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France since 1871
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About-France.com
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- links to local government websites (in Japanese)
Japanese Government Statistics
Statistics Bureau Japan
National Institute of Population and Social Security Research
Ohara Institute of Social Research - Hosei University
JETRO
- Japanese Trade and Investment Statistics
International Center for the Digitalization of Premodern Japanese Sources
- University of Tokyo
Japanese Historical Text Initiative
- includes bilingual works like Kojiki 古事記and Nihon Shoki 日本書紀
Japanese Maps of the Tokugawa Era(1600-1867)
Photographs - Bakumatsu-Meiji Period
- Nagasaki University Library
Digital Library Meiji Era
Memoirs of a secret empire
- travel along the Tokaido road
American Chamber of Commerce - Japan
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JETRO
- Japanese Trade and Investment Statistics
Starr East Asian Library - Columbia
Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan - Harvard
East Asian Collection - Duke
Boston Museum of Fine Arts - Art of Asia
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Kyoto International Manga Museum
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Japanese Canadian National Museum
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Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture - Columbia
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CIA World Fact Book: China
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China Data Centre
- University of Michigan (partially free)
China Vitae
- biographical information on over 4000 Chinese leaders
WWW Virtual Library: Chinese History
China History to Qing Dynasty (USC)
Classical Historiography for Chinese History
Digital Archives Project National Taiwan University
Han Dynasty: Legacy of Ancient China
Virtual Museum of the Cultural Revolution
World Heritage in China
China Historical GIS Dataset
a database of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of Chinese history between
222 BCE
and
1911 CE.
Chinese history during 1840-1949
(in Chinese) The site publishes a large number of academic papers and articles.
Silk Road Narratives: A Collection of Historical Texts
Taiwan Memory (NCL)
China Maps
Maps of China
Map Collection (U of Texas)
China Historical GIS (Harvard)
Religious Atlas of China and Himalaya
includes information for several thousand religious places in China and the Himalayas
American Chamber of Commerce - China
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Arts of China Consortium
WWW Virtual Library: Culture and Art
Chinese Culture
International DUNHUANG project
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Chinese Posters: The Chairman Smiles
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Beijing Opera
Internet Chinese Music Archive
China Film Archive
Chinese Movie Database
Asian Historical Architecture
Historical Images of Shanghai
Association for Asian Studies
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