Library

Bowdoin College Library Catalog
Books, videos, government documents, etc. in Bowdoin's library.

NExpress
A combined catalog containing the library holdings of Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Wellesley, Williams, Middlebury, and Northeastern. Requests take 2-3 days.

MaineCat
Includes the holdings of most Maine libraries. Requests take 2-5 days

WorldCat
A combined database of many library catalogs worldwide. Request items found in WorldCat through our Interlibrary Loan service.

Asia

Encyclopedia of Asian History
Ref DS31 E53 1988 4 vols.

Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
Ref DS4 .L48 2002 6 vols.

The Far East and Australasia
Ref DS1 F3
1969-present
Latest 5 volumes in Main Reference

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
Microfiche & CD-Rom
Daily Reports for all Asian Countries from 1977-Sept. 13, 1996

World News Connection
Online version of preceeding FBIS; covers from 1996-present

Religions of the World:A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices
4 volume set
Ref BL80.3.R452002

South Asia

South Asia
Ref DS331 S6518 2007

Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
Ref DS334.9 C36 1989

Historical Atlas of South Asia
Ref G2261 S1 H5 1992

Southeast Asia

Dictionary of the Modern Politics of South-East Asia
Ref DS525.7 L45 1996

Southeast Asia: a Historical Encyclopedia from Angkor Wat to East Timor
Ref DS524 S68 2004 3 vols.

Bangladesh

Historical Dictionary of Bangladesh
Ref DS394.5 B39 2003

Burma

Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)
Ref DS528.34 S44 2006

China

Historical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China
Ref DS777.55 S835 2007

Cambridge Encyclopedia of China
Ref DS705 C35 1991

Cambridge History of China
DS735 C3145
Continuing Series

China: Facts & Figures: Annual Handbook
Ref DS779.15 C48
1978-present

China Statistical Yearbook
Main HA4631 S832
1995-present
Latest volume in Main Reference

The Columbia History of Chinese Literature
PL2265.C65 2001

Cultural Atlas of China
Ref DS721 B56 1998

Dictionary of the Politics of the People's Republic of China
Ref DS 777.75 D53 1998

Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy
Ref B126. E496 2003

Encyclopedia of China: The Essential Reference to China, It's History and Culture
Ref DS 705.P47 1999

The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature
Ref Z3108.L5 I53 1986 2 vols.

Republic of China 1988
Ref DS799.83 R46 1988

The State of China Atlas
Ref G2305 B46 1999

Twentieth Century China: an annotated bibliography of reference works in Chinese, Japanese and Western language.
Z1035.8 C5 C45 2004

Chinese-American Calender for the 102 Chinese Years 1849-1951.
Govt. L 3.2:C

India

Encyclopedia of India
DS405 .E556 2006 4 vols.

Historical Dictionary of India
Ref DS405 M27 2006

Cultural Atlas of India
Ref DS421 J6 1996

Encyclopaedia of Indian culture
Ref DS423 S218 1985 5 vols.

Indonesia

Historical Dictionary of Indonesia
Ref DS633 C75 2004

Japan

Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan
Ref DS805 C36 1993

Cambridge History of Japan
Main DS835 C36 1988 6 vols.

Cultural Atlas of Japan
Ref DS821 C62 1988

Japan Encyclopedia
Ref DS821 F73 2002

Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan
Ref DS805 K633 1983
9 vols.

Modern Japan: an encyclopedia of history
Ref DS805 M63 1998

Korea

Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Korea
Ref DS904.8 N34 2004

Nepal

Historical Dictionary of Nepal
Ref DS494.5 S58 2003

Pakistan

The Encyclopedia of Pakistan
Ref DS376.8 E53 2006

Thailand

Historical Dictionary of Thailand
Ref DS571 S578 2005

Vietnam

Historical Dictionary of Vietnam
Ref DS556.25 D85 2006

Periodicals

To see a list of Asian periodicals owned by Bowdoin, search by subject using the country or region, followed by subheading "periodicals"

Examples:

Region

• Asia - Periodicals
• Asia Southeastern - Periodicals
• South Asia - Periodicals

By Country

• Cambodia - Periodicals
• China - Periodicals
• India - Periodicals
• Japan - Periodicals
• Korea - Periodicals

Newspapers

To see a list of Asian Newspapers owned by Bowdoin, search by subject using the country or region, followed by subheading "newspapers"

Examples:

• China - Newspapers; People's Daily, web version; China Daily, electronic subscription.

