Check out the Course Reserves.

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)

A. on particular themes:

The Rural and Urban Themes in Chinese Cinema

Advanced Keyword search; limiting to only books.

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

Sample findings:

Painting the City Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract. PN1993.5.C4 B73 2010

Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China. HT147.C48 V57 2010

The urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. PN1993.5.C4 U73 2007

The City in Modern Chinese Literature & Film: Configurations of space, Time, and Gender. PL2303 .Z43 1996

Cinematic Countrysides.  PN1995.9.C58 C56 2007

B. place the themes in the larger context -- Chinese Cinema

Motion pictures -- China

The Chinese Cinema Book. PN1993.5.C4 C4422 2011

Chinese Films in Focus II. PN1993.5.C4 C4624 2008

China on Screen: Cinema and Nation. PN1993.5.C4 B44 2006

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

Writing About Film (Dartmouth Writing Program)

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. Film & Television and Mass Media

Limit Your Results

Peer Reviewed

 

 

5. Bibliography of Asian Studies

 

6. 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)

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)

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