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• MAJOR VENDORS IN CHINESE STUDIES
  CHINA CLASSICS (USA) Covers publications, VCD/DVD from China; reliable services.
  CHINESE CORPORATION FOR PROMOTION OF HUMANITIES Strong in social sciences; prices can be negotiated for domestic price.
  CHINA INTERNATIONAL BOOK TRADING CORPORATION One of the major state owned book companies; good at handling standing orders, yearbooks, gazetteers, microfilms; two times over domestic prices; also online.
  CHINA NATIONAL PUBLISHING INDUSTRY TRADING CO Wide coverage, price domestic price times 1.5.
  FORESTSONG One of the major private owned book stores in China; very academic; strong in humanities; also online.
  LEXIS BOOK (TAIWAN) Deal Taiwan publications.
  CHIAO LIU PUBLISHING TRADING CO(HONG KONG)
  JOINT PUBLISHING (HONG KONG) Good at covering books from HK and Taiwan, also cover mainland China.
  COMMERCIAL PRESS (HONG KONG) Good at covering books from HK and Taiwan.
  DRAGONSOURCE An online store that covers books, journals/magazines, and film/TV products.
  DANGDANG Claiming Chinese Amazon! Most popular books, films and TV series, music etc.
  TIGERCOOL Strong in film and TV products; also carries books, magazines, music etc.
• MAJOR VENDORS IN JAPANESE STUDIES
  ASAHIYA BOOKSTORE (USA) Has branches located in LA, San Diego, Chicago, and New York. (See addresses).
  ATRIUM BOOKS -- Japan from Anime to Zen An online bookstore associated with AMAZON.COM specialized in Japan-related books.
  BOOK SERVICE Ships books, CDs, and videos via UPS to 200 countries.
  BOOK TOWN KANDA Sponsored by Kanda Koshoten Renmei (Kanda Antiquarian Booksellers Association) which includes the Kanda antiquarian booksellers; contains information concerning new publications, libraries, restaurants, events in Kanda.
  THE ISSEIDO Carries books and series. Serves the US for both new and used books in social sciences and the humanities.
  JAPAN PUBLICATIONS TRADING CO Carries books, serial subscriptions, CDs, video; a well-known supplier of Japanese materials to the overseas market.
  KINOKUNIYA Their site allows you to search their database of 1,200,000 Japanese titles and 1,800,000 foreign titles and place an order. Fee based service. Has stores in New York, New Jersey and on the West Coast (see addresses).
  JAPAN BOOK PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATIONThis site contains 530,000 titles found in the 1997 Nihon shoseki somokuroku. Searching is free, but you cannot order books.
  JAPANESE GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
  JAPAN TRADING, INC One of the largest distributors in US of publications and stationery from Japan.
  MATERIALS JAPANESE An online shop specializing in sending overseas customers various items related to Japan.
  NICHIGAI ASSOCIATES Nichigai has many databases available for subscription (both individual and corporate), including the Zasshi kiji sakuin, a journal index to popular journals, Bookplus and web indexes. Individual rates are reasonable.
  SASUGA JAPANESE BOOKSTORESasuga has access to virtually anything published in Japan. Their website includes a searchable database of their catalog. They also provide magazine subscriptions. Very helpful and experienced staff. Has a branch store in Cambridge, MA (see addresses).
  TOKYO KOSHO KUMIAI A guide to Tokyo's used bookstores.
  TRC SERVER Includes all books published from 1995 on. Can be searched by author, title, publisher, subject or ISBN.
  YUSHODO DISSERTATION SERVICE CENTER Has information on over 1,400,000 dissertations from 1886 to the present.
• US VENDORS IN ASIAN STUDIES
  PARAGON BOOK GALLERY Strong in art history, archaeology; expensive.
  SHAMBHALA PUBLICATIONS Strong in East Asian religions. CHENG & TSUI COMPANY Strong in language learning materials; covers arts and humanities in Asia.
  EASTVIEW Carries books, journals, electronic products on/from Russia and China; deals CNKI and other database subscription.
  HANSHAN TANG (UK) Carry mostly rare and second hand books in art history, architecture, archaeology.
  ASIAN RARE BOOKS Collects rare books on Asia. Its site contains links to useful sites on Asia as well as other bookstores.
  ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PRESSES ONLINE CATALOG Currently lists over 75,000 book titles from over 60 presses.
  WORLDWIDE BOOKS Specializes in exhibition catalogues and other art books.