Research Guides: History: East Asia: China, Japan, Mongolia, North and South Korea, & Taiwan: Overview

Background & Reference

Bibliography of Asian Studies (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Subjects pertaining to East, Southeast, & South Asia published worldwide from 1971-
Oxford Bibliographies: Chinese Studies This link opens in a new window
Overviews & annotated bibliographies covering the study of China across all disciplines

A Companion to Chinese History
Overview of the latest intellectual developments in the study of China's history from the ancient past up until the present day.
A Companion to Japanese History
30 chapters of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan's history.

Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
World history from 1450-
Library Catalog - Advanced This link opens in a new window
A subset of Library Search that finds only materials owned by SMU Libraries, such as books, journals, movies, etc.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Fulltext of the entire back issues of scholarly journals

China: Culture and Society This link opens in a new window
Primary & secondary sources on China, 1750-1929
China: Trade, Politics & Culture This link opens in a new window
Original source material detailing China's interaction with the West
Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspaper Collection (1832-1953) This link opens in a new window
Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post (1903-1999) This link opens in a new window
Translations of the Peking Gazette Online This link opens in a new window
English translations of news from the Qing dynasty, 1793-1912
China, America and the Pacific This link opens in a new window
Archival material about relationships between China, America, & the Pacific region from the 1700s-1900s
Foreign Office Files for China, 1910-1980 This link opens in a new window
British Foreign Office files about China, Hong Kong, & Taiwan
Propaganda and the Chinese Press: Global Perspectives, 1946-1996 This link opens in a new window

Foreign Office Files for Japan, 1919-1952 This link opens in a new window
British Foreign Office files about Japanese relations
Meiji Japan This link opens in a new window
Manuscript material of Edward S. Morse, relating to bringing Japan & the West closer together