Seminar in Asian Studies: ASST 4096

China, America and the Pacific focuses on trading and cultural relationships that emerged between China, America and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries, and includes manuscript sources, rare printed texts, visual images, objects and maps.

China: Culture and Society includes pamphlets held in the Charles W. Wason Collection at Cornell University. The majority of pamphlets are written in English and published between c. 1750 and 1929.

China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980 is a digital collection of original English-language source material detailing China's interaction with the West from Macartney's first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74.

The Far Eastern Economic Review was a newsweekly devoted to many facets of the Asia-Pacific region, including politics, economics, international relations, and the arts/culture.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1941-1996 are translated transcripts of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements. The reports contain political, military, economic, environmental, and sociological news and information.

Foreign Office Files for China include the British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: (1919-1929) Kuomintang, CCP and the Third International; (1930-1937) The Long March, civil war in China and the Manchurian Crisis; (1938-1948) Open Door, Japanese war and the seeds of communist victory; (1949-1956) The Communist revolution; (1957-1966) The Great Leap Forward; (1967-1980) The Cultural Revolution.

Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan includes files from the Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office), including documents in the series DO 133, DO 134 and FCO 37, as well as all documents covering the Indian subcontinent in the FO 371 series.

Foreign Office Files for Japan includes two British Foreign Office files collections: Japanese Imperialism and the War in the Pacific (1931-1945) and Occupation of Japan (1946-1952).

India Raj and Empire covers the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947. The material comprises diaries and journals, official and private papers, letters, sketches, paintings and original Indian documents containing histories and literary works.

Meji Japan includes the Edward Sylvester Morse papers (ca. 1858-1925), and covers malacology, zoology, ethnology, archaeology and art history. The collection offers diaries, scrapbooks, correspondence, research files, drawings, manuscripts, publications and teaching materials.

Socialism on Film is sourced from the British Film Institute (BFI), and documents the communist world from the Russian Revolution to the end of the Cold War. Temple U access includes two of the three available modules: Wars & Revolutions, and Newsreels & Cinemagazines.

AMExplorer allows users to search across multiple Adam Matthew collections that include millions of pages of social sciences and humanities primary sources spanning the 15th – 21st centuries.