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General Web Resources

Pittsburgh Region

• University of Pittsburgh Asian Studies Center
  Information on the Asian Studies Center, a National Resource Center for East Asian Studies.
  • Over Lunch Lecture Series
  • East Asian Library at the University of Pittsburgh
    The East Asian Library supports the Asian Studies Program at Pitt for research in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It is one of the major East Asian collections in North America, with about 280,000 volumes of Chinese, 58,000 volumes of Japanese, 3,200 volumes of Korean and some English language materials, plus over 1,900 titles of periodicals (over 45,000 volumes bound) published in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea.
• University of Pittsburgh East Asian Languages & Literatures
  Offers courses in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. They also offer an intensive summer program in Japanese.

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United States

• Asia Society
  The Asia Society is an international organization dedicated to strengthening relationships and deepening understanding among the peoples of Asia and the United States.
  • AsiaSource
    AsiaSource is an online resource developed by the Asia Society to meet the need for timely, reliable, unbiased information and assistance regarding the cultural, economic, social, historical, and political dimensions of Asia.
  • AskAsia
    A K-12 resource of the Asia Society
• Association for Asian Studies
  The Association for Asian Studies (AAS)—the largest society of its kind in the world—is a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia. Their website contains a good collection of links and resources.
• Far Eastern Economic Review
  Far Eastern Economic Review, published weekly in Hong Kong, is Asia's premier business magazine. It is wholly owned by Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal. The magazine appears every Thursday.
• US Department of State Country Information: East Asia & Pacific
  Links to background notes for the countries of East Asian and the Pacific, containing brief information on geography, people, history, political conditions, economy, government, foreign relations, US relations, travel & business, and links to further electronic resources from the US government.
• US Department of State Country Information: South & Central Asia
  Links to background notes for the countries of South Asia containing brief information on geography, people, history, political conditions, economy, government, foreign relations, US relations, travel & business, and links to further electronic resources from the US government.