The Library of the Chinese University of Hong Kong has built a substantial mass of millions of digital files in different areas ranging from literature, culture, arts, politics, society and religion and different formats including rare/semi rare books, journal articles, correspondences and manuscripts, oracle bones, photos, and audio-visual files.
This collection includes more than 100,000 digital facsimiles of objects (e.g., ceramics, brass implements, etc.) and art (e.g., paintings, illustrations, etc.). Interface in Chinese or English, metadata entirely in Chinese. Browsing possible in English.
The World Digital Library is a Library of Congress project sponsored by UNESCO. Items in this digital library, including books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and sound recordings, are individually described and searchable in seven languages. Most countries and regions around the world are represented.
The focus is on four seminal women's or gendered journals-a key genre of the new media-published between 1904 and 1937.
They include Nüzi shijie (Women's World, 1904-07), Funü shibao (The Women's Eastern Times, 1911-17), Funü zazhi (The Ladies' Journal, 1915-31), and Linglong (Elegance, 1931-37).
A selection of sources on East Asian history, focused on China hosted with Fordham University.
Ling long women's magazine, published in Shanghai from 1931 to 1937, was popular during a time of dramatic material, social, and political change in China. Today, the magazine offers researchers a unique glimpse into women's lives in Republican-era (1911-49) Shanghai. This site features Columbia University's collection of Ling long magazine, one of the most complete holdings outside China.
This is a collection of English translations of Mao Zedong's works (including poetry) and some images.
Interface in English, material in Chinese.
Documentary films and newsreels were two of the major mass media and communication channels in China from the 1950’s through the 1970’s. They covered all aspects of social activities, though the emphasis was on developments in the building of a socialist country. The bulk of the items in the collection are transcripts for the documentary films and newsreels from the Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
BC institutional login required.
Caricature-Posters from Guangzhou 1966-1977 (漫畫中的文化大革命：廣州的諷刺宣傳畫 1966-1977). Includes more than 200 cartoons from the Cultural Revolution
CR/10 (Cultural Revolution: 10) is an experimental oral history project. It aims to neutrally collect ordinary people’s authentic memories and impressions of China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which lasted 10 years, from 1966 to 1976. Collection of interviews began in December 2015 and continues to the present. 32 interviews were posted on the University of Pittsburgh’s Digital Collections website in September 2017. Additional videos will be posted in 2018.
Hosted by the University of Heidelberg, this is a collection of songs and slogans associated with the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
International documents in law, history, and diplomacy.
20th century archival and primary source materials on the Cultural Revolution, China's relationships with the Soviet Union, United States and Southeast Asia, and much more. The database is hosted by the Wilson Center and supported by the MacArthur Foundation.
The collection consists predominantly of printed works published before 1796. There are 439 works represented in the database and each record contains extensive bibliographic data and notes, an image of the first page of the text, and a link to the catalog record in Orbis, Yale’s online catalog.
This enormous catalog includes a selection of Chinese and English translations of Chinese full text books and journals including the etiquette manual called 'The Chinese book of etiquette and conduct for women and girls' from 1900. Collection focuses on the 19th and 20th centuries.
Recent decades have witnessed strong interest in Chinese women's literature, history, and culture of the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) periods among scholars, researchers, and students in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, North America, Europe, and elsewhere in the world. Chinese women's writings constitute a significant resource for ground-breaking research. They have opened up critical perspectives and enriched our knowledge of many aspects of Chinese culture and society. Close to 5000 collections of poetry and other writings by individual women are recorded for the Ming and Qing periods. However, less than a quarter of these materials have survived the ravages of history, and these have mostly ended up in rare book archives in libraries in China that are difficult to access.
Collection of texts in Chinese from a wide range of writings from Imperial China, by and about women writers. The website for this collection is available in both English and Chinese.
Hosted by the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University, this is 25 sources focused particularly on Western views of Chinese Women, excerpts from the Pillow Book (Heian Era), and a small selection of photographs of Filipino Comfort Women.
This is the website for the Temple Gazetteer Project at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts. 237 gazetteers were digitized and are distributed on this website. Of these 13 gazetteers were digitized as full-text archives and marked up with TEI/XML, identifying all person and place names as well as dates.
