Internet East Asian History Sourcebook
Editor: Paul Halsall
There is no way of avoiding the fact that China is the central culture of
Eastern Asia. Massively larger than any of her neighbors, China may have developed
its cultural forms in relative isolation, but since the advent of Buddhism has both
absorbed outside influences and disseminated its own culture. Japanese, Korean and
Vietnamese cultures are not comprehensible without taking into account thepower of Chinese
culture in art, literature and religion.
Chinese culture itself is highly complex, and the other East Asian
cultures also reflect local circumstances and traditions. For instance the (later) Chinese
ideal of a scholar-gentleman contrasts strongly with Japanese warrior ideals. It is not
going to far to suggest that the very different responses of the various East Asian to the
Western intrusion of the past two centuries reflect the variety of previous historical
developments.
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This page is a subset of texts derived from the three major online Sourcebooks listed below, along with added texts and web site indicators. For more contextual
information, for instance about Western imperialism, or the history of a given period,
check out these web sites. Since it was created in 1996 many of the primary sources and texts linked to have gone off line. Where possible links to the Internet Archive versions of these documents have been substituted as they should still be of use to teachers and students.
Notes: |
In addition to direct links to documents, links are made to a
number of other web resources. |
2ND
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Link to a secondary article, review or discussion on a given
topic. |
WEB
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Link to a website focused on a specific issue.. These are not
links to every site on a given topic, but to sites of serious educational value. |
Contents
Cultural Origins
General
Yellow River Valley Cultures
Japan
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Religious Traditions
General
Chinese Traditional Religion
Shinto
Confucianism
-
WEB Confucius Page [At Internet Archive, from UKY]
-
WEB Confucius Page [At Internet Archive, from Albany]
- Selections
from the Analects [Lun Yu], complete, topically arranged selections from the Confucian
classic. [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Confucius (5th Century BCE?): Analects [Lun Yu] [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
-
Confucius: The
Analects [Lun Yu], selections [Was At Internet Archive, from CCNY]
- The
Analects [Lun Yu], complete [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
-
The
Great Learning [Da Xue Ta-Hsüeh] (3rd Century BCE): [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- The Great
Learning [Da Xue Ta-Hsüeh] (3rd Century BCE) complete [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Great
Learning,[Da Xue Ta-Hsüeh] (3rd Century BCE), complete, translated by
Charles Muller 1995 [Was At GOL, now Internet Archive]
- The
Doctrine of the Mean [Zhong Yong] complete [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Doctrine of
the Mean [Zhong Yong], complete, translated by Charles Muller 1995 [Was At GOL, now Internet Archive]
- Mencius/Mengzi: Selections from
the Mencius [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
-
Mencius Mengzi:
complete, translated by Charles Muller 1995 [Was At GOL, now Internet Archive]
- Xunzi/Hsun-tzu: Selections
from the Xunzi [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Legalism
- Examples
of Filial Piety (14th Century CE) [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- Image: People: Picture
of Confucius
- Image: People:
Confucius
- Image: People:
Mengzi
- Image: People:
Zhuxi - founder of 'neo-confucianism'
- Wang Yang-Ming: The Philosophy, excerpts, c. 1525 CE
Daoism
-
WEB Daoism Information Page [Was At Taoism Information, now Internet Archive]
- Laozi/Lao Tzu (5th Century BCE??): Selection from
the Dao De Jing [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
-
Laozi/Lao tzu: Dao De Jing Tao
Te Ching, selections [Was At CCNY, now Internet Archive]
- Laozi/Lao Tzu (5th Century BCE??): Tao
