Problems in Chinese History
Professor: Kidder Smith (
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Librarian: Sydnae Steinhart (
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Fall 2006
Introduction
The purpose of this guide is to instruct and assist the Asian Studies student in finding appropriate and important Asian resources for course needs, independent study and honors projects. All relevant formats are represented.
The Library Catalog
The Library Catalog is an electronic index which may be used to locate Asian Studies material found at Bowdoin. Use this catalog to find books, periodicals, newspapers, video recordings and sound recordings about Asia. For more detailed information about the research process and the Library Catalog see Getting Started.
Subject and Word Searching
Either subject or keyword (word) searching can be successfully used to find relevant resources. Subject searching gives the best results when standardized Library of Congress Subject Headings are used.
In general do a subject search to find particular information about a country or region and then use the limit command to narrow the search.
- Some examples follow: By Country
China - History
China - Economic Conditions
China - Politics and Government
Chinese Language - Dictionaries
Chinese Literature
- By Region
East Asia - History
- Call Number Searching Browse the book shelves online by connecting to a major Asian section of the Library. Some examples follow:
Chinese history & culture: DS701 - DS799.9
Chinese Language: PL 1001- PL 2244
Chinese Literature: PL 2250- PL 3204
Major Reference Works By Region & Country
Asia
- Encyclopedia of Asian History
- Ref DS31 E53 1988 4 vols.
- Encyclopedia of Modern Asia
- Ref DS4 .L48 2002 6 vols.
- The Far East and Australasia
Ref DS1 F3
1969-present
Latest 5 volumes in Main Reference
- Religions of the World:A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices
4 volume set
Ref BL80.3.R452002
China
- Cambridge Encyclopedia of China
- Ref DS705 C35 1991
- Cambridge History of China
DS735 C3145
Continuing Series
- China: Facts & Figures: Annual Handbook
- Ref DS779.15 C48>
1978-present
- China Statistical Yearbook
- Main HA4631 S832
1995-present
Latest volume in Main Reference
- The Columbia History of Chinese Literature
- PL2265.C65 2001
- Cultural Atlas of China
- Ref DS721 B56 1998
- Dictionary of the Politics of the People's Republic of China
- Ref DS 777.75 D53 1998
- Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy
- Ref B126. E496 2003
- Encyclopedia of China: The Essential Reference to China, It's History and Culture
- Ref DS 705.P47 1999
- Historical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China
- Ref DS777.55.S835 2007
- The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature
- Ref Z3108.L5 I53 1986 2 vols.
- Republic of China 1988
- Ref DS799.83 R46 1988
- The State of China Atlas
- Ref G2305 B46 1999
Periodicals Owned by Bowdoin
To see a list of Asian periodicals owned by Bowdoin, search by subject using the country or region, followed by subheading "periodicals"
Examples:
- By Region
Asia - Periodicals
East Asia - Periodicals
- By Country
China - Periodicals
Newspapers
- To see a list of Asian Newspapers owned by Bowdoin, search by subject using the country or region, followed by subheading "newspapers"
Examples: China - Newspaper- See also:
People's Daily in English
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/People's Daily in Chinese
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/
Video Recordings
- To locate Video Recordings search by country, region or subject and limit to material type "video recording".
- Examples:
China
Periodical Indexes and Databases
Online
- Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
1971-present
An important & essential index for locating articles, books and book chapters relating to all aspects of Asia, published since 1971. Search by country, subject, keyword or journal title. Within a country, find many more specific subject categories. Very easy to use but about a year behind in coverage.
- Academic Search Premier
1980-present
This database includes articles from major Asian Studies periodicals. Many since 1994 are full text. This is a good place to search for the most current information. Book reviews can be found in this database.
- JSTOR - Asian Studies
1843- excluding most recent 5 years
- For a list of other subject-oriented Indexes/Databases please see Subject Guide to Indexes and Abstracts
- World News Connection
Online Fulltext 1995-
Foreign Broadcast Information Service Reports (FBIS) Index
Online 1978-1996
- World News Connection is the current online, fulltext version of the FBIS reports: daily compilations of broadcasts, speeches and newspaper articles from around the world, selected and translated by the CIA. The series is divided into seven regional publications. The Library has microfiche copies of FBIS reports from 1978 to 1996 in the Microform Room, call# Govt Doc PrEx 7.10: FBIS.