The collection includes more than 230 maps, charts, pictures, books and atlases. It represents almost all samples of China maps produced by European cartographers from the 16th to 19th centuries. This cartographic archive vividly records the long history of cross-cultural exchanges between China and the West. Maps are based on 中国历史地图集。[From the Hong Kong University of Sicience & Techonology Library]
Digital facsimiles of maps from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
A collection of maps and cartegraphic information provided by Harvard University. Make sure to perform a search in their database for additional information and views.
This collection includes a variety of socioeconomic data, such as county-level geographic information system(GIS) databases, presented at a scale of 1:1,000,000." Emphasizes the 1990s.
A database of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of Chinese history between 222 BCE and 1911 CE. CHGIS provides a base GIS platform for researchers to use in spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and representation of selected historical units as digital maps. [A Harvard project]
This is a map project developed by the Academia Sinica. It contains thousands of Chinese maps dated before 1949, not only held in Taiwan (most of them were taken to Taiwan before 1949), but also maps held in the Academy of Science, Japan. It is based on the book 近史所檔案館藏中外地圖目錄彙編. All maps in the database can be viewed online.
Digital facsimiles of more than 131,000 objects (jewelry, textiles, jars, etc.) as well as decorative arts, manuscripts, and more from the Early Palaeolithic period to the present.
With the mission of "Introduc[ing] Chinese Arts and Culture to the World," this online museum showcases high quality facsimiles of paintings, illustrations, and objects (statues, etc.) on multiple periods in Chinese history.
Mass education materials published in Hong Kong and in Mainland China, particularly Shanghai, in the years 1947-1954. These cartoon books, pamphlets, postcards and magazines, on topics such as foreign threats to Chinese security, Chinese relations with the Soviet Union, industrial and agricultural production, and marriage reform, were produced by both Kuomintang (Nationalist) and Gongchantang (Communist) supporters.
Over 1.600 Chinese propaganda posters are shown on this website. The Gallery features 200 highlights focused on the 20th century, from the collections of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, and Stefan R. Landsberger (University of Amsterdam, Leiden University).
Hosted by the International Institute for Social History in the Netherlands, this is a collection of Chinese posters divided in three sections: the early years (1949-1965), the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and the period of modernization up to the present (1977-1997).
The Museum is also a cultural research institute integrating collection, display, research, and teaching. As the top specialized costume museum in China, the BIFT Costume Museum has a fine collection of over 10,000 pieces of costume, accessories, fabric, wax printing, and embroidery. The collection is displayed in different categories, such as costumes of Miao nationality, metalworking jewelry, folk wax printing, and fabric. The museum also has a collection of nearly 1000 precious photographs taken during the 1920s and 1930s featuring the ethnic costumes of Yi, Zang, and Qiang nationalities.
Partnering with Google Arts & Culture, Shanghai Auto Museum presents online facsimiles that combines history and modern technology, by presenting various exhibition to achieve its mission that is to collect, preserve and exhibit antique cars and spread car culture and its influence on daily life.
The Victoria & Albert Museum has one of the most comprehensive and important collections of Chinese art outside East Asia, with pieces dating from 3000 BC to the present day.
Hosted by the Peabody Essex Museum, this is a digital tour of a late Qing dynasty merchants' house originally located in southeastern China.
Propaganda posters created during the Cultural Revolution by various Chinese agencies. Creation Date: 1966-1989.
This collection of more than 700 prints and photographs come predominately from Japan and China with some Korean sources from the 20th century. Includes some maps and illustrated sources from the 18th century.
There are the extensive and distinctive portfolios of work created by diplomat and politician Fu Bingchang (傅秉 常 1895-1965) and by George Warren Swire (1883-1949). Then there are two sets of materials that came from contacts with the descendants of men who served in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, and in the Shanghai Municipal Police.
Photographer Li Zhensheng had a unique view of China’s Cultural Revolution—a chaotic period of purging and punishment that began on May 16, 1966, and lasted in different phases until Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong’s death 10 years later.
Interface in English or other, major European languages. Content in multiple languages.
Europe-wide unified search of digitized collections. Images, audio, texts, and more. Funded by the EU. Covers more than 1,000 years of history. Strongest for 1500 to 2000.
