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Internet Modern History Sourcebook
Asia Since 1900
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to all contents of all sections.
Contents
India
- See Internet Indian History Sourcebook
- Wikipedia: History of India since 1947
- WEB Documents Relating to Jammu and Kashmir [Was At Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive]
- South Asia: Country Studies
-Prepared for Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the Department of the Army. These are full descriptions of the countries concerned, in terms of history, geography, economy, etc. There are also useful bibliographies. [At LOC]
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941): Gitanjali or "song offerings" 1913 [Was At School of Wisdom, now Internet Archive]
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941): Once There Was a King 1916 [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941): The Home and the World 1915, translated [from Bengali to English] by Surendranath Tagore, 1919, full text [At ibiblio] [Internet Archive version here]
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856-1920): Address to the Indian National
Congress 1907 [At this Site]
- Jabez Sunderland: The New Nationalist Movement in India The Atlantic Monthly, October 1908, [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
- Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948): Indian Home Rule 1909 [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- British Government Statement: Policy in India
1946 [At this Site]
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964): Tryst with Destiny: Speech on the Granting of Indian Independence August 14, 1947 [At this Site]
- Wikipedia: States and Union Territories of India
- K.R. Malkani: The Sindh Story [Was AT UIUC]
- Arthur Bonner: India's Masses: the Public That Can't Be Reached The Atlantic Monthly, October 1959 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version here]
- Leland Hazard: Strong Medicine for India The Atlantic Monthly, December 1965 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version here]
- Declaration of Pakistan and India on Jammu and Kashmir
1966 [At this Site]
- Conor Cruise O'Brien: Holy War Against India The Atlantic Monthly, August 1998, [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version here]
On Sikh nationalism.
- WEB Bangladesh Liberation War Museum
- WEB India-Pakistan War, As reported at the time by TIME Magazine. Probably the best online source [All now via Internet Archive]
- TIME Dec. 6, 1971 Conflict in Asia: India v Pakistan
- TIME Dec. 13, 1971
- TIME Dec. 20, 1971 The Bloody Birth of Bangladesh
- TIME Dec. 27, 1971
- Wikipedia: Nehru–Gandhi family
- CNN: Assasination of Indira Gandhi [video] [Was At CNN, now Internet Archive]
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China
- See Internet East Asian History
Sourcebook
- WEB Primary Sources: CHINA [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
A really good collection of primary sources translated specially for teaching purposes.
- One China The Atlantic Monthly, March 1996 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive backup here]
Coverage by the magazine of China in the 20th century.
- Chinese Efforts to Modernize: 1911-1949
- The Atlantic: The Break-up of China, and Our Interest in It The Atlantic Monthly, August, 1899 [At The Atlantic Monthly] [Internet Archive version here]
- Zou Rong (1885-1911): The Revolutionary Army 1905 [Was At IUP, now Internet Archive]
A radical Anti-Manchu tract, published in Shanghai.
- Paul S. Reinsch: A Parliament for China The Atlantic Monthly, December, 1909 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
- Proclamation of The Abdication of the Manchus 1912 [At this Site]
- Ching Chun Wang: A Plea for the Recognition of the Chinese Republic The Atlantic Monthly, January 1913 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
- Sun Yat-sen: Fundamentals of National Reconstruction 1923 CE [At this Site]
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Luxun Lu Hsun (1881-1936): Selected Stories of Lu Hsun
Translated by Yang Hsien-yi and Gladys Yang, full text of 20 stories. [At ibiblio]
A leading May 4th Movement writer.
- Communist Rule
- WEB Mao Zedong (1893-1976): Complete Works [At Marxism.org]
Marxism.org has the entire text of Mao's selected works (all 5 volumes) as well as some unofficial later volumes compiled by Indian Maoists.
