South Asia Commons – History and Culture South Asian History and Culture is a project to build the largest full text repository of quality South Asian books, magazines, reports, historical journals, video, audio, zines, newspapers, magazines, letters, diaries, and other primary source materials. The database provides in-depth, advanced searching, with centralized access to over 500
Category: Asian & Middle East Studies
Müteferriqa Müteferriqa is an online research portal. It contains an exceptionally rich collection of printed materials published in the Ottoman Empire from the 18th to mid-20th century. It paves the way for interdisciplinary collaboration in historical research through its English and Turkish language support. Through its sleek Web interface, Müteferriqa lets you perform full-text search
Yehudit Henshke, Mother Tongue: The Preservation of Jewish Languages and Cultures Mother Tongue is a rescue initiative for documentation and preservation of endangered Jewish languages. It utilizes audio and visual tools to document speakers from varied Jewish communities, paying special attention to the language and culture of women and of peripheral communities whose voices have
Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature Country of Words: A Transnational Atlas for Palestinian Literature is a digital-born project that retraces and remaps the global story of Palestinian literature in the twentieth century, starting from the Arab world and going through Europe, North America, and Latin America. Sitting at the intersection of
Buddhist Digital Resource Center, core text collections 18 and 19 Northwestern University Libraries has expanded our access to the Buddhist Digital Archives by the Buddhist Digital Resource Center to include core text collections 18 and 19 (19 forthcoming). We previously have purchased 1 through 17. The Buddhist Digital Resource Center is dedicated to preserving and
Zhongguo fang zhi ku = 中國方志庫 / Database of Chinese Local Records In addition to parts 1 and 2, Northwestern University Libraries now have access to part 3 of Zhongguo fang zhi ku / 中國方志庫 / Database of Chinese Local Records. Zhongguo fang zhi ku, also known as Database of Chinese Local Records, contains more
Records of the Kurds: Territory, Revolt and Nationalism, 1831-1979 Records of the Kurds: Territory, Revolt and Nationalism, 1831-1979 includes over 9,000 pages of facsimile documents on the recent history of the Kurdish people, “tracing early insurgencies, inter-relations with neighboring tribes and other ethnic groups, while examining the territories pertaining to the Kurdish homeland. The object
Mideast Wire Mideastwire.com aims offers daily translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the Arab media. Currently, the service covers news from all twenty-two Arab countries, Iran, and the Arab diaspora generally, with coverage that extends across the North Africa region as well as including the United
Cumhuriyet Digital Archive Established in May 1924, Cumhuriyet (“The Republic”) is the oldest secular Turkish daily newspaper and is widely considered one of the last remaining opposition newspapers in Turkey. According to the newspaper’s editorial principles: Cumhuriyet is an independent newspaper; it is the defender of nothing but the Republic, of democracy in the scientific
中國譜牒庫 / Zhongguo pu die ku / Chinese Genealogy Database The Chinese Genealogy Database contains genealogy works from past dynasties, including genealogy, chronology, official genealogy records, records of officials, daily records (including diaries, daily records, daily records, daily notes, etc.), a total of 10,000 types. The second volume contains 13,000 imperial examination records from past
歷代詩文集總庫 / Database of Collection of Poems and Essays of Past Dynasties (4 parts): before Ming Dynasty / Ming Dynasty / first half of Qing Dynasty / second half of Qing Dynasty 歷代詩文集總庫·別集編 明前 / 歷代詩文集總庫·別集編 清前期 / 歷代詩文集總庫·別集編 清后期 / 歷代詩文集總庫·別集編 明代 For access, click on “Login”, then select the database. 2 simultaneous users
Guo xue bao dian / 国学宝典 / Collection of Chinese Studies Searchable full text of a wide range of Chinese texts, as well as classical, biographical and literary dictionaries and a special module on Tang and Song poetry. Simplified and traditional searching and display is possible. Notations are provided as to the source of the