Primary Sources:

• Daily Life in Ancient China
• Buried ideas: legends of abdication and ideal government in early Chinese bamboo-slip manuscripts
• Chinese Women: a thousand pieces of gold(an anthology)
• The Search for Modern China: a Documentary Collection
• Sources in Chinese History
• Sources of Chinese tradition

Overviews

• The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture
• China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know.
• An introduction to Confucianism
• A Companion to Chinese Cinema
• Historical dictionary of Chinese cinema

• China Biographical Database (approximately 360,000 individuals, primarily from the 7th through 19th centuries.)
• China Data Online (Current and historical data, including geospatial data/GIS and Census data)
• China Data Center

• CREDO Reference
• Oxford Reference

• Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
• Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
• Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique
• The China Quarterly
• China Review International
• Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

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How Literary Anthologies and Collections could be helpful:

Introductory texts in literary anthologies /collections provide overviews and surveys of an author and his/her works, a literary era, literary style, and so on so forth. The explanatory footnotes enhance an understanding of the works in terms of contemporary culture and literary traditions in which the authors lived and wrote. Hence, the historical significance of the works. For example:

• The Columbia anthology of traditional Chinese literature
• The Columbia anthology of Yuan drama
• Slapping the table in amazement: a Ming Dynasty story collection
• Strange tales from a Chinese studio
• Strange tales from a Chinese studio: the classic collection of eerie and fantastic Chinese stories of the supernatural

More

• • Chinese fairy tales and fantasies
  • The discourse on foxes and ghosts: Ji Yun and eighteenth-century literati storytelling
  • Hidden and visible realms: early medieval Chinese tales of the supernatural and the fantastic
  • A garden of marvels : tales of wonder from early medieval China
  • Strange writing: anomaly accounts in early medieval China
  • Zibuyu, "What The Master Would Not Discuss", according to Yuan Mei (1716-1798): a collection of supernatural stories

 

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