Asian History and Studies

Asian History and Studies-General

• Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, sixth edition edited by Peter N. Stearns (Bartleby.com)
• World History Matters: The World History Survey Course on the Web (George Mason University)
• World History Resource Center (Thomson/Wadsworth)
• Mershon Network of International History (Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University>
• Rulers [heads of state and heads of government]
• Historic Cities (Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library)
• Almanach de Bruxelles (monarchical dynasties in Europe, India, Indonesia, and Pakistan
• Books for Understanding Current Topics (American Association of University Presses)
• World Press Review
• Portals to the World: Links to Electronic Resources from Around the World (Library of Congress)
• Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World (University of Chicago Digital Library Projects)
• Middle East and Jewish Studies (Columbia University Library)
• Arab, Islamic and Middle East Resources (University of Exeter, United Kingdom)
• Travelers in the Middle East Archive (Rice University)
• Middle East Conflicts (Documents Center, University of Michigan)
• Historic Cities (Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library)
• Internet Islamic History Sourcebook (P. Halsall, Fordham University)
• Islam: Empire of Faith (PBS)
• Islamic Studies Resources (Academic Info)
• International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World
• Resources (Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University)
• Aileena: World-wide Media Index
• PAIR: Portal to Asian Internet Resources
• Asia News Network
• Central Asia News.net
• Live Radio and Television from Around the World (Broadcast-live.com)
• Asian Reading Room, Library of Congress
• Mapping Asia in U[nited] K[ingdom] Libraries
• Asian Rare Books
• WWW-VL History Central Catalogue (University of Kansas)
• World History Gateway (Academic Info)
• H-Asia: Asian History and Studies (H-Net network)
• Global Connections: The Middle East (PBS)
• Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (Australian National University)
• Central Eurasian Studies Society
• Central Eurasian Studies World Wide: Resources for the Study of Central Eurasia
• Institute of East Asian Studies (University of California, Berkeley)
• Association for Asian Studies
• Journal of Asian Studies
• The Asia Society
• Asian Studies WWW
• Asian Studies WWW Monitor
• UNESCO Archives Portal
• Gulf in the Media (Gulf Research Center)
• Corinne Blake, "Teaching Islamic Civilization with Information Technology," Journal of Multimedia History 1 (1998)
• Internet East Asian History Sourcebook (P. Halsall, Fordham University)
• East Asian Library (University of Pittsburgh)
• East Asian Studies (Washington and Lee Library)
• Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (University of Chicago)
• East Asian Library (University of California, Berkeley)
• On-line Library Catalogs in Asia (East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh)
• Gateway Service Center of Chinese [language] Academic Journals
  (East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh)
• East Asian Studies Center (Indiana University)
• Asian Rare Books
• Asian Studies Network Information Center (University of Texas, Austin)
• Journal of South Asia Women Studies
• Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (University of California, Berkeley)
• H-Net Asia-Pacific Network (H-ASIA, H-JAPAN, H-ANZAU)
• Intersections: Gender, History & Culture in the Asian Context
• The Second World War: A Selected Bibliography (Yale University Library)
• Bibliography from National World War II Memorial
• World War II Timeline (University of San Diego)
• World War II Links on the Internet (University of San Diego)
• International Bibliography of the Second World War
• Axis History Factbook
• The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color (American Experience, PBS)
• Cold War (CNN Perspectives)
• America at a Crossroads (PBS)
• Gendercide Watch
• AskAsia
• South Asian Women's NETwork
• Intersections: Gender, History and Culture
• Foreign Languages on the Internet: Selected Sites
  (Institute for Academic Technology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
• Yahoo Chinese
• Yahoo Chinese

Turkey

• Links (Turkish Studies Institute)
• Institute of Turkish Studies (Washington, D.C.)
• Journal of Modern Turkish Studies
• Insight Turkey: quarterly research and information journey focusing on Turkey
  (Ankara Center for Turkish Policy Studies)
• Journal of American Studies of Turkey

Armenia

• Armenian Research Center (University of Michigan, Dearborn)
• Armenian National Institute
• Zoryan Insititute for Contemporary Armenian Research and Documentation (Toronto, Canada)

