Use the following databases to find citations to (and sometimes full-text of) journal articles, book chapters, and essays.
Bibliography of Asian Studies - many subjects, all related to Asian studies
MLA International Bibliography - literature
FIAF International Index to Film Literature - film
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text - film and television
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals - architecture
JSTOR - older issues of scholarly journals in many subjects
Academic Search Premier - many subjects
Use these catalogs to find books on your city. If you find items in WorldCat which we do not own, try to find and request them through NExpress or the BLC's Virtual Catalog.
Wellesley
College Library catalog - what we own, has embedded search links to NExpress
HOLLIS - Harvard University library catalog (the Yengching Library is open to Wellesley students)
WorldCat - items in libraries all over the world
WorldCat.org - different interface
If you are looking for images or literary texts, try these databases.
Asian-American Drama - full text of plays by Asian-American authors
ArtSTOR - images from museums and other collections all around the world
MCLC Image Archive
- selected images from different time periods in China
Use these sites to find your way to high-quality resources on the internet.
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center
- bibliographies and pointers to resources on literature, media, music, visual arts, etc.
East and Southeat Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources: Chinese Culture- provides links to useful sites in English and Chinese; look closely at the sub-pages (literature, cinema, and art & architecture)
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