Check out the Course Reserves.

Mainstream Culture Refocused: Television Drama, Society, and the Production of Meaning in Reform-era China.
Zhong Xueping.
Bookstacks: PL2368.T44 Z46 2010

 

China's New Cultural Scene: a Handbook of Changes.
Claire Huot.
DS779.23 .H8613 2000

 

Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture.
edited by Edward L. Davis.
DS779.23 .E53 2005

 

China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know.
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom.
Bookstacks: DS779.4 .W376 2010

 

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture
edited by Kam Louie
Bookstacks: DS775.2 .C452424 2008

 

The Search for Modern China: a Documentary Collection
edited by Pei-kai Cheng and Michael Lestz with Jonathan D. Spence.
Bookstacks: DS753.86 .S33 1999

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)

B. Searches & Results

(note the search pattern; modify to your own needs)

Topics:

Mass media -- China.

Popular culture -- China.

Postmodernism -- China.

 

Topic: The broad search on modernity and Chinese films

(advanced keyword search, limiting to books)

 

Any Field: And Any Field: And Any Field: And
Material Type:	All Books/Journals

 

Tips: 1. Or and ( ) to search any or all of the words; 2. modern* searches for modern, modernity, etc.

Path of Discovery in the Catalog

1. Find a title/author (assigned readings/Course Reserves);

2. Note the descriptive language of the Catalog record.

3. Use that language in further searches

 

e.g. Click on subject/author in the record to see further results and related topics.

 

Author	Tang, Xiaobing, 1964-
Title	Chinese Modern: the Heroic and the Quotidian.
Publisher	Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2000.
Subject	Popular culture -- China.
	Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Postmodernism -- China.

A Few Sample Findings at Tisch

China, Transnational Visuality, Global Postmodernity.
Sheldon H. Lu.
DS779.23 .L82 2001

Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture.
Sheldon H. Lu.
B831.2 .L82 2007

Globalization and Cultural Trends in China.
Liu Kang.
DS775.2 .L564 2004

Popular China: Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society.
edited by Perry Link, Richard P. Madsen, and Paul G. Pickowicz.
DS727 .P67 2002

Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon.
edited by Carlos Rojas and Eileen Cheng-yin Chow.
PL2303 .R45 2009

Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century.
Xudong Zhang.
Ginn: JQ1516 .Z437 2008

Historical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China.
Lawrence R. Sullivan.
Ref. DS777.55 .S835 2007

A. Use the subject databases to find journal articles.

1 & 2. JSTOR and Project Muse

JSTOR is a favorite with its full texts in core journals of all disciplines. Project Muse does not include exactly the same JSTOR journals, but it has more recent and current articles on many topics.

 

Expand your search into more databases and from various perspectives

3. Academic OneFile
All subjects; a convenient Quick Start. Here are some sample findings:

4. Literature (MLA)

 

5. Film/Television, Mass Media and Women's Studies

Limit Your Results

Peer Reviewed

 

6. Bibliography of Asian Studies

7. When use GoogleScholar, set your Library Links to access Tufts full texts.

B. Finding Full Texts

1. Click on the button in your search results screen to a window of three sequential options:

a. link to the digital full text when available;

b. link to a Library Catalog search for the print journal;

c. link to ILliad for requesting the article when the above two options are negative.

2. Search for a journal directly here:

a. Tufts Library Catalog (including e-journals)

b. Electronic journals list

c. Use ILliad to request your article, if Tufts does not have your journal.

C. Request Articles/Books

Set up for your ILliad account

Use ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan Service, to request articles, books and other materials that are not available at Tufts.

A. Current:

Book, Movie, Music, Play, And Video Reviews (in LexisNexis)

Factiva (more international coverage)

B. Historical

Times Digital Archive  (1785 - 1985)

New York Times Online Archive
(1851 - 3 years before current date)

Art Index Retrospective   (1929- 1982)

 

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)

British Humanities Index (1962- )
British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)

Movie Reviews vs Film Criticism (Timothy J. Corrigan.)

Writing About Film (Dartmouth Writing Program)

A Short Guide to Writing about Literature by Sylvan Barnet. Ref: PE1479.C7 B3

Writing about Literature (handout from Writing Center at UNC.)

 

MLA Style (for citing sources)