Subject: History

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China Unoffocial Archives

Database

“A repository of eight decades of efforts by Chinese people to tell their country’s history free from political interference. The archives are a public domain collection of samizdat publications, books, journals, and films.” “Billed as the first independent archive of unofficial citizen histories, 民间历史 in Chinese, China Unofficial Archives (CUA) spans 75 years of samizdat […]

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Reconceptualizing the Cold War – On the ground experiences in Asia

Database

From the website: “Reconceptualizing the Cold War: On-the-ground Experiences in Asia,” which aims to build an online archive of oral history collections concerning the Cold War and decolonization in Asia, with a particular focus on Southeast, East, and South Asia. Based on oral history interviews and archival research across Asia, we aim to capture the […]

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Doing Theory in Southeast Asia

Database

This website from the Chinese University of Hong Kong collates information on resources for Southeast Asian studies, including journals, books and websites for general SEA studies or for individual countries.

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Historical maps of Southeast Asia and Singapore

Database

“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) […]

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Taiwan e-books

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Taiwan E-books is a big collection of open access e-books within a wide range of subjects, and maintained by the National Central Library of Taiwan.It can be browsed/ searched according to subjects and publication year, author, publication place and keywords. In 2015 a nationwide project commenced called Digital Archives Project on Taiwan Historical Collections. University […]

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Complete Collection of the Korean Study of the Confucian Classics

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The Complete Collection of the Korean Study of Confucian Classics (한국경학자료시스템) by the Institute of Eastern Studies at Sungkyunkwan University contains 145 volumes ; Taehak (대학 /大學), Jungyong (중용/ 中庸), Noneo (논어/ 論語), Maengja (맹자/ 孟子), Seokyeong(서경/書經), Sikyeong (시경/詩經), Igyeong (이경/易經), Yegi (예기/ 禮記), and Chunju (춘추/ 春秋). It also contains annotations by Korean Confucian […]

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

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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 […]

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

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“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 […]

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DOAB – Directory of Open Access Books

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DOAB is a discovery service for  peer reviewed open access books and book publishers that indexes and provides access to over 65.000 high quality, open access, peer-reviewed books. TERMS OF USE: All books listed in DOAB are freely accessible and therefore free to read, but this does not mean readers are free to do anything […]

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National Library of China Digital Collections – Ancient books

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The National Library of China  provides free access to the content in the  古籍资源 section of their Digital collections of Ancient books The collection includes 文研汉籍影像库、法藏敦煌遗书、哈佛大学善本特藏、天津图书馆古籍、云南图书馆古籍、上海图书馆家谱、数字古籍、赵城金藏、中华医药典籍、碑帖菁华、敦煌遗珍、甲骨世界、年画撷英、前尘旧影、数字方志、宋人文集、西夏论著、西夏文献、中华古籍善本联合书目、徽州家谱20个资源库. Using Chrome browser is recommended.

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