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A Guide to World History

Readers in Chinese

Please see the research guides for A Guide to Chinese Studies and A Guide to East Asian Studies for resources in Chinese. For further assistance, please see Joan Wang, WUSTL Libraries' East Asian and Chinese Studies Librarian.   

Reference Works - A Place to Begin

Secondary Sources - Books and Academic Journals

Books

Chinese History is a subject headings with A LOT of subheadings. Pay attention to the subheading "historiography" and bibliography

Keywords - "economic policy," "economic conditions," "foreign economic relations," 

Academic Journal Article Databases

World History & Economics

Multidisciplinary

Specialty

Chinese

Primary Sources

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Library catalogers use the subheading "Sources" at the end of a string of subheadings to indicate anthologies of primary sources. However, cataloging is not a perfect science, so not every collection of primary sources has this subheading. For example, a search for the keyword phrase "documentary sourcebook" in the WashU Libraries' catalog produces seven titles, only three of which have "sources" as a subheading. In other words, performing a subject search will not produce a complete list of all primary source collections. Sometimes the source one wants to find is not in an anthology but cited in a bibliography of another work. You might want to try an advanced search with a combination of subject headings and keywords like “sources,” "sourcebook," "primary sources," "primary documents," etc.

DIGITAL

 

U.S. Government Documents - State Department, et. al.

Other U.S. Government Documents

British Foreign Office documents

Newspapers

Missionary Society Records

Other

Open Access