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Selected Resources for: Asian Languages and Literatures
 | Subject Librarian: David Faust E-Mail: faust011@umn.edu This subject covers: the languages and literatures of the countries of Asia |
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Article Databases and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
Academic Search Premier    This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for over 4,600 scholarly (peer-reviewed) publications back to 1975. [ more information ][  Add To myLibrary!] |
| Asia-Studies Full-Text Main Service Asian-Pacific Social Sciences, Economic Development, Business and Industries, International Relations, Politics
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| Bibliography of Asian Studies References principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971 - broad, but not comprehensive.
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| China Academic Journals Full-Text 中国学术期刊网 Chinese Academic Journal Database (CAJ) contains 2424 titles of journals in History/Literature/Philosophy and Education & Social Sciences since 1994.
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| China National Knowledge Infrastructure Databases (CNKI) 中国知网 CNKI comprises four databases including Chinese Academic Journals Database (CAJ), China Core Newspaper Database (CCND), China Dissertations (CDMD), and China Conference Proceedings (CPCD). Searching is freely available online. The China Academic Journals (CAJ) Database puts over 9.5 million full text articles of all academic subjects contributed by over 5,000 serials titles, nearly 2,000 in social sciences and humanities alone, at the fingertips of users. The archive begins with 1994. With an archive beginning in 2000, the China Core Newspaper Database collects full text articles from hundreds of newspapers from every province of China. CDMD compiles full text masters and doctoral dissertations on all subjects from over 250 Chinese universities, colleges and institutes. These include the 211 Project universities selected by the Chinese government to receive special funding to support advanced research in crucial subjects. The China Conference Proceedings Database collects documents and articles from the conferences of over 340 national and international societies and associations holding conferences in China. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| e-Korean Studies The database covers academic disciplines including arts and humanities, social sciences, sciences, medical sciences, physical education from various source including monographs, periodicals, newspapers, dissertations, reports, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and video lectures. It also includes North Korean academic journals.
Note- Please use Internet Explorer when browsing this site. Many Korean sites do not support Firefox.
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| GeNii Scholarly and Academic Information Portal (Japan National Institute of Information) [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Hong Kong Chinese Periodical Index 香港中文期刊論文索引 Index to articles published on over 300 Chinese and English journals since 1980
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| Hong Kong Journals Online Hong Kong Journals Online (HKJO) is a full-text image database providing access to selected academic and professional journals, both in English and Chinese, published in Hong Kong. Titles included cover a wide range of disciplines including law, medicine and education, dates vary from journal to journal with the earliest going back to 1872.
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| Index Islamicus (online) Index Islamicus indexes worldwide literature in European languages on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Periodicals devoted solely to the fields of Islam are indexed completely. Other journals are indexed only for articles on Islamic subjects.
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| JSTOR Full text of academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication. Note: It does NOT include the most recent 2 to 5 years.
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| MLA International Bibliography The MLA International Bibliography is a classified listing and subject index of scholarly books and articles on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics which has been compiled by the Modern Language Association of America since 1926.
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| Project Muse Index to full-text collection of journals in literary theory, classics, history and cultural studies, philosophy, film, theater and performing arts, political science, and mathematics. From Johns Hopkins University Press.
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| South and Southeast Asian Literature In English This is a machine-readable full-text database with SGML coding which contains approximately 100,000 pages of the writings from 1825 to the present, written by authors from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Fiji, including fiction, short fiction, poems, interviews, and manuscript materials.
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| Taiwan Chinese Journal Index 中文期刊篇目索引 (臺灣中央圖書館） Index to articles published on over 4000 Chinese journals since 2000
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General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| Guide to Indian Periodical Literature If you can't find something online, all is not lost! Come to the Ames Library and look at this excellent index to Indian journals.
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| MasterFile Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. MasterFILE Premier, designed specifically for public libraries, provides full text for more than 2,000 general periodicals covering a broad range of disciplines including general reference, business, education, health, general science, multi-cultural issues and much more. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for 2700 titles. This database features: 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 357 reference and travel books including the World Almanac & Book of Facts 2001; full text from 84,074 biographies, 86,132 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. MasterFILE Premier offers PDF backfiles as far back as 1975. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
Atlases & Maps
| Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin hosts this well-organized directory of maps (worldwide coverage) directly viewable on the web as .jpeg files. Most are reference maps produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, and therefore carry no copyright. Privately produced maps are made available via links. Note that many of the images are too large to be printed on letter-sized paper.
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| UC Atlas of Global Inequality The mission of the UC Atlas of Inequality is to provide online teaching resources and tools to enable student exploration of global change. Aspects of 21st Century global integration and inequality present great challenges to university teaching. The UC Atlas of Global Inequality attempts to address these challenges using the Internet, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and new graphical capabilities of digital media to enhance learning in Geography, Sociology, Economics, Health, Technology and Environmental Studies. The Atlas integrates data, maps, and graphs to create an interactive website for accessing and analyzing information addressing global change and inequality.