Iraq

• Books for Understanding Iraq (American Association of University Presses)
• Crisis with Iraq (Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University)
• The Invasion of Iraq (Frontline, PBS)
• C. C. Crane and W. A. Terrill, "Reconstructing Iraq: Insights, Challenges, and Missions for Military Forces in a Post-Conflict Scenario," February 2003
  (Strategic Studies Institute, U. S. Army War College)
• A Nation at War (New York Times
• War in Iraq (Washington Post)
• Operation Iraqi Freedom Documents (Foreign Military Studies Office Joint Reserve Intelligence Center)
  [official site with mostly untranslated primary source documents capture by U.S. Army]
• Center for Oral History, U.S. Millitary Academcy, West Point, NY
• The Wages of War: Iraqi Combatant and Noncombatant Fatalities in the 2003 Conflict
  Project on Defense Alternatives Research Monograph # 8, C. Conetta, 20 October 2003
• Iraq: The Human Cost (Center for International Studies, MIT)
• Opening the Doors: Intellectual Life and Academic Conditions in Post-War Baghdad, A report of the Iraqi Observatory
  (K. Watenpaugh, E. Metenier, J. Hanssen, Halla Fatah)
• Comprehensive Report the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction), September 30, 2004
• Bounding the Global War on Terrorism, Dr. Jeffrey Record (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College)
• The Leaked Iraq War Documents [The Sunday Times, London, U.K.]
• Reports from The Future of Iraq Project (U.S. Department of State)
• Iraq War Withdrawal and Exit Plans (Project on Defense Alternatives)
• America at a Crossroads (PBS)
• Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion (Professor Juan Cole, University of Michigan)
• World Tribunal on Iraq, Istanbul, Turkey, 23-27 June 2005

Iran

• Terror and Tehran: Does America's War on Terror hold democracy hostage in Iran? (Frontline, PBS)

India and Pakistan

• The Story of India (PBS television)
• Pakistan Research Repository (Higher Education Commission, Pakistan)
• Almanach de Bruxelles (monarchical dynasties in Europe, India, Indonesia, and Pakistan
• Digital South Asia Library [India] (University of Chicago)
• Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (University of Chicago)
• Explore the Tah Mahal
• Mahatma Ghandi Research and Media Service
• Fifty Years of [Indian] Freedom (Rediff On The Net)
• Internet Indian History Sourcebook (Fordham University)
• The India Resources Page (University of Florida)
• Kamat's Potpourri: The History, Mystery and Diversity of India (J. Kamat)
• All About India (Cyberindian.com)
• eindia
• India Today 50th Anniversary Special Issue
• India Daily
• Indian Express
• India Today Group Online
• Rediff On The Net (India-related information)
• The Official Pakistan Page (TOPP)
• News International Pakistan
• India & Pakistan: Nuclear Anxiety (New York Times)
• Books for Understanding Kashmir (American Association of University Presses)

Afghanistan

• Afghanistan (World Wide Web Virtual Library)
• Afghanistan Studies (Academic Info)
• Afghanistan: Land in Crisis (National Geographic.com)
• [Afghanistan] History (Afghanistan Online)
• Afghanistan (BUBL Link Catalogue of Internet Resources)
• Institute for Afghan Studies
• Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990 (Digital National Security Archive)
• Afghanistan and International Terrorism (Tennessee Technological University)
• Afghanistan Online
• Afghan News Network
• America's War Against Terrorism: World Trade Center/Pentagon Terrorism and the Aftermath (Documents Center, University of Michigan)
• START (National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism)
  (U.S. Department of Homeland Security and University of Maryland)
• Terrorism Research Center
• Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000 (Counterterrorism Office, U.S. Department of State)
• Hunting Bin Laden (Frontline, PBS)
• Target America (Frontline, PBS)
• September 11 [,2001]--Journalists' Resources
• Documenting the [World Trade Center] Tragedy [September 11, 2001] (New York State Historical Records Advisory Board)
• Pariah Nation: A Journey Through Afghanistan (MSNBC News)
• Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism, August 2000 report (U.S. National Commission on Terrorism)
• America Responds (PBS)
• Afghan War Lessons and Future U.S. Policy (Global-Defence.com)
• Robert D. Kaplan, "Imperial Grunts: With the Army Special Forces in the Philippines and Afghanistan—laboratories of counterinsurgency," Atlantic Monthly, October 2005
• Center for Oral History, U.S. Millitary Academcy, West Point, NY
• 100 Questions About Arab Americans: A Journalist's Guide (Detroit Free Press)
• America at a Crossroads (PBS)

Australia and New Zealand

• Documenting a Democracy: Australia's Story
• Academic Info Australian History Page
• Eight Hour Day: Celebrate 150 Years of Work, Rest, and Play
• National Archives of Australia
• ScreenSound Australia: National Screen and Sound Archive
• Australian Bureau of Statistics (official government site)
• H-ANZAU Mailing List (H-Net)
• Pictures of Health (Australian History)
• Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History
• Lilith: A Feminist History Journal
• Access: History (University of Queensland)
• Australians at War (Australian Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Centre for Cross-Cultural Research (Australian National University)
• New Zealand Digital Library (University of Waikato)
• Brisbane's Living Heritage

