Selected library resources. *

Tip for searching: Chinese words are Romanized using two different systems predominantly: Hanyu Pinyin (especially since 1990) and Wade-Giles (especially before 1990). Always search for both spellings of Chinese proper nouns: Qing and Ch’ing, Bada Shanren and Pa-ta-shan-jen, etc. (Use the conversion sheet handed out in class, or ask me for help.)

Tip for searching: Chinese words are Romanized using two different systems predominantly: Hanyu Pinyin (especially since 1990) and Wade-Giles (especially before 1990). Always search for both spellings of Chinese proper nouns: Qing and Ch’ing, Bada Shanren and Pa-ta-shan-jen, etc. (Use the conversion sheet handed out in class, or ask me for help.)

Note: campus-wide access to the Library’s catalog and electronic resources is through the Library home page (http://library.hws.edu/home/).

Reference works:

Cambridge encyclopedia of China / editor, Brian Hook; consultant editor, Denis Twitchett. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, c1991.  
(REF DS705 .C35 1991)

Companion encyclopedia of Asian philosophy / by Brian Carr and Indira Mahalingam.
Routledge, c1997. (http://search.credoreference.com/content/title/routasianp?tab=overview)

Companion to Chinese history / Hugh B. O’Neill. New York, N.Y.: Facts on File, c1987.
(REF DS705 .063 1987)

Comprehensive illustrated catalog of Chinese paintings/ compiled by Kei Suzuki. [Tokyo] University of Tokyo Press, c1982.   (REF ND1042 .C65)

Dictionary of art / editor, Jane Turner. New York: Grove’s Dictionaries, 1996-.(REF N31 .D5 1996)

Dictionary of Chinese and Japanese art / Hugo Munsterberg. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1981.
(REF N7340 .M78 1981)

Encyclopedia of Asian history / prepared under the auspices of the Asia Society; Ainslie T. Embree, editor in chief; executive editor, Robin J. Lewis; editors, Richard W. Bulliet [et al.]. New York, NY: Scribner; London: Collier Macmillan, c1988.    (REF DS31 .E53 1988)

Encyclopedia of Buddhism / Robert E. Buswell, Jr., editor in chief. New York : Macmillan Reference, USA, c2004. (REF BQ128 .E62 2004)

Encyclopedia of religion / [editor in chief, Mircea Eliade ; editors, Charles J. Adams... et al.]. New York, N.Y. : Macmillan, c1987.  (REF BL31 .E46 1987 Copy 1)

Encyclopedia of vernacular architecture of the world / edited by Paul Oliver. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.   (REF NA208 .E53 1997’ Copy 1)

An index-dictionary of Chinese artists, collectors, and connoisseurs with character identification by modified stroke count / by Nancy N. Seymour. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1988. (REF N7348 .S48 1988)

Index of early Chinese painters and paintings : T’ang, Sung, and Yüan / by James Cahill, incorporating the work of Osvald Sirén and Ellen Johnston Laing. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1980.            
(REF ND 1043.3 .C3)

Oriental art: a handbook of styles and forms / by Jeannine Auboyer ... [et al.] ; translated by Elizabeth and Richard Bartlett; [ill, by Odette Mukherjee, Muriel Thiriet; Mane-Claude Lepeyre, maps]. New York : Rizzoli, 1980. (REF N7260 .G67 131980)

Research guides:

The library’s research guides have links for article databases, reference tools, books, digital collections, images, video, and other useful sources. The Asian Studies Research Guide (http://library.hws.edu/asian_studies) and the Art Research Guide (http://library.hws.edu/art) should be particularly useful for this project.

Interlibrary Loan:

You can place Interlibrary Loan requests for any books or articles not held by our Library. The time required to receive materials through Interlibrary Loan is usually a week to ten days. You can access this directly from the WorldCat database or under Service on the Library’s home page.

Databases for locating books:

Locate books through WorldCat – this library database lists books held in library collections throughout the world, and the results pages indicate which books can be found in the HWS Library. Either the question mark ? or asterisk * wildcards seem to work; you can limit by type of material (books, articles, etc.) and by language.

Don’t forget to check the books on reserve for this class.

Databases for locating journal articles:

JSTOR provides the full text of journal articles, from the first issue of the journal through issues dating from three to five years ago (no current articles). Select “Advanced Search,” enter your search terms (wildcard is an asterisk *), and limit your search to articles, reviews (in order to find citations to books that might be useful) or books. I recommend also limiting to whichever disciplines apply to your topic: for example, Architecture & Architectural History, Art & Art History, Asian Studies, Feminist & Women’s Studies, Language & Literature, Philosophy, and Religion.

The Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) provides citations for western- and Asian-language books, articles, and book chapters, published since 1971, on all parts of Asia. Click on “Advanced” for the advanced search. Enter your search terms (wildcard is an asterisk *). You can collect a selection of citations in a folder and then print, e-mail, or save the list. You can use the “Find Full Text” link for each citation in order to track down copies of the sources.

Art Index with Full Text provides citations to articles in all areas of art and architecture, 1984 to present, from over 370 journals in English and other languages (Art Index Retrospective covers the same material up to 1984), and also provides full text of certain articles beginning in 1997. The wildcard for searches is an asterisk *. Note that these database only indexes books on art history and articles in journals devoted to art history, not relevant art history articles published in, for example, journals devoted to Asian Studies.

Oxford Art Online “is an excellent resource for art research. Most notably, it contains the full text of the Grove Dictionary of Art, with over 45,000 articles on topics in Western and non-Western art, more than 5000 searchable art images, and over 40,000 links to images at museums around the world. Oxford Art Online also includes access to the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.”

Project Muse provides the full text of journal articles from the most current issue back through the 1990s. Though it covers fewer journals than JSTOR, they are sometimes different journals and certainly they are the most recent issues of these journals, and this database also provides PDFs. The wildcard for searches is an asterisk *.