- Mao Zedong (1893-1976): Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan March 1927 [At this Site]
- Mao Zedong (1893-1976): The People's Democratic Dictatorship [At this Site]
- Mao Zedong (1893-1976): In Commemoration of the 28th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China June 30, 1949, excerpts [At this Site]
- Mao Zedong (1893-1976): Quotations of Chairman Mao [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]
- Mao Zedong (1893-1976): Quotations of Chairman Mao full text. [At Artbin] [Internet Archive version here]
- Statement of the Central Committee of The Chinese
Communist Party February 1, 1947 [At this Site]
- The Common Program of The Chinese People's Political
Consultative Conference 1949 [At this Site]
- Lu Ting-yi: Let Flowers of Many Kinds Blossom, Diverse
Schools of Thought Contend! 1956 [At this Site]
- Chinese Communist Party: The Leaders of the CPSU are the
Greates Splitters of Our Times February 4, 1964 [At this Site]
- The Romanian Workers' Party: Statement on the
Sino-Soviet Dispute April 22, 1964 [At this Site]
- Pravda: Editorial: The Anti-Soviet Policy of Communist
China February 16,1967 [At this Site]
- China Gets the Bomb 1964 [At this Site]
- Defense Minister Lin Piao: The Nature of People's War
Statement of September 3, 1965 [At this Site]
A standard Maoist view.
- Editorial of the Liberation Army Daily (Jiefangjun Bao): Mao Tse-Tung's Thought is the Telescope and Microscope
of Our Revolutionary Cause June 7, 1966 [At this Site]
- Chinese Relations with the US
- Dissidents
- Post Mao China
- Orville Schell: Once Again, Long Live Chairman Mao The Atlantic Monthly, December, 1992 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]
On the commodifiction of Mao.
- Xiao-huang Yin: China's Gilded Age The Atlantic Monthly, April 1994, [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version here]
The changes in China's society wrought by Deng's drive toward a free-market economy.
- 2ND Sun Y Y., The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism 1976-1992, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995) [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]
- Hong Kong
- Atlantic Report: Hong Kong The Atlantic Monthly, June 1957 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version here]
Hong Kong still in the early stages of its emergence as an economic powerhouse.
- Maynard Parker: Report on Hong Kong The Atlantic Monthly, November 1967 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version here]
Hong Kong in the face of Mao's Cultural Revolution.
- Cait Murphy: A Culture of Emigration The Atlantic Monthly, April, 1991 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version here]
The growing unease among Chinese Hong Kong citizens about the impending Chinese rule.
- Hong Kong Constitution, 1990 [Was At ICL, now Internet Archive]
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Japan
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Korea
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Vietnam
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WEB Vietnam War Documents and Links [Now Internet Archive]
- WEB Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--Vietnam [Was At Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive]
- Ho Chi Minh (1890-1968): Program for Communist of Indochina
1930, excerpts [At this Site]
- Vietnamese Declaration of Independence 1945 [At this
Site]
- Proclamation of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (September 2, 1945) [PDF] [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- Selected Poems and Popular Songs Regarding the "Modern" Haircut [PDF] [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Lu: "Remembering the Jungle: The Words of the Tiger in the Zoo" [PDF] [At Asia for Educators-Columbia University] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference: On
Restoring Peace in Indochina July 21, 1954 [At this Site]
- The Manifesto of The Laodong Party February1951
- Two Letters to Ngo Dinh Diem [Was At Wiretap, now Internet Archive]
Eisenhower, October 23, 1954 (Department of State Bulletin, November 15, 1954): and
Kennedy, December 14, 1961 (Department of State Bulletin, January 1, 1962)
- President Eisenhower: Letter to Ngo Dinh
Diem October 23, 1954 [At this Site]
Beginning US "humanitarian" aid.
- Viet Cong Program 1962 [At this Site]
- Charles de Gaulle: France's Attitude Toward US
Policy in Vietnam 1964 [At this Site]
- Tonkin Gulf Incident 1964
[At Yale]
- The Tonkin Bay Resolution 1964 [At this Site]
- US State Department: North Vietnamese
Aggression 1965 [At this Site]
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State Department: White Paper on
Vietnam Feb. 27, 1965 [At Wiretap]
- U.S. State Department: Aggression from the
North February 27, 1965 [At this Site]
- President Lyndon Johnson and Ho Chi Minh: Letter
Exchange 1967 [At this Site]
- John Kerry, for Vietnam Veterans Against the War: Statement to
the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations 1971 [At this Site]
- War Powers Resolution Nov. 7, 1973 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version here]
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Other Asian Countries
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NOTES:
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