China

• Internet Guide for China Studies (WWW Virtual Library)
• Center for Chinese Studies (University of California, Berkeley)
• China GIS [Geographical Information System (Harvard University)
• Chinese Studies Online Resources (Harvard-Yenching Library of Harvard College Library)
• China Historical Geographical Information System (Harvard University)
• Chinese Studies: Chinese History (Academic Info)
• Chinese Cultural Studies: Bibliographical Guide (P. Halsall, Brooklyn College, SUNY)
• A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization (E. B. Ebrey, University of Washington)
• Modern Chinese History: A Basic Bibliography (B. Irvin, University of California, San Diego)
• John Fairbank Memorial Chinese History Virtual Library
• History: Chinese Culture (About.com)
• History of China (Leon Poon)
• Condensed China: Chinese History for Beginners (P. Frankenstein)
• Chinese Biographical Database (Lewis-Clark State College)
• Chinese Heritage Quarterly
• The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War, and Faith (The British Library)
• Chinese Military History Society
• The China Review
• Chinagate.com.cn
• China Statistical Network
• ChinaExperts.org.uk
• Pearl S. Buck (P. Conn, University of Pennsylvania)
• Online Documentary: The Nanking Atrocities (M. Kajimoto, University of Missouri)
• Hedda Morrsion Photographs of China, 1933-1946 (Harvard-Yenching Library of Harvard College Library)
• Mao Tse-tung (Zedong) Internet Library
• Selected writings and speeches of Chairman Mao Tse-tung
• Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, 2nd edition (Peking, 1967)
• The Chairman Smiles: Posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China (Int'l. Institute of Social History)
• Virtual Museum of the "Cultural Revolution" (China News Digest)
• Gate of Heavenly Peace (film about Tiananmen Square, 1989)
• Chinascape: Chinese Web Index 
• Internet Guide for China Studies (H. Lecher, Vienna University)
• Chinese Culture (Government Information Office, Taiwan)
• ChinaVista
• Chinese Military Power (Project on Defense Alternatives, The Commonwealth Institute)
• Tibet: Changing and Unchanged (New York Times)
• China News Digest
• China Quarterly

Tibet

• The Tibetan Collection (Harvard-Yenching Collection Library of the Harvard College Library)
• Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center
• Tibet (from National Geographic Society photographic collections)

Japan

• H-Japan: History of Japan (H-Net network)
• J Guide: Stanford Guide to Japan Information Resources
• Center for Japanese Studies (University of California, Berkeley)
• Japan Database (Harvard-Yenching Library of Harvard College Library)
• Japanese Studies Resources (Duke University East Asian Collection)
• Japan Documentation Center (Library of Congress)
• History of Japan
• Japanese Historical Maps (East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley)
• Professional Services / Japan Archive (S. Turnbull)
• ospreysamurai.com: the source for samurai history (Osprey Publishing)
• The Tokugawa Art Museum [Tokugawa period, ca. 1603-1868]
• Online Documentary: The Nanking Atrocities (M. Kajimoto, University of Missouri)
• World War II subject search (Yahoo)
• World War II Seminar (University of California, San Diego)
• A Date Which Will Live in Infamy [Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941] (National Archives and Records Administration)
• The Day After the Day Which Will Live in Infamy: "Man on the Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 (American Folklife Collection, Library of Congress)
• The War in the Pacific: A Brief History and Timeline
• Germ War and Experiments on Humans (University of Minnesota)
• Okinawa: The American Years, 1946-1972 (N.E. Sarantakes, Texas A & M University)
• The Constitution of Japan
• Durable Democracy: Building the Japanese State (Asia Program Special Report, March 2003
  (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
• Japan Window Project (Stanford University)
• Institute of Social Science (University of Tokyo)
• Japan Policy Research Institute
• Japanese or Japan-Related Web Sites (New Mexico Japan Center)

