East Asian Studies Internet Resources

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Comprehensive   Art   Business / Ecomomy   Library Resources

News   Philosophy / Religions   Politics / Law   Professional Associations / Academic Programs

Note: Some of these sites are in Chinese, Japanese, or Korean vernacular language. If you are using Internet Explorer and need language software, download the Chinese, Japanese, and/or Korean Language Pack as well as Global IME from the Microsoft website.

  Comprehensive:

• Asia Source
  http://www.asiasource.org/
  
  A resource site of the Asia Society. Provides comprehensive information resources such as latest news stories, worldwide calendar, articles and speeches, maps & statistics, glossary of terms, online bookstores, government directories, as well as other useful links.

• East Asia and Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
  http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/
  
  Compiled by Robert Y. Eng, Department of History, University of Redlands. "This directory is intended to be a window on the rich Internet resources on East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Asian Americans."

• East Asia WWW Virtual Library
  http://ea-vl.sbc.edu/
  
  Part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library. Covers online resources dealing with the following countries and regions: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, North Korea, Siberia and Russian Far East, South Korea, Taiwan, and Tibet. Facility provided by the Australian National University.

• H-Asia: Asian History and Studies
  http://h-net2.msu.edu/~asia/
  
  "The primary purpose of H-ASIA is to enable historians and other Asia scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new articles, books, papers, approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to test new ideas and share comments and tips on teaching." Contains announcements of conferences, seminars, fellowships, grants, and job listings. Also provides bibliographical aids, book reviews, links to electronic journals, etc.

• Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html
  
  Compiled by Paul Halsall. Derived from the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook, Internet Medieval Sourcebook, and Internet Modern History Sourcebook.

• Orientation -- Asia
  http://as.orientation.com/
  
  A searchable and browsable directory providing local information on Asian countries.

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  Art:

• Asian Art -- The on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia
  http://www.asianart.com/
  
  Provides information on associations, exhibitions, sponsoring galleries, art events, and bookstores. Also includes some full-text articles.

  Business / Economy:

• Asia-Pacific.com
  http://www.asia-pacific.com

• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
  http://www.apecsec.org.sg

• Asia Pacific Management Forum
  http://www.apmforum.com/
  
  "Networking, columnists, and resources on Asia Pacific organization, business, and management development."

• Asian Currency and Financial Crisis Page
  http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~nroubini/asia/AsiaHomepage.html
  
  Compiled by Prof. Nouriel Roubini of New York University to provide information and references related to Asia's economic and currency crisis. Lots of full-text articles and news clips.

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  Library Resources:

• Ask an East Asian Librarian
  http://askvrd.org/askeasl/
  
  An online reference service where both user and librarian may log-in at their convenience to ask and answer questions.

• Bibliography of Asian Studies (Online)
  http://www.hti.umich.edu/b/bas/
  
  Index to western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971. Available to UCLA faculty, staff and students.

• California Digital Library Asian Studies Resources
  http://www.cdlib.org/cgi-bin/browse_topic?format=all&perpage=20&topic=Asian+Studies&campus=ALL&x=15&y=7
  
  Electronic journals, online archival finding aids, and full-text databases on Asian studies provided by the California Digital Library. Major works include Bibliography of Asian Studies, Far Eastern Quarterly, Journal of Asian Studies, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Modern China, China Journal, etc. Available to UCLA faculty, staff and students.

• The Clearinghouse for Asian Studies & Social Sciences Subject-Oriented Bibliographies
  http://coombs.anu.edu.au/CoombswebPages/BiblioClear.html
  
  An electronic archive of Asian Studies & Social Sciences bibliographies, including articles and web sites.

• Digital Asia Library
  http://digitalasia.library.wisc.edu/
  
  "The Digital Asia Library, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a cooperative venture of The Ohio State University Libraries, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Libraries, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. The project uses the expertise of subject area specialists and librarians to provide researchers and students with quick and easy access to high quality Asian Internet resources through a Web-based catalog."

• East Asian Libraries Cooperative World-Wide Web
  http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/
  
  A cooperation of several East Asian Libraries in U.S. Covers the following subject areas: Asian studies, Chinese studies, Japanese studies, Korean studies, and Manchu studies. Each area is divided into detailed subject categories.

