Subject
Guide: Chinese Language and Literature
INDEXES | REFERENCE
WORKS | WEB
LINKS | PERIODICALS
This page is intended to introduce a few select resources,
both on the Web and in the Smith Library Center print
collection, that are particularly useful for the
study of Chinese language, literature, and culture.
INDEXES
NOTE: Students researching in languages
other than English should allow enough
time (usually about 10 working days)
for interlibrary
loan of any foreign language articles
from journals to which the library
does not subscribe.
Multiple Languages, including Chinese
The online indexes listed below are
predominantly English-language, but
they include some materials
in Chinese.
MLA
International Bibliography
WorldCat
Literary Sources
For information on authors who write
in other languages, try the sources
below, and look at the library's guides
to Literary Criticism, Author Biography,
Book Reviews, or Literature (use the
navigation buttons on the left of this
page).
Gale Literary
Index
For author research, begin with this index. You can
search by author's name, title of a work, or author's
nationality. Your results list will give you citations
to works in English the library may own. Please check
your citations in the library catalog.
Literature
Resource Center
Biographical, bibliographical, and contextual information
in English on authors and their works, including
authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, history,
and journalism. Access to many of Gale's literary
sources, including; Contemporary Authors, Dictionary
of Literary Biography, and Contemporary Literary
Criticism Select.
REFERENCE
WORKS
To find printed reference material
relevant to your topic start with the
library's online
catalog. Do a Reference Materials
search using keywords to describe your
topic.
Below are a few titles to get you
started. To double-check call number
and location information, search the online
catalog.
A Chinese-English dictionary of
enigmatic folk similes (xiehouyu)
REFERENCE, 1st floor 398.9 R636c
Historical dictionary of revolutionary
China, 1839-1976
REFERENCE, 1st floor 951 H629
Hsin Han Ying tz'u tien = New
Chinese-English dictionary
REFERENCE, 1st floor 495.1 N425
The Indiana companion to traditional
Chinese literature
REFERENCE, 1st floor 895.109 In2 v.1 and 2
Modern Chinese fiction : a guide
to its study and appreciation : essays
and bibliographies
REFERENCE, 1st floor 895.135 Y16m
Niu chin hsien tai kao chi Ying
Han shuang chieh tz`u tien = Oxford
advanced learner's English-Chinese
dictionary
REFERENCE, 1st floor 495.1 N64
WEB
LINKS
Chinese
A starting point for Chinese language related resources.
BBC Languages
- Mandarin Chinese
Learn Cantonese!
.
Yahoo!
China
Yahoo! for China; in Chinese.
Multiple Languages, including Chinese
ComFM's
Live Radio on the Internet
Access to homepages of radio stations from around
the world, and when possible, to live Internet broadcasts.
ComFM's
Live TV on the Internet
Access to homepages of tv stations from around the
world, and when possible, to live Internet broadcasts.
Linguist List--Web
Resource Listings--Dictionaries
Multi-language dictionaries, with links to other
language-related sites. Site maintained by Eastern
Michigan University and Wayne State University.
Ethnologue
World language research, maps, and more. Catalogs
over 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries.
iLoveLanguages
Language-learning resources arranged by topic.
Online Newspapers
Electronic editions of newspapers from around the
world, by country.
UCLA Phonetics Lab
PERIODICALS
To find holdings and location information
for specific periodical titles (both
print and online), search the Voyager catalog.
To find citations or online full-text
for articles in periodicals on your
topic, try the resources listed above
under Indexes.
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