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This is a guide to print and electronic resources dealing with China, mainly in English,
for Chinese Studies in the Centre for Asian Studies.
See also the guide for Asian Studies in general.

For any further assistance please contact the Research Librarian for Asian Studies

Helen Attar   ph 8303 5345

 

Contents

All Topics

WWW Sites

Handbooks, Encyclopedias etc.

Indexes and Bibliographies

Specific Topics:
Current affairs, economics, politics and development
Education
History
Identity, ethnicity, minorities
Literature
Social conditions
Women
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Contents

All Topics

WWW Sites

Handbooks, Encyclopedias etc.

Indexes and Bibliographies

Specific Topics:
Current affairs, economics, politics and development
Education
History
Identity, ethnicity, minorities
Literature
Social conditions
Women


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Contents

All Topics

WWW Sites

Handbooks, Encyclopedias etc.

Indexes and Bibliographies

Specific Topics:
Current affairs, economics, politics and development
Education
History
Identity, ethnicity, minorities
Literature
Social conditions
Women


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Contents

All Topics

WWW Sites

Handbooks, Encyclopedias etc.

Indexes and Bibliographies

Specific Topics:
Current affairs, economics, politics and development
Education
History
Identity, ethnicity, minorities
Literature
Social conditions
Women


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Last update

February 2009
 
 
 
 
 

 

All Topics

WWW Sites

Internet guide for China Studies, which now includes the China WWW Virtual Library

China Digital Times (CDT), from the Berkeley China Internet Project.

China Country Profile, researched and designed by Dr. Gerhard K. Heilig,

China at Asia Resources on the World Wide Web

Inside China Today

ChinaSite.com: The Complete Reference to China/Chinese-Related Web Sites

China Profile - Facts, figures and analyses

China Elections and Governance,  maintained and updated by the Beijing Center for Policy Research since 2004

 

Electronic Journals

Wei Ming magazine: an online forum for Chinese arts and literature

China Leadership Monitor - from the Hoover Institution

The library has subscriptions to thousands of online journals, which can be accessed via the catalogue, using authentication.
A few titles for China are:

China an international journal. 2004-
China journal (Zhongguo yan jiu )1995-2003
China quarterly 1960-
Journal of contemporary China (Tang tai Chung-kuo) 1996-
Asia monitor. China & North East Asia 2002-
Background note, China, U.S. Dept. of State 2004-
China 2004-
European journal of East Asian studies 2001-
Positions East Asia cultures critique 1999-
Stanford journal of East Asian affairs
2000-
Tung pao. International journal of Chinese studies.
1997-

Electronic News services

People's Daily Online

Xinhua news agency - China view

Factiva - a huge database of full text newspaper and news services. Searches can be limited by source, region and time period.

Handbooks, Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Asia Yearbook (Far Eastern economic review)
Reference Collection 330.9595 F21y

China today : an encyclopedia of life in the People’s Republic, ed. by Jing Luo, 2005
Reference Collection 951.0503 L964c

Encyclopedia of modern Asia, David Levinson, 6 vols. 2002.
Reference Collection 950.03 L665e

The new Cambridge handbook of contemporary China, Colin Mackerras.  2001.  
Reference Collection 951 M157c 2001

Handbook of Chinese popular culture, ed. Wu Dingbo, 1994.
Main Collection 306.0951 W959h

Dictionary of contemporary Chinese military history, Larry M. Wortzel ,1999.
Reference Collection 355.00951 W935d

China: a historical and cultural dictionary, ed. Michael Dillon. 1998.
Reference Collection 951.003 D579c

The Cambridge encyclopedia of China, ed. Brian Hook. 2nd ed.1991.
Reference Collection 951.003 H781c

Perkins, D.  Encyclopedia of China : the essential reference to China, its  history and culture. 1999.
Reference Collection 951.003 P448e

Zhong-guo ren ming da ci dian : Dang dai ren wu juan. 1992.
Reference Collection 920.051 Z638z

Olson, J.S. An ethnohistorical dictionary of China. 1998.
Reference Collection  305.800951 O52e

Eberhard, W. A dictionary of Chinese symbols : hidden symbols in Chinese life and thought. 1986.
Reference Collection 951.003 E16l

Jian ming Zhong-guo gu dai wen hua shi ci dian, Ren Dao-bin et al bian. 1990.
Main Collection 951.003 R3934j

Encyclopedia of Asian history, ed. Ainslie T. Embree. 4 vols. 1988.
Reference Collection  950.03 E56

Historical dictionary of revolutionary China, 1839-1976, ed. Edwin Pak-wah Leung. 1992.
Reference Collection  951.003 L653h

Encyclopaedia of Asian Civilizations. L. Frederic. 10 vols. 1977-1984
Reference Collection 950.03 L888e

Cultural atlas of China C. Blunden and M. Elvin. 1983. (much more than maps!)
Reference Collection 951 B658c

Modern China : An encyclopedia of history, culture, and nationalism, ed. Wang Ke-wen, 1998
Reference Collection 951.003 W246m

Biography

Who's who in China's leadership

Who's who in China. Current leaders ,compiled by the Editorial Board of Who's Who in China = Zhongguo ren ming da ci dien. Xian ren dang zheng jun ling dao ren wu juan, "Zhongguo ren ming da ci dien" bian ji bu bian. Rev. ed. 1994.
Reference Collection 920.051 Z637

Biographical dictionary of Chinese women : the Qing Period, 1644-1911, ed. Lily Xiao Hong Lee .1998.
Reference Collection 920.720951 L478b

Indexes to Journal Articles and Books

Bibliography of Asian studies 1971-
also at Reference Collection 950.05 B582
The most comprehensive coverage of articles and essays in Asian studies.
Not many extra features, no full text, but best for scholarly coverage.

