Asian Archives & Resources

Frank Glass (Li Fu-jen) Online Archive

Bibliography, provided by the Marxists Internet Archive (Glass was a prominent Trotskyist who travelled in China as a journalist and who helped to establish the Communist League in China.

Henk Sneevliet Collection

HS represented the Comintern in China in 1921-23 (using the pseudonym Maring). Online archive of documents relating to GMD, CCP, Sun Yat Sen, etc.

China Coast Family History

Links and resources for finding individuals and groups, including information on probate (wills), staff lists of the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, directories and burial lists.

Fordham East Asia Sourcebooks

Translated sources on “cultural origins,” “religious traditions,” “imperial china,” “the western intrusion,” “China's disaster,” “China since World War II,” and “East Asian Genders and Sexualities.”

China Digital Times

Online resources for contemporary China. Includes reporting, news in translation, the Grass Mud Horse lexicon of Chinese net-speak, collated banned and sensitive words, leaked censorship instructions by Chinese authorities, and a collection of translated news-making citizen-authored pieces under Netizen Voices.

Ling Long Women's Magazine

Shanghai, 1931-1937.

Peking Review, 1958-2006

Provided by the Marxists Internet Archive (Chinese propaganda publication published in English for international audiences)

Cambridge Digital Library

Rare Chinese books and artwork.

China Heritage

Blog, journal, and resources on Chinese culture and contemporary events.

China Posters Online

The Chairman Smiles

International Institute of Social History collection, Soviet, Chinese, and Cuban posters.

Four Months of War: Shanghai 1937

Online collection of photos of 1937 conflict in Shanghai by Karl Kengelbacher.

The Giles Pickford Collection

Images of the Boxer Siege of Peking c.1901.

International Centre of Photography

Image collection. Includes covers of the China Pictorial (CCP English language propaganda magazine, 1966-77).

International Mission Photography Archive

China 1974-76 Image Collection

Flickr collection of over 400 images of China from the point of view of Michael Rank. Includes travel to Guangzhou, Tianjin, and Shaoxing.

60 Years of China (Magnum Photos)

Iconic images by Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson from the 1940s-1950s, but also later.

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Centre

Bibliographies of mostly English-language materials on modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film, art, music, and culture, course handbooks, and lists of internet resources.

Chinese Public Health Posters, 1933-1970

Chinese Family Planning Posters, 1950s to Present

Joseph Needham Photographs – Wartime China, 1942-1946

C. 1,000 photographs.

Photography of China

Images and interviews profiling the work of famous and lesser-known photographers working in China from the Qing to the present.

Songs of the Cultural Revolution

Virtual Shanghai

Images, maps, primary sources, secondary materials, bibliographies, etc. Developed by Christian Henriot.

Visualizing China

A collection of images developed by Robert Bickers.

Chinese Literature and Film Links

History of Western Medicine in China Resources Portal

H-PRC

H-PRC History Group’s online discussion forum and blog with mailing list for research.

Marxists Internet Archive: Important Writings in the History and Development of  Chinese Communism, 1853-1981

Includes collections of individual’s works from Li Dazhao to Deng Xiaoping.

United States China Institute: Assignment China

Documentary series on American reporting on China.

Southeast Asian Visions (Cornell University Library)

Online Museum Resources on Asian Art

Digital Archival Sources for Historians of Southeast Asia

List of materials with links to other databases and websites.

Database of 6,500 Korean Photo Picture Postcards (Nichibunken)

South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) - JSTOR

Hong Kong Multimedia Information System

Oral histories and old newspapers.

Hansard LegCo Records

Hong Kong Yearbooks (Post-1997)

Hong Kong Historical Laws and Ordinance

Public Records Office (PRO)

Historical images and digitized records.

Historical Jewish Press

Historical Jewish and Israeli newspapers in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

Archive of the Israeli Left

National Archives of India

Passport Archive Guide to India

National Archives

Japan Center for Asian Historical Records

Includes official documents of the Japanese Cabinet, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Army, and Navy.

Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy (1860s-1950s)

Researching Japan (Hiromi Mizuno)

For students of Japanese history at the University of Minnesota, with links to digital archives.

Visualizing Cultures (MIT)

Collection of images, articles, and teaching resources dealing with East Asian history.

East Asian History Sourcebook (Fordham)

Hundreds of images and translated source documents on East Asian history.

Japanese and Chinese Classics (Waseda University)

Bibliographic information, images, and other materials.

Asia for Educators (Columbia University)

Hundreds of translated source documents relating to the history of East and Southeast Asia.

Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection

East Asia Image Collection Blog

ReEnvisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture

Large collection of visual and written materials.

Old Photos of Japan

A collection of photos from the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa eras.

National Diet Library Digital Collections

Color images of the U.S. Occupation of Japan

Robert V. Mosier collection.

The Meiji and Taisho Eras in Photographs

Ochanomizu Women’s University Digital Archives

Graduation photographs from the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa periods.

Vincent van Gogh's Collection of Japanese Prints

Vincent van Gogh's collection of over 500 Japanese prints.

The Art of the Japanese Postcard

Library of Congress Collection of Japanese Prints

James Davidson Collection of Japanese Photographs

History of Euro-Japanese Cultural Relations

European texts about Japan from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries.

Database Lists at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies

The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: As Seen in Prints and Archives

Qatar Digital Library

The Packard Humanities Institute

Persian Literature in Translation.

A Guide to Resources Available Online in Syriac

Middle East Research and Information Project

Passport Archive Guide to Beirut

National Archives of Korea

National Archives Administration, National Development Council

National Archives of Turkey