Background Information

• Qiaowu: Extra-Territorial Policies for the Overseas Chinese

Archival Sources

• Asian Life in America
  Comprehensive coverage of the Asian American experience from earliest times to today. Sourced from nearly 19,000 American and global newspapers, including over 400 Asian American newspapers. Provides full-text searching as well as access to content by Topic, Event, and Eras in Asian American History. Updated daily.
• China, America and Pacific: Migration and Immigration
  Part of the database that covers trade and cultural exchanges between China and America, this section includes a link (at the bottom of the page) to various documents from the Chung Collection at University of British Columbia to show the struggles of Asian immigrants in North America. 
• History Vault: Immigration Records and INS 1880-1930 (to come)
• Chinese Students Monthly Online
  The Chinese Students’ Monthly is the first magazine published by Chinese students in the United States from 1906-1931. This publication became the official organ of the enlarged Chinese student organization: The Chinese Students’ Alliance in the US. During its publication, the periodical discussed all the important movements in China during that period of time: education, social, industrial, agricultural, political, and economical, etc.
• Densho: Japanese Internment (open access)
  Archives of Japanese internment camps. 
• History Vault: Japanese American Incarceration: Records of War Relocation Authority 1942-1946 (to come)
• Japanese American Relocation Camp Newspapers (1942-1944)
  This collection, consisting of 25 individual titles, documents life in the internment camps.
• Rufu Shimpo 
  Part of Global Press Archive. Rufu Shimpo is the longest running Japanese American newspaper in the United States.
• Ancestry Library
  Ancestry Library lets you search public records for your biographical or genealogical research. Records from the US census, military, immigration, and vital records are available.
• Ancestry Library: Chinese Exclusion Era archive (open access)
• Print Photo Collections
  • PERSONAL PORTRAITS & STORIES JAPANESE INTERNMENT PHOTO ARCHIVE 1941-1991
  • JAPANESE AMERICANS INTERNED AT CAMP AMACHE, COLORADO, PHOTO ARCHIVE, 1940S

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​See also

• Guide to Ethnic Heritage by National Archives
• China Exclusion Act: Primary documents in American History by Library of Congress
• Primary Source Spotlight: China Exclusion Act compiled by Primary Source Nexus
• Early Chinese Immigration to the US compiled by Digital Library of America

Finding Books

Tool: Catalyst (limit search to Books)
Advanced Search technique: keyword (optional) +subject ("Chinese Diaspora", or "Chinese Foreign Countries", or "Asian American")
Samples: Routledge Handbook of the Chinese Diaspora; Oxford Handbook of Asian American History

Finding Journal Articles

Use Catalyst and limit search to Articles. 

General Primary Sources

AM : Your Primary Source Hub
AM Research Methods (a teaching tool on researching primary sources)
Gale Primary Sources (Gale Primary Sources collections)

General News Sources: US 

• New York Times Digital Archive
• Wall Street Journal Digital Archive
• Proquest US Newsstream

General News Sources: International

• Immigrations, Migrations, Refugees: Global Perspectives 1940-1996
  Translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents and books providing global insight on immigration in the mid-to-late 20th century.
• Access World News Research Collection
• Nikkei Asia 
• Korea Pro 
• Japan Times Digital Archive
• South China Morning Post (HK) via Proquest 2017-present; 1993-present
• Southeast Asian Newspapers
• Financial Times Digital Archive
• Proquest International Newsstream

Data

• ICPSR data on Asian American
  Structured data sets related to Asian Americans. Require use of statistical data packages to open.
• Statista: the Statistical Portal
  An easy to use statistical database. 

Films

• Academic Video Online
• Kanopy Streaming Videos
• Swank Digital Campus

Chinese Language Sources

• Duxiu
  Duxiu is a major Chinese digital library that includes a couple of million digitized Chinese books. It has a strong coverage of out of print books published from 1950s up to 1990s, although it also covers earlier and later publications. 
• CNKI Ebook Library 
  This ebook library covers mostly publications in recent years. It includes an excellent collection on Chinese diaspora, including
  近代华侨史研究资料汇编 （44 v) 近代华侨史研究资料续编 （43 v)
• China Academic Journals Full text Database (CAJ)
  This database covers most academic journals published in China. 
• China Economy, Public Policy and Security Database
  This database covers Chinese government and think tank reports. It includes annual reports on overseas Chinese. 
• People's Daily (ren min ri bao)
  This database includes the entire run of the most important newspaper in China. 

Japanese Language Sources

• Yomidas Rikishikan
  This database covers the entire run of the Japanese newspaper.