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Week 3: Guides, Handbooks, and Overviews

  • Chinese History: A New Manual. 2022. By Endymion Wilkinson. 6th ed. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Asia Center. A comprehensive guide for the study of Chinese history. (submitted by Leo K. Shin).
  • Classical Historiography for Chinese History. By Benjamin A. Elman. Updated periodically. Extensive lists of research tools and links to printed and electronic resources for classical Chinese studies. (submitted by Leo K. Shin)
  • chinaknowledge.de. By Ulrich Theobald, University of Tübingen. Updated frequently. An online encyclopedia for classical Chinese studies. Eclectic but much useful information. (submitted by Leo K. Shin)
  • 诗词格律shici gelv. 1997. By Wang Li. Beijing: 中华书局. A basic introduction and guide to the rules of meter and rhyme of classical Chinese poetry written by Wang Li. (submitted by Xinyuan Liu).
  • Allhistory. By Beijing Perfect Knowledge Technology Co., Ltd. Updated frequently. It is a historical chronology app of not only Chinese but the world history. Some lacks of academic rigor but very intuitive. (submitted by Xinyuan Liu).
  • Research and Bibliographic Resources in Vietnamese Studies, 1950-2006. 2007. By Tenepalli Hari. New Delhi: Metro Publishers. Most updated English language resource guide to publications in Vietnamese studies. Encompasses both humanities and social sciences literature on premodern and modern Vietnam (with a focus on contemporary area studies literature), but also contains a dedicated section on Vietnamese history. (submitted by Quinton Huang, with thanks to Jerry Yang for pulling the title)
  • Researching Indochina: Research Guide. University of Washington Libraries. The most comprehensive online resource guide to the study of the history of French Indochina (which is reproduced on the Vietnam Studies Group website). The listings also contain valuable databases and archival guides for the study of early modern Vietnam, with an emphasis on the Nguyễn (阮) dynasty (1802-1883). (submitted by Quinton Huang)
  • A History of the Vietnamese. 2013. By Keith Taylor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The most recent and comprehensive textbook on Vietnamese history with a particular emphasis on precolonial history, by perhaps the founding historian of premodern Vietnamese history in North America. The bibliographic essays at the end of the book are the most valuable for beginning researchers, though many of the books mentioned are in French. (submitted by Quinton Huang)
  • Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past. 2002. By Patricia Pelley. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. A survey narrative of Vietnamese historical writing since 1945, this study is invaluable for its detailed discussion of Vietnamese historical scholarship (with a focus on premodern historical scholarship) and trends in both the North and South prior to 1975, and in the unified country post-1975. (submitted by Quinton Huang)
  • Critical Readings on the Modern History of Hong Kong. 4 volumes. 2015. Edited by Chi-kwan Mark and John Carroll. Brill: Leiden. This four-volume set collates the most important English-language articles and book chapters on the modern history of Hong Kong (post-1841) since the late 20th century. (submitted by Quinton Huang)
  • 香港史新編. Revised edition. 2017. Edited by Wang Gungwu (王賡武). Hong Kong: Joint Publishing (三聯). Originally published in 1997 during the Hong Kong Handover, this edited volume covers many aspects of Hong Kong's precolonial and colonial history in succinct, punchy essays. The revised 2017 edition's most invaluable section is the bibliography of historical scholarship on Hong Kong from 1997-2017, covering titles in both English and Chinese. (submitted by Quinton Huang).
  • Annotated Bibliography: Hong Kong History Project. By Vaudine England. 2015-2022. University of Bristol Hong Kong History Project (former). This online guide (now since archived) was a project by journalist and historian Vaudine England at the former Hong Kong History Project at the University of Bristol, now the Hong Kong History Centre. Though the annotated bibliography is far from comprehensive (England's focus was on multiracial prewar Hong Kong, and does not consult the Chinese-language literature), the guide's colourful summaries of important English-language works on prewar Hong Kong and its listing of many older yet still useful library materials still makes this an important resource. (submitted by Quinton Huang).
  • Hong Kong Studies: Research Guide. Chinese University of Hong Kong Libraries. The CUHK Library's research guide for Hong Kong studies is perhaps the most comprehensive out of all the guides produced by Hong Kong-based and other relevant library institutions. (submitted by Quinton Huang).
  • The Administrative History of the Hong Kong Government Agencies, 1841-2002. 2004. Ho Pui-yin. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. This provides a useful timeline and genealogy of various branches of the Hong Kong colonial government and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. It provides an annal-like listing of key events and reforms for each present-day government department, and also provides a table of all the directors for each department or office. It includes a searchable CD-ROM version of the handbook. This is a critical resource for those working with the Hong Kong government archives at the Public Records Office, as many file titles miss important context that can only be provided by matching the file's code with the corresponding government agency. (submitted by Quinton Huang.)
  • State and Economy in Republican China: A Handbook for Scholars. 2 volumes. 2001. Edited by William C. Kirby et al. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center. This two-volume handbook and primary source anthology focuses on the documentary genres used by the Republican state (1911-1949) and businesspeople. Its main value is to provide aid and practice exercises for scholars working on Republican archival materials and correspondence, which often combines late imperial Chinese rhetoric with modern vocabulary. This handbook is also particularly useful to those working on twentieth-century Hong Kong and Taiwan, as Chinese-language archival documents in these places tended to follow these conventions long after the 1949 collapse of the Republican regime in mainland China. (For Kirby's seminal argument on this for postwar Taiwan, see doi.org/10.2307/2158891; we await a similar publication for postwar Hong Kong.) (submitted by Quinton Huang)
  • Song Liao Xi Xia Jin she hui sheng huo shi 宋辽西夏金社会生活史. New ed. 2005 (1998). By Zhu Ruixi 朱瑞熙 et al. Shehui kexue. English edition: A social history of Middle-Period China: The Song, Liao, Western Xia and Jin dynasties. CUP, 2016. Not a guide to secondary sources, but contains much fascinating materials (with references indicated) on food and drink, travel, birth and death, women and marriage, religion and ghosts, festivals, music and dance, education, medicine, and much else besides. (submitted by Jingxian Jin)
  • Chinese Art and Dynastic Time, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. By Wu, Hung 巫鸿. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691231402. A sweeping look at Chinese art across the millennia that upends traditional perspectives and offers new pathways for art history. (submitted by Jingxian Jin)
  • Xuanhe huapu 宣和畫譜 "Notes on paintings from the Xuanhe reign." 1120. By unknown author. English edition: McNair, Amy. Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings. Cornell University Press, 2019. A treatise on the critique of paintings written during the Xuanhe reign-period (1119－1125) of Emperor Huizong 宋徽宗 (r. 1100-1125) of the Song dynasty 宋 (960-1279). (submitted by Jingxian Jin)
  • Boittout, Joachim. The Forgotten 1910s 尋找辛亥文風. (A blog on “literature and democracy in early Republican China 民國初年言情文學與民主建設”). (submitted by Brandon Fung)
  • Cai, Yuanpei. “The May Fourth Spirit, Now and Then.” China Heritage Quarterly 17 (March 2009). (submitted by Brandon Fung)
  • 蒙元史研究导论. 2012. By Chen Dezhi 陈得芝. Nanjing: 南京大学出版社. A guide to primary sources and scholarship on the Mongol empire. Due to the geographical vastness of the Mongol empire, it introduces primary sources written in diverse languages, such as the Sinitic script, Mongolian, Tibetan, Persian, Arabic, and European. It also offers an overview of previous scholarship from the Ming and Qing periods up to the time of its publication (2012) in Chinese and non-Chinese languages. (submitted by King Kwong Wong)
  • 元史研究. 2006. By Liu Xiao 刘晓. Fuzhou: 福建人民出版社. A guide to the research and scholarship on Yuan China. It introduces scholarship since the start of the twentieth century according to different topics and themes, such as political, institutional, economic, social, cultural history, ethnicity and borderland, and foreign relations. It also includes a chapter on references, research tools, and non-Sinitic primary sources. Complementary with Chen Dezhi's 2012 guide for its topical approach and focus on Yuan China, as well as its availability on Duxiu. (submitted by King Kwong Wong)
  • A Scholarly Review of Chinese Studies in North America. 2013. Edited by Haihui Zhang, Zhaohui Xue, Shuyong Jiang, and Gary Lance Lugar. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies. It contains the English original articles that appear in 北美中国学: 研究概述与文献资源, which was published by 中华书局 in 2010. A review of research trends and scholarly developments of various disciplines in North American Chinese studies. Each article discusses one discipline or its subfield, such as history (of different historical periods and subfields), economy, social science, literature, linguistic, musicology, and art history, and was written by a leading scholar. It introduces some of the major scholars, scholarship, research centers, institutions and journals of a certain subfield or discipline. Free download on AAS's website. (submitted by King Kwong Wong)
  • 当代西方汉学研究集萃 (中古史卷). 2012. Edited by Leo K. Shin. Shanghai: 上海古籍出版社. A collection of seminal essays by North America-based Chinese studies scholars from various journal articles, monographs, and edited volumes, translated into Chinese. It introduces influential research findings and important research trends and questions in Chinese history, such as periodization, ethnic identity, and China in world/global history. Once scattered all over the place, now they are gathered on one's palm. (submitted by King Kwong Wong)
  • Fieldwork in Modern Chinese History: A Research Guide. 2019. Edited by Thomas David DuBois and Jan Kiely. London: Routledge. A research guide that explores how fieldwork could be used to study Chinese history. It provides a short history of the prevalence of field research in Chinese studies, cases of its use, and reflections on the methodology. Scholars who are coming new to fieldwork can access what the so-called “historical anthropology” is for and how it can be practiced. (submitted by Rui Zhao)
  • Ming History: An Introductory Guide to Research. 1994. Compiled by Edward L. Farmer, Romeyn Taylor and Ann Waltner. Minneapolis: Ming Studies Research Series, History Dept., University of Minnesota. It lists sources for reference, both the primary sources and the modern scholarship. The “Vocabulary and Notes” in the guidebook can be helpful in translation. (submitted by Rui Zhao)
  • Zhongguo tusi zhidu 中国土司制度 1992. By Gong Yin 龚荫. Kunming: Yunnan minzu chubanshe. An overview of the history of the tusi system in China. Although it is not a research guide, it offers the essential knowledge and research topics of the tusi system and compiles materials for case studies. It is especially useful for researchers of the tusi system to situate their own studies in the area. (submitted by Rui Zhao)
  • Implication: An Ecocritical Dictionary for Art History. 2023. Alan C. Braddock, Yale University Press. The term dictionary is self-admittedly ironic for this book. Through merely ten terms, the author seeks not their clear definition in relation to ecocriticism, but under their headings, the explication of some key issues that ecocritical art history pays attention to, as well as the approaches being adopted in reaction to those concerns. The book engages closely with artworks and their ecocritical interpretations from a variety of culture and historical periods, and can be used as a quick survey for the scope of scholarships on ecocritical art history.
