Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies: Home

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
• 电影资料库 （Film Archive）
• CREDO Reference
• Oxford Reference

Images

• ARTstor
• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
• NYPL Picture Collection
• NYPL Web Gallery of Images
• AP Images
• Creative Commons images

Streaming Videos

• Films from Kanopy
• Filmmakers Library Online (Award-winning documentaries)
• PBS Video Collection

Evaluating Information

• Evaluating Articles
• Evaluating Books
• Evaluating Web Sites
• Evaluating Vidoes

Prof. Xueping Zhong:

• Mainstream Culture Refocused: Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in the Reform Era China
• Culture and Social Transformation in Reform Era China
• Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing Up in the Mao Era
• Masculinity Besieged? Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century
• Debating the socialist legacy and capitalist globalization in China

Annotated Bibliographies

• Chinese Studies (e.g. Chinese language film)
• Cinema and media studies
• Dissertations and Theses (Check out the bibliographies of recent dissertations on your topic.)

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Journal and Magazine Articles 

A. All subjects

• JSTOR
• Project Muse

B. Asian Studies and Related Databases

• In EBSCOhost databases, you can select to search across the following databases, among others:
• Academic Search Premier (all subjects)
• Art & Architecture Source
• ATLA Religion
• Bibliography of Asian Studies
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Film & Television Literature Index
• Historical Abstracts (World history and culture)
• LGBTQ+ Source
• MLA International Bibliography (literature, folklore and related studies)
• Women's Studies International

A few notable journals:

• 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

 Newspaper Articles 

Current

• Access World News (rich regional news)
• Factiva (more international coverage)

Historical

• American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)
• British Humanities Index (1962- )
• British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)
• Historical Chinese Newspapers (22 titles in English from early 20th Century)
• New York Times Online Archive
• Times Digital Archive  (1785 - 1985)

Complete list of Newspaper Collections, current and historical