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Asian Studies books can be found in different areas of the library. Some main sections include:

DS- DU History of Asia and Oceania

GN Anthropology

PL-PK Languages and Literature

Cambridge history of the Pacific Islanders
Edited by Donald Denoon with Stewart Firth; Ebook or Call Number: DU28.3 C33
Comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary
A recent language dictionary published in 2004; Call Number: Refernce PL5076 S74
Historical dictionary of Indonesia
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press 2004; Call Number: DS633 C75 2004
Historical Dictionary of Papua New Guinea
Published by the Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press in 2001. It includes bibliographical references and maps. Call Number: Reference DU740.5 T87 2001
Indonesian - English Dictionary
In this online dictionary, you can look up an indonesian word and receive an English definition and a usage example.
Indonesian-English Dictionary
edited by John M. Echols, Hassan Shadily, James T. Collins, John U. Wolff, published by the Cornell University Press 1989.
Thai-English Dictionary
by George Bradley McFarland, published by the Standford University Press 1944
Tok-Pisin/English Dictionary
Tok Pisin is one of the three national languages of Papua New Guinea. This is an online dictionary providing Tok Pisin to English and English to Tok Pisin translations.

Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance
Metadata from 25 academic libraries surrounding the Pacific has been harvested and archived here to increase discovery and access, and to allow one search across all data. Some feature collections include: HKBU theses & dissertations, Steve Thomas Traditional Micronesian Navigation Collection, The Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art Collection, University of British Columbia Archives Photographs, etc...
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