Institutions - North America

America

Chinese Culture Centre, San Francisco

The Chinese Culture Centre of San Francisco is a major community-based, non-profit organization established in 1965 to foster the understanding and appreciation of Chinese and Chinese American art, history, and culture in the United States. This site contains a host of information on books pertaining to Chinese history and Chinese American culture, as well as links to other Chinese societies, businesses and news sites.

 

Dr. You-Bao Shao Overseas Chinese Documentation & Research Centre, Ohio University

The Dr You-Bao Shou Overseas Chinese Documentation & Research Centre holds a good collection of books and journals. In addition, the Centre actively seeks to identify, acquire, and preserve manuscripts, archives, and other unique resources documenting the activities of the Overseas Chinese.

 

Asian Amercian Studies Center

The Asian American Studies Centre at UCLA houses the Reading Room’s collection, which focuses on Asian Pacific Americans and has a holding of over 5,000 books and monographs, 30 Asian Pacific ethnic and regional newspapers, over 300 community and campus newsletters, and 5,000 pamphlets.


 

Canada

Asian Center, University of Bristish Columbia

This is the homepage of the Asian Center at the University of British Columbia (UBC). This site is linked to UBC’s Asian Library, Department of Asian Studies and Institute of Asian Research. The Asian Library has Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language materials, as well as books in South Asian languages and Indonesian.


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