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Historical maps of Southeast Asia and Singapore

“On August 30, the online platform Historical Maps of Southeast Asia was launched. The platform provides access to over 1,400 digitised maps of Southeast Asia from the collections of the National Library Board Singapore (307 maps), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library – Yale University (150 maps), Bodleian Libraries – University of Oxford (387 maps) […]

National Population Census of China

National population censuses are performed in China every ten years by the National Bureau of Statistics and the resulting data from national and regional levels represents a rich bank of social data. The last population census (NPCC) was the 7th national population census  from 2020 and this new website for the NPCC now contains the […]

E-books from ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute

ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute is a leading research centre dedicated to the study of socio-political, security, and economic trends and developments in Southeast Asia and its wider geostrategic and economic environment. ISEAS Publishing disseminates important research and analyses from and about Southeast Asia to the rest of the world and is the largest publisher […]

Chinese-English Dictionary of Ming Government Official Titles 明代職官中英辭典

This bilingual dictionary is developed through a crowd-translation project that was funded by CEAL- The Council of East Asian Libraries and Mellon Foundation. This is the first edition. The project team encourages scholars to use it and to send them their revision suggestions, if any. they will update the dictionary based upon your suggestions. Note […]

Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context

“Transcultural Research ­– Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context presents peer-reviewed books by members of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: The Dynamics of Transculturality” as well as scholars from historical and empirical disciplines who are working on emerging fields that cross disciplinary boundaries. The book […]

Decoding China dictionary

What does Xi Jinping mean when he talks about the rule of law? How does the Chinese leadership define multilateralism? Did you know that China’s Socialist Core Values include democracy and freedom? What is Document No. 9 and why does it reject universal values? And what is meant by “a community of shared future for mankind”? The Decoding China Dictionary seeks to answer these questions and to serve as a guide to […]

J-STAGE

The Japan Science and Technology Information Aggregator, Electronic (J-STAGE), is a system developed by the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) with the aim to assist academic societies create and publish electronic journals. Despite the title it also includes journals with social sciences and humanities, partly freely available in fulltext. Content types include Journals Proceedings […]

Colonial Journals of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT)

This digital collection consists of ninety serials and journals related to the colonial enterprise in the Dutch East and West Indies. The publications are mainly in Dutch and cover the period of the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. They pertain to the cultivation of tropical products such […]

Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies

Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies