Hist 220: Late Imperial China

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The Reference Room

Bibliographic Guide to East Asian Studies
Ref DS503 .B52 1990-2003
This annual series includes all publication formats for materials published in any East Asian country or about any East Asian country. Not annotated.

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: the Qing period 1644-1911
Ref HQ1767.5 .A3 B56 1998 vol.1
Biographical entries about notable women; includes references.

Cambridge Encyclopedia of China
Ref DS705 .C35 1991
Entries cover most aspects of Chinese history in sequential order with other sections on the people, art, science, and the land; includes brief bibliographies and maps throughout.

China
Ref DS735 .H39 1997
Annotated entries for works dealing with the history, geography, economy, and politics and with the people, their culture, customs, religions, and social organizations.

China: a historical and cultural dictionary
Ref DS733 .C58523 1998
A broad overview with entries by experts and with references.

China Bibliography: a research guide to reference works about China past and present
Ref DS706 .Z87 1995
Selectively annotated bibliography, description of Chinese periodicals, historical essay, and Chinese library classification scheme.

Chinese History: a manual
Ref DS735 .W695 2000
A handbook of bibliographical references covering many primary sources from the Qing period (1644-1912) with extensive annotations.

Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History
Ref DS755 .S635 2000
Historical narratives for the periods 1780 to the 1990s with references; see particularly "The decline of the traditional state 1780-1901."

Cultural Atlas of China
Ref DS721 .B56 1998
Essays on the various periods and aspects of Chinese life with maps, tables, and a chronology.

Dictionary of Ming biography, 1368-1644
Ref DS753.5 .A84 1976 (2 vols.)
Longer biographies of Ming figures; includes an index, maps, and a chronology of emperors.

East Asia and the United States: an encyclopedia of relations since 1784
Ref DS518.8 .E22 2002 (2 vols.)
Essays on all topics and participants related to foreign relations with references and a chronology.

Eminent Chinese of the Ching Period (1644-1912)
Ref DS734 .U65 (2 vols.)
Biographical sketches of officials and others from the last three centuries.

Facts About China
Ref DS706 .F25 2003
Introductory essays about the study of China and how to go about it, followed by entries on many aspects of Chinese history with bibliographies and an extensive chronology.

Grove Dictionary of Art Online
An excellent extensive dictionary of world art, originally published in hard copy as Dictionary of Art (Ref N31 .D5 1996 10 vols.) but now available electronically.  Images are available for most entries along with short bibliographies. 

Modern China: an encyclopedia of history, culture, and nationalism
Ref JC311 .M54 1998
Brief entries cover 19th and 20th centuries with bibliographical references.

Notable women of china:  Shang dynasty to the early Twentieth Century
Ref HQ1767.5 .A3 N68 2000
Biographical entries with introductory sketches setting the historical context; includes bibliographical references.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Ref DA28 .O95 2004 (65 vols.)
Current resource for biographies and images of noted British citizens. Online version allows searching of the text, the earlier edition, and many images.

The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900
Ref PN5118 .H68 1966 (5 vols.)
This resource indexes mostly British periodicals from the Victorian era.

Women in China:  a selected and annotated bibliography
Ref HQ1767 .W44 1984
Divided into subject categories with brief annotations.


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