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Asia

Here are entered works on the entire continent that extends from Europe and Africa to the Pacific Ocean, including Siberia, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia (excluding Papua).

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• Asia -- Antiquities
• Asia -- Armed Forces
• Asia -- Bibliography
• Asia -- Church history
• Asia -- Civilization
• Asia -- Commerce
• Asia -- Congresses
• Asia -- Cultural policy
• Asia -- Defenses
• Asia -- Description and travel
• Asia -- Discovery and exploration
• Asia -- Economic conditions
• Asia -- Economic integration
• Asia -- Economic policy
• Asia -- Fiction
• Asia -- Foreign economic relations
• Asia -- Foreign public opinion, American
• Asia -- Foreign public opinion, Western
• Asia -- Foreign relations
• Asia -- Historical geography
• Asia -- History
• Asia -- History, Military
• Asia -- Imprints
• Asia -- In literature
• Asia -- Languages
• Asia -- Periodicals
• Asia -- Politics and government
• Asia -- Population
• Asia -- Relations
• Asia -- Religion
• Asia -- Rural conditions
• Asia -- Social life and customs
• Asia -- Study and teaching
• Asia, Central
• Orient
• Oriental literature
• Afghanistan
• Armenia
• Azerbaijan
• Bahrain
• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Burma
• Cambodia
• China
• Georgia (Republic)
• India
• Iran
• Iraq
• Israel
• Japan
• Jordan
• Kazakhstan
• Korea
• Kuwait
• Kyrgyzstan
• Laos
• Lebanon
• Malaysia
• Mongolia
• Nepal
• Oman
• Pakistan
• Philippines
• Qatar
• Saudi Arabia
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Syria
• Taiwan
• Tajikistan
• Thailand
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Uzbekistan
• Vietnam
• Yemen (Republic)
• Agriculture -- Asia
• Agriculture and state -- Asia
• Apes -- Habitat -- Conservation -- Asia
• Architecture -- Asia
• Architecture and recreation -- Asia
• Armor -- Asia
• Birth control -- Asia
• Botany -- Asia
• Buddhist architecture -- Asia
• COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 -- Asia
• Children -- Asia
• Christian antiquities -- Asia
• Christianity -- Asia
• Church of the East -- Asia
• Cities and towns -- Asia
• City planning -- Asia
• Civil supremacy over the military -- Asia
• Climatic changes -- Government policy -- Asia
• Clothing and dress -- Asia
• Coasts -- Asia
• Colonies -- Asia
• Communism -- Asia
• Computer security -- Asia
• Computers -- Access control -- Asia
• Costume -- Asia
• Cultural property -- Protection -- Asia
• Culture and globalization -- Asia
• Cyberspace -- Government policy -- Asia
• Decorative arts -- Asia
• Decorative arts, Ancient -- Asia
• Democracy -- Asia
• Economic assistance -- Asia
• Economic forecasting -- Asia
• Education -- Asia
• Education and state -- Asia
• Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- Asia
• Environmental policy -- Asia
• Environmental protection -- Asia
• Ethnology -- Asia
• Europe -- Relations -- Asia
• Finance -- Asia
• Financial crises -- Asia
• Folklore -- Asia
• Folklore in art -- Asia
• Free trade -- Asia
• Freedom of the press -- Asia
• Geology -- Asia
• Geomagnetism -- Asia
• Government and the press -- Asia
• Health education -- Asia
• Historic sites -- Asia
• Human body -- Social aspects -- Asia
• Human rights -- Asia
• Indigenous women -- Asia
• Industrial management -- Asia
• Industrial policy -- Asia
• Industries -- Asia
• Information policy -- Asia
• Information technology -- Asia
• International business enterprises -- Asia
• Internet -- Censorship -- Asia
• Internet -- Government policy -- Asia
• Investments -- Asia
• Islam -- Asia
• Islamic architecture -- Asia
• Japan -- Relations -- Asia
• Jews -- Asia
• Journalism -- Political aspects -- Asia
• Kirtland, Lucian Swift, 1881- -- Travel -- Asia
• Law -- Asia
• Manuscripts -- Asia
• Metal-work -- Asia
• Militarism -- Asia
• Missionaries -- Asia
• Missions -- Asia
• Monetary policy -- Asia
• Monuments -- Conservation and restoration -- Asia
• Motion pictures -- Asia
• Mountains -- Asia
• Music -- Asia
• National security -- Asia
• Natural resources -- Environmental aspects -- Asia
• Natural resources -- Government policy -- Asia
• Nomads -- Asia
• Nutrition counseling -- Asia
• Nutrition policy -- Asia
• Performing arts -- Asia
• Plateaus -- Asia
• Portuguese -- Asia
• Prehistoric peoples -- Asia
• Public health -- Asia
• Public spaces -- Asia
• Railroad travel -- Asia
• Railroads -- Asia
• Regional planning -- Asia
• Regionalism in architecture -- Asia
• Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982 -- Knowledge -- Asia
• Rivers -- Asia
• Roads -- Asia
• Rural development -- Asia
• Rural women -- Asia
• Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- Asia
• Security, International -- Asia
• Sex role -- Asia
• Small business -- Asia
• Sociology, Urban -- Asia
• Songs -- Asia
• Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- Asia
• Sports -- Asia
• Strategic planning -- Asia
• Sustainable development -- Asia
• Tales -- Asia
• Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Asia
• Textile fabrics -- Asia
• Theater -- Asia
• Tourism -- Asia
• Trade routes -- Asia
• United States -- Commerce -- Asia
• United States -- Foreign relations -- Asia
• United States -- Relations -- Asia
• Valleys -- Asia
• Vernacular architecture -- Asia
• Watersheds -- Asia
• Weapons -- Asia
• Widows -- Asia
• Women -- Asia
• Women in natural resources management -- Asia
• Women in sustainable development -- Asia
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Asia
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Asia

