Oxford Research Encyclopedias - eBook; new comprehensive collections of in-depth, peer-reviewed summaries on an ever-growing range of topics including Asian History. Keep in mind WUSTL only owns full access Oxford Classical Dictionary and Latin American History; you will have to InterLibrary Loan request any entry you find in other collections.
Berkshire Encyclopedia of China: Modern and Historic Views...(Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Pub. Group, 2009) - eBook; provides insight into Chinese history and culture today in nearly a thousand articles that include everything from "Adoption" and "Banking" to "Wound Literature" and the "Zhou Dynasty."
Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period, 1644-1912, Arthur W. Hummel, ed. (Folkestone, Kent, UK: Global Oriental, 2010) - eBook
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Culture (Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2020) - eBook
Encyclopedia of Buddhism (Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson/Gale, 2004) – eBook; has entries for “Central Asia,” “Central Asia, Buddhist Art in,” “China,” “China, Buddhist Art in,” and “Folk Religion, China”
The Encyclopaedia of Islam 3rd ed. (Leiden: Brill, 2002-) - eBook
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World John L. Esposito, ed. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009) - eBook
Jeong, Su-il. The Silk Road Encyclopedia (Irvine, CA: Seoul Selection, 2016) - eBook
Atwood, Christopher Pratt, 1964- . Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol empire (New York: Facts On File, 2004) - print
Xizang bai ke quan shu / Encyclopedia of Tibet / 西藏百科全书 (Lasa : Xizang ren min chu ban she, 2005) - print; noncirculating
Historical Abstracts (1955- ) contents include world history journals from 1450 to the present
Chinese Studies Librarian's Guide
CAJ -- China Academic Journals Full-text Database (English interface)
Chinese Studies Librarian's Guide
JSTOR - multidisciplinary, a lot of full text articles, but subject headings are too broad
Academic Search Complete (1975-present) - multidisciplinary; subject headings may or may not be LCSH; made by EBSCO, so allows the broadening to all EBSCO databases or narrowing to subject-specific databases like America: HIstory & Life
JSTOR v. Academic Search Complete
Project MUSE - consists of peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journals from leading university presses, not-for-profit publishers and prestigious scholarly societies.
Scopus - The world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Contains over 46 million records, 70% with abstracts, and also includes over 4.6 million conference papers.
Google Scholar - articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. While Google Scholar itself is free on the web, many of the citations it references are not. Accessing Google Scholar via the proxied link will enable you to get full text for all articles for which to WashU community has access
Primo - is the Washington University Libraries' new search tool. It provides one-stop access to the Libraries’ collections by searching across hundreds of catalogs, indexes, and databases. Primo is a great place to begin your research because it searches multiple library resources through one interface.
Google Scholar v. Primo