Interface in English and French (and other major, European languages). Majority of the content in French.
France's fantastic digital library from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Digitized periodicals, images, recordings, and more. Covers two millenia with particular strength from 1500 to the present.
A digital repository for the nation's research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the digitized book and serial collections of major universities and other partner institutions, a significant portion of which is in the public domain and available full text.
Includes more than 3,900 documents from India from the 17th to the 21st centuries in addition to more than 15,000 additional digital facsimiles. Documents includes books, periodicals, images, personal narratives, preserved webpages, and more.
More than 42,000,000 items (including photographs, audio, video, text, and more), drawn from multiple across the world. Focused on the 19th and 20th centuries.
The World Digital Library is a Library of Congress project sponsored by UNESCO. Items in this digital library, including books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and sound recordings, are individually described and searchable in seven languages. Most countries and regions around the world are represented.
Digital library of images, maps, reference sources and more, supported by the University of Chicago and CRL
The East Asian Collection from the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections includes historical images that present a visual archive of 20th century East Asian cultural heritage. Also see SouthEast Asian Images and Text Project; South and Southeast Asia Video Archive; South Asian Periodicals Index
Drawn largely from the collections of universities and individual scholars in this region, the SEADL contains digital facsimiles of books and manuscripts, as well as multimedia materials and searchable indexes of additional Southeast Asian resources. Nations represented in the collection include Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
A a free open-access resource for research and teaching - a rich and growing curated collection of key historical and contemporary sources in arts, humanities and social sciences, from and about South Asia, in English and other languages of the region. SAOA's collection contains hundreds of thousands of pages of books, journals, newspapers, census data, magazines, and documents, with particular focus on social & economic history, literature, women & gender, and caste & social structure.
West India Committees (UK registered charity) online portal for West Indian History, Heritage and Culture collection contains over 500 years of knowledge on the Caribbean and matters relating to the Caribbean. Digital facsimiles of parts of the collection are available in the archive, including handbooks, reports, meeting minutes, treatises, newspaper cuttings, and more. Emphasis on 18th to early 20th centuries including WWI.
Includes a selection of digital facsimiles from the National Archives in India from the Ministry of Education, Defense, Home Political papers, as well as public records and a variety of personal papers. Focused across the 20th century. Includes some material--including maps--going back to the 18th century.
Higher Education Commission (HEC) has an e-book program for researchers within public and private universities in Pakistan and non-profit research and development organizations. Also provides information on material published by Pakistani researchers.
A small collection of online, declassified records focused around Abhilekh patal and the Netaji Papers.
The objective of the National Digital Library is to collect and maintain digital resources in the country and provide digital information to the reader community. Includes facsimiles for the Government of Ceylon (more than 18,000) and the Department Of Government Printing (more than 3,000).
More than 42,000,000 items (including photographs, audio, video, text, and more), drawn from multiple across the world. Focused on the 19th and 20th centuries.
"This library of books, audio, video, and other materials from and about India is curated and maintained by Public Resource. The purpose of this library is to assist the students and the lifelong learners of India in their pursuit of an education so that they may better their status and their opportunities and to secure for themselves and for others justice, social, economic and political."
'Odeon' label shellac discs were issued in India during 1912-1938. The company produced over 2,000 titles of north and south Indian music. This collection is a digital record of more than 20 of those records.
Digital Library makes available all Census Tables published from 1991 to 2011 Censuses, Census Reports and other digital files for free download in soft copy format.
Data sets on India including population, economics, and more. Sets focused on 1960s forward with some starting in the 2010s.
A fascinating set of information and data points (focused on the recent past) on multiple points of India, from soyabean prices to oil & gas as well as pothole-related-injuries.
Resource containing links to all Indian Government websites.
Database of all Central enactments which are in force and their subordinate legislations made from time to time.
Free database with a "google-like" search engine (can search by act, name of party, and subject for all Indian courts and tribunals) , especially strong for current and historical caselaw. Also contains legislation, law commission reports constituent assembly debates, and more.
Consists of the Judgments of the Supreme court of India and several High Courts. In the case of the Supreme Court all reported Judgments which are published in SCR Journal, since its inception i.e. 1950 till date are available. The Judgments reported in SCR till 1993 also have head-notes. The judgments reported in SCR in 1994 and later have only text of judgments with out head-notes.