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Biographical Sources
| Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa Illuminates the lives of the most influential and controversial figures in the Middle East and North Africa who came to prominence during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Includes profiles of contemporary leaders who belong to various political, ethnic, and religious groups, as well as notable individuals associated with business, law, science, social issues, sports, entertainment, literature, and the fine and performing arts.
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Country Studies
| Background Notes Issued by the US Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, these electronically accessible publications include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states and other territories. The Background Notes are updated and/or revised as they are received from the Department's regional bureaus and are added to the database of this Department of State website. Paper copies of earlier editions are available in the Government Publications Library in Wilson. [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| CIA World Factbook Provides a standard set of facts for all countries of the world.
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| Europa World Online Europa World is the online version of the Europa World Year Book, the indispensable source of information on world-wide affairs. First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
--The print version of the Europa World Handbook is available at: TC Wilson Lib Quarto JN1 .E85 --Latest edition is in Wilson Reference [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Library of Congress Country Studies The Library of Congress Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world. The series examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.
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Encyclopedias
| Encyclopedia of contemporary Chinese culture Nearly 1,200 articles on architecture, education, ethnic identity, food and drink, language, performing arts, political culture, religion, sports, and more. Geographical focuses on People's Republic of China while still including "long entries on aspects of the culture of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore" and shorter ones on native Chinese cultural producers who now live abroad.
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| Encyclopedia of India online A four-volume survey of the history, cultures, geography and religions of India from ancient times to the present day. Includes more than 600 entries, arranged alphabetically. For students and general readers.
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| JapanKnowledge Plus The database connects you to multiple resources including Japanese and English language dictionaries for modern and classical terms, historic chronology, general encyclopedias, news, Japanese names and biographies, business quarterly reports, law dictionaries, and multimedia. Searches can be done in English or Japanese with results in either language depending on what resources were searched. Advanced and multiple term searches are available.
-Keywords: search encyclopedias/dictionaries collectively with “onelook” option or search by pen name, derivative, title, index, or full text
-Display: tile of article in English and Japanese, source, excerpt, and option to read more
-False hits: will not provide accurate results if words are misspelled or suggest corrections, to narrow hits use feature to link terms together or choose which resources should be searched
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Internet Resources
Electronic Books
| ChinaMaxx 超星中文电子书 ChinaMaxx contains over 710,000 full-text Chinese e-books from cover to cover on wide range of subject areas. Selected titles also can be found in MNCAT. For accessing the e-books, please follow the brief instructions contained in the login page. ChinaMaxx only works with the Internet Explorer browser. Firefox and Safari are not supported. You will need to install a plug-in to view e-books.
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| Scripta Sinica 漢籍電子文獻資料庫 (中央研究院 歷史語言研究所) "Han ji dian zi wen xian zi liao ku" developed and maintained by the Academia Sinica since 2000. This database contains over 441 Chinese classic titles such as 《明史》、《明實錄》、《明經世文編》、《清史稿》、《清朝文獻通考》、《清朝續文獻通考》、《清實錄》等。
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| Siku Quanshu 四庫全書 Please note: This resource requires the download and installation of a proprietary browser, found at the provided URL. Using a different web browser, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox, is not possible since the database contains archaic Chinese characters not included in the current Unicode standard.
Once the client program is installed, users can open the program on their pc, select IP Login, and gain access to the database. The Installation Guide contains very important information regarding the technical requirements for user's pc, expecially required language packages.
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Electronic Texts
| KA Arabic e-Library A wide range of Arabic content ranging from contemporary novels to national heritage scientific treatises. If you are having trouble with the Arabic font, visit the company's help page to find how to install the font on your computer.
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Gateways & Megasites
| Digital Himalaya project A project to develop digital collection, storage and distribution strategies for multimedia anthropological information from the Himalayan region -- collections include
* Census of Nepal 2001
* Fürer-Haimendorf Film Collection
* Films
* Journals
* Maps
* Music
* Naga Videodisc
* Rare Books & Manuscripts
* Thak Archive
* Thangmi Archive
* Williamson Collection
* Wutu Collection
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| Digital South Asia Library " The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users. This project builds upon a two-year pilot project funded by the Association of Research Libraries' Global Resources Program with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Participants in the Digital South Asia Library include leading U.S. universities, the Center for Research Libraries, the South Asia Microform Project, the Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, the Association for Asian Studies, the Library of Congress, the Asia Society, the British Library, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, MOZHI in India, the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in India, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya in Nepal, and other institutions in South Asia."
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| East Asia WWW Virtual Library Provides WWW links to information on the following countries and regions: China, East Asia, Eastern Turkistan, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, Russian Far East, Siberia, South China Sea, South Korea, Taiwan and Tibet.
