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Song China: Guides to Resources
Web page for Chinese StudiesThere is an excellent general web page for Chinese studies,
Bibliographical resources - print and electronicBibliographical guideFor a brief, accessible, up-to-date guide, look first at the section "Further reading" at the end of Patricia Ebrey's Cambridge Illustrated History of China. After that, the first reference to use for books and some articles is: 1. The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, Third edition, edited by Mary Beth Norton, Oxford University Press, New York, 1995. This is in the Reference Section of the Chifley Library. In order to avoid damaging it (too much photocopying is very destructive) I have made copies of the relevant section, "China to 1644". These copies may be borrowed from the Reserve Desk in Chifley and from the Asian History Centre Adminstrator, Linda Poskitt (Asian Studies Room 4.38). Section 10, " China to 1644", is edited by Patricia Ebrey. It has listings on: The Sung dynasty (pages 301-303)
The entries include brief, useful notes, and cover most of the
standard works in their respective fields. Note, though,
that the coverage runs only up to 1992, so that you need to look
elsewhere for books published in the last three or four years. Unfortunately,
annual bibliographical guides are not much more up to date, though the
Japanese language Toyogaku bunken ruimoku has a section of
Western language materials. It is in the Menzies library at Z3301.T69.
See also the next reference, to Ellman's Guide on the Internet.
2. Classical Chinese Historiography for Chinese History http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib/ This pointer will bring up the general table of contents for the whole set of materials. For this course, the most useful listings are to be found in section 10. Selected English Bibliography For Chinese Civilization: A Brief Historical Survey, at: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib/10hist.htm Explore not only the section on the Sung Dynasties (960-1280) and the Hsi-hsia (990-1227), Liao (907-1199), Chin (1115-1205), & Yuan Dynasties (1280-1368) , but also the sections on various special subjects. There is a very good up-to-date bibliography on women in Chinese history, by the foremost authority on this subject in English, on the Internet: 3. Women in Chinese History: Supplemental Reading List from Patricia Ebrey. http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~asia/bibs/bibebrey.html There is also a course guide from a wide-ranging course which Patricia Ebrey taught in 1996 at the University of Illinois, on women in Chinese history. It includes not only some directly relevant material but also a lot of references to studies of other periods, which might be helpful if you are especially interested in this subject: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~asia/syll/thematic/syllebreychwomen.html Far the most important listing of material on literature, and an invaluable reference work in its own right: 4. The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, edited and compiled by William H. Nienhauser, Jr.; Indiana University Press, Blooomington, Indiana, 1986 (Second revised edition published in Taipei by the Southern Materials Center, 1988). + This is an expensive and valuable book: please treat it with care so that future users will be able to use it in a condition as near as possible to the one you find it in. There are two copies in the Library. One is at +2023215 at the Reserve Desk in Chifley: it is available on two-hour loan. The other is at MENZ ASIAN reference PLZ3108.L5I53 1986 (in the Asian Reference Section in Menzies), and may be used there without restriction but not borrowed. This book will usually make the best introduction to any literary subject you want to work on or find information about. Most of the entries include valuable bibliographies. Of course, it is not a substitute for wider reading, and especially not for reading the originals (or translations of them). The main body of the book is organized as an encyclopedia of its subject, with entries for the major writers, works, styles, genres and so on. Before the encylopedia entries there is a list of useful journals, a general bibliography and a time-chart of major dynasties and periods. This is followed by an section devoted to general "Essays", which in most cases are very useful introductions to their subject. There are "Essays" on: Buddhist Literature
Many of the entries in the encylopedia section, though,
are in fact of essay length, substantial articles in their own right.
