Asian Studies

"This data base is jointly developed by the Asia/Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO (ACCU) and UNESCO Bangkok - Asia and Pacific Bureau for Education in co-operation with government and non-government literacy agencies in the region. It may be freely used and copied for educational and other non-commercial purposes, provided that any reproduction of data be accompanied by an acknowledgement of ACCU and UNESCO as the source."

Asia Barometer is a research institution located in Taiwan. Our regional survey network encompasses research teams from 13 East Asian states (Japan, Mongolia, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia), and 5 South Asian countries (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal). "The Asian Barometer Survey covers virtually all major political systems in the region, systems that have followed different trajectories of regime evolution and are currently at different stages of political transition."

Primary sources with document based questions, including sources of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam

The Fine Arts Library of Harvard University currently houses 2,602 individual East Asian rubbings, the majority of which are from China. It is the digitized collection.

"Asia Society is the leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context. Across the fields of arts, business, culture, education, and policy, the Society provides insight, generates ideas, and promotes collaboration to address present challenges and create a shared future."

Contains religion data for many countries of the world.

A Website of English primary sources on China of Yale University.

he Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers around the world. The site uses the digital medium to provide new ways of interacting with these texts that are not possible in print. With over thirty thousand titles and more than five billion characters, the Chinese Text Project is also the largest database of pre-modern Chinese texts in existence. Includes more than 5 million pages from the Harvard Yenching Library of Chinese materials.

"The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities." This website provides "maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map."

These reports are submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress. The reports contain internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

"This series of profiles of foreign nations is part of the Country Studies Program, formerly the Army Area Handbook Program. The profiles offer brief, summarized information on a country’s historical background, geography, society, economy, transportation and telecommunications, government and politics, and national security. In addition to being featured in the front matter of published Country Studies, they are now being prepared as stand-alone reference aides for all countries in the series, as well as for a number of additional countries of interest. The profiles offer reasonably current country information independent of the existence of a recently published Country Study and will be updated annually or more frequently as events warrant."

Directory of Open Access Journals

Includes data, documents, reports and information on the East Asian and Pacific countries. This area includes the following countries:Cambodia, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Kiribati, Korea, the People's Democratic Republic of Lao (Lao PDR), Malaysia, Marshall Islands, FS Micronesia, Mongolia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.

Online exhibition showcases Library of Congress collections of Japanese prints, books, and drawings from the 17th to the 19th centuries as well as related works from the Library's collections created by Japanese and Westerns artists into the 20th century.

This series, produced by the State Department, publishes documentation of major U.S. diplomatic and foreign policy events and processes. Included documentation comes from Presidential libraries, the Departments of State and Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Agency for International Development, and other foreign affairs agencies as well as the private papers of individuals involved in formulating U.S. foreign policy. The series began in 1861. Volumes are divided into ranges of years which are further divided into volumes organized by subject or region.

Web version is updated regularly. The index to this guide is very helpful in identifying relevant collections in microfilm and other formats which can be used at the Archives themselves, or, in many cases, at other libraries. Strozier holds some of these and many others can borrowed through interlibrary loan. Such holdings include copies of many collections from foreign archives.

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world".

IDP is a ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet and to encourage their use through educational and research programmes

"The Middle East as the Cradle of Civilization" is a presentation by City College of San Francisco professor Abdul Jabbar. He has taught English, world literature, and interdisciplinary studies for 36 years at CCSF. This lecture discusses Mesopotamian contributions of writing, astronomy, and law to Western Culture.

New America Media is the country's first and largest national collaboration and advocate of 2000 ethnic news organizations. NAM is dedicated to bringing the voices of the marginalized - ethnic minorities, immigrants, young people, elderly - into the national discourse. Can browse stories by ethnic group (Asian, South Asian).

A nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.

A research guide to primary and secondary sources for Asian history.

Part of UC Berekely's South/Southeat Asia Library. Includes bibliographies, findng aids for South Asians in North America collection and information about the Archive of the South Asian Diaspora

This site is established by UC Irvine. It documents the experience of Vietnamese, Laotian/Hmong, and Cambodian people in the US and diaspora.

A collection of postcards from early 20th century China.

The searchable UN website includes five categories, such as Peace and Security, Humanitarian Affairs, International Law, Development, and Human Rights. You can input your search terms at box of the top right corner.

UN Official Documents System (ODS) covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards.

"This database is designed to assist researchers in accessing U.S. Government documents pertaining to U.S. unaccounted-for military personnel from the Vietnam conflict as of December 1991. "

This website includes more than 200 primary sources by region

This site is designed to make World Bank data easy to find, download, and use. All of the data found here can be used free of charge with minimal restrictions.