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East Asian Studies supports the university's needs in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean studies and promotes the understanding of East Asia and its cultures.
Chinese language journal database with over 7,400 journal titles available in full-text, including 600 newspaper titles and over 1,200 core journal titles.
Century Journals Project selects the most important academic journals published in China and digitizes all issues since their very first issue up till 1993 in an effort to expand the China Academic Journals Full-text Database. The earliest journal dates back to 1915. There are 9317 titles of full-text journals over 90% of all journals which are officially published in China. And there are 3964 exclusively & solely licensed journals which is about 42% of all journals in China.
Provides access to hundreds of Chinese periodicals related to literature, history, philosophy, economics, political science, and law.
The largest comprehensive online full-text database in China. In addition to the purchase of the 1994-2001 back files of the Literature/History/Philosophy Series, the IUB Library has current subscriptions to the following modules: (F) Literature/History/Philosophy Series, (G) Politics/Military Affairs/Law, (H) Education & Social Sciences, and (J) Economics & Management.
Chinese Periodical Full-Text Database, created by Shanghai Library, contains around 10 million pieces of writing in over 20,000 different kinds of periodicals published from 1911 to 1949. It includes journals of all disciplines and subjects published at the time.
Duxiu is a huge content-based database composed of more than 600,000,000 full-text pages (books, articles, theses, web pages, newspapers) with very flexible searches.
To access, select the middle green button, 授權使用 ("authorized use").
Documents from the Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 and the Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
Grand Secretariat Archives is a database that contains documents originally housed in the storerooms of the Grand Secretariat of the Qing dynasty (1644-1912). After 1949 these documents were kept at the Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica. The entire archive contains about 310,000 items. The collection, dating from the Ming dynasty to the Qing dynasty (1368-1912), encompasses a wide variety of subjects. For full content coverage, see "Grand Secretariat Archives - Inventory and History of Preservation". Also, portions of the archives had been published under title: Ming Qing dang an.--OCLC The archives of the Grand Secretariat currently housed at the Institute were originally kept at the Grand Secretariat Storehouse in the Ch’ing imperial palace. They were removed from the Storehouse when it underwent renovation in 1909. After the overthrow of the Ch’ing, these archives changed hands several times, and were, at one point, even sold to a paper recycling factory. Eventually, the Institute purchased them from Li Sheng-to, a book collector, in 1929 thanks to the efforts of Fu Ssu-nien, the Institute’s first director. There are over four thousand Ming (1368-1644) documents and more than three hundred thousand volumes of Ch’ing (1644-1911) archival materials in this collection, including imperial decrees, edicts, memorials, tribute document, examination questions, examination papers, rosters of successful examination candidates, documents from the offices of the Grand Secretariat, documents from the offices for book compilation, and old documents from Mukden. Memorials make up the bulk these documents.--Publisher
Covers around 280,000 pieces of historical documents from 302 periodicals published during 1833-1911.
The collection includes almost all periodicals published during critical periods later known as the Opium Wars, Westernization Movement, Reform Movement of 1898 and Revolution of 1911. It contains the Women's Periodicals that advocated women's liberation and mental enlightenment, the Four Major Late Qing Dynasty Novel Journals as emerged during the great flourishing period of novels of the late Qing Dynasty, the Vernacular Chinese Periodicals founded to explore the people's mind and spread new knowledge, and the Science and Technology Periodicals which introduced new technologies and spread scientific knowledge. Users may have access to some 280,000 pieces of historical documents and browse or download them in full text.
TEPS (Taiwan Electronic Periodical Services) is a global provider of full-text electronic journals from Taiwan's online database. Included more than seven hundred Taiwanese journals in various disciplines.
'Pishu' (皮书, which literally means ‘cover-books’) are high-value analytical reports intended to guide policy-making in the People’s Republic of China. Pishu are published by the Social Sciences Academic Press, a branch of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. These reports feature exclusive research and analysis by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and authors from similar institutions, and present objective analysis versus official government messaging on strategic issues. Covered topics include a variety of issues of importance to China's government and research community, including international relations, agricultural policy, and industry competitiveness.
Includes access to parts 1-18, containing 303 volumes of dissertations and theses on ancient Chinese history and culture by scholars of mainland China and Taiwan.
