Asian Law Online Bibliographic Database (U. Melbourne)

Access here. Developed by the Asian Law Centre at the University of Melbourne, the bibliographic database “is a collection of English language materials on Asian laws available throughout the world and includes books, chapters in books, journal articles and theses. It does not include newspapers, magazines, conference papers or unpublished articles.” – Asian Law Centre, [...]

FORMOSA: Digital Library of Western Images of Taiwan (Reed Institute)

Access here. Developed by the Reed Institute, this digital library “gathers together a large body of primarily European and American images of the island of Taiwan — called ‘Formosa’ by foreign visitors in the 19th Century — and its various peoples.” – Reed Institute

Harvard University Library Visual Information Access (VIA)

Access here. Users can limit search to digital images only. Developed by the Harvard University Library, VIA includes thousands of digital images on China, Japan, and Korea. Here is a general description: “VIA (Visual Information Access) is a growing online union catalog documenting the arts, material culture, and social history. VIA contains descriptive records and [...]

China Christian Colleges and Universities Image Database (Yale)

China Christian Colleges and Universities Image Database (Yale). Developed by the Yale University Library, this database “provides detailed description and more than 7,500 digital images of photographs and films held in the archives of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia and the Lingnan University Board of Trustees, which are held at the [...]

New Asia Books

Access here. Affiliated with IIAS (International Institute of Asian Studies), “New Asia Books makes it much easier for academics to identify, evaluate and purchase new publications in their fields. The website lists academic English language books published on Asia in the preceding 12 months (using data obtained from Nielsen BookData, a major bibliographic data provider), [...]

East Asia Law Review (U. Penn)

Posted on behalf of Yuni Yan, an editor of the East Asia Law Review： “The East Asia Law Review (EALR) at the University of Pennsylvania Law School functions both as an independent, student-edited journal, and a group for Penn Law students interested in comparative legal issues in East Asia. The mission of EALR is to [...]

Opening of Chinese archives on Cultural Revolution?

This is not strictly related to e-research, but since it’s related to research and public access to information, I will just post it here: Today I read this news article (in Chinese) that some Chinese archives from the Cultural Revolution period (1966-1976) is going to be declassified and open to the public. The article from [...]

JAANUS – Japanese Architecture and Art Users System

JAANUS – Japanese Architecture and Art Users System. Compiled by Dr. Mary Neighbour Parent, this “dictionary contains approximately 8000 terms related to traditional Japanese architecture and gardens, painting, sculpture and art-historical iconography from approximately the 1st century A.D. to the end of the Edo period (1868). Terms from related fields such as lacquer, ceramics, textiles [...]

Catalog Navigating System for Chinese Rare Books 中國古籍善本書目聯合導航系統

Catalog Navigating System of Chinese Rare Books 中國古籍善本書目聯合導航系統. Thanks to Stephen Qiao (U. Toronto) for recommending this resource, even though it seems to be still in the testing period. Developed jointly by the National Library of China and Peking University, this database has brief records of about 30,000 Chinese books printed before 1911 (including some [...]

Visual Resources for Japan (from Duke U.)

Access here. Kristina Troost at Duke shared with me a fantastic tool for finding the right Japanese image databases for your research topic. This tool covers over 80(!) visual resources and most of them are free. FOREASt only covers some of them. You can choose resource(s) by subject, era, period, format, region, and/or resource provider. [...]