History

An online collection of over 9,500 objets d’art from China, Japan, and Korea.

Hundreds of Chinese Communist propaganda posters dating from 1925 to the present.

Contains historical photos, most of which depict the Chinese military, battles in China, Chinese villages, and architecture.

Firsthand accounts of 19th-century Taiwan from the perspective of European and American visitors. Consists of texts, maps, and images.

Collections of objets d'art housed in the Kyoto National Museum. Most pieces are premodern (before 1800).

Based at Harvard-Yenching Library, the collection contains 5,000 photographs and 10,000 negatives taken by Hedda Hammer Morrison while she lived in Beijing from 1933 to 1946.

Over 40,000 black-and-white photographs of Buddhist art and architecture. Subjects of images range in date from 2,500 B.C.E. to the present and include material in their original contexts as well as art in museums.

Manuscripts, paintings, printed documents, and other artifacts from the Silk Road sites.

The Japanese Historical Map Collection contains about 1,100 early maps of Japan and the world.

The classic texts of Japanese literature, many presented in the original language.

The classic texts of Japanese literature, many presented in the original language.

Collection of approximately 7,000 photographs taken between 1860 and 1899, housed in the University of Nagasaki Library.

A nearly complete run of Ling Long, a weekly Chinese women’s magazine published in Shanghai from 1931 to 1937.

Primary material pertaining to the Cultural Revolution.

First hand accounts and photographs from Westerners who remained in Nanking after the Japanese invasion. These resources do not provide a comprehensive understanding of what occurred in Nanjing during 1937-1938, but the observations made by these men and women provide an important historical lens to complement additional research.

A collection of 30 photographs from the Cultural Revolution.

One thousand black-and-white photographs of Chinese Muslims and Christian missionaries working among them in Western China in the 1920s and 1930s.

This site features a set of scrolls depicting the Mongol invasions of Japan in the 13th century. This site includes four versions of the scrolls: the original 13th-century scroll, 18th-and 19th-century reconstructions, and a 21st-century restoration of the original.

The Sea of Korea Maps Digital Archive consists of original old maps, dating from 1606 to 1895, in English, French, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Latin, German and Russian.

Primary material on the dispute over Taiwan's independence.

Buddhist religious site that contains links to English translations of the Sutras, the Turning of the Wheel Sutta, the Eight Rightfold Path, and the Edicts of King Asoka.

Photographs, maps, and texts on pre-1949 Shanghai.