Asian History
General
- World Wide Web Virtual Library for Asian Studies - http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
The World Wide Web Virtual Libraries are the gold standard for academic information on the Web. This site is searchable and browseable and covers historical and contemporary materials for the region and for individual countries.
- East and Southeast Asia - http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&programs/AsianStudiesDept/
This list of well organized and annotated links presents information about historical and contemporary Asia.
- Internet East Asian History Sourcebook - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html
A series of essays and texts concerning the history of China, Japan and Korea
- British Museum Ancient World Civilizations - http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/education/ancientcivilizations/index.html
Cleverly designed online exhibit covering ancient China and India.
China
- Academic Info Chinese History - http://www.academicinfo.net/chinahist.html
Scroll past the advertisements to find links to reliable Web information on Chinese history.
- China: Fifty Years of Communism - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/09/99/china_50_years_of_communism/456465.stm
Excellent report from the BBC about the last fifty years of Chinese History.
- Frontline: China in the Red - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/red/
Site includes the complete video of a PBS documentary about China's transition from a Communist to a capitalist economy.
- Internet Guide for China Studies - http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/
Browse this excellent site for links to reliable Web Sites about China.
India
- Academic Info History of India - http://www.academicinfo.net/indiahist.html
Scroll past the advertisements to find links to reliable Web information on the history of India.
- Internet Indian History Sourcebook - http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/india/indiasbook.html
An extensive collection of links and original source material on the history,
religion and culture of the whole subcontinent, from the earliest times.
Japan
- Academic Info Japanese History - http://academicinfo.net/japanhist.html
Scroll past the advertisements to find an excellent list of links about Japanese history.
- Japan in World History - http://www.indiana.edu/~japan/iguides/whistory.html
A selective list of excellent Web sites relating Japanese history.
- Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire -
http://www.pbs.org/empires/japan/
Online version of an excellent PBS program about Edo Japan.
- WWW Sites for Japanese History - http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/eac/histwww.htm
Extensive list of links frpm Duke University.
Southeast Asia
- Southeast Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library - http://web.archive.org/web/20040206044329/http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/wwwvl/southeast.html
A useful directory of information about Vietnam, Cambodia, Burma, Laos, Thailand etc.
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