Te Ching, excerpts, [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- Laozi/Lao Tzu (5th Century BCE??): The Dao De Jing Tao Te Ching*, version 1, an Interpolation by Peter A. Merel
based upon the translations of: Lin Yutang, Ch'u Ta-Kao, Gia-Fu Feng
& Jane English, Richard Wilhelm and Aleister Crowley. complete, taken from internet
site. [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Laozi/Lao Tzu (5th Century BCE??): The Dao De Jing Tao Te Ching*, Tao Te Ching, version 2, complete, taken from a version on the
internet. [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Laozi/Lao Tzu (5th Century BCE??): The Dao De
Jing Tao Te Ching*, Tao Te Ching, version 3, complete, taken from a version by S. Mitchell.[Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
-
Zhuangzi/Chuang tzu: Selected Chapters,
translated by Lin Yutang and Lin Yutang's
Introduction [Was At Taoism Information, now Internet Archive]
-
Zhuangzi/Chuang tzu: Story of Three Friends [Was At Taoism Information, now Internet Archive]
- Zhuangzi/Chuang tzu: Selections
from the Zhuangzi [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
-
Zhuangzi/Chuang tzu: Selections [Was At CCNY, now Internet Archive]
- The Deification of Lao Zi, 666 CE. [At this Site]
(Inscribed in the Temple at Lao Zi's Birthplace)
- The Yin Fu King, or Classic of the Harmony
of the Seen and Unseen, c. 800 CE [At this Site]
- The Thai-Shang Kan Ying Phien, or Lao Zi's Book
of Actions and Their Retribution, c. 1000 CE [At this Site]
- Image: People:
Laozi
- Image: Divinity:
Three Daoist Gods
- Image: Divinity:
The God of Wealth in His Civil Aspect
- Image: Divinity:
Wen-ch'ang, the Daoist God of Literature
Buddhism
- Wikipedia: Buddhism
- General
- The Buddha
- Prince
Siddhartha Encounters Old Age, Sickness and Death ('Digha-nikaya,' XIV ['Mahapadana
suttanta']) [Was At Eliade Page, now Internet Archive]
- Gotama's
First Masters [Was At Eliade Page, now Internet Archive]
- 'I am
the Holy One in this world, I am the highest teacher. . .' ('Mahavagga,' I, 7-9) [Was At Eliade Page, now Internet Archive]
- Gotama
Buddha Ponders ('Majjhima-nikaya,' XXVI ['Ariya-pariyesana-sutta']) [Was At Eliade Page, now Internet Archive]
- Gotama
Buddha Remembers His Earlier Existences ('Majjhima-nikaya,' IV ['Bhaya-bherava-sutta])
[Was At Eliade Page, now Internet Archive]
- Buddha: First
Sermon (c. 6th Century BCE) [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Buddha: The
Teaching of Buddha, an early sermon on Nirvana [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
-
Buddha: The
Four Noble Truths [At BuddhaNet] [Internet Archive version here]
-
Buddha: The
Basic Teachings [Was At CCNY, now Internet Archive]
- The
Buddha Enters Nirvana (Ashvagosha, 'Buddhacarita,' XXVI, 83-6, 88-106) [Was At Eliade Page, now Internet Archive]
- The
Tathagata Announces that He has Entered Nirvana ('Saddharmapundarika,' XV, 268-72) [Was At Eliade Page, now Internet Archive]
- Faxian: Account
of the Buddhistic Kingdoms. [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Theravada/Hinayana Texts
- The Dhammpada [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- The Dhammapada extracts, [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- Wikipedia: The Dhammapada, with excerpts
- The Dhammapada, trans. by John Richards [Was at EAWC, now Internet Archive]
"An anthology of 423 Buddhist verses embodying ethical and spiritual precepts
arranged by subject."
- The Dhammapada,Wisdom
of the Buddha, translated by Harischandra Kaviratna, Full Text [At Theosophical
University Press] [Internet Archive version here]
-
The
Buddha Foretells the Gradual Decline of Religion ('Anagatavamsa') [Was At Eliade Page, now Internet Archive]
- Gotama
Buddha Talks of his Ascetic Practices ('Majjhima-nikaya,'XII
['Maha-sihanada-sutra']) [Was At Eliade Page, now Internet Archive]
- Gotama
Buddha Practiced the most Severe form of Ascetism ('Majjhima-nikaya,' XXXVI
['Maha-saccaka-sutra']) [Was At Eliade Page, now Internet Archive]
-
Sutta Nipata, selections
from the Pali text translated by John D. Ireland. [At Purify Mind] [Internet Archive version here]
-
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness [At BuddhaNet] [Internet Archive version here]
Part of the Satipatthana Sutra.
