Chinese Studies
A list of research guides to Chinese Studies in all primary subject areas in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Research Guide to Chinese Studies: Politics and Political Science
Guide content supports the teaching and research goals of multiple departments on campus. Content represents a non-exhaustive selection of essential resources and tools for engaging a wide range of backgrounds and viewpoints.
This guide provides an introduction to resources on Studies in Chinese Politics and Political Science. In addition to these resources, users can search materials on Chinese Politics and Political Science studies from UI Library online catalog, InfoHawk+.
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Chinese Politics by Robert Goehlert
Call Number: Z7165.C6 G59ISBN: 0792002652Publication Date: 1989-08-01Monticello, Ill., USA: Vance Bibliographies, 1989
Include bibliographical information about publications on Chinese politics. -
The Cultural Revolution by Yongyi Song; Dajin Sun; Eugene W. Wu (Editor)
Call Number: Z3108.A5 S86ISBN: 9780941128063Publication Date: 1998-06-01Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University
A detailed bibliography on studies in the history of Chinese Cultural Revolution.
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The provinces of the People's Republic of China: a political and economic bibliographyCall number: Z7165.C6 U55
An important reference source about Chinese provincial and local government and politics. Coverage: 1949-1976.
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History of the Chinese Communist PartyBeijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1991
Call number: JQ1519.A5 H6
A chronology of historical events of the Chinese Communist Party, 1919-1990. -
Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo zheng zhi ti zhi yan ge da shi ji, 1949-1978Beijing: Chun qiu chu ban she/北京: 春秋出版社: 1987
Call number: JQ1508 .C53
A chronology of events and changes in Chinese political systems, 1949-1978.
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Academic Search Elite This link opens in a new windowThis multi-disciplinary database offers full text for nearly 2,000 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. This database is updated on a daily basis.
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Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) This link opens in a new windowRECOMMEND USING CHROME; This on-line version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains more than 410,000 records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
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China Academic Journals (CAJ): Series A, F, G, & H This link opens in a new windowThis database covers journal articles published in China in almost all the subject areas of the Humanities and Arts.The U of Iowa subscribes to Series A (Physics/Astronomy/Mathematics), Series F (Literature/History/Philosophy), Series G (Politics/Military Affairs/Law), and Series H (Education and Social Sciences), including back files dating back to 1994. It is part of the electronic project of the CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure). The database provides full texts in CAJ and PDF formats.
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China: Culture and Society This link opens in a new windowSpanning three centuries (c1750-1929), this resource makes available extremely rare pamphlets from Cornell University Library’s Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia. The resource is full-text searchable, allowing for the collection to be comprehensively explored and studied. In addition, China: Culture and Society features a host of secondary resources, including scholarly essays, an interactive chronology, mini guides, and editors’ choices from the collection.
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Chinese Periodical Full-Text Database (1833-1949) This link opens in a new windowChinese Periodical Full-text Database (1833-1949) covers around 10,000,000 pieces of writing in over 20,000 different kinds of periodicals published between 1833 and 1949. As an important part of the historical archive, this database has significant academic and historical value.
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PAIS International This link opens in a new windowPAIS International covers the literature of public affairs including political, economic and social issues. PAIS International contains references to articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, research reports, conference reports and publications of international agencies. Publications from more than 120 countries are included.
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Project Muse This link opens in a new windowWith full text for well over 300 journal titles from university publishers, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others. Coverage begins in 1995.
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Shen Bao digital archive, 1872-1949 This link opens in a new windowEstablished in 1872, Shen Bao (historically transliterated as Shun Pao or Shen-pao) was the most influential and longest lasting commercial newspaper of before the establishment of the People’s Republic. Published in Shanghai until 1949, Shen Bao was founded by Englishman Ernest Major, but, uniquely, as a newspaper for Chinese readers, written by Chinese reporters. During its existence, Shen Bao gradually shifted from a conservative to a more liberal perspective, and played a pivotal role in the formation of public opinion in the imperial period and into the tumultuous beginnings of modern China.
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new windowThis database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.
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A Chinese-English Dictionary of Communist Chinese Terminology by Dennis J. Doolin; Charles P. Ridley
Call Number: PL1455 .D6ISBN: 9780817912413Publication Date: 1973-01-01Dated but still useful as it is bilingual.
