Asian American Studies: News, Popular Culture and Research Collections

Camp newspaper collections.

Includes 22 English language newspapers published in China and providing coverage of WWI, WWII, foreign missionaries and government involvement in China, and more.

This resource is the digital archive of the major English-language newspaper in Japan, the Japan Times, from its inception in 1897 through 2014.

The national newspaper of the JACL

Large collection of ethnic press papers available for request through Interlibrary Loan.

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations; letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents; as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other printed matter.

Thousands of primary sources documenting Japanese American internment.

Educational resource of the Southeast Asian Archive at the UC Irvine Libraries focusing on post-1975 refugees and immigrants from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam and the communities they have developed in the United States. It contains 1,500 visual images and 4,000 pages of searchable text selected from the Archive

Densho’s mission is to preserve the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II before their memories are extinguished. We offer these irreplaceable firsthand accounts, coupled with historical images and teacher resources, to explore principles of democracy, and promote equal justice for all.

Includes videos in the Libraries' DVD collection as well as from databases such as American History in Video, First Run Films, Kanopy, Ethnographic Film Online, and other sources.

With its first appearance on American motion picture screens in February 1935, The March of Time. startled journalists, filmmakers, and audiences alike with its controversial topics, docudrama and unique approach to newsreels.

252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more.

Index of films and film personalities that is an unmatched reference work for entertainment films and biographical information about directors, producers, actors and more.