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Finding Books
CBBcat Subject Headings
Click on these links to find similar items. CBBcat uses Library of Congress Subject Headings. Unfortunately, these headings sometimes use outdated terminology, but once identified they can often provide much more precise search results than using keywords. Examples of LOC Subject Headings:
- China -- History.
- Song Dynasty (China)
- China -- Relations -- East Asia -- History.
- China History -- Han Dynasty
- Chinese language -- Social aspects
- China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
- Art, Chinese
- Buddhist literature, Chinese -- History and Criticism
- Taoist literature, Chinese -- History and Criticism
- Chinese fiction -- History and Criticism
A few primary sources:
Backhouse, Edmund, Sir, Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking (16th to 20th c )
Records of the Grand Historian
Painting and Calligraphy
Bodhisttva Guanyin of the Water Moon Horse and Groom, after Li Gonglin Wind and Snow in the Fir Pines
Song and Yuan Dynasty Painting and Calligraphy - Freer and Sackler Galleries | The Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art
Research Project
Research
Read your initial text attentively, considering what information would put the writing in context and give you a fuller understanding of it.
Think about what sorts of publications the information you need might be published in
Look up background information in the reference materials, e.g., Credo Reference, encyclopedias, atlases and histories, etc.
Use terminology and facts learned from background sources to search for articles in periodical databases.
Search for books in any of Colby's catalogs, expanding your search with subject linking
Leverage the power of the index to navigate within books (Remember to check various translations and Romanizations of Chinese names and titles - Qing / Ching, Pao yu / Bao yu, Cao / Tsao, Li Po / Li Bai, Hsi-feng / Xifeng, etc.)
Use the bibliography in every useful source you find to lead you to more
Databases
- Credo - hundreds of encyclopedias, for factual reference and broad background
- Bibliography of Asian Studies - from 1971 to the present; likely to be useful for any research related to contemporary topics in East Asian Studies.
- ArtStor
- Historical Abstracts
- JSTOR
- ATLA Religion
- China Academic Journals
Annotated Bibliography
The annotated bibliography should give the reader a solid understanding of the sources you have used and how they will be incorporated into your presentation. As a supplement to your own instructions, see also:
Cornell's Guide to Annotated Bibliographies
Presentation
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