Recommended Open Educational Resources for Asian Studies (updated 2/15/23)
Books:
Merchants of Virtue
An open access book that discusses that explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia
New Frontiers in Japanese Studies
An 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.
Reconsidering Cultural Heritage in East Asia
This 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 Development
An 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 China
This open access book discusses the utopia of China and the resistance to modernity in face of traditional Chinese values.
Basic Hindi I
An open access textbook that provides the basics to learning Hindi. The information includes letters, scripts, and phrases.
Beginning Korean I
An open access book that is a beginners guide to learning how to communicate in Korean.
Chinese Take in Language Learning
An 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 Guide
This 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.