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| Human Languages Page The Human-Languages Page is a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. The over 1900 links in the HLP database have been hand-reviewed. Includes online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, language schools, and basic information on all languages.
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Web Sites
Multimedia Materials
Audio Resources
| Learning Japanese Online Learning Japanese Online (LJO) is designed to provide self-studying tools for Japanese language learners. With generous support from ALC Inc, the website was created with materials of Nihongo Journal, a monthly magazine for Japanese learners.
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Image Resources
| Discovering Chinese Culture through Arts The project digitizes and catalogs 1,260 Chinese art objects selected by the renowned ceramic scholars Harry Garrner and Margaret Medley from 75 museums around the world found in Chinese Art in Three-Dimensional Colour(donated by Mr. Jonathan R. Gross to the East Asian Library)
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| Photographs of pre-1949 China in the YMCA Archives The project digitized and cataloged 717 black and white photos took by YMCA employees in China filed between 1896 and 1949.
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| Propaganda through Popular Media: Film, Photograph, Poster, and Slide from China, Japan and Korea COMING SOON--The project aggregates a group of visual materials including film, photograph, poster, and slides, centered on the theme of propaganda and its promotion through popular media from China, Japan and Korea. These unique visual resources can be accessed online for authorized users.
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Videos and Films
| Japanese and Chinese Classic Films: Translation and Subtitling Project [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
Electronic Journal Titles
News Sources
| Kikuzō II Visual: Asahi shinbun onrain kiji dētabēsu = 聞蔵IIビジュアル: 朝日新聞オンライン記事データべース A newspaper database for Asahi shinbun containing 8 million articles (as of January, 2009) published from 1945 to present. Also includes articles from the weekly magazines Aera and Shūkan Asahi, and from the annual new-word dictionary Chiezō.
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| People's Daily 人民日报 The full-text and full-image database of the Peoples' Daily offers intuitive interface and full-text search and browse functions.
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| PressDisplay Full-page digital archive updated daily with current news from 650 national and international newspapers. PressDisplay is a rolling 90-day archive. Newspapers are color reproductions with photographs with some featuring translation and audio.
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Primary Source Materials
Archival Materials
| Grand Secretariat Archives 內閣大庫檔案 (中央研究院 歷史語言研究所) There are approximately 310,000 items in the Grand Secretariat Archives at the Institute of History and Philology. These include imperial decrees, edicts, memorials, tribute documents, examination questions, examination papers, rosters of successful examination candidates, documents from the offices of the Grand Secretariat, documents from the offices for book compilation, and old documents from Mukden. Memorials make up the bulk of these documents. The archives contain valuable source materials for institutional, social and economic historians. They record general administrative activities and legal cases, many of which cannot be found in Ch'ing legal compendia.
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Historical Documents
| Japanese Americans in Manzanar: 1942-1945 Manzanar Free Press is a newspaper published by Americans of Japanese descent interned in the Manzanar Relocation Center of Interned Pacific Coast Residents of Japanese Descent between 1942 and 1945.
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Statistics and Data
Data Resources
| China Data Online Current and historical statistics on population and economics at the national, provincial and local level. From the China Data Center at the University of Michigan.
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Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software
| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.).
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| Zotero Free web-based bibliographic citation software developed for Firefox browsers that is useful for organizing your research sources, creating bibliographies and sharing sources with others. Zotero will capture bibliographic information and links to documents found on websites or library databases. See the brief tutorials for Getting Started. or view the library workshop Zotero Basics.
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University of Minnesota
Related U of M Web Sites
| Interlibrary Loan -- Borrow a book or obtain an article from a journal. Use this to borrow items not owned by the libraries.
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| Interlibrary loan & Document Delievery from Japan Please read the guide and make your request at University Library's Illiad system.
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| Request Chinese Academic Journal Articles from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong The free service made available by the East Asian Library at University of Pittsburgh for scholars, students and research individuals.
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Library Information
Primary Subject Location
Wilson Library
Wilson Library houses the main humanities and social sciences collections of the University Libraries.
Campus: West Bank, Minneapolis Campus
Address: 309 19th Ave. S.
Telephone: Reference: 612-626-2227; Circulation: 612-624-3321
Main URL: http://wilson.lib.umn.edu/
Reference URL: http://infopoint.lib.umn.edu/
Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/OMWL/index.html
Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/collections/wilson/hours
Secondary Subject Location(s)
East Asian Library
A research library with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language materials.
Campus: West Bank, Minneapolis Campus
Address: S-75 Wilson Library
Telephone: 612-624-9833
Main URL: http://eastasian.lib.umn.edu/
Reference URL: http://infopoint.lib.umn.edu/
Map URL: http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/OMWL/index.html
Hours URL: http://www.lib.umn.edu/about/collections/eastasian/hours
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