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East Asia


  • REF PL1455 A selection of Chinese language dictionaries
  • REF PL679 A selection of Japanese language dictionaries
  • Bibliography of Asian Studies 1971 - to date 1956 - 1968 Published in the Journal of Asian Studies 1941 - 1956 Published in the Far Eastern Quarterly.  Bibliography of references to Western language articles in the Humanities and Social Sciences for East, Southeast, and South Asia. References include journal articles, proceedings, and anthologies for all years. Monographs were included from 1971 - 1991.

    Below are several of the many other indexes that include western language materials about China, Japan, and Korea:

    MLA International Bibliography (literature, language, folklore)
    Historical Abstracts
    Philosophers' Index
    ATLA Religion Database

  • Asian Studies WWW VL Search Engine A dedicated search engine to access major Asian Studies research resources recorded by the HotBot database. The engine covers the Websites of ten established Asian Studies organizations, and the search returns include brief annotations. The page also provides links to sixteen Asian Pacific country-specific search engines.
  • Portal to Asian Internet Resources  A quick and easy access to high quality Asian Internet resources through a web based catalog from the Universities of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Ohio State.
  • Asia Resources on the World Wide Web from the Association for Asian Studies. This extensive list of online resources has been compiled since July 1996 by Raymond Lum, for publication in the Asian Studies Newsletter.
  • Asian Studies Periodicals - Selected Colby Holdings- for complete list search the Colby journal list.
    Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 
    Far Eastern Economic Review 
    Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
    Journal of Asian History
    Journal of Asian Studies  formerly: Far Eastern Quarterly 1941-1956
    Journal of Contemporary China=Tang tai
    Chung-kuo
    Journal of Northeast Asian Studies=Tung pei   Ya-chou yen chiu
    Late Imperial China
    Modern Asian Studies 
    Pacific Affairs
  • REF Z7046.G8 1989 A Guide to Oriental classics. Prepared by the staff of the Oriental studies program, Columbia College. A bibliography of Indian, Chinese, and Japanese classics, their translations, and secondary sources.
  • REF DS833.A4 A Chronological List of Japan and China. Paragon Book Reprint corp. 1964

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China

  • REF DS706.Z87 1999 China Bibliography: A Research Guide to Reference Works about China Past and Present. By Harriet T. Zurndorfer.
  • REF DS 705.C35 1991 The Cambridge encyclopedia of China.
  • REF JC311.M54 1998 Modern China: an encyclopedia of history, culture, and nationalism.
  • REF DS706.I5 1988 v.1-3 Information China: the Comprehensive and Authoritative Reference Source of New China.
  • REF DS 705.A2 L8 Index Sinicus: a catalogue of articles relating to China in periodicals and other collective publications, 1920 - 1955. by John Lust A bibliography of 20,000 articles in Western languages about China.
  • REF DS 705.A2 Y83 China in Western Literature: a continuation of Cordier's Bibliotheca Sinica. Includes books and monographs in Western languages published from 1921 - 1957.
  • REF DS 705.A2 C65 1968 v.1-6 (in 5 bound vols.) Bibliotheca Sinica. by Henri Cordier An exhaustive listing of 19th century books and periodical articles in many languages on all aspects of life in China.
  • REF Z3106.C465 1997 China. By Charles W. Hayford (World Bibliographical Series. V.35)
  • REF Z3108.L5 I53 1986 v.1-2 The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature.
  • REF DS721.E32613 A Dictionary of Chinese symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought.
  • REF DS730.O74 1998 An Ethnohistorical dictionary of China.
  • REF DS735.W695 1998 Chinese History: a manual.
  • REF DS740.2.H57 1992 Historical dictionary of revolutionary China, 1839-1976
  • REF DS753.5.A84 1976 v.1-2 Dictionary of Ming Biography (1368-1644)
  • REF DS734.U6 v.1-2 Eminent Chinese of the Ch'Ing Period (1644-1912)
  • REF HQ1767.5.A3 B56 1998 Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: The Qing Period (1644-1911)
  • REF DS778.A1 B6 v.1-5 Biographical Dictionary of Republican China.
  • REF DS778.A1 K55 1971 v.1-2 Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism, 1921-1965

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Japan

  • REF DS805.C36 1993 The Cambridge encyclopedia of Japan.
  • REF DS805.M63 1998 Modern Japan: an encyclopedia of history, culture, and nationalism.
  • REF DS805.K6323 1998 The Kodansha bilingual encyclopedia of Japan.
  • REF Z3301.S475 1989 Japan. By Frank Joseph Shulman (World Bibliograpahic Series v. 103)
  • On Order:

    Medieval Japanese Writers. (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v.203) Japanese Fiction Writers 1868-1945 (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v.180 Japanese Fiction Writers Since World War II (Dictionary of Literary Biography, v.182)

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Korea

  • Korean History: A Bibliography compiled by Kenneth Robinson
  • REF DS904.S68 1993 v.1-2 Sourcebook of Korean Civilization.
  • REF DS909.N34 1993 Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Korea
  • REF Z3316.H63 1997 Korea. By J.E.Hoare (World Bibliographical Series v.204)
  • REF Z6201.A55 1995 The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature Provides a short essay on scholarship of Korea followed by a bibliography covering all aspects of Korean studies.

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Last Updated Date: 10/04/2007    
Created by:  Menchen, Margaret P. 
Email: mpmenche@colby.edu