Check out the Course Reserves.

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 Broader Context:

Chinese literature

Chinese fiction

 

The Literary Writers:

"Can Xue"

"Wang Anyi"

"Han Shaogong"

"Pa Chin" or "Ba Jin"

"Zhang Jie" and (fiction* or novel* or stories)

(To distiguish "Zhang Jie", the literary writer to any other namesake.)

 

Tip: fiction* searches for fiction, fictions, fictional, etc.

Lu, Xun, 1881-1936 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Literary Anthologies:

Introductory texts in anthologies provide overviews and surveys of an author and his/her works, a literary era, literary style, and so on so forth. The explanatory footnotes enhance an understanding of the works in terms of contemporary culture and literary traditions in which the authors lived and wrote. Hence, the historical significance of the works.

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature.
Joseph S.M. Lau and Howard Goldblatt, editors.
PL2658.E1 C64 2007

 

****Use WorldCat to find these anthologies in Tisch (limit your search to Tufts), because our local catalog does not always include table of contents, so it is not possible to tell if your writers are included:

"can xue" and "chinese literature"

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.

 

Title	Writing Women in Modern China: the Revolutionary Years, 1936-1976./ edited by Amy D. Dooling.
Publisher	New York: Columbia University Press, c2005.
Subject	Chinese literature -- Women authors.
	Chinese literature -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
	Women and literature -- China.
Added Author	Dooling, Amy D.

A Few Findings at Tisch

The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937.
Shu-mei Shih.
PL2303 .S57 2001

Modern Chinese Literature in the May Fourth Era.
edited by Merle Goldman; sponsored by the Social Science Research Council.
Bookstacks: PL2253 .M6

From May Fourth to June Fourth: Fiction and Film in Twentieth-Century China.
edited by Ellen Widmer, David Der-wei Wang.
Ginn: PL2302 .F76 1993

The Chinese Postmodern: Trauma and Irony in Chinese Avant-Garde Fiction.
Xiaobin Yang
PN98.P67 Y35 2002

Chairman Mao Would not be Amused: Fiction from Today's China.
edited by Howard Goldblatt.
PL2658.E8 C43 1995

Writing Women in Modern China: an Anthology of women's Literature from the Early Twentieth Century
Amy D Dooling; Kristina M Torgeson.
PL2515 .W75 1998

The Red Brush: Writing Women of Imperial China.
W L Idema; Beata Grant
PL2278 .I344 2004

Modern Chinese Women Writers: Critical Appraisals
Michael S Duke.
PL2278 .M64 1989

Misogyny, Cultural Nihilism & Oppositional Politics: Contemporary Chinese Experimental Fiction.
Tonglin Lu.
PL2443 .L8 1995

The Subject in Crisis in Contemporary Chinese Literature.
Cai, Rong.
PL2262 .C25 2004

Chinese Modernism in the Era of Reforms: Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fiction, and the New Chinese Cinema.
Xudong Zhang.
PL2303 .C39 1997

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. 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:

Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948. (review). Journal of Asian Studies, 67:2 2008, pp 701-703.

Woman, War, Domesticity: Shanghai Literature and Popular Culture of the 1940s (review). China Review International, Spring 2006, pp144-148.

 

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:

Jankowiak, William. "Chinese Women, Gender, and Sexuality: A Critical Review of Recent Studies." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars  31: 1 (1999), 31-37.
References: 29 Times Cited: 2

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 29 references that Jankowiak cited for his article and, in turn, 2 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)

 

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)

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

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)