Research Guides: *Chinese: Resources

Article Indexes

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) This link opens in a new window
Humanities and social sciences articles and book chapters on East, Southeast, and South Asia, in Western languages. Coverage: 1971 to the present.
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Modern literature, language, linguistics, and folklore journal articles and books. Citations with links to full text. Coverage: 1926 to present

Chinese Studies: Oxford Bibliographies
Annotated bibliographies on topics related to China.
The Cambridge History of China
Location: Available online.
A 15 volume series covering the history of China from BCE 221- CE 1982.
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture
Location: Online
Published: 2008
Key aspects of modern Chinese culture, from 'high culture' such as literature, religion and philosophy to more popular issues such as sport, cinema, performance and the internet.
A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought
Location: Reference DS721 .E32613 1986
Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature
Location: Bates Reference PL2265 .A63 2010
Published: 2010
Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E., with entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and 'schools, ' and important Chinese literary terms.
A Selective Guide to Chinese Literature, 1900-1949
Location: Bates Reference PL2302 .S45 1988
Published: 1988
Chinese Fiction Writers, 1900-1949 by Thomas Moran (Editor)
Published: 2006
Online information on Chinese writers from the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature by Li-Hua Ying; Jon Woronoff
Location: Bates Reference PL2303 .Y59 2010
A chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts.

Literature Resource Center This link opens in a new window
Biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of literary authors.

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC)
A resource center of online articles, book reviews and extensive bibliographies of mostly English-language materials on modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film/media, visual arts, music, education, and culture.

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Digital images in the arts and architecture, including those related to Chinese culture.

Internet Archive of Texts and Documents: China
A collection of links to digitized material related to China, including language study, history, culture, arts, and maps.
Visualizing Culture: Asia
Image-driven scholarship, with topical units focusing on Japan in the modern world and early-modern China. The thrust of these explorations extends beyond Asia per se, however, to address "culture" in much broader ways—cultures of modernization, war and peace, consumerism, images of "Self" and "Others," and so on.
Propaganda and the Chinese Press: Global Perspectives
Translated articles from the Xinhua, the state-run news agency of the People's Republic of China. Coverage: 1946-1996.
Morning Sun
Images and music from the Cultural Revolution
Gallery of Chinese Propaganda Posters

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