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Information Resources for Chinese

BOOKS (Find books and other resources at the Scribner Library and elsewhere.)

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ELECTRONIC RESOURCES (Find articles, books, chapters, images, reports, et al.)

General Databases

EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite (Coverage : 1984- | Abstracts | Full-text | Updated: Daily.) Provides full-text for over 1,200 journals (some back to 1990) covering the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies and education. It also has abstracts and indexing for over 3,000 scholarly journals, and over 1,700 are peer-reviewed. The Wall Street journal, New York times, and the Christian Science Monitor are also indexed.

LexisNexis Academic Provides full text news and information on a regional, national, and international level. Especially useful for locating full-text newspaper articles and country profiles.

ProQuest Provides access to ABI/Inform Global (1457 business related titles), Periodical Abstracts Research II (1817 multidisciplinary titles), and Newspapers Abstracts (incl. 90-day NYTimes and Wall St. Journal; 32 titles). Full text and images are provided where available.

Foreign Language and Literature Databases

Arts & Humanities Search (Coverage:1980- Updated weekly.) Indexes more than 1,300 of the world's leading arts and humanities journals and selected articles from more than 5,800 social science and science journals. It indexes articles, bibliographies, editorials, letters, reviews, and more.

Bibliography of Asian Studies (Coverage: 1971- ) Contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide.

Humanities Index (Coverage: 1984- updated: Monthly.) Contains citations for more than 300 humanities publications. Covers feature articles, book reviews, interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, fiction, reviews of plays and radio and television programs and more. It does not include letters to the editor, editorials, news, cartoons, and advertising.

Iter gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance A bibliography of approximately 230,000 articles and reviews drawn from over 475 medieval and Renaissance journal titles. Updated daily and with more than 60,000 new records added annually, will be of great use to scholars interested in Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).

Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism A full-text searchable database of articles on individual critics and theorists, critical and theoretical schools and movements, and the critical and theoretical innovations of specific countries and historical schools.

MLA International Bibliography (Coverage: 1963- updated: Quarterly.) Produced by the Modern Language Association, indexes critical materials on modern language, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to over 3000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as monographs, working papers, proceedings, and bibliographies.

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WORLD WIDE WEB RESOURCES (Find Web resources.)

Asiaco, the Asia Search Engine Thousands of resources, arranged by categories, including arts and humanties, and society and culture, as well as by linked sites.

Chinese Character Genealogy Dictionary An etymological Chinese-English dictionary, translation-related FAQs, plus links to readings, customs and cultural information, vocabulary and more.

Chinese Language-Related Information Page A comprehensive navigational tool for Chinese language resources, including Chinese search engines and subject directories, plus links to radio broadcasts, full-text literature, language, poetry sources and more.

Chinese-English, English-Chinese, Chinese-Chinese Dictionary

Chinese Studies WWW Virtual Library East Asian Collection of the University of Melbourne. Gateway to hundreds of useful links, including art, literature, language and linguistics, travel, and much more.

Project Gutenberg Begun in 1971 by Michael Hart, the Internet's oldest producer of free, fine literature, digitally republished, now has over 6,000 titles in various languages and genres. Select Search option from left vertical menu box, then search by author, title, subject (i.e., language, fiction, poetry, literature), language (i.e., Chinese) or Library of Congress Classification, pre selected by Project Gutenberg or choose your own at: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/lcco.html, click on P--Language and Literature, choose appropriate subclass.

Library of Congress Global Gateway World Culture & Resources: World Library Collections. Linked resources are comprehensive and include international print and electronic information, electronic resources on the nations of the world selected by Library of Congress subject experts, country studies, foreign research guides and legal materials, research opportunities, select items of global importance from the Library's collections, international cyber casts, and so much more.

National Library of China The definitive site for Chinese-related resources, searchable in Chinese or English. Accessible from 8 am to 10 pm, Beijing-time.

WWW Sites Related to China Duke University's extensive site is subject-specific, easy to
navigate, and features links to magazines and journals, language and literature and all the basics
of Chinese study, plus access to unique, diverse information such as comic book text, cinema and Buddhist writings.

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PRINT RESOURCES

Print Collections

Library of Congress Classification Headings
PL 1001-3208
Chinese Language and Literature

Chinese literature is located on the 3rd floor in the following Call Number areas:

PL2832.5-PL2929
Literature 1949-

PL2740-PL2831
Literature 1912-1949

PL2717-PL2735
Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)

PL2695-PL2698
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)

PL2689-PL2694
Yüan Dynasty (1260-1368)

PL2680-PL2687
Song Dynasty (947-1125)

PL2678
Literature 907-979

PL2670-PL2677
Tang Dynasty (618-907)

PL2662-PL2668
Literature to 618

PL2456-PL2515
General collections

PL2521-PL2537
Collections of poetry

PL2625-PL2658
Collections of translations

PL2250-PL244
History and criticism

Select Reference Books

REF DS706 .M24 2001
The New Cambridge Handbook of Contemporary China

REF CD2031 .Y4 1996
Chinese Archives : an introductory guide

REF PL1497 .Y52 1987
A Chinese-English Handbook of Idioms

REF DS705 .P47 1999
Encyclopedia of China

REF PL2264 .I53 1986
The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature

REF HQ1767.C5 C47 1984
Women in China : bibliography of available English language materials

REF PL1420 .C52 1999
Cheng & Tsui Chinese Character Dictionary: a guide to the 2000 most frequently-used characters

REF PL1455 .L67 1980
Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage