Asia/South Asia Research Sources: Asian Countries

Big Data China is a collaboration between the CSIS Trustee Chair in Chinese Business & Economics and Stanford University’s Center on China's Economy and Institutions (SCCEI).

Our researchers are constructing new datasets that can be used for social scientific research on China. We also collect and index important public datasets that are commonly used by our researchers. These cover topics such as health, environment, GIS, law, media, religion, among others, and are listed in the Link Library below.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

The Iran Social Science Data Portal is an English- and Persian-language online portal that features social science data on Iran, including socioeconomic data, electoral data, information on political parties, and translations of selected laws and regulations. It aims to provide a service to journalists, academics, policymakers, and others interested in analyzing political and socioeconomic developments in contemporary Iran. The project has been funded by the Social Science Research Council, Princeton University and Syracuse University.

This dictionary contains approximately 8000 terms related to traditional Japanese architecture and gardens, painting, sculpture and art-historical iconography from approximately the 1st century A.D. to the end of the Edo period (1868).

The Tibetan and Himalayan Library (THL) is a publisher of websites, information services, and networking facilities relating to the Tibetan plateau and southern Himalayan regions. THL promotes the integration of knowledge and community across the divides of academic disciplines, the historical and the contemporary, the religious and the secular, the global and the local.