Free, independent and non-profit access to 159 databases of Indian law. Includes Supreme Court Case Law, full text of Indian treaties, 1947-2009, and more.
This section seeks to introduce the Constitution of India, its origin, the Parliament, various Acts and Rules that govern the nation, Documents, Public Notifications, Welfare Schemes and Application Forms to avail them, apart from updates on what’s happening around us.
Official website. Maintained by the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab ".. all the Laws of Punjab from 1860 to date. The database will be updated regularly as soon as the new Laws are passed or the previous ones are amended."
Digital versions of key 15th through 17th century printed texts.
Compiled by Prof. Fran Pritchett, Columbia University. Includes bibliographies and links to multiple different authors and movements.
Interface in English or other, major European languages. Content in multiple languages.
Europe-wide unified search of digitized collections. Images, audio, texts, and more. Funded by the EU. Covers more than 1,000 years of history. Strongest for 1500 to 2000.
Open Access.
The French National Library's digital collection of more than 8 million items, Gallica provides access to books, manuscripts, maps, images (e.g., photographs, drawings, paintings, etc.), music (e.g., scores and recordings), legal texts, newspapers, and more. Covering more than a The collection centers on France and extends into the reaches of the Empire.
A digital repository for the nation's research libraries, HathiTrust brings together the digitized book and serial collections of major universities and other partner institutions, a significant portion of which is in the public domain and available full text.
The World Digital Library is a Library of Congress project sponsored by UNESCO. Items in this digital library, including books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and sound recordings, are individually described and searchable in seven languages. Most countries and regions around the world are represented.
Collections of art from famous museums and architecture. Digital facsimiles of photos, videos, manuscripts from across more than a millennium of history are also included.
Interface in Dutch or English. Content predominately in Dutch.
These national collections include over 370,000 books, photographs, drawings, maps, and more from the 12th to the 21st centuries. Focuses include documents related to Dutch involvement in the slave trade (particularly to Suriname) and photographs.
Open Access.
Almost 800,000 objects from 134 collections of 92 institutions located across the Netherlands. Topics include History and society; Art and culture; Geography and environment; Communication and media. Includes maps, newspapers, cartoons, photographs, books, film, advertising, and more. Includes archeological finds and contemporary material.
The Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national museum dedicated to arts and history in Amsterdam.
Established in 1960, the institute is directly responsible to the President of Indonesia. Its functions include providing data to other governmental institutes as well as to the public and conducting statistical surveys to publish periodic statistics on the economy, social change and development. Statistics Indonesia also assists data processing divisions in other public offices to support and to promote standard statistical methods.
The World Bank offers World Development Indicators, Global Development Finance, Education Statistics, Health Nutrition and Population Statistics, Africa Development Indicators, Global Economic Monitor and Millennium Development Goals and much more with mapping and graphing tools
More than 11,000 Government documents and reports from 17th to 20th centuries in Indonesian, English, and Dutch through Hathi Trust. A limited amount available full text.
Includes federal legislative, administrative and judicial materials from the collections of government and academic law libraries. To find material on Indonesia, go to Home -> Other Countries -> Indonesia. Includes material from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
Includes material on the 1955 Bandung Conference and more
More than 15 books and 170 maps looking at Indonesia in the Spanish Digital Library. Interface in English and documents predominately in Spanish.
Over 95,000 Collection Maps and related images with global coverage from the 13th to the 21st centuries with excellent search capacities. Focuses on 16th–21st century maps of North and and South America, as well as maps of the world, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, globes, school geographies, maritime charts, and a variety of separate maps including pocket, wall, children's and manuscript maps.
Digital copies of Panji manuscripts from Leiden University Libraries and will ultimately contain all of them, totaling over 260. It will contain manuscripts written on palm leaves and on paper, both old and new, in eight languages: Javanese-Balinese, Javanese, Malay, Balinese, Sasak, Buginese, Acehnese, and Sundanese.
This sub collection is actually a jukebox filled with Indonesian pop music. The original analogue vinyl records have been digitized. Thousands of records are now online available with a single click. They include recordings from the nostalgic Keroncong songs of the Dutch East Indies, like 'Bengawan Solo' sung by Rudi van Dalm, to the old-fashioned folk music modernized by adding electric guitars, keyboards and drums as in the so-called 'Pop Keroncong' sung by Koes Plus.
