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MEDI 360: Medieval China

This is a resource guide for the course MEDI 360 Medieval China.

Browsing Books

DS701-799.9: China history

PL1001-1960: Chinese language

PL2250-3208: Chinese literature

JQ1499-1749: Political Science - East Asia

BL1790-1975: Chinese religions

The following bibliographies are also good sources to find books on various topics on Chinese Studies:

Oxford Bibliographies Online : Chinese Studies A multi- and inter-disciplinary enterprise covering the study of China across all disciplines.

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture - Bibliographies The 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.

Early Chinese Texts by Michael Loewe (Editor)
ISBN: 1557290431
Publication Date: 1994-03-01
The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature by William H. Nienhauser (Compiled by, Editor); Charles Hartman (Editor); Scott W. Galer (Editor)
ISBN: 025333456X
Publication Date: 1998-10-22
Chinese literature: overview and bibliography by James L. Claren
ISBN: 1590332881
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century by Pang-Yuan Chi (Editor); David Der-wei Wang (Editor)
ISBN: 0253337100
Publication Date: 2000-09-22
The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature by Joseph S. M. Lau (Editor); Howard Goldblatt (Editor)
Call Number: PL2658 E1C64 2007
ISBN: 9780231138413
Publication Date: 2007-02-20
A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Writers by Yang Li (Editor); Hu Zhihui (Translator)
ISBN: 7800051412
Publication Date: 1994-01-01
Modern Chinese Artists by Michael Sullivan
ISBN: 9780520244498
Publication Date: 2006-04-03
Chinese History by Endymion Porter Wilkinson
ISBN: 0674002474
Publication Date: 2000-05-01
Chinese Drama by Colin Mackerras
ISBN: 7800050963
Publication Date: 1990-01-01

See: Chinese Language Library Resources page

E-Books in Chinese

Chinamaxx Digital Libraries Collection of books published in the People's Republic of China with a concentration in Social Sciences and Humanities. It contains an extensive collection of books published since 1949, as well as rare documents from the Ming and Ching epochs. Subject coverage includes works in all major academic disciplines and material from government archives, manuscripts, statistical and other reference works.

Harvard-Yenching Library Chinese Rare Books
530,000 volume of Chinese rare books in Harvard-Yenching Library were digitized and made open access online.
Si ku quan shu 四库全书
台灣華文電子書庫
This e-book database provides free access to 13,778 volumes online. Among which 12, 178 volumes are publications between 1911 and 1949.

Selected Books

Confluences of Medicine in Medieval Japan by Andrew Edmond Goble
ISBN: 9780824860172
Publication Date: 2011-09-30
The East Asian World-System [electronic resource] : Climate and Dynastic Change by Anderson, Eugene N.
ISBN: 9783030168704
Publication Date: 2019
Historical Dictionary of Medieval China by Victor Cunrui Xiong
ISBN: 9781442276154
Publication Date: 2017-04-06
Journey to the West = Xi you ji (Comic Manga) by edited & illustrated by Tsai Chih Chung ; translated by Alan Chong
ISBN: 997198587X
Publication Date: 1993
Lost Books of Medieval China by Glen Dudbridge
ISBN: 9780712346887
Publication Date: 2000-11-20
Marco Polo Didn't Go There by Rolf Potts
ISBN: 9781932361612
Publication Date: 2008-09-01
Tea in China by James A. Benn
ISBN: 9780824853983
Publication Date: 2015-02-28
The Land of the Five Flavors by Thomas O. Höllmann; Karen Margolis (Translator)
ISBN: 9780231536547
Publication Date: 2013-11-26

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