Subject: Social sciences

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Pubscholar

Database

Pubscholar is a free platform for academic papers, journal articles, dissertations and papent documents established by the National Science Library of The China Academy of Sciences. The platform holds approx. 170 million searchable resources, including around 80 million free full-text documents, a large part from CAS own publications, so mainly within natural sciences and science […]

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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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Taiwan e-books

E-book

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

E-book

“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

E-book

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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J-STAGE

journal

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 […]

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Chinese Women’s Magazines in the late Qing and early Republican period

journal

The WoMag database contains records about (almost) all articles, images, and advertisements of four important women’s magazines, namely _ Nüzi shijie_ (Women’s World, 1904-07), Funü shibao (The Women’s Eastern Times, 1911-17), Funü zazhi (The Ladies’ Journal, 1915-31), and Linglong (Elegance, 1931-37). All magazines can be browsed chronologically, by year/volume, month, and issue down to the […]

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