Full-text database for the study of pre-modern China.
"Han ji dian zi wen xian zi liao ku" is part of the "Full-Text Chinese Records Database" (Han ji quan wen zi liao ku), developed and maintained by the Academia Sinica since 2000. This database alone is a compilation of around 500 titles, including such large ones as "Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty" (Ming shi lu) and "Veritable Records of the Qing Dynasty" (Qing shi lu).
Users must install the program in order to access. It is a one-time only installation, follow the steps in the client program installation guide. https://libraries.indiana.edu/document/siku-quanshu-installation-guide
Full-text access to 3,460 works (more than 36,000 volumes) of Chinese classics.
The electronic version of Si ku quan shu (Complete Library in Four Branches of Literature) was compiled during the years 1773-1782 by edict from Emperor Qianlong. It includes 3,460 works, and more than 36,000 volumes. It covers a wide range of subjects including the classics, history, literature, philosophy, geography, politics, governmental rules and regulations, economics, society, astronomy, science, technology, medicine, and more. It is the most comprehensive collection of Chinese scholarship from antiquity to the 18th century.
Si ku jin hui shu cong kan (Collectanea of Books Banned during the Four Treasuries Compilation), includes 620 works which are still extant, though they were found to contain material or wording offensive to Qing orthodoxy and consequently were prohibited, wholly or partially, in the last quarter of the 18th century.
Si ku quan shu cun mu cong shu (Collectanea of Books Reviewed for But Not Included in the Imperial Library), includes 4,350 titles, most of which, in the 1770s, the compilers of the Si ku quan shu (Imperial Library in Four Treasuries) considered important enough to merit critical reviews, but which were not copied for the Imperial Library collection.
Si ku wei shou shu ji kan (Collection of Books Overlooked for Inclusion in the Imperial Library) preserves 167 works which, in the early 19th century, were presented to the Qing throne as worthy of imperial notice, but which had not been known to the compilers of the Imperial Library three decades earlier.
Searchable database of Chinese local gazetteers. Includes 2,000 titles of rare and special edition local gazetteers printed in China from ancient times up to 1949.
Digital library of over 4,000 Chinese picture books (连环画), accompanied with around 700 audio files in Mandarin Chinese (around 500 titles), Uyghur (100 titles), and Kazakh (50 titles). Includes the following browsable subject categories: classic novels; mythology; idiom stories; red classics; juvenile literature; martial arts novels; contemporary Chinese literature; foreign literature, etc.
Also included in the collection is the Picture Book Series (连环画报), published since 1951, and Linhuanhua baike (连环画百科 = Chinese picture book encyclopedia), which provides brief introductory articles about the Chinese picture book history, tradition, theories, techniques, and also a biographical dictionary of famous picture book artists.
A compilation of Buddhist terms, texts, temple, schools, persons, etc. found in Buddhist canonical sources. In addition to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean sources, the content includes Buddhism of India, Central Asia, and Tibet.
A compilation of Buddhist terms, texts, temples, schools, persons, etc. that are found in East Asian Buddhist canonical sources. Since much of what East Asian Buddhists have written about is the Buddhism of India, Central Asia, and Tibet, the content of this database/dictionary/encyclopedia/translation glossary is pan-Buddhist in character.
The database integrates Han yu da ci dian (漢語大詞典, The Great Dictionary of Chinese), Han yu da ci dian ding bu (漢語大詞典訂補, Revision of the Great Dictionary of Chinese), and Kangxi zi dian (康熙字典, Kangxi Dictionary, 標點整理本) with full-text search capability.
Includes etymology, pronunciation, definition and documentary evidences. Kangxi Dictionary includes 47,042 characters, Han yu da ci dian has 22,700 characters, and Han yu da ci dian ding bu covers more than 30,000 words.
Digital encyclopedia covering the field of Asian history from prehistory to the present. Along with essays, it includes internet resources for research and teaching, audio, visual, video materials, digitized archives, and other primary sources.
With an archive beginning in 2000, this database collects full-text articles from more than 350 core newspapers in China.
Full-text articles from more than 350 core newspapers from every province of China. The articles are arranged in six series, and IU subscribes to the following four series:
Please note: select “please click here to enter if your library/institution subscribes the database” to access database. Daily newspaper providing a platform for the central government and the Communist Party of China to announce their respective policies and disseminate governmental, political, and economic messages to the public and the world. People's Daily is the official voice of the central government of the People's Republic of China.
