World View East Asian Studies Guide (Global Distinctions Program): General Reference

For Asia-Pacific Arts, Culture, History, Language, and Religion.

The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) is a research and exchange platform based in Leiden, Netherlands. It encourages the multidisciplinary and comparative study of Asia and actively promotes national and international cooperation.

This site presents numerous global issues, aiming to show how they are inter-related.

The site provides people who can’t read Chinese a glimpse into modern China and Chinese society by translating popular, trending Chinese internet content and netizen discussions from China’s largest and most influential websites, discussion forums, and social networks into English.

Launched in early 2008 and completed in 2012, The China Beat provided context and criticism on contemporary China from China scholars and journalists. The blog was based around a group of active contributors at the University of California, Irvine, including co-founders Kenneth Pomeranz and Jeffrey Wasserstrom, the blog drew on a global group of China watchers in the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, Canada, Taiwan, and many other locations.