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Selected Reference Sources--China
Title Location
(Reference Collection unless otherwise specified)
American studies in China : a directory E156 .Y8 1993
Atlas of China Atlas Stand G2305 .A8 1990
Beijing walks DS795 .C587 1992
The Cambridge handbook of contemporary China DS706 .M24 1990
China (Insight Guide) DS705 .C44 2002
China facts & figures annual DS779.15 .C48
China human development report HC427.92 .C4287 1999
Dictionary of the politics of the People's Republic of China DS777.75 .D53 1998
Encyclopedia of Chinese film PN1993.5.C4 Z53 1998
The encyclopedia of the Chinese overseas DS732 .E53 1999
An ethnohistorical dictionary of China DS730 .O47 1998
Historical dictionary of revolutionary China, 1839-1976 DS740.2 .H57 1992
Historical dictionary of Taiwan (Republic of China) DS798.96 .C67 2000
Historical dictionary of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1997 DS777.2 .S85 1997
Historical dictionary of the Mongol world empire
DS19 .B84 2003
Modern China : an encyclopedia of history, culture, and nationalism JC311 .M54 1998
The territories of the People's Republic of China DS777.55 .T47 2002


Selected Reference Sources--India
Title Location
(Reference Collection unless otherwise specified)  
Dictionary of the modern politics of South-East Asia DS525.7 .L45 1995
The biographical dictionary of greater India DS434 .B56 1998
Dictionary of Hindu Lore and Legend BL 1105.D35 2002
East India human development report HC435.2 .E2145 2004
Encyclopaedia of India DS405 .E53 1992
Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema PN1993.5.I8 R34 1994
Handbook of Hindu Mythology BL1111.4.W55 2003
Historical dictionary of India
DS405 .M27 1996
The scheduled castes DS422.C3 S56 1993
The territories of India DS445 .T47 2002
Tirtha, the treasury of Indian expressions DS423 .T54 1992


Selected Reference Sources--Japan
Title Location
(Reference Collection unless otherwise specified)  
The Cambridge encyclopedia of Japan DS805 .C36 1993
Japan economic almanac HC461 .J29 1997
Contemporary Japanese film PN1993.5.J3 S37 1999
Encyclopedia of contemporary Japanese culture DS822.5 .E516 2002
Japan DS805.2 .B46 2003
Japan : an illustrated encyclopedia DS805 .J263 1993
The Japan handbook HC462.9 .J3195 1998
The MIT encyclopedia of the Japanese economy HC462.9 .H73 1999
Japan statistical yearbook HA1832 .J36
OECD economic surveys. Japan HC461.A1 O7
Tokyo DS896.35 .T64 1996


Selected Reference Sources--Asia (General and Other)
Title Location
(Reference Collection unless otherwise specified) 
Historical dictionary of Pakistan Reference Coll: DS382 .B87 1991
Asia yearbook HC411 .F19
The Cambridge guide to Asian theatre PN2860 .C35 1993
A dictionary of Asian mythology BL1005 .L46 2001
A dictionary of Asian Christianity BR1065 .D52 2001
Dictionary of the modern politics of South-East Asia DS525.7 .L45 1995
Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia HC244.A1 E293
Economic and social survey of Asia and the Pacific HC411.U4 A23
Encyclopedia of Asian philosophy B121 .E53 2001
Encyclopedia of ancient Asian civilizations DS12 .H5 2004
Encyclopedia of modern Asia DS4 .E53 2002
The Far East and Australasia
Regional surveys of the world
DS1 .F3
International historical statistics : Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-2000
HA4675 .M552 2003
Post-colonial literatures in English : Southeast Asia, New Zealand, and the Pacific, 1970-1992 PR9410 .W55 1996
The United States in Asia : a historical dictionary DS33.4.U6 S46 1990
Who's who in Asia and the Pacific nations DU4 .W46 c1999
Who's who in Australasia and the Pacific Nations DU4 .W56 1997


Title Description
Bibliography of Asian Studies Full content of the whole twenty years of the annual printed Bibliography of Asian Studies (from 1971–1991), plus citations for articles from 1992 to the present in more than 100 journals in the field of Asian studies. Contains over 590,000 references to books, journal articles, individually-authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc.
World Political Science Abstracts Indexes journals such as Comparative Connections: A Quarterly E-Journal on East Asian Bilateral Relations, Critical Asian Studies, Asian Survey, The China Quarterly, Contemporary Southeast Asia, and many others.
Humanities Abstracts Indexes core humanities journals including the Journal of Asian History and Journal of Asian Studies.
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier is an interdisciplinary database, covering a broad range of subjects. It contains indexing for 8,172 publications, with full text for nearly 4,700 of those titles.
Asian Survey The only academic journal of its kind produced in the United States, Asian Survey provides a comprehensive retrospective of contemporary international relations within Central, Southeast, and East Asian nations.
AP Multimedia Archive
Contains over 700,000 Associated Press photos, most of which are contemporary images made since late 1995, and grows daily as hundreds of new photos enter the Multimedia Archive from AP's worldwide picture report. Also includes graphics, maps, illustrations and logos prepared by Associated Press graphic artists.
Arts and Humanities Citation Index
Indexes the Journal of Asian Studies, Monumenta Nipponica, Korea Journal, Indian Economic and Social History Review, Late Imperial China, Journal of Pacific History, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Asian Folklore Studies, Contemporary Chinese Thought, and many others
ATLA Religion Database
Indexes Japanese Religions, Journal of Chinese Religions, Journal of Global Buddhism, Journal of Indian Philosophy, Muslim World, Asian Folklore Studies, Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, many other journals and a wealth of book chapters.
Factiva
Indexes hundreds of Asian news sources and magazines. Click the plus sign (+) next to "Source" then in the pull-down menu next to "Select Source Category" select "Publications by Region" then click ASIA (or click the plus sign to narrow the region further).
JSTOR

Contains the full text of all articles a number of Asian Studies journals. For a title list, see here.

New York Times Historical
Searchable full image of every page of the New York Daily Times and New York Times including all advertisements. 1851-2000.


Videos/Multimedia Items
Films in Hindi
Films in Chinese
Films in Japanese
For other films related to Asia, do a keyword or subject search in ALCUIN, then click the SORT/LIMIT button and in the box next to "Material Type" select VIDEO/FILM and click the "Limit/Sort..." button at the bottom of the page. Be patient. This process takes several minutes.


Web Resources
Asian Studies Department Home Page
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Coombsweb
(Asia-Pacific Research and Electronic Publishing from the Australian National University)
Asian Studies Resources
(From the WWW Virtual Library)
Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Asian Development Bank Asian Productivity Organization
Institute for East Asian Studies A Visual sourcebook of Chinese civilization
Central Asian studies worldwide Digital South Asia library
East & southeast Asia: an annotated directory of Internet resources Educational resources on Asia
Kodansha encyclopedia of Japan SAWNET: South Asian Women's NETwork
Southeast Asia web: Southeast Asian studies The Mongols in world history


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