• Asian and Pacific Council countries

• The Awakening of Asia (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1919), by H. M. Hyndman (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Actes du Douzième Congrès International des Orientalistes, Rome 1899 (3 volumes in French and other languages; Florence: Soc. Typ. Florentine, 1901-1902)
  • Volume 1: page images at Gallica
  • Volume 2: page images at Gallica
  • Volume 3, part 1: page images at Gallica
  • Volume 3, part 2: page images at Gallica
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Future of Asia's Past: Preservation of the Architectural Heritage of Asia (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1995), ed. by Miguel Angel Corzo (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Heart of Asia (New York: Roerich Museum Press, 1930), by Nicholas Roerich (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the Golden East: An Illustrated Journey in Eastern Wonderlands (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1908), by Charlotte Chaffee Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ser Marco Polo: Notes and Addenda to Sir Henry Yule's Edition, Containing the Results of Recent Research and Discovery (London: J. Murray, 1920), by Henri Cordier
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Travels from St. Petersburg, in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia (1763), by John Bell
  • volume 1: page images at LOC
  • volume 2: page images at LOC
• Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia (second edition, 2 volumes; London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830), by James Silk Buckingham (page images at HathiTrust)
• À Travers l'Asie (in French; Brussels: Polleunis et Ceuterick, 1894), by Constant de Deken, contrib. by Jules Joseph Leclercq, illust. by Henri d' Orléans (page images at HathiTrust)
• À Travers l'Asie (in French; Anvers: C. Thibaut, 1902), by Constant de Deken, illust. by Henri d' Orléans
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Oriental and Western Siberia: A Narrative of Seven Years' Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and Part of Central Asia (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1858), by Thomas Witlam Atkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels of a Philosopher: or, Observations on the Manners and Arts of Various Nations in Africa and Asia (Augusta: Reprinted by P. Edes, 1797), by Pierre Poivre (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Mediaeval Researches From Eastern Asiatic Sources: Fragments Towards the Knowledge of the Geography and History of Central and Western Asia From the 13th to the 17th Century (2 volumes; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1910), by E. Bretschneider
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• China's Rise and the Balance of Influence in Asia (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), ed. by William W. Keller and Thomas G. Rawski, contrib. by Loren Brandt, Xiaodong Zhu, Louis W. Pauly, Joseph Fewsmith, Ellen L. Frost, Robert S. Ross, Adam Segal, and John Ravenhill (page images at Pitt)

