Asia Since 1900
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Contents
India
- WEB Indian History Sourcebook
- WEB Documents Relating to Jammu and
Kashmir [At Mt. Holyoke]
- Rabindranath Tagore: Once
There Was a King, 1916 [At WSU]
- 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, [At The
Atlantic, subscription required]
- Mohandas K. Gandhi : Indian
Home Rule, 1909 [At WSU]
- British Government Statement: Policy in India,
1946 [At this Site]
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964): Speech On the Granting of Indian
Independence, August 14, 1947 [At this Site]
- Arthur Bonner: India's
Masses: the Public That Can't Be Reached, The Atlantic Monthly, October 1959,
[At The Atlantic, subscription required]
- Leland Hazard: Strong
Medicine for India; The Atlantic Monthly, December 1965, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
- 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 1988, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
On Sikh Nationalism.
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China
- WEB East Asian History
Sourcebook
-
WEB Inside
China
Current events in China.
- One China, The
Atlantic Monthly, March 1996 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
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, subscription required]
-
Zou Rong (1885-1911): The
Revolutionary Army, 1905 [At IUP]
- Paul S. Reinsch: A Parliament for
China, The Atlantic Monthly, December, 1909 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
- 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 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
- Sun Yat Sen: Fundamentals
of National Reconstruction, 1923 [At Brooklyn College]
-
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): Writings [Mao Zedong
Archive/Marxists.org]
- Mao Zedong (1893-1976): Report on an Investigation of the Peasant
Movement in Hunan, March 1927 [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 [At WSU]
- Mao Zedong (1893-1976): Quotations of
Chairman Mao, full text. [At Artbin]
- 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 Realtion with the US
- American Views on the Situation In China, 1947
[At this Site]
Statement by General Marshall, January 7, 1947
- Dean Acheson: United States Position on China,
August 1949 [At this Site]
An acute critique of Nationalist/Koumintang failures.
- John K. Fairbank: China: Time for a
Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1957 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
Evaluation of US policy options toward newly Communist mainland China.
- James C. Thomson Jr.: Dragon Under Glass:
Time for a New China Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, October 1967 [At The
Atlantic, subscription required]
Argued that the time had come for the United States to reconcile itself with Communist
China.
- Nixon in China
- Dissidents
- Orville Schell: China's
Andrei Sakharov,The Atlantic Monthly, May1988 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
Profile of Fang Lizhi
- Post Mao China
- Orville Schell: Once
Again, Long Live Chairman Mao, The Atlantic Monthly, December, 1992 [At The
Atlantic, subscription required]
- Xiao-huang Yin: China's
Gilded Age, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1994, [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
The changes in China's society wrought by Deng's drive toward a free-market economy
- Hong Kong
- Atlantic Report: Hong Kong, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1957 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
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, subscription required]
Hong Kong in the face of Mao's Cultural Revolution.
- Cait Murphy: A Culture of
Emigration, The Atlantic Monthly, April, 1991 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
The growing unease among Chinese Hong Kong citizens about the impending Chinese rule.
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Japan
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Korea
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Vietnam
-
WEB Vietnam War
Documents and Links
- WEB Documents Relating to American
Foreign Policy--Vietnam [At Mt. Holyoke]
- Ho Chi Minh (1890-1968): Program for Communist of Indochina,
1930, excerpts [At this Site]
- Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, 1945 [At this
Site]
- 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 [At Wiretap]
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]
-
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]
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Other Asian Countries
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