LibGuides: History Primary Resources: Asia

Asia

America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
History journals and articles relating to the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to present.
Diversity Studies Collection This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and other types of articles relating to cultural differences and diversity.
Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Documentary and educational videos relating to human culture and behavior.
Harpweek - The Civil War Era: 1857-1865 This link opens in a new window
Full-text and images from Harper's Weekly for the Civil War period, 1857-1865
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Abstracts and full-text scholarly and other types of articles relating to world history (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and other types of articles covering many areas of study. Also includes images previously available in ARTstor.
Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and other types of articles relating to military and government.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
MLA citations from articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, and other scholarly sources. Primarily contains abstract-only content.
Project MUSE - Standard Collection This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and other types of articles relating to the humanities and social sciences.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Scholarly and other types of articles relating to the social sciences.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Authoritative database for scholarly sociology articles..
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000 This link opens in a new window
Primary sources and interpretive documents related to women's history in the United States

Asia for Educators, Columbia University
An initiative from Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. Primary Sources with DBQs from China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam & South East Asia.
Chinese Maritime Customs
109 titles from the Chinese Maritime Customs collection at the Harvard-Yenching Library, including statistics and descriptive reports, dating from late Qing through early twentieth century.
East Asian History Sourcebook
This is part of the Fordham University Sourcebook series. It contains primary sources from many different East Asian cultures and time periods.
Internet Ancient History Sourcebook
This site is part of the Fordham University Sourcebook series. It provides primary sources from across the Ancient world.
Internet Indian History Sourcebook
This site is part of the Fordham University Sourcebook series. It contains primary sources from a variety of time periods in South Asian history.
Internet Islamic History Sourcebook
This site is part of the Fordham University Sourcebook series. It contains primary sources from across the Islamic world, but includes some sources from Islamic Africa.
Internet Jewish History Sourcebook
This site is part of the Fordham University Sourcebook series. It contains primary sources from throughout Jewish history, focusing primarily on Europe and Asia.
Islam & Eurasia: Bridging the Information Divide
This project consists of ten digitized English language travel accounts by persons who journeyed through Muslim regions of the Russian Empire. The earliest of these accounts is that of American George Ditson who traveled through the Caucasus in 1847 and the latest of the selected texts is that of Stephen Graham who traveled through Russian Central Asia on the eve of World War I. Also included is the turn of the century account of British traveler Annette M.B. Meakin about her journey to Turkestan.
Islamic Heritage Project
A digital collection of Islamic manuscripts, published texts, and maps from across Harvard's libraries and museums.
Japanese Legal Scrolls: Komonjo (1158-1591)
The Japanese Manuscript Digital Collection comprises a set of twenty-two medieval legal manuscripts and annotated facsimiles in scroll form called komonjo. Komonjo—literally “old documents”—are remnants of day-to-day legal transactions. These documents frequently focus on land and property issues, though they can also represent edicts and judicial rulings. Part of a large donation presented to the Harvard Law Library in 1936, around the time of the University’s 300th anniversary, these komonjo represent one of the finest collections of their type outside Japan.
Joseph Berry Keenan Papers
Manuscript materials and photographs that offer researchers invaluable insight into the Japanese War Crimes Trial – one of the most important trials of the 20th century. The Papers consist primarily of correspondence written during Keenan's work as Chief Counsel in the International Prosecution Section. Most of the correspondence relates directly to the trial. The Visual Materials Collection spans the years of 1945-1947 and includes photographs of Keenan, military ceremonies and figures in Japan, Japanese people and scenery, and aerial views of the Japanese landscape following the atomic bomb drops of 1945.
Mao Zedong
Biography; All Works by Date; Selected Works by Volume; Works on PDF; Poetry;
Images.
National Archives of Japan

Death Throes of a Dynasty by E. G. Ruoff (Editor)
Call Number: BV3427.E89 A4 1990
ISBN: 9780873384148
Publication Date: 1990-11-01
Life in a Kam Village in Southwest China, 1930-1949 by Chaoquan Ou; D. Norman Geary (Translator); Barend J. ter Haar (Series edited by)
Call Number: Ebook
ISBN: 9789004162297
Publication Date: 2007-10-15
English translation of unpublished Chinese manuscript; hence no Chinese uniform title.
Voices of Tinanmen Square by Mok Chiu Yu (Editor)
Call Number: DS779.32 .V65 1990
ISBN: 0921689586
Publication Date: 1990-03-01

The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection is a general collection of more than 250,000 maps covering all areas of the world.
EDMaps
Includes historical maps of China throughout different dynasties.
Harvard WorldMap