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Library Guide for the "Novelist's Background Briefing Paper" Assignment

Getting Started || Using Cruzcat || Reference Titles || Electronic Databases || Selected Websites

GETTING STARTED

Use the Library's Research page as your point of departure: http://library.ucsc.edu/research.html

Before starting your search, take a look at the "How to Get Started" page: http://library.ucsc.edu/ref/howto/
Especially useful for this assignment are the sections on evaluating information on the web, distinguishing between primary and secondary sources and citations styles.

In order to have off-campus access to all of the databases that will be useful for this assignment, make sure that you follow the instructions on how to connect to the library from home: http://library.ucsc.edu/services/sluglink/

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USING CRUZCAT (http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu/)

A keyword search is probably the easiest way to get started. Once you find some titles that are useful, click on the Library of Congress subject headings to search further.

For this assignment, the following subject headings might be useful--they are just a sample of relevant subject headings that you might want to look at:

• China -- ethnology
• China -- social life and customs
• China -- social conditions 1949-
• China -- social conditions 1912-49
• China -- history
• China -- education
• China -- politics and government
• China -- Press -- History
• Muslims -- China
• China -- city and town life
• China -- rural conditions
• China -- economic conditions
• Prostitution -- China
• China -- ethnic identity
• China -- Cultural Revolution
• Food habits -- China
• Public health -- China

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There are also a couple of monographic series that are worth browsing through-use a title search in Cruzcat:

• Studies on Contemporary China
• Cambridge Modern China Series

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REFERENCE TITLES

Listed below are the books found in McHenry Reference that were discussed in our Library session:

• Encyclopedia of modern Asia
  (Call Number: REF DS4.E53 2002, 6 volumes)
• Facts about China
  (REF DS706 .F25 2003)
• The Cambridge encyclopedia of China, 2nd ed.
  (REF DS705.C35 1991)
• China: a historical and cultural dictionary
  (REF DS733 .C58523 1998)
• An ethnohistorical dictionary of China
  (REF DS730.O74 1998)
• Historical dictionary of revolutionary China, 1839-1976
  (REF DS740.2.H57 1992)
• Columbia guide to modern Chinese history
  (REF DS755 .S635 2000)
• Companion to Chinese history
  (REF DS705.O63 1987)
• Encyclopedia of food and culture
  (REF GT2850.E53 2003, 3 volumes)
• Columbia chronologies of Asian history and culture
  (REF DS33 .C63 2000)
• Lao zhao pian. Fu shi shi shang
  (RESERVES GT1555 .L368 1997)
  
• Zhongguo fu shi da dian
  (EAST ASIAN GT.1555.Z5767 2000)
• Zhongguo li dai fu nü zhuang shi
  (RESERVES GT1555 .Z46829 1997)
• Zhongguo li dai fu shi
  (RESERVES GT1555 .C583 1983)
• Taiwan zao qi fu shi tu lu = Traditional dress in Taiwan, 1860-1945
  (RESERVES GT1556 .K36 1995)

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ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Once you have browsed the print reference materials, you will be better prepared for searching the electronic databases. Some of the databases listed below contain bibliographic citations, others contain full-text.

Full text databases:

Project Muse
JSTOR
Grove Dictionary of Art (type China into the search box)
PAO

Bibliographic databases:

Bibliography of Asian Studies
Historical Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts
MLA
Pub Med

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Selected Websites:

Please ask for help at the reference desk, and feel free to contact me for further help.

Beth Remak-Honnef
Humanities Bibliographer

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