International Studies

Statistics from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Research and data from the ADB

A source for regular and institutionalized cross-national surveys on political and social change in East Asia.

The ESCAP Statistical database provides a regional perspective on development issues in Asia and the Pacific.

(The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin, USA) The maps are mainly produced by the US Central Intelligence Agency. Shaded relief maps are available for China (and parts of it), Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore (and many other Asian states and regions). For some parts there are even political, economic, demographic, and still more maps. In English.

The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be). Current projects focus on China and Japan. In English.

Constituting a visual record of early European contacts with Asia and Africa, Widener Library’s Images of Colonialism Collection is a primary visual resource for historical and socio-cultural studies. In English.

by Academic Sinica, Taiwan. Extremely useful web site linked map and times

Highlights from the collections of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, and Stefan R. Landsberger (University of Amsterdam, Leiden University). In English.

This site contains information, images, texts, video clips, links on China's Cultural Revolution. In English.

The Japanese Historical Map Collection contains about 2,300 early maps of Japan and the World, and is housed on the Berkeley campus in the East Asian Library. Represented in this online collection are over 1100 images of maps and books from this Collection. In English.

Grey literature, 1993-1999. In English.

Aggregating Japan's disaster data and reporting from around the world. In English.

This online-index of important articles from the Shanghai daily Shenbaocovers the years from the paper's foundation in April 1872 to the end of the year 1895. It is designed to provide quick key word access to the more than 10,000 entries and thus facilitate the use of this important source for the history of late Qing China. In English.

1000 photos of China's Muslim population in western China in the 1920s and 1930s and the activities of Christian missionaries working among them. In English.

China Vitae is a resource of biographical information on more than 5000 Chinese leaders in government, politics, the military, education, business, and the media.

Index to articles and books dealing with all aspects of Korean history.

A list of English-edition online newspapers in Asia.