Academic OneFile
Contains more than 12,000 academic journals, the majority peer-reviewed and in full text, available in HTML and PDF formats
Coverage 1980-

Academic Search Premier
Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,300 journals, with full text for more than 4,500 of those titles.

JSTOR
A full text library of journals from their first issues to 3-5 years ago.
NOT suitable for current topics.

Project Muse
gives access to University Press and other scholarly electronic
journals in the social sciences, humanities etc from the mid 1990's onwards.
China is well covered.

Web of science citation database     1980-
Much more than science!  Includes the Social Sciences citation index and the Arts and Humanities citation index.

Periodicals index online
a database of millions of article citations published in the arts,
humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.
Some full text available via Periodicals Archive Online.

Australian public affairs - full text: APA-FT.
includes Australian articles on Asia, some with
full text 1995-,  notably  Asian studies review.

Australia/New Zealand reference centre - full text journals and some news.

Bibliographies

Zurndorfer, H.T. China bibliography : a research guide to reference works about China past and present. 1995.
Reference Collection 950 S772h 4.10

Asia access : a guide to English language resources for China, Japan and Korea. 1996.
Reference Collection 950.016 M736a

Hayford, C.W. China. 1997.
Reference Collection 951.0016 H418c

Li, Yu-min Si ku ti yao ding wu.1990.
Main Collection 951.0016 L693s

The Cultural Revolution : a bibliography, 1966-1996, Yongyi Song, 1998.
Reference Collection 951.056 S698c

Shulman, F. J.   Doctoral dissertations on China and on inner Asia, 1976-1990 : an  annotated bibliography of studies in western languages. 1998.
Ref  915.10016 G663d 1976-1990 
see also Doctoral dissertations on China 1945-1970, 1971-75
Reference Collection  915.10016 G663d 

Ssu-yu Teng. Protest and crime in China : a bibliography of secret associations, popular uprisings, peasant rebellions, 1981
Reference Collection 366.0951 T292p

Tibet
Pinfold, J. Tibet (World bibliographical series) 1991.

Specific Topics

Current Affairs, Economics, Politics, Foreign Relations

Dictionary of the politics of the People's Republic of China,  ed.  C. Mackerras.1998
Reference Collection 951.003 M157d

Historical dictionary of United States-China relations, Robert Sutter, 2006.
Reference Collection 327.73051 S6986e

Encyclopedia of Chinese-American relations, ed Yuwu Song, 2006.
Reference Collection 327.73051 S9671h

Zhong-guo gai ge da ci dian,  Zhu bian Yuan Bao-hua, Zhai Tai-feng. 3 vols. 1992.
Reference Collection  951.003 Y94z

Asian recorder 1955-
Reference Collection 950.5 A883

Factiva - a huge database of full text newspaper and news services. Searches can be limited by source, region and time period.

The BSL hold a large number of newspapers on microfilm. 
They are in the catalogue and also listed in
Newspapers in the Barr Smith Library: a finding list

Business source complete - database and full text journals on economics, trade and business.

China Beat: blogging how the East is read - examines media coverage of China

Asian-Pacific economic literature 1987-
Reference Collection 330.9505 A832

Goehlert, R. The Chinese economy : a bibliography of works in English 1995.
Reference Collection 330.951 G594c

Zhong-guo zheng zhi zhi du ci dian, Liu Guo-xin zhu bian 1990.
Main Collection 320.951 L7832z

Zhong-guo gai ge da ci dian, Zhu bian Yuan Bao-hua, Zhai Tai-feng. 1992.
Reference Collection 951.003 Y94z  

Education

ERIC : Current index to journals in education (CIJE), Resources in education (RIE) 

History

Wilkinson, E. P. Chinese history : a manual. 1998.
Reference Collection 951.0072 W686c

Jian guo yi lai Zhong-guo shi xue lun wen ji pian mu suo yin chu bian.  1992.
Reference collection 951.0016 Z635j

Zhong-guo li shi ci dian, Zhu bian Zhang Zuo-yao. 1991.
951.003 Z632z

Zhong-guo tong shi shi lun ci dian, Zhao Li-sheng. 1992.
951.003 Z633z

Ancient China - from the British Museum

Tales of Old China ....stores words and images from Old China, mostly the era between 1840 to 1950 when China and the West were struggling to come to terms with each other.

