Warren Hunting Smith Library: Asian Studies: Subject Guide

SUBJECT | ASIAN STUDIES

Keywords and Phrases

The success of your search will depend, in large part, on the keywords and phrases that you select. You can search them in combination or use the advanced search features and Boolean AND, OR & NOT to expand or narrow your results. For more savvy search tips, see the guide: How To: Begin Your Research Here. Hint: put phrases in quotations!
Here are some sample search combinations for Asian Studies:

"cultural revolution" AND Mao
"Sowa Rigpa" OR "Tibetan medicine"
neoliberalism AND Japan

Scholarly Articles

Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
Articles about Asian Studies, including but not limited to China, Japan, Korea, India, and Pakistan.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary access to scholarly and popular articles.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Scholarly articles about the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, see America: History and Life).
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Interdisciplinary collection of scholarly articles and ebooks.

Independent and International Press

Alt-Press-Watch This link opens in a new window
Magazine and newspapers articles from alternative and independent presses from 1970 to the present.
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) This link opens in a new window
Working papers, policy briefs, and conference proceedings related to international affairs.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
International news, legal statutes, and industry information.

Art, Music, and Film

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Images of artistic works from museums and organizations worldwide.
Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound This link opens in a new window
Streaming audio representing a diverse range of performance, style, and form (a subset of Music Online: Listening).
Asian Film Online This link opens in a new window
Asian culture through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker: narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts (a subset of AVON).
World Cinema in Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Feature films, both American and international, ranging from the silent era to present day.
World History in Video This link opens in a new window
Documentaries that explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century (a subset of AVON).
World Languages in Films on Demand This link opens in a new window

Global Commodities

Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange This link opens in a new window
Primary sources about trade, exchange, and consumer goods across world history.

Timelines

A Different Asian American Timeline
The boundaries of Asian American identity, like the boundaries of Asia itself, are always in flux, constructed by dynamics of power that demand to be studied: imperialism, racial domination, gender oppression, labor exploitation, war, and social movements.

Asian Studies