CJK Romanization System
OBIS DOES NOT support the search CJK language material using Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters.
SUMMON and Google Scholar both support the Chinese language search.
- Romanization for Chinese (Wade-Giles vs Pinyin) New Chinese Romanization Guideline 2011 for a quick reference.
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How to Develop Research Questions/Topics
Before you begin the search,
Think about
1) Which topic in this class are you interested in?
-- think about all the readings, anything you find it useful
2) What are the current scholarships on this topic?
-- from the topic, try some search on Summon, Google Scholar or OBIS to start with.
3) What are the arguments/thesis of these scholarship? Do they agree with each other or against each other?
4) Which side of the argument you agree or disagree? Do you have your own argument?
-- from what you have found, extend your search, using Subject Heading search in OBIS, or particular database search for alternative keywords
Search Tips: how to use "AND" "OR" and "NOT";
| And | Or | Not |
| Each result contains all search terms. | Each result contains at least one search term. | Results do not contain the specified terms. |
| The search heart and lung finds items that contain both heart and lung. | The search heart or lung finds items that contain either heart or items that contain lung. | The search heart not lung finds items that contain heart but do not contain lung. |
Subject Search
Related Subject Search on Library of Congress Subject Heading (examples)
- Law -- China -- History -- Cases
- Law -- China -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources
- Law -- China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
- Law -- China -- Language
- Law -- China -- Philosophy -- History
- Law -- China -- Sources
- China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
- China -- History -- Reform movement, 1898
- China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949
- China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
- Authoritarianism
- Central planning -- Social aspects
- China -- Politics and government -- 18th century
- Bureaucracy -- China -- History -- 18th century