English-language renderings of official edicts and memorials from the Qing dynasty that cover China’s long nineteenth century from the Macartney Mission in 1793 to the abdication of the last emperor in 1912.
As the mouthpiece of the government, the Peking Gazette is the authoritative source for information about the Manchu state and its Han subjects as they collectively grappled with imperial decline, re-engaged with the wider world, and began mapping the path to China’s contemporary rise.
User name and password required for access (available at the Wells Library Reference Desk). Includes searchable Taiwanese full-text news from eight newspapers of the United Daily News Group.
Access to more than 400 titles of tabloids published between 1897 to 1949. These popular newspapers covered modern life in late Qing and Republican China, focusing on leisure, entertainment, literature, film, theater and dance and the latest gossip.
Comprehensive and authoritative database for legal information, containing all laws and regulations and related legal information promulgated by the Chinese central government and most local governments since 1949.
Database contains comprehensive laws and regulations, cases from the Supreme Court and provincial, local, and special courts, and select model contracts and legal journals from the People's Republic of China.
Databases include monthly and annual macro-economy, monthly economic development, city statistics, county statistics, and industrial data. The University of Michigan's China Data Center provides access in Chinese and English to official statistics from China.
China Statistical Yearbooks Database(CSYD) is a database of statistical data in China, which collects all important statistical yearbooks published by Mainland China presses, covering various kinds of census and survey data.
Western-language bibliographical database for research on East, Southeast and South Asia. Published by the Association for Asian Studies, it covers all subjects with special focus on the humanities and social sciences.
Includes over 900,000 citations, dating primarily from 1971 onwards, with more than 400,000 citations since 1992. All entries are searchable by author, title, year of publication, place of publication, language of publication, journal title, country, subject, keyword, ISSN and ISBN. Includes the full content of the printed volumes of the annual Bibliography of Asian Studies dating back to 1971.
Online catalog of the Center for Research Libraries.
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an international consortium of university, college, and independent research libraries. The Center collects heavily in the following categories of materials: archival materials, newspapers and periodicals (foreign and domestic, general and specialized), foreign doctoral dissertations, U.S. state documents, USSR Academy of Science publications. The Center collects broadly in the following geographic regions: Africa, East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. In addition, the Center collects any category of material, from any geographic locale, which is deemed important to scholarly research, but has not been acquired by other institutions.
China and the Modern World is a series of digital archive collections sourced from preeminent libraries and archives across the world, including the Second Historical Archives of China and the British Library.... These collections provide excellent primary source materials for the understanding and research of the various aspects of China during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Includes six parts:1) China and the Modern World: Missionary, Sinology & Literary Periodicals, 1817-1949; 2) China and the Modern World: Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China 1858-1949; 3) China and the Modern World: Diplomacy and Political Secrets, 1869-1950; 4) China and the Modern World: Hong Kong, Britain and China, 1841-1951; 5) China and the Modern World: Imperial China and the West, PART I, 1815-1881; and 6) China and the Modern World: Imperial China and the West, PART II, 1865-1905
British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980.
The six parts of this collection make available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980:
1919-1929: Kuomintang, CCP and the Third International
1930-1937: The Long March, civil war in China and the Manchurian Crisis
1938-1948: Open Door, Japanese war and the seeds of communist victory
1949-1956: The Communist revolution
1957-1966: The Great Leap Forward
1967-1980: The Cultural Revolution
Explores the cultural and trading relationships that emerged between America, China and the Pacific region between the 18th and 20th centuries. Manuscript sources, rare printed texts, visual images, objects and maps document this fascinating history.
Spanning three centuries (c1750-1929), this resource makes available pamphlets from Cornell University Library’s Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia. It also features secondary resources, including scholarly essays, an interactive chronology, mini guides, and editors’ choices from the collection.
Rare and important highlights of the Wason Collection include five manuscript volumes of the Encyclopaedia Maxima (1547), a 1661 ‘jade book’ bearing an inscription by the Kangxi Emperor, the manuscripts resulting from the mission to China in 1792-4 of the British diplomat Lord Macartney, a set of publications of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service (founded 1854), and a variety of 16th- and 17th-century books and manuscripts in Latin, French, Spanish and Portuguese, mostly written by Jesuit missionaries.