Korea

• EncycKorea
• Korean History: A Bibliography (K. R. Robinson, Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii)
• The Korea Institute (Harvard University)
• North Korea International Documentation Project (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• Korean Studies Related Links (Korea Institute, Harvard University)
• Korea Online Resources (Harvard-Yenching Library of Harvard College Library)
• Center for Korean Studies (University of California, Berkeley)
• Korean History (Korean Studies at University of California, Berkeley)
• The History of Korea (Radio Korea International, Korean Broadcasting System and National Institute for International Education Development, Ministry of Education of Korea)
• Harvard Korean Studies Bibliographic Data Base Project
• Korean Heritage Project (University of Southern California)
• Korean History Project
• Korean War Project
• Korea: Special Report (Washington Post)
• Books for Understanding North Korea (American Association of University Presses)
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea
• North Korea and the United States: Declassified Documents from the Bush I and Clinton Administrations (National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 164)
• North Korea and Nuclear Weapons (Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University)
• Korea Infogate
• Korea.Com
• Korean Central News Agency
  (Democratic People's Republic of Korea/North Korea Official Site)
• Little Korea Newscenter
• Little Korea: A Magazine
• Korean Peninsula information (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

Mongolia

• The Mongolian Collection (Harvard-Yenching Library of the Harvard College Library)
• The Mongolia Society, Inc.
• The Directory of Mongolists (The Mongolia Society)
• Mongolian Studies (Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University)
• Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies (Indiana University, Bloomington)
• American Center for Mongolian Studies

The Philippines

• History: Republic of the Philippines WWW Virtual Library: History)
• Philippines: A Country Study (U.S. Library of Congress)
• The Philippine History Site (Filipino-American Historical Society of Hawaii and Operation Manong)
• Philippine History Links (PhilippineHistory.net)
• History (Tanikalang Ginto at filipino.com)
• Filipinos in History (Cavite State University)
• Kasaysayan: Philippine History 101 (Tribung Pinoy)
• Robert D. Kaplan, "Imperial Grunts: With the Army Special Forces in the Philippines and Afghanistan—laboratories of counterinsurgency," Atlantic Monthly, October 2005

South Asia

• Center for South Asia Studies (University of California, Berkeley)
• Digital South Asia Library [India] (University of Chicago)
• Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (Universitsy of Chicago)
• Journal of South Asia Women Studies
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Indonesia (Australian National University)
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Papua New Guinea (Australian National University)
• South Asia Resource Access on the Internet [SARAI] (Columbia University)

Southeast Asia

• Center for Southeast Asia Studies (University of California, Berkeley)
• Almanach de Bruxelles (monarchical dynasties in Europe, India, Indonesia, and Pakistan
• H-SEASIA: History and Study of Southeast Asia (H-Net network)
• East Asian Studies
• New Zealand Digital Library (University of Waikato)
• H-ANZAU: The History of Aotearoa, New Zealand, and Australia (H-Net network)
• Southeast Asian Archive (University of California, Riverside)

Vietnam

• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Vietnam (Australian National University)
• French Colonial Historical Society
• Vietnam Online
• Communist Party of Vietnam (official site)
• Embassy of Vietnam to the United States
• The Vietnam Pictures Archive (Sunsite.Unc.Edu)
• Investigating the Vietnam War (Spartacus Educational Publishing, U.K.)
• Vietnam War Bibliography (E.E. Moise)
• The Wars for Vietnam: 1945 to 1975 (Vassar College)
• Resources on the Vietnam Conflict (Texas Tech University)
• Vietnam War subject search (Yahoo)
• Vietnam War Newsgroup (Soc.History.War.Vietnam)
• Vietnam POW/MIA Database (Searchable)

Cambodia

• Chronology of Cambodian History
• Beauty and Darkness: Cambodia, The Odyssey of the Khmer People
• Cambodian Genocide Program (Yale University)

Contemporary Asia

• The Gate of Heavenly Peace [Tiananmen Square, June 1989] (Frontline/PBS)
• Gate of Heavenly Peace (film about Tiananmen Square, 1989)
• Digital Freedom Net (Writings of Chinese Dissidents)
• Global Petition Campaign for the 10th Anniversary of June 4 Tiananmen
• Inside China Today
• Tibet: Changing and Unchanged (New York Times)
• 1997: Countdown to History (South China Morning Post)
• Hong Kong '97: Lives in Transition (PBS)
• Hong Kong Government Information Centre (official site)
• U.S.-China Summit 1998 (New York Times)
• China Development Briefing (Hong Kong University)
• Korean Central News Agency
  (Democratic People's Republic of Korea/North Korea Official Site)
• Little Korea Newscenter
• Malaysia News
• Statistics on Singapore (Lim-Yeo Pin Pin, National University of Singapore Library)
• Center for World Indigenous Studies
• Far Eastern Economic Review
• Refugee Studies Center (University of Oxford, U.K.)

Last updated on January 16, 2009