Of Note:

Department of Asian Languages & Literatures

China-related Sites on the Web

• Selected China- and Chinese Philosophy-related Links - (a list of links prepared by Professor Stephen Angle of the East Asian Studies Program)
• The Asia Society
• The CTW Mellon Project Chinese Page
• Internet Guide for China Studies - Selected Internet sites on China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and Singapore; also includes full-text databases, booksellers and publishers, and electronic journals. Created by the Dept. of Chinese Studies, University of Vienna.
• The John King Fairbank Memorial Chinese History Virtual Library
• The Classical Historiography for Chinese History website
• The Hakka Chinese homepage

Have a link that should be added to this list? Send e-mail to Professor Terry Kawashima with your suggestion.

Japan-related Sites on the Web

• General information
  • This Guide to Japan includes links to many other Japan-related sites.
  • For a bit of Japanese history, see this "Bridge to Japanese History and Culture."
  • Check out contemporary Japan from the Homepage of the World Bank, which includes information on the environment, agriculture and natural resources, transportation, water, and urban development.
  • Explore a pan-Asian web directory devoted only to Asian topics. Multi-lingual access (Chinese, Japanese, English). Allows online searching and has links to 15,000 web sites on Asia.
  • Try the homepage of the Japan Information Center at the University of Pittsburgh. This information gateway between the US and Japan allows the submission of individual references queries; those that cannot be answered using local resources are forwarded to Japan for response.
  • Click here for a detailed map of Japan.
  • Consult the Asahi Newspaper for news of Japan in English.
  • Click here for The Associated Kyoto Program, Wesleyan's own study-abroad program in Japan.
  • The Asia Society
     
• Books
  • Browse through guides to reference works on Japan, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, periodical indixes, and biographical dictionaries. Has bibliographices and guides to resources on Japan and a guide to finding materials that might not be available locally.
  • For bibliographies of books in English on Japanese subjects, see the Cultural Atlas of Japan: Facts on File.
  • To buy books on Japan, try Sasuga Bookstore, in Boston.
     
• Literature and Culture
  • The Kanzaki Cultural Page offers information on Japanese journalism, computing, and traditional arts.
  • For information on Japanese Buddhism, see the White Path Temple homepage, sponsored by followers of the Shin sect (Jodo Shinshu, "Pure Land True Sect"). Though this most popular form of Japanese Buddhism was founded by Shinran (1173-1262) more than 200 years after the age of the Genji, the site nevertheless contains much information applicable to Japanese Buddhism in general.
  • Click here for access to various sites on Japanese literature, including one that will provide you with the Japanese text of the Genji !
  • The Genji Monogatari homepage is mostly in Japanese. If you can read it, go for it!
  • Start here to view parts of the twelfth-century Genji Scroll (Genji monogatari emaki). On the "Central Japan Network" homepage, click "Museum," then "The Tokugawa Art Museum," then "Into the Museum," and finally "Exhibition Room VI." Slow to download, but it's worth waiting for the reproductions, background information, and access to other exhibits in the museum.
     
• The Japanese Language
  • The CTW Mellon Project Japanese Page

  
   

Have a link that should be added to this list? Send e-mail to Professor Terry Kawashima with your suggestion.