EA 493 “Advanced Research in East Asian Studies”

Resources for Research

Asia

Professor Victor Shmagin’s Digital Asia-related materials list 

World Bank Open Data

UN Population Data Query

 
 
 

China

The Chinese Text Project

National Central Library Taiwan Resources Page

 

Japan

National Archives of Japan

Art Research Center at Ritsumeikan University

CiNii (https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ja): a database of articles in Japanese research journals, some of which are available online. Not as good as JStor, as many articles are not available online, but nonetheless invaluable.
 
National Diet Library: (1) Research Navigator (https://rnavi.ndl.go.jp/rnavi/)—introductions to performing research in various fields and a collection of databases  (2) Digital Collections (http://dl.ndl.go.jp)—scans of premodern and early modern texts (up to pre-war 20th century) in the collection of the NDL.