Guides to Chinese Literature
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A Dictionary of Chinese Literature by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2017From the Shi jing (Classic of Songs) of the eleventh century bc, to the to the wanglu wenxue (Internet literature) of the twenty-first century, this authoritative dictionary covers key terms relative to the study of Chinese literature, from antiquity to the present day. a–z entries on key literary figures, trends, schools, movements, and literary collections are included, as well as detailed descriptions of traditional literary works, plays, dramas, stories, novels, and other main literary texts.
The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000 BCE-900CE) by Location: Mugar Stacks PL2283 .O94 2017Publication Date: 2017This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century CE.
Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2018The 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: 2007This groundbreaking book by the eminent Peking University professor Hong Zicheng covers the literary scene in China during the 1949-1999 period, primarily focusing on fiction, poetry, drama, and prose writing.
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.- Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature: a Reference Guide (2 vols) byLocation: Mugar Stacks PL2265 .A63 2010Publication Date: 2010The first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E.
Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature: Part Two: a Reference Guide by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2013
The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture by Location: Mugar Stacks DS775.2 .C452424 2008 and OnlinePublication Date: 2008At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language.
Finding Articles
- BU Libraries Search This link opens in a new window
BU Libraries Search provides a single place to search for a wide variety of research material provided by the library. Resources covered by the search includes books and eBooks, journals, scores and sheet music, video and audio recordings, and other physical and electronic items held by the library. Coverage encompasses materials relating to the prehistoric and antique world through to the present.
- Literature Online This link opens in a new window
LION includes texts, criticism, and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries on over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th to the 21st century.
- Literature Criticism Online This link opens in a new window
Contains critical and biographical essays on authors currently living or who died after Jan. 1, 2000.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
This database provides full text access to the back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Book reviews are included as well as journal articles. Abstracts are available for some of the articles.
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowProject Muse provides digital access to scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. The scholarly content comes from non-profit scholarly publishers, including university presses and societies. The full text resources include journal articles, book reviews and book chapters.
- Linguistics Collection This link opens in a new window The Linguistics Collection is comprised of index and full-text databases covering all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. The collection includes the Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA), which abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. And Linguistics Database, which includes full-text journals and other sources in linguistics including many titles indexed in LLBA.
Chinese Language 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.
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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
- Database of Journal Articles on Modern Chinese Literature 中国现当代文学研究 主要刊物总目录 检索服务 From the Institute of Oriental Studies, Tokyo University
- ChinaKnowledge.de - An Encyclopaedia on Chinese History, Literature and Art Founded in 2000, this online encyclopaedia provides—in a clearly arranged way—information on a wide range of topics in Chinese history, literature, art, religions, and philosophy. It draws to a great extent upon Chinese-language secondary sources and thus gives access to information rarely found in Western books. This is particularly interesting for those not able or not brave enough to read Chinese. The reader may either use the search function, or browse contents via the navigation tools.
Texts
- Chinese Text Project 中國哲學書電子化計劃The Chinese Text Project is an online open-access digital library that makes pre-modern Chinese texts available to readers and researchers all around the world. The site attempts to make use of the digital medium to explore new ways of interacting with these texts that are not possible in print.
- Classical Chinese LiteratureThis site contains Chinese classics with each character hyperlinked to its definition and etymology. No Chinese software is necessary - characters are displayed as images. Links to English translations are included for most works.
- Text Archives for SinologyArchive of classical and philosophical e-texts encoded in one or more of the following encoding systems: GB, Big5, EUC-JIS, and/or Shift-JIS, along with some links to e-texts at other sites.
- Academia Sinica Scripta Sinica 漢籍電子文獻Full-text database of Zhonghua editions of Standard/Dynastic Histories, Thirteen Classics, and other texts.
- Modern China Studies (Univ. Of Pittsburgh)Text collection from the 1930s-1970s that provide insight into the political, economic, and educational conditions of China, including during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).
- Digital Library of Western Knowledge in Late Imperial China 西 學 東 漸 數 碼 文 庫The Digital Library of Western Knowledge in Late Imperial China is a searchable electronic repository of Chinese texts introducing or discussing European and Japanese science and thought in nineteenth and early twentieth-century China.
