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The Association for Asian Studies

2007-08-02T18:07:44+02:00

Cited description: The Association for Asian Studies (AAS)—the largest society of its kind in the world—is a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia. It seeks through publications, meetings, and seminars to facilitate contact and an exchange of information among scholars to increase their understanding of East, South, and Southeast Asia. It counts among its members scholars, business people, diplomats, journalists, and interested lay persons.

Description: The Association for Asian Studies was founded in 1941, originally as publisher of the Far Eastern Quarterly . Besides publishing several newsletters and journals on Asian Studies (such as the Journal of Asian Studies , the Asian Studies Newsletter etc.) the AAS holds annual meetings which are devoted to planned programs of scholarly papers, round table discussions and panel sessions on a wide range of problems in research and teaching, and on Asian affairs in general. This site provides some general information on the AAS as well as access to their newsletter and more.

Chinalawinfo.com : 北大法律信息网

2008-06-18T17:31:42+02:00

Description: The database contains 146.000 documents from 1949 onwards. Covered are state and local laws and regulations.
In cases the Beijing server does not accept the IP-authentication please try this platform: http://erf.sbb.spk-berlin.de/han/lawinfochinachinesisch.

ProQuest Dissertations &Theses Fulltext

2010-01-12T15:07:21+01:00

Cited description: "ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. The official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT — Full Text includes 2.7 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1.2 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works."

中国报纸资源全文数据库 : Apabi China newspapers full-text database

2010-02-09T13:07:32+01:00

Description: The database gives access to a collection of national and regional Chinese newspapers from 2007 until now. Searches in full text, author, title, time range, picture captions etc., as well as online reading are avaible for the following selection of newspapers:< br /> 解放日报, 东方早报, 北京晨报, 中华合作时报, 中国文物报 starting with 2007; < br /> 人民日报, 每日新报, 都市快报, 武汉晨报, 三湘都市报, 南方都市报, 三峡都市报, 西海都市报, 兰州鑫报 starting with 12.2009.
To read the latest edition of these newspapers you will often still have to go to the respective web page of the newspaper or to here. With a delay of a few days they will be available and searchable through the database.

Since mid 2011 the Newspaper database has moved to a new platform. The old platform is still accessible here.

Registered CrossAsia users who want to take advantage of the functions provided by the Apabi Reader should use the terminal server connection to China newspapers. Please note, that to do so Java runtime 1.5 is needed! Read the requirements. To read the newspapers the Citrix-server you get connected to will provide an Internet Explorer and the Apabi reader which is necessary to download and read the newspapers. A help files for both platforms are provided.

中国年鉴资源全文数据库 : Apabi yearbooks

2009-01-05T17:08:54+01:00

Description: Access to the collection of subscribed Apabi yearbooks.
The Yearbook database is now integrated into the Apabi Digital Library platform. To access the "old" (but already web-based) version of the ressource follow this: LINK.

Western Books on China

2009-05-19T16:50:18+02:00

Cited description: This new online collection comprises a descriptive, annotated bibliography of 654 early Western books on Imperial China up to 1850, all to be found in the Library of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. The collection is based on the book Western Books on China published up to 1850 by John Lust.
The material is of unique historical interest, containing scrutiny of China by Western societies. The material contains an abundance of observations. The books, in a variety of Western languages, testify to the formidable difficulties encountered by Westerners, who attempted to extend their own familiar historical, linguistic and religious perceptions to the Chinese context.

Please note that you may also use this database in a terminal server session

North China Herald Online : 字林星期周刊

2011-11-25T12:39:40+01:00

Cited description: The English North China Herald is universally acclaimed as the prime printed source in any language for the history of the foreign presence in China from around 1850 to the 1940s.

During this so-called ‘treaty century’ (1842-1943) the Great Western Powers established a strong presence in China through their protected enclaves in the major cities.

