East Asian Studies (China, Japan, Korea): East Asian Web Sources

ADB is a multilateral development finance institution, headquartered in Manila, dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific.

APEC is the primary regional vehicle for promoting open trade and practical economic co-operation. Its goal is to advance Asia-Pacific economic dynamism and sense of community.

The Asian Art Museum–Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture is one of San Francisco's premier arts institutions and home to a world-renowned collection of more than 18,000 Asian Art treasures spanning 6000 years of history.

Our thematically organised galleries emphasise networks and flows of people, ideas, belief systems, and artistic traditions.

U of Oregon. Collection of digitized e-books and a database of full text web resources.

Lafayette. The East Asia Image Collection (EAIC) is an open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, rare books and slides.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Harvard. These late-19th- and early-20th-century trade cards and illustrations offer insight into European perspectives on the colonial experience.

George Washington U. Declassified U.S. security documents.

An online resource for students, scholars and policy-makers interested in South China Sea regional development, environment, and security issues.

The Digital Archive contains once-secret documents from governments all across the globe, uncovering new sources and providing fresh insights into the history of international relations and diplomacy.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Launched in 2009, the World Digital Library (WDL) was a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world.

Center for Research Libraries. Political communication and mass education in the early period of the People's Republic of China. Mass education materials published in Hong Kong and in Mainland China, particularly Shanghai, in the years 1947-1954. These cartoon books, pamphlets, postcards and magazines, on topics such as foreign threats to Chinese security, Chinese relations with the Soviet Union, industrial and agricultural production, and marriage reform, were produced by both Kuomintang (Nationalist) and Gongchantang (Communist) supporters.

U of Pittsburgh. The collection includes 104 photographs of Chinese political prisoners (all males) taken between 1924 and 1946. Each of the photographs is 2 x 1 inches in size and has information handwritten on the back—usually the French form of the prisoner’s name and one or more dates relating to the individual’s incarceration.

The Fine Arts Library and Harvard-Yenching Library holds rubbings of objects that date from the Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty.

More than 9000 photographs dating from the mid-19th to mid-20th century.

Digital collection of four major government publications: Administrative Report, Hong Kong Sessional Papers, Hong Kong Hansard, and Hong Kong Government Gazette.

Columbia University Libraries. Digitized version of Chinese language magazine published in Shanghai from 1931-1937.

19th and 20th century newspapers, some in English.

U of Pittsburgh. The largest collection of campus newsletters of overseas Chinese students, which was donated to the East Asian Library by various anonymous donors in the past decades. The contents are very rich and colorful, reflecting the Chinese overseas students' life on campus, their enthusiasm and participation in community activities off campus, their literary and artistic creations to enrich extra-curriculum life, and their thoughts on and involvement in social, economic and political issues in domestic and international affairs in 60s and 70s of the 20th Century, such as P.R. China’s entry into the United Nations, the establishment of diplomatic relations between PR. China and the United States, Taiwan issues, and the social movement of Senkaku Islands issues among overseas Chinese students and local Chinese communities. The majority of the collections are newsletters published by overseas Chinese students in the United States, with a few published in Canada, Hong Kong, and several other countries. Most of them are in Chinese. Those Chinese oversea student newsletters are not only important historical records of Chinese students’ life, more importantly they are primary sources for research on East Asian politics, economics, sociology issues as well as relation between P.R. C and U.S, P.R.C and Taiwan, P.R.C and Japan, etc.

Duke University. Over 5,000 photographs, primarily of China, 1908-1932.

Columbia U. The Tibet Mirror (Tib. Yul phyogs so so'i gsar 'gyur me long) was published from 1925 to 1963 in Kalimpong, and chronicles the most dramatic social and political transformation in Tibet during a time when vernacular writing was relatively scarce and a Tibetan media practically non-existent. The paper also relayed information about World War II, the independence of India, and other global news to Tibetan readers in Lhasa, Gyantse, Kham, etc., and to traders and aristocrats who frequently traveled from Lhasa via the Chumbi Valley to Kalimpong, Darjeeling and Calcutta.

More than 3,000 historic photographs and 200 maps that focus on pre-1949 Shanghai.

National Diet Library

Launched in 2009, the World Digital Library (WDL) was a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world.

Official Japanese government documents from the Meiji era to 1945

Library of Congress. Collection of more than 1,000 censored books mostly from the 1920s and 1930s.

Smithsonian

Korean Literary Collection. U of Washington

Launched in 2009, the World Digital Library (WDL) was a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, with the support of UNESCO, and contributions from libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations around the world.

Wilson Center. Newly declassified documents on the DPRK from its former communist allies as well as other resources that provide valuable insight into the actions and nature of the North Korean state.