Microfilm
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) 1966-1970.
Music
- Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries--China
- "A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions."
Web Sites
Asia
- National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)
http://www.nbr.org
The NBR conducts advanced research on contemporary policy-related issues in Asia and is a global clearinghouse for Asian research with many useful links.
- Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
Supported by the Australian National Library, this major scholarly site is a research tool for Asian societies, politics, economics, histories and cultures. ASVL includes links to 60 individual countries and 8 regions.
- Library of Congress Country Studies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/
Area handbooks of many countries of the world describing and analyzing political, economic, and social systems. See China, Japan, India, South Korea, and several other Asian countries.
- World FactBook
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
World FactBook produced by the CIA has statistical facts and figures on population, government, economy, geography, etc- Foreign Government Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/foreign.html
This award winning political science web site done by the University of Michigan has an excellent section on Asia and the Pacific -- by country -- and has other interesting topics.
- Asian Studies Network Information Center
http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/
There are many good links from ASNIC at this award winning site from the University of Texas at Austin.
- Asian Studies Search Engine Guide
http://www.ciolek.com/SearchEngines.html#asia
This engine covers Web Sites of ten established Asian Studies organizations plus links to sixteen Asian Pacific country-specific search engines
- East and Southeast Asia
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept
A well done annotated directory of internet resources done at University of Redlands covering politics, culture and history.
- Libweb:Library Information Servers
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/
Links to Asian Universities & Libraries.
- Library Catalogs by country
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/amlc/clibs.htm
Links to Asian Libraries and their catalogs.
- Association for Asian Studies
http://www.aasianst.org/
The home page for the major society of Asian Studies provides information for scholars & researchers.
- Asian Library: University of British Columbia
http://www.library.ubc.ca/asian
The Asian Library at the University of British Columbia has a beautiful home page with links to good web resources.
- Portal to Asian Internet Resources
http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/PAIR/index.html
Provided by Ohio State University Libraries, University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Libraries
- H-Asia
http://www.h-net.org/~asia/
An international electronic discussion group established in 1994. H-Asia is especially committed to discussing region wide, comparative and professional issues important to scholars of Asia.
East Asia
- East Asian Studies Internet Resources
http://www.library.ucla.edu/eastasian/e_asia.htm
A well done annotated multilingual site done by the East Asian Library of UCLA.
- East Asian Resources
http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvard-yenching
Harvard-Yenching Library has selected links for China, Japan & Korea.
- East Asian History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html
Great source for Chinese, Japanese and Korean history. Differentiates between primary & secondary sources.
- Council on East Asian Studies
http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/
List provided by the council on East Asian Studies at Yale.
- East Asian Libraries Cooperative
http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/
Produced by Ohio State University, project's goal is to support research on East Asia by creating electronic resources for scholars.
China
- Chinese at Bowdoin
http://library.bowdoin.edu/lmc/c.html
Lists sites for Chinese language, literature, culture, radio, newspapers, magazines, and dictionaries.
- Academia Sinica
http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~tdbproj/handy1/
Classical Chinese Text Archive
- The Complete Reference to China
http://chinasite.com/
The most comprehensive site available on China, this bilingual site has over 1,000 links to every area of Chinese life and culture and is updated daily.
- The Classical Chinese Philosophy Page
http://www.miami.edu/phi/bio/Buddha/classphi.htm
This site was created by John Knoblock from the University of Miami and contains pages about Chinese Philosophers in the Classical Age.
- China the Beautiful
http://www.chinapage.org/china.html
This very beautiful bilingual web site with images and sound includes the areas of art & painting, calligraphy, poetry, history, literature, opera, and philosophy.
- China Education and Research Network
http://www.cernet.edu.cn/
CERNET's objective is to establish and support a national education and research network among schools and universities in China.
- MCLC Resource Center
http://deall.osu.edu/
This site is related to the journal "Modern Chinese Literature and Culture" and contains literature in Chinese, bibliographies and other cultural and literary studies.