It was published in Shanghai, at the heart of China’s dealing with the Euro-American world and a city at the forefront of developments in Chinese politics, culture, education and the economy. As the official journal for British consular notifications, and announcements of the Shanghai Municipal Council, it is the first – and sometimes only – point of reference for information and comment on a range of foreign and Chinese activities.

Regularly it also features translations of Chinese official notifications and news. The Herald had correspondents across the whole of China. These supplied a constant stream of news of an incredible variety, such as, apart from news and gossip reflecting the social, cultural and political life of the foreign settlements; trade statistics, stock prices, Chinese news, essays on Chinese culture and language, law reports from foreign courts in the settlements, company reports, news on foreign social, cultural and political life, maps, cartoons, photographs, stock prices and law and company reports, advertisements, tables of tea, silk and cotton exports, or long-forgotten facts about missionaries, birth, marriage, and death announcements, facts about other foreign nationals – the French, Danish, Italian, German, Dutch, and so on. Although a thriving treaty port press developed over the century of the foreign presence, no other newspaper existed over such an extended period, and covers it in such incredible depth and variety. The dense unindexed columns of the Herald offer therefore an indispensable, still largely unexplored treasure-trove for any scholar of modern Chinese history. War, revolution and politics have conspired to destroy library holdings or frustrate access to publications from China’s treaty century. The fully text-searchable North China Herald online is one of the primary sources on a period which continues to shape much of China’s world and worldview.

Description: You may browse the periodical by year and issue or search full text with the option of confining your search to a certain issue, year or time range.
The hit list shows snippets, when opened the scanned image of the original page is shown in PDF format, the search term is highlighted und you may copy-paste passages of the text. While the database always opens one whole issue, printing and downloading is confined to the page that is currently shown. The downloaded PDF files stays full text searchable.

人民复印报刊资料 : Renmin fuyin baokan ziliao - nicht mehr verfügbar s. Beschreibung!

2008-11-11T14:19:49+01:00

Cited description: Access to the index and fulltext of the renmin fuyin ziliao. These are comprised of the Fuyin baokan ziliao "suoyin" zonghui which is a selected index to academic journal articles from 3000+ periodicals in Chinese for the years 1978-2001; the second set is the Fuyin baokan ziliao quanwen shuju which is a full-text database set for a subset of the same collection for the years 1995+. You can also search the index and the full text database at the same time through the Web database.

Description: Since Nov. 2008 access to this database is not available through the host. So far, there is no new host available.

东方杂志 : The Eastern Miscellany - ist i.d.R. nicht verfügbar. s. xA Forum

2010-02-09T11:53:10+01:00

Description: Shanghai, published between 3. November 1904 and December 1948.

Contains: 44 juan 卷 (volumes), 819 qi 期 (numbers), 813 ce 册 (books), 3 kinds of zengkan 增刊 (supplements), 46 kinds zhuanhao 专号 and jinianhao 纪念号 (special numbers and commemorative numbers), 22 kinds of zhuanji 专辑and teji 特辑 (special editions).

Published: Monthly, later fortnightly, then monthly again. The period of publication spans the important events and periods of modern Chinese history since 1904, e.g.: the end of the Qing dynasty, Xinhai geming 辛亥革命 (Xinhai Revolution), Wusi yundong 五四运动 (May Fourth Movement [1919]), Kang-Ri zhanzheng 抗日战争 (Anti-Japanese War) Jiefang zhanzheng 解放战争 (War of Liberation).

(Under the editorship of Wang Yunwu 王芸五 [1877-1979], the journal reappeard in Taiwan from July 1967 to 1990. These volumes are not contained in this digitized collection.)