Literary Biography
- Contemporary Authors This link opens in a new windowA bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields.
- Gale in Context: Biography This link opens in a new window
Biography In Context offers biographical information about historically significant figures as well as present-day newsmakers. It includes reference content alongside magazine and journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio podcasts, and images.
- Literature Online This link opens in a new window
LION includes texts, criticism, and reference material, including thousands of literary articles, essays, biographies and encyclopedia entries on over 350,000 works of poetry, prose, and drama from the 8th to the 21st century.
- China Biographical Database Project (CBDB)The China Biographical Database is a freely accessible relational database with biographical information about approximately 370,000 individuals as of April 2017, primarily from the 7th through 19th centuries. The core institutions responsible for the database are Harvard University, Academia Sinica, and Peking University.
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Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature by Location: Mugar Reference X PL2303 .Y59 2021Publication Date: 2021This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. It offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature.
The Banished Immortal : a life of Li Bai (Li Po) by Location: Mugar Stacks PL2671 .J554 2019Publication Date: 2019With the instincts of a master novelist, Ha Jin draws on a wide range of historical and literary sources to weave the life story of Li Bai (701-762), whose poems--shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life--rang throughout the Tang Dynasty and continue to be celebrated today.
The Experience of Modernity: chinese autobiography of the early twentieth century by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2003Autobiography of the first half of the twentieth century was used variously by different groups of writers to interrogate, negotiate, and even to program the social and political progress of China. However, despite the popularity and success of this genre, it has also been the most forgotten in literary and historical discussions.
Wandering Between Two Worlds: the formative years of Cao Xueqin, 1715-1745 by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2014Wandering Between Two Worlds: The Formative Years of Cao Xueqin 1715-1745 is a biographical account of the first 30 years of the life of the eighteenth-century Chinese novelist who wrote Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber).
Women's Poetry and Poetics in Late Imperial China by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2017This literary study examines women-authored poetry and poetic criticism in late imperial China. It provides close readings of original texts to explore the poetic forms and devices women poets employed, to place their work into the context of the wider literary history of the period, and to analyze how they asserted their own agency to negotiate their literary, social, and political concerns.
Fiction’s Family: Zhan Xi, Zhan Kai, and the Business of Women in Late-Qing China by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2016"Explores the writings of one western Zhejiang literary family whose works were emblematic of shifting attitudes towards women. Placing this family at the center of this study, the author illuminates the bridge between the late Qing and the previous period, the interplay of genres during the family's lifetimes, and the interaction of Shanghai publishing with other regions"
Inner Quarters and Beyond by Location: Mugar Stacks PL2278 .I66 2010 and OnlinePublication Date: 2010Drawing on a library of newly digitized resources, this volume's eleven chapters describe, analyze, and theorize the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) that have only recently been rediscovered.
Bibliographies
Bibliographies in English:
- Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
An index to works, primarily in the humanities and the social sciences, pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia. Covers articles, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, Festschriften, and books.
- MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Includes citations from worldwide publications: periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies.
- Modern Chinese Literature and Culture | Bibliographies - LiteratureThe MCLC Resource Center bibliographies consist of mostly English-language materials on modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film and media studies, visual arts, music, education, and related online resources.
Scholarly Review of Chinese Studies in North America 北美中国研究综述 by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2013
Bibliographies in Chinese:
- 兩漢諸子研究論著目錄資料庫This is the online resource of the Center for Chinese Studies, National Library of China. It is the e-bibliography of studies of the masters of philosophy in Han Dynasty. It covers publications from year 1912 to 2001.
- Classical Historiography for Chinese History 中國經典文獻工具書錄"This bibliography pulls together materials that Benjamin Elman (Princeton University) has been compiling for the past ten years with the help of graduate students. Its intended audience is anyone interested in doing research in Chinese history (broadly defined) but with a focus on the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing dynasty (1644-1911)."
- Song Research ToolsSong Research Tools is a guide to bibliographies, indexes, dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases and chronologies of use to those interested in all aspects of Chinese society during the Song Dynasty (960-1279).
- Modern Chinese Drama DatabaseBibliography of modern Chinese dramas and index of research articles from the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library.