  • The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change. 2021. Edited by T. J. Demos, Emily Eliza Scott, and Subhankar Banerjee. Routledge. The large volume assembles 40 articles, in addition to an introduction in addressing issues of contemporary art from around the world in relation to climate change, a subject that hitherto lacks any treatment from major complied volumes in art history. In expanding considerations of climate change into the social, political and cultural realm, it joins the efforts of the nascent and fast-growing body of literature of environmental humanities, while firmly foregrounding the significance of including art and visual culture in discussion.
  • Concepts of Nature: A Chinese-European Cross-Cultural Perspective, 2010. Edited by Hans Ulrich Vogel and Günter Dux. Brill. The volume is built on an earlier conference that attempts a cross-cultural reflection on the concept of nature in China in comparison to the European West, esp. to the Classical Greek. An emphasis is given to the study of imperial China, which the book covers from the Zhou dynasty to the 1800s. An inter-disciplinary effort, it brings together more than a dozen scholars from both Chinese and Western studies in the field of history, philosophy, sociology, etc., and covers a variety of subjects such as cosmology, nature-culture relation, medical and botanical history, and evidential studies (kaozhengxue). It provides a useful point of entry for those who are embarking on reflections of similar subjects in relation to nature as a concept. The voice of art history is regretfully absent.
  • 太湖水利技术史. 1987. Edited by 郑肇经. 农业出版社. Although published more than thirty years ago, this book remains an important source for the history of water-control in the Taihu area under the dynastic period of China. The ten chapters cover a wide range of topics which succinctly summarizes the history of Taihu as a water-body, including changes in the route of watercourses as a result of both natural environment and human intervention, ecological deterioration, and historical hydraulics projects. It also contains useful maps of major and minor watercourses of the region, and excerpts of ten historical texts on Taihu water-control from Northern Song to Qing.
  • 中國水利史硏究日本語文獻目錄. 1994. Edited by Mark Elvin. Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University; Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies for Unesco, Toyo Bunko, Canberra, Tokyo. A selective bibliographical guide to modern Japanese scholarship on the history of water-control in China. An introduction by Mark Elvin provides an overview of shared themes of interest in Japanese studies. The main body breaks into two part, each covering monographs and chapters and articles. Entries are listed in alphabetical order by author’s last name. The book also includes an index of dynastic period and geographical regions.
  • 中国农业考古资料索引. Periodically updated in 农业考古 (journal). Indexes of recent archaeological findings of agricultural history. More helpful for those focusing on the ancient and medieval China. Occasionally findings such as water-gates from Ming and Qing are listed.
  • The Ming-Qing conflict, 1619-1683 : a historiography and source guide. 1998. By Lynn A. Struve. Ann Arbor, Mich: Association for Asian Studies. This guide is very useful in navigating the primary and secondary sources of the Ming-Qing transition, especially given the vast selection of materials in a time of intense dynastic upheavel, and also, sources that are written in Chinese and Manchu. The structure of guide divides its primary source section based on geography (Liaodong, Jiangnan, etc.), convenient for a researcher who focuses on a particular region. Aside from official/state histories, the guide also incorporated literature, novels and accounts by missionaries. An online version provided by the Indiana University can be found here. (Submitted by Jerry Yang)
  • 明清战争史略. 2012. 孙文良 & 李治亭, 中国人民大学出版社. Originally published in 1986, the book endured several reprints – this is the most recent version. In contradiction to the two guides above, it is first, most useful to researchers interested in the military aspects of the Ming-Qing transition; second, instead of incorporating the primary/secondary sources in a list format, this book covers the major war events in story-narration manner, and dissects its sources accordingly based on each passage. Very easy-to-comprehend. (Submitted by Jerry Yang)
  • 國學大師 A collection of traditional Chinese materials, which concludes Chinese studies library, dictionaries and so on. We can use it to search for traditional Chinese characters and can find their explanations in Kangxi Dictionary康熙字典, Shuowen Jiezi說文解字. (Submitted by Chenbo Zhang)
  • Zhongguo Wen xue shi 中國文學史. Edited by 袁行霈. Beijing : 高等教育出版社. An introduction about Chinese literature from early Qin to late Qing. At each time period, it lists representative works and analyzes them in conjunction with historical background, which can give you a macroscopic perception of ancient Chinese literature. (Submitted by Chenbo Zhang)
  • The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature. 2010. Eds., Stephen Owen and Kang-i Sun Chang. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. An introduction of Chinese literature with chapters written by various scholars. Each chapter is structured differently based on the problems discussed in the field and the scholars’ choice. (Submitted by Huizhi Wang)
  • An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911. 1996. Ed. and tr., Stephen Owen. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. A selected translation of a wide range of Chinese literary works from early China to 1911. Under a chronological frame, each chapter is divided either by themes, genres, or authors. Apart from the translation, Owen also writes introductions and comments on the literary and cultural context. (Submitted by Huizhi Wang)
  • Literary Information in China: A History. 2021. Eds., Jack W. Chen et al. New York: Columbia University Press. By dividing into three levels—words, document, and collection—the book views and organizes Chinese literature from the perspective of information. (Submitted by Huizhi Wang)
  • 海域アジア史研究入門. 2008. Edited by Shiro Momoki 桃木至朗. Tokyo: 岩波書店. This book looks at Asian history from the view of the sea. Contains 25 chapters written by scholars in various sub-fields with common interests in this approach to history. Covers many aspects such as international order, port societies, seafood trade, marine deities to shipwrecks. It also draws on thousands of sources including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and European languages. (Submitted by Jielu Xu)
  • What is Environmental History? 2006. By J. Donald Hughes. Cambridge: Polity Press. An overview of the discipline of environmental history. By introducing the scholarship on a global scale (not only the birth and growth of environmental history in the US but also in various regions and nations around the world), this book provides us with a high-qualified reading list while also familiarizing us with the core issues and trends in the discipline as it develops. (Submitted by Jielu Xu)

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Week 4: Catalogs, Bibliographies, and Anthologies

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  • Kaogutu 考古圖, Harvard College Library Harvard-Yenching Library, Ming dynasty edition (1368-1464),  by Lü Dalin 呂大臨. The book Kaogutu 考古圖 "Illustrated Antiques" is the oldest Chinese description of various antiques. It was compiled during the Northern Song period 北宋 (960-1126) by Lü Dalin 呂大臨 (c. 1042-c. 1090), a philosopher and ardent collector of books and various cultural objects. (submitted by Jingxian Jin)
  • 中国美术考古文献辑要，12 vol., Wang Xiaoyang 汪小洋，2023. This twelve-volume book contains 2000 archaeological discoveries in China from 1949 to 2019. The book is divided by the land of excavation, and then presents a brief introduction, the time of survey and excavation, the historical period, the location, the form and the content in chronological order, accompanied by photographs and sectional drawings. (submitted by Jingxian Jin)
  • National Palace Museum, Taipei Open Data Platform. Since 2017, the National Palace Museum has released images in the "Collection Database" and "Selected Image Downloads" sections for free and unlimited use; users are not required to fill out an application to use the data. Following the "Open Government Data License, version 1.0" and “CC BY 4.0” licenses, users are welcome to download and use the data directly as long as the material is attributed to the National Palace Museum. (submitted by Jingxian Jin)
  • Chinese rubbings collections at The Fine Arts Library and Harvard-Yenching Library. Open Access online platform. The collection holds over 5000 East Asian rubbings. Objects used to make the rubbings in the collection date from the Qin Dynasty (221–207 BCE) to the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 CE). (submitted by Jingxian Jin)
