Asian Studies Minor
Program Rationale
Program Goals
Courses for the Minor
Study Abroad
Resources on the Web
 

Web Resources

Asia Inc
  This site features update stock market all over asia. You can listen to broadcast of Asian economic news and read feature stories of Asian economies.
AsiaNet's Business and Trade
  This site provides business information about China.
Asia Source
  This is a very comprehensive site about Asia: culture, business and economics, policy and governmant, and society and history, etc. Check the Asian holidays out.
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
  A global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies.
Beijing Scene
  The online version of a Chinese bilingual lifestyle magazine.
Business in China
  A comprehensive resource of Chinese business available on the WWW, this site includes business reports and conditions in China.
China the Beautiful
  On Chinese Classical art, philosophy, calligraphy, history, literature.
China News Digest
  CND is operated by volunteers with a mandate to provide timely and balanced news coverage on China and China related affairs.
Haiwang's China Page
  This site is annotated directory of links to selected resources on Chinese culture, art, business, travel, languistic studies, and more.
Inside China Today
  General and business news about China, Twain and Hong Kong.
Korean History: A Bibliography
  "This bibliography covers many features of Korean history. The subjects include not only political, diplomatic, and economic history, but also historical linguistics, art history, literature, philosophy and religion, and overseas Koreans, for example."
Library of Congress Pinyin Conversion Project
  Pinyin is a system for writing the Chinese language in the Latin alphabet. It is used throughout the world, including by the United States government and by the news media. Also see New Chinese Romanization Guidelines.
The National Bureau of Asian Research
  This site features AccessAsia databases, reviews and NBR analysis of China and other Asian countries. It also inks to news sources, and research organizations, information on conferences, and meetings, etc.
Online Bibliographies for Chinese Studies
  The bibliographies cover reference works, history, geography, society, literature, philosophy and religion, art, medicine, women studies, etc.
Southeast Asia Web's Mainland Countries' Page
  A directory of links to web sites of Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Burma/Myanmar.
The World Fact Book
  This CIA prepared fact book covers general information about every country in the world.
   
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Last updated October 28, 2004
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