Department of Chinese Studies, Vienna University
Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg

The China WWW Virtual Library:

INTERNET GUIDE
FOR CHINA STUDIES

China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and Singapore

by Hanno Lecher

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The World-Wide Web Virtual Library [Alphabetical || Category Subtree || Library of Congress]

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ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHIES
FOR CHINESE STUDIES

"A WWW Virtual Library is a large-scale distributed, collaborative project providing an up-to-date hypertext map and a seamless access tool to networked scholarly documents, resources and information systems concerned with a given field of expertise."

[Source: T.M.Ciolek,1997, work-in-progress]

This document is part of the Internet Guide for China Studies and the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library. It was last updated on Thu, Apr 2, 1998 and contains 53 links to electronic bibliographies and closely related resources classified under the following sections:

Reference Works	Medicine
History	Gender and Women Studies
Literature	Dictionaries
Religion and Philosophy	Miscellaneous Subjects
Art	Other Lists of Bibliographies
Area Studies

This document is maintained by Fabrizio Pregadio. Please send suggestions, additions, corrections, notices of changed URLs, etc., to pregadio@unive.it.

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Reference Works

1. Classical Bibliography for Chinese History (Benjamin Elman)
   (http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib/).
   Language: English and Chinese (Big5).
   Description: This catalogue, used by Prof. Elman for exercises on sinological reference works, cites a great number of important materials. One section is concerned with electronic resources.

2. Bibliography of Chinese Bibliography (Bunri Usami)
   (http://soshi.shinshu-u.ac.jp/blist5.html).
   Language: Chinese (Big5).
   Description: A very good selection of reference works in Chinese.
   Note: Also available in GB encoding (simplified Chinese characters) and in JIS encoding (Japanese characters).

3. Chinese History, 1900-1990's: A Bibliography (Vickie Doll)
   (http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~eastasia/lbibc01.html).
   Language: English.
   Description: A bibliography of about three dozen reference works and periodicals for research in modern Chinese history.
   Note: Lacks Chinese characters; Chinese text is transliterated in Wade-Giles.

4. Bibliographic chapters of Chinese Dynastic Histories (Katsuyama Minoru)
   (http://www.clione.co.jp/clione/kanseki/china.html).
   Language: Japanese (JIS).
   Description: Includes the bibliographic monographies contained in the following Dynastic Histories: Han shu, Sui shu, Jiu Tang shu, Xin Tang shu, Song shi, Ming shi.
   Note: Files are only available for dowloading to one's computer and are compressed with the LHA compression software. Decompression software is available for Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and the Macintosh.

5. Classified Bibliography of Reference Works on Chinese Historical Geography (Thomas Hahn)
   (http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/sin/institut/hahn/geoweb.htm).
   Language: English and Chinese (Big5).
   Description: Annotated bibliography of primary and secondary works: bibliographies, concordances, catalogues, dictionaries, maps, atlases, etc.
   Note: Uses frames.

6. A Bibliography of Major Reference Works on China (Asian Studies Development Program)
   (http://lama.kcc.hawaii.edu/asdp/biblio/geograph/easian/china/geograph.html).
   Language: English.
   Description: Selected general works, with emphasis on geography.

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History

1. Chinese Cultural Studies: Bibliographical Guide (Paul Halsall)
   (http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/chinbib.html).
   Language: English.
   Description: This useful bibliography lists a great number of books in English dealing not only with history, but also with several other facets of Chinese culture including literature, thought, and religion. One section is concerned with "Movies Addressing Chinese History and Culture".

2. Modern Chinese History: A Basic Bibliography (U. of California at San Diego)
   (http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/bibliography.html).
   Language: English.
   Description: Focuses on the late Qing and early Republican periods. Despite the title, this is an extensive bibliography and is classified by subjects.

3. Twentieth Century China: A Guide to Selected Sources in the Duke University Libraries (Duke University)
   (http://www.library.ucsb.edu/chiu/biw.html).
   Language: English.
   Description: Includes only materials available at the Duke University, but is useful as a list of basic resources on contemporary China. Annotated.
   Note: Apparently offline (checked on December 7, 1997).

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Literature

1. Cultural Revolution in Literature: A Selected Bibliography (WWW Center of the Cultural Revolution Studies)
   (http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/OSU_profile/eacweb/litbib.htm).
   Language: English.
   Description: This bibliography of literary works inspired by the Cultural Revolution is provided by the WWW Center of the Cultural Revolution Studies, Ohio State University. Includes books and short stories. The latter section lists works published in the journal Chinese Literature.

