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An initiative of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University designed to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature at the undergraduate and pre-college levels. Includes teaching modules, resources for teachers, and other online content.

Founded in 1961, the mission of the Center is to provide students, specialists and the public at large with expert resources and a deeper understanding of issues ranging from today's headlines to time-honored questions of value and meaning.

Website covering China’s social and political transition and its emerging role in the world. Aggregates news and analysis about China from around the Web, providing reporting, translations from Chinese cyberspace, perspectives, and recommendations of readings from the Chinese blogosphere.

This well-developed collection tells the story of Chinese immigration to California in the late 19th and early 20th century through approximately 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials.

Propaganda, politics, history, and art. The website is owned and maintained by the Chinese Posters Foundation. Stefan R. Landsberger (Leiden University, University of Amsterdam) is editor and responsible for contents. Posters may be browsed by themes, alphabetically by artist, or searched by other methods.

A collection of online books, in searchable, downloadable format. Though of lasting literary and historical value, many of these titles have been long out of print and unavailable. Collection may be searched or browsed. Program founded in 1972. Online publications include those which have since gone out of print.

Article in news magazine, The Economist (14 May 2016 p. 35-36) commemorating this anniversary. Free registration at website may be necessary to read full content.

Focuses on free delivery of full-text Chinese (all) and Korean (U. Pitt. only) language academic publications to researchers. Use this service if you have been unable to obtain a Chinese academic book or journal article from UND.

Contains listings for thousands of languages throughout the world, especially for small speech communities. Compiled by the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL). Corresponds to printed version, call no. Ref. P371 .E83.

IDP is a ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artifacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet.

Search guide or browse topics.

Browse by category or explore entire collection. Navigation panel along left-hand margin of webpage. Includes material from East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Some of the late 19th- and early 20th-century sheet maps of Asian (or partly Asian) cities that are held at the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection. The cities can be classed roughly into several types. Some were still quite traditional. Their morphology followed either the East Asian tradition of religiously sanctioned cardinality (example: Beijing) or the Middle Eastern one in which hardly anything but mosque alignment was centrally planned (example: Aleppo). The geography of other cities (like Bombay and Jakarta) was essentially that of the "colonial city," whose physical structure could be said to have been determined by the (sometimes contradictory) goals of efficiency, security, ethnic separation, and the comfort of the ruling class. Still other cities--Delhi and Hanoi--were older places of a traditional type with important colonial additions. No claim can be made that there ever was such a thing as an "Asian city."

Ling Long Women's Magazine, published in Shanghai from 1931 to 1937, was popular during a time of dramatic material, social, and political change in China. Today, the magazine offers researchers a unique glimpse into women's lives in Republican-era (1911-49) Shanghai. This site features Columbia University's collection of Ling Long Magazine, one of the most complete holdings outside China.

TLE takes world literature as its field and publishes biographies of major and minor writers; scholarly descriptions of all interesting texts written by these authors, including those often neglected; and a variety of descriptive and critical essays on literary, cultural and historical matters, which provide a finer understanding of the social contexts in which this writing was produced.

Entries in The Literary Encyclopedia are divided into three databases, People, Works and Topics & Events.

Founded in 2007, The MALP is an annual literary award given to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English, and published in the previous calendar year.

Online full text of works translated into English.

NBR conducts advanced independent research on strategic, political, economic, globalization, health, and energy issues affecting U.S. relations with Asia. Includes the Strategic Asia, and Access Asia Databases.

Secrets of the Silk Road explores the history of the vast desert landscape of the Tarim Basin, located in Western China, and the mystery of the peoples who lived there. Located at the crossroads between East and West, oasis towns within the Tarim Basin were key way stations for anyone traveling on the legendary Silk Road.

From 1908 to 1932, Sidney Gamble (1890-1968) visited China four times, traveling throughout the country to collect data for social-economic surveys and to photograph urban and rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary, and the countryside. The site currently features photographs dated between 1917 and 1932; the 1908 photographs will be digitized and uploaded as part of future additions to the site.

A project of the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington. Silk Road Seattle is an ongoing public education project using the "Silk Road" theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era (A. D.) to the Seventeenth Century. See more project links at Silk Road.

Part of the "Asia for Educators" website at Columbia University. It is an initiative of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and is designed to serve faculty and students in world history, culture, geography, art, and literature at the undergraduate and pre-college levels. Includes categories "Economic Revolution," "Technology," "Cities," "Confucianism," and "Outside World." Resources, lesson plans, and other content available to view on website.

The Tibetan and Himalayan Library is a publisher of websites, information services, and networking facilities relating to the Tibetan plateau and southern Himalayan regions.

This particular collection is a donation from the late University of Wisconsin - Madison Professor Tse-Tsung Chow who, with his wife, donated over 120 calligraphic and painted Chinese scrolls and fans from the 18th through the 20th century. Recently, the entire collection was digitized by the Special Collections Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, and it is available here.

Established in 1963 to serve Western academics and scholars engaged in the study of contemporary China. Became part of The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1988, it has expanded its services to include Hong Kong, mainland Chinese as well as international scholars. A Database for Chinese Studies, Paper Collection, Folk Histories, and Documentaries, are among the current site offerings.

Created and maintained by the China News Digest, based in Maryland, US.

Approximately 1,200 pamphlets spanning three centuries (c. 1750-1929). This collections of pamphlets is focused on missionary work in China.

Founded in 2006, Yeeyan is the largest website for foreign translations into Chinese. News, books, journals, and other internet content is available.