-
Culasunnata Sutta[At
well.com] [Internet Archive version here]
A lesson on sunyata (emptiness)
- Mahayana Texts
- Sunyata
- Buddha's Sermon
on the No-Self [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- The Heart Sutra [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- WEB Kalavinka
Contains very long excerpts from Nagarjuna's Treatise on The Great Perfection of
Wisdom (Mahaapraj~naapaaramitaa Upadesha), "an immense
exegesis to the Mahaapraj~naapaaramitaa Sutra in 25,000 lines. Classically, it is
preserved only in a 100-fascicle Chinese edition translated from Sanskrit in 405CE by
Kumarajiva, the brilliant and prolific translator-monk who was the premier transmitter to
the Chinese of the Maadhyamika teachings of Nagarjuna."
- Bodhicitta
- Death
- Maitreya
- Pure Land/Amidism
- Tibetan Buddhism
- Chinese/Japanese Buddhist Texts
- The Sutra of Forty-Two Chapters [Was At Sacred Texts, now Internet Archive]
The first Buddhist text taken to China, c. 67 CE.
- Wikipedia: Sutra of the Forty-Two Chapters
- Pure Land
- Wikipedia: Pure Land Buddhism
-
The Sutra on Amida Buddha, [Was At Amida Net, now Internet Archive]
Delivered by Shakyamuni Buddha, translated by Hisao Inagaki from (1) From Kumarajiva's
Chinese translation and (2) from Huan-tsang's Chinese translation.
- Extract from the
Lotus Sutra: The Nature of the Buddha [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Extract from the
Lotus Sutra: On Faith [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Kûkai's
Initiation in the Esoteric Buddhism ('Kobo Daishi Zenshu,' I, 98 ff.) [Was At Eliade Page, now Internet Archive]
- 2ND Kuya, 'the Saint of the Streets' [Was At Eliade Page, now Internet Archive]
- Honen and the Invocation of Amida [Was At Eliade Page, now Internet Archive]
- Shinran: 'The Nembutsu Alone is True' ('Tannisho,' selections) [Was At Eliade Page, now Internet Archive]
- Nicheren
- Chan/Zen
- Modern Renditions
- Images
- General Buddhist
- Indian Art
- Tibetan
- Chinese Art
- South East Asian Art
- Japanese Art
- Unsure [!]
Judaism
Christianity
Islam
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Imperial China
General
- WEB Primary Sources: CHINA [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
A really good collection of primary sources translated specially for teaching purposes.
- Mandate of
Heaven [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- 2ND Chinese
Dynastic History [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- 2ND China - Basic
Facts [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- 2ND Chinese
Ethnography [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Image: The
Yangzi River
- Map:
China - Linguistic Regions Map [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- 2ND Chinese
Language and Pronunciation [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
-
2ND Chinese
Language and Writing [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
-
2ND Pinyin/Wade-Giles
Equivalencies [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- 2ND Chinese
Logographic Writing [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Chronology [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
The Zhou
The Qin
The Han
The Sui and Tang
The Sung
The Mongols [Yüan]
The Ming
The Qing
Chinese Technology
Literature
- Chinese
Poetry: Tu Fu, Li Po, Po Chu-i, Fu Hsuan, Mei Yao Ch'en, Su Tung-p'o [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- Li Po (701 762 CE): Drinking
Alone by Moonlight [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- Old
Poem, on warfare [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- Liu Hsün's wife (3rd C. CE): The
Curtain of the Wedding Bed [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- The Han Koong Tsu, or Autumn of the Palace of Han
Full text of a play about the threat of the Mongols (Tartars) to the Chinese empire, and
the use of a marriage strategy to avoid conflict. [At this Site]
- Luo Guanzhong (14th Century): Romance of the Three Kingdoms [Wikisource]
- Shih-fu Wang (fl. 1295-1307): Romance of the Western
Chamber, excerpts, [Was At CCNY, now Internet Archive]
-
P'u Sung-ling: Painting
on the Wall [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- Li Ju-chen (1763-1830): The
Land of the Great, 1828 [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
Education in Traditional China
Chinese Views on Other Cultures
Other Cultures' Views of China
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Traditional Japan
General
Government
Tokugawa Era
Literature
- Japanese
Poetry: from the Manyoshu and other early collections [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- Noh Plays, translated by Arthur Waley, 1922 [Was At UVA, now Internet Archive]
Culture
- Kokin Wakashu [At Virginia] [Internet Archive version here]
An anthology of 1,111 Japanese poems (in the most widely circulated editions) compiled and
edited early in the 10th century CE.
