University Library The University of Adelaide Australia
You are here: Library Home

Text Zoom: S | M | L

Printer Friendly Version Print View

The University of Adelaide Library Information Service
Foundations of Chinese Thought

Last update: July 2000, by Margaret Hosking

Contents

Subject Headings Encyclopedias and dictionaries Bibliographies and indexes Web sites

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Use these to search the catalogue for additional books.

Option 7    Subject Heading
China -- Religion
Philosophy, Oriental
I ching
Cosmology, Chinese
China -- Intellectual life
Mythology, Chinese

Option 6    Keywords from subject heading
Chinese philosophy
Confuci?
Tao?
Chin? ethic?
Buddhis? China

ENCYCLOPAEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES

Use these to search definitions, introductory articles and background information.

Philosophy and Religion

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

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

The Encyclopedia of religion. ed. Mircea Eliade , 1987
Ref 291.03 E42e

Routledge encyclopedia of philosophy, ed. E. Craig. 1998
Ref 103 C886r

Encyclopedia of philosophy. ed. P. Edwards. 8 vols. 1967
Ref 103 E56

Oxford companion to the mind. ed. R.Gregory. 1987 (See article under "Chinese ideas of mind")
Ref 128.2 G823o

Cambridge dictionary of philosophy. ed. R. Audi. 1995
Ref 103 A911c

Dictionary of non-Christian religions. G. Parrinder. 1981
Ref 290.3 P261.2

Dictionary of Buddhist terms and concepts. 198.
Ref 294.303 D554

World philosophy: essay reviews of 225 major works. ed. F. N. Magill. 5 v. 1982
Ref 100 W927

Dictionary of Chinese mythology. E. T. C. Werner. 1932.
291.03 W49

Dictionary of Chinese symbols. W. Eberhard. 1986.
Ref 951.003 E161

Dictionary of philosophy and religion : eastern and western thought, by William L. Reese. 1980
Ref 103 R329d

Indiana companion to traditional Chinese literature. 1986.
Ref 895.109 N673i

Thirty-five oriental philosophers, by Diane Collinson and Robert Wilkinson. 1994.
Ref 181 C713t

China and Asia

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

Cambridge encyclopedia of China. 2nd ed. 1991.
Ref 951.003 H781c

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

BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND INDEXES

Use these to search for journal articles.

General (Interdisciplinary)

The following databases can be searched via the computers behind the Information desk or via the Internet (WWW).

Expanded academic index 1980-

Article 1st.......Indexes titles from tables of contents of more than 13,000 journals.

PCI periodicals contents index........covers journal titles from 1800-1990. Very good for articles written at the time of actual events in the 19th or early 20th centuries. Searching can be limited by date of publication.

China and Asia

Bibliography of Asian studies.1971-
1941-1965, 1966-1970,  at  Ref  950.05 B582

Philosophy and Religion

Philosphers' index 1940-

Bibliography on Buddhism. S. Hanayama. 1961.
Ref 294 H233

Buddhism: a subject index to periodical articles in English, 1728-1971. ed.Y. Yoo. 1973
Ref 294 Y59b

Essential readings on Chinese Philosophy: a bibliography under construction by Bryan W. Van Norden

Chinese religion : publications in western languages: a comprehensive and classified bibliography of publications in English, French and German through 1980/ L. G. Thompson. 1985.
Ref  950.6 A84 41

Chinese religion: publications in western languages, 1981 through 1990, compiled by  L. G. Thompson. 1993.
Ref  950.6 A84 47

Chinese religions : publications in Western language, vol. 3: 1991  through 1995, compiled by Laurence G. Thompson, 1998
Ref   950.6 A84 58

Guide to Chinese philosophy, C. W. Fu. 1978.
Ref 100 F949g

Westliche Taoismus-Bibliographie : (WTB) = Western bibliography of   Taoism, Knut Walf , 1992.
 Ref   299.514016 W174w

WEB SITES

Chinese Philosophy Page (CPP)

Digital Chinese Library, Center for Chinese Studies, Library University of California at Berkeley

Ancient China Web site

YAHOO Search. Chinese philosophy yields many useful sites

Su Tzu's Chinese  philosophy page

Stephen Angle's page at Wesleyan University, Connecticut.

Chad Hansen's Chinese Philosophy page: Daoist oriented interpretations.

Philosophy in cyberspace (from Monash) has a great section on Eastern Philosophy


[HOME][LIBRARY SERVICES][SUBJECT GUIDES][CATALOGUES][DATABASES]
[REFERENCE][E-RESERVE][SEARCH][FEEDBACK][NEWS]