5. Guide to Chinese poetry and drama, by
Lynn, Richard John and Bailey, R.B.;
MENZIES PLZ3108.L5L85 1984 6. Guide to Chinese prose, by Paper, Jordan D., 2nd ed.,
Boston, Mass : G.K. Hall, 1984. (Print)
7. Classical Chinese fiction : a guide to its study and
appreciation: essays and bibliographies, by Yang, Winston L. Y.,
Mao, Nathan K., and Li, Peter; London : G Prior, 1978. (Print)
On art there is a very substantial literature, but there is nothing to match the Indiana Companion for general reference in this field. A useful introductory bibliography which supplements those to be found in the Guide to Historical Literature and Ellman's Classical Chinese Historiography for Chinese History: 8. The Arts of China (SOAS/Sotheby's Asian Arts Course1989), compiled by Roderick Whitfield and Jane Portal, London, 1988. (Print) This has no annotations, but lists the major works in a wide range of different fields, including decorative arts of various kinds, architecture and garden design. At the end of the Reading List proper there is a list of relevant periodicals: and there are a number of appendices with information about English and Chinese terms used in describing Chinese (and other) art. (It will tell you, for example, what celadon is, and even where the word comes from, which I certainly hadn't met before.) It is available at the Chifley Reserve Desk at: lge pamph NZ5961.C5W45
1988
Two other reference works in the field of art history:
9. The T. L. Yuan bibliography of western writings on Chinese art and archaeology; Harrie A. Vanderstappen, editor ; Rachel E. McClellan, principal assistant ; Edward Schafer ... [et al.], assistants: London : Mansell, 1975. (Print) MENZIES large book Z5961.C5.Y9
CHIFLEY
N7340.M74
On Chinese philosophy, there is a guide which is still useful
though a good deal of work has been published since it came out:
11. Guide to Chinese philosophy; by Fu, Wei-hsun
and Chan, Wing-tsit; Boston :
There is a web page:
http://www.chinesephilosophy.net/ You may or may not find useful material in the various links available
from this page, but if you're interested in the subject it's worth
becoming acquainted with them.
On the subject of religion, the most up-to-date bibliographies
are the ones on work in the previous ten years, published as "Chinese Religions:
the State of the Field: Part II - Living Religious Traditions:
Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam and Popular Religion"
in the Journal of Asian Studies 54, no. 2 (May 1995). These
include references to other bibliographies, as well as brief essays
on the state of the field:
13. "Chinese Religions: the State of the Field: Introduction" by Daniel Overmyer, Journal of Asian Studies 54, no. 2 (May 1995):314-321. On the general trends in the study of Chinese religion in recent decades. 14. "Taoism", by Franciscus Verellen (in "Chinese Religions: the State of the Field"), Journal of Asian Studies 54, no. 2 (May 1995):322-346. 15. "Confucianism", by Rodney Taylor and Gary Arbuckle (in "Chinese Religions: the State of the Field"), Journal of Asian Studies 54, no. 2 (May 1995):347-354. 16. "Buddhism", by John R. McRae (in "Chinese Religions: the State of the Field"), Journal of Asian Studies 54, no. 2 (May 1995):355-371. 17. "Popular Religion", by Stephen F. Teiser (in
"Chinese Religions: the State of the Field"), Journal of
Asian Studies 54, no. 2 (May 1995):378-395.
18. Guide to Chinese Religion, by Yu,
David C.,with contributions by
"The Guide is concerned primarily with the religious elements
indigenous
MENZIES
BLZ7757.C6Y8 1985
19. Guide to Buddhist religion, by Frank E. Reynolds,
with John Holt
20. A very useful resource for the study of Daoism is the relevant page from the Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (see the top of this guide). Find it at: http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/igphil.htm#daoism Particularly useful links from this page are the list of "Recommended
Reading" by Gene Thursby at:
While few of these materials on Daoism are directly relevant to the
Song dynasty, if you are interested in Daoism you will need to consult
works of this kind to explain the background to the Song situation.
21. Internet Materials on Buddhism:
The Buddhist Studies page, edited by Dr T.Matthew Ciolek from the ANU. There is an enormous but not easily controlled volume of material in the various sites which are linked to this page. If you are interested, try browsing the "Buddhism Internet Resources: Meta-Register section". Reach the page from: http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html Top of page
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