East Asian Library news
Our library has been working with the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library to enhance the access of historical Chinese materials by improving the metadata in the digital collection. View the collection & learn more about our collaboration...
Robarts Library, including the East Asian Library and books in Downsview, now offers a Curbside Pickup Service for print books not available through the HathiTrust Emergency Temporary Access Service.
The private & diplomatic correspondences of Sir Satow between 1856 & 1927, a British diplomat & scholar, who was a key figure in East Asia & Anglo-Japanese & -Chinese relations.
This network service provides a lower-latency connection to U of T resources for students connecting from mainland China.
A microfilm collection from the US State Department with instructions to and despatches from diplomatic and consular officials, correspondence, reports, and journals of the commissions concerned with extraterritoriality in China.
It contains over 650,000 pages of pamphlets, ephemera, government documents, relief organization publications, and refugee reports that detail the causes, effects, and responses to the refugee crises around WWII (1935-1950).
This collection primarily includes instructions to and dispatches from U.S. diplomatic and consular staff regarding the political, economic, military, and social conditions in Japan in the 1950s.
It illustrates the political tensions between China & Japan through instructions & despatches from diplomatic & consular officials. Records include the Mukden incident, military action in Shanghai in 1931, and the undeclared war between the two countries.
Current students and faculty can now read digitized versions of more than 2.5 million of the library’s in-copyright print books that have been deposited in the HathiTrust Digital Library.
This collection brings together award-winning titles from contemporary ethnographic film festivals. The use of these films enable researchers to perform deep dives into specific places, time periods, and cultural practices.
A number of Chinese databases is now available for free access to the U of T community temporarily, thanks to the generosity of our vendors.
Due dates for library materials have been extended to July 1. Click here for recommendation for key e-resources and support from our library.
This database provides more than 230,000 time series of macroeconomic & industry data at national, provincial & city levels in China. Topic includes national accounts, government & public finance, labour markets, consumer good markets, foreign trade, etc.
This collection offers detailed information on the political, military, social, economic, and external development of Hong Kong as a British colony between 1841-1951 that consists of British Colonial office correspondence.
Food and Drink in History collection explores the evolution of society through changing tastes and availability of food and drink in everyday life, with rare cookbooks on Chinese & Asian cuisines.
To cope with this unusual time of library closure, our librarians have recommended a list of KEY online resources on East Asian Studies to our users.
North Korea COVID-19 Tracker provides access to a regularly updated and comprehensive combination of news, analysis and data about COVID-19 inside North Korea.
The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library (EAL) is closed from Tuesday, March 17 until further notice. Our Virtual Reference Desk is open if you have any questions.
The Treasury of Lives is a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region.
Until April 30, you can request extra renewals on all loans*, at participating libraries. To request an extra renewal, please check with the library where the books were borrowed from or call 416-978-8450. Exceptions apply.
Topics: collecting intelligence on political demonstrations, strikes, labor & social unrest, foreign & domestic subversive activities, & areas of dispute between the International Settlement & the Chinese government.
A primary source collection that documents how the Economic Cooperation Administration looked for economic & cultural opportunities to promote US-China relations, despite the anti-Communist sentiments of the early Cold War era.
This collection provides insight into domestic issues in Communist & Nationalist China, US containment policy as it was extended to Asia & Sino-American relations in the post-war era.
During the Library construction period (until the end of March 2020), due to the absence of the security gates at the temporary entrance location, please have bags open to be checked by the Library staff, when exiting the East Asian Library.
A new flatbed scanner is available at the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library! A USB key is required to save the file.