  • Scripta Sinica 漢籍全文資料庫 powered by the Institute of History and Philology Academia Sinica in Taipei, and accessed through UBC Library, this database contains the digitized versions of over 1,000 sources and more than 700 million characters (as of 2019), including the "basic" Chinese historical sources (prominently the twenty-four histories). Some of its biggest strengths include keyword search function, and the ability to see the original scanned image of a particular text. (submitted by Jerry Yang)
  • 增訂晚明史籍考. 1981. 謝國楨. 上海古籍出版社. Another useful source guide to the Ming-Qing transition (from Wanli to the Three Feudatories Rebellion). Xie's guide is sorted mainly based off of major events, from reigns of Wanli to Southern Ming, to materials on the peasant rebellions, anti-Qing war, and Koxinga's campaigns. The guide also consists of official state histories, and unofficial/secondary 野史 – a crucial reference when it comes to finding post-Wanli Ming sources. (Submitted by Jerry Yang)
  • 明清内閣大庫史料合編. 2009. 古籍影印室. 國家圖書館出版色. As part of the Archives of the Grand Secretariat (內閣大庫檔案) series from the the Qing archives, this volume contains a catalogue of primary sources, mainly court memorials from the Tianqi to the Chongzhen era. Memorial topics range broadly, with a substantial collection of military affairs and reports from the frontlines, making this volume a crucial reference in studying the political, social, and military history in the upheavals of the late Ming. The Institute of History and Philology Academia Sinica also have an online database of the digitized texts, accessed through its website here. An online search engine can perform keyword searches and apply filters in organizing materials, such as sorting them by date, author, author rank, and institution. Additionally, the website provides access to digital images of the original documents, enhancing its reliability compared to traditional printed copies. It's important to note, however, that the physical copies are sourced from archives in Beijing, while the online database are sourced in Taiwan - meaning certain documents may be absent from each collection. In essence, these two resources complement each other, each offering unique advantages and potentially filling gaps left by the other.
  • 《吴歌精华》. 2003. By Wang Rongpei et al. Suzhou: 苏州大学出版社. This is an anthology of Wu folk songs from ancient time dated back to Spring and Autumn period to modern day with the English translation version. The anthology is published for the 27th World Cultural Heritage Conference. The wide time span is the strength of this anthology, spanning two thousand years from the Spring and Autumn period to the modern Wu Songs since the May Fourth Movement. The editor's focus, however, was on the Southern and late Ming periods of the Six Dynasties. There is some neglect of other time periods, so there are a lot of omissions. （subbmitted by Xinyuan Liu）
  • An Introduction to Chinese Poetry: From the Canon of Poetry to the Lyrics of the Song Dynasty. 2017. By Michael Fuller. Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass. This is a textbook of classical Chinese poetry from the Canon of Poetry to Lyrics of the Song. Since Fuller aims to introduce the reader to the poetry tradition over such a long period of time, he selects only a small number of poems in each dynasty (or time period) according to style and genre. One of the most notable features of this anthology, I think, is that Fuller has included different English translations of the same poem, in addition to his own version. In addition to this, under each character of the poem's original Chinese text, Fuller provide the English translation of that character in the context of that poem. Even for native Chinese readers, such annotations are helpful for understanding the poems. (subbmitted by Xinyuan Liu)
  • Di sản Hán Nôm Việt Nam thư mục đề yếu 遺產漢喃越南數目提要 (Catalogue des Livres en Han Nôm). Edited by Trần Nghĩa and François Gros. 3 vols. Hà Nội: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội, 1993. The essential bibliography of all Hán (漢) and Nôm (喃)—that is, Literary Sinitic and Vietnamese Demotic—texts that remain extant and catalogued in major institutions in Vietnam, France and elsewhere. This was a collaboration between the Han-Nôm Institute based in Hanoi and the École Française d'Extrême Orient in Paris. It is organized alphabetically in modern Vietnamese script (Quốc ngữ) with descriptions and location information provided in both Vietnamese and French. (submitted by Quinton Huang)
  • 越南漢喃文獻目錄提要. Edited by Liu Chun-yin 劉春銀, Wang Hsiao-tun 王小盾, and Trần Nghĩa 陳義. Taipei: Academia Sinica Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy 中央研究院中國文哲研究所, 2002. This catalogue not only translates the above bibliography into Chinese, but also lists the locations of extant manuscript or reprint copies of classical Vietnamese texts that are available in the Republic of China (Taiwan) or the People's Republic of China. The bibliography is organized by genre (經、史、傳 etc.) and then by increasing stroke number. (submitted by Quinton Huang)
  • The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire. Forthcoming 2023. Edited by Michal Biran and Kim Hodong. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. The second volume is an accompanying volume that is entirely devoted to introducing various primary sources on the Mongol empire. Because the Mongol empire is composed of different states and peoples in Eurasia, primary sources on the Mongol empire also reflect such multilingual nature. Each chapter introduces sources in a different language, such as Chinese, Korean, Persian, and Russian, and is written by a leading scholar (or two in some chapters) in its respective field. Aside from literary sources, this volume also has two chapters on archaeological and visual sources. (submitted by King Kwong Wong)
  • The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 6: Alien Regimes and Border States, 907–1368. 1994. Edited by Herbert Franke and Denis C. Twitchett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. It contains a chapter of bibliographical essay, introducing primary sources and secondary scholarship of the Khitan Liao, Tangut Xi Xia, Jurchen Jin, and Mongol Yuan. The Mongol Yuan is the largest portion of this essay, but it has been superseded by the accompanying volume of the Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire, Sources on the Mongol Empire. (submitted by King Kwong Wong)
  • 燕行錄 全集. 2001. Edited by Im Ki-jung 林基中. 100 vols. Seoul: 東國大學校出版部. A collection of literary works by Koryŏ (918-1392) and Chosŏn (1392-1897) envoys on their trips to the Chinese capital during the Yuan (1271-1368), Ming (1368-1644), and Qing (1639-1912) periods. These works were commonly titled Choch'ŏllok 朝天錄 during the Ming and Yŏnhaengnok 燕行錄 during the Qing. They are collectively known as the genre of Yŏnhaengnok in current scholarship. Their content includes envoys’ poems, travelogues, and their experiences and thoughts on their trips and on China.
    • 燕行錄 續集. 2008. Edited by Im Ki-jung. 50 vols. Seoul: 尚書院. An expansion of 全集.
    • 燕行錄 叢刊. 2011. Edited by Im Ki-jung. Online database. KRpia. Includes both 全集 and 續集, as well as revisions and new entries. (submitted by King Kwong Wong)
  • 燕行錄千種解題. 2021. By Qi Yongxiang 漆永祥. 3 vols. Beijing: 北京大學出版社. An annotated bibliography of Yŏnhaengnok. The annotations briefly describe the course of the diplomatic mission, the envoy’s biography, and the content of the work. More than just an annotated bibliography, Qi Yongxiang also corrects some of the errors in Im Ki-jung’s editions of Yŏnhaengnok, evaluates the value of the literary work, and expands the genre of Yŏnhaengnok by adding entries that are not covered by Im Ki-jung’s editions. Im Ki-jung’s editions have around 560 entries in total, while Qi Yongxiang includes as many as 1122 entries in his annotated bibliography. (submitted by King Kwong Wong)
  • 中国古代书画图目. Edited by 中国古代书画鉴定组. 北京: 文物出版社, 1986-2001. Starting in 1983, a group of experts started a comb-through of paintings and calligraphies in museum and institutional collections in mainland China, culminating in this twenty-three volume (twenty-four including the index) publication. The works published amount to a total number of 20117 (35700 in illustrations). These are authentic works of better quality and significance, based on the judgement of the Ancient Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Connoisseurial Committee (中国古代书画鉴定组), whose members are all major painting and calligraphy connoisseurs of the 20th century. The order of the volumes reflects the actual order of the objects with which the group worked through over the span of sixteen years. Within each volume, works are published in small, monochrome images, listed by their holding institutions, and then by chronological order. An independent index volume published in 2001 concluded the series. Through the index users can look up works by artist names, which are listed with a full list of titles included, their respective holding institutions and the corresponding volume and page number. A landmark in the publication history of Chinese scroll and album paintings as well as calligraphies in mainland China, this series remains an important reference book today.
