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ASIAN-AMERICAN HERITAGE
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SELECTED
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BOOKS
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The electronic books
listed below are available through the
CCM Library Catalog
Bhatti, Ghazala. Asian
Children at Home and at School : an Ethnographic Study. London ; New
York : Routledge, 2002.
eBook LC3485.G7 B53 2002eb
Confucian Bioethics. New
York : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
eBook R725.5 .C65
2002eb
Lawrence, Bruce B. New
Faiths, Old Fears : Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious
Life. New York : Columbia University Press, 2002.
eBook
BL2525 .L39 2002eb
Segal, Uma Anand. A
Framework for Immigration : Asians in the United States. New York :
Columbia University Press, 2002.
eBook E184.O6 S44 2002eb
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CULTURE &
HISTORICAL RESOURCES |
Asian American Culture Links
http://www.janet.org/~ebihara/aacyber_culture.html
Film and video, documentaries and histories, dance,
literature, museums and cultural centers, music, theater, Asian
American ethnic communities, and other pacific cultural links.
Asian American History
Web Sites and Resources
http://www.cetel.org/res.html
Serves as “some of the best starting
points” to further explore Asian American history and culture online, in books,
and through other media programs. Many of the resources listed here also have
extensive links or listings of other resources.
Asian American Studies Resources Guide
http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/ethnicstudies/asian/
Provided by the Southern California University Library.
Includes General Reference Guide, Libraries and Other Organizations, Documenting
Literature, Literary Criticism, Locating Articles in Periodicals, Audio
Recordings, Video Recordings, Community Landmarks, Resources on the Internet and
Recent Acquisitions.
Asian-Nation
http://www.asian-nation.org/religion.shtml
Brief, but wide range of Asian American cultural
information is given, e.g. religion, food, sports, games, etc.
Asian Pacific American History and Culture
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/resource_library/asian_american_resources.html
Selective bibliography of references from the Smithsonian.
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DATABASES |
JSTOR Arts and Sciences Collection
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FACTUAL DATA |
Asian-American Studies
http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subj/asian-am.html
From UCSB Libraries.
Asian Pacific Americans
by the Numbers
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/asiancensus1.html
From the U.S.
Census Bureau.
Asian Pacific American
Firsts
http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/asianpacific2002/
Selected list of
examples of Asian Pacific American achievers in their fields, e.g., arts,
education, Nobel Prize winners, sciences, sports, etc.
Chronology of
Asian American History
http://web.mit.edu/21h.153j/www/chrono.html
Historic timeline
of Asian Americans in the U.S. from 1600 to 1989.
Some Noteworthy
Americans of
Asian or Pacific Island Heritage
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/asiabio.htm
Gives brief
biographic information on “selected noteworthy” Asian Americans in the various
fields, e.g. sports, fashion, architecture, entertainments, education, business,
military, etc.
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GENERAL SOURCES |
Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month
http://www.nps.gov/history/NR/feature/asia/
The National Park Service showcases historic properties and offers supplemental
resources on Asian and Pacific peoples in the United States.
Asian, Pacific and South
Asian American Studies
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/AsianAmvid.html
AsiaSource
http://www.asiasource.org/
Published
by the Asia Society, this site covers arts, culture, business, social issues and
many more topics. It includes interviews of people, current events and links to
many useful sites.
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
This site,
edited by T. Matthew Ciolek, is a comprehensive site covering the entire region
in whole and individual countries. One of the highlights of this site is the
Asia-Pacific live news feed. It includes a list of Asia Studies search engines,
bibliographies, conferences, etc.
East & Southeast Asia: An
Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/
This is an
annotated directory of resources on East Asia, Southeast Asia and Asian
Americans. Individual countries as well as regions are profiled.
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JOURNALS |
History & Archaeology
http://wc5ca4yl9r.search.serialssolutions.com/?V=1.0&L=WC5CA4YL9R&S=SC&C=06 |
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LITERATURE |
Asian American Literature
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/asialit.htm |
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RESOURCES ON
SPECIFIC COUNTRIES |
Digital South Asia Library
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/
Includes images, maps, statistics, and other reference resources.
China
China Online
http://chineseculture.about.com/cs/book1/
Brief, but wide range of Chinese cultural aspects is
provided here.
India
India WWW
Virtual Library
http://www.india.com.ar/
Maintained
by Sergio Paoli, this site provides links to historical, cultural, regional and
other information sources. A link to the Web Virtual Library is also provided.
Japan
Japan : Traditional & Modern Culture
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/japan-culture.html
Korea
Korean History Project
http://www.koreanhistoryproject.org/
This is an
“educational organization dedicated to the research, production and online
publication of Korean and East Asian history.” It promotes educational and
cultural understanding of the region to a worldwide audience.
Philippines
Filipino Americans.Net
http://filipinoamericans.net/
Notable Filipino
Americans
http://www.filipinoweb.com/notable.html
List of “Notable” Filipino Americans in various fields.
Thailand
Thailand: Thai Language and
Culture Learning Resources
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Thai/
Vietnam
Fine Arts of VietNam
http://www.ibiblio.org/vietnam/art.html
Introduces
the fine examples of Vietnamese silk paintings.
Interactive Outline
History of Vietnam
http://www.richmond.edu/%7Eebolt/history398/InteractiveOutlineHistory%20ofVietnam.html
Vietnam
http://www.interknowledge.com/vietnam/index.html
Brief
information is given here on Vietnamese geography, history, culture and people.
Vietnamese Language and
Culture
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/vietnamese/VNMainpage/vietsite/vietsite.htm
This site
covers Vietnamese language, culture, food, travel and many more topics.
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SELECTED LIBRARY RESOURCES
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AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS |
China's Lost Girls. [Washington, DC] :
National Geographic ; [Burbank, CA] : Warner Home Video, [2005], p2004.
DVD HV1317 .C45 2005
Daughter from Danang. Alexandria, Va. :
Distributed by PBS Home Video, [2003].
Reserve
Video
DS559.8.C53 D38 2003
Shaolin Ulysses : Kungfu Monks in America.
[United States] : Docurama ; New York, NY : Distributed by New Video, 2004.
DVD GV1114.7 .S538 2004
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BOOKS |
Asian American Short Story Writers : an A-to-Z Guide.
Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2003.
Reference
PS153.A84 A828 2003
Bold Words : a Century of Asian American Writing.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2001.
PS508.A8
B65 2001
Sources of Japanese Tradition. (2nd ed.)
New York : Columbia University Press, 2001-
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DS821 .S68 2001
Zia, Helen. Asian American Dreams : the Emergence
of an American People. New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001,
c2000.
E184.O6 Z53 2001
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