To locate Video Recordings search by country, region or subject and limit to material type "video recording".

Examples:

• China
• Japan
• India

Online Music

• Smithsonian Global Sound

Asia

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
Supported by the Australian National Library, this major scholarly site is a research tool for Asian societies, politics, economics, histories and cultures. ASVL includes links to 60 individual countries and 8 regions.

PAIR: Portal to Asian Internet Resources
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/PAIR/
"More than six thousand professionally selected, cataloged and annotated online resources within 25 different subtopic areas."

Library of Congress Country Studies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/
Area handbooks of many countries of the world describing and analyzing political, economic, and social systems. See China, Japan, India, South Korea, and several other Asian countries.

World FactBook
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
World FactBook produced by the CIA has statistical facts and figures on population, government, economy, geography, etc

Foreign Government Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html
This award winning political science web site done by the University of Michigan has an excellent section on Asia and the Pacific -- by country -- and has other interesting topics.

Asian Studies Network Information Center
http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/
There are many good links from ASNIC at this award winning site from the University of Texas at Austin.

Asian Studies Search Engine Guide
http://www.ciolek.com/SearchEngines.html#asia
This engine covers Web Sites of ten established Asian Studies organizations plus links to sixteen Asian Pacific country-specific search engines

East and Southeast Asia
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept
A well done annotated directory of internet resources done at University of Redlands covering politics, culture and history.

National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)
http://www.nbr.org
The NBR conducts advanced research on contemporary policy-related issues in Asia and is a global clearinghouse for Asian research with many useful links.

Libweb:Library Information Servers
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/
Links to Asian Universities & Libraries.

Library Catalogs by country
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/amlc/clibs.htm
Links to Asian Libraries and their catalogs.

Association for Asian Studies
http://www.aasianst.org/
The home page for the major society of Asian Studies provides information for scholars & researchers.

Asian Library: University of British Columbia
http://www.library.ubc.ca/asian
The Asian Library at the University of British Columbia has a beautiful home page with links to good web resources.

Digital Asia Library
http://digitalasia.library.wisc.edu/
Provided by Ohio State University Libraries, University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Libraries

H-Asia
http://www.h-net.org/~asia/
An international electronic discussion group established in 1994. H-Asia is especially committed to discussing region wide, comparative and professional issues important to scholars of Asia.

East Asia

East Asian Studies Internet Resources
http://www2.library.ucla.edu/libraries/eastasian/e_asia.htm
A well done annotated multilingual site done by the East Asian Library of UCLA.

East Asian Resources
http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvard-yenching
Harvard-Yenching Library has selected links for China, Japan & Korea.

East Asian History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html
Great source for Chinese, Japanese and Korean history. Differentiates between primary & secondary sources.

Council on East Asian Studies
http://www.yale.edu/ycias/ceas/
List provided by the council on East Asian Studies at Yale.

East Asian Libraries Cooperative
http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/
Produced by Ohio State University, project's goal is to support research on East Asia by creating electronic resources for scholars.

The Tibetan & Himalayan digital library
http://www.thdl.org/
"Multilingual studies, multimedia learning resources, and creative works concerned with the area's environments, cultures, and histories."

South Asia

Digital South Asia Library
http://dsal.uchicago.edu
DSAL is a project of the Center for Research Libraries providing digital materials for research to scholars on South Asia.

BOOKS - South Asian Writers
http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/~mmurali/sabooks.html
Contains books of South Asian literature written in English. Extensive resources of books written by South Asian authors, offered in both English translations (61 texts) and original languages. Includes historical and political texts (Gandhi, etc.) and South Asian feminist literature.

South Asian Women's Net (SAWNET)
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/
Sites on women's issues in Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Burma, Bangladesh, and Bhutan abound in this exceptional online directory. Links are organized by topic and country.

Digital South Asian Library
http://dsal.uchicago.edu

Manas: History & Politics of India
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/Southasia/History/mainhist.html

Sarai (South Asia Resource Access on the Internet)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/web/indiv/southasia/curve

South Asian Diaspora
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/diaspora.html

South Asian History
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/mdamodaran/sabooks.html

South Asian Language Resource Center
http://salrc.uchicago.edu

South Asia Net
http://www.une.edu.au/%7Earts/SouthAsiaNet/sites.htm

South Asia Resources
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/SSEAL/SouthAsia/

Southeast Asia

Southeast Asian Images and Text
http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/seait
Southeast Asian Images and Text, a joint production of the Center for South Asian Studies and the University of Wisconsin, currently covers the social sciences in the Phillipines but will be expanded to include other countries.

