CHIN 562: Contemporary Chinese Urban Arts and Culture

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This course research guide contains links to resources for CHIN562: Contemporary Chinese Urban Arts and Culture

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Frequently Used Databases

Academic Search Premier

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Indexing, 1975-present; Full-text, 1975-present
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Citations to articles published worldwide from 1971 for East, Southeast and South Asia. This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present. Through the 1991 printed version, the BAS included citations to western-language periodical articles, individually authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften, etc. Since 1992, newly published individual monographs are no longer being added to the database, and users seeking monographs are urged to consult other general resources and databases (such as RLIN, OCLC's WorldCat, etc.).

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1971-present (substantial publication lag)
JSTOR
Provides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences. UNC patrons have access to extensive retrospective holdings of hundreds of journals, starting with the first issues. Excludes the most recent 2-5 years of currently available journals.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Varies. Excludes most recent 2-5 years of currently available journals.
LexisNexis Academic (Please see Nexis Uni)
LexisNexis Academic has been discontinued and the content moved to Nexis Uni.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Varies. Some of the files go back to the 1970s
MLA International Bibliography
A major index for literary criticism, linguistics, folklore & cultural studies. Includes articles from several thousand journals and series published worldwide. Also covers relevant monographs, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies. Also searchable under "Criticism" within Literature Online.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: 1884-present
Language: Various

Modern Chinese Literature Center (MCLC)

Project Muse
Provides access to important university press and other scholarly publisher e-journals mainly in the humanities and social science content for the scholarly community.

Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users.
Coverage: Varies

Additional Databases

E-Research by Discipline (China)

How to Search Chinese-Japanese-Korean (CJK) Records

See how to search the library catalog in Chinese in this video.

Two ways you can do it:

Type in Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK 中日韓) language characters in search box.
Use North American romanization standards for CJK languages:
Pinyin for Chinese, Hepburn for Japanese, and McCune-Reischauer for Korean.

NOTE:
The online catalog is not case sensitive and ignores diacritics when searching.
A hyphen (-) is treated as a space if not included in the search term.

Locations of East Asian materials in Davis Library

Davis Library does not shelve Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK中日韓) materials separately from materials in other languages, but integrates all library materials by call number (subject).

The majority of Chinese/Japanese/Korean (中日韓) materials are on following floors at Davis Library:


Floors 2 - 4:	Call number AC to GT
Floors 5 - 6:	Call number H to LA2383
Floors 6 - 8:	Call number LA1130 to R121
Floor 8:	Call number R127 to Z