Resources for the study of East Asia as a whole

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• The history in general of East Asia as a whole

John Whitney Hall, 1916-1997

Obituary by Frank F. Conlon, H-Asia, 31 October 1997. Appended is a list of Hall's books.

JAS on JSTOR

H-Asia, 10 November 1997. The Journal of Asian Studies, part of the Far Eastern Quarterly plus the Bibliography of Asian Studies, are now available on JSTOR for full-text retrival and searching [brief].

Comic book of extreme views a bestseller

By Kwan Weng Kin, The Straits Times, 2 March 2001. Outrageous jingoistic themes from a popular but highly controversial comic-book author Yoshinori Kobayashi. His book Taiwan Discourse, whose denial of comfort women among other things has angered Taiwanese women's groups, academics and lawmakers.