Subject: Literature

Contemporary Japan

National Library of China Digital Collections – Ancient books

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.

Darshika: Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities

春山文藝創刊號：歷史在呼嘯

SpringHill Literati Vol. I A Whistle in History: the Origins of Sorrows and Creativity ISBN: 9789869804240

East Asia Digital Library (EADL)

The East Asia Digital Library (EADL) is a portal site focusing on East Asian cultural and scientific resources. The National Library of Korea and the National Diet Library, Japan develop and operate the site collaboratively. The EADL makes primary materials about East Asia available free of charge and in multilingual format. In addition to simple […]

Unofficial poetry journals from China

Leiden University Libraries has made a large number of unofficial poetry journals from China accessible online in this collection with  thousands of pages from an internationally unique collection of unofficial Chinese poetry for teaching, research, and the general public, including literary criticism and polemics. Presentation “Unofficial or “underground” poetry publications—especially journals, but also one-off multiple-author […]

終戰那一天：臺灣戰爭世代的故事

Through nine stories composed of real characters and real plots, this book is divided into three perspectives from the front line, the rear, and the periphery. It tells the life experiences of the generations of Taiwan in the shadow of World War II, and features their physical and mental state and emotional logic. Each story can […]

Fuzoku Gaho

Fuzoku Gahu was the first graphic magazine produced in Japan, and is also known as a major journal source for the research of customs and social mores. The magazine was published from 1889 to 196 contains a total of 518 issues covering content pertaining to social and cultural trends and conditions in the Edo, Meiji […]

Krpia

Full-text databases including reference works and primary sources such as dictionaries, encyclopaedias, and archival material on Korean history, literature, civilization and medicine. Also available via DBpia. Made available with support from Korea Foundation. In Korean. Please note: Access restricted to participating NNC institutions: Universities of Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm and Turku.

National Social Science Database

Database of the China Academy of Social Sciences. Provides free access to CASS’ open access collections containing articles from 1921 – present, 2039 journals and 0ver 9 million articles in full-text. NNC institutions has direct access via the AsiaPortal. Other users may register as individual users for access at http://www.nssd.org. In Chinese.