- Chinese Serials Database
http://www.anu.edu.au/Asia/Chin/ChiSer.html
List of Chinese and Indonesian serials titles with contents (from 1994 to the present ). Produced through cooperative arrangement between Australian National University Library and the National Library of China; in both Chinese and English (romanized). Gives holding libraries. Subject areas include economics, politics, law, environment, and population issues.
- Chinese Academic Journal Publications
http://www.library.pitt.edu/gateway/
The Federal Institute of Museum & Library Services & the East Asian Library of the University of Pittsburgh are providing electronic delivery of Chinese language academic journal articles free of charge from this site.
- Chinese Philosophical Etext Archive
http://sangle.web.wesleyan.edu/etext/index.html/
This Etext archive is based at Wesleyan University. You will find three kinds of materials here: Electronic versions of Chinese philosophical texts created by the Confucian Etext Project; Electronic versions of Chinese philosophical texts from other sources; and Information on and links to more information on the preparation and use of these texts.
- China Related Links
http://sangle.web.wesleyan.edu/china.html/
This page of helpful China related links is maintained at Wesleyan University.
- Essential Readings on Chinese Philosophy
http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/bibliography.html/
This page was compiled by Bryon Van Norden of Vassar College, and contains a bibliography that Van Norden considers important to the study of Chinese philosophy.
- People's Daily in English
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/
- People's Daily in Chinese
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/
Special Collections and Archives
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Special Collections and Archives, located on the third floor of the Library, has an extensive collection of old and rare published materials, family papers, documents and manuscripts. Many Special Collections materials are recorded in the Library Catalog, but some are not yet cataloged, so consulting the Special Collections staff and their card file is important.
The following is a list of resources for China that are located in Special Collections, many of the items are not included in the library catalog:
- AUTHOR:Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879.
- TITLE: China and the English : or, The character and manners of the Chinese. As illustrated in the history of their intercourse with foreigners.
PS: A127.5 C53 1835a
- AUTHOR: Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879. TITLE: China & the English: or, The character and manners of the Chinese; &c. &c.
PS: A127.5 C53 1836
- AUTHOR: Anderson, Aeneas. TITLE: Relation de l'Ambassade du Lord Macartney a la Chine : dans les années 1792, 1793 et 1794. EDITION: 2e éd.
DS708 .A5414 1797
- TITLE: [Chinese Episcopal prayer book]
PS: A129 C57
- TITLE: Chinese Love Poems from Most Ancient to Modern Times.
PL: P478 C53 1942
- AUTHOR: Chou, Ling, 1915- TITLE: La peinture chinoise contemporaine de style traditionnel.
folio ND1045 C45
- AUTHOR: Confucius. TITLE: The analects of Confucius, translated from the Chinese, with an introduction and notes by Lionel Giles.
NZ7: C748 A53 1933
- TITLE: Confucius : the Unwobbling pivot & the Great digest / translated by Ezra Pound, [1947].
AP2 .P533 no. 4
- AUTHOR: Du Halde, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1674-1743. TITLE: The general history of China. Containing a geographical, historical, chronological, political and physical descritpion of the empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea, and Thibet. Including an exact and particular account of their customs, manners, ceremonies, religion, arts and sciences ... Done from the French of P. Duhalde ... EDITION 3d ed. corr.
DS: D869 G32 1741 v. 1-4
- AUTHOR: Emery, Henry Crosby, 1872-1924. TITLE: Henry Crosby Emery Papers, 1908-1985 (bulk 1917-24).
NOTE: Emery and his wife resided in China from 1920 to 1924 while he was manager of the Peking branch of the Asia Banking Corporation of New York.
M210
- AUTHOR: Gilchrist, Huntington, 1891-1975.TITLE: Huntington Gilchrist Papers, 1815-1922 (bulk 1912-14).
NOTE: Ca. 100 letters (averaging 10 p. each) from Gilchrist while he was teaching at Foochow Methodist College between 1914 and 1916, about the Methodist mission in Foochow, the American Board mission, and trips taken. NOTE: Photographic negatives (211- 4 ½ x 2 ¾) taken by Gilchrist, mostly of China, and 14 photographic prints, including Buddhist priests, Ku-shan Monastery, Foochow, 1913; branch of the Great Wall and Ming tombs, both at Chihli, 1915.
