East Asian studies

Sources for Background Information

Searching the Library Catalogue

Use the basic word(s) anywhere or advanced keyword search in the library catalogue. You can search using words like - Canada, Canad?, histor?, etc.

Core and Additional Databases

• APABI E-books
  A database of over 2000 APABI e-book subscriptions at McGill.
• Bibliography of Asian Studies, 1971-
  Online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), referencing principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.
• China academic journals (CAJ) Series F 中國學術期刊
  Guide to Searching CAJ
  Full text articles (1994 – present) from over 2,300 Chinese academic journals on art, humanities, social science and other fields.
• China/Asia On Demand (CAOD)
  An effective knowledge gateway to research materials from China in particular and Asia in general. Documents can be retrieved in their original format including graphs and illustrations. A wide range of journals (9,638 titles as of 2011) can be accessed online.
• China Data Online 中國數據在線
  A database covering comprehensive Chinese statistical information, including population, education, industrial, economic and cultural statistics.
• China Ancient Texts Database 漢達文庫 (CHANT)
  CHANT provides access to transmitted texts and excavated texts from ancient China (antiquity to late 6th century).
• CiNii
  CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator) is a database service that enables searching of information on academic papers published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database.
• Harvard Korean Studies Bibliography
• Humanities Full Text (Wilson), 1983-
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences 1951-
• JapanKnowledge
  JapanKnowledge is a portal to Japanese encyclopedias, dictionaries and other databases.  
• JSTOR and Asian Studies Journals on JSTOR 
  JSTOR is an archive of important scholarly journals. Content in JSTOR spans many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences.
• Kikuzō II bijuaru for libraries 聞蔵IIビジュアル for libraries
  Newspaper database for Asahi shinbun containing 5 million articles published since 1985 and over 2.1 million articles from 1945 to 1984. Also includes articles from the weekly magazines Aera and Shūkan Asahi, and from the annual new-word dictionary Chiezō.
  How to use Kikuzō II bijuaru for libraries 聞蔵IIビジュアル for libraries
• Korean Studies (Hanʼgukhak teitʻŏ peisŭ = 한국학데이터베이스)
  Provides resources in the field of Korean studies, covering all academic disciplines such as arts and humanities, social sciences, sciences, medical sciences, etc.
• Ming Qing Women's Writings 明清婦女著作
  This Digitization Project contains digitally scanned images of 90 titles of collections of writings by women that are in the holdings of the Harvard-Yenching Library.
• OriProbe Open Resources
  This database includes China Legal Access such as Laws, Policies, Regulations and China Business References etc.
• PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service) 1972- (OCLC)
• Project MUSE
  Project MUSE was launched in 1995 by the Johns Hopkins University Press, to offer the full text of JHUP scholarly journals via the world wide web. In 1999, MUSE published online 46 JHUP titles in the humanities, social sciences.
• Ren min ri bao (People's Daily, 1946-)
  Electronic version of the official Chinese newspaper in mainland China. Coverage from 1946 to present.
• Si bu cong kan 四部叢刊
  A collection of the main works reprinted from the rare Song, Yuan, and Ming editions
• Si ku quan shu 四庫全書 (文淵閣版)
  A comprehensive collection of Chinese scholarship up to the 18th century.
• Social Sciences Fulltext (Wilson), 1984-
• World News Connection
• Zhongguo li dai shi ke shi liao hui bian 中國歷代石刻史料匯編
  This database compiles more than 17,000 metal and stone inscriptions selected by the National Library of China.

Selected Internet Sites

General

• McGill University Department of East Asian Studies
• Centre for East Asian Research, McGill University
• European Association of Sinological Librarians (EASL)
• Asia-Pacific Internet Resources (Australian National University Library)
• Asian Studies WWW Monitor
  Daily abstracts and reviews of new/updated online resources of significance to research, teaching and communications in Asian Studies, from Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), Australian National University.
• Internet Resources: East Asian Studies
  From C&RL News, July/August 1998.
• Subject Resources for Asian Studies (non-Asian languages)
  From the University of British Columbia Library.
• Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR)
  Catalogue of internet resources, by a consortium of specialists at University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota and Ohio State University.
• Asian Studies (WWW Virtual Library)

China (Internet Resources)

• China Trade, politics & culture, 1793-1980: sources from the School of Oriental And African Studies and the British Library, London
• Internet Guide for China Studies (WWW Virtual Library)
• China (University of Michigan Documents Center)
• Scripta Sinica 中 央 研 究 院 漢 籍 電 子 文 獻
• China Vitae
• Chinese Surnames
  Part of WorldGen Web Project (genealogy).
• China Historical GIS
  Database of historical administrative units for periods in Chinese History, and base GIS platform for spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and representation of selected historical units as digital maps.

