Curriculum Links
Asia
The following sites provide more-or-less general information about Asia or cover single, but important and broad, topics pertaining to Asia. For information about more specific topics, try searching Internet Public Library or Librarians' Internet Index. Also, remember to search the library's databases and catalog!
General Sites
- Asian History - U of Washington
Put together by the University of Washington Libraries, this collection provides links for China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India, Cambodia, Philippines, Singapore, and Vietnam, as well as Central and East Asia. - Asia Times Online
This online newspaper provides the most current news and opinion pieces - Japanese Historical Maps
This historical map collection is brought to you by the East Asian Library at the University of California, Berkeley. - Portal to Asian Internet Resources
The site, 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. Their site states that the project "provides a user-friendly, searchable catalog through which scholars, students and the general public have quick and easy access to high quality Web resources originating in Asia identified, evaluated, selected and cataloged by area library specialists." - History of the Kimono
The history of a man's, woman's, and child's kimono in Japan.
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