Asia

Sub-headings:

Asian History

Asia Travel & Tourism

Bangladesh

Bhutan

Cambodia

China

India

Indonesia

Japan

Korea

Laos

Maldives

Mongolia

Nepal

Philippines

Singapore

Sri Lanka

Taiwan

Thailand

Vietnam

Resources in this category:

Asia Maps
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/asia.html

A complete map collection of Asian countries produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency: including political maps, reference maps, city maps, historical maps and outline maps. All maps are categorized by regions and countries.

Asia Profiles
http://www.asiasource.org/profiles/

Asia Profiles is an online resource developed by the Asia Society to find maps and statistics for individual countries. It provides a web of comparing statistics between countries.

The Asia Rice Foundation:
http://www.asiarice.org/index.html

Designed by a regional nonprofit organization, Asia Rice Foundation, this site provides information about how rice shapes cultures, traditions and rituals. Be sure to check "Learn about Rice" and learn for about rice. You can get recipes from different countries in "Let's Eat."

Asia: Country Studies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/continent_asia.html

Profiles of 45 Asian nations from the Federal Research Division of the U.S. Library of Congress.

Asian American Net
http://www.asianamerican.net/

"Asian American Net is the first and the only web site whose mission is to serve all Asian American communities and to promote and strengthen cultural, educational, and commercial ties between Asia and North America. The site¹s primary feature is the collection of regional and country-specific materials available on the Internet. Each country on the Asian continent is listed under one of the five regional groups, i.e., Central Asia, East Asia/Far East, Middle East/West Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia." Includes the address of the embassies for each nation, links to newspapers, Asian studies programs and centers, immigration resources, and Asian American organizations.

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html

Part of the WWW Virtual Library, this is a global collaborative project which provides access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies. Areas covered are divided into: Middle East, Caucasus, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Pacific Ocean.

AskAsia.org
http://www.askasia.org/

AskAsia.org is a website for students and teachers covering countries in Asia. It covers the time from early civilization to current events.

East Asian Holidays & Celebrations
http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/holidays/holidays.htm

This site provides descriptions of East Asian holidays and celebrations including Chinese, Japanese and Korean holidays. It is a good introduction to each country's cultural celebrations.

The National Center for Korean Traditional Performing Arts
http://210.95.200.104/eng/index_eng.jsp

Information about Korean music, dance, and instruments. This site covers a wide range of genres including Dang-ak, Hyang-ak, Chwita, and Minyo. There are also collections of pages that describe the traditional instruments of Korea.

Portal to Asian Internet Resources
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/PAIR/

"Committed to directing users to Asian area content in the humanities and social sciences, the Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR) is supported by an impressive complement of area studies scholars, bibliographers and subject selectors based at the libraries of the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota and the Ohio State University."

The South Asian Literary Recordings Project
http://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/

Part of the Library of Congress' Archive of Recorded World Literature, this "project has captured the readings of prominent South Asian poets, novelists, and playwrights. The authors recorded so far represent more than fifteen of the languages of India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh."

Tibet Info Net
http://www.tibetinfonet.net/

It monitors and reports information on contemporary Tibet. Its news-gathering balances official statements from Beijing, Lhasa and Dharamsala with reliable first-hand testimony from Tibetans themselves.

The Tsunami Disaster in Asia, 2004 : an Annotated Directory of Resources
http://bulldog2.redlands.edu/dept/AsianStudiesDept/tsunami.h...

"An annotated directory of Internet resources on the 2004 tsunami disaster in Asia, including news sources, information on relief efforts & donations, missing persons & victim contact information, & impact on affected countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Myanmar and Somalia." The site contents include aggregated sources, Asian government sources, reports & commentary, relief aid & donations, missing persons & victim contact, and general information on tsunamis.

Virtual City of Ani
http://www.virtualani.org/citymap.htm

An exhibit on the Armenian city of Ani, which reached the height of its prosperity in the 11th century. Maps, an extensive collection of images, and essays on the city, its religion, arts and central Asian culture of the time.