Images from Indonesia at the University of Michigan
The University of Michigan database of images from Indonesia includes more than 500 documents predominately from the late 1990s.
The photographs were taken chiefly by scholar Claire Holt (1901-1970) during her visits to Indonesia in 1930-38, 1955-57 and 1969 to visually document the plastic and performing arts for her research.
The biggest part of the image collection consists of photographs. Around 1890 the KITLV started collecting photographs for the purpose of documenting the image of the Dutch East and West Indies in all their facets, such as landscapes, town views, architecture, and life under indigenous and Dutch rule and so forth.
This collection contains digitized images, including photographs and slides, that librarians, scholars, and other subject specialists have deemed important to these fields of study will be added to the collection on an ongoing basis. Photographs from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Texts (includes letters, interviews, gazettes, some government reports) from the 20th century.
Photography (Kern Institute): Images from South Asia
More than 20,000 facsimiles of photographs and slides from the Kern Institute with the University of Leiden. Documents cover multiple periods of South and South East Asian (including India, Indonesia, and Pakistan) history, covering more than 2 millenia of history.
More than 4,500 images depicting Indonesia under Dutch control between the 1940s and 1950s. Images focus on daily life, environment, and more.
The biggest part of the image collection consists of photographs. Around 1890 the KITLV started collecting photographs for the purpose of documenting the image of the Dutch East and West Indies in all their facets, such as landscapes, town views, architecture, and life under indigenous and Dutch rule and so forth.
The East Asian Collection from the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections includes historical images that present a visual archive of 20th century East Asian cultural heritage. Also see SouthEast Asian Images and Text Project; South and Southeast Asia Video Archive; South Asian Periodicals Index
Digitized primary sources from the Library of Congress, includes manuscripts, books, photos, maps, audio recordings, and more!
Japan's National Digital Library provides facsimiles of a broad range of material including books, government documents, photographs, manuscripts, audio-visual information, theses/dissertations, and more. The interface is available in English but most documents are in Japanese.
The OAC is a website that provides free public access to detailed descriptions of primary source collections (artwork, manuscripts, papers, historic photographs, and so on) maintained by more than 200 libraries, special collections, archives, historical societies, and museums throughout California -- including collections maintained by the 10 University of California (UC) campuses.
More than 3,500 audio recordings including instrumentals, songs, story telling, sound effects, and more.
歴史的音源（歴音, Rekion）
By National Diet Library, Japan. 50,000 sound recordings of music, speeches, etc. on 78rpm records produced and released in Japan between 1990 ad 1950s. English interface is available.
This collection includes dull scans of more than 356,000 books from the 12th to 21st centuries. Topics include General works (8444), Philosophy (33566), General history (43983), Social sciences (105771), Natural science (24020), Technology and engineering (18600), Industry and commerce (36216), Fine arts (21688), Language (11304), and Literature (38334).
National Institute of Informatics - Digital Silk Road Project: 『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ 150 rare books of Digital Silk Road Project include Expedition Records, Academic Study, Photographs and Maps.
A selection of manuscripts and books from 13th to the 20th centuries from Japan.
34,690 books are available in full text from Keio University Library.
Rare books, books from Meiji, newspapers, historical music, government documents, and dissertations
This collection of more than 700 books includes titles from the 17th to the 19th centuries. Most of the texts have been reproduced full text in color.
Some data sets available from the 1960s to the recent past while other from the 2000s. Sets include population, economics, environmental information, and more.
Micro-level data on Japanese society. Abstracts are in English but some translation may be necessary for codebooks.
Produced by the United Nations Statistics Division, UN Data provides general information on countries around the world. Each country has a page that includes everything from social indicators to economic indicators.
World Bank eLibrary offers quick and easy access to the complete collection of World Bank publications since the 1990s.
文化遺産データベース You can search national treasures and important cultural properties owned by more than 900 museums in Japan. You can browse digital collection by periods, types, museums, etc. when you click “文化遺産オンライン Cultural Heritage Online” on top right of the search page.
