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EAL237: Chinese Poetry & the Other Arts
Spring 2006 - S. Wu
reference contact: Bruce Sajdak x2967 and Barbara Polowy x2941

Art | Poems | Poets | Articles | Cite Sources

HOW TO FIND IMAGES OF CHINESE ART

  • Look for books of and about Chinese art on reserve for your class in the Neilson Library
  • Look for collections of images reserved for your class using Luna Insight
  • Look for books in the 4-College Library Catalog under SUBJECT TERMS such as:

    Painting Chinese
    Calligraphy Chinese
    Ink Painting Chinese
    Landscape Painting Chinese
    NAMES OF PAINTERS such as Mi Fu; Wang Wei; or Gu Kaizhi

  • Browse in the Hillyer Art Library for books under these call numbers:
    Chinese Painting ND 1040-49
          Before 1800 ND 1043
          Pre-T'ang ND 1043.2
          T'ang ND 1043.3
          Sung-Yuan ND 1043.4
          Ming thru Ch'ing ND 1043.5
          19th Century ND 1044
          20th Century ND 1045
          By Artist, A-Z ND 1049
    Chinese Ink Painting ND 2068
  • Search websites for Chinese Art:

    A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization

    Landscape Painting in Chinese Art

HOW TO FIND TRANSLATIONS OF CHINESE POEMS

HOW TO FIND OUT ABOUT A CHINESE POET

Quick Starting Places

Reference Source Reference Call Number
Indiana Companion to Traaditional Chinese Literature ref PL 2264 .I53 1986

The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century

ref PL 2303 .M43 1997
A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Writers ref PL 2277 .B56 1994
MCLC Resource Center (Ohio State) -
Click on Literature, then on Author Studies
click here

No luck? Try look for books in the online catalog under the SUBJECT Chinese poetry history and criticism OR Chinese poetry 20th century (or other period) history and criticism. Remember that you can limit your search to books in English.

GOING FURTHER - FINDING SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

MLA Bibliography 1963+

Bibliography of Asian Studies 1971+

JSTOR - back files excluding the most recent 2-5 years

CITING SOURCES

To get help with using MLA Style visit the Smith College Libraries' Style Manuals & Citation Guides page.

CONTACT THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN

Contact Bruce Sajdak, the instructor for your library session: bsajdak@email.smith.edu, Barbara Polowy, Art Librarian: bpolowy@library.umass.edu or
Sharon Domier, East Asian Language Studies Librarian: sdomier@library.umass.edu.

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