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Five College Center for East Asian Studies
http://www.smith.edu/fcceas/
Extensive library of materials about Japan and China for use by New England teachers. This website offers a catalogue of teaching resources available for free from the Five College Center, which can mail resources to teachers within New England. The site includes the FCCEAS newsletter with information about institutes and workshops.
Orientation Asia
http://as.orientation.com
This site is a sophisticated guide to selective web sites about Asia in 10 main topic areas, each of which is broken down into several sub-topics. Referenced sites are reviewed and selected by the editors of the Orientation Asia site. The main topic areas are:
Art and Literature Internet and Computers Business and Trade Music and Entertainment Culture and Society News and Events Education and Politics Sports and Recreation Health and Science Travel and Exploration The home page includes up to the minute "breaking news" and "news and views" boxes which are continuously updated. All pages include individualized search features and "hot sites" organized by sub-topics.
Asian Studies World-Wide Web Virtual Library
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
The Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library provides an authoritative, continuously updated hypertext guide and access tool to scholarly information resources on the Internet. It deals with the Asian continent as a whole, as well as with individual Asian regions, countries, and territories. The virtual library is edited by "virtual librarians" who are scholars, postgraduate students, or networked-information specialists employed by universities, libraries, and research institutes. They maintain comprehensive, current, and annotated catalogs of online resources selected on the strength of their reliability, authority and usefulness to inquiry and analysis regarding Asian societies, politics, economies, histories, and cultures.
Asian Educational Media Service: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
http://www.aems.uiuc.edu/index.las
Lists of audio-visual resources on Asia for use in K-12 education including price and source information. Also included in the listings is information about audio cassettes, CD-ROMs, curriculum units with audio-visual components, slides, and videos categorized by country or region and subject.
Asian Educational Resource Center
http://www.asiasociety.org/education/education1.html
The Asian Educational Resource Center of the Asia Society is composed of three integrated technology-based components:
AskAsia® -- described below,
AsiaInteractive -- developer of multimedia materials to fill curricular gaps in the study of Asia, and
TeachAsia® -- a 15 month staff development program that facilitates teacher leadership and strengthens the capacity of educators to develop practical models for the inclusion of Asian studies in the classroom.
Ask Asia
http://www.askasia.org
An extensive site for K-12 educators and students including lesson plans readings, interactive games and links to other resources. An exciting, informative on-line source for K-12 Asian and Asian American studies. Offers easy access to high-quality, classroom-tested resources and cultural information, maps, lesson plans, engaging games and activities, and links to relevant people, places, and institutions.
AskAsia's resources are divided into four sections:
Information/News -- Includes links to Asian newspapers.
For Educators -- An in-depth resource for teachers, parents and home-schoolers. In this section you'll find Instructional Resources, information on Professional Development/Grants, a Communication Center containing a Teachers' Bulletin Board, and the School-to-School Connection, and an area that brings schools together for international dialogue.
Adult-Free Zone -- Contains engaging games, links to penpals around the world, kid-to-kid communication, and opportunities to travel and learn about the world.
Gateway to Asia -- Tour selected Asian Sites.
Asian history, geography, and literature East Asian Studies Center at Indiana University
http://www.monkeytree.org/
http://www.indiana.edu/~easc/
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Fairbank Chinese History Library: Rob Gray
http://www.cnd.org/fairbank/
This "modern Chinese history virtual library" was founded to facilitate easy access to sources of modern Chinese historical information on the internet. The China News Digest provides technical support and hosts the site on its server.
"Modern Chinese history" includes three eras: the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911), the Republican Era (1912 - 1949), and the People's Republic of China (1949 - present). The site contains a rich collection of many different kinds of resources about and from these eras, including original texts, sound recordings, pricutres, tests, books, articles, and much more.
China News Digest
http://www.cnd.org
A broad source of current news in China maintained by an independent nonprofit in the US. Provides access to a rich collection of resources on Modern China, in particular a wonderful collection of primary sources, including photos and maps. Includes virtual museum of the Cultural Revolution, a virtual library of Chinese history, and photo archives.
China Daily Web Edition
http://www.chinadaily.net
This is the site of the China Daily, the English version of the national Chinese newspaper. This is a good place to go for articles on the Chinese government perspective on just about any topic.
China the Beautful - Chinese Art and Literature
http://www.chinapage.com/china.html
This site offers an extensive range of cultural and historical information. Includes examples of Chinese painting, calligraphy, poetry, and much more.
The New England China Network
http://www.primarysource.org
The New England China Network is a collaboration between Primary Source and Harvard University's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. Their goal is to provide K-12 teachers with the resources and institutional support to introduce units and courses on China to public and independent schools. The site includes an interactive discussion forum.
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Japan Information Network
http://www.jinjapan.org/index.html
This site is a collection of useful links, including: Japan Web Navagitor -- a guide to the Japanese web; Japan Directory -- a database of Japanese organizations, by category; Japan Atlas; The Virtual Museum of Traditional Japanese Arts; Japan Insight; Trends in Japan; Kids Web Japan; Statistics; Regions and Cities (Virtual Tour); Nipponia; and The Japan of Today. The site includes a searchable database organized into 12 major topics and 24 sub-topics.
The Japan Studies Network Forum
http://www.jsnet.org
This site page was created by the Japan Foundation 1) to help those conducting research in Japanese Studies, 2) to support networking of Japan specialists, and 3) to enable easier access to information in the field.
Japan Connect: Discovering Japan on the Internet
http://www.jet.org/japanconnect/japan.htm
A collection of links to sites in and about Japan with suggestions of how to use them in the K-12 classroom -- to help teachers in Elementary and Middle schools introduce their students to daily life in Japan.
Kyoto National Museum
http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/
This site includes a 'guided' tour of the museum for children (grades 5 and higher) which includes interesting information and stories about Japanese history, art, society and culture.
A-Bomb WWW Museum
http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/index.html
After the text about the Atomic bomb, there is an index for the rest of the site which includes stories from children who survived the bombing and the results of an interview with children, conducted in 1995, that asked questions about their knowledge of the atomic bombing.
Keiko Schneider's BookMarks
http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/One-stop site for those who study and teach Japanese and Japan.
Japan Times online.
http://www.primarysource.org
The daily English language newspaper from Japan.
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