Film+Project+(China)

=__Film Project__= toc =Plan Ahead=
 * You may need to view your film more than once.
 * View your film early in the semester, keeping in mind that reserve videos must be returned in five days and overdue fines add up quickly ($20 after three days).
 * If your film is checked out, check with the library staff to see if another library has a copy of your film.
 * Check YouTube, you assigned movie maybe available on-line.
 * **You may need to request materials from other libraries using the University of Akron or OhioLink library catalog**
 * Most materials arrive within 5 working days, but plan to leave extra time for your materials to arrive. You will receive an email notice that the items arrived.
 * **Prepare you paper:**
 * by coming up with a topic, developing your thesis and creating an argument. View this website by Dartmouth University for tips on how to write an academic paper
 * Read Writing History by William Storey located in the library collection for additional tips

=Recommended Reference Tools in the Library's Collection=

Books in the library's collection:
Ref BD 21 .O97 2011 Oxford handbook of world philosophy Ref BL 74 .R36 2010 Religion and everyday life and culture Ref BL 311 .M97 2000 Myths and Legends of the world Ref Bl 1802. W55 2012 Wiley Blackwell companion to Chinese religions (print and online) Ref CB 69 .D35 2009 Daily life through world history in primary documents Ref CB 351 .G673 2009 Greenwood encyclopedia of global medieval life and culture -Volume three: Asia and Oceania Ref DS 4 .L48 2002 Encyclopedia of Modern Asia Ref D 9 .W68 2011 World history encyclopedia D 12 .G74 2004 Great Empires of Asia Ref DS 12 .H5 2004 Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian civilizations Ref DS 34 .D35 2007 Daily lives of civilians in wartime Asia: From the Taiping Rebellion to Vietnam War Ref DS 721 .B44 2002 Everyday life in Traditional China: the Tang Dynasty Ref DS 738 .C5225 2012 China at War [|Ref DS 749.35 .B46 2004] China's Golden Age: everyday life in the Tang Dynasty Ref DS 755 .E53 2009 Encyclopedia of Modern China DS 721 .X8813 2012 China : a new cultural history DS 779.4 W376 2010 China in the 21st century : what everyone needs to know DS 918 .E53 2010 Encyclopedia of the Korean War: a political,social and military history Ref GN 333 .W67 2009 Worldmark Encyclopedia of culture and daily life (print and online) Ref GN 625 .W47 2009 Encyclopedia of the peoples of Asia and Oceania Ref GT 507 .E535 2013 Encyclopedia of national dress : traditional clothing around the world Ref GT 1555 G367 2007 Chinese dress Ref HM 626 .C843 2012 Cultural sociology of the Middle East, Asia and Africa Ref N7340 .C59 2009 Art in China Ref N 7345 .L77813 2010 A history of art in 20th century China N 7340 .C44 2013 Chinese art book PL 2265 .K65 2012 Chinese literature : a very short introduction

Audiovisual in the library
B 128.C8 C66 2005 DVD Confucius:words of wisdom DS 77.53 N366 2008 DVD Nanking: the 1937 massacre DS 721 .E54 2006 DVD Engineering an empire: China DS 754 .R84 2009 DVD China's last empire DS 755 .75 C3368 2013 Mao's great famine DS 771 .C45 2008 DVD China's Boxer Rebellion DS 778 .D46 D36 2006 DVD Deng Xiaoping : a legend DS 793 .G67 G743 DVD Great Wall HV 1317 .N38 2004 DVD China's lost girls DS 774 .C456 2007 DVD China a century of revolution U 43.C6 A52 2009 DV D Ancient China: the personal weapon

=Online books and documentaries:= Electronic Book Center contains the full texts of thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering many subject areas. Oxford Reference Online brings together subject reference works from one of the world's biggest and most trusted reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Premium Collection offers a huge range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date, and cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.(View a tutorial on searching Oxford reference Online)
 * Online book Database**

Digitial Resources Commons OhioLinK covers many subjects. Currently includes videos from the distributor Films for the Humanities and Sciences. Films On Demand is a web-based digital video delivery service that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere YouTube to find documentary films
 * Online Documentary Databases:**

Authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China (online book) Ancient China (online documentary) Ancient treasures: imperial art of China (online documentary) Chinapedia: the first authoritative reference to understanding China Chinese Religious Art Chinese revolution (online documentary) Concubinage and servitude in late imperial China Beijing opera masks : face of Chinese tradition (online documentary) Concubines and bondservants:a social history (online book) From Confucious to Mao (online documentary) Great Famine in China, 1958-1962 a documentary history Hidden people of China (online documentary) An intellectual history of China. Volume one : knowledge, thought, and belief before the seventh century CE Marriage and inequality in Chinese society (online book) No rest for the weary : cultural revolution and its origins (online documentary) Origins of the cultural revolution (online book) Pop Culture: media, arts and lifestyle (online book) Rape of Nanking (online documentary) Unfortunate generation : cultural revolution and beyond (online documentary) Women's roles in Asia =Online Journals:= E- Journal Finder : Access a list of history journals accessible from a variety of databases
 * Selected online books and documentary**

