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Provides detailed instructions on citing materials in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Provides examples of citing different types of sources in CJK, such as books, journal articles, articles in encyclopedias, Web sites, materials on CD-ROM, and course lecture.
This web site contains the online versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army. For each country, there is general information in "country profile", followed by in-depth information on history, society, economy, government and politics, etc.
An authorized, regularly updated resource for general information about countries, include geography, people, government, economy, communication, etc.
Provides background notes for each country, information about its government and links to entities in the World Fact book and Country Studies.
Compiled by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, this site includes statistical information on all countries. Search by country, topic, department, or a combination of these. Covers economic and social issues from macroeconomic, to trade, education, development and science and innovation.
A dictionary database of CJK characters and compounds related to East Asian cultural, political and intellectual history. Maintained by Charles Muller of Toyo Gakuen University. When prompted for ID and password, enter "guest" as ID and no password.
This Web site can be searched in English as well as pinyin. Click on character(s) to display definition, etymology, and expressions.
This dictionary can be looked up in four different ways: English, Pinyin, Cantonese, and Radical/Stroke.
"The dictionary comprises a total of 8,169 head characters, together with 44,407 explanatory entries of grammatical usage and 40,379 entries of Chinese words or phrases."
This page provides a collection of annotated links to online Japanese dictionaries.
A compilation of Buddhist terms, texts, temples, schools, persons, found in East Asian Buddhist canonical sources. Updated on user contributions. Maintained by Charles Muller of Toyo Gakuen University.
A collection of more than 300 on-line general and specialty dictionaries, covers all areas of Asia.
Coverage and frequency: 1971-, new records added quarterly. Contains more than 420,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. Most scholarly journals that focus on Asia are examined and exhaustively indexed on an issue-by-issue basis.
A free citation index to articles in East Asian Studies published in Japanese, Chinese and a number of European languages. Search by title and author.
Coverage and frequency: 1982, updated three times a year. Covers history of the world except for the United States and Canada from 1450 to the present. Includes all branches of history: political, diplomatic, military, economic, social, cultural, religious and intellectual history, etc.
Coverage and frequency: 1963-, quarterly updated. Produced by the Modern Language Association and consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. It draws on scholarly research in over 3,000 journals and series, covering relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.
Coverage and frequency: 1972 to the present, updated monthly. a bibliographic index with abstracts covering the full range of international political, social, and public policy issues. Covers selected journal articles, books, statistics, yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, reports, government documents, etc. More that 1,600 journals and over 8,000 monographs are indexed each year.
Coverage: 1975 to the present. Provides citation information for articles, essays and reviews in over 1,000 literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada. All journals are indexed in their entirety, ranging from original creative works including poems and fiction, to photographs, paintings, and illustrations.
Coverage and frequency: 1983 to the present, updated monthly. International, English-language periodicals in sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science, and law.
Coverage and frequency: 1951 to the present, updated quarterly. Core disciplines covered are anthropology, economics, political science and sociology, with additional coverage in other social science fields. Indexes both core and specialized journals (2,600) and books in the social sciences. Thirty percent of the records are in languages other than English.
Coverage and frequency: 1991 to present, updated monthly. Provides the full-text of working papers, occasional papers, conference proceedings, etc., produced by prominent research organizations in the field of international affairs. It also includes the table of contents of major international affairs journals.
Coverage: Mid-1980's to present, updated monthly. Covers the African American, Arab American, Asian American, Native American, European and Eastern European, Jewish, and Hispanic, Chicano and Latino point of view.
A global collaborative project located at the Australian National University, which provides access to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies. Full text and bibliographic information.
Provides Web resources on China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma, Cambodia, Phillippines, Malaysia, Laos, Singapore, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal.
"PAIR offers scholars, students and the interested public more than six thousand professionally selected, cataloged and annotated online resources."
An affiliate organization of AAS. The website has links to research guides on East Asian area studies in general and on Chinese, Japanese and Korean area studies. There is also an East Asian Studies Librarian Virtual Reference Desk.
Maintained by Robert Y. Eng of the University of Redlands, this site contains an annotated list of Internet resources on East and Southeast Asian regions with particular emphasis on political, cultural, and historical aspects.
Part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library, this site includes links to virtual libraries on China, Japan, Korea and other East Asian countries.
Provides print and electronic collections on China studies.
Provides access to various library catalogs, including Joint Catalog Database of Rare Chinese Books.
Provides links to a wide range of resources pertaining to China .
Gateway to Japanese government information on the Web.
Links to resources on North Korea.
Links to resources on South Korea.
Founded in 1941, this largest scholarly, non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia. It seeks through publications, meetings, and seminars to facilitate contact and an exchange of information among scholars to increase their understanding of East, South, and Southeast Asia. It publishes the Journal of Asian Studies (formerly Far Eastern Quarterly).
Encourage basic research in Asian languages and literatures and is open to interested in all aspects of Asia, including philology, literary criticism, textual criticism, paleography, epigraphy, linguistics, biography, archaeology, and the history of the intellectual and imaginative aspects of Oriental civilizations, especially of philosophy, religion, folklore and art. Publishes The Journal of the American Oriental Society.
The professional organization for research and teaching about Asia in Australia. The website contains information about conferences, publications, events, electronic research tools. There is a valuable link to Australian Dissertations on Asia.
It is the Pacific Region Body of AAS. Contains conference papers, which can be searched by author, region, and subject.
A postdoctoral research centre based in Leiden and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its main objective is to encourage the study of Asia and to promote national and international cooperation in this field. Covers all areas of Asia and focuses on the humanities and the social sciences. Contains quick links to other Asian-related institutes and organizations, program and conference information and full-text archive of the IIAS newsletter.
NBR is a non-partisan institution that conducts research on policy issues related to Asia. Full text of many reports are available on the website. The site map is useful for identifying NBR publications. Maintains research programs on security concerns, economic growth, governance questions, politics, international relations, and U.S. interests in Northeast Asia, Eurasia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the Asia Pacific regionally.
"Constantly updated news and information about China provided by EIN News."
The online newspaper covers "China, business, world, science, education, sports news and commentaries."
Provides links to newspapers and other local, regional, and national news sources.
This site "provides âJapan Brief,â a handy report which gives up-to-the-minute background information reflected in the editorials of major Japanese newspapers, in plain and concise form, on news items on the Japanese economy, politics, diplomatic activities, society, business, culture, and other matters of topical interest."
"A well respected source with online news summaries."
"Daily news and features on Japan from the most widely read English-language newspaper in Japan."
"A comprehensive database of Korean news articles from 2001, operated by the Korea Press Foundation"