Asian Newspapers
- Access World News Research Collection (Newsbank) This link opens in a new windowOur largest general news source, with current and complete newspapers, magazines, wire services from around the world. Backfiles sometimes go back to the 1980s. Text only.
- Chinese Newspapers Collection (Proquest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThis project was partially funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and administered by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.
Research Chinese political and social life during the turbulent 120 year period from 1832 to 1953 with 12 English-language Chinese historical newspapers.Full image newspapers offer searchable access to advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and classified ads. - Ethnic NewsWatch (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowInterdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) full text newspapers, magazines and journals of American ethnic, minority and indigenous communities. Offers additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
- Hindustan Times 1960-2000 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowAccess to the second most widely read English newspaper in India, covering subjects such as colonialism and post-colonialism, British and world history, class and gender issues, international relations, comparative religion, international economics, terrorism, and more.
- Rafu Shimpo Digital Archive This link opens in a new windowRafu Shimpo is the longest running Japanese American newspaper in the United States. Full text. In Japanese and English, 1914-2021.
- South Asia Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive) (Readex/Newsbank) This link opens in a new windowSearchable 19th and 20th century newspapers from South Asia, especially India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
- South China Morning Post 1903-2001 (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new windowThis historical newspaper provides news coverage of the politics, society and events of China and Hong Kong. In addition to article content, the full-image newspapers offer searchable access to advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and classified ads.
- Times of India 1838-2010 (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowBased in Mumbai, the Times of India offers full page and article images with searchable full text.
East Asian Primary Source Websites
- Frog in a WellA collection of primary source translations on China, Taiwan, Korea, Burma, and Malaysia
- Internet East Asian History SourcebookA collection of links and documents about east Asian history, especially China and Japan.
- East Asian Collection (University of Wisconsin)Historical images that present a visual archive of 20th century East Asian cultural heritage.
- Digital Collections from UC BerkleyDigitized collections of archival material from China and Japan.
Resources by Region
- Chinese Digital Archive (1966-1976)Digitized documents and artifacts from the Cultural Revolution held in the Australian National University Archives.
- Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980 (Adam Matthew Digital) This link opens in a new windowThis collection makes available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980. Foreign Office Files is having technical difficulties at this time. If you are located on the Boston campus, please try this link for better service.
- Formosa: 19th Century ImagesPrimarily 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.
- Historical Photographs of ChinaPhotographs of 100 years of China's history from many private collections.
- International Dunhuang Project: the Silk Road OnlineInformation and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from the Dunhuang archeological site in Western China
- Japan Center for Asian Historical RecordsA digital archive of documents about Japanese foreign relations, chiefly from the National Archives of Japan
- National Archives of Japan Digital ArchiveThe official digital archive of the Japanese government
- Japanese Historical Text InitiativeKey documents in Japanese history with English translations
- Visualizing Cultures: Japan in the Modern WorldA visually-based curriculum about Japan, developed at MIT.
- Korean War 1950-1953A digital archive largely obtained from Russian and Chinese sources. (Wilson Center)
- Korean History On-line 한국역사정보통합시스템13 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.
- Silence Broken: Korean Comfort WomenA 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.
- Virtual Vietnam Archive4 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.
- Southeast Asia Digital LibraryA variety of materials about Southeast Asia drawn from scholars and collections in the region.
- Indochina ArchiveDigitized microfilm from UC Berkley's collection on Indochina.
- Internet Digital India Sourcebook(Fordham University)
- Oral HIstory Collection (Center of South Asian Studies, Cambridge, UK)A collection of interviews conducted in the 1970s and 1980s with both Indian and British people describing their experiences of life in British India, the events leading up to independence in 1947 and the early years of independent India and Pakistan.
- South Asia Commons: History and Culture This link opens in a new windowSouth Asia Commons: History and Culture is a new project to build the largest index and repository of quality South Asian books, historical journals, video, audio, newspapers, magazines, letters. Also includes access to the South Asia Archive.