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EAL232: Modern Chinese Literature in the Library
Spring 2008 - S. Knight
reference contact: Bruce Sajdak x2967

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GETTING STARTED

Source Call Number/Access
Encyclopedia of contemporary Chinese Culture ref DS 779.23 .E5 2005
New Cambridge Handbook of Contemporary China ref DS 706 .M24 2001
The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century
ref PL 2303 .M43 1997

Dictionary of Chinese Symbols

ref DS 721 .E32613 1986
Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature ref PL 493 .C55 2003
The Chinese Have a Word for It
(short articles on key Chinese cultural concepts)
ref DS 721 .D39 2000

FINDING BOOKS

To find books look in the Five College Library Catalog, using the SUBJECT BEGINS WITH search for terms such as:

AN AUTHOR'S NAME: e.g. Huang Chunmin (for Hwang, Chun-ming - BEWARE TRANSLITERATION VARIANTS!!!!!)
A GENRE: e.g. Chinese fiction; Chinese literature
A THEME: e.g. women in literature

For books not in the five-college libraries, search in WorldCat.

FINDING ARTICLES

There are two ways of locating relevant literary criticism in periodicals - using databases and browsing through tables on contents of likely journal titles.

Databases

MLA Bibliography (1926+)

Bibliography of Asian Studies (1971+)

Project Muse (current issues)

JSTOR (back issues up to the most recent 2-5 years)

Website

MCLC Resource Center (Ohio State)

Journals

Journal Call Number/Access
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
11 (1999)-
Smith College per PL 2303 .M63

Modern Chinese Literature
1:2 (1985:spring)-10 (1998)//

Smith College per PL 2303 .M63
Journal of Contemporary China
1 (1992) - 25 (2000)
Some full-text online in EBSCO Academic Premier

Amherst College DS 701 .J68

EBSCO Academic Premier

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese
1 (1997/1998)-
Browse the table of contents online...

Smith College per PL 2303 .H72

Table of Contents

Scholarly Journals Publishing on Modern Chinese Culture (Ohio State) click here

CITE YOUR SOURCES

For guidance on citing sources correctly visit the Libraries' Style Manuals page. See especially links to MLA (Modern Language Association of America) style.

WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT THIS LIBRARY CLASS?

Let us know your thoughts. Please fill out the brief Feedback Form.

CONTACT THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

Contact Bruce Sajdak, the instructor for your library session: bsajdak@email.smith.edu

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