East Asian Studies e-resources and databases
- Digital Dictionary of Buddhism
The dictionary contains over 50,000 entries including Buddhist terms, texts, schools, temples, and persons. Entries are in a range of languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Pali, Sanskrit and Tibetan.
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily report
The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) is a United States government agency that translates the text of daily radio and television broadcasts; newspapers and periodicals; government statements; books, and other sources of unrestricted information such as databases and gray literature from non-English sources around the world. FBIS covers such topics as military affairs; politics; the environment; societal issues; economics, and science and technology. Reports are available from 1941 to 1996. Daily reports with translations are issued for Africa; Asia; Australia/Oceania; Caribbean; Europe; Middle East/Near East; North and South America.
- Foreign Office files for China, 1919-1980
The collection makes available all British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980, including:
- 1919-1929: Kuomintang, CCP and the Third International
- 1930-1937: The Long March, civil war in China and the Manchurian Crisis
- 1938-1948: Open Door, Japanese war and the seeds of communist victory
- 1949-1956: The Communist revolution
- 1957-1966: The Great Leap Forward
- 1967-1980: The Cultural Revolution
Authorised for ANU alumni access - Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952
This collection makes available extensive coverage of British Foreign Office files dealing with Japan between 1919 and 1952. It includes three parts:
- Japanese Imperialism and the War in the Pacific, 1931-1945
- Occupation of Japan, 1946-1952
- Japan and Great Power Status, 1919-1930
Authorised for ANU alumni access - GeNii (CiNii Books)
CiNii Books (formerly GeNii) contains citation information by the Japan National Institute of InformaticsNII (CiNii) on Japanese books that are held in university libraries in Japan.
- Gordon W. Prange collection - 20th Century Media index
An index to censored Japanese material recovered after WWWII and kept at the University of Maryland Library. It includes galley proofs of books, newspaper and magazine articles, and published books that were either suppressed or partially censored. Registration required at the website.
- Grand dictionnaire Ricci de la langue chinoise
Le Grand Ricci was published in six volumes and 7,300 pages, in addition to a volume with appendices. It offers approximately 300,000 Chinese words and expressions from the early beginnings of Chinese history to the end of the 20th century. Over 2,000 characters deal with the oldest forms of writing or the so-called oracle-bone inscriptions. LeGrand Ricci incorporates a wide spectrum of lexical domains, ranging from literature and history to science, technology, medicine, law, philosophy, and religion.
- Gu jin tu shu ji cheng
The Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China (Biaodian Gujin Tushu Jicheng, 标点古今图书集成) was edited by Chen Meng-lei, a renowned scholar of the Qing Dynasty. The first edition, comprised of 64 texts, was accessible exclusively to the royal court and was not available to scholars or commoners. The present digital edition of The Complete Classics includes the most seminal classics of Chinese literature and culture, from ancient China through the Qing Dynasty. The collection includes works on astronomy, geography, history, philosophy, literature, politics, economics, art, education, agriculture, medicine, and more.
- Guangming Daily 1949-2018
The newspaper was originally the official newspaper of the China Democratic League. Together with the People's Daily and the People's Liberation Army Daily, it was one of the three national newspapers in circulation during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).
- Guo xue bao dian shu ju ku
This database (called the Chinese Studies Collection in English)The database collects classics in the more than 2000 years’ history from Qin Dynasty to the Republic of China, and important research achievements on ancient books of scholars in Qing Dynasty and modern society. It is divided into 6 sections, namely Jing Bu, Shi Bu, Zi Bu, Ji Bu, series books, and popular fiction.
- Han ji dian zi wen xian zi liao ku (漢籍電子文獻資料庫)
The database contains digitized materials essential to research in traditional Sinology, including almost all of the important Chinese classics, especially those related to Chinese history.
- History Culture Series [Korea]
A multimedia database of Korean history and culture. The database covers subjects such as archaeology; Korean history, and art history.
- Immigrations, migrations and refugees: Global Perspectives, 1941–1996
A searchable digital archive that covers all aspects of 20th-century human migration. The news and analysis comes from reports gathered every day between the early 1940s and 1996 by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a U.S. government organization that became part of the CIA. These include translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts (transcripts), newspapers, periodicals and government documents
- Index to Laws and Regulations in early Meiji Japan (日本法令索引-明治前期編)
Covers pre-1887 Japanese bills, laws, decrees, treaties and their amendments.
