The phrase "asian sources" is correct and usable in written English, although it should be capitalized as "Asian sources." You can use it when referring to information, materials, or references that originate from Asia.
Example: "The report was compiled using data from various Asian sources to provide a comprehensive overview of the market trends."
Alternatives: "sources from Asia" or "Asian references."
Similar instruments occur in ancient Chinese music, probably diffused from the same Central Asian sources.
Mari Eastman's wryly beautiful paintings expand the cultural mélange to include European luxury and its Asian sources.
After Japan entered the war in 1941, Asian sources, except for Sri Lanka, were cut off from the Allies.
Europeans introduced iron, although some iron tools may have been obtained before that time from Asian sources in western Micronesia.
(The successful mass entertainment vehicles featuring Asians, like martial arts films or action thrillers, tend to come from Asian sources and star Asians, not Asian-Americans).
Visually, the video draws heavily from contemporary Asian sources, specifically Japanese manga and anime (comics and animation), which derive partly from Japanese woodcuts and the Chinese painting tradition.
During that time, St. Denis's choreographic style broadened to include group numbers occasionally derived from European as well as Asian sources.
Malagasy rosewood — reddish and superbly grained — is among the world's most sought-after timber, especially since Asian sources of similar trees have been depleted.
Many Japanese still believe that the United States and Britain provoked the war in the Pacific when they cut Japan off from Asian sources of oil and rubber in the summer of 1941.
An exciting young jazz pianist from the Bay Area who recently moved to New York, Mr. Iyer draws from South Asian sources, among others, incorporating them into his complex M-Base-ish funk.
Ms. Armitage has the intelligence to draw from a whole range of Asian sources as well as ballet tradition and modern theatrical arts, perhaps not so much to copy Balanchine's ballet as to reinvent it.
