Asian History

Interface in English or other, major European languages. Content in multiple languages.
Europe-wide unified search of digitized collections. Images, audio, texts, and more. Funded by the EU. Covers more than 1,000 years of history. Strongest for 1500 to 2000.
Open Access.

Interface in English and French (and other major, European languages). Majority of the content in French.
France's fantastic digital library from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Digitized periodicals, images, recordings, and more. Covers two millenia with particular strength from 1500 to the present.
Open Access.

Digitized primary sources from the Library of Congress, includes manuscripts, books, photos, maps, audio recordings, and more!

Original woodblock or brush ink texts and translations of Han Nom texts into modern Romanized Vietnamese collected by Maurice Durand, a prominent Vietnamese/French scholar of Han Nom from the mid-20th century. Han Nom script uses classical Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, while other words are represented using locally created characters based on the Chinese model.

Michigan State Advisory Group online collection

Translations of Vietnamese historical texts, by Liam Kelly, University of Hawaii.

Administrative documents on Saigon, 1880s to 1940s. Provided by Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies.

Phong Hóa, Ngày nay, Su Dia, Bách Khoa, Văn học (1978-2008) through the Institute of Vietnamese Studies.

and Newspapers digitized on Gallica

Tạp chí Nam Phong
Báo Thanh Nghị
Tập san Sử Địa
Tạp chí Phong Hóa
Tạp chí Ngày Nay
Tri Tân
Văn Hóa Ngày Nay
Thế Kỷ 21

Vietnamese colonial era newspapers digitized by the National Library of Vietnam. Text in Vietnamese, images clear.

Đại Việt Tạp chí; Tạp chí Bách Khoa; Tạp chí Việt Nam Khảo cổ Tập san

More than 2,000 facsimiles of posters, defense records, interviews, and more from the 20th century.