All volumes can be searched under the following headings: Juanqi 卷期 (numbers), Lanmu 栏目 (columns), Zhuanye 专业 (fields of study), Shijian 事件 (events), Renwu 人物 (people), Tekan 特刊 (special editions). (N.b.: Non-Chinese/Western personal names are arranged alphabetically and listed under first names.)
Originally, 15 columns included topics like: Instructions, Internal Affairs, Military Affairs, Foreign Relations, Education, Industry and Commerce, Literature.
In 1911, under editor-in-chief Du Yaquan 杜亚泉, the format was changed to sextodecimo (shiliu kai 十六开), and the issues appeared fortnightly, containing approximately 100.000-200.000 characters. More pictures were included and the diversity of subject matter was enlarged by new columns, such as Latest Politics, Economy, Ideology, Science and Scholarship, Societal Questions; newly added were selected articles in translation.
After the May Fourth Movement (1919), editor-in-chief Hu Yuzhi 胡愈之 introduced the modern colloquial language Baihua 白话 and made the publication accessible to a wider audience lacking knowledge in literary classical Chinese. New columns were introduced, such as Time-critical Commentary, New World Currents, The Literary Garden. Dongfang zazhi evolved and finally became an encompassing journal of social sciences with the longest lifespan in China. At the Shanghai yinshuguan, it ranks among the most important publications in the history of the publishing house.

LawInfoChina : 北大法律英文网

2007-11-02T13:49:09+01:00

Description: The database offers to access to Chinese laws in English translation as well as some hundred case studies, texts of international collective agreements and WTO-documents. Additionally, there are always up-date-news on Chinese legislation, TOCs of official gazettes and learned journals. Searches can be performed either in Enlish or in Chinese. The results may be displayed in both, English and Chinese.
Please note that LawInfoChina is not the English version of Chinalawinfo.com. In case the IP-authentication on the Beijing server does not work please try this platform: http://erf.sbb.spk-berlin.de/han/lawinfochinaenglisch/.

CiNii articles

2007-12-05T15:16:54+01:00

Cited description: CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator, pronounced like "sigh-knee") is a database service that enables searching of information on academic articles published in academic society journals or university research bulletins, or articles included in the National Diet Library's Japanese Periodicals Index Database.

Description: The records collected in 'CiNii articles' come from various sources and in some cases the database navigates the user to the original source of the record in order to provide the full text of the article. The database offers access to full texts for about one forth of the records. 'CiNii articles' contains an article, an author and a full text search. Via the link "CiNii Journal with full text Directory" it is possible to browse the table of contents of the respective journals.

Wanfang New Local Gazetteers : 万方新方志

2011-11-10T15:26:42+01:00

Description: Wanfang data's New Local Gazetteers database gives access to currently (10.2011) 10.931 titles falling into the greater genre of local monographs published in the PRC since 1949. It contains not only the local gazetteers of the different provinces, districts, counties and cities but also special monographs on, for example, the food industry or traffic administration of a certain area, as well as treatises on regional toponyms or famous persons.

Local gazetteers are mostly officially sponsored and initiated and follow certain compilation rules. But they contain valuable details and accounts on larger and smaller administrative units of the PRC and thus provide important source materials for studying modern and contemporary China.

The database may be searched by region, topic, resource type etc. and also by full text (which was done with OCR). Hit lists may be further drilled down by facets. A PDF of the smallest unit a hit belongs to is provided for reference and download. Together these units amount to more than 3,3 mio. No PDF of the whole title is offered.

Linden-Museum Stuttgart

2011-10-31T12:12:33+01:00

Cited description: We are a museum of world cultures. We believe that all cultures have equal value.
Our area of interest encompasses the human cultural memory.
Our collections challenge and motivate us.
We present the diversity of human cultures and facilitate direct emotional and intellectual encounters with the original objects in our collections.
We make visitors aware of cultural processes occurring in the past, in the present, and in the future.
We provide a forum for dialogue between people of different cultures.
Our visitors are the life of our museum. We strive to make it attractive to them.
We are an active partner in both world-wide and local networks.
We are a team and we achieve our goals as a team.
We continue to develop as a museum.

Description: Ethnographic Museum with large Asian / East Asian collections; selected items online. Publications.

