Collections containing material about Asia (continent)

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS): University of Michigan

The APIS project constitutes the efforts of papyrologists at a number of American universities to integrate in a "virtual" library the holdings from their collections (and collections that might want ...

Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS): Columbia University

APIS is a collections-based repository hosting information about and images of papyrological materials (e.g. papyri, ostraca, wood tablets, etc) located in collections around the world. It contains ...

The American Context of China's Christian Colleges and Schools

This project is investigating the interaction between various China Christian educational institutions and American liberal arts colleges between 1900 and 1950. It is funded by the Luce Foundation and ...

Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World

Project to digitize approximately 36 volumes from the Library's Ancient Near East and Classics collections. This digital project was part of a larger project that preserved almost 9,000 volumes in ...

Ancient Near East Photographs

Contains over 350 images of archaeological sites, artifacts and structures from the Middle East, specifically Egypt and Israel, dating from 3000 BCE to 200 CE.

Arabic and Middle East Electronic Library (AMEEL)

AMEEL will be a Web-based portal for the study of the Middle East, including its history, culture, development, and contemporary face, and within this portal, will integrate existing scholarly digital ...

Asia for Educators

Asian for Educators is a joint project of the East Asian Curriculum Project (EACP), for teachers and students at the pre-collegiate level, and the Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum, for teachers ...

Asia in the Eyes of Europe

1000 copies of this catalog were published in conjunction with the exhibition Asia in the Eyes of Europe: Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries held in the Department of Special Collections, the ...

The Barbara Curtis Adachi Bunraku Collection

The Barbara C. Adachi Bunraku Collection was donated by Ms. Adachi to Columbia University's C. V. Starr East Asian Library in 2000. This extensive collection documents the significant post-World War ...

Botanical and Cultural Images of Eastern Asia, 1907-1927: Ernest Henry Wilson's Photographs

The Arnold Arboretum’s collection of eastern Asian photographs represents the work of intrepid plant explorers who traveled to exotic lands in the early years of the twentieth century and returned to ...

The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri

The Tebtunis Papyri consist of the papyrus documents that were found in the winter of 1899/1900 at the site of ancient Tebtunis, Egypt. The expedition to Tebtunis, led by the British archaeologists ...

Central Eurasian Information Resource Interactive Atlas: At the University of Washington

The Central Eurasian Interactive Atlas provides access to geographic data with more than 700 attributes on demography, social infrastructure, economics and elections for 2,463 administrative units of ...

Claire Holt Papers 1930-1969

The Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections has digitized 1,733 slides from the Claire Holt Collection. Claire Holt, a specialist in Indonesian culture, was a feature writer and art critic for the ...

Codex Sinaiticus

The Codex Sinaiticus, produced in the middle of the fourth century, is one of the two earliest Christian Bibles. It includes the earliest surviving copy of the complete New Testament and the earliest ...

Early 19th-Century Russian Readership & Culture: A Hypertext Archive

A collection on early 19th-century Russian readership, culture and the press. It consists of: a) texts drawn from fiction, journals, memoirs and travel accounts; and b) supplementary materials -- ...

A Grand Legacy: Arts of the Ottoman Empire

Highlights and excerpts from a 1999-2000 exhibition on display at the Arthur M Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums.

The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946

More than 5,000 photographs from the Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard College Library taken by Hedda Hammer Morrison (1908-1991) during her residence in Beijing from 1933 to 1946. Her photographs ...

InscriptiFact

The InscriptiFact Project is a database designed to allow access via the Internet to high-resolution images of ancient inscriptions from the Near Eastern and Mediterranean Worlds. The target ...

The International Dunhuang Project (IDP)

An international collaboration to present more than 100,000 pre-11th century manuscripts, paintings, and artifacts from Dunhuang and other Silk Road sites. Items are include bibliographies, maps, ...

Islamic Manuscripts

Microfilm copies of three out of print Princeton-produced bibliographies of its Arabic manuscript collection were digitized and made available on the web. The three titles are: Descriptive Catalog of ...

Japanese Text Initiative

The University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library sponsor the Japanese Text Initiative, a collaborative effort to make texts of classical ...

Letopis Zhurnal'nykh Statei Online Index (1956-1975)

The Indiana University Digital Library Program presents Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei, a digitized serial publication that indexes Soviet-era periodicals from 1956 to 1975. The paper version, in ...

Ling Long Women's Magazine, Shanghai 1931 to 1937

Ling long women's magazine, published in Shanghai from 1931 to 1937, was popular during a time of dramatic material, social, and political change in China. Today, the magazine offers researchers a ...

Mackenzie Collection

The earliest recorded excavations of a Buddhist monument in India happened at Amaravati between 1798 and 1817. The drawings that documented these excavations were collected by Colonel Colin Mackenzie ...

Meeting of Frontiers

70,000 images chronicling the parallel experiences of the United States and Russia in settling their frontiers in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. The bilingual Russian/English Meeting of Frontiers/ ...

OACIS for the Middle East

The project completed its original three-year term on September 30, 2005. Yale University Library and the institutions making up the OACIS Advisory Board have agreed to sustainability agreements on a ...

Peter Parker Collection

Peter Parker was a medical missionary and diplomat to China in the early 19th Century. Parker specialized in treating diseases of the eye, particularly cataracts, but also performed general surgical ...

Photochrom Prints

Late 19th and early 20th century travel views primarily of Eastern and Central European destinations (including the former Austro-Hungarian Empire). Includes cities and towns in Austria, Belgium, ...

Princeton University Library Papyrus Home Page

Provides information about the collections of papyri housed in the Manuscripts Division of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections in the Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library of Princeton ...

The Shahnama Project

The "Shahnameh" (The Book of Kings), the national epic of the Iranian people, was completed by the poet Ferdowsi in A.D. 1010. Its traditional 60,00 couplets outline the exploits of Persian heroes, ...

South Central China and Tibet: The Hotspot of Diversity

For over a century, Arboretum staff have explored and documented the natural and cultural resources of Asia. In 1924, a three-year expedition departed for one of the most unusual areas on earth—the ...

Sunk in Lucre's Sordid Charms: South Sea Bubble Resources in the Kress Collection at Baker Library

Digital images and full text from pamphlets, books, broadsides, prints, and ephemera focusing on the South Sea Bubble stock market crisis in the early part of the eighteenth century. The resources are ...

The Tibetan & Himalayan Library

The Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL) is a publisher of websites, information services, and networking facilities relating to the Tibetan plateau and southern Himalayan regions. THL promotes the ...

Universes in Collision: Men and Women in 19th-Century Japanese Prints

This exhibit was held at the Bayly Art Museum at the University of Virginia May 24 to October 5, 1997.

West Semitic Research Project

The West Semitic Research Project is an academic project affiliated with the University of Southern California School of Religion and directed by Dr. Bruce Zuckerman. For the past 20 years WSRP has ...

The William C. Brumfield Photograph Collection

William C. Brumfield, Professor of Russian Studies at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, has extensively photographed and written about the wooden architecture of the Russian North, the ...

The Yale Papyrus Collection

As part of the Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS) project, the Beinecke Papyrology Database describes papyri held in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and includes many ...