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History 140C - Revolutionary China

 

GETTING STARTED

 

• Use the Library's Research page as your point of departure: 
• Before starting your search, take a look at the How to Get Started page. Especially useful for this assignment are:
  • evaluating information on the web
  • distinguishing between primary and secondary sources
  • citation 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:

 

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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

 

BOOKS/Background Sources (build your search keyword list)

 

Chinese History Resources

 

• eScholarship - see especially escholarship editions page.
• Encyclopedia of modern Asia
• Facts about China
• The Cambridge encyclopedia of China, 2nd ed.
• China: a historical and cultural dictionary
• An ethnohistorical dictionary of China
  • Online version
• Historical dictionary of revolutionary China, 1839-1976
• Columbia guide to modern Chinese history
• Companion to Chinese history

 

Resources about Food

 

• Encyclopedia of food and culture
  • Online version
• Cambridge World History of Food
  • Online version

 

Chronologies

 

• Columbia chronologies of Asian history and culture
  • Online version
• Asia Society Modern Chinese History Chronology

 

Resources about Clothing & Dress

 

• Lao zhao pian. Fu shi shi shang
• Zhongguo fu shi da dian
• Zhongguo li dai fu nü zhuang shi
• Zhongguo li dai fu shi
• Taiwan zao qi fu shi tu lu = Traditional dress in Taiwan, 1860-1945

 

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ELECTRONIC DATABASES - Find Articles

 

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

Oxford Art Online (type China into the search box)

PAO

Accunet AP Photo Archive

ARTstor

  

Bibliographic databases:

 

Bibliography of Asian Studies

Historical Abstracts

Sociological Abstracts

MLA

Pub Med

 

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USING CRUZCAT 

 

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
• 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
• Food habits -- China
• Public health -- China

 

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Selected Websites:

 

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Contact: Kerry Scott

Last Updated: 2/12/09