Featured Resources
- Digital Resources and Projects on East Asia An open-access repository that houses a wide range of online tools, archives, exhibitions, and more in a searchable and filterable platform. The aim of this table is to provide researchers and educators with a convenient way to locate and explore digital materials based on a variety of thematic content.
- CrossAsia Fulltext Search The CrossAsia Fulltext Search is built from textual resources hosted in the CrossAsia Integrated Textrepository (ITR). It is open to all users. Its aim is to help users find texts and sources relevant to their research questions by performing comprehensive fulltext searches across databases. Access to the complete texts and images is provided via linked icons which lead to the text in its original database context.
Chinese Collections
- First Historical Archives (第一历史档案馆), Beijing Website contains catalog descriptions for the major categories of its holdings of Ming and Qing records, as well as information on publications and scholarship, and links to other major archives.
- Ming Qing Women's Writings The Ming Qing Women's Writings digital archive and database project is dedicated to the digitization of collections of writings by women in late imperial China (1368-1911). The on-going project employs new digital technology to preserve and make accessible on the internet this valuable cultural legacy for future generations of scholars, researchers, and other interested public.
- Second Historical Archives (第二历史档案馆), Nanjing Republican holdings, including the Beijing, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Wang Jingwei governments.
- Yale Silk Road Project "The Yale Silk Road Database presents over 11,000 images of major sites in the Silk Road region taken during faculty site seminars led by Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan (Professor, History of Art) under the auspices of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University in the summers of 2006-2010. The collection serves as a multi-disciplinary resource with relevance to students and faculty working in the fields of art and archaeology, religious studies, history, East Asian languages and literatures, Central Asian and Islamic studies."
- Waseda University Library Japanese and Chinese Classics The purpose of this database is to provide the widest possible public access to the Waseda University Library’s collection of Japanese and Chinese classics, in the form of bibliographical information, related scholarly materials, as well as full-text images.
Japanese Collections
- Japanese Historical Maps Collection -- from the C. V. Starr East Asian Library (UC Berkeley) This guide helps you to navigate the digitized collection of Japanese historical maps held by the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, UC Berkeley.
- Gordon W. Prange Collection The Gordon W. Prange Collection is the most comprehensive archive in the world of Japanese print publications issued during the early years of the Occupation of Japan, 1945-1949. These books, magazines, newspapers, posters, maps and more were subjected to censorship by the Allied Forces. They bear censorship markings ranging from check-in and examination dates to deletions, suppression and other changes.
- NDL Digital Collections Digitized materials from the collections of the National Diet Library
- Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection The Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection is currently the world’s largest online archive of open-access, full image Japanese American and other overseas Japanese newspapers in Asia and South America.
- Japanese Special Collections in the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, UC Berkeley Since 2006, the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley has collaborated with the Art Research Center of Ritsumeikan University to digitize parts of the Library's Japanese collections. This portal provides free access to digital surrogates of these rare and historical sources related to Japan for research, teaching, and exploration. In addition to those digitized by the ARC, the portal also provides access to digital images provided by other research institutes.
- Waseda University Library Japanese and Chinese Classics The purpose of this database is to provide the widest possible public access to the Waseda University Library’s collection of Japanese and Chinese classics, in the form of bibliographical information, related scholarly materials, as well as full-text images.
- Masaoka Shiki Haiku database The Shiki kaishi (子規会誌) is the official journal of the Matsuyama Shiki Society (松山子規会) whose members study and promote the work of Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), a major figure in the development of the modern haiku and Japanese literature. The Shiki kaishi has been published continuously since April, 1979, and contains hundreds of articles on Shiki and his circle, including such figures as Natsume Sōseki, Takahama Kyoshi, Kawahigashi Hekigotō, and Naitō Meisetsu.
- Web版 夏目漱石デジタル文学館 Digital archive of Soseki manuscripts from the Kanagawa Museum of Modern Literature
- Japanese Multi-Volume Titles Finding Aids Collection The digitized materials in this collection are selections from the finding aids (indexes, tables of contents, etc.) for a wide range of Japanese-language multi-volume sets. These electronic documents were created with the permission of participating publishers as part of the Japanese Multi-Volume Sets Discoverability Improvement Project, and are licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Korean Collections
- The Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies The Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies' collection comprises over 300,000 articles, including 175,000 ancient texts, 50,000 historical documents, and 18,000 book-printing blocks.
- Rare Books of Korea (National Library of Korea Collection) Since its opening in 1945 up to present, National Library of Korea that has played a part in the development of knowledge & information, has been trying to provide the opportunities for the general public to get easy access to the images and explanations of resources including rare and valuable documents through its collections and digital library.
- Changsŏ-gak (Jangseo-gak) 한국학 전자도서관 Digital library of the Academy of Korean Studies which includes early han'gul novels, the unofficial history of the Chosŏn dynasty and diaries, and audiovisual materials about Korean culture and literature.
- Between Liberation Space and Time of Need, 1945-1950: Rare Literary Works Full-text images of 128 rare Korean literary works printed in the 1945-1950 period from the Korean Collection of the University of Washington Libraries.
- Sillok: The Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty The Joseon wangjo sillok (朝鮮王朝實錄 Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty) includes 28 different sets of chronological records, and each set covers one ruler's reign. It was compiled immediately after the death of the ruler in question. As such, the Veritable Records are not the typical history planned and written by a specific individual or team of individuals. The collection covers the reigns of 25 rulers, from King Taejo to King Cheoljong, and spans a period of 472 years.
- Waseda University Library Japanese and Chinese Classics The purpose of this database is to provide the widest possible public access to the Waseda University Library’s collection of Japanese and Chinese classics, in the form of bibliographical information, related scholarly materials, as well as full-text images.
South Asian Collections
- Digital South Asia Library The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users.
- Neliti: Indonesia's Research Repository Neliti is a research repository that helps researchers and decision makers in Indonesia find research, data and evidence. "We index journal articles, books, research reports, policy papers, conference papers and datasets from universities, government bodies, corporate publishers, and think tanks."
- The South Asian Literary Recordings Project Launched in April 2000, to record the voices of South Asian authors for the Library of Congress' Archive of Recorded World Literature, the project has captured the readings of prominent South Asian poets, novelists, and playwrights. The authors recorded so far represent more than fifteen of the languages of India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
- Urdu Poetry Archive Searchable database of Full text ghazals and nazms transcribed in roman transliteration, includes poet index, singer index and alpha index.
- Discovering Sacred Texts -- The British Library Discovering Sacred Texts is a new free British Library online learning resource, inviting visitors to explore the world’s major faiths through the Library’s extensive collection of sacred texts. The collection features the six most-practiced faiths in the UK - Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Sikhism - as well as a number of other faiths including the Baha’i Faith, Jainism and Zoroastrianism.