  • 明代著名诗人书画评论汇编. 2016. 南开大学出版社. Edited by张毅、陈翔. A two-volume compilation of inscriptions by about twenty famous Ming poets on paintings and calligraphies. Inscriptions are listed by authors in a chronological order, which then break into three categories: poems on paintings, poems on calligraphies, other inscriptions on paintings and calligraphies (proses, short sentences, etc.). Unfortunately the editors do not specify the objects on which the inscriptions appear, nor their sources.
  • Yunnan shiliao mulu gaishuo 云南史料目录概说 1984. By Fang Guoyu 方国瑜. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju 中华书局. One of the most comprehensive catalogues of Yunnan historical materials. The author examines over 800 items of historical materials from the Han to the Qing, offering their sources, introducing previous studies, and providing his own comments. It covers not only historical documents but also other kinds of materials like stone inscriptions. (submitted by Rui Zhao)
  • Yunnan shiliao congkan 云南史料丛刊 1998. By Fang Guoyu 方国瑜. Kunming: Yunnan daxue chubanshe 云南大学出版社. A thirteen-volume collection of Yunnan historical materials from the pre-Qin era to the end of the Qing dynasty. For each material, the editor provides an introduction written by Fang Guoyu (from Yunnan shiliao mulu gaishuo), the content, and a concluding section which lists its editions and updates Fang’s interpretation of the item. Its comprehensiveness and analysis of the materials make it very convenient for Yunnan historians to use. （submitted by Rui Zhao)
  • Zhongguo xiao shuo shi lue 中國小說史略 2008. By Lu Xun 鲁迅. Project Gutenberg. It is the first monograph that systematically discusses the development history of Chinese novels, which discusses the origin and evolution from ancient legends to late Qing novels and evaluates representative novel writers and works from various historical periods in China. （submitted by Chenbo Zhang）
  • Zhongguo su wen xue shi 中国俗文学史 1938. By Zheng Zhenduo 郑振铎. Shangwu yinshuguan 商务印书馆. Citing rich materials, this book elaborates on the emergence, development, and evolution of Chinese folklore from pre Qin to late Qing, which contains folk songs, dramas, novels, zaju, tanci and so on. It established the system of Chinese folklore history and can complement Lu Xun's Zhongguo xiaoshuo shi lue.（submitted by Chenbo Zhang）
  • 明清时期浙江海洋文献研究. 2019. By Zhang Jie 张杰, Cheng Jihong 程继红. Beijing: 海洋出版社. An introduction of primary sources that can be used to study maritime history of Zhejiang Province during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Includes author, content, and version information for 271 kinds of materials, covering various aspects of maritime history such as historical geography, transportation, science and technology, military, trade and economy. (Submitted by Jielu Xu)
  • China, American, and the Pacific. Primary sources relating to trade and cultural exchange between China, America and the Pacific region between the 18th and early 20th centuries. In addition to the manuscript sources and printed text, the interactive chronology and map in this resource are quite interesting. (Submitted by Jielu Xu)
  • China: Trade, Politics, and Culture 1793-1980. English-language primary sources relating to China and the West from Macartney's first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74. (Submitted by Jielu Xu)
  • Quan Tang shi 全唐詩. 1960. Compiled by Peng Dingqiu 彭定求 (1645–1719) et al. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju. A comprehensive corpus of Tang poetry compiled in the Qing Dynasty. The 900 juan collection includes around 50 thousand poems written by over 2200 poets. It remains as the most significant primary source in the field of Tang poetry studies. The Zhonghua shuju edition is regarded as one of the standard modern versions to which scholars often refer. (submitted by Huizhi Wang)
  • Wen xuan 文選. 1965. Compiled by Xiao Tong 蕭統 (501–531). Commentary by Li Shan 李善 (630–689). Taibei: Taiwan shangwu yinshu guan. The earliest extant Chinese literary anthology from the sixth century. Organized by genres, the collection selects over 700 pieces of works composed by over 130 authors. The collection holds a significant role both in terms of its preservation of early literary works and as a paradigm of literary collection. (submitted by Huizhi Wang)
  • Tang ren xuan Tang shi xinbian 唐人選唐詩新編. 1996. Edited by Fu Xuancong 傅璇琮. Xi’an: Shanxi renmin jiaoyu chubanshe. This contemporary compilation gathers Tang anthologies of Tang poetry, serving as a valuable primary source for scholars seeking to comprehend the Tang era's standards and perspectives on their contemporary poetry. (submitted by Huizhi Wang)
  • MCLC Resource Center. By Kirk Denton. East Asian Language and Literature, The Ohio State University. (submitted by Brandon Fung)
  • Chinese Classic Ancient Books Database / 中华经典古籍库. The data resources of the first three issues are all ancient books published by Zhonghua Book Company, and the high-quality resources of other publishing houses are included from the fourth issue. The partners include Phoenix Publishing House, Bashu Publishing house, Qilu Press and more than 10 publishing houses in China. (submitted by Brandon Fung)

Week 6: Locating Physical Texts

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  • 謝清高述，楊炳南編，《海錄》，「海山仙館叢書」，咸豐辛亥(公曆1851年)鎸 Puban Collection, Rare Books and Special Collections, University of British Columbia Library (http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=2139842) (submitted by Quinton Huang)
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    Week 7: Evaluating Digitized Texts

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    • Premodern Vietnamese texts in Hán (漢) and Nôm (喃) characters have been increasingly digitized as many texts have been lost in Vietnam's violent colonial and post-independence history, while the condition of the surviving texts have been difficult to maintain. Traditional, state-commissioned or -oriented texts, particularly those relating to Confucian classics, statecraft, philosophy and history, have traditionally been composed in literary Sinitic, which all classically educated and trained Vietnamese could read. This means that most premodern Vietnamese texts can be read by those with knowledge of literary Sinitic elsewhere. However, a percentage of the cultivated elite would be able to use Nôm (喃) writing, which was a syncretic adaptation of Sinitic characters to match Vietnamese sounds, to produce literary works and local folklore. Nôm was also used in some dynasties or reigns for official state documents and popular histories, as pro-Nôm literati factions waxed or waned in influence. Nôm characters can be easily searched using the Nôm Lookup Tool, while the UBC Library contains several textbooks for learning the script. (Submitted by Quinton Huang)
    • Digitized collections of books and periodicals published in Hong Kong, which help expand the source base of the historian of twentieth-century Hong Kong beyond the colonial archive or the newspaper sphere. (Submitted by Quinton Huang)
    • Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection, Library of Congress. The Chinese Rare Book Digital Collection draws from the 5,300 titles of Chinese rare books housed at the Asian Division of the Library of Congress. The online presentation includes nearly 2,000 digitized rare titles. It also holds some very rare copies of 11th century and 12th century materials. (Submitted by Jingxian Jin)
    • France-China. Bibliothèque nationale de France. A bilingual (French and Chinese) digital library which details the cultural, religious and scientific interactions between France and China from the 16th century until 1945. The site has gathered more than 7,000 printed documents, manuscripts, maps, photographs, objects and sound recordings related to China. (Submitted by Jingxian Jin)
    • 中华经典古籍库. 中华书局 established this database in 2014. All books digitalized in the first three phases of the project are published by中华书局, and the rest are also collated and proofread text published by other authority publishers such as 凤凰出版社or齐鲁书社. The best thing about this database is that it can shows both full text versions and scanned book on the same page. （submitted by Xinyuan Liu）
    • Chinese Iconographic Thesaurus (open access). The database provides an iconographic way of searching and browsing more than 9000 Chinese art objects from four important institutions, and “provides free access to motifs, subjects and themes of images in a variety of material forms - paintings, sculpture, prints, book illustrations, ceramics, and other types of applied arts- made in China from 700 to 1900.” ( Quote from a self-description on the website ) All iconographic labels attached to a given object are listed on the same page, so users can click on any one of them and explore other objects of similar motifs, subjects, or themes. Images are provided with basic information (title, creator, date or period, and holding institution), for any further info users will have to follow up elsewhere. The database is searchable in both Chinese and English.
    • Online Union Catalogue of Chinese Local Gazetteers (中國大陆各省地方志書目查詢系統) (open access). Developed and maintained by the Academia Sinica, the database provides bibliographic and holding information for gazetteers. The database expands the scope of 中國地方志聯合目錄 (1985) to include rare copies republished ever since, as well as post-1949 gazetteers.
