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Cultural Japan
Digital resources related to Japanese culture drawn from museums, libraries, and other institutions around the world. Browse over a million items by category, person, or era, or search across all collections and use a variety of filters to focus your search.

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The Reincarnated Giant: An Anthology of Twenty-First-Century Chinese Science Fiction (E-Book) by Mingwei Song & Theodore Huters (Editors)
Coedited by Wellesley Associate Professor of Chinese Mingwei Song, this new anthology (2018) showcases the best of contemporary science fiction from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People's Republic of China in 15 short stories and novel excerpts. (Also available in print in Clapp Library.)

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Asian Student Union
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East Asian Studies
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Key Databases

These databases contain a combination of full text articles and citation information about articles, book chapters, or books.

Asia-Studies Full-text Online This link opens in a new window
research reports, statistics, analysis - most in English
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) This link opens in a new window
Provides citations to western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971 - most in English

China Academic Journals
Full text journals in Chinese and English. Wellesley subscribes to Series F - Literature, history, philosophy.
CiNii
Japanese-language index to articles, books & journals.

KCI Korean Journal Database This link opens in a new window
Provides access to articles from multidisciplinary journals covered in Korea Citation Index, which contains bibliographic information for scholarly literature published in Korea, 1980 to present. Search in Korean or English.
Siku Quanshu This link opens in a new window
Full text of 3,460 classical Chinese texts compiled by edict of China’s Emperor Qianlong during the period 1773–1782.

Requires download of a dedicated Windows browser to access. Only available on-campus or via VPN.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Index to publications on literature, linguistics, film, and folklore, from all cultures, 1963 to present. International in scope, it includes citations to journal articles, books, articles in books, series, translations, scholarly editions, websites, and dissertations.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Articles on film and television theory, writing, production, cinematography, reviews, and more, 1914 to present
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals This link opens in a new window
An index to articles on film and TV from 300 academic and popular film journals, including full text from the most important journals, from 1972 to present.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Articles on world history from 1450, excluding US & Canada, written since 1955. Can be co-searched with America: History & Life
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) This link opens in a new window
Index with abstracts to the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences 1973 to present.

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