Access to all issues of the first graphic magazine published in Japan from 1889-1916. Known as a major journal source for the research of customs and social mores, the magazine covered social and cultural trends and conditions in the Edo, Meiji and Taisho periods.
Feature articles were first accompanied by lithograph illustrations that were later replaced with photography, and so the magazine assumes the characteristic of an illustrated encyclopedia for matters concerning the early modern and modern periods. Subjects include the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis, in addition to fashion and popular culture.
Coverage of Asia's economic, political, business and technology news in English. Established with a goal to change the way the Asia is covered internationally and to enhance the world’s understanding of pan-Asian affairs.
Online digital library of academic Japanese e-books in a wide variety of disciplines from multiple Japanese publishing houses. IUB login allows for full text access to selected e-books in the Kinokuniya Digital library.
The Gunsho Ruijū series consists of manuscripts from ancient through to the end of the early modern periods compiled under categories covering history, literature, religion, language, customs, art, music, cultivated arts, education, morality, legal codes, politics, economy, society and many other subjects.
The collection uses the latest editions of the original compilations (Gunsho Ruiju and Zoku Gunsho Ruiju 3rd edition 5th printing, and Zoku zoku Gunsho Ruiju 3rd edition), with a full-text search function using contemporary shinjitaikanji forms.
Complete collection of all roughly 36,000 antique texts from the Kamakura period. Includes 42 volumes with 4 ones of supplementary materials published by Rizo Takeuchi over a period of 24 years from 1971.
Digital version of the Shintei Zōho Kokushi Taikei (Compendium of Japanese History). Systematically covers the fundamental pre-modern Japanese works of Japanese history research. Includes all 66 volumes.
Consists of fully searchable and browseable databases including English-Japanese and Japanese-English encyclopedias and dictionaries, and Toyo Bunko collection.
A compilation of Buddhist terms, texts, temple, schools, persons, etc. found in Buddhist canonical sources. In addition to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean sources, the content includes Buddhism of India, Central Asia, and Tibet.
A compilation of Buddhist terms, texts, temples, schools, persons, etc. that are found in East Asian Buddhist canonical sources. Since much of what East Asian Buddhists have written about is the Buddhism of India, Central Asia, and Tibet, the content of this database/dictionary/encyclopedia/translation glossary is pan-Buddhist in character.
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New Eiwadai Dictionary
Luminous English-Japanese dictionary
English-Japanese computer glossary
Physics and chemistry English-Japanese dictionary
Medical English-Japanese dictionary
Research company business English-Japanese dictionary
ShinKazuhide Dictionary
Digital encyclopedia covering the field of Asian history from prehistory to the present. Along with essays, it includes internet resources for research and teaching, audio, visual, video materials, digitized archives, and other primary sources.
The newspaper is used by researchers interested in issues related to Japanese culture, politics, economy, and society.
Product specially designed for libraries and institutes.
It has the following content:
Scanned images of the newspaper from 1945-1984.
Full-text indexed searches from 1985 to the present.
Full-text plus PDF images of all regionally published Asahi news, charts, and pictures from November 2005 on.
Shukan Asahi (Asahi Weekly) from April 2000 on.
AERA weekly from the first issue on.
The 2007 edition of Chiezo.
Includes access to the full-text of Yomiuri Shinbun from the inaugural issue on Nov. 2, 1874 to the present, and the English paper, The Daily Yomiuri, from September 1989 to the present. Also includes Regional Sections of the Showa Era, and a Biographical dictionary Who’s who of 26,000 modern Japanese figures.
Articles are keyword indexed to 8/31/1986, and can be searched full-text from 9/1/1986 to present.
Access to current content for the Japan Times. Includes latest news and features from Japan: business, politics, commentary culture, life & style, entertainment and sports.
Select “Click here for Nikkei Telecom login” to access the resource. Includes full text of major Japanese newspapers for the past 30 years, as well as profiles of 1.2 million public and private companies.
Also provides various business data on individual companies from corporate overview to financial and credit information.
