Check out the Course Reserves.

Routledge Curzon Encyclopedia of Confucianism.
edited by Xinzhong Yao.
Ref. BL1840 .R68 2003

Confucius & Confucianism: the Essentials.
Lee Dian Rainey.
B128.C8 R35 2010

An Introduction to Confucianism.
Xinzhong Yao.
BL1852 .Y36 2000

China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society.
Daniel A. Bell.
JQ1510 .B45 2008

Modernization, Globalization, and Confucianism in Chinese Societies.
Joseph B. Tamney and Linda Hsueh-Ling Chiang.
BL1852 .T35 2002

 

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

 

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)

The Broad Context:

Confucianism -- China

Related 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	Rainey, Lee Dian.
Title	Confucius & Confucianism: the Essentials .
Publisher	Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Subject	Confucius.
	Confucianism.
	Philosophy, Confucian.

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)

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. Bibliography of Asian Studies

 

6. History, Religion, Women's Studies, Film/Television and Mass Media

Limit Your Results

Peer Reviewed

 

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

B. Current Scholarship on a Topic

Reviews of recent books and other types of review articles in major journals in a discipline are likely to summarize the current state of research in an area.

Two examples:

Confusion, Elision, and Erasure: Feminism, Religion, and Chinese Confucian Traditions (review). Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Spring 2010, pp. 143-160

Confucianism and Women: A Philosophical Interpretation (review). China Review International, 16 (3) 2009, pp. 371-374.

 

A Few Notable Journals:

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

The China Quarterly

China Review International

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

Modern China

Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique

C. More Articles like this "perfect" one

How:

Search, in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, for the article you have read.

For example:

Rozman, Gilbert. "Can Confucianism Survive in an Age of Universalism and Globalization?"Pacific Affairs  75: 1 (2002), 780-803.
References: 66 Times Cited: 4

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 66 references that Rozman cited for his article and, in turn, 4 articles that cited his. The assumption is that these articles address related issues.

 

Note:

1. Not every single article is cited;
2. Influential authors are cited more often;
3. More recent publications take time to be cited.

D. 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.

E. 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)