    • Ming Gazetteer Images in the UMedia Archive (open access). A digitized collection of charts and maps of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) collected from historical local gazetteers. Seems to be affiliated with University of Minnesota Library. Provides a few useful search filters such as time period and subject (mostly modern day provinces). Books and editions are specified. Scope of sources unclear, all seem to come from Tianyi ge collection.
    • Image Index of Global Chinese Ancient Books (全球漢籍影像開放集成系統). A powerful, "one-stop" search engine for Chinese rare books and documents, drawn from mutiple libraries across the world. With keyword search function ("item name," "author," and "version"), the database not only allows preview of digitized primary source documents, but also indicate the locations that hold them. (Submitted by Jerry Yang)
    • UBC Asian Library Chinese Rare Books Collection. With 582 digitized books from Puban (蒲坂藏書) and Pang Jingtang (龐鏡塘藏書) accessible through UBC Library. Advantages include the function to sort by era and images can be downloaded. The con is obvious in its limited number of collection.(Submitted by Jerry Yang)
    • Internet Archive. One of the largest online library databases, holding over 38 million print materials, and hold a metabase of multimedia sources. Many old books in various languages have been digitized and uploaded onto the site, but somewhat limited in terms of primary historical documents. (Submitted by Jerry Yang)
    • Erudition: Chinese Local Records 爱如生中国方志库. The database contains thousands of titles of Chinese gazetteers at all levels from Song Dynasty till the Republican Period. All texts are provided in full text and image format, allowing for a direct comparison both between digitized text and original text image. It provides the information about the edition. Users can search this full-text database by region, title or period. (Submitted by Rui Zhao)
    • Bianjiang Lishi Dili Shujuku (Historical Geography of (China’s) Borderlands) 边疆历史地理数据库. This database has two parts. The first part called 史地经典文库 collects full-text historical textual material on the Chinese borderlands dating from the Ming Dynasty to the Republic in the punctuated editions by Zhonghua shuju 中华书局. The second part 边疆史料文库 gives access to Republican monographs, periodicals, government gazettes and other documents on the history of the border regions. The original printed text is displayed side-by-side with a fully searchable digital edition of the text for comparison. (Submitted by Rui Zhao)
    • Veritable Records of the Ming and Veritable Records of the Qing and Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty. By Academia Sinica Institute of History and Philology (IHP) and the National Institute of Korean History. The Korean version of IHP's 明實錄、朝鮮王朝實錄、清實錄資料庫. The texts and original images of the Veritable Records of the Ming and Qing are based on the IHP’s version. The IHP digitized the texts and images and preserved their original printed format in the database. But more than just putting the database in a Korean interface, the National Institute of Korean History also dissected these texts into smaller events on each day and gave them individual webpages, IDs, and URLs, the same approach as it digitized Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty. These allow scholars to cite specific individual entries with ease. (submitted by King Kwong Wong)
    • 中华古籍资源库. This database was built by Chinese national library and contains ordinary ancient books, Jiagu, Dunhuang documents, steles and rubbings, Western Xia literature, local Chronicles, genealogies, New Year pictures, old photographs, etc. Readers can view full-text images without registration and login, support single library search and multi-library search, basic search and advanced search. And it gives researchers a convenient way to look for primary materials. (submitted by Chenbo Zhang)
    • Ming Qing Women's Writings 明清婦女著作. A database on collections of women's writings mainly published during Ming and Qing dynasties. These digital collections comprise a total of 71,524 scanned images of texts and illustrations, and you can also search for women's social and marital status and biographical data. (Submitted by Chenbo Zhang)
    • 天一阁古籍数字化服务平台. Tianyi Ge, founded from 1561 to 1566 by Fan Qin in Ningbo, is the oldest existing private library in China. The collection is now around 300,000 volumes, including valuable gazetteers, examination documents 科举录 of the Ming dynasty as well as a large number of Eastern Zhejiang 浙东 local literature and genealogies. The Tianyige Museum has begun to build this platform since 2006, and by now they have finished digitizing 30% of their collection. The quality of the scanned texts is quite good and the reading page is user-friendly. (Submitted by Jielu Xu)
    • 书格. Shuge is a free and open online library of ancient books. It mainly posts high-resolution color photocopies of valued texts and paintings. The advantage of this platform is that it offers detailed description of the posted books and forms a community for those who want to communicate issues about downloading digitalized texts. However, one can only search the titles rather than texts on this platform and the number of ancient books in its collection is very limited compared to larger databases. (Submitted by Jielu Xu)
    • 漢籍全文資料庫 Scripta Sinaca. A database of traditional Chinese texts launched and maintained by 中央研究院歷史語言研究所. Its categorization follows the four traditional sections of “jing,” “shi,” “zi,” “ji,” with two groups of congshu collections added after them. It includes 1471 titles of classical Chinese works. For each text the database provides page numbers of the version that they based on, so it is convenient for scholars to cite and check against the physical work. Yet this is a database that focuses more on history materials, and is not as comprehensive in terms of literary works. (Submitted by Huizhi Wang)
    • CBETA (Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association). An online database developed by 法鼓文理學院. Apart from providing free access to a database of the Taishō shinshū Daizōkyō 大正新修大藏經 canon, CBETA also provides a digitized version of the Shinsan zoku Zōkyō canon 新纂續藏經and has selections from 10 other Chinese Buddhist canons. (Submitted by Huizhi Wang)

    Week 8: Comparative Exercise

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    Week 9: Language

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    • A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China. By Charles O Hucker. Free download at Harvard CBDB. A dictionary of bureaucratic offices, official titles, and associated bureaucratic practices from the Han to Qing periods, arranged according to alphabetical order of the entries’ romanizations. Under each entry, it provides an English translation and a brief description of the entry’s function and development throughout its existence. Some scholars might not agree with its translations for certain specific periods. (submitted by King Kwong Wong)
    • The Government of China Under Mongolian Rule: A Reference Guide. By David M. Farquhar. A detailed account of the government structure and its recruitment and personnel in the Yuan period. The account starts with an introduction of the political organization of the Mongols from their tribal period to the Yuan empire. Then it describes various aspects of the government: its personnel and structure, from the highest echelon down to local functionaries. Farquhar’s description provides English translations of the offices and titles, their Mongolian transcriptions (from Mongolian texts or the author’s reconstruction), functions, history, and staff. (submitted by King Kwong Wong)
    • AKS Glossary of Korean Studies. By the Academy of Korean Studies. A glossary of Korean historical terms from the earliest to modern times. It collects its glosses from the English translations used by Korean studies scholars in their works and covers a variety of topics. It is searchable in both Chinese and Korean characters and contains a brief description of its entries in Korean, an example of how it is used in the work, and its source. Since it merely collects rather than creates, the glossary is limited in the sense that when no one has used a certain term in a secondary source before, this term does not appear in this glossary. (submitted by King Kwong Wong)
    • Zdic汉典 Though it is mentioned last class, it is the most my most frequently used dictionary tool. It contains both modern Chinese translation with examples and English translation, as well as explanations in 康熙字典 and 说文解字. It also has the pronunciations of different area and time period. (submitted by Xinyuan)
    • 书法字典大全 By 广州方里格信息科技. This is actually a characters-collects software designed for those who practice calligraphy. It will show the different morphs of a character in five styles of calligraphy: 篆, 隶, 楷, 行, 草, which are taken from different kinds of calligraphy or seal carving works. (submitted by Xinyuan)
    • Song-Yuan yuyan cidian 宋元語言辭典 [Dictionary of the Language of the Song and Yuan Periods]. Ed. Long Qianan.  Shanghai: Commerical Press, 1985. This dictionary contains more than 1.14 million words and 11,000 entries, focusing on operas and novels, as well as poems, notes, and miscellaneous writings. It also includes dialects, colloquialisms, idioms, and foreign words. (submitted by Jingxian Jin)
    • Zhongguo mei shu da ci dian 中國美術大辭典 [Dictionary of Chinese Art]. Shao Luoyang and Ma Chengyuan. Shanghai: Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House, 2002. This dictionary covers major aspects of the field of Chinese art, including ten major disciplines, divided into eleven categories such as general terminology, painting, printmaking, calligraphy, arts and crafts, sculpture, and so on, with a total of more than 7,130 entries, accompanied by 2,150 illustrated colored images. (submitted by Jingxian Jin)
