Resource Guide - LLEA 40618 — Modern China on Screen: An Introduction to Chinese Film - Library Guides at University of Notre Dame

About

This course guide assists Professor Xian Wang's students in writing their final research paper.

Finding Movies

Kanopy
On-demand, revolving streaming video for selected documentaries and theatrical releases.
World Cinema Video Collection
Provides access to online streaming titles from Africa, North and South America, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Search in Chinese, Japanese or Korean is not supported. To browse materials in the language of your interest, go to Advanced Search and use the language filter.

Chinese videos @ Hesburgh Libraries

To find Chinese videos in the Hesburgh Library, go to Advanced Search in the ND Catalog. Define Material Type, Language, and Search Scope as below, then enter a search term in any field.

Secondary Sources

Scholarly Articles & Books

Oxford bibliographies online. Chinese studies

Peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on China, with short introductory essays by renowned scholars of various disciplines. Browseable by subject area and keyword searchable. Suggested articles:

Chinese Language Film : Gender and Sexuality
Modern Chinese Fiction and Prose : Images of Women and Women Writers
Traditional Chinese Drama (Xiqu 戏曲) Performance Arts : Theatre Relating to the Chinese Communist Party
Cultural Revolution
Family Relations in Contemporary China
New Social Classes, 1895-1949 : Women Workers and Class Identity
Gender Issues in Traditional China

Bibliography of Asian studies (EBSCO platform)
Provides citations on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide since 1971 in western-language periodical articles, individually authored monographs (through 1991 only), chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, Festschriften, etc. Updated regularly.
JSTOR: Asian Studies
Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and basic sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication. Users may browse by journal title or discipline, or may search the full-text or citations/abstracts. New issues of existing titles and new titles are added approximately on a weekly basis.

FIAF international index to film periodicals This link opens in a new window
Bibliographical index to hundreds of academic and popular film journals. Many titles available in full text. Includes: Index to film periodicals, 1972- ; information on silent-era film holdings of film archives; and descriptions of other materials published by FIAF archives.

Popular Sources

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the full text of more than 17,000 news, business, and legal sources. Includes today's papers. Text only; no illustrations. You can pre-select sources in Advanced Search.

ChinaFile
An online magazine published by the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society, ChinaFile publishes original reporting and analysis across a wide spectrum of topics in writing, photography, and video. It also publishes the articles translated from a range of other publications. Its contributors are journalists, scholars, and other experts working both inside and outside of China.

Citing Sources

MLA (Modern Language Association) Formatting and Style Guide

Quick Guide

In-Text Citations: The Basics
Formatting Quotations
Endnotes and Footnotes
Works Cited Page: Books
Works Cited Page: Periodicals
Works Cited: Electronic Sources (web publications)
Works Cited: Other Common Sources (interviews, speeches/lectures/conference proceedings, painting/sculpture/photograph, song/album, films/movies, television shows, podcasts, etc.)
Sample Works Cited Page
Sample Paper