Chinese Studies *

USC East Asian Library has a sizeable collection of maps drawn by European and American cartographers, dating from the early 17th to the late 19th centuries. Some of the maps focus on one or another country in East Asia, but many show all of Asia.

Includes a digital collection of maps mostly produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Created by Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at Univ. of Texas at Austin.

Maps of the WWII South-East Asian Theatre created by the US Army.

Includes hundreds of high-quality historical maps of China and Chinese regions

Includes a growing collection of Qing atlases.

A government funded digital humanities project aims to build a comprehensive historical GIS in the field of Singapore Studies.

Developed by Academic Sinica, Taiwan.

Contains hundreds of historical maps of Shanghai.

Developed by the history department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Contains 4,088 maps, taken from《中国大陸五万分の一地図集成》Maps of China (The Scale of a One to Fifty Thousand) (Tokyo, 2002). These maps were charted in the late nineteenth century for military purposes, covering nineteen major provinces of the main territory of China—Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hainan, Hebei, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Shanxi, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, Inner Mengolia, Shaanxi, and Sichuan—with geographic elements such as cities, villages, rivers, lakes, and mountains in great detail.