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Find Western-language resources for the study of China, Japan, Korea, and Asia in general, including primary and secondary sources available in print and electronic formats.
Dictionaries and reference works
- Chinese-English Dictionary OnlineOnline searching interface for the Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese Online, compiled by Paul Kroll.
- CJKV-English dictionaryA dictionary-database of CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese) characters and compounds related to East Asian cultural, political, and intellectual history.
- JapanknowledgeConsists of fully searchable and browsable databases including English-Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries, Nihon daihyakka zensho, Kodansha encyclopdeia of Japan, articles published in a weekly magazine Ekonomisuto, collection of Tōyō bunko series, Jitsū (by Shirakawa Shizuka), Nihon kokugo daijiten, Nihon jinmei daijiten, Edo-Tōkyō kasane chizu, Nihon rekishi chimei taikei, Kokushi daijiten and other visual and sound databases.
- Oxford Language Dictionaries OnlineOnline resource that includes a search interface for Oxford's Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionaries.
