Primary source material connected to the trading and cultural relationships that emerged between China, America and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries.

Primary sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980. Includes almost any aspect of Chinese history during the two centuries of social and political upheaval that ultimately recreated China into a modern power.

Primary source East Asian pamphlets spanning from 1750-1929 as well as scholarly essays and interactive chronologies.

Primary source collection originally issued by the British Government and covers 1839 to 1969, including the countries of the Arabian peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt and Sudan. It includes the Middle East Conference of 1921, the mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia, the partition of Palestine, the 1956 Suez Crisis, and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Containing royal charters, correspondence, trading diaries, minutes of council meetings and reports of expeditions, this resource shows the history of British trade and rule in the Indian subcontinent from 1599 to 1947.

Archive of the British Foreign Office Files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan from 1949-1976.

Archive of the British Foreign Office Files from 1947-1980 focusing on the political and social history of India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

British Foreign Office Files from 1919-1952, documenting Japan’s ascent to the rank of a global superpower through diplomatic dispatches, correspondence, maps, summaries of events and other materials.

British diplomatic correspondence, minutes, reports, political summaries and personality profiles related to the Middle East during the 1970s.

Primary source materials documenting the history of South Asia between the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 and the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.

Personal and professional papers of Edward Sylvester Morse (1838-1925), one of the first Americans to live in Japan. It includes written materials and research files regarding his study of evolutionary theory, scientific methodology, ethnology and also documents life in Japan before Western modernization.