Search east-asian-history.net

This site contains much information, and the quantity and variety keeps increasing. Therefore, especially if you are looking for something specific, using a search engine may well be the most efficient and complete way to locate relevant material. Probably the easiest way to search the site is by using Google via the box below. Follow all the usual rules and conventions (click here for a complete list of advanced search operators). If the Google box does not produce useful results you might want to try the alternative search engine explained below.

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Alternative Search Engine:

Use the form below to search for documents in this site containing specific words or combinations of words. The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed. A brief explanation of the query language is available below.

Please note that search results will provide you with a list of specific html pages containing the relevant word or term. One "page," however, is sometimes the main text of an entire chapter and therefore very long. In such cases, one more search is needed. After you get to the relevant page by clicking on the link provided in these search results, press Ctrl+F to find the specific word or term within that page using your browser's "find" function.

Also be aware that main textbook pages accessed via this search will appear without the top and side frames. If you want these frames to appear, go to the URL in the box at the top of your browser and remove "_main" part so that the resulting text is "ChX.htm" and hit return.

Important: Use your browser's BACK button after completing a search, prior to submitting another one.

Query Language:

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

information retrieval

finds documents containing 'information' or 'retrieval'

information or retrieval

same as above

information and retrieval

finds documents containing both 'information' and 'retrieval'

information not retrieval

finds documents containing 'information' but not 'retrieval'

(information not retrieval) and WAIS

finds documents containing 'WAIS', plus 'information' but not 'retrieval'

web*

finds documents containing words starting with 'web'