Department of Special and Area Studies Collections,

University of Florida Smathers Libraries:

Asian Studies Collection Strengths

David Hickey

Asian Studies Bibliographer

All three major collectanea of Chinese classical writings, a three-part compendium of pre-modern Chinese literature, extensive microfiche sets of pre-modern fiction (Van Gulik Collection) and biographies (G. K. Sauer), electronic access to the Chinese Academic Journals (CAJ) full-text article database, the online Siku Quanshu and the CUHK Chinese Ancient Texts (CHANT) database, and representative works by well-known modern writers in Chinese;

Japanese pre-modern literature, and electronic access to the Japan Knowledge database;

Select Republican-era Chinese official writings (“gongbao”) and local histories (“fangzhi”) from Sichuan and Jiangsu Provinces, and extensive microform sets of British and American Diplomatic and Intelligence files on China;

Chinese (Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan) and Japanese modern films;

Microfiche sets of select District Series of the Gazetteers of India in the British Period and Indian Political Intelligence Files from 1912 to 1950.

Vision of Some Future Possibilities:

Asian Studies Information Literacy Curricular Development;

Significant expansion of and easy user access to online resources in East Asian scripts, as configured within the Ex-Libris (Aleph) local and SUS-wide online catalog, outside via the internet, and by any other providers and services which can provide complete and reliable scholarly information.

September, 2009