Research Guides: EALC : East Asian Languages and Cultures: Background Information

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Routledge Handbooks Online
Includes so many good books: Contemporary Japan, Japanese Foreign Policy, Japanese Media, Gender and Japanese Culture, Modern Korean History, Korean Culture and Society, Memory and Reconciliation, Revolutionary China, Environmental Policy in China....
Cambridge Companions Online
Online version of the Cambridge Companions; offers introductions to major writers, artists, topics and periods within the fields of literature, classics, philosophy, religion and culture.
Oxford Bibliographies Online
Specifically - Chinese Studies.
Very Short Introductions [Oxford]
Modern China, Modern Japan, Korea, Chinese Literature, Cultural Revolution, Mao, Confucianism, Tibetan Buddhism, and others.
Mango Languages

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
Oxford Reference Online
Specifically: A Dictionary of Chinese Literature, Dictionary of Asian Mythology, Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation, Benezit Dictionary of Asian Artists,