- Ogura Hyakunin
Isshu, or, 100 Poems by 100 Poets, [At Virginia] [Internet Archive version here]
- Sarashina: The Diary of
Lady Sarashina, 1009-1059 CE [At Hanover College] [Internet Archive version here]
- Kaibara Ekken or Kaibara Token: Greater
Learning for Women, 1762 [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
-
Diaries of the Court Ladies of Old Japan, trans. Annie Sheply Omori and Kochi Doi, full text,
[Was At CMU, now Internet Archive]
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Korea
General
- WEB Ancient Korean History [Now Archived but still useful. Was at Shinbiro
- WEB Primary Sources: Korea [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
A really good collection of primary sources translated specially for teaching purposes.
- Iryôn's Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms (Samguk yusa): The Tangun Legend [PDF] 2333 BCE [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Wang Kŏn (877‐943): The
Ten Injunctions of Wang Kôn (King T'aejo) [PDF] [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University]
[Internet Archive version here]
- Sôl
Kyedu PDF [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Wôlmyông: "Song
for a Dead Sister," by Wôlmyông [PDF] 8th Century [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Ch'ungdam: "Song
for the Peace of the People" (Anmin'ga), by Ch'ungdam [PDF}] mid 8th Century [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Chông Inji': Postscript to the Hunmin Chôngûm (Correct Sounds to Instruct the People), 1446 [PDF] [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Ch'oe Malli: Opposition to the Korean Alphabet [PDF] [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Pak Ch'o: Anti-Buddhist Memorial [PDF] [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Chông Tojôn: On Land [PDF] Eraly Choson land reform. [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- "Inheritance of Slave Status" [PDF] [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Yu Hyôngwôn: Excerpts from the Pangye surok: on Abolishing Slavery [PDF] [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Sô Kôjông: Excerpts from Preface to the Genealogy of the Andong Kwôn, by [PDF] [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Excerpts from the Sejong sillok: Reform of Funerary Practices, 1437 [PDF] [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Excerpts from the Sôngjong sillok: Prohibition Against Remarriage of Women, 1447 [PDF] [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Song Siyôl: Excerpts from Instructions to My Daughter [PDF] [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Chông Yagyong, 1762-1836: Excerpts from the Yôyudan chônsô: Chông Yagyong on the Roots of Royal Authority [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Yi Hangno, 1792-1868: Excerpts from the Hwasô sônsaeng mujip: Yi Hangno on "Sinifying the Western Barbarians" [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Ch'oe Cheu, 1824-1864, and the Tonghak Uprising (1894-1895): The Tonghak Religion and Uprising: Ch'oe Cheu on Learning Truth and Twelve Reforms Proclaimed by the Tonghak Overseer's Office [PDF] [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Independent (Tongnip sinmun), 1896-1899: Editorial on "Nation and Civilization": A Periodical for the Korean People [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Independent (Tongnip sinmun), 1896-1899: Editorial on "Nation and Civilization": Seoul's Water Supply [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
Japanese Rule
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Vietnam
General
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The Western Intrusion
General
European Imperialism
British East Asia
Other European Powers in East Asia
United States' Imperialism
-
John Hay to Andrew D. White, First Open Door note on
China, Department of State, Washington, September 6, 1899 [At Amdocs] [Internet Archive version here]
- Image: Anti-Chinese
Cartoon from 1877 bw
- WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy 1898-1914, [Was At Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive]
- Josiah Strong: On Anglo-Saxon Predominance, 1891 [Was At Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive]
- Albert Beveridge (1862-1927): The March of the Flag,
September 16, 1898 [At this Site]
- The Atlantic: The
Break-up of China, and Our Interest in It, The Atlantic Monthly, August, 1899
[At The Atlantic Monthly] [Internet Archive version here]
- John W. Foster: The
Chinese Boycott, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1906 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version here]
Criticizes America's discrimination against Chinese immigrants in America as racist. This
behavior incited a Chinese boycott of American trade.
