Asian Studies Resources

This selection of specialized resources in Asian Studies is designed to help you navigate through the wealth of information in Fondren's collections. It is not a comprehensive list.

Indexes & Databases

online | print & CDROM

Online Indexes

Bibliography of Asian Studies

This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide. Through the 1991 printed version, the BAS included citations to western-language periodical articles, individually authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Since 1992, newly published individual monographs are no longer being added to the database. (1971-, updated quarterly)

Bya-ra: a Tibetan Research Database

A database containing over 9700 bibliographic entries to materials located in New York at the Himalayan and Inner Asian Resources (HIAR); the Library of Congress; and university and private holdings in Bloomington, Indiana.

China Academic Journals -- Literature, History, Philosophy

China Academic Journals (CAJ) now contains more than 8,200 journal titles covering 1994–current. In addition, more than 3,500 CAJ titles are also accessible in deep archives from as early as 1906 through 1993 in the Century Journal Project (CJP). CAJ and its complement, CJP, are both accessed through the single interface of CAJ.

Contemporary Authors (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text

Contemporary Authors helps researchers discover biographic details on approximately 100,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, non-fiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters. Current writers as well as the most-studied literary figures of the early 20th century, and authors from around the world whose works have been translated into English or published in the United States are featured.

Contemporary Literary Criticism (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text

CLC presents significant published criticism on the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and other creative writers now living or who died after December 31, 1959. Each entry contains the following: a biographical essay that discusses the author's life, works, and critical importance; critical essays or excerpts taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers, and scholarly journals; and, where available, interviews with featured authors. A complete bibliographical citation prefaces each critical essay and most essays are introduced by a brief annotation that establishes a context and purpose for the criticism. Entries also provide suggestions for further reading.

Dictionary of Literary Biography (courtesy of Texshare) | includes Full Text

The Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB) records the achievements of the world's most influential literary figures. Each entry includes personal data, the author's principal works, and sources for further study.

Historical Abstracts | includes Full Text

Complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts has long been recognized as the leading bibliography for historical study in the world. Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered.

JSTOR | includes Full Text | Source List

JSTOR provides online, fulltext access to over 300 core scholarly journals from date of inception to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years from present. The archived collection includes journals in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The content is searchable by author, title, fulltext with limits by discipline, year, and article type. (Note: pop-up blocking must be disabled.)

Web of Knowledge previously known as Web of Science | includes Full Text

The Web of Science is an integrated database of three citation indexes: Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). SCI and SSCI have searchable author abstracts and each database may be searched by a variety of other accesses including who the author cites. WOS permits searching one or more of the three databases. SCI on WOS coverage is from 1900 to date. SSCI indexes material from 1956 to date. AHCI indexes materials from 1975 to date. Includes ISIHighlyCited: a directory of over 250 eminent researchers in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences and social sciences. (minimum 1975- (see description))

Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB)

ZDB is the largest database of periodicals and serials in the world. It contains over 1,2 million titles in all languages, published from 1500 to the present day. Electronic editions of periodicals are also included. In addition, ZDB lists over 6 million holdings of these titles in 4,300 German libraries.

Print & CDROM Indexes

Newspapers

Microforms located in Government Publications (Fondren basement)
Current issues located in Current Periodicals Room

Asahi Shinbun

Print Holdings:  current 2 months

Call Number:  AN61 .A82

China Daily / Chung kuo jih pao

Print Holdings:  current 2 months

Call Number:  AN10 .C54

Chinese Times

Call Number:  AN4 .T39 C44

Microform Holdings:  11/6/1886-3/28/1891 on microfilm

Dong-A Daily/ Tonga ilbo

Print Holdings:  current 2 months

Call Number:  AN65 .D66

North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette

Call Number:  AN4.S5 N63

Microform Holdings:  1870-1941 on microfilm

Yomiuri Shinbun

Call Number:  AN61 .Y65

Microform Holdings:  1874-1912 on microfilm

Microform Sets

Church Missionary Society Archive

Call Number:  BV 2500.C48A3  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series title with general reel guide

Guide:  Guides for each section. Online information at http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/digital_guides/church_missionary_society_archive_general/editorial%20introduction%20by%20rosemary%20keen.aspx

Sec.1 East Asia, Sec.2 Missions to Women, Sec. 3 Central Records, Sec. IV Africa, Sec. V The Americas, Sec. VI Asia

Colonial Discourses

Call Number:  DA 16.8.C65  microfilm

Library Catalog Access:  series title with general reel guide in contents

Guide:  Series 1,pt.1 only; Online guide at http://www.adam-matthew-publications.co.uk/digital_guides/colonial_discourses_series_one/index.aspx

Series One: Women, travel, and empire, 1660-1914. Part 1: Early travel accounts by women and women's experiences in India, Africa, Australasia, and Canada. Parts 2 & 3: Women and the Orient. Series Two: Imperial adventurers and explorers. Part 1: Papers of Sir Richard Burton. Series Three: Colonial Fiction, 1650-1914. Part 1: Fiction from India.

