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• Reference Works
  Art | Atlases | Biographical Works | History | Literature | Philosophy & Religion
  • Art
    • Dictionary of Art. Ed. Jane Turner. 34 vols. New York: Grove's Dictionaries, 1996.
      Reference R 703 D554
    • Dictionary of Chinese and Japanese Art. Hugo Munsterberg. New York: Hacker Art Books, 1981.
      Reference R 709.5 M969d
    • A Dictionary of Japanese Artists. Laurance P. Roberts. New York: Weatherhill, 1976.
      Reference R 927 R645d
  • Atlases
    • Atlas of World History. Ed. Patrick O'Brien. New York: Oxford, 1999.
      Reference Atlas Area R 911 A8811 Atlas Stand
    • The Complete Atlas of World History. Ed. John Haywood. 3 vols. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference, 1997.
      Reference R 911 C737
    • Cultural Atlas of China. Caroline Blunden and Mark Elvin. Rev. ed. New York: Checkmark Books, 1998.
      Reference R912.51 B658c 1998
    • The Harper Atlas of World History. Ed. Pierre Vidal-Naquet. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.
      Reference R 911 H295h
    • Historical Atlas. William Shepherd. 9th ed. New York: Henry Holt, 1964.
      Reference R 911 S54h 9th ed.
      The library also has several copies of the 8th ed.
    • An Historical Atlas of China. Albert Herrmann. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1966.
      Reference R 912.5 H552h
    • Historical Atlas of South-East Asia. J.M. Pluvier. New York: Brill, 1995.
      Reference R 911.59 P737h
    • Historical Maps on File. Rev. ed. 2 vols. New York: Facts on File, 2002.
      Reference R 911 H6731 2002
    • The Times Atlas of World History. Ed. Geoffrey Parker. 4th ed. Maplewood, NJ: Hammond, 1993.
      Reference Atlas Area R 911 T583 1993 Atlas Stand
  • Biographical Works
    • Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women. Ed. Lily Xiao Hong Lee and A.D. Stefanowska. 3 vols. to date. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998- .
      Reference R 920.7 B615
      Volume 1 covers the Qing Period (1644-1911 C.E.).
      Volume 3 covers antiquity through Sui (1600 B.C.E. - 618 C.E.).
    • Biographical Dictionary of Japanese History. Ed. Seiicho Iwao. Tokyo: International Society for Educational Information, 1978.
      Reference R 920.052 B615
    • Biography Reference Bank. H.W. Wilson, 2003- .
    • Dictionary of Ming Biography, 1368-1644. Ed. L. Carrington Goodrich. 2 vols. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1976.
      Reference R 920.051 A849d
  • History
    • The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China. Ed. Richard Bowring and Peter Kornicki. New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1993.
      Reference R 951 C178
    • China: A Historical and Cultural Dictionary. Ed. Michael Dillon. Richmond, UK: Curzon, 1998.
      Reference R 951 C5392
    • Companion to Chinese History. Hugh B. O'Neill. New York: Facts on File, 1987.
      Reference R 951 O58c
    • Encyclopedia of Asian History. Ed. Ainslie T. Embree. 4 vols. New York: Scribner, 1988.
      Reference R 950 E56
    • Encyclopedia of China: The Essential Reference to China, its History and Culture. Dorothy Perkins. New York: Facts on File, 1999.
      Reference R 951 P448e
    • An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China. James S. Olson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998.
      Reference R 951 O52e
    • Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. 2 vols. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993.
      Reference R 952 J351
    • Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. 9 vols. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1983.
      Reference R 952.03 K76
  • Literature
    • Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide. Ed. Michael Loewe. Berkeley, CA: Society for the Study of Early China, 1993.
      Reference R 015.51 E12
    • Great Literature of the Eastern World. Ed. Ian P. McGreal. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.
      Reference R 895 G786
    • The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature. Ed. William H. Nienhauser, Jr. Bloomington, IN: Indiana Univ. Press, 1986.
      Reference R 895.109 I39
    • The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature. Early Minor et al. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1985.
      Reference R 895.6 M664p
  • Philosophy & Religion
    • A Dictionary of Buddhism. Damien Keown. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003.
      Reference R 294.3 K37d
    • A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols. Wolfram Eberhard. Trans. G.L. Campbell. New York: Routledge, 1986.
      Reference R 951 E16L-T
    • Gale Virtual Reference Library
      Includes over one hundred reference books, including the following:
      • Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Ed. Robert E. Buswell. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 2004.
        Reference R 294.3 E561
      • Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Donald Borchert. 2nd ed. 10 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2006.
      • Encyclopedia of Religion. Ed. Lindsay Jones. 2nd ed. 15 vols. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2005.
        Reference R 203 E562 2005
    • Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward Craig. 10 vols. New York: Routledge, 1998.
      Reference R 103 R869
    • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Ed. Edward N. Zalta. Stanford, CA: Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1995- .

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• Primary Sources
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    • ARTstor
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    • Chinese Religion: An Anthology of Sources. Ed. Deborah Sommer. New York: Oxford, 1995.
      Little Library Stacks 299.51 C539
    • Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide. Ed. Michael Loewe. Berkeley, CA: Society for the Study of Early China, 1993.
      Reference R 015.51 E12
      Contains information about 64 literary works that were created or compiled before the end of the Han dynasty; also lists modern editions and translations.
    • Early English Books Online (EEB0) (1475-1700)
      Includes over 125,000 books, pamphlets, broadsides, proclamations, almanacs, and other publications printed in Great Britain, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and British North America from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries.
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      To print more than one page of a document, you need to "Mark" the document, view your "Marked List," and then click on the "Download Document Image sets in PDF format" link (not the link to download the record). Once the document is downloaded, you can print out a range of pages or the entire document using the print function in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
    • Ennin's Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law. Trans. Edwin Reischauer. New York: Ronald Press, 1955.
      Little Library Stacks 951.01 E59n-T
    • Jesuit Letters from China, 1583-84. Ed. M. Howard Rienstra. Minneapolis, MN: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1986.
      Little Library Stacks 266.2 A963-T
    • On the Road in Twelfth Century China: The Travel Diaries of Fan Chengda (1126-1193). James Hargett. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1989.
      Little Library Stacks 895.1 F19xh
    • They Came to Japan: An Anthology of European Reports on Japan, 1543-1640. Ed. Michael Cooper. Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 1981.
      Little Library Stacks 915.2 T421
    • Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society
      The Hakluyt Society, founded in 1846, publishes narratives of voyages, travels, and expeditions as well as other early works on geography, navigation, and exploration. Works originally written in other languages are translated into English. To date, more than 270 titles have been published in three series.
      Library has:
      • First Series: microfiche cabinet A-1A
      • Second Series: microfiche cabinet A-1A (2nd ser. nos. 1-107) and Little Library Stacks 910.8 H15w (2nd ser. nos. 109-190 plus misc. earlier nos.)
      • Third Series: Little Library Stacks 910.8 H15w (nos. 1- ) [ongoing]
        
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