AS-specific Databases & Primary Sources
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Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new windowReferences western-language monographs, articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971.
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Japan at War and Peace, 1930-1949: Records of the U.S. State Department Classified Files This link opens in a new windowPrimary source collection covering American/Japanese relations, from before the invasion of Manchuria through postwar reconstruction and economic planning.
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19th Century English Language Journals of the Far East This link opens in a new windowA collection of English-language journals from 19th-century East Asia. Topics include East-West communication, Christianity in Asia, and China's political, economic, and cultural landscape.
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Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers This link opens in a new windowA digital collection of Japanese relocation camp newspapers that record the concerns and the day-to-day life of the interned Japanese-Americans in World War II.
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Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960–1976 This link opens in a new windowThis collection pulls together primary source documents detailing the relationship between the United States and Japan during the formative years of their modern alliance. The documents include records of historic U.S.-Japanese summit meetings; communications between heads of state; top-level internal deliberations; memos, cables and studies concerning U.S. diplomatic relations with Japan; records concerning the U.S.-Japan security relationship; and documents related to trade and international monetary relations with Japan.
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Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1977–1992 This link opens in a new windowThis collection makes available documents dealing with high-level policy making within the U.S. government and the history of U.S.-Japan relations during the last four decades of the twentieth century. These newly obtained documents supplement those found in the first two collections on Japan, and extend the scope of the collections to include the Clinton administration. As with the earlier sets, it covers a wide spectrum of issues and events in the bilateral relationship.
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China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960–1998 This link opens in a new windowThis collection brings together more than 2,000 documents concerning the relationship between the United States and China, with an emphasis on the 1969-1998 time period. The documents include memos, cables, and studies concerning U.S. diplomatic relations with China, records concerning the U.S.-PRC security relationship, documents related to the economic and scientific association with the PRC, and intelligence estimates and studies concerning the PRC's foreign policy objectives, military capabilities, and internal situation.
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Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations: Records of the U.S. State Department’s Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955 This link opens in a new windowDeclassified by the State Department, the Records of the Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955, provide valuable insight into numerous domestic issues in Communist and Nationalist China, U.S. containment policy as it was extended to Asia, and Sino-American relations during the post-war period. This product comprises all 41 reels of the former Scholarly Resources microfilm product entitled Records of the Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955.
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U.S. Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis and Covert Action This link opens in a new windowA compilation of declassified documents concerning U.S. intelligence activities directed at both the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China, from 1945 to the present. Collectively, the records cover a wide time period, a number of collection activities, and analytical products concerning the target nations’ foreign policies; military policies and forces; domestic policies; economies; science, technology and industry; and leadership.
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The United States and the Two Koreas (1969-2000) This link opens in a new windowA collection of recently declassified records documenting the history of U.S. policy toward and relations with South and North Korea from the Nixon to the Clinton administrations. The records cover a wide range of issues, including foreign policy, defense policy, economic and trade relations, and intelligence assessments.
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U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part I: 1954-1968 This link opens in a new windowDocuments the deadliest conflict in modern U.S. history prior to the current war against terrorism. The goal was to assemble both classic and relatively well-known documentary sources as well as the most recent declassified materials, making a single comprehensive resource for primary substantive research on the Vietnam conflict. The principal focus of this collection is on the period of the Vietnam War between 1961 and 1968.
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U.S. Policy in the Vietnam War, Part II: 1969-1975 This link opens in a new windowThe most important compilation of documents available on the final phase of the Vietnam War. Incorporating newly released documents, virtually all previously classified, it covers all the major issues from the period, including diplomatic, military, and intelligence aspects of the Vietnam war during the period of the Nixon and Ford administrations.
AS-relevant Databases
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Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndexes the scholarly literature on the history of the world, excluding the U.S. and Canada. Includes article abstracts and citations of books and dissertations on world history from 1450 to the present.
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CiNii (Scholarly and Academic Information Navigator) This link opens in a new windowCiNii (pronounced "sigh-knee") searches academic papers and articles published in Japan.
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Cambridge Histories Online This link opens in a new windowInstant access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series. Covers economic, political, literary, social history as well as the arts and philosophy.
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MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new windowLiterature, language, linguistics, folklore.
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new windowProvides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science, international relations, law, and public administration & policy.
Multidisciplinary Databases
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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive, scholarly, and multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 12,000 periodicals and 4,700 peer-reviewed journals.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new windowUse the advanced search to search for journal articles within a specific discipline.
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Project Muse This link opens in a new windowProvides 100% full-text, online access to more than 300 titles from prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.
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Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowPeer-reviewed, full-text articles from leading journals and reference sources.
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowFull text of national, regional, and international newspapers, business, and legal sources and more.
