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Chinese 104 : Readings in Literature — Library Research Guide

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Getting Started

Off Campus Access - To access the library research databases referenced on this guide from off campus, you will need to login to OCA. Click here for information regarding the service.

Make use of the library's Subject guides - particularly useful for this assignment are:

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Background Information

McHenry Reference Print Sources

The list below represents a sample of options, use Cruzcat to find more.

The Indiana Companion to traditional Chinese Literature McHenry Reference Z3108.L5I53 1986  v.1&2 
A Guide to Chinese Literature McHenry Reference PL2271 .I3413 1997b    
Chinese Literature Overview & Bibliography McHenry Reference PL2271 .C554 2002   
Zhung- guo li shi di tu ji / [cartographic material] Tan Qi- xiang zhu bian = The Historical atlas of China East Asian Coll G2306.S1 C55 1982  v.1-8   
Classical Chinese fiction : a guide to its study and appreciation : essays and bibliographies McHenry Reference Z3108.L5Y29 
Encyclopedia of China: the essential reference McHenry Reference DS705 .P47 1999   
Cambridge Encyclopedia of China McHenry Reference DS705.C35 1991   

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Selected Web Sites

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Recommended Databases

 

English Language Databases

  • MLA Bibliography Database from CSA - This searchable database contains citations for articles, books, and book chapters in literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Compiled by the Modern Language Association. Subject area(s): Humanities. Covers: 1963 - present
  • Project Muse - This searchable database contains online access to the full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
    Subject area(s): ['Art and Art History', 'Humanities', 'Science and Engineering', 'Social Sciences']. Coverage varies.
  • JSTOR - A searchable database containing the full-text of back issues of more than 160 academic journals.
    Subject area(s): ['Humanities', 'Science and Engineering', 'Social Sciences']. Coverage: Archival. Latest three years are not available.
  • PAO - Formerly titled PCI Full Text. This searchable database contains citations for articles in over 230 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Full text is available for all articles. Technical note: Internet Explorer for Macintosh does not properly display full text of PCI articles. Please use Netscape or another browser on Mac computers.
    Subject area(s): ['Humanities', 'Social Sciences']. Covers: 1770 - 1995
  • Bibliography of Asian Studies - This online version of the Bibliography of Asian studies (BAS) contains more than 680,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. It contains the full data of all printed editions of the BAS issued from 1971 up to the 1991 ed. (published 1997). Through the 1991 printed version, the BAS included citations to Western-language periodical articles, monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Monographs published since 1992 have not been added to the database.

Chinese Language Databases

 

  • Chinese Journal Network/Chinese Academic Journals
    Click on IP-address Access to enter the database. This searchable database contains the full text and full images of 1,710 journals journals published in China in the Literature/History/Philosophy, Economics/Politics/Law, and Education/Social Science academic disciplines. Technical note: The site displays Chinese characters and can only be viewed using IE or Netscape 6+. In order to view full-text, users must download a Windows-only application (CAJViewer). Windows stations located in the library have the CAJViewer application already installed. Subject area(s): ['Humanities', 'Social Sciences']. Covers: 1994-present.
  • ASCC (Academia Sinica Computing Center Electronic Resources)
    Chinese full-text database for hundreds of works in history (including history of Taiwan), classics, religion, medicine, literature, and law, etc. Chinese input software required to search. Subject area(s): ['General Subjects', 'Humanities', 'Social Sciences'].
  • Chinese Civilization in Time and Space (CCTS)
    Select Framework of Time and Space, then Registration.
    A multi-disciplinary research application. This site is an integrated GIS-based application infrastructure on the spatial extent of China, in the timeframe of Chinese history, and with the contents of Chinese civilization. Based on the Historical Atlas of China.
    Subject area(s): Humanities. See also demonstration site. (Does not require registration.)

Music & Art Databases

 

  • Naxos Music Library - Naxos Music Library provides online access to the complete Naxos, Marco Polo and Dacapo catalogues of over 85,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Access is also provided to liner notes and other textual information, and playlists for classroom or personal use can be created. Technical requirements are given at the site. Three levels of audio quality are provided, depending on the type of internet connection. Subject area(s): ['General Subjects', 'Humanities'].
  • Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries - Electronic database of approximately 35,000 tracks of world music and sound recordings from the archives of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, with audio selections cross-referenced to a database of supplementary reference information. In order to play sound files, Mac and Windows computers need Macromedia Flash Player. In addition, Windows computer users need Microsoft Windows Media Player. From Alexander Street Press. Subject area(s): ['Art and Art History', 'Humanities'].
    Also available from a CDL link.

  • Grove Dictionary of Art - Click on �enter here� on the top right side of the home page.
    A searchable dictionary of articles with external image links covering all aspects of the visual arts. Also includes a searchable index to the Bridgeman Art Library of online images. Subject area(s): Art and Art History. Covers: Prehistory - present.
  • Grove Dictionary of Music - The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians 2nd edition on the Web contains the complete text of the encyclopedic reference work. The searchable database contains: biographies of composers, performers, and writers; articles on styles, terms, and genres of music; information about regions, countries, and cities; articles on instruments and their performance practice; articles on popular music and jazz; information on musical concepts and notation. Subject area(s): ['Art and Art History', 'Humanities'].

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Cruzcat

Note: the East Asian Studies Collection is split between both library buildings. Items in translation are located in McHenry and items in Chinese are located in the Science & Engineering Library East Asian Collection. Pay attention to the location listed in Cruzcat to help find items.

Romanization: Cruzcat uses PinYin but will cross-reference names in the Wade-Giles romanization.

Some sample subject headings:

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Citation Guides

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Contact Kerry Scott (scottk@ucsc.edu) or Beth Remak-Honnef (remak@ucsc.edu). Updated 21 January 2008.

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