History: Asia & Australia

The AIATSIS Collection contains more than 1 million items, including books, audio, photographic, manuscript, moving image and art and object material, related to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and histories.

DigitalNZ brings together over 30 million digital items from over 200 different organizations all around Aotearoa.

Browse 800,000 artworks, taonga, photographs, collection objects, and botanical and zoological specimens from Te Papa’s collections.

The National Archives of Australia cares for and makes accessible the most significant Australian Government records to help tell Australia's national story – past, present and future. With more than 40 million items, the collection includes records about military service, immigration, First Australians and much more.

National Museum Australia’s digitized collections. The Museum’s collection covers Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and culture, Australia’s history and society since 1788 and the interaction of people with the environment.

A large archive of material from libraries and museums, including newspapers, government material, photos, maps, and letters.

The ANU Library holds a number of unique, and in some cases rare and fragile, collections relating to the Chinese Cultural Revolution period (1966-1976).

Propaganda posters created by various Chinese agencies, 1968-1989.

Mass education materials published in Hong Kong and in Mainland China, particularly Shanghai, in the years 1947-1954. Hosted by the Center for Research Libraries.

The Fine Arts Library and Harvard-Yenching Library holds rubbings of objects that date from the Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty.

Online photographs from the substantial holdings of images of modern China held mostly in private hands outside that country.

Chinese newspapers from 1911 to 1949. Hosted by the Center for Research Libraries.

Over 5,000 photographs, primarily of China, 1908-1932.

The East Asian Collection includes historical images that present a visual archive of 20th century East Asian cultural heritage.

Historical documents of Japan concerning modern Japanese relations with other countries, particularly those in Asia.

The Korean Periodicals collection contains runs and individual issues of Korean-language serials -- newspapers and journals.

This collection contains propaganda leaflets produced by the United States Army a as well as leaflets produced by the communist forces in Korea.

Maps, documents, constitution, and classics.

The North Korea International Documentation Project serves as an informational clearinghouse on North Korea for the scholarly and policymaking communities, disseminating documents on the DPRK from its former communist allies that provide valuable insight into the actions and nature of the North Korean state.

This digital library gathers together a large body of primarily European and American images of the island of Taiwan -- called "Formosa" by foreign visitors in the 19th Century -- and its various peoples.

Digitized collections of books and manuscripts from Singapore and other southeast Asian countries, hosted by the Singaporean government.

SAOA's collection currently contains hundreds of thousands of pages of books, journals, newspapers, census data, magazines, and documents, with particular focus on social & economic history, literature, women & gender, and caste & social structure.

Drawn largely from the collections of universities and scholars in this region, SEADL contains digital facsimiles of books and manuscripts, as well as multimedia materials and searchable indexes of additional Southeast Asian resources.

This digital collection contains digitized images, including photographs and slides, that librarians, scholars, and other subject specialists have deemed important to these fields of study.