The Japanese Manuscript Digital Collection is comprised of a set of twenty-two medieval legal manuscripts and annotated facsimiles in scroll form called komonjo. Komonjo—literally “old documents”—are remnants of day-to-day legal transactions. These documents frequently focus on land and property issues, though they can also represent edicts and judicial rulings.
Includes digitized facsimiles of the Petzold Scrolls Collection, Chimiren hanga, as well as Manchukuo Postcards. Collection information partly in English and partly in Japanese.
The John J. Burns Library holds well-known collections of Jesuitica, British Catholic authors, and Irish history and music, but there are also a few surprises among our holdings. Something one might not expect to find here is an amazing collection of Japanese prints, including examples from some of the most famous Japanese printmakers. The Japanese Prints Collection contains over 150 Japanese woodblock prints dating from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.
力行会 海外日本人移民関係幻燈資料 The collection features 179 black/white and hand-colored images of the lantern slides, which were created and provided by the Nippon Rikkokai Foundation, which had assisted Japanese people who immigrated to other counties.
Kokubungaku Kenkyu Shiryokan (国文学研究資料館), aka Kokubunken (国文研). 30 databases of digital images, full text or indexes.
早稲田大学古典籍総合データベース
(古典籍) is rare books published before Meiji. Waseda is one of the best digital library in Japan. More than 300,000 volumes.
A collection of materials collected by modern Japanese politicians, bureaucrats, military personnel, etc., organized by former owners. It consists of a variety of materials such as letters, diaries, office materials, photos, and recording materials.
Digital images of the main conferences and committees during the entire period of the Imperial Congress (November 1923 to March 1947).
Government and political documents available in English, a larger collection of material is available in Japanese
国立公文書館デジタルアーカイブ Can be search by keyword and view the detailed descriptions and digitized images of the records held at the Archive including records (120,000 frames of digitized images) of the cabinet meetings concerning the postwar reforms.
日本外交文書デジタルコレクション
From Meiji First [1967/68] to Treaty of Peace with Japan in 1945.
Collection includes some of the official Japanese Gazettes from the 1880s to the 1950s. Documents and interface predominately in Japanese.
Provides Japanese white papers from 1970 to the present, and can be searched by both date of publication and keyword. Documents and interface in Japanese.
This collection of periodicals (including environmental and medical reports) covers the 1880s to the 2000s. Interface and materials (full color scans) predominately in Japanese.
Downloadable maps from the 15th to 19th centuries accessible through the National Library Singapore
From the Mitsui Collection at UC Berkeley
With more than 500 digital facsimiles of maps from the 17th to the 19th centuries, these maps include stunning illustrative pieces as well as carefully precise street plans.
More than 37,000 maps available through the US Library of Congress with collection focus between 1600 and the present.
Explore a Google Map interface, limiting by date ranges, and then link out to appropriate digitized historical maps from the various partner collections (including the British Library, the New York Public Library, and others).
Provides over 10,000 images of over 5,000 objects or sets of objects from the museum collections. Includes Buddhist Paintings, Illustrated Handscrolls, Portraiture, Medieval Ink Paintings, Momoyama-Edo Paintings, Chinese Paintings, Calligraphy, Metalwork, Lacquerware, Textiles and Costumes, Ceramics, Archaeological Relics, Sculpture, as well as an e-Museum from across more than a millennium of history.
This collection of more than 80,000 digital facsimiles includes plates, prints, clothing and other textiles, writing utensils and boxes, as well as other ephemera. Collection strongest between 1600 and the present.
A collection of valuable materials collected and held by Yoshio Tanaka (1838-1916), a naturalist in the Meiji era.
This collection of more than 700 prints and photographs come predominately from Japan and China with some Korean sources from the 20th century. Includes some maps and illustrated sources from the 18th century.
Isaacy Leroy Shaver (1893-1984) was a Methodist clergyman and missionary to Japan from the 1920s to the 1960s. The collection includes sermons, correspondence, photographs, printed material and published works related to Shaver's missionary work in Japan and Idaho. The material ranges in date from 1893-1982. Partially digitized.
毎日フォトバンク More than 330,000 images from Bakumatsu to present. Interface in Japanese.
