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About this Guide
This Research Guide will help you find Chinese language and literature resources available thru the BU Libraries. Here you will find information on:
- Language resources - dictionaries and grammar books
- Background information - guides, encyclopedias, biographies
- Open Access resources including websites and
digital collections - Chinese related programs at Boston University
Featured Resources
- China Online Journals This link opens in a new window
China Online Journals (COJ) features core journals in arts, humanities, education, business, economics, finance, law, politics, government and the social sciences, as well as a unique broad collection of Chinese university journals.
- Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers This link opens in a new window
The collection includes the press of more than twenty cities, spanning the Chinese mainland and the entire half century. The collection provides researchers a perspective on Chinese life, culture, and politics throughout the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the years of provisional government and civil war, and the birth of the People’s Republic.
- Airiti Library This link opens in a new window
The Chinese Electronic Periodical Service (CEPS) 中文電子期刊資料庫暨平台服務 provides full-text access to more than 3,000 Chinese language journals from around the world. Airiti Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertation Service (CETD, or 華藝中文碩博士論文資料庫) offers full-text theses and dissertations from nearly 60 of Taiwan’s most important academic and research institutions.
Available on-campus only.
- National Social Sciences Database (China)Open access database of government-funded Chinese core academic journals in the social sciences
The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature by Location: Available at Mugar Reference X PL493 .C55 2003 and OnlinePublication Date: 2003This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language. With more than one hundred articles that show how a host of authors and literary movements have contributed to the general literary development of their respective countries, this companion is an essential starting point for the study of East Asian literatures.
Sources of Chinese Tradition, 2nd edition by Location: Mugar Stacks ; DS721 .D37 1999Publication Date: 1999A collection of seminal primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China. A completely revised and expanded edition of this classic sourcebook, compiled by noted China scholars Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom.
Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2018-09-03The Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature presents a comprehensive overview of Chinese literature from the 1910s to the present day.
A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature by Location: Mugar Stacks PL2303 .Z566613 2007 and OnlinePublication Date: 2007"A thorough overview and analysis of the literary scene in China during the 1949-1999 period, focusing primarily on fiction, poetry, drama, and prose writing"--Provided by publisher.
The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2016The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895-1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the effects of censorship, the representation of the Chinese diaspora, the rise and meaning of Sinophone literature, and the role of different media in the development of literature.