China

Chinese at Bowdoin
/lmc/c.html
Lists sites for Chinese language, literature, culture, radio, newspapers, magazines, and dictionaries.

Academia Sinica
http://.sinica.edu.tw
Classical Chinese Text Archive

The Complete Reference to China
http://chinasite.com/
The most comprehensive site available on China, this bilingual site has over 1,000 links to every area of Chinese life and culture and is updated daily.

The Classical Chinese Philosophy Page
http://www.miami.edu/phi/bio/Buddha/classphi.htm
This site was created by John Knoblock from the University of Miami and contains pages about Chinese Philosophers in the Classical Age.

The Complete Reference to China/Chinese related Web Sites
http://chinasite.com/
The most comprehensive site available on China, this bilingual site has over 1,000 links to every area of Chinese life and culture and is updated daily.

China the Beautiful
http://www.chinapage.org/china.html
This very beautiful bilingual web site with images and sound includes the areas of art & painting, calligraphy, poetry, history, literature, opera, and philosophy.

China Education and Research Network
http://www.cernet.edu.cn/
CERNET's objective is to establish and support a national education and research network among schools and universities in China.

MCLC Resource Center
http://deall.ohio-state.edu/denton.2/biblio.htm
This site is related to the journal "Modern Chinese Literature and Culture" and contains literature in Chinese, bibliographies and other cultural and literary studies.

Chinese Serials Database
http://www.anu.edu.au/Asia/Chin/ChiSer.html
List of Chinese and Indonesian serials titles with contents (from 1994 to the present ). Produced through cooperative arrangement between Australian National University Library and the National Library of China; in both Chinese and English (romanized). Gives holding libraries. Subject areas include economics, politics, law, environment, and population issues.

Chinese Academic Journal Publications
http://www.library.pitt.edu/gateway/
The Federal Institute of Museum & Library Services & the East Asian Library of the University of Pittsburgh are providing electronic delivery of Chinese language academic journal articles free of charge from this site.

Chinese Philosophical Etext Archive
http://sangle.web.wesleyan.edu/etext/index.html/
This Etext archive is based at Wesleyan University. You will find three kinds of materials here: Electronic versions of Chinese philosophical texts created by the Confucian Etext Project; Electronic versions of Chinese philosophical texts from other sources; and Information on and links to more information on the preparation and use of these texts.

China Related Links
http://sangle.web.wesleyan.edu/china.html/
This page of helpful China related links is maintained at Wesleyan University.

Essential Readings on Chinese Philosophy
http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/bibliography.html/
This page was compiled by Bryon Van Norden of Vassar College, and contains a bibliography that Van Norden considers important to the study of Chinese philosophy.

People's Daily in English
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/

People's Daily in Chinese
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/

A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv
Covers geography, archaeology, religion, calligraphy, military technology, painting, homes, gardens, clothing, and the graphic arts.

Japan

Japanese at Bowdoin
/lmc/j.html
Lists sites for Japanese language, literature, culture, radio, newspapers & magazines, and dictionaries

Japanese Language resource
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/
Japanese language resource project from Purdue University. Includes e-mailing in Japanese.

Korea

Internet Resources on Korea
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~asiaref/korea/internet.htm
University of Hawaii provides listing of sites for economics, history, language, & politics

India

India Census
http://www.censusindia.net/

Viet Nam

Vietnam War Bibliography
http://www.clemson.edu/caah/history/FacultyPages/EdMoise/bibliography.html

The Wars for Viet Nam: 1945 to 1975
http://vietnam.vassar.edu/
Developed around the course materials for Robert Brigham's senior seminar on the Viet Nam War at Vassar College...includes numerous official documents.

Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
http://www.oakton.edu/user/~wittman/index.htm#
Valuable site covering recent history and current topics such as business, human rights, politics and news.

For a list of Asian Studies related special collections materials, click the link below
http://library.bowdoin.edu/rguides/Asian_Studies/speccol.shtml