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By building a collection of digitized e-books and a database of full text web resources, e-Asia strives to contribute to the research and scholarship of East Asia. While the e-Asia project is based largely on resources held at the University of Oregon Library, its purpose is neither to duplicate nor displace printed traditional materials. Rather, by providing searchable full text, the digitalization efforts of e-Asia represent a new tool aimed at facilitating the information-gathering process.

Official Titles of the Han Dynasty :  A Tentative List Compiled for the Han Dynasty Project.   This project which was active at the University of Washington a number of years ago, has now revived at the University of Oregon. In .pdf format.  See the Project page for more information.

Trading with China is an interesting booklet published in 1919 but entirely appropriate for 21st century businesses attempting to crack the China market.Worth reading; very contemporary.

A guide to an important set of papers for a figure of note in the GHQ of postwar Japan. "William P. Woodard Papers, 1869-1974." Materials themselves will need to be consulted at the University of Oregon Library.  A two MEG .pdf file.

Glossary: Chapter X:  Emperor Hsiao-Ch'eng.  Ban Gu.  The History of the Former Han Dynasty:  A Critical Translation with Annotations by Homer H. Dubs.  Baltimore: Waverly Press, 1938.  This is the first of the glossaries (more to appear).

Featured eBooks*

Celebrating its first decade of existence,, Tsing Hua, 1911-1921, is a well-illustrated delightful look at Qinghua in its earliest days.  A top-notch institution  with a very interesting past.

 Some Japanese Bogie-books is a chapter in Andrew Lang's Books and Bookmen. A fairly good introduction to the scariest of topics:  Japanese ghosts.


Fusang is explained in its subtitle:  ... the Discovery of America by Chinese Buddhist Priests in the Fifth Century.  One of the first books to suggest that explorers from the Far East got here before everyone else.  Published in 1875.  MSReader format.

"The Shensi Relief Expedition" by A.D.C. Sowerby describes the effort of a small band of young men with the objective of escorting missionaries to safety in the wake of the 1911 revolution.  Information on the role of the Gelaohui secret society in the revolution