Cahiers de Linguistique - Asie orientale

2011-10-30T11:50:35+01:00

Cited description: The Cahiers is an international linguistics journal whose mission is to publish new and original research on the analysis of languages of the Asian region, be they descriptive or theoretical. This clearly reflects the broad research domain of our laboratory: the Centre for Linguistic Research on East Asian Languages (CRLAO). The journal was created in 1977 by Viviane Alleton and Alain Peyraube and has been directed by four successive teams of editors, all professors based at the CRLAO in Paris. An Editorial Board, composed of scholars from around the world, assists in the reviewing process and in a consultative role.

One volume of the journal appears regularly every year, comprising two issues of approximately 150 pages each. Contributions are published mainly in English, but also in French and Chinese.

The Cahiers reaches an international readership and is equally international in terms of its authors who come from universities and research centres in Europe, North America, China, Japan and Australia.

The subject and author index is available on this website and lists all the articles published since 1978.

Note that in 1993, an associated Collection des Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale was created which currently comprises 12 books.

Orientalisme, Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire - Lausanne

2011-10-30T11:47:52+01:00

Description: Oriental collection of the Lausanne University library

Department of Oriental Languages and Cultures, Lausanne

2011-10-30T11:22:03+01:00

Cited description: The Department

The courses offered at the Department of Oriental Languages and Civilisations aim at a wide knowledge of the Indian civilisation, including the extensions of that civilisation outside the Indian subcontinent, mainly in Tibet and in the Far-East. The teaching is primarily based on philological study of original texts, presupposing a knowledge of the languages in which these texts were composed. The texts are situated in their context by analysing their historical, social, cultural, religious, philosophical or literary aspects. They focus on systems of thought, religious traditions and sciences of the Indian subcontinent, as well as on Indian Buddhism and its developments elsewhere in Asia (mainly Tibetan, Chinese or Japanese Buddhism). The Department encourages interdisciplinarity and collaborates actively with the Interfaculty Department of the History and Study of Religions (DIHSR).

The languages studied are Sanskrit and Tibetan, periodically Vedic Sanskrit, Pali, Buddhist Chinese and Khotanese. Hindi is taught in the DIHSR. Chinese and Japanese can be studied in the University of Geneva.

The Department is also an active center of research, as can be seen by the publications of its members and the projects in which they participate, as well as the doctoral theses and international collaborations. Various scholars specialized in oriental studies have visited Lausanne to pursue their research. Documentary resources are available in the rich collection of the oriental section of the Bibliothèque Cantonale et Universitaire (BCU).

Pitaka

2011-10-30T11:15:26+01:00

Description: private homepage with several topical link lists on buddhist studies and Jodo-Shinshu.

Société asiatique

2011-10-30T09:10:57+01:00

Description: Homepage of the French Asian Society (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres). General information, list of members and publication; library information

Journal Asiatique

2011-10-30T09:03:34+01:00

Cited description: Supplements: Cahiers de la Société Asiatique

Summary:
The Journal Asiatique , started in 1822, is the oldest orientalist journal published in France and the official organ of the Société Asiatique de Paris. Since its inception, it has been devoted to the publication of highly erudite articles presenting the results of new and achieved researches. Initially mostly devoted to orientalist philology and history, it has come to cover all the disciplines of both the humanities and the social sciences for an area stretching from the Near East to Japan. Besides French, the languages accepted for publication are English, German, Italian, and Spanish.

Description: refereed journal by the French Société Asiatique, published since 1822. Only general information about the journal, contact details. Online shopping.

Asia in Extenso

2011-10-29T11:18:42+02:00

Description: Asia in Extenso, an on line research publication on Asia, publishes research papers in the fields of economics, management, the development of the Asian countries, as well as articles on history, geography, or sociology relating to those countries.

Asia in Extenso replaces Japon in Extenso, a quarterly research publication with 58 issues between 1985 and 2002