M72
- AUTHOR: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.TITLE: A full and accurate account of the debates on the East-India Bill, in the House of Lords.
- AUTHOR: Grosier, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1743-1823. TITLE: A general description of China : containing the topography of the fifteen provinces which compose this vast empire, that of Tartary, the isles, and other tributary countries : the number and situation of its cities, the state of its population, the natural history of its animals, vegetables and minerals : together with the latest accounts that have reached Europe of the government, religion, manners, customs, arts and sciences of the Chinese : illustrated by a new and correct map of China, and other copper plates. Translated from the French of Abbe Grosier.
DS: G877 D44 1788 v. 1-2
- AUTHOR : Hunter, John, 1738-1821. TITLE: An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk island
NOTE : The Chinese residents of Batavia are described in chapter 16, beginning on page 436.
DU: H945 H67a folio
- TITLE: Memoires concernant l'histoire, les sciences, les arts, les moeurs, les usages, &c. des Chinois: par les missionaires de Pekin ...1776-91.
DS: M533 C53 v.13-14 of 15
- AUTHOR: Michie, Alexander, 1833-1902. TITLE: The Siberian overland route from Peking to Petersburg, through the deserts and steppes of Mongolia, Tartary, &c.
G: M624 S56 1864
- TITLE: Miscellaneous pieces relating to the Chinese
NOTE: v. 1. A dissertation on the language and characters of the Chinese. Rules of conduct, by a Chinese author. Translated from the French of P. Parrenin. The little orphan of the House of Chao: A Chinese tragedy.
PL: D613 C53
- AUTHOR: Pauw, Cornelius, 1739-1799. TITLE: Recherches philosophiques sur les egyptiens et les chinois / par M. de P***.
Bowd DT83 .P38 1774 v.1-2
- AUTHOR: Sheh, Quincy Queen Shan, 1904- TITLE: Seven A.l.s., June 1947 to April 1949, written from Hangchow by this Class of 1927 member to his classmate, Walter Whittier, describing conditions there during the revolution.
College Archives, Alumni Biographical Files, 1.3.1, box 197, folder Sheh
- English TITLE: All men are brothers.(Title: Shui hu chuan)Translated by Pearl S. Buck
NZ7: S562 A41 1948
- AUTHOR: Sirafi, Abu Zayd Hasan ibn Yazid, 10th cent.TITLE: Silsilat al-tawarikh. TITLE (English): Ancient accounts of India and China, by two Mohammedan travellers, who went to those parts in the 9th century; tr. from the Arabic, by the late learned Eusebius Renaudot. With notes, illustrations and inquiries by the same hand.
DS: R395 A54 1733
- AUTHOR: Staunton, George, Sir, 1737-1801. TITLE: An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China : including cursory observations made, and information obtained, in travelling through that ancient empire and a small part of Chinese Tartary... taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney His Majesty's Embassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of China; Sir Erasmus Gower, commander of the expedition, and other gentlemen.
DS708 .S79 1797 v. 1-3
- AUTHOR: Staunton, George, Sir, 1737-1801. TITLE: An Authentic Account of the Embassy to the Emperor of China. EDITION: 2nd ed., corr.
Bowd DS708 .S79 1798 v. 1-3
- AUTHOR: Staunton, George, Sir, 1737-1801. TITLE: An Authentic Account of the Embassy to the Emperor of China.
Bowd DS708 .S79 1799
- AUTHOR: Van Braam Houckgeest, André, 1739-1801. TITLE: An authentic account of the embassy of the Dutch East-India Company to the court of the emperor of China in the years 1794 and 1795.
Bowd DS708 .V3613 1798 v. 1-2
Research Process
Finding-Selecting-Evaluating-Citing
Finding books
Finding periodical/journal articles
Indexes/Databases - use subject index
Selecting articles & books consider:
Primary & secondary sources
Scholarly vs. popular journals
Evaluating web sites
Citing sources
Citing sources (basic elements)
Style manuals
Getting it together:
Use Endnote & Word together to download citations & write papers