Background Information
Chinese History by Call Number: Jones Reference DS735.W695 2000ISBN: 0674002474Publication Date: 2000-05-01Important reference book for historians of all time periods of China.
Other editions are also available at the same call number in the Moody General Collection.
Since publication of the first edition in 1998, this book has become a guide to researching the history of China. Updated through the end of 1999, the second edition discusses some 4,200 primary, secondary, and reference works, an increase of 1,300 titles over the first edition. The temporal coverage has been expanded to include the Republican period; sections on non-verbal salutations, weights and measures, money, and furniture have been added; the chapters on language, etymology; people, geography; chronology; warfare, leisbu, food, and the Chinese world order have been thoroughly revised; and the subject index has been enlarged to include 1,500 technical terms.
- Chinese studies - Oxford bibliographies This link opens in a new window
Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on Chinese culture history, and society. Very useful for introductions to the scholarship of a field and key critical works.
- Oxford dictionaries This link opens in a new windowSearches comprehensive bilingual dictionaries for Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish. Includes audio pronunciations, a subscription word-of-the-day feature, contextual grammar and usage notes, verb tables and cultural notes, and a variety of quizzes, lesson plans, and worksheets. The dictionaries can be searched using a pop-up virtual keyboard for Cyrillic or accented characters or using the Radical and Character Index to find and enter Chinese characters. Oxford University Press.
- Pinyin to Wade-Giles Conversion TableThere are multiple systems of romanization. This table helps with conversion between Pinyin and Wade-Giles.
