LibGuides: International Studies: Asia

Primary Source Databases

China: Culture & Society This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary full-text database that reproduces pamphlets from 1750 to 1929. On the Adam Matthew platform.
Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980 (Sections 1-6) This link opens in a new window
Historic full-text archives that reproduces British files from 1919 to 1980. On the Archives Direct/Adam Matthew platform.
Foreign Office Files for Japan, Section 1: 1931-1945 This link opens in a new window
Historic full-text archives that reproduces British files from 1931 to 1945. On the Archives Direct/Adam Matthew platform.

Secondary Source Databases

East & South Asia Database This link opens in a new window
Ongoing full-text academic journals locally published in various East Asian and South Asian countries. The subjects cover major areas of study, including business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.

Newspapers

Chinese Newspapers Collection This link opens in a new window
A collection of English language newspapers providing a look into Chinese History. On the ProQuest platform.
World Newspaper Archive - South Asian Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Includes 19th and 20th-century newspapers from South Asia.
Korea Times This link opens in a new window
The Korea Times is the oldest and most influential English-language newspaper in South Korea. It is globally recognized for its coverage of international business, economic and financial news, as well as perspectives on regional issues and events.

Books

Australian Foreign Policy in Asia by Allan Patience This book sets out to discuss what kind of 'middle power' Australia is, and whether its identity as a middle power negatively influences its relationship with Asia. It looks at the history of the middle power concept, develops three concepts of middle power status and examines Australia's relationships with China, Japan and Indonesia as a focus. It argues that Australia is an 'awkward partner' in its relations with Asia due to both its historical colonial and discriminatory past, as well its current dependence upon the United States for a security alliance. It argues this should be changed by adopting a new middle power concept in Australian foreign policy.
ISBN: 3319693468
Publication Date: 2018-01-24
Divided Allies by Thomas K. Robb; David James Gill By directly challenging existing accounts of post-World War II relations among the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, Divided Allies is a significant contribution to transnational and diplomatic history. At its heart, Divided Allies examines why strategic cooperation among these closely allied Western powers in the Asia-Pacific region was limited during the early Cold War. Thomas K. Robb and David James Gill probe the difficulties of security cooperation as the leadership of these four states balanced intramural competition with the need to develop a common strategy against the Soviet Union and the new communist power, the People's Republic of China. Robb and Gill expose contention and disorganization among non-communist allies in the early phase of containment strategy in Asia-Pacific. In particular, the authors note the significance of economic, racial, and cultural elements to planning for regional security and they highlight how these domestic matters resulted in international disorganization. Divided Allies shows that, amidst these contentious relations, the antipodean powers Australia and New Zealand occupied an important role in the region and successfully utilized quadrilateral diplomacy to advance their own national interests, such as the crafting of the 1951 ANZUS collective security treaty. As fractious as were allied relations in the early days of NATO, Robb and Gill demonstrate that the post-World War II Asia-Pacific was as contentious, and that Britain and the commonwealth nations were necessary partners in the development of early global Cold War strategy.
ISBN: 9781501741845
Publication Date: 2019-11-15
Illiberal China by Daniel F. Vukovich This book analyzes the 'intellectual political culture' of post-Tiananmen China in comparison to and in conflict with liberalism inside and outside the P.R.C. How do mainland politics and discourses challenge 'our' own, chiefly liberal and anti-'statist' political frameworks? To what extent is China paradoxically intertwined with a liberal economism?  How can one understand its general refusal of liberalism, as well as its frequent, direct responses to electoral democracy, universalism, Western media, and other normative forces? Vukovich argues that the Party-state poses a challenge to our understandings of politics, globalization, and even progress. To be illiberal is not necessarily to be reactionary and vulgar but, more interestingly, to be anti-liberal and to seek alternatives to a degraded liberalism. In this way Chinese politics illuminate the global conjuncture, and may have lessons in otherwise bleak times.
ISBN: 9789811305405
Publication Date: 2018-07-30
Migration and Agency in a Globalizing World by Scarlett Cornelissen (Editor); Yoichi Mine (Editor) This book - through a collection of case studies covering Southern and East Africa, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia - offers insights into the nature of social exchanges between Africa and Asia. In the age of the 'Rise of the South', it documents the entanglements and the lived experiences of African and Asian people on the move. Divided into three parts, the authors look at Asians in Africa, Africans in Asia, and the 'connected histories' that the two share, which illuminate emerging and historical modalities of Afro-Asian human encounters. Cornelissen and Yoichi show how migrants activate multiple forms of transnational social capital as part of their survival strategies and develop complex relationships with host communities. 
ISBN: 9781137602046
Publication Date: 2018-01-30

International Studies: Asia

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Primary Source Databases

Secondary Source Databases

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Books