East Asian Languages and Cultures

EALC 1004: East Asian Cultural Foundations

This page features resources for the course EALC-1004: East Asian Cultural Foundations. You can find more by searching the Library catalogue, or look up databases and journals by title.

Suggested Keywords:

East Asia civilization
East Asia history
Confucianism influences
Taoism tradition
Buddhism East Asia history

Scholarly Journals

Asian Ethnology
Dedicated to the promotion of scholarly research on the peoples and cultures of Asia. Began in China as Folklore Studies in 1942 and later moved to Japan as Asian Folklore Studies. Edited and published at Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan, with the cooperation of Boston University.
Asian Philosophy
An international journal covering Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Buddhist, and Islamic philosophic traditions. Topics include metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, moral and social philosophy, aesthetics, jurisprudence, and comparison of Eastern and Western philosophical traditions.
International Journal of Asian Studies
IJAS examines Asia as a region, emphasizing patterns and tendencies that go beyond the borders of individual countries. The Editors welcome theoretical and empirical research, including interdisciplinary approaches that cross methodological boundaries, comparative perspectives that draw on data from multiple regions, and the development of new methodologies.

Databases

Bloomsbury Cultural History

Bloomsbury Cultural History is a digital reference tool comprising curated and illustrated reference works alongside extensive eBook and image collections. It offers an authoritative survey of a wide range of subjects throughout history. Each subject is looked at in Antiquity, the Medieval Age, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Age of Empire and the Modern Age and thematic coverage is consistent across all periods so that users can either gain a broad overview of a period or follow a theme through the ages.

eHRAF World Cultures

eHRAF World Cultures contains ethnographic collections covering all aspects of cultural and social life. eHRAF is unique in having subject indexing at the paragraph level. This allows detailed and precise searching for concepts not easily found with keywords.