Lemieux Library: Primary Sources for Research: Asia

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Empire Online
Primary manuscript and rare printed sources documenting cultural contacts, literature of empire, the visible empire and imperial aspects of race, class and religion from 1492-1962.
China: trade, politics & culture, 1793-1980
Primary source material detailing China's interaction with the West from Macartney's first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74.
Cambridge Histories Online
This unique historical reference compendium allows instant access to the renowned texts of the Cambridge Histories series. With access to the most up to date and authoritative scholarly content, Cambridge Histories Online is an invaluable resource, for undergraduates, graduates, lecturers and researchers alike.

Digital South Asia Library
East Asian History Sourcebook
Internet Indian History Sourcebook
Research Center for Digital Humanities (Taiwan)
Digital collections which colonial legal documents, statistics, documents from the Taiwan Provincial Assembly and more.
National Archives of Japan
Afghanistan Digital Library
Over 300 publications from 1871-1930
Panjab Digital Library
Digital collection of regional material in books, magazines and newspapers

National Security Archive: Electronic Briefing Books Asia
Declassified briefs on Asia
Hong Kong Governments Reports Online (1842-1941)
Hong Kong Government Reports Online (HKGRO) is a full-text image database providing online access to pre-World War II issues of five major government publications, namely, Administrative Report, Hong Kong Sessional Papers, Hong Kong Hansard, Hong Kong Government Gazette and Blue Book. I
Birth of the Constitution in Japan
Documents relating to postwar Japan. Japanese (some in English)
Japan Center for Asian Historical Research
JACAR provides access to official documents of the Japanese Cabinet, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Army and Navy.
Japanese Historical Text Initiative
The Japanese Historical Text Initiative (JHTI) is a rapidly expanding database made up of historical texts dating back more than 1200 years. The original version of every paragraph in every text is cross-tagged with its English translation

Anna V. Blough Missionary Letters and Diaries from China
Chinese Pamphlets
Political communication and mass education in the early period of the People's Republic of China
1947-1954
Central Intelligence Agency. China Collection.
The collection of 70 national security estimates spans the pivotal period from the Chinese civil war and the consolidation of the Communist regime through the upheavals of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution
Baptism by Fire: CIA Analysis of the Korean War Overview
This collection includes more than 1,300 documents consisting of national estimates, intelligence memo, daily updates, and summaries of foreign media concerning developments on the Korean Peninsula during 1947 - 1954
Medical History of British India
420 reports covering the 19th and 20th century British India.

Ling Ling Magazines
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.
Tibet Mirror
The Tibet Mirror (Tib. Yul phyogs so so'i gsar 'gyur me long) was published from 1925 to 1963 in Kalimpong, and chronicles the most dramatic social and political transformation in Tibet during a time when vernacular writing was relatively scarce and a Tibetan media practically non-existent.