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East Asia Studies
East Asian Studies is a distinct multidisciplinary field of scholarly enquiry and education that promotes a broad humanistic understanding of East Asia past and present. The field includes the study of the region's culture, written language, history, and political institutions.
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Starting Points / Top Resources
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Bibliography of Asian StudiesEnglish language publications in all subject areas, especially the humanities and the social sciences, related to East, Southeast, and South Asia.
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Project MuseCollection of humanities & social sciences electronic journals & 20,000+ ebooks.
Primary Resources
- Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907-1927
- East Asia Image Collections
- East Asian Collection
- Empire Online
- Images of Colonialism
- International Dunhuang Project
- International Mission Photography Archive
- MIT Visualizing Cultures
- National Security Archive: Sources on Asia
- Papers of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
- Wilson Center Digital Archive
- Asia-Studies Humanities
- Free Open Resources for East Asian Studies (FOREASt)
- Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
- National Bureau of Asian Research
- Bibliography of Oriental Studies 東洋学文献類目
- e-Asia Digital Library, University of Oregon Library
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| East Asia is a sub-region of Asia. That can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. Geographically and geo-politically, it covers about 12,000,000 km2(4,600,000 sq mi), or about 28 percent of the Asian continent, about 15 percent bigger than the area of Europe. The UN sub-region of East Asia and other common definitions of East Asia contain the entirely of the People’s Republic of China, Republic of China (commonly known as Taiwan,) Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and Mongolia. |
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The East Asia Library collections are primarily composed of materials in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Tibetan covering all areas of the humanities and social sciences. As of June 2013, the East Asia Library holds approximately 660,086 items. The holdings of monograph and bound journal collections in different languages are as follows:
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UW faculty and students are welcome to make an appointment to visit and browse the East Asia Library Kane Auxiliary Stacks. Browsing access is to aid research as needed. Procedures:
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