- Rudyard Kipling: The White
Man's Burden, 1899 [At this Site]
- James Henry Breasted: The
Conquest of Civilization (selections), 1926 [At WHA] [Internet Archive version here]
Missionaries
-
John of Monte Corvino: Letter to the Minister
General of the Friars Minor in Rome, c. 1280 [At this Site]
- John of Monte Corvino: Report
on China, 1305. [At this Site]
- St. Francis Xavier: Letter
on the Missions, to St. Ignatius de Loyola, 1549 [At this Site]
- St. Francis Xavier: Letter
from Japan, to the Society of Jesus at Goa, 1551 [At this Site]
- St. Francis Xavier: Letter
from Japan, to the Society of Jesus in Europe, 1552 [At this Site]
- Hsu Kuang-chi: Memorial
to Fra Matteo Ricci, 1617 [At this Site]
- Mendez Pinto: The Woman with
the Cross, c. 1630 [At this Site]
A Chinese Christian woman.
- Documents on the
Chinese Rites Controversy, 1692, 1715, 1721, excerpts [At this Site]
How the Catholic Church "lost" China.
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Japan as a World Power
General
The Forced Opening
The Meiji Restoration
-
WEB Meiji Japan [Was At Sage, now Internet Archive]
-
WEB The
Meiji Project [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Japan: Constitution, 1889
[At Hanover College] [Internet Archive version here]
- Lt. Tadayoshi Sakurai: The
Attack upon Port Arthur, 1905 .[At this Site]
The Japanese quickly adopted Western Imperialism
- Theodore Roosevelt: The Threat of Japan, 1909 [WasAt Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive]
- Okuma: Fifty Years of
New Japan, 1907-08, excerpts [At this Site]
-
WEB Taisei Corporation History
of 120 Years [At Internet Archive, from Tasei]
A Japanese company's illustrated online history of itself.
-
Natsume Soseki (1867-1916): Kokoro,
translation by Edwin McClellan. [At ibiblio] [Internet Archive version here]
-
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904): Writings
on Japan [At ibiblio] [Internet Archive version here]
- Kume Kunitake: Records of My
Visits to America and Europe, 1871-1873 .[At this Site]
- Sir Edwin Arnold: A
Japanese Dinner Party, 1890 [At this Site]
- Alice M. Bacon: How
Japanese Ladies Go Shopping, 1890 [At this Site]
The Greater East Asia Prosperity Zone
World War II
Use of Atomic Bomb
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China's Disaster:1840-1949
General
- WEB Primary Sources: CHINA [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
A really good collection of primary sources translated specially for teaching purposes.
- Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, (New York: Random House, 1987),
pp. 3-30 [extended
excerpts are online]
- The Hai-lu,
a Chinese traveler's account of the West in the 18th century.[Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- One China, The
Atlantic Monthly, March 1996 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive backup here]
Coverage by the magazine of China in the 20th century.
Rejection of the West
Government Efforts to Reform
Religion and Rebellion
Modernization: The May 4th Movement
- Yan Phou Lee: When I Went
to School in China 1880 [At this Site]
A late Confucian education - and what was attacked by the May 4th Movement.
- Luxun Two
Selections from His Writing [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
-
Luxun Lu Hsun (1881-1936): Selected Stories of Lu Hsun,
Translated by
Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang, full text of 20 stories. [Was At Cold Bacon, now Internet Archive]
A leading May 4th Movement writer.
- Image: People:
The writer Lu Xun
Nationalism
-
Zou Rong (1885-1911): The Revolutionary Army, 1905 [Was At IUP, now Internet Archive]
A radical Anti-Manchu tract, published in Shanghai.
- Paul S. Reinsch: A Parliament for China, The Atlantic Monthly, December, 1909 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
- Proclamation of The
Abdication of the Manchus, 1912 [At this Site]
- Ching Chun Wang: A Plea for the Recognition of the Chinese Republic, The Atlantic Monthly,
January 1913 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
- Sun Yat-sen: Fundamentals of
National Reconstruction, 1923 CE [At this Site]
- Image: People:
Sun Yat Sen
- Image: People:
Chiang Kai-shek
Early Communism
The Chinese in America
- California: Anti-Coolie
Act, 1862 [At Drug Library] [Internet Archive version here]
"An Act to protect free White labor against competition with Chinese collie labor,
and to discourse the immigration of the Chinese into the state of California, April 26,
1862"
- San Francisco
Chinatown Opium Den 1870's [Image][At Drug Library]
- Chinese Miners
in the Gold Fields - 1860 [Image][At Drug Library]
- Chinatown
Declared a Nuisance! [At Drug Library] [Internet Archive version here]
This is the full text of a sixteen-page pamphlet, "Chinatown Declared a
Nuisance!"; distributed by the Workingmen's Committee of California, it called for
the abatement of Chinatown as a health menace.