    • 國際電腦漢字及異體字知識庫 International Encoded Han Character and Variants Database. Powered by Academia Sinica, this online dictionary tool is extremely powerful not only in providing definitions in a quick and comprehensive manner, it more importantly, have the function to search up the variants of characters (異體字). This could be very handy in reading premodern texts that can potentially be riddled with non-conventional writings. The website also have a unique function in tracing the historical evolution of a 漢字, which can be useful in deciphering non 宋體 characters. (submitted by Jerry Yang)
    • Buleku. Online Manchu Dictionary. A very comprehensive translation tool for anyone that works on Manchu texts. Two advantages as being that first, it translates Manchu vocabulary into both English and Chinese, and second, it provides text context of where a word came from (specific documents and books in Manchu & classical Chinese), and also lists its sources from other authoritative Manchu dictionaries. A limitation is that the user must know the Manchu transliteration in roman letters in order to use the search engine. (submitted by Jerry Yang)
    • Wang Li gu Hanyu zidian 王力古汉语字典 (Wang Li’s Dictionary of ancient Chinese characters) 2000. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju. The dictionary was completed by the influential linguist Wang Li and his principal students. Entries include pronunciation, the root meanings and the extended meanings, the rarely used meanings, and other notes. (submitted by Rui Zhao)
    • Dai-Han cidian 傣汉词典 2007. By Meng Zunxian 孟尊贤. Kunming: Yunnan minzu chubanshe. It is a Dai-Chinese dictionary of the Dehong Dai language, containing more than twenty-eight thousand entries of words, native words, derivatives, compound words, phrases, idioms, colloquial idioms, and simplified proverbs, etc., with words commonly used in the modern spoken language, as well as part of the Pali vocabulary borrowed through the Burmese language. (submitted by Rui Zhao)
    • A Student's Dictionary of Classical and Medieval Chinese. 2022. By Paul W. Kroll. 3rd ed. Leiden: Brill. A Chinese English dictionary specializing in pre-modern Chinese, specifically during the medieval period. Although the scale and size of the dictionary is limited, the meanings it provides are regarded as accurate and precise. It is a handy and helpful source to resort to for classical Chinese translation. (submitted by Huizhi Wang)
    • 漢語大詞典 (Dictionary of the Chinese language). 1986–94. Eds. by Luo Zhufeng 羅竹風 (1911–1996) et al. 13 vols. Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe. A supplementary volume of correction, 漢語大詞典訂補, is published in 2010. This dictionary is considered as an authoritative and comprehensive Chinese dictionary that records meanings of words throughout the history. Each entry includes pronunciations of the characters, the definitions and explanations, and examples where the words are used in different periods and occasions. (submitted by Huizhi Wang)
    • Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (DDB). An online dictionary for Chinese ideograph-based Buddhist terms. Developed and maintained by Charles Muller and others. Entries include the pronunciations, basic meanings, and more detailed explanations of the words. Dictionary references will also be provided for further information. (submitted by Huizhi Wang)
    • Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage林语堂当代汉英词典. Lin Yutang is familiar with both Chinese and English and this dictionary is an authoritative reference book. By the online version produced by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, we can easily search for the Chinese characters and their English translation. Some Chinese characters have different meanings in different situations, and this dictionary provided us with different examples. (submitted by Chenbo Zhang)
    • 白话小说语言词典. 2011. Edited by 白维国. Beijing: Shangwu yinshuguan. This dictionary has about 50,000 or 60,000 definitions. It contains the colloquial vocabulary commonly used in ancient vernacular novels. It also contains nouns and primary sources, which can benefit researchers of vernacular novels. (submitted by Chenbo Zhang)
    • 異體字字典. Online dictionary maintained by Ministry of Education, Taiwan. Multiple ways to look up a character. Provide both pinyin, character variants and gloss. Also provide images of relevant historical sources.
    • Chinese-English dictionary of Chinese historical terminology 中國史學詞彙. 2 vols. Edited by 胡應元. Translations and definitions of 11811 terms in the order of the Wade-Giles romanization of the first character. Terms range from allusions, names, titles and institutions, and common sayings, from history, literature, as well as philosophy. In most cases, both original meanings and later changes were given. Two indexes to the entries at the end, one by Wade-Giles romanization, one by stroke count.
    • PLECO Chinese Dictionary. This is an app popular among Chinese language learners and users. The free basic version of Pleco includes resources like CC-CEDICT. In addition to this, more than a dozen other well-known dictionaries are available after purchase. The strength of this app is its convenience: one can search characters on their mobile services through different forms, such as radical, voice, or even full screen handwriting. The limitation of this app is that it can only provide concise definitions, which might not fulfill the needs of advanced research. (Submitted by Jielu Xu)
    • There are several standard dictionaries of Vietnamese Nôm characters which have been converted into searchable databases by the Nôm Foundation (submitted by Quinton Huang):
    • Từ Điện Chức Quan Việt Nam. The Vietnamese equivalent of Charles Hucker's dictionary of official titles, for the historical Vietnamese dynasties. (Submitted by Quinton Huang)
    • ABC Comprehensive Cantonese-English Dictionary. This invaluable bilingual dictionary provides many entries on historical Cantonese usage from Hong Kong and the Canton Delta region, making it particularly useful for historians working on South China. (Submitted by Quinton Huang)
    • Robert Morrison, A Dictionary of the Chinese Language (1865 ed.). This dictionary was produced by Robert Morrison (1782-1833), a prominent missionary and educator in early British colonial Hong Kong. The pronunciations in this dictionary are representative of early 19th-century 官話 pronunciations in the Canton Delta. (Submitted by Quinton Huang.)
    • 英华仙尼华四杂字文. A Manual for Youth and Students, or Chinese Vocabulary and Dialogues, Containing an Easy Introduction to the Chinese Language. Ningpo dialect; Compiled and Translated Into English, by P. Streenevassa Pillay. Chusan,1846. This dictionary was produced by an Indian scholar when Zhoushan was occupied by the British during the First Opium War. Therefore, it is actually a trilingual dictionary, including Chinese, English, and Indian (Telugu). It should be available on the British Library's website, but the link is currently not working. Here is an introduction to this text: https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_1707893. (Submitted by Jielu Xu)
    • 人有七情，忧郁为甚。 A person has seven emotions, and melancholy is even more severe. 上智之士，与化俱生。 The wisest person is born with transformation/nature. 雾散而冰裂，是故不必言矣。 The fog dispersed and the ice cracked, so there is no need to say anything. 次焉者，亦知以理自排，不使为累。 The inferior person also knows how to resolve by li and not to be disturbed.
    • King Kwong Wong's translation

    Week 10: People

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    • Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. 清代名人傳列. 1943. Edited by Hummel, Arthur W and Library of Congress, this volume is a good place to start in gathering information for Qing-era figures for the English scholarship. The volume contains notable figures and their Chinese and Manchu biographical sources. For example, in the entry of Nurhaci, the author highlighted the various pre-1644 Manchu records, and also outlined their post-1644 revisions, suggesting potential controversies/problems with his biographies. An underlining concern with this volume is the finished date – that it might be outdated. (submitted by Jerry Yang)
    • Dictionary of Ming biography, 1368-1644. 明代名人傳列. Columbia University Press, 1976. Compiled by the Association for Asian Studies, this volume contains biographical information on notable figures of the Ming dynasty, a useful starting point and resonates with its Qing counterpart. (submitted by Jerry Yang)
    • João Rodrigues Tçuzu 陸若漢 (1561-1634) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rRQapTzExEX1fQle-D6JRYlVfCOETh1G_Wbg9Lgv24M/edit?usp=sharing
    • Song Biographies in Local Gazetteers 中國地方志宋代人物資料索引 [Index to Song Dynasty Biographical Materials in Chinese Local Gazetteers]. 4 vols. Shen Zhihong 沈 治 宏, et al., compilers. Chengdu: Sichuan ci shu chu ban she, 1997. Includes over 2,200,000 words. It contains more than 100 thousand biographic items, collected from the Song Yuan fang zhi cong kan 宋 元 方 志 叢 刊 , Tian yi ge Ming dai fang zhi xuan kan 天 一 閣 明 代 方 志 選 刊 , Tian yi ge Ming dai fang zhi xuan kan xu bian 天 一 閣 明 代 方 志 選 刊 續 編 , and Riben cang Zhongguo han jian di fang zhi cong kan 日 本 藏 罕 見 中 國 地 方 志 叢 刊 . Compiled at Chengdu Sichuan United University, Gu ji zheng li yan jiu suo. Versions in UBC Library: Song dai ren wu zi liao suo yin 宋代人物資料索引 (1997), Zhongguo di fang zhi Song dai ren wu zi liao suo yin xu bian 中國地方志宋代人物資料索引續編 (2002). (submitted by Jingxian Jin).
