The DCJ collects materials on postwar Japan, weighted heavily toward the social sciences. Particular emphasis is placed on resources related to political science, diplomacy, economics and labor, and social-cultural phenomena. In addition to its selection of mainstream studies, the DCJ collects non-trade publications, journals, newsletters, scholarly papers, and reports issued by government ministries and institutions, private sector think tanks, and university affiliated research and policy institutions.

The East Asian Gateway Service, which is administered by the East Asian Library of the University of Pittsburgh Library System, focuses on free delivery of full-text Chinese and Korean language academic publications to researchers. The Chinese East Asian Gateway Service will deliver documents to any individual researchers for research and teaching purpose or non-profit organizations who cannot find the needed item in any U.S. libraries. However, currently, the Korean East Asian Gateway Service, as our new announced service, will deliver documents to Pitt faculty and students only. Full-text articles are transmitted electronically via the Internet from the participating libraries in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Korea which hold the titles, to Pittsburgh, where they are, then, sent to requesters via the Internet. Online Request Form for Chinese Material or Request Form for Korean Material are provided for your convenience to send your request to our service.

Podcasts of talks given at Univ of Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies