Recommended Open Educational Resources for Asian Studies (updated 2/15/23)
Books:
Merchants of VirtueAn open access book that discusses that explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia
New Frontiers in Japanese StudiesAn open access book that explores literature that has been published in the past on Japanese and Asian Studies and the role that Japan is going to play in global debates in the near future.
Primary Sources and Asian PastsThis open access book engages with primary sources and develops categories for historical analysis.
Reconsidering Cultural Heritage in East AsiaThis open access book is an investigation of how the concept of ‘cultural heritage’ has been and continues to be constructed in East Asia, drawing on several case studies taken from China, Japan and Korea.
Resurgent Asia: Diversity in DevelopmentAn open access book made available by the Library of Congress. The authors write of the development of Asia economically and socially.
Utopia and Modernity in ChinaThis open access book discusses the utopia of China and the resistance to modernity in face of traditional Chinese values.
What About Asia?: Revisiting Asian StudiesAn open access book made available by the Library of Congress. The authors discuss the field of Asian Studies and where it is today.
Language Resources:
Basic Hindi IAn open access textbook that provides the basics to learning Hindi. The information includes letters, scripts, and phrases.
Beginning Korean IAn open access book that is a beginners guide to learning how to communicate in Korean.
Chinese Take in Language LearningAn open access resource that provides an interactive site to learning with listening activities to learn phrases and words.
Tin Yi Ting: Listening Makes Perfect Online Mandarin Language GuideThis open access guide enables learners to hear and identify phonemic categories in Mandarin, including lexical tones, in a variety of phonetic contexts, and to associate those phonemes with correct Pinyin orthography.
