Spotlight on Asian Resources from East View

East Asia Book Vault

US-hosted e-books from top-tier Chinese publishers
East View has assembled a selection of e-books covering hundreds of different topics from premier scholarly publishers in China, including East China Normal University Press (华东师范大学出版社), Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House (上海文艺出版社), Shanghai People’s Publishing House (上海人民出版社), and Social Sciences Academic Press (社会科学文献出版社).
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Manhua Digital Archive

State-sponsored pictorial magazine published in China through the 1950s
The satirical magazine Manhua (漫画; 漫画月刊) is now available as a fully searchable digital archive. The magazine features cartoons and other illustrations depicting daily life as well as calls-to-action for various political initiatives.
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The Chinese Soviet Republic

History of the Chinese Communist Party and its first significant concrete incarnation – the Chinese Soviet Republic
A collection of bulletins, letters, telegrams, and other documents originating from the Chinese Soviet Republic, a short-lived communist state founded by Mao Zedong and Zhu De on November 7, 1931. Part of East View Archive Editions, each of the thousands of items in the collection is richly tagged, full-text searchable, and browseable by people, places, topics, and document types. Items are also georeferenced in a map view, both by geographic origin of the document and by locations associated with items in the collections.
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English Reader

Valuable add-on to East View’s Jiefangfun Bao (PLA Daily) Digital Archive
Leveraging advanced AI technology, English Reader is an optional add-on service that provides high-quality, accurate, and fluent English translations of all articles in the Jiefangjun Bao (PLA Daily) Digital Archive. English Reader dramatically increases accessibility and efficiency, allowing users to search the archive bilingually and switch back and forth between Chinese and English.
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China Research Gateway (CRG)

CRG transforms library access to Chinese resources by combining multiple databases into one package, supported by an accessible and user-friendly English-language portal. CRG presents the full spectrum of Chinese research, with comprehensive support for multiple fields of study including STEM, social science, and humanities disciplines.
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China Social Science Journals (UDB-CSSJ)

Collection of journals from Social Sciences Academic Press
Published by the prestigious Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP, 社会科学文献出版社), a branch of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China Social Science Journals (UDB-CSSJ) comprises a collection of quality Chinese-language academic journals, offering a valuable resource for scholars and researchers engaged in social science research. All content is hosted in the United States.
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TBMC Resources

A wealth of resources from Taiwan
East View Information Services is pleased to offer a wide range of resources from Transmission Books & Microinfo Co., Ltd. (TBMC), a well-known online content producer from Taiwan. Content includes newspapers, periodicals, government documents, poetry, and more.
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PKU Law

A comprehensive collection of Chinese legal information
The premier academic and professional legal database in China, PKU Law (also known as ChinaLawInfo, CLI, LawInfoChina) contains a comprehensive record of historical laws and regulations from both the government and the Communist Party of China dating back to 1921 (formation of CCP). Collections in the PKU Law universe that are available for package or individual purchase include educational video materials, analysis tools, and reference works.
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The Japan Times Weekly Digital Archive

Chronicle of domestic and international affairs in Japan during the outbreak of WWII
A 50-page English-language weekly covering international and domestic affairs in Japan during the outbreak of WWII. Coverage by both Japanese and non-Japanese journalists provides insight into the English-reading community of Japan, as well as the image that Japan’s editorial censors hoped to convey overseas.
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More resources from Asia

Newspaper and journal digital archives
Open Access collections
Print and online periodicals
Print books and e-books
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Census Data
  • East View’s Global Census Archive offers robust coverage of Asia, with content ranging from the 1880s to the present.
    • Official census publications ranging from as early as 1881 to the present for over 25 countries in the region, with an expanding collection that now includes data from the 2020 census rounds for Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Mongolia, Philippines, and Singapore.
    • Tabular data for over 8,000 items (or 225 sets).
    • Authoritative GIS census datasets for Cambodia (1998, 2008), China (2010), Hong Kong (2011, 2016), India (2011), Japan (1995, 2005, 2015), Laos (2005, 2015), Malaysia (1991, 2000), Myanmar (2014), and Philippines (2015).
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