Exploring ancient world cultures: China - index of internet resources

Mao Zedong reference archive

Virtual Museum of the "Cultural Revolution"

Sources

U.S. military intelligence reports, China, 1911-1941
MICROFILM PER 87

China: special studies, 1970-1980
MICROFILM PER 85

CIA research reports. China, 1946-1976
MICROFILM PER 84

Identity, ethnicity, minorities

Encyclopedia of race and ethnic studies, Ellis Cashmore. 2004.

An ethnohistorical dictionary of China, James S. Olson. 1998.
Reference Collcetion 305.800951 O52e

World directory of minorities, ed. Minority Rights Group. 1997.
Reference Collection 305.803 W927.2

Unity and diversity: local cultures and identities in China, ed. Tao Tao Liu and David Faure. 1996.
Main Collection 305.800951 L783u

The discourse of race in modern China, Frank Dikotter. 1994.
Main Collection 305.800951 D575d

Language Dictionaries

Dictionaries will be found in the Main and Reference collections at 495.1321.
Dictionaries in specific subject areas will be found in the Reference collection with the subject.
eg  610.3 for medicine, 570.3 for biology, 332.03 for banking, 340.03 for law etc.
They can also be found in the catalogue via keyword.

Ching hsuan Ying-Han, Han-Ying tz'u t'ien = Concise English-Chinese, Chinese-English dictionary
Oxford University Press, 2nd ed.  1999.
Reference Collection  495.1321 C539.2

ABC Chinese-English comprehensive dictionary : alphabetically based computerized, ed John DeFrancis, 2003.
Reference Collection 495.1321 D316a 2003

Law

Han Ying fa lu ci dian, ed. Xue Bo ( A Chinese-English dictionary of law ) 1995.
Reference Collection 340.03 X8h

Hom, S. K.  Ying han fu nu yu fa lu ci hui shi yi  (English-Chinese lexicon of women and law) 1995.
Reference Collection 305.4203 H763y

Law: China WWW Virtual Library

Literature

MLA International Bibliography1963-

A Biographical dictionary of modern Chinese writers / compiled bythe Modern Chinese Literary Archives. 1994.
Reference Collection 895.109 M689b

Idema, W. L. A guide to Chinese literature. 1997.
Main Collection 951.05 M624.2 74

Zhong-guo yu yan wen xue, Chen Yi-xin, Zhao Xin-yue zhu bian. 1991.
Main Collection 895.109 C5186z

Philosophy and Religion

Online Index of Chinese Buddhism
from Department of Religion, Columbia University, NY

RoutledgeCurzon encyclopedia of Confucianism, ed. Xinzhong Yao, 2 vols, 2001.
Reference Collection 181.11203 Y25r

Encyclopedia of Buddhism, ed Robert E. Buswell, Jr. 2 vols. 2004.
online via Netlibrary

Shambhala dictionary of Taoism, Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber; 1997.
Reference Collection 299.51403 F529s.W

Companion encyclopedia of Asian philosophy. ed. B. Carr. 1997.
Reference Collection 181 C311c

Dictionary of Asian philosophies, St. Elmo Nauman, Jr., 1979.
Reference Collection  103 N299d

Handbook of ancient religions, ed. J. R. Hinnells, 2007.
Main Collection 200.9 H6638h 

Oxford handbook of global religions, ed. Mark Juergensmeyer, 2006.
Reference Collection 200.9 J934o

Chinese religions : publications in Western language, vol. 3: 1991 through 1995, comp. Laurence G. Thompson, ed. Gary Seaman. 1998.
Reference Collection 950.6 A84 58

Religion in postwar China : a critical analysis and annotated bibliography, comp. David C. Yu, 1994
Main Collection (Not for Loan) 299.51 Y942r

Social Conditions

Sociological Abstracts: sociological literature 1974- with abstracts

 Women

Studies on women and gender abstracts

Wei, K.T. Women in China : a selected and annotated bibliography. 1984.
Reference Collection 305.4016 W415w

Jin dai Zhongguo fu nu shi Zhong wen zi liao mu lu, (Women in modern Chinese history: publications in Chinese.) 1995.
Reference Collection 305.4016 W246j

Women in China : a country profile. 1997 ( Statistical profiles)
Reference Collection 305.40951 U58Ew

Zhongguo xing bie tong ji zi liao, 1990-1995 / Zhonghua quan guo fu nuÌ lian he hui fu nuÌ yan jiu suo, Guo jia tong ji ju she hui yu ke ji tong ji si bian = Gender Statistics in China, 1990-1995
Reference Collection 305.420951 Z634z 1990-1995

Zhongguo fu nuÌ tong ji zi liao, 1949-1989,Zhonghua quan guo fu nuÌ lian he hui fu nuÌ yan jiu suo, Shanxi sheng fu nü lian he hui yan jiu shi bian = Statistics on Chinese women, 1949-1989
Main Collection 305.420951 Z634z

检索中文资料 - locating texts in Chinese

In the Library Catalogue in either Basic Search or Guided Keyword Search screen click on the "More Limits" tab on the right hand side of screen. Select "Chinese" then select "Set Limits". Now when you search you will only retrieve Chinese language material.