Japan (Internet Resources)

• The Foreign Press Center/Japan (FPCJ)
• Japan Focus : An Asia-Pacific Journal
• Libraries and Information in Japan: A Bibliography
• JGuide: Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources
• The Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo 東京大学史料編纂所
• International Research Center for Japanese Studies 国際日本文化研究センター
• East Asian Libraries Cooperative World-Wide Web (Japan)
• NACSIS-ELS
  National Center for Science Information Systems (NACSIS-ELS) provides an integrated system of bibliographic databases and an electronic document delivery of Japanese academic journals on the Internet.
• North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources
• H-Japan
  Scholarly discussion, links, etc.
• Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR)
• Gordon W. Prange Collection (1945 - 1949)
  List of virtually everything published in Japan on all subjects in the period indicated. Database in Japanese. Free registration required.
• Doing Photography and Social Research in the Allied Occupation of Japan, 1948-1951: A Personal and Professional Memoir
  By anthropologist John W. Bennett, taken 1948-1951, some 1960's. Also selections from Bennett's professional journal of the period, and other documents.

Korea (Internet Resources)

• Korean History: a Bibliography (Kenneth Robinson)
• CEAL Committee on Korean Materials: Internet Resources Subject Guides
• Korean American Digital Archive At the University of Southern California..
• KoreaWeb.ws
• Korean Short Story Index
  Short story collections held at Hamilton Library, University of Hawaii at Manoa, including some medium- or full-length stories and plays when part of a collection.

Other Resources

Newspapers

China

• Beijing Daily
• China Youth Daily
• Economic Daily
• Economic Information Daily
• Guang Ming Daily
• Jie Fang Daily
• People's Daily
• Science & Technology Daily
• Wen Hui Daily
• Xin Hua She

Taiwan

• Central Daily News
• Central News Agency
• China Times
• Taiwan Economic News (Eng)
• Taiwan Shin Wen Daily News
• Taiwan Today News Network

Hong Kong

• Oriental Daily News
• Sing Tao Electronic Daily 
• Ta Kung Pao (Da Gong Bao)
• Wen Wei Po (Wen Hui Bao)

Japan

• Asahi (Jap)
• Asahi (Eng)
• Daily Yomiuri (Eng)
• Mainichi Daily News (Eng)
• Nihon Keizai Shimbun(Eng)

Korea

• Chosun Ilbo (Eng/Kor)
• Dong-A Ilbo (Kor/Jap/Chi/Eng)
• Korean Times

East Asian Electronic Journals

• Asian DOC (English)
• China Scholars Abroad (Chinese)
• Far Eastern Ecomonic Review (English)
• Gateway Service Center of Chinese Academic Journal Publications (Chinese)
• Hong Kong Medical Journal (English) and Others
• Hua Xia Wen Zhai (Chinese)
• Japanese Data Archive (English)
• Japan Statistics Bureau & Statistics Center (Japanese)
• Journal of Asian Studies (English)
• Ling Lung Women's Magazien (English)
• NACSIS-ELS (Japanese)

Electronic texts

Chinese

• Academia Sinica
• Chinese University of Hong Kong
• International Dunhuang Project
• University of Virgina

Japanese

• University of Virgina / University of Pittsburgh
• OpenSources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution

East Asian Libraries and Organizations in Canada & US

Canada

• University of British Columbia ---Asian Library
• University de Montreal --- Centre d'Études de l'Asie de l'Est
• University of Toronto --- Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library

United States

• Columbia University ---C. V. Starr East Asian Library
• Harvard University ---Harvard-Yenching Library
• Indiana University ---East Asian Collection
• Ohio State University --- East Asian Studies Reading Room
• Princeton University --- East Asian Library and the Gest Collection
• Rutgers University --- East Asian Library
• Stanford University --- Hoover Institution
• University of Arizona --- East Asian Collection
• University of California, Berkeley --- East Asian Library
• University of California, Los Angeles --- Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library
• University of Chicago --- East Asian Collection
• University of Hawaii --- Asian Collection
• University of Illinois --- Asian Library
• University of Iowa --- East Asian Collection
• University of Kansas --- East Asian Library
• University of Michigan --- Asian Library
• University of Minnesota --- East Asian Library
• University of North Carolina --- East Asian Library
• University of Pittsburgh --- East Asian Library
• Washington University St Louis --- East Asian Library
• University of Washington --- East Asian Library
• Yale University --- East Asian Collection

Organizations

• Asian Studies Virtual Library
• Asian Studies Association of Australia
• Association for Asian Studies
• Council on East Asian Libraries
• East Asian Libraries Cooperative WWW
• European Association of Sinological Librarians
• The Library of Congress Asian Reading Room
• The National Bureau of Asian Research

Library Guides

• East Asia: a selective list of reference sources
• China: Political Development: a selective list of reference sources
• A Guide to Reference Sources in English and Chinese