- Albert S. Evans: A
Cruise on the Barbary Coast, Chapter 12 of A la California. Sketch of Life in the
Golden State, c, 1871. [At Drug Library] [Internet Archive version here]
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China Since World War
II
General
The "Liberation"
- Mao Zedong (1893-1976): In
Commemoration of the 28th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China, June 30, 1949,
excerpts [At this Site]
- Mao Zedong (1893-1976): Quotations
of Chairman Mao [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
-
Mao Zedong (1893-1976): Quotations of
Chairman Mao, full text. [At Artbin] [Internet Archive version here]
- American Views on
the Situation In China, 1947 [At this Site]
Statement by General Marshall, January 7, 1947
- Statement of the
Central Committee of The Chinese Communist Party, February 1, 1947 [At this Site]
- Dean Acheson: United
States Position on China, August 1949
An acute critique of Nationalist/Koumintang failures.
- The Common Program of
The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, 1949 [At this Site]
The 1950s
The Cultural Revolution
Chinese Foreign Relations
- John K. Fairbank: China: Time for a
Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1957 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version here]
Evaluation of US policy options toward newly Communist mainland China.
- Chinese Communist Party: The Leaders of the CPSU are
the Greatest Splitters of Our Times, February 4, 1964 [At this Site]
- The Romanian Workers' Party: Statement on the
Sino-Soviet Dispute, April 22, 1964 [At this Site]
- Pravda: Editorial:
The Anti-Soviet Policy of Communist China, February 16,1967 [At this Site]
- James C. Thomson Jr.: Dragon Under Glass:
Time for a New China Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, October 1967 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version here]
Argued that the time had come for the United States to reconcile itself with Communist
China.
The Four Modernizations
- 2ND Sun Y Y., The Chinese
Reassessment of Socialism, 1976-1992, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Image: People:
Deng Xiaoping
- Orville Schell: Once Again, Long Live Chairman Mao, The Atlantic Monthly, December, 1992 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
On the commodifiction of Mao.
- Xiao-huang Yin: China's
Gilded Age, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1994, [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version here]
The changes in China's society wrought by Deng's drive toward a free-market economy
Hong Kong
- Atlantic Report: Hong Kong, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1957 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version here]
Hong Kong still in the early stages of its emergence as an economic powerhouse.
- Maynard Parker: Report on
Hong Kong, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1967 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version here]
Hong Kong in the face of Mao's Cultural Revolution.
- Cait Murphy: A Culture of
Emigration, The Atlantic Monthly, April, 1991 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version here]
The growing unease among Chinese Hong Kong citizens about the impending Chinese rule.
- Hong Kong Constitution, 1990
[Was At ICL, now Internet Archive]
Taiwan [Republic of China]
-
Taiwan (Republic of China) Constitution, 1994 [Was At ICL, now Internet Archive]
Dissidents
Tiananmen Square, 1989
- Documents on the Gate of Heavenly Peace [all on the PBS Tiananmen web site] [Internet Archive backup here]
-
Review with
Background Information from Newsweek Inc. 1995 [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Interview with Directors The GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE Press Conference October 12, 1995, excepts by
Henri Behar [Was at Filmscouts, now Internet Archive]
-
Tiananmen Square
Interpretations - The official Government View "The Truth About the Beijing
Turmoil", Edited by the Editorial Board of The Truth about the Beijing Turmoil [Internet Archive backup here]
-
Criticism Chinese Government and
Attempts to Stop the Film
Letter to the Director of the Washington DC International Film Festival from the Press
Counsel of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China, and a letter written in response [Internet Archive backup here]
-
Criticism by Western Writers and
Response [and Re-Response]
The New York Review of Books (May 9, 1996) [Internet Archive backup here]
-
Criticism by Student Leaders
Article by Ye Ren, from The 90s, July August 1995 [Internet Archive backup here]
-
The Modern Democracy Movement in
Exile and Gate of Heavenly Peace
Excerpt from "Totalitarian Nostalgia" in Geremie Barmé's In The Red:
Contemporary Chinese Culture, New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming 1997. [Internet Archive backup here]
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China, Post-1989 Intellectuals
and Foreigners"To Screw Foreigners in Patriotic: China's Avant-Garde Nationalist" from
Geremie R. Barmé, From The China Journal, No. 34, July 1995. [Internet Archive backup here]
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Chronology of Tiananmen Square Events [Internet Archive backup here]
-
WEB Audio
and Video Clips [Internet Archive backup here]
-
WEB More
Online Reading on Gate of Heavenly Peace [Internet Archive backup here]
- Image: Hist.