The paper began in 1903 supporting the small but growing Japanese community in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles, California. By the 1940s it was the most widely circulated paper in the region and included a weekly English section for second generation Japanese Americans. With the onset of World War II, the paper was forced to cease publication after its publisher, H. Toyosaku Komai, and most of the Komai family were arrested and interned for the duration of the war. The Rafu Shimpo quickly revived publication after the war and capitalized on being the first Japanese American newspaper to resume publication in January of 1946. The newspaper outlasted all its local competitors and became the most prominent and preeminent Japanese American publication in the United States.
Taiwan Nichinichi Shinpo was an official newspaper of the Taiwanese government under Japanese colonial rule. It included news about legislation and the fluctuation of the social hierarchy, in addition to chronicling current events, and cultural activities.
2.4 million entry magazine article index of the Oya Soichi Library, known as a library specializing in Japanese magazines. The collection is characterized by the focus on general-interest publications, such as weekly magazines, general topic magazines, fashion magazines and women’s magazines.
Index to periodical articles published in Japan since 1868, including those in former Japanese colonies. Merges data from various composite periodical indexes by the National Diet Library 国立国会図書館.
Searchable collection of digitized issues of The Japan Times, The Japan Advertiser, The Japan Times & Mail, The Japan Times and Advertiser, and The Nippon Times; includes issues from March 22, 1897 through the final issue of the previous calendar year.
Primary source materials documenting the shifting nature of Anglo-Japanese relations in the first half of the twentieth century.
Includes access to three modules:
Japan, 1931-1945: Japanese Imperialism and the War in the Pacific:
Section one begins in 1931, as Japan invades Manchuria. This incident, and continued Japanese activities in the region, would lead to their dramatic withdrawal from the League of Nations and further alienation from the western powers they had allied with during the First World War. The files in this section document the decline in relations, through war in the Pacific, up until Japanese surrender on board the US Missouri in 1945.
Japan, 1946-1952: Occupation of Japan:
From 1946-1952 Japan was occupied by Allied Powers. The files for this period offer a British perspective on the creation of a democratic state in Japan and the enforcement of a new constitution. They include key British communications and reports covering topics such as war crime trials, reparations, and Japan’s economic recovery. They conclude in 1952, the year the Treaty of San Francisco normalized Anglo-Japanese relations and the first post-war British Ambassador to Japan, Esler Dening, was appointed.
Japan and Great Power Status, 1919-1930:
In 1919, as a vital member of the Allied Powers, Japan found itself occupying a new position of international power within a reorganized world order. The files in this section trace the development of this power and Japan’s relationship with the West during a decade of turbulent economic, political and social change in the wake of the First World War. Beginning with the Paris Peace Conference and the ‘Shantung Question’, the files offer insight into the events of the 1920s, from the termination of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, the devastation of the Kantō Earthquake, and the end of the Taishō democracy, to the beginning of the Shōwa period, financial crisis and Japan’s increasingly imperialist policies in Manchuria.
Documents from the Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925) collection from the Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum. Morse was one of the first Americans to live in Japan. The collection includes his personal and professional papers including diaries, correspondence, research files, drawings, lecture notes, publications, scrapbooks and manuscripts.
Full-text database of scholarly journals published by major Korean academic societies and research institutes. It includes over 1.7 million articles from 1,900 journals from 1918 onwards
Full text database of Korean scholarly journal articles, university publications and research papers published by over 1,200 research institutions in Korea.
Containing more than 270 most popular magazines in South Korea, provides simultaneous access and concurrent reading service to newly published magazines and their back issues up to 10 years
Keyword-searchable database of primary sources in Korean history, literature, medicine and philosophy. Image files of original texts in classical Chinese and searchable translations in Korean.
Western-language bibliographical database for research on East, Southeast and South Asia. Published by the Association for Asian Studies, it covers all subjects with special focus on the humanities and social sciences.
Includes over 900,000 citations, dating primarily from 1971 onwards, with more than 400,000 citations since 1992. All entries are searchable by author, title, year of publication, place of publication, language of publication, journal title, country, subject, keyword, ISSN and ISBN. Includes the full content of the printed volumes of the annual Bibliography of Asian Studies dating back to 1971.
Digital encyclopedia covering the field of Asian history from prehistory to the present. Along with essays, it includes internet resources for research and teaching, audio, visual, video materials, digitized archives, and other primary sources.
