Tagged: Asia

Encyclopedia of Buddhism Online

Brill’s Encyclopedia of Buddhism is the first comprehensive academic reference work devoted to the plurality of Buddhist traditions across Asia, offering readers a balanced and detailed treatment of this complex phenomenon in six thematically arranged volumes literature and languages (I, publ. 2015), lives (II, publ. 2019), thought (III, forthcoming 2022),

Asian Development Bank Publications

ADB is a multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific. The University Library is an ADB depository library.

Yomidas Rekishikan ヨミダス歴史館

Yomidas Rekishikan is the full text database of the Yomiuri shinbun, Japan’s largest newspaper. Coverage ranges from 1874 to the present. More than 11 million Japanese-language articles from the Yomiuri shinbun 読売新聞 are supplemented by English-language articles from the Daily Yomiuri (1989-present). Am image file and biographical sketches (Who’s Who

Shun Bao 申报 = Shanghai News

The ShunBao (Shen Bao) database is composed of the digitized issues of the Shanghai, China newspaper published from 1872 to 1949. Considered by many to be the longest lasting and most influential newspaper in modern China, the publication covered the major political and social developments for over half a century.

Historical Abstracts

Citations to articles on the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America:history and life.) Indexes more than 2000 journals worldwide.

Digital South Asia Library [via CRL and U of Chicago]

“The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users” It includes books, journals, maps, photographs, statistics and much more.