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Asian Studies: East Asia

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This guide is organized by region, with countries divided into subpages. Choose from the dropdown tab or click the links below:

Background

East Asia - The Asia Society

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

News

Open Access

OnlineNewspapers.com

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

Open Access

e-Asia Digital Library

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. 

East Asia Image Collection

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.

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