From Lafayette College, the Center for Southeast Asian Studies Kyoto University, and Harvard-Yenching Library, these postcards include cards from 1907 to 1937.
This collection of postcards and maps from 1932 to 1945 includes images of villages and cities as well as workers and children.
A selection of more than 100 posters from Japan.
A collection meant for use during the Japanese invasion of China with puppet governments established in the mid-1930s to 1945.
Interface in Korean or English.
The NIKH has established a systematic database and internet service network for the purpose of facilitating the investigation, collection, exhibition, and release of historical materials in cooperation with related institutions. The Korean history database provides original text of important historical materials. Includes access to Annals of the Choson Dynasty (朝鮮王朝實錄) ; Seungjeongwon Ilgi ; Sillok ; and more.
Interface in Korean with most texts in Korean. Provides a searchable database which includes 2.7 million archival sources including documents on the colonial period, audio-visual and photographs, and serials from government and non-government sources. It also holds presidential archives, foreign documents related to Korea, oral histories, etc.
English mask with most of the sources in Korean. Includes rare books; materials from pre-1945; magazines; textbooks; medical texts; and more.
Interface in Korean or English with content predominately in Korean.
More than 8,000 digital facsimiles of art from across Korean history.
Interface in Korean or English with predominately Korean content.
Official government data portal. Focuses on recent data collections.
In Korean. Includes multiple classic Korean texts, maps, and more.
In Korean - works well with Google Translate. List of digital facsimiles of dozens of pictures with short explanations.
Interface in English. Material in Japanese, Korean, and other languages.
Includes more than 400 digital facsimiles of postcards and photographs of Korea focused between 1900 and 1953.
Open Access.
Over 5,000 photographs, primarily of China, 1908-1932. Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968), an avid amateur photographer, began taking pictures in China during his first trip to the country with his family in 1908. Includes images of Korea.
This collection includes items created between 1900 and 1945 in Korea or abroad. It includes 8,000 postcard images depicting the cultural, industrial, and technological status of Korea from the first half of the 20th century and is organized into three sub-collections: Busan Museum Collection; Saga Prefecture Nagoya Castle Museum Collection; and Other images in 日本地理風俗大系 and 日本地理大系.
"Search publications of national, local governments and public institutions at once."
Interface and content in Korean.
"Provides information on legislative and national affairs, members of the National Assembly, and legislative support organizations."
Provides access to speeches, press releases and policy statements in English
Interface in Korean or English with the bulk of the content in Korean.
The Joseon wangjo sillok (朝鮮王朝實錄 Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty) includes 28 different sets of chronological records, and each set covers one ruler's reign. It was compiled immediately after the death of the ruler in question.
US State Department documents. Full-text searchable and/or downloadable as pdf.
Contains U.S. State Department and British Foreign Office records, along with some missionary records, related to China, Japan, Korea and more that range from the mid-19th to early 20th century.
from the Wilson Center, includes declassified documents, images, oral history transcripts and the Database on Inter-Korean Relations
Interface in Korean or English with content in both languages.
"LTI Korea sprung from what was the Korean Literature Translation Fund (est. 1996) in 2001 as a result of the South Korean government’s push to share Korean literature and culture with the world." Coverage includes the peninsula and diaspora with a temporal emphasis on contemporary literature.
A national catalog of Korean old books and manuscripts. Search by title, keyword, author, and publisher.
Interface in Korean or English with content predominately in Korean.
Searchable database of Korean films with some photographs, movie posters, and viewable movies.
Interface in Korean of English with content predominately in Korean.
""Sori", meaning "sound" in Korean, is simply a physical phenomenon, but it can be significant once it becomes 'successive in order', which is called music. Music is a part of culture and a key element identifying national identity. That is why the Jeollabuk-do administration has spent lots of time and money in building a DB of traditional Korean music."
Interface and content in Korean.
Major Korean Newspapers Online including Tongnip Sinmun (from 1896).
Interface and content in Korean.
Integrated full text database of Korean historical newspapers published from 1896-1963, offering browsable full images by specific dates.
The Korean newspaper archives has important historical values for political, economic, social and cultural studies. Focuses from 1883 to 1960, with 98 newspaper titles with millions of articles (6.2 million) and an index (18 million).
