Featured Collections
View our list of collections that we have been archiving over the past few years
View the collection of transcripts about the 1965-66 Indonesian Massacres
This collection introduces personal experiences of leftist activism in northern Thailand in the 1970s. It explores topics such as student movement, teachers' association, and political violence, reexamining what leftist activism meant for them.
View the collection of transcripts about the Khmer Rouge and Its Legacies
These transcripts include interviews with former Naxalite members and leaders, as well as other leftist activists. Many of their stories touch on historically deep-rooted conflicts between the Jenmis (landed aristocracy) and lower-caste Adivasi (indigenous tribal) communities.
View the collection of transcripts about Vietnamese Culture and Nationalism
These transcripts tell us interviewers' childhood encounters with the Huks in the Philippines during the wartime and post-WWII periods. Each interview includes original (Tagalog) and English-translation transcripts, with an English summary and a set of discussion questions.
This collection introduces recollections by Chinese fishermen who frequently sailed across the Taiwan Strait at the height of the Cold War. Their experiences offer a microscopic view of how ordinary people maneuvered rivalries between the two Chinas as a way to safeguard their livelihoods.
View the collection of transcripts on living under Martial Law in the Philippines.
View the collection of transcripts about Religion and the Cold War in the Philippines.
The collection introduces interviewees' early lives in Japan, return to North Korea, and defection to South Korea. They discuss how they grew up in Japan, how they went back to North Korea, and what they faced and how they were viewed there.
View the collection on transcripts about everyday lives in the Colonial and Postcolonial Philippines.
This collection offers insight on how indigenous tribespeople on Taiwan experienced both Japanese and Chinese Kuomintang rule across the 20th century.
View the collection of transcripts about the Malaysian Left and Labor in the 1960s-1970s.
View the collection of transcripts about Singapore and the Cold War.