Provides full-text access to academic journals, theses and dissertations from Taiwan (mostly), mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and other countries in all disciplines.
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USC’s subscription includes 1200+ titles primarily on Chinese literature and history, as well as linguistics, geography, environmental sciences, politics, law and a few other subjects.
"Asahi Shimbun Cross-Search for Library" is the largest newspaper article database in Japan, permitting searches of 16 million articles and advertisements from more than 140 years of the newspaper, from its first edition in 1879 to today. Access to the database is limited to 8 users shared among the consortium of currently ten (10) participating institutions.
The Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains over 737,175 records (as of July 9, 2009) on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
Integrated database for most major newspapers published in Korea 1990-present. Some 50 papers are covered, including two English papers. Older (1960-1989) articles available in PDF (non-searchable) for 경향신문, 동아일보, 서울신문, 한국일보.
A free online reference to personal names, places, time, and Buddhist Tripitaka catalogues in the Buddhist literature.
Published by Hakubunkan 博文館 in 1895-1933, Bungei Kurabu 文芸倶楽部 is a major literary journal of the time, in which you'd find works by Higuchi Ichiyo, Izumi Kyoka, Tayama Katai, etc.
Complete British Foreign Office Files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in this period. This resource is offered by Adam Matthew.
Containing all 518 issues of the first graphic magazine published in Japan from 1889-1916, this is an excellent resource for research on the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho periods (1912-1926). This Japanese language magazine covered a variety of subjects including The Sino-Japanese War, The Russo-Japanese War, disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis, in addition to fashion and popular culture.