LibGuides: Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures: Getting Started

Cultural Studies, Literary Analysis, and Writing Librarian

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Milstein 311. Working remotely most Mondays and Tuesdays usually on campus W, Th, Fri

Subjects: Africana Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Comparative Literature, English, First-Year Writing, French, Italian, Spanish and Latin American Cultures

About this Guide

In this guide, you'll find resources to help you with your research in Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures:

Resources to research background and contextual information on your topic, support with languages, and the approaches you might be bringing to your research (see links below)
Places to find books in print and online
Databases for locating articles, including scholarly and peer-reviewed articles
Approaches to finding primary sources
Resources for citing your sources and writing in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Guidelines for getting required course texts for free via the Library

Please feel free to book an appointment with me on my calendar page, for further support with your research.

Image : Sign from the stacks of the Nablus Library in Nablus, Palestine, the oldest and largest public library in the West Bank. The sign, transliterated, reads "700 - 799 - Funun" (Funun in Arabic can be translated to mean "art," and 700-799 is the Dewey Decimal call number range for materials related to the arts). Photograph by Vani Natarajan, 2014.

Reference Resources in Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures

CJKV-English dictionary
A dictionary-database of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters and compounds related to East Asian cultural, political, and intellectual history.

New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
While historically focused on "Western ideas," this dictionary has expanded in its newest iteration to to intellectual histories beyond Europe and North America. Can be a useful source for getting familiar with key texts related to histories of ideas.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
provides a fully searchable bilingual dictionaries, including Arabic/ English and Chinese/English dictionaries online, with supplementary resources in language history, culture, and colloquialisms.
Oxford Reference Premium
Brings together digitized entries from Oxford's Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias, spanning multiple subject areas.

Silk Road Encyclopedia
This book, written and compiled by Jeong Su-il, a prominent Silk Road expert of South Korea, aims to rectify the common misconception of the Silk Road being a simple trade route and shed light on the aspect of an interconnected global circuit of inter-civilizational exchange. Entries cover key figures, places, material histories, and concepts relating to the Silk Road.