Text Collections

British Documents on Foreign Affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Series E: Asia.

Call Number:  see Description  STACKS

Part I: 1860-1914: JX632 .B737; Part II: 1914-1939: JX632 .B767; Part III: 1940-1945: JX632 .B8315; Part IV: 1946-1950: JX632 .B835

Reference Works

Asian American Encyclopedia. Franklin Ng. Marshall Cavendish: 1995.

Call Number:  E184.O6 A827   REFERENCE

Atlas of India. S. Muthiah. Oxford University: 1990.

Call Number:  G2280 .A84   REF-ATLAS

Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. Francis Robinson. Cambridge University: 1989.

Call Number:  DS334.9 .C36   REFERENCE

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan. Richard Bowring, Peter Kornicki. Cambridge University Press: 1993.

Call Number:  DS805 .C36   ASIAN REF

Chinese History: a manual. Rev. ed. Endymion Wilkinson. Harvard University Asia Center: 2000.

Call Number:  DS735 .W695   REFERENCE

Dictionary of Asian Mythology. David Leeming. Oxford University Press: 2001.

Available Online

Call Number:  BL1005 .L46 2001   STACKS

Encyclopaedia of Indian Culture. R.N. Saletore. Humanities Press: 1981-1985.

Call Number:  DS423 .S218   REFERENCE

Encyclopedia Japonica/ Dai Nihon hyakka jiten. 2 ed. 1972.

Call Number:  AE35.2 .E53   STACKS

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Japanese Culture. Sandra Buckley. Routledge: 2002.

Call Number:  DS822.5 .E516   ASIAN REF

Encyclopedia of World Cultures. David Levinson. G.K. Hall: 1991-1996.

Call Number:  GN307 .E53   REFERENCE

v.1 North America; v.2 Oceania; v.3 South Asia; v.4 Europe (Central, Western, and Southeastern Europe); v.5 East and Southeast Asia; v.6 Russia and Eurasia, China; v.7 South America; v.8 Middle America and the Caribbean; v.9 Africa and the Middle East; v.10 Indexes

Historic World Leaders. Anne Commire. Gale: 1994.

Call Number:  CT104 .H57   REFERENCE

v.1 Africa, Middle East, Asia, Pacific; v.2-3 Europe; v.4-5 North & South America

Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Korea. Andrew C. Nahm. Scarecrow Press: 1993.

Call Number:  DS909 .N34   ASIAN REF

International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages

IEMA Online is a supplement to Lexikon des Mittelalters online, providing original articles that cover the time period 300-1500 CE, in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.

Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Kodansha: 1983.

Call Number:  DS805 .K633   ASIAN REF

Lexikon des Mittelalters online

The standard encyclopaedia for medieval studies. It deals with all branches of Medieval Studies and covers the period from 300 to 1500 AD/CE for the whole of Europe and parts of the Middle East and North Africa. Users can perform automatic bibliographic searches in the International Medieval Bibliography Online.

Modern Japanese Novelists: a biographical dictionary. John Lewell. Kodansha International: 1993.

Call Number:  PL747.55 .L48   ASIAN REF

Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature. Earl Miner, Hiroko Odagiri, and Robert E. Morrell. Princeton University Press: 1985.

Call Number:  PL726.1 .M495   ASIAN REF

Who Was Who in the People's Republic of China. Wolfgang Bartke. K.G. Sauer: 1997.

Call Number:  DS778 .A1 B32   REFERENCE

Websites

Digital South Asia Library

A project of the Center for Research Libraries, this Website provides access to information about contemporary and historical South Asia – including full-text documents, statistical data, electronic images, cartographic representations, and pedagogical resources for language instruction.

Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR)

The Digital Asia Library, based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a cooperative project of The Ohio State University Libraries, the University of Minnesota Libraries, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. The project provides a user-friendly, searchable catalog through which researchers and students have quick and easy access to high quality Web resources originating in Asia. The catalog includes freely available Internet resources for research and study of modern East, South, and Southeast Asia on a broad range of topics in the social sciences. Resources are from various sources including academic, government, commercial, trade and industry, and non-governmental organizations.

Transliteration Tables for Non-Roman Scripts

A useful resource from the Library of Congress.

Films at Fondren Library

The following are live WebCat searches which retrieve current lists of our films in the languages specified, most of which have English subtitles. (* DVDs with subtitle options in the language are also retrieved at the present due to a technical problem.) The Language Resource Center also collects foreign-language films. You can search their catalog on the Language Resource Center Website.

Chinese Films

Hindi Films

Indonesian Films

Japanese Films

Tibetan Films

You can also search our catalog for a specific film by title, director or main actors (via author search); or, on the power search page, you can limit a keyword search to films by selecting a format of "VM" (Visual Materials).

Checkout for films is as follows:

Videotape 1 films (documentaries) circulate to all Rice patrons for a week.

Videotape 2 films (feature films) circulate to Faculty for 3 days; Staff and Students can view the films inside the Library (we have recently upgraded our viewing equipment).