Berkeley’s C. V. Starr East Asian Library contains one of the most comprehensive collections of materials in East Asian languages in the United States. Its combined holdings, totaling over one million volumes in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other East Asian languages, make it one of the top two such collections in the United States outside of the Library of Congress.
The California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives, also known as CEMA, is a division of the Special Research Collections Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara Library. CEMA is a permanent program that advances scholarship in ethnic studies through its varied collections of primary research materials.
Calisphere, from the UC Libraries, is a directory of digital collections from California's great libraries, archives, and museums. It has over 2,050,000 images, texts, and recordings.
A virtual tour of CHSA's exhibition Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion chronicles the history of the Chinese in America, from the early days of the China trade to the history of Chinese immigration and the life of Chinese Americans. Extending from the late eighteenth century to the present, and including all regions of the country, the exhibition interprets the Chinese American experience as a key part of American history.
From the University of Minnesota, the Immigration History Research Center Archives is an archives and library for the study of immigration, ethnicity, and race. Sources document a broad range of immigrant and refugee experiences. Please note, not everything in this collection is accessible online.
The UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive collects, preserves, and makes accessible primary and secondary source materials documenting the history of the Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, and Vietnamese diaspora. Collection strengths include Southeast Asian American experiences of resettlement and community formations since the Vietnam War, Cambodian Genocide, and geopolitical turmoil in the former French-occupied "Indochina" in the latter half of the 20th century.
The UCLA Asian American Studies Center has established many rare and primary materials vital to the scholarly study and research in Asian American Studies.
