About
This guide is organized by region, with countries divided into subpages. Choose from the dropdown tab or click the links below:
Background
The Asia Society fosters insight, encourages engagement, elevates regional voices, informs and educates new audiences, addresses complex – and where necessary – contentious challenges, engages in creative problem-solving, and helps deliver real solutions for the benefit of all.
Encyclopedia Britannica - East Asia
Information on the land, people, economy, administration and social conditions, cultural life, and history.
World Regional Geography - East and Southeast Asia
This ebook offers information about geographic features, patterns of economic development, and East and Southeast Asia interactions within the global economic system
Secondary Sources
Use these databases to find articles and/or essays in scholarly journals and books.
Statistics & Economy
News
Open Access
This online newspaper directory offers a directory to thousands of newspapers from around the globe. Organized by country & region, users can easily find media through direct links for each region in Asia.
Books - East Asia General
eBooks - East Asia General
Primary Sources
These databases and websites provide access to digital archival materials such as manuscripts, letters, photographs, moving image and sound materials, artwork, books, diaries, and other artifacts. You can also visit our main page for Asia for additional databases and resources covering broader regions.
UofL Databases
- China, America and the PacificManuscripts, rare texts, visual images, objects, and maps documenting the trade and cultural relationships of China, America, and the Pacific region between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- China: Culture and SocietySpanning three centuries (c1750-1929), this resource makes available for the first time extremely rare pamphlets from Cornell University Library’s Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia.
- China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980With documents encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic, this resource collects sources from nine archives to give an incredible insight into the changes in China during this period.
- Meiji JapanManuscripts for the study of Meiji society, culture, ethnology and education from the papers of Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925).
Open Access
The e-Asia project (2000–2011) was funded by the University of Oregon Libraries through the generosity of Nissho Iwai under the leadership of Robert Felsing, East Asian Bibliographer. By building a collection of digitized e-books and a database of full text web resources, e-Asia strove to contribute to the research and scholarship of East Asia.
The East Asia Image Collection (EAIC) is an open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, rare books and slides under the general editorship of Paul D. Barclay, Professor of History at Lafayette College, in partnership with staff at Digital Scholarship Services and Special Collections & College Archives.
Images of Colonialism - Harvard Library
This visual record of early European contacts with Africa and Asia is a primary visual resource for historical and socio-cultural studies.