• Register of Asian & Pacific Studies Electronic Journals
  http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/indologie/AsianE-Journals.html

• Subject Resources for Asian Studies (non-Asian languages)
  http://toby.library.ubc.ca/subjects/subjpage1.cfm?id=154

  News:

• East Asia Today (BBC World Service)
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/eastasiatoday/
  
  Provides up-to-date news and information of current affairs in Asia, including audio programs.

• Kidon Media Link: News sources from Asia
  http://www.kidon.com/media-link/asia.shtml
  
  Provides links to electronic newspapers published in Asian countries, including English as well as vernacular language newspapers.

• NewsASIA
  http://www.newsasia.com/
  
  Provides the latest news articles from leading Asian publications on the Internet and is supposed to be updated every 3 hours.

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  Philosophy / Religions:

• Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library
  http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html

• Digital Buddhist Library and Museum: Comprehensive Cyberspace for Buddhist Studies
  http://pears2.lib.ohio-state.edu/
  
  Created by the Center for Buddhist Studies, National Taiwan University and the Chung-Hua Institute of Buddhist Studies, Dharma Drum Mountain. Provides full-text bibliography, journals, and books; scriptures in Chinese, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Pali languages; lessons for Sanskrit, Pali, and Tibetan languages; as well as links to many useful Buddhist resources.

• East Asian Buddhist Studies: A Reference Guide
  http://jbe.la.psu.edu/bodifrd1.html
  
  Created by UCLA faculty members. First compiled by Robert Buswell, then revised and expanded by William Bodiford. S-JIS Code used for CJK texts.

• East Asian Religions: Resources in the WWWVL
  http://ea-vl.sbc.edu/religions.html

• The Electronic Bodhidharma
  http://www.iijnet.or.jp/iriz/irizhtml/irizhome.htm
  
  The Web site of the International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism, Kyoto, Japan. Claims to be "The largest collection of Buddhist primary text materials on the Internet."

• Journal of Buddhist Ethics
  http://jbe.la.psu.edu

• Resources for the Study of East Asian Language and Thought
  http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/index.html
  
  Maintained by Dr. Charles Muller of Toyo Gakuen University, Japan. Includes WWW CJK-English Dictionary Database, Dictionary of East Asian CJK ("Chinese-Japanese-Korean") Buddhist Terms, Korean Buddhism WWWVL Page, Home Page for the Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative (EBTI), and other sites related to East Asian religions.

• The Taoism Information Page
  http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/
  
  Created by J. Patrick Narkinsky and maintained by Gene R.Thursby. Contains English-language scholarly and philosophical information on Taoism. Also includes English translations of some Chinese Taoist texts.

• WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist texts
  http://www.gwdg.de/~cwitter/can2/ind/canwww.htm
  
  Maintained by Christian Wittern.

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  Politics / Law:

• Asia Web (Columbia Journal of Asian Law)
  http://www.columbia.edu/cu/asiaweb/
  
  

  The WWW server of the Columbia Journal of Asian Law. Its goal is to "serve as a source for articles, abstracts, laws, regulations and other materials from legal journals and centers with an emphasis on Asian and/or Asian countries."

• Political Resources on the Net: Asia
  http://www.agora.stm.it/politic/asia.htm
  
  Part of the "Political Resources on the Net" page. Contains listings of political sites sorted by country, with links to parties, organizations, governments, media, etc.

  Professional Associations / Academic Programs

• Asia Society
  http://www.asiasociety.org/

• Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
  http://www.aasianst.org/

• Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL)
  http://purl.oclc.org/net/ceal/
  
  An affiliation of AAS. Contains information on CEAL and East Asian countries, as well as library and academic resources outside of East Asia.

• International Association of Orientalist Librarians
  http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IAOL/iaol.html
  
  "The IAOL was founded at the XXVII International Congress of Orientalists (now the International Congress for Asian and North African Studies), Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A., 1967."

• International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden University)
  http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/
  
  Established jointly by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), the University of Amsterdam (UVA) and Leiden University (RUL).

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