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A comprehensive glossary of Chinese communist terminologyCall number: PL1455 .K85
Somewhat dated, but still useful. Coverage runs till the 1970s. -
Dang dai Zhongguo zheng zhi da shi dian 当代中国政治大事典Call number: DS777.75 .T37
A dictionary of political events in contemporary China.
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Dictionary of the Politics of the People's Republic of China by Colin Mackerras (Editor); Donald H. McMillen (Editor); Andrew Watson (Editor)
Call Number: DS777.75 .D53ISBN: 9780415154505Publication Date: 1998-05-08Cover all aspects of the politics of the PRC. -
Guo min dang zheng fu zheng zhi zhi du shi ci dian by Qingtai Kong
Call Number: JQ1501.A25 G86ISBN: 9787533626884Publication Date: 2000A dictionary of the history of the political systems of the Chinese Nationalist Party. -
Political Leaders of Modern China by Edwin Leung
Call Number: DS755.3 .P64ISBN: 9780313302169Publication Date: 2002-10-30A biographical dictionary of modern Chinese political leaders. -
Zhongguo gong chan dang li shi da ci dian 中国共产党历史大辞典 by 盛 平 Ping Sheng
Call Number: JQ1519.A5 C6439ISBN: 9787800358746Publication Date: 1991A dictionary of the history of the Chinese Communist Party. -
Zhongguo guan zhi da ci dian 中國官制大辞典 by 俞鹿年. Yu, Lunian
Call Number: JQ1501.A25 Y8ISBN: 9787207011732Publication Date: 1992A dictionary of Chinese political systems and official titles from early Chinese history to the Republic period.
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China Review InternationalUniversity of Hawaii Press
Features studies in Chinese politics. -
The China JournalContemporary China Center, Australian National University
Features studies in Chinese politics.
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A Research Guide to Central Party and Government Meetings in China 1949-1975 by Kenneth Lieberthal; Bruce Dickson
Call Number: JQ1519.A5 L542ISBN: 0873324927Publication Date: 1989-03-31Guide to sources on the meetings of the Chinese communist party and government.
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China Review InternationalUniversity of Hawaii Press
Features studies in Chinese politics. -
Modern ChinaBeverly Hills [Calif.] Sage Publications
Features studies in modern Chinese politics. -
The China JournalContemporary China Center, Australian National University
Features studies in Chinese politics.
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Bai nian ji dang: ji lu Zhongguo 100 nian de tu wen jing dian 百年激荡: 记录中国100年的图文精典Shanghai: Fu dan da xue chu ban she
Call number: DS774 .B26
A visual documentation of Chinese history and politics.
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Chinese Politics, Documents and Analysis by James T. Myers; Jurgen Domes; Eric Von Grueling
Call Number: DS777.547 .C47ISBN: 9780872494756Publication Date: 1986-06-01In 4 volumes. Coverage: 1969-1982, including bibliographies and index. -
Government and Politics in Revolutionary China Selected Documents, 1949-1979 by Hinton, Harold C.
Call Number: DS777.547 .G68ISBN: 0842021906Publication Date: 1997-08-01Include documents covering the period from 1949 to 1979. -
Mao Zedong and China's Revolutions by Timothy Cheek
Call Number: DS778.M3 C47283ISBN: 9780312256265Publication Date: 2002-05-16Combining a historical overview of China's Communist revolutions with bioographical information of and selected writings from Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong and China's Revolutions provides a fascinating window into the Chinese experience from the 1920s onward.
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The Chinese conception of human rightsLund, Sweden: Lund University; Stockholm: Sara Distribution, 1996
Call number: JC599.C6 S93
A history of the debate on human rights in China, 1898-1949. -
Zhong gong zhong yao li shi wen xian zi liao hui bian 中共重要历史文献资料汇编Los Angeles: Zhong wen chu ban wu fu wu zhong xin/中文出版物服务中心
Call number: JQ1519.A5 C518
A series of sources and documents from the Chinese communist party. -
Zhongguo gong chan dang zu zhi shi zi liao 中国共产党组织史资料Beijing: Zhong gong dang shi chu ban she/北京: 中共 党史 出版社, 2000
Call number: JQ1519.A5 Z573
Sources for the organization of the Chinese Communist Party.
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China Facts and Figures AnnualGulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1978-
Call number: DS779.15 .C48
A yearly publication about factual and statistical information on China, including Chinese politics.
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