Select Links for the Study of East Asian History

This page contains links to only a small fraction of the material out there, with the emphasis here being on quality, accuracy, and usefulness for academic research. After visiting a link, some creative modification of the URL or clicking on that page's links can usually reveal additional useful pages or sites.  Web sites move around and links go dead, but  it is often possible to locate a site even when the link does not work. If any of the links below are dead, use the exact wording I have provided, enclose the words in quotation marks, and use the search box below, which will open a new browser window or tab. If that does not work, try removing the quotation marks.

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Web-Based Textbooks and Source Books

• Internet History Source Book Project

  • Internet East Asian History Sourcebook

• Japanese Text Initiative, University of Virginia

East Asian History Source and Resource Collections

• Asian History Sources, University of Washington

• East Asia: General History. Ohio State University

  • Modern Era

• East Asia WWW Virtual Library

• Art, History, Architecture

  • Asian Historical Architecture

  • Chinese and Japanese Art History WWW Virtual Library

• Useful Links for East Asian History

• East Asia, Duke University Libraries

  • Japanese Studies Resources, Duke University Libraries

  • WWW Sites for Japanese History

  • Chinese Studies Resources, Duke University Libraries

• Asian History, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

• China-Related Web Sites

• Internet Public Library. Asian History

• K-14 East Asian Studies Sites

• Yale Resources for East Asian Studies

• Asian Studies Resources, Bates College

• East Asian Area and Cultural Studies, UNC Chapel Hill

• Coins and the History of Asia (scroll down for E. Asia)

• Asian History and Studies, Tennessee Tech University

• History of Japan: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources

• Fairbank Chinese History Library

• Internet Guide for Chinese Studies

• Stanford Guide to Japan Information Sources

• Facts About Japan

Organizations

• Japan Focus

• Japan Policy Research Institute

• H-Net (Discussion Groups)

• Association for Asian Studies

Academic Journals (in English; accessible through the web)

• JSTOR (journals browser--excellent resource)

  • Asian Folklore Studies

  • Asian Survey

  • Asian Theatre Journal

  • Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London

  • The China Journal

  • The China Quarterly

  • Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR)

  • Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

  • Journal of Asian Studies

  • Journal of Japanese Studies

  • Journal of the American Oriental Society

  • Modern Asian Studies

  • Modern China

  • Monumenta Nipponica

  • Pacific Affairs

  • And others: search the entire archive

• MUSE (journals browser--excellent resource)

  • Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique

  • Asian Perspectives

  • Asian Theatre Journal

  • China: An International Journal

  • China Review International (book reviews)

  • Journal of Japanese Studies

  • Late Imperial China

  • Philosophy East and West

  • And many others: search the entire archive

• Japanese Journal of Religious Studies

• Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies

• PSU Electronic Articles for Asian Studies

• The Early Modern Japan Network (includes journal)

• East Asian History

Ryukyu/Okinawa

Go to the Ryukyu/Okinawa Links Page by clicking here.

Home Pages and Web Sites of Faculty and Other Researchers (with a significant web presence)

• Atwill, David G

• Levine, Marilyn A.

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