    • Sung Liao Chin hua‑chia shih‑lia 宋遼金畫家史料 [Historical materials on Sung, Liao, and Chin painters]. Ch'en Kao-hua 陳高華. Peking: Wen-wu ch'u-pan she, 1983. The whole book is a selection of historical materials of 87 painters from the Song, Liao and Jin dynasties. The historical materials of each painter are divided into two parts: biographical materials and commentaries&scattered information. These various information is generally arranged in chronological order. (submitted by Jingxian Jin)
    • 六朝江东世族之家风家学研究. Written by Wang Yongping王永平， 2003. (I am not sure if it can be categorized as “People”. It seems more like a study on clans.) The research object of this book is the great clans of the so-called Jiangdong region (Wu, Yue area) during the Six Dynasties period (222-589). This book first analyzes the social activities and social status of the intellectual clans in the Jiangdong region, and then introduces the clan culture and famous figures of several large clans such as the Lu Clan of Wujun, the Gu Clan of Wujun, the Zhang Clan of Wujun, the Shen Clan of Wuxing, the Yu Clan of Kuaiji, and the Kong Clan of Kuaiji. (submitted by Xinyuan Liu)
    • Chinese Genealogy Knowledge Service Platform中国家谱知识服务平台. By 上海图书馆. This is a genealogy search website created by the Shanghai Library that supports various search methods. However, only some of the genealogies have photocopied texts. For genealogies that do not have the original photocopy, most entries provide a brief description and the location of the archive for one to look into. (Submitted by Xinyuan Liu)
    • 《近現代人物資訊整合系統》. By 中央研究院近代史研究所. Comprises biographies from the mid-Qing to the Republican era. Consists of 135000 biographies. Interesting fact is that the database also stresses on figures in Shanghai. (submitted by Brandon Fung)
    • Qingdai zhuanji congkan suoyin 清代传记丛刊索引. Compiled by Zhou Jung. Taibei: Mingwen shuju, 1986. The index is used for searching biographies in Qingdao zhuanji congkan 清代传记丛刊, which contains 167 biographical collections. (submitted by Rui Zhao)
    • Mingren zhuanji ziliao suoyin 明人传记资料索引. Compiled by Chang Bide. Taibei: Zhongyang tushuguan, 1978.The book is a tool for checking the sources of biographies of Ming-dynasty characters. The entry for each character contains a short biography and a list of references. The book cites 528 items of anthologies from the Ming and Qing periods and 65 items of biographies and other records. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1150x7Y9wdearC8bmhQYb0Ab5WpAACoov/view?usp=share_link (submitted by Rui Zhao)
    • Name authority biographical database 人名权威人物传记资料库. Established by The Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica 中央研究院历史语言研究所. Using Ming-Qing archives held in Taiwan as its primary sources, it was initially named as “明清档案人名权威资料库.” One item in this database often consists of the figure’s resume in addition to his or her basic information. In addition, this database serves as one of the main sources for the Chinese Biographical Database Project (CBDB). If a figure is included in the CBDB, the link to his/her item can be found in this database as well. (Submitted by Jielu Xu)
    • Database of successful jinshi graduates throughout the ages 历代进士登科数据库. Edited by Gong Yanming 龚延明. This database aims to provide the biographical information of all the jinshi graduates from Tang to Qing. By March 2022, jinshi details of 93 percent of all jinshi had been entered (100,542 out of a total of 110,000). (Submitted by Jielu Xu)
    • 卢镗 https://inindex.com/biog/searchResult/0068523/%E7%9B%A7%E9%8F%9C
    • In the Service of the Khan: Eminent Personalities of the Early Mongol-Yüan Period (1200-1300). Edited by Igor de Rachewiltz et al. Biographical essays of 37 personalities from pre-Yuan Mongols up to the end of Qubilai’s reign. As its title suggests, it covers the highest political, religious, and military echelon of the period, written by prominent Mongol and Yuan historians. This is also its limitation: it does not cover lower-profile personalities and personalities of literary and art historical significance. (submitted by King Kwong Wong)
    • Korean Historical Personalities Integrated System. By the Academy of Korean Studies. A database of historical persons from the earliest to contemporary times. It collected around 18,000 entries. Users can search for a person’s name in either Korean or Chinese, and the database will show the results linking the person’s information, such as his/her biographic information in the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture (if there is one), his information from the exam roster if the person was a passer of the civil service examination or military examination during the Koryŏ or Chosŏn period, and his information as an official, all with citations. (submitted by King Kwong Wong)
    • 蔡羽 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dXu_5Jo3TPDcl5B8QKCM31iLTmnDC2Js/view?usp=share_link
    • 唐五代人物傳記資料綜合索引. 1982. Eds., Fu Xuancong, Zhang Chenshi, and Xu Yimin. Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju.This is an index of biographical information of people in the Tang and Five Dynasties period. The book consults over eighty types of source materials, including both orthodox histories and anecdotal writings. It is an exhaustive effort in collecting people’s information and a reliable reference work. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-VWz08S7vmTfyu6bBJKRa2KztQBOldNu/view?usp=sharing(submitted by Huizhi Wang)
    • 人名規範資料庫 Buddhist Studies Person Authority Databases. Launched and maintained by 法鼓文理學院, this is a database specifically focusing on biographical information in Buddhist studies. The citations of where the name occurs in by the end of each entry can help researchers locate information more efficiently. (submitted by Huizhi Wang)
    • Hong Kong-related biographical information (submitted by Quinton Huang).
      • Dictionary of Hong Kong Biography. 2012. May Holdsworth and Christopher Munn, eds. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press. The standard reference work for (mostly pre-1945) colonial Hong Kong biography.
      • A Biographical Sketchbook of Early Hong Kong. 1962. George B. Endacott, ed. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press. One of the earliest biographical reference works on early Hong Kong; mostly superseded by Holdsworth and Munn, but still useful.
      • Hong Kong Who's Who / Who's Who in Hong Kong. Multiple editors and editions. A part of a standard series of biographical reference works on Asia/the British Empire during the Cold War era.
      • 香港華僑團體總覽. 1947. Interesting holding in the UBC Library (have yet to lay eyes on it, but could be useful for those working on Chinese society in early colonial Hong Kong).
      • Carl Smith Collection. Hong Kong Public Records Office. Perhaps one of the most useful biographical databases available to the Hong Kong historian, Rev. Carl T. Smith's fully digitized and text-searchable index card collection contains a wealth of details regarding important people in Hong Kong from the beginning of the colony to the early postwar era.
      • Historical Dictionary of the Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR. 2006. Ming K. Chan and Lo Shiu-Hing, eds. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. Standard reference work that tends to focus more on the late colonial and early SAR periods.
    • Vietnam-related biographical information (submitted by Quinton Huang).
      • Historical Dictionary of Vietnam. 2006. Bruce M. Lockhart, ed. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. Standard reference work by a leading medieval historian of Annam and Champa.
      • Việt Nam danh nhân từ điện. 1967. Nguyễn Huyền Anh biên tập. Sài Gòn (hiện TPHCM): Khai Trí. (Alternate digitized edition: 1960. Sài Gòn: Hội Văn Hóa Bình Dân.) The standard Vietnamese-language reference work. The UBC Library holds the standard 1967 edition (available for in-branch use only), but a digitized copy of the earliest 1960 edition is available online. There are more recent editions (such as an 1982 edition) available in other libraries.
      • 華僑志：越南. 1958. 臺北: 華僑志編纂委員會. An effort by the ROC government in Taiwan to catalogue information regarding Overseas Chinese (huaqiao) communities in Southeast Asia, with extensive biographical information.