Illus.: The Goddess of Democracy, Tienanmen Square
- Image: Hist.
Illus.: Tienanmen Square: Student Stops Tanks
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Japan Since World War
II
General
American Occupation
Economic Growth
Culture
-
WEB Japanese Aesthetics [Was At
Baylor, now Internet Archive]
- Tanaka Kotaro: In Search of
Truth and Peace, excerpts, 1952 [At this Site]
- Ruth Benedict: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture (1946), full text] [At Faded Page] [Internet Archive backup here]
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture is a 1946 study of Japan by American anthropologist Ruth Benedict. It was written at the invitation of the U.S. Office of War Information in order to understand and predict the behavior of the Japanese in World War II. . . The book was influential in shaping American ideas about Japanese culture during the occupation of Japan, and popularized the distinction between guilt cultures and shame cultures.
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Korea Since World War
II
General
The Korean War
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Other East Asian
Countries
General
- Cambodia Constitution, 1993
[Was At Cambodian Parliament.org, now Internet Archive]
- Tibet Constitution 1991 [Was At
ICL, now Internet Archive]
This is the constitution of the "government in exile".
- Mongolia Constitution, 1992
[Was At
ICL, now Internet Archive]
- Nepal Constitution, 1990 [Was At
ICL, now Internet Archive]
- Singapore Constitution, 1995
[Was At
ICL, now Internet Archive]
- The Manila Accord,
1963 [At this Site]
Between Malaya, Indonesia and the Philippines,
The Non-Aligned Movement
Addendum: The Vietnam War
-
WEB Vietnam War Documents and Links [Now Internet Archive]
- WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Vietnam [Was At Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive]
- Ho Chi Minh (1890-1968): Program
for Communist of Indochina, 1930, excerpts [At this Site]
- Vietnamese Declaration of
Independence, 1945 [At this Site]
- Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (September 2, 1945) [PDF] [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Selected Poems and Popular Songs Regarding the "Modern" Haircut [PDF] [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Lu: "Remembering the Jungle: The Words of the Tiger in the Zoo" [PDF] [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Manifesto of The
Laodong Party, February1951 [At this Site]
- The Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference: On Restoring Peace in
Indochina, July 21, 1954 [At this Site]
- President Eisenhower: Letter to
Ngo Dinh Diem, October 23, 1954 [At this Site]
Beginning US "humanitarian" aid.
- Viet Cong Program,
1962 [At this Site]
- Charles de Gaulle: France's Attitude
Toward US Policy in Vietnam, 1964 [At this Site]
- The Tonkin Bay
Resolution, 1964 [At this Site]
- Tonkin Gulf Incident, 1964
[At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
- U.S. State Department: Aggression from
the North, February 27, 1965 [At this Site]
- US State Department: North Vietnamese
Aggression, 1965 [At this Site]
- Senator Fulbright: Appraisal of US
Policy in the Dominican Crisis, September 15, 1965 [At this Site]
A wide-ranging critique of US foreign policy.
- President Lyndon Johnson and Ho Chi Minh: Letter Exchange,
1967 [At this Site]
- John Kerry, for Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Statement to the Senate Committee
of Foreign Relations, 1971 [At this Site]
Addendum: Asian-Pacific Immigrants in the US
- John W. Foster: The Chinese Boyctt, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1906 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version here]
Criticizes America's discrimination against Chinese immigrants in America as racist. This
behavior incited a Chinese boycott of American trade.
