Culture

Asia Pacific Perspectives is a peer-reviewed electronic
journal published by the University of
San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim. It welcomes
submissions from all fields of the social sciences and the
humanities with relevance to the Asia Pacific/Pacific Rim.
In keeping with the Jesuit traditions of the University of
San Francisco, Asia Pacific Perspectives commits itself to
the highest standards of learning and scholarship. Papers
adopting a comparative, interdisciplinary approach to
issues of interrelatedness across the Pacific will be

Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is a
peer-reviewed, quarterly online journal that offers its
readers up-to-date research findings, emerging trends, and
cutting-edge perspectives concerning East Asian history and
culture from scholars in both English-speaking and Asian
language-speaking academic communities.

This page is a subset of texts derived from the three major
online Sourcebooks: Internet Ancient History Sourcebook,
Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Internet Modern History
Sourcebook along with added texts and web site indicators.
It covers the history and culture of China, Japan, and Korea
in premodern and modern periods.

The goal of this \visual sourcebook\ is to add to the
material teachers can use to help their students understand
Chinese history, culture, and society. It was not designed
to stand alone; we assume that teachers who use it will also
assign a textbook with basic information about Chinese
history.

The website provides some links to other organizations and
to online resources of potential interest to CHINOPERL
members, including
Association for Asian Performance (AAP), Association for
Chinese Music Research (ACMR), Chinese Storytelling, and
European Foundation for Chinese Music Research (CHIME).

The Center for International Collections (CIC) currently
maintains five separate databases covering various aspects
of Asia, all of which are freely accessible to the public.
The purpose of these specialized databases is to promote and
enhance public access to the CIC’s extensive holdings by
making full use of all the latest available tools and
technologies.

A comprehensive Chinese website on various aspects of China
studies.

A great site for learners of Chinese. The site gives the
etymologies of over 4000 Chinese characters, enabling you to
see the connections between them. Searchable by many
different input methods.

Modeled after the Library of Congress Classification
Schedules, this guide categorizes 1700+ entries of
databases, websites and archives in an order that's
convenient for research.It includes contemporary, modern and
premodern time periods. Unfortunately, the guide has stopped
updating itself since 2009.

The International Dunhuang Project is an international
digitization project that aims to promote the study and
preservation of manuscripts
and printed documents from Dunhuang and other Central Asian
sites through global cooperation. Beginning in 1994, IDP has
till now made tens of thousands of images together with
catalogues, translations, historical photographs,
archaeological site plans and much
more freely available to all on the Internet.