National History Day: Print Resources

This exhaustive 4-vol. reference provides a full record of Asia -- its history, geography, politics, cultures, and people. The 3,000 original articles cover places, eras, and events, and include over 1,200 biographies.

This bibliography lists 1491 books, magazine and newspaper articles, and manuscripts on aspects of World War I in East and Southeast Asia. The unannotated entries include a large number of non-English sources. They are listed alphabetically by author (or title where author is lacking) and later indexed by country, subject, military units, and names mentioned.

The Encyclopedia of India encompasses the history, cultures, geography and religions of India from ancient times to the present day.

The Cambridge History of Ancient China provides a survey of the cultural, intellectual, political, and institutional developments of the pre-imperial period. The four subperiods of Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States, are described on the basis of literary and material sources and the evidence of recently found manuscripts.

This volume of The Cambridge History of Japan spans the beginnings of human existence to the end of the eighth century, focusing on the thousand years between 300 B.C. and 784, the end of the fabulous Nara period. The volume explores this period in four stages: (1) The Yayoi period (to about 250 A.D.) when small kingdoms and kingdom federations accumulated enough power to dispatch diplomatic missions to Korea and China; (2) the Yamato period (to 587) when priestly rulers, having gained economic and military power, conquered most of Japan; (3) the Century of Reform (to 710) when Japanese leaders, pressed by China's expanding T'ang empire, set out to build a strong Chinese-style empire of their own; (4) the Nara period (to 784) when spectacular literary, artistic, architectural, and religious advances were made.