- Lowell Weiss: Timing is Everything, The Atlantic Monthly, January1994 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
The fate of two groups of Vietnamese immigrants in America.
- Roy Beck: The Ordeal of Immigration in Wausau, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1994 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
Effects of Southeast Asian refugees in Wausau.
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East Asian
Genders and Sexualities
Women: China
- Ban Zhao Pan Chao: Lessons for A
Woman: The Views of A Female Confucian, c. 80 CE [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
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Ben Zhao Pan Chao (45-115? CE) : The Problem of Woman [Was At CCNY, now Internet Archive]
- Fu Xuan: Poem
on Woman c. 3rd, Century CE [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
-
Marco Polo: On
Chinese Women 13th century [Was At CCNY, now Internet Archive]
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Chinese
Footbinding [Was At CCNY, now Internet Archive]
- The Tale of Mulan, the Maiden
Chief, c. 502-556 CE [At this Site]
- 2ND Marie Vento: One Thousand
Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and Demise [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Image: Custom:
Picture of Woman With Feet Unbound
- Image: Custom:
Picture of Unbound Feet Close Up
Image: Custom:
A bound foot - closeup
- Image: Custom:
Woman with bound feet
- Women in
China: History and the Present [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Ning Lao T'ai Tai: A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman by Ida Pruitt, full text. (1945. Copryright not renewed).
- Tom Hilditch: A Holocaust of
Girls, from the South China Morning Post Sept 1995 [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Women in Asia:
Press Reports [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
-
NY Times Report
on Recent UN Women's Conference [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Modern
Marriage in China - Two Texts [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
Women: Japan
Homosexuality
-
WEB People With a
History: Online Guide to LGBT* History
- The
Homosexual Tradition in China: Selections from Chinese Homosexual Literature [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Four 1990s
Press Reports on Gay Life in China [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Manifesto of First Chinese Tongzhi Conference, 1996 [Was At HKGAY, now Internet Archive]
Tongzhi is being used in Chinese for Gay. This manifesto directly asserts a
historical basis for modern Chinese homosexuals and the differences of Chinese Tongzhi
movements with western gay movements.
- Mary M. Anderson, Hidden Power: The Palace Eunuchs of Imperial China , (Buffalo
NY: Prometheus, 1990), 15-18, 307-11 [At Columbia] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Death of the Last Emperor's Last Eunuch, 1996 [At Columbia] [Internet Archive version here]
- Image: Custom:
A young eunuch exposes effects of castration
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Further
Resources on East Asian History
[Note this was once quite an extensive section, but guides to the web turned out to be very hard to maintain. Good advice now is to look up East Asian topics on Wikipedia and consult the further resources links at the bottom of many articles. Wikipedia is never a place to end research but it is a good place to start.]
- E-Texts
- WEB Asia for Educators [Columbia University]
This is a truly excellent site providing primary sources, lesson plans, focused sub-siites for
educators who want to include East Asian materials in their classes.
- WEB Chinese Text Project
The Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the wor
- WEB WWW Virtual Library: Asian Studies [Archived]
- Web Guides: East Asia
- Web Guides: China
- Web Guides: Japan
- Web Sites: Japanese History
- Web Guides: Korea
- Academic History/Culture Sites
Other Resources
General Reference Documents
- Chronology
of Chinese History [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
three separate chronologies based on 1. dynasties, 2. governmental forms, 3. economic
life.
- Extended
Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Studies [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Bibliography
in plaintext form [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Basic
Facts about Modern China Compiled from Compton's Living Encyclopediaon
America Online (August 1995) [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Chinese
Dynastic History Compiled from Compton's Living Encyclopedia on America
Online (August 1995) [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Chinese
Religions Compiled from Compton's Living Encyclopedia on America Online
(August 1995) [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Chinese
Literature Compiled from Compton's Living Encyclopedia on America Online
(August 1995) [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Chinese
Arts Compiled from Compton's Living Encyclopedia on America Online
(August 1995) [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Chinese
Ethnic Groups Compiled from Compton's Living Encyclopedia on America
Online (August 1995) [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
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