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Religion and Philosophy

1. Chinese Philosophical Bibliographies (Steven A. Brown)
   (http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~sab/cpbib.html).
   Language: English.
   Description: Contains a bibliography on Chinese philosophy and links to other bibliographies.

2. Essential Readings on Chinese Philosophy (Bryan W. Van Norden)
   (http://faculty.vassar.edu/~brvannor/bibliography.html).
   Language: English.
   Description: An annotated bibliography, including materials used in classes on Chinese philosophy.

3. UCLA Guide to East Asian Buddhist Studies: Reference Works (Robert Buswell and William Bodiford)
   (http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/ealc/refguide.htm).
   Language: English and Japanese (JIS).
   Description: An excellent annotated bibliography concerned with collectanea, catalogues, methodology and history of Buddhist studies, encyclopedias, dictionaries, bibliographies, concordances and indexes.
   Note: Also available as a compressed ZIP file.

4. Annotated Bibliography of Chan Texts ("Zenseki kaidai") (Yanagida Seizan)
   (http://www.iijnet.or.jp/iriz/irizhtml/kaidai/kaidai.htm).
   Language: Japanese (JIS).
   Description: Divided into sections on bibliographies, primary sources, collectanea, Dunhuang texts, and texts from the Tang period onwards. An invaluable resource for Buddhist and especially Chan/Zen studies.

5. WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist texts (Christian Wittern)
   (http://gwdu19.gwdg.de/~cwitter/can/ind/canwww.htm).
   Language: Japanese (JIS), with home page in English.
   Description: Another prominent contribution from the Buddhist sector of Sinological computing. From the introduction: "The WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist texts is a comprehensive list of Chinese Buddhist texts. It currently contains 4375 texts by 1349 authors. (...) Currently at most the following information is available for a text: (1) Title; (2) Period or area of origin; (3) Author(s); (4) Role of the author (i.e. translator, commentator etc.); (5) Size; (6) References to the source catalogues and other canon editions; (7) Structural Division of the text [only for longer texts]; (8) Related texts."
   Note: The whole database can be downloaded for local use. Follow the author's intructions.

6. List of East Asian Buddhist Scriptural Texts (Charles Muller)
   (http://www2.gol.com/users/acmuller/kyoten.htm).
   Language: English, Japanese (JIS).
   Description: Titles of Buddhist primary sources, with references to editions in the Buddhist Canon.

7. Selected Readings [on Buddhism] (Richard H. Robinson and Willard L Johnson)
   (http://www.wp.com/buddrel/directory.html).
   Language: English.
   Description: An extended bibliography on Buddhism in Asia, with a section on Chinese Buddhism, coming from the forthcoming fourth edition of the authors' The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction (Belmont, Cal.: Wadsworth Publishing Company).
   Note: The URL above points to the first of seven files. The bibliography is also available as a single document (176k).

8. Annotated Bibliography of Reference Works for Chan Studies (Urp App)
   (http://www.iijnet.or.jp/iriz/irizhtml/refworks/appref.htm).
   Language: English.
   Description: Based on an article published in Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie 7 (1993-1994). Includes bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, indexes, concordances, and a section on electronic resources.

9. Zen Book News and Bibliographies (Urs App)
   (http://www.iijnet.or.jp/iriz/irizhtml/bibliog.htm).
   Language: English.
   Description: Pointers to new electronic resources in various languages.
   Note: The present version was last updated in April, 1996.

10. Women and the Female in Buddhism (The International Association of Buddhist Women)
    (http://www2.hawaii.edu/~tsomo/biblio.htm).
    Language: English.
    Description: "...a selection of books about women, the "divine feminine", and the female influence in Buddhism. Most of the books are by women, although male authors are also included."
    Note: Provides links to publishers' webpages that give short descriptions of the books listed.

11. Taoism in European Languages (Barry Howarth)
    (ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/coombspapers/subj-bibl-clearinghouse/taoism-western-biblio.txt).
    Language: English.
    

12. The Taoist Canon: A Guide to Studies and Reference Works (Fabrizio Pregadio)
    (http://www.unive.it/~dsie/pregadio/tools/daozang/dz_0.html).
    Language: English and Chinese (Big5).
    Description: A bibliographic essay on the study of the Taoist Canon: general works, history of the Canon, modern reprints, catalogues, indexes, concordances, other collections of Taoist texts, and bibliographies.
    Note