Asian Studies

Key Databases

The best first place to go if you're looking for research materials in this discipline.

China

• China : trade, politics & culture, 1793-1980 - Sources from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Library, London: 1793-1980. ...
• China: culture and society - The core of China: Culture and Society is the pamphlets held in the Charles W. Wason Collection on E...
• China, America and the Pacific - China, America and the Pacific explores the cultural and trading relationships that emerged between ...
• Foreign Office files for China, 1919-1980 - This digital collection makes available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Ko...
• ProQuest historical newspapers. Chinese Newspapers Collection - Contains full text of various Chinese newspapers.
• China academic journals - Full-text database of Chinese journals in the world. It contains more than 7,200 journals starting f...
• Late Qing and Republican-era Chinese newspapers - "The first half of the twentieth century began with the demise of China's last imperial dynasty, the...

India

• India, Raj and Empire - In 1615, Britain signed a treaty with the Mughals to permit the East India Company to establish 'fac...
• Foreign Office files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 - This collection focuses on the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Inc...
• India Database - Ongoing full-text academic journals locally published by scholarly organizations and educational ins...

Japan

• Meiji Japan - The Edward Sylvester Morse Papers (ca. 1858-1925, 40 cubic feet) were given to the Peabody Museum in...
• Japan Times Archive - Searchable full-text and page images from the Japan Times, from its founding in 1897-2016. The Japan...

More Databases

• East & South Asia Database
• South East Asian images & texts
• Foreign Office files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980
• Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan, 1834-1922
• Asian & European business collection
• South Asia open archives (SAOA)
• South East Asian images & texts
• Empire online
• Medieval travel writing
• Migration to new worlds

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