    • 陳端生 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Iut7Kd2laRUBHA14Z9abZe8GhFDWW2AG45wVnkxcfkc/edit?usp=sharing (submitted by Chenbo Zhang)
    • CBDB China Biographical Database which contains biography, sources, place names, official titles and institutions. If you search for a person, you can see basic information, kinship relationship, writing and source. (submitted by Chenbo Zhang)
    • 中國文學家大辭典. 1941. 譚正璧. 光明書局. It includes information on writers from the pre Qin period to the modern May Fourth Movement period. This dictionary gives us a brief introduction about a variety of writers and is a comprehensive collection of biographical and written materials related to Chinese writers. (submitted by Chenbo Zhang)

    Week 12: Time, Places, and Institutions

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    • Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies A peer-reviewed academic journal that is dedicated to multidisciplinary research on pre-1945 East Asian (including Vietnam) humanities. It encourages comparative research and research on translation studies as well as research by scholars from East Asia that engages with international scholarship. It is published semi-annually, and the recent three years of articles affirm the journal’s manifested purposes and scope. The topics range from ancient times to the early twentieth century, from all disciplines of humanities, such as literature and folklore, art history and material culture, philosophy, religious studies, translation studies, and history, and include the geographic regions of China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. While not all articles are comparative in nature, many of the articles address the themes of Sinographic Cosmopolis (Sinographic Sphere or East Asia), the global connection of East Asia, and transregional and multicultural issues. (submitted by King Kwong Wong)
    • International Journal of Asian Studies A peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research pertaining to wide-ranging topics on Asia in the humanities and social sciences. It aims to serve as a forum of multidirectional communication among scholars of the Asian studies community, especially those in Asia. It welcomes research that has interdisciplinary approaches and comparative perspectives from multiple regions and pioneers new methodologies. It is published semi-annually. In the recent three years, one of the two issues was a special issue with a theme and introduction that was edited by a guest editor. These themes include nostalgia mobilization in international and national contexts (2021), comparative perspectives in China and India studies (2022), and humans and materialism (2023). The other issue features research articles that are sometimes organized into a certain theme but without an introduction (2021 and 2022). Each year (either in the special issue or the normal issue), there is a section of “Perspective on Asia” that features one or a couple of articles discussing the field and methodologies of Asian studies. (submitted by King Kwong Wong)
    • Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society A peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the entire Asia from the earliest historical times to the 1980s in the disciplines of history, art history, linguistics, and religious studies, as well as multidisciplinary approaches. It is published quarterly with one of them a special issue that usually has a pan-Asian focus and crosses national boundaries. These special issues are edited by guest editors who write the introductory essays. The special themes of the past three years include diverse approaches to Iranian studies (2021), the concept of divine sovereignty in Islamic discourse across many predominantly Muslim countries (2022), and a collection of 21 essays divided into four themes in South Asian studies (2023): 1) Muslim Reform in response to colonial legacies and the post-colonial era, 2) the power of print in forming and transforming public and social communities and authority, 3) rethinking center-periphery relations and the study of modernity, and 4) everyday life and emotions that moved people in history. (submitted by King Kwong Wong)
    • Cheng-hua Wang; One Painting, Two Emperors, and Their Cultural Agendas: Reinterpreting the Qingming Shanghe Painting of 1737. Archives of Asian Art 1 April 2020; 70 (1): 85–117. (Submitted by Jingxian Jin)
    • Hong, Jeehee. ""Nomadic" Underworlds in the Western Capital of the Liao." Journal of Song-Yuan Studies 51 (2022): 157-205. (Submitted by Jingxian Jin)
    • Jiang, Qiumeng 江秋萌， “Yuandai zhaishi biehao tuyuan fazhan yu liubian 元代斋室别号图卷发展与流变,” Gugong bowuyuan yuankan 故宫博物院院刊, 285， no.10 (2023): 85-101. (Submitted by Jingxian Jin)
    • Late Imperial China A principal journal for scholars of China’s Ming and Qing dynasties. The journal presents methodologically innovative work in political and intellectual history, social, economic, cultural, and gender history, as well as historical demography, art history, religious studies, philosophy, and literature. Late Imperial China regularly features new work by scholars working all over the globe, including North America, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, and the People’s Republic of China. (submitted by Rui Zhao)
    • Ming Studies A journal concerned with scholarship on all aspects of Chinese society and culture from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. (submitted by Rui Zhao)
    • Chinese Studies in History An academic journal that makes noteworthy works and important trends of historical study in the Chinese-speaking world available to English-language readers. Thematic issues present original papers or articles from academic journals and anthologies that have been selected for translation because of their excellence, interest, and contribution to scholarship on the topic. The journal additionally publishes English-language book reviews of Chinese-language historical texts. Topical coverage ranges over all periods and subfields of Chinese and East Asian history as well as more general theoretical and historiographical questions of interest to historians of many specialties. Each issue includes a substantive introduction by the editor or specialist guest editor. (submitted by Rui Zhao)
    • Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies It is published semi-annually with support from the Harvard-Yenching Institute, focusing on humanity studies on China, Japan, Korea, and Inner Asia. (submitted by Xinyuan Liu)
    • Journal of the American Oriental Society The journal is publication of the American Oriental Society, which has four issues per year. It includes researches on the cultural Near East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Inner Asia, the Far East and the Islamic World in different fields, including literature, history and linguistics. (submitted by Xinyuan Liu)
    • Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) It is an annually published journal focus on Chinese Literature with support from the University of Wisconsin, established in 1979. It is said to be “the only Western-language journal devoted to Chinese literature”. It contains articles and reviews on both classical and modern Chinese literature studies. (submitted by Xinyuan Liu)
    • Asian Ethnology A journal seeks to deepen understanding and further the pursuit of knowledge about the peoples and cultures of Asia. It presents formal essays and analyses, research reports, and critical book reviews relating to a wide range of topical categories, including narratives, performances, and other forms of cultural representation; popular religious concepts; vernacular approaches to health and healing; local knowledge; collective memory and uses of the past. (submitted by Chenbo Zhang)
    • The China quarterly This journal covers all aspects of contemporary China including Taiwan. Its interdisciplinary approach covers a range of subjects including anthropology/sociology, literature and the arts, business/economics, geography, history, international affairs, law, and politics. And we can find articles with historical perspectives, in-depth analyses, and a deeper understanding of China and Chinese culture. (submitted by Chenbo Zhang)
    • T’oung Pao 通報. Founded in 1890, it is a Dutch journal and the oldest international journal in the sinology world. Issued semiannually until 2017, then increased to a triannual schedule from 2018 onwards, the journal’s content primarily focuses on pre-modern Chinese studies, covering topics related to traditional Chinese history, religion, literature, and linguistics studies. The journal is also interested in publishing cultural phenomena from various time periods, and broader inquires such as features and styles of specific type of writings. (submitted by Huizhi)
    • Tang Studies. Journal of the T'ang Studies Society. Published annually, the journal covers topics related to Sui, Tang, and Five Dynasties China. Major disciplines regularly represented in the journal include literature, linguistics, history, religious studies, and art history. Apart from transmitted text such as poetry, tales, and historical records, excavated and newly found materials such as inscriptions and Dunhuang manuscripts are also receiving more attention in the past few years. (submitted by Huizhi)
    • Asia Major. An annual peer-reviewed journal that focuses on China. From 1923 to 1933 it was based in Germany, from 1949 to 1975 in Great Britain, from 1988 to 1997 in the U.S., and since 1998 in Taiwan by 歷史語言研究所. The scope of examination spans from the pre-Qin era to the modern period, encompassing topics that range across culture, history, literature, and religion. (submitted by Huizhi)
    • Journal of Vietnamese Studies The premier journal on Vietnamese studies—both historical and contemporary—in English. (submitted by Quinton Huang)
    • Nghiên cứu Lịch sử The top historical journal of the Institute for Historical Studies within the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences. The digitized journal platform provided via the hyperlink is also a useful portal to other academic journals published in Vietnam, both in English and Vietnamese. (submitted by Quinton Huang)
    • Xưa và nay : The flagship journal of the Society for Vietnamese History (Hội khoa học lịch sử Việt Nam), with both online blog and digitized editions of their paper journal. (submitted by Quinton Huang)
    • Modern China This journal is for scholarship in history and the social sciences on late-imperial, twentieth-century, and present-day China. Although named “Modern China,” it encourages scholarship that crosses over the old “premodern/modern” and “modern/contemporary” divides. The journal publishes six issues each year, with approximately six to seven articles in each issue. In addition to research articles, it also presents critical essays on the state of Chinese studies, in-depth review articles on particular areas of scholarship, etc. (Submitted by Jielu Xu)
    • Island Studies Journal An open-access academic journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of islands, archipelagos, and the waters that surround and connect them. Research papers accepted by this journal should place island processes or “islandness” at the center of their analysis. Starting in 2006, it has been published biannually and each issue includes more than ten articles on islands around the world, such as East Asian, Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific Islands. (Submitted by Jielu Xu)
    • The Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Starting in 1958, this journal publishes research articles in Asian, Near, Middle Eastern, and Mediterranean Studies across history. It promotes world history from Asian and Middle Eastern perspectives and challenges scholars to integrate cultural and intellectual history with economic, social, and political analysis. This journal normally publishes six issues each year. (Submitted by Jielu Xu)
    • Pang, Huiping. “Heritage or Imperial Violence: A Hidden History of Early Ming Princely Acquisition of Art.” Ming Studies 74 (2016): 2-26. https://go.exlibris.link/MTnSnn3n
    • Special Issue “Decadence (or Not) in the Ming Dynasty.” Ming Studies, 71 (2015).https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymng20/2015/71
    • Park, J.P. “Art-Historical Fiction or Fictional Art History? Zhang Taijie, Dong Qichang, and the Literary Making of the Past in Early Modern China.” Archives of Asian Art, 72:2 (2022). https://go.exlibris.link/kxgpJT2m
    • Cervone, Einor K. "Art | Adrift: Curating Selves aboard Ming-Dynasty Painting-and-Calligraphy Boats." Archives of Asian Art 69 (2019).  https://go.exlibris.link/Gn9ctF7w
    • Burkus-Chasson, Anne. “Chen Hongshou's Laments.” Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, 6:1(2019): 96-136. https://muse-jhu-edu.eu1.proxy.openathens.net/pub/4/article/730997
    • Liu, Lihong. “Collecting the Here and Now: Birthday Albums and the Aesthetics of Association in Mid-Ming.” China Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, 2:1(2015): 43-91. https://go.exlibris.link/9jRrK0fl
    • Chung Wai Literary 中外文學 Started at 1972, this journal was published by Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University. Comprises of various literature topics, draws connections between the Chinese literature with the outside world.

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