• The Key of Dreams: A Romance of the Orient (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1922), by L. Adams Beck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ayesha: The Return of She, by H. Rider Haggard (Gutenberg text)
• Ayesha: The Return of She (London: Ward Lock and Co., 1905), by H. Rider Haggard
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c2005), by John R. Eperjesi (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Malini Johar Schueller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mediaeval Researches From Eastern Asiatic Sources: Fragments Towards the Knowledge of the Geography and History of Central and Western Asia From the 13th to the 17th Century (2 volumes; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1910), by E. Bretschneider
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Prolonged Wars: A Post-Nuclear Challenge (1994), ed. by K. P. Magyar and Constantine P. Danopoulos (PDF at dtic.mil)

• The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific in American Culture (Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Press; University Press of New England, c2005), by John R. Eperjesi (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)
• U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Malini Johar Schueller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revolutionary Rexroth: Poet of East-West Wisdom (electronic edition), by Morgan Gibson (HTML at Light and Dust)

• Asiatische Studien (in German) (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (full serial archives)
• Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft der Freunde Ostasiatischer Kultur (in German and French) (full serial archives)
• The Asiatic Review (partial serial archives)
• Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (partial serial archives)
• Rivista Degli Studi Orientali (partial serial archives)
• The Asiatic Quarterly Review (partial serial archives)
• The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record (full serial archives)
• Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (partial serial archives)

• The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific (2004), ed. by R. J. May and Viberto Selochan (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Asian Cross-Border Marriage Migration: Demographic Patterns and Social Issues (2010), ed. by Wen-Shan Yang and Melody Chia-Wen Lu (page images at Google)

• Borders of Being: Citizenship, Fertility, and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), ed. by Margaret Jolly and Kalpana Ram (page images at HathiTrust)

• Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan: Country Studies (1997), ed. by Glenn E. Curtis (multiple formats at loc.gov)
• Essays on Central Asia, by H. B. Paksoy (HTML in Italy)
• Lectures on Central Asia, by H. B. Paksoy (PDF at philpapers.org)

• Afghanistan: A Country Study (chapters prepared for sixth edition, published as-is in 2001), ed. by Peter R. Blood (HTML at countrystudies.us)
• Afghanistan: A Country Study (ca. 1986, with pointers to updates prior to the following edition), ed. by Richard F. Nyrop and Donald M. Seekins (HTML and PDF files at Wayback Machine)
• Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute, by Theophilus F. Rodenbough (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Armenians, or, The People of Ararat: A Brief Historical Sketch of the Past and the Present Condition of Armenia, the Armenians, Their Religion, and Missions Among Them (Philadelphia: Allen, Lane and Scott, 1892), by M. C. Gabrielian
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Turk and the Land of Haig: or, Turkey and Armenia, Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque (New York: The Mershon Co., c1898), by Antranig Azhderian
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Bangladesh: A Country Study (second edition, 1989), ed. by James Heitzman and Robert L. Worden (multiple formats at loc.gov)

• Nepal and Bhutan: Country Studies (third edition, 1993), ed. by Andrea Matles Savada (multiple formats at loc.gov)

• A Narrative of the Mission Sent by the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava in 1855, With Notices of the Country, Government, and People (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1858), by Henry Yule (page images with commentary at wdl.org)

• Cambodia: A Country Study (third edition, 1990), ed. by Russell R. Ross (multiple formats at loc.gov)

• China: A Country Study (fourth edition, 1988), ed. by Robert L. Worden, Andrea Matles Savada, and Ronald E. Dolan (multiple formats at loc.gov)
• The Chinese Empire: A Sequel to "Recollections of a Journey Through Tartary and Thibet" (new edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859), by Evariste Régis Huc (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants (revised edition, 2 volumes; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913), by S. Wells Williams
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• My Chinese Note Book (New York: E. P. Dytton; London: Methuen, c1904), by Susan Mary Keppel Townley
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Oldest and the Newest Empire: China and the United States (Pittsburgh: R. S. Davis and Co., 1877), by William Speer (multiple formats at Google)
• The Story of China (c1922), by R. Van Bergen (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Ancient China Simplified (London: Chapman and Hall, 1908), by Edward Harper Parker (Gutenberg text)

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