- Index to the Japanese Laws and Regulations (日本法令索引)
Covers post-1886 Japanese bills, laws, decrees, treaties and their amendments.
- JACAR (Japan Center for Asian Historical Records)
Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR) is a digital archive of Asian historical records of Japan concerning to the modern Japanese relations with other countries, particularly those in Asia. The documents of the archive are provided by the National Archives of Japan, the Diplomatic Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and the National Institute for Defense Studies of the Ministry of Defense of Japan.
- Kaigai Jinja Database
This database consists of drawings related to overseas shrines, survey tables, current photographs, old photographs, and postcards. This database contains not only materials about the sites of overseas shrines, but also materials such as photographs of the era when the shrines were functioning before the war.
- KISS (Korean Studies Information Service System)
This database provides access to full text academic articles published by academic and research institutes in South Korea. KISS covers subjects such as languages, history, philosophy, literature, education, sociology, business/economics, law, science, mathematics, agriculture, engineering, medical science, arts and physical education.
- Korean history and culture research database
This database is a full text collection of excavation reports of historical sites in Korea operated by national and university museums, research institutions and associations since 1910. It includes the Collection of Japanese Colonial Government’s Researches on Korean Culture and History.
- KRPIA
This Korean language ebook database includes many reference works like encyclopaedias; dictionaries; historical and archival resources; biographical sources, and other reference materials related to Korean history; literature; civilization, and medicine.
- LawnB Legal Information Service [Korea]
A collection of Korean legal material including law information; judicial precedents; official documents, and information on lawyers and law firms.
- Le Grand Ricci online
Le Grand Ricci was published in six volumes and 7,300 pages, in addition to a volume with appendices. It offers approximately 300,000 Chinese words and expressions from the early beginnings of Chinese history to the end of the 20th century. Over 2,000 characters deal with the oldest forms of writing or the so-called oracle-bone inscriptions. LeGrand Ricci incorporates a wide spectrum of lexical domains, ranging from literature and history to science, technology, medicine, law, philosophy, and religion.
- MagazinePlus
An index to Japanese journal articles from approximately 14,000 journal titles totalling 5.2 million records. It covers academic and general journal titles in the natural and social sciences, the humanities, and literature.
- Mainichi Shinbun (Maisaku)
Maisaku is the online version of the Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shinbun. It consists of several functions: 1. Simple search: Combined search by keyword and date in the Mainichi Shinbun and the journal Shûkan Ekonomisuto. 2. Detailed search: Mainichi Shinbun kiji kensaku: search for articles of the Mainichi Shinbun by keyword and date. For the years 1987-today a real full text search is provided. For the years 1872-1986 only the headings of important articles are indexed. Not all articles are included in the database (e.g. Sumô results, TV programme, cartoons etc. are excluded). 3. Mainichi Shinbun shimen kensaku: search images of the Mainichi Shinbun by date (1872-1999). 4. Denshi shukusatsuban: digital version of Mainichi Shinbun (1989-1999) for browsing with flash player. 5. Shûkan Ekonomisuto kiji kensaku: full text search of the journal Shûkan Ekonomisuto (1989 - heute) by keyword, author and date. 6. Kyô no shinbun: publication of important articles of the respective daily edition (morning and evening edition) in real time 7. Nyûsu sokuhô: real time news announcements. 8. Mainichi Shinbunsha no shiryô: Mainichi yoronsâchi: database of opinion polls published in the Mainichi Shinbun (1945-today). 9. 20seiki 2001daijiken: chronicle with pictures of important events of the 20th century, browing by subject or search by keyword or date are possible. 10. Mainichi Shinbunshashi: digital editon of the history of the publisher Mainichi Shinbunsha, search by keywords possible, also contains a list of the published serialised novels (1882-2001). 11. The Mainichi: full text search of the English edition The Mainichi (2008-today) by keyword or date.
- Missionary Studies
These primary sources are a hugely important resource for the study of missionary work, educational work, medical work, evangelism, political conflict, and the emergence of indigenous churches. The collections are truly global in scope, with Africa, East and South Asia, Australasia and the Pacific, and the Americas all well-represented. The sources will be of interest to scholars in a range of fields, from missiology to colonial history and anthropology.
Authorised for ANU alumni access