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EAST ASIA (Western-language collection)
For Chinese, Japanese and Korean language materials,
please see East
Asia
Library.
Stanford's principal Western-language collection for Asian studies,
housed in Green Library and SAL, emphasizes East Asia (China, Japan,
and Korea), with only general coverage of Southeast
Asia; the
collection on South
Asia (principally India and Pakistan), dormant
since the early 1970s, was reactivated about 1995.
The Green collection, which in late 2001 absorbed the Hoover
Institution collection on twentieth-century political, social, and
military conditions and events, covers the gamut of interests. Other,
more specialized campus libraries may also have relevant holdings,
including the Art Library, the map collection in the Branner Earth
Sciences Library, the Cubberley Education Library, the Jackson Library
in the Graduate School of Business, the Crown Law Library, and the
Music Library.
As of September 2008, Green's holdings on East Asia in western
languages included approximately 77,500 monographs, with roughly 1000
titles added per year. The library subscribes to at least 400
nongovernmental Asia-focused serials and 200 East Asian government
serials in addition to worldwide population and other censuses as
available. Green and SAL hold at least another 250 noncurrent serials
on East Asia.
Socrates
provides catalog access to all Stanford library materials, a user's
guide to Socrates is available at the same URL. Other institutions'
catalogs are also available online: Melvyl
for the University of California; and OCLC for most
research libraries and many other major institutions worldwide.
The Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) is the authoritative
bibliography in its field. 1971– is available to Stanford IP addresses here; hard
copy is also available for 1956–1991. The BAS provides
citations to western-language periodical articles, chapters in edited
volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, Festschriften, etc.
pertaining to east, southeast, and south Asia. Covers 1971 to the
present, including full data from the print editions from 1971-1991.
Monographs published since 1992 have not been added to the database,
and users seeking such monographs are urged to consult other general
resources and databases such as Worldcat.
Numerous discipline-specific bibliographies are available, either in
print or online; please consult the Web pages for those disciplines.
Other locally-created finding aids for Western-language sources include
an annotated bibliography of Western-language sources on the PRC
economy during 1978–1994 (Z3108.E2 W44 1995 EA Ref).
Stanford has extensive sources for in-depth research, primarily
microfilmed U.S. and British government archives dealing with
political, diplomatic, social, and economic conditions and events in
China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, etc., from the early nineteenth century
onward; many such sets are accompanied by printed guides to their
contents.
The Hoover Institution collections also include very impressive
holdings of primary source materials, including virtually all SCAP
publications for occupation-era Japan and numerous newspapers published
in Japanese-American internment camps.
The Hoover
Institution Archives have substantial Asia-relevant
holdings; detailed finding aids have been compiled for many archival
sets. Selected collections are listed for China
and Japan.
If you need any help, please contact Zhaohui Xue for China, Japan,
general Asia and general East Asia by phone at (650) 725-3439, and Kyungmi Chun for Korea at
(650) 724-5934 or by email.
Last modified:September 22, 2009
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