China Journal Chinese Studies in History Frontiers of History in China Historian History of the Family Journal of Traditional Chinese medicine Journal of World History Late Imperial China T 'oung Pao

=Recommended Databases:= Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. View the tipsheet Anthropology Plus An extensive worldwide indexing of journal articles, reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social, cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies. Coverage is from the late 19th century to the present. Bibliography of Asian Studies s contains over 680,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. eHRAF World Cultures A systematically organized collection of thousands of full-text books and articles on cultures from all regions of the world; provides information on particular cultures, ethnic groups, or immigrant groups, their beliefs and superstitions, or subjects such as political structure, architecture, kinship units, or settlement patterns. The information is organized by cultures and ethnic groups. ( Video Tutorial on how to search eHRAF) Electronic Journal Center full text of 6000+ research journals. Film and Television Literature Index is an index to film and television literature Historical Abstracts contains references about the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada) Humanities International Complete provides full text journals, books and other published sources from around the world. JSTOR Collections holds the complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals, starting with the very first issues, some dating as far back as the 1600s.

View a tutorial: Performed an advance search using EBSCO Host Databases View a tutorial: Perform a basic search using EBSCO host databases

=Recommended Websites:= History of China (University of Maryland) Internet History Sourcebooks are wonderful collections of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts. Chinese Cultural Texts Library of Congress: China, Country Studies Nanking Massacre Project (Yale Divinity School) Tiananmen Square: Declassified history : Visual Source book of Chinese Civilization (University of Washington) =Finding Books & Media= Books and media for the China project can be located in the UA library catalog using keywords or subject headings. Search keywords by topic, time period, places, people, or event. In addition you have limit your results to Audio Visual materials. If you cannot locate materials through the UA Library catalog, you can search the OhioLink Central Catalog For example: View a tutorial: Searching the UA library catalog for books and media View a tutorial: Searching and requesting materials using the OhioLink Central Catalog View a tipsheet : Using Ohiolink Central Catalog
 * China and cultural revolution
 * "Great Leap Forward"
 * China and Mao
 * China and (family life or village life or marriage culture)
 * China and art and 19th century

Suggested Subject Headings:
Art, Chinese Beijing China China - Antiquities China - History China - History - Cultural Revolution China - History - Han Dynasty, 202 B.C - 220 A. D. China - Religion China - Social life and customs City and Town Life - China Clothing and Dress - China Family Size - China Food habit, China Foot Binding Great Wall of China Korean War, 1950-1953 - China Philosophy, Chinese Rite and Ceremonies - China Weapons - China - History Women - China World War, 1939 - 1945 - China

Browse the Shelves by Call Number:
BL (Religion and mythology) BP (Islam) BQ (Buddhism) DS 4 (Asia) DS 701 - 799 (China) GT 31 -3400 (Clothing, folklore, customs) HM (Sociology) HN (Social History) HQ 1500-1600 (Women-Asia) N 7344 (Art) PL (Literature) TX 724 (Food)

=Time periods of China= Search by keywords or subject headings in the library catalog by China's time period.

Ancient:
Xia Dynasty 2100 - 1600 BCE Shang Dynasty 1600 - 11046 BCE Zou Dynasty 1045 - 256 BCE

Imperial:
Qin Dynasty 221 BCE - 206 BCE Han Dynasty 206 BCE - 220 CE Three Kingdoms 220 - 280 Jin Dynasty 265 - 420 Southern and Northern Dynasties 420 - 89 Sui Dynasties 420 - 589 Tang Dynasty 618 - 705 Ten Kingdoms 907 - 960 Song Dynasty 960 -1279 Yuan Dynasty 1271 - 1368 Qing Dynasty 1644 - 1911 (Russian-Japanese War)

Modern:
Early Republic 1912 - 1916 Warlord Era 1916 - 1928 (World War I) Republic of China 1912-1949 ( Second Sino - Japanese War, World War II,) People's Republic of China 1949 - present (Great leap forward, Cultural Revolution, Korean War)

=Document Your Sources= The Smucker Learning Center's documents and information Style Guides in the Library's collection: Ready Reference LB2369 .G53 2009 MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers Ready Reference BF76.7 .P83 2010 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association

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