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East Asia Since 1600

This guide points to primary and secondary sources for research into the history of China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam from 1600 CE to present. Search techniques are provided for many of these resources.

Primary Sources for Chinese History - Books

Primary Sources in Books 1600-present

          

         

      

              

Searching Library Systems for Correspondence, Diaries, and Memoirs

Consider trying some of the following focused subject searches in the Advanced Search mode of OneSearch (UNI), InfoHawk (University of Iowa), and UC Library Search (University of California - Berkeley) by limiting to both the country of interest and to either the subject term “correspondence”, “diaries”, or “memoirs” (note results under “Language” are from searches of the very large UL Library system).

   

 

 

 

     

Try these searches in the following library discovery systems:
  

UNI Rod Library

University of Iowa

University of California

 

Resources found at either University of Iowa or University of California – and not owned by UNI – can be requested via interlibrary loan (link).