CRL offers a growing collection of newspapers, including newspapers from Korea. Use interlibrary loan to place a request for the newspapers you need and provide the CRL call number.
Interface and content in English.
Japan’s Korean news flagship, its mission to validate the natural justice of Japanese imperialism in Korea, and Japan as the redeeming, organising and modernising force in East Asia. Covers 1907-1937.
BC institutional login required.
Source for official North Korean media, including television, newspapers and online content
1920-1999 including Tonga Ilbo, Kyonghyang Sinmun, Maeil Kyongje, and Hangyorye sinmun (1988-1999)
A specialized site providing news and analysis on current affairs in North Korea.
"Documents the Korean-American community during the period of resistance to Japanese rule in Korea, and reveals the organizational and private experience of Koreans in America between 1903 and 1965."
Collection of photographs, oral histories and other archival documents addressing Korea's democracy and human rights.
"Documenting the histories of Los Angeles." Includes a section on Asian American history.
SEADL's collection focuses on the 16th to the 19th centuries, including maps and photographs.
The World Digital Library is a Library of Congress project sponsored by UNESCO. Items in this digital library, including books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and sound recordings, are individually described and searchable in seven languages. Most countries and regions around the world are represented.
More than 120 reports from 1900 and later available through Hathi trust.
Multiple data points on the Philippines with a focus on 2010 and later.
Official, state data on multiple points from Agriculture to Science and Travel. Coverage depends on topic. Most information focused on the 1980s or later.
Produced by the United Nations Statistics Division, UN Data provides general information on countries around the world. Each country has a page that includes everything from social indicators to economic indicators.
Data from 1960 to the recent past on topics related to demographics and economics.
The Philippine eLib is a collaborative project of the National Library of the Philippines (NLP), University of the Philippines (UP), Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Department of Agriculture (DA), and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). Available resources include:
Union catalog of the five partners; Digitized Filipiniana materials including theses and dissertations; Special collection/researches of the five partners; and, Online resources/subscription to electronic databases.
Government Documents and Reports from 1800 to the 2000s predominately in English and Spanish on Hathi Trust.
Includes documents (e.g., telegrams and reports) from the 1940s to 1970s with particular emphasis on the 1950s.
Includes the Constitutions and Fundamental Laws as well as Commentaries & Other Relevant Sources and more.
This collection contains digitized images, including photographs and slides, that librarians, scholars, and other subject specialists have deemed important to these fields of study will be added to the collection on an ongoing basis. Photographs from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Texts (includes letters, interviews, gazettes, some government reports) from the 20th century.
Interface in English or other, major European languages. Content in multiple languages.
Europe-wide unified search of digitized collections. Images, audio, texts, and more. Funded by the EU. Covers more than 1,000 years of history. Strongest for 1500 to 2000.
The World Digital Library is a Library of Congress project sponsored by UNESCO. Items in this digital library, including books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and sound recordings, are individually described and searchable in seven languages. Most countries and regions around the world are represented.
Original woodblock or brush ink texts and translations of Han Nom texts into modern Romanized Vietnamese collected by Maurice Durand, a prominent Vietnamese/French scholar of Han Nom from the mid-20th century. Han Nom script uses classical Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, while other words are represented using locally created characters based on the Chinese model.
Michigan State Advisory Group online collection
Translations of Vietnamese historical texts, by Liam Kelly, University of Hawaii.
Administrative documents on Saigon, 1880s to 1940s. Provided by Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies.
Phong Hóa, Ngày nay, Su Dia, Bách Khoa, Văn học (1978-2008) through the Institute of Vietnamese Studies.
and Newspapers digitized on Gallica
Tạp chí Nam Phong
Báo Thanh Nghị
Tập san Sử Địa
Tạp chí Phong Hóa
Tạp chí Ngày Nay
Tri Tân
Văn Hóa Ngày Nay
Thế Kỷ 21
Vietnamese colonial era newspapers digitized by the National Library of Vietnam. Text in Vietnamese, images clear.
Đại Việt Tạp chí; Tạp chí Bách Khoa; Tạp chí Việt Nam Khảo cổ Tập san
Vietnamese Journals and Newspapers Digitized by the Center for Research Libraries (available to CRL member libraries and SEAM member libraries)
