History : Asia

A collection of primary source translations on China, Taiwan, Korea, Burma, and Malaysia

A collection of links and documents about east Asian history, especially China and Japan.

Historical images that present a visual archive of 20th century East Asian cultural heritage.

Digitized documents and artifacts from the Cultural Revolution held in the Australian National University Archives.

Primarily European and American images of the island of Taiwan – called "Formosa" by foreign visitors in the nineteenth century – and its various peoples, natural resources, wildlife, and built environment.

Photographs of 100 years of China's history from many private collections.

Information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from the Dunhuang archeological site in Western China

A digital archive of documents about Japanese foreign relations, chiefly from the National Archives of Japan

The official digital archive of the Japanese government

Key documents in Japanese history with English translations

A visually-based curriculum about Japan, developed at MIT.

A digital archive largely obtained from Russian and Chinese sources. (Wilson Center)

13 Korean history databases: National Institute of Korean History (국사편찬위원회), Kyujanggak (규장각), Jongyŏnggak (존경각), Munchŏn’gak (문천각), the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs of the Republic of Korea (국가보훈처), Independence Hall of Korea (독립기념관), Academia Coreana (명지대학교 국제한국학 연구소), Korean Classics Research Institute (민족문화추진회), the Korea Democracy Foundation (민주화운동 기념사업회), the War Memorial of Korea (전쟁기념사업회), the Korean Studies Advancement Center (한국국학진흥원), Korean Women’s Development Institute (한국여성개발원), and the Academy of Korean Studies (한국학중앙연구원). Search by keyword, title, author, summary, and publisher.

A powerful and emotional documentary about Korean women forced into sexual servitude by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. The individual testimonies in Silence broken, combined with unusual archival footage and dramatized images, shatter the half-century of silence and create a collective story filled with soulful sorrow and amazing resilience of the human spirit.

4 million items digitized by Texas Tech relating to the Vietnam Conflict. Items tend to be personal in nature (diaries, oral histories, maps) and not official documents.

A variety of materials about Southeast Asia drawn from scholars and collections in the region.