HIST 393 CHINA BOUND: Western travel Writing on China from the 18th - 20th centuries

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Reference Sources

• American travellers abroad : a bibliography of accounts published before 1900. Harold F. Smith.
  - Over 2,000 titles of US travelers abroad with full bibliographic citations and brief evaluative descriptions. Arranged alphabetically by author and indexed by place and author's occupation. 
  
• A Bibliography of Murray's Handbooks for Travellers and Biographies of Authors, Editors, Revisers and Principal Contributors ( Rare Book Collection Reference Z325.M91 L5 1993)
• Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia ( Davis Reference HQ1061.E53 2006 (2 vols.)
• Encyclopedia of Travel Literature ( Davis Reference Row 19a G465 .B765 2000)
• The Encyclopedia of Women's Travel and Exploration ( Davis Reference Row 19a G465 .N47 2001)
• Women's Diaries, Journals, and Letters: an Annotated Bibliography
  Davis Reference Z7963 .B6 C55 1989
• The Oxford History of the British Empire
  Davis Reference DA16 .O95 1998 (5 vols)
  Davis DA 16 .O95 1998 (5 vols)
• Atlas of Exploration
  Davis Reference Row 19a G1036 .S12 R6 1997
  UL Reference G1036 .S12 R6 1997

You can find similar works by clicking on the Subject Headings in the catalog records.

Secondary Sources - Academic Journal Articles 

E-Research Tools (find out appropriate databases by title or by subject. Do a quick article/ebook search without selecting specific database)

Academic Search Premier
This multidiscplinary database covers 4000+ popular and scholarly journal articles with many full-text articles in academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics..

JSTOR
JSTOR provides a retrospective 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.

Project Muse
Project Muse provides an archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines.

Bibliography of Asian Studies
An important resource for Asian Studies. Try searching for "feminism" and "China," or "women" and "social conditions" and "China."

Historical Abstracts 
Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present, excluding the United States and Canada. Currently over 2,000 journals published throughout the world are covered. In addition to including the key historical journals from virtually every major country, Historical Abstracts includes hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities.

MLA International Bibliography Plus Full Text and Literature Resource Center
Two major sources for finding literary criticism and analysis.

You may want to consult additional databases for History or Literature.

Primary Sources

• China: trade, politics, and culture, 1793-1980

The database offers rich English-language sources relating to China and the West for the period of 1793-1980 [more infor].

•  Foreign Office Files for China, 1949-1980  

From the British National Archives, this digital collection consists of British Foreign Office (FO) fies covering the period 1949-1980. [info]

• British travel writing from China, 1798-1901

This five-volume set draws together British travel writings about China from a range of different sources. Although often marked by personal prejudice or ignorance, a large degree of thoughtful exchange with the land and people of Qing Dynasty China is evident. From the earliest official expeditions to China, until the Boxer Uprising, the writings here represent works of compelling scholarly interest, but which are not widely available. 

• The nineteenth century. Books on China [microform] : specialist collection.
  

This microfilm collection contains 733 monographs about China written in English, or translated into English. The materials selected include rare and renowned material from the holdings of the British Library, primarily the Oriental and India Office Collections.

• China Through Western Eyes (open access from HK, full text) & China Through Western Eyes  (print)

Materials written by Western foreigners describing what they saw and encountered in China from the period from 16th century until 1911.

• American voyages to the Orient, 1690-1865; an account of merchant and naval activities in China, Japan and the various Pacific Islands (Library Service Center. Use Storage Request Form. DS518.8 .P38)
• English journals published in China during 1840-1912 (the Republican Era) in Davis Library

Secondary Sources - Books 

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• Identify one or more relevant books. Click on LCSH given to those titles to find more titles.
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Examples:

 Keyword Search: China travel/voyage/expedition

 LC Subject Heading: Pacific Ocean -- Discovery and exploration; China -- descriptoin and travel; "Women travelers" ; Dwarf (Steamship)

 Advanced Search: China description and travel (in Keyword) + 19th century (in Sujbect)/ (travel or travelers) and writing,(diaries or personal narratives)

 

Visual Sources

• Visualizing Cultures:

An open access digital collection from MIT that weds images and scholarly commentary in innovative ways to illuminate social and cultural history ... Titles on the website referred to as “units.” which cover diverse aspects of Japan in the modern world, China and beyond. Choose from the list of current titles on the VC Units Menu. 

• Sidney D. Gamble Photographs:

Duke's digital collection that contains 5000 photographs, primarily of China, from 1917-1932. Open access

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