Talbott Huey

Collection Management
Michigan State University Libraries

Asian Studies

MSU Libraries received voluminous materials from South Asia through the Library of Congress acquisition program up to 1987. Since then collecting materials on East Asia has been emphasized. Current acquisitions include all U.S. and British university Press books, most "trade" books, and selected research materials in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Subject or keyword searching in MAGIC will reveal detailed holdings, including journals. For a listing of electronic resources on the subject available through MSU Libraries, see http://er.lib.msu.edu/guides.cfm.

Some useful websites are listed below.

Asia

Digital Asia Library at the University of Wisconsin. Catalog of web resources on modern East, South, and Southeast Asia on a broad range of topics in the social sciences.
Bibliography of Asian Studies. Contains entries covering Western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library. The Australian National University serves as the major electronic repository for research materials on Asian studies; maintains Asian Studies WWW Monitor .
Yale U. Library. Site for current East Asian news links.
Economic history of Eastern Asia. From Leiden University. Contains references to statistical and documentary sources and relevant institutions; includes East Asia and Southeast Asia.
Library of Congress's Asian Reading Room. Provides access to a wide range of materials.
East and Southeast Asia: an annotated directory of Internet resources. Directory of resources on the politics, society, history, and culture of East and Southeast Asia, and on Asian-Americans in North America.
AsiaSource. The Asia Society's site for news digest, annotated links, country profiles, Asia specialists, glossary, special reports, calendar of events, etc.
Asia Resources on the Worldwide Web from the Association for Asian Studies. This extensive list of online resources has been compiled since July 1996 by Raymond Lum, for publication in the ASIAN STUDIES NEWSLETTER.
Rudolph Library at UCLA offers links to major East Asian libraries worldwide.
Asian demographics.
Council on East Asian Libraries.
Harvard-Yenching Library.Resources of the largest university library for East Asian research in the Western world.
U.S. Department of Defense Country Study Series. Basic info on Asian and other nations.
U. of Kansas East Asian Studies bibliographies. Bibliographies on Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, East Asian Studies, Asian-American Studies.

China
Heidelberg U.Internet Guide for China Studies. WWW Virtual Library site. Access to annotated links on dozens of China subjects. to history sources on the Peoples Republic, Republican China, and the Qing dynasty. has links to many information sources.
Zinnia. Bibliography of China sources, dictionaries, publisher addresses, calligraphy, economics, Hong Kong, etc. and culture.
U. of Virginia Chinese Text Initiative. Full text of Chinese literature pieces, including 300 Tang poems, Shi Jing, Hong Lou Meng, literature in translation.
Beijing Scene. Online "lifestyle" news magazine in Chinese and English.
The World of Chinese Magazines. A comprehensive Chinese periodical directory site , listing close to 200 Chinese language magazines and links to several major Chinese news network sites.
Inside China Today Current news and features in English. A HREF="http://deall.ohio-state.edu/denton.2/biblio.htm"> Modern Chinese Literature and Film Bibliography. Published in connection with Ohio State U. journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture.
Chinese University of Hong Kong Databank for Chinese Studies. Collects computerized social science data for the PRC and makes datasets available to the academic community.
Prof. Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks. Includes traditional Chinese culture and literature, netnews and e-mags, resources on Chinese language and linguistics, Chinese software, audio and video programs, etc.
Tsinghua University, Beijing. Resources of China's leading technical university.
Gateway service center for Chinese academic journal publications. Provides free delivery of full-text copies of Chinese-language academic journal articles to any researcher in the United States; focus on journals not available in US collections.
China Data Center, University of Michigan. Integrates historical, sociological and natural science data in a geographic information system, to facilitate comparative and interdisciplinary uses.
Chinese Language News and Magazines. From MIT Libraries.
Internet Guide for China Studies at Kiel University.

Japan
Japan's National Diet Library. Access to the national library catalog in English and Japanese.
University of Pittsburgh's Japan Information Center. Reference service for information from/about Japan.
Asahi. Current news in English and Japanese from Asahi Shimbun.
Library of Congress Japan Documentation Center. Specializes in Japanese public policy information, providing current source materials in economics, commerce and industry, law, politics, the environment, and social conditions.
Japanese Studies resources at Duke U. Encyclopedias, bibliographies, publisher and library catalogs, periodical and newspaper indexes, dictionaries, yearbooks, links.
Japan Information Access Project.
Harvard's Reischauer Institute. Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan, global Japan Studies events calendar,grants, etc.
Social Science Japan Journal

Korea
Korea Web Weekly. Current issues/hot links, newspaper article reprints, links to Korean media, press releases, Asian-Americans; other links and search engine.
U. of Hawaii Internet Resources on Korea. Bibliographies, library catalogs, dictionaries and encyclopedias, handbooks,journals & magazines, news, architecture, arts & culture, business & economics, film, government, history, Korean Studies, Korean war, language, laws, libraries, literature, medicine, music, North Korea/unification, publications, statistics, etc.
Harvard Korean Studies Bibliography.
Korea Net. English information on Korea.
Yuldo Korean Studies Site. Robert Fouser's site for information on literature, language, popular culture, art and architecture, plus links to comprehensive sites on Korean studies.
Working papers of the Korea Development Institute's School of Public Policy and Management.

South Asia
Columbia South Asia Resource Access on the Internet. Libraries, reference tools, bibliographic resources; electronic journals and newspapers; international directory of South Asian scholars; resources by country and organization.
Webhead India WWW Virtual Library. Links, Indian states with web pages, cities and districts of India with web pages, newsgroups and mailing lists, Internet service providers in India.
South Asia Internet Resources at UC Berkeley.
U. of Chicago's Digital South Asia Library.
Indian publications from DK Agencies. Book dealers in New Delhi.
U. of Wisconsin-Madison Library guide.
Government of India Press Information Bureau: general information.

Southeast Asia
Leiden U., Southeast asian Studies WWW Virtual Library. Resources and information by country.
U. of Wisconsin SEAiT project. Images and texts digital archive.
ASEAN Focus. News and information on ASEAN business opportunities and economic trends in Southeast Asia.
General Resources on Southeast Asia. Resources, centers, web directory, search engines.
Royal Thai Government site.
--and, of course, many, many more....

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