[Materials located in the Reference department on the first floor of Fenwick Library]

Hints for Finding Chinese Language Materials in the On-Line Catalog

Method One -from GMU Library Catalog, click on the "Builder Keyword" tab; type in the phrase "Chinese Language Materials" in the top "Search for" dialog box. You will get a list of GMU library Chinese language materials.

Method Two -from the Mason online catalog, press the "set limits" button; in the "Language" pull-down menu, select "Chinese"; click on the "set limits" button; back in the catalog screen, click on the "Builder Search" tab; type "in." in one of the keyword dialog boxes and type "cm." in the other dialog box. You will get a list of all the GMU library materials that are in Chinese (including books and media)

Reference Materials

1.) ABC Chinese-English comprehensive dictionary Alphabetically based. Uses pin yin for Chinese headwords and also shows characters in definition. ED. John DeFrancis et. al. -------- Call #: PL1455.A33 2003

2.) ABC dictionary of Chinese proverbs. Author John S. Rohsenow. CAll #: PL1273.R642002

3.) Facts on File English/Chinese visual dictionary. Author(s): Jean-Claude Corbeil, Mein-ven Lee. Call #: PL1455.C675

4.) Funding for research, study and travel: The people's Republic of China Editor(s): Denise Wallen and Karen Cantrell. Call #: E183.8.C5W32

5.) Glossary of political terms of the people's Republic of China Compiled by Kwok-sing Li; translated by Mary Lok. Call# : DS777.75.L553513

6.) Historical dictionary of revolutionary China, 1839-1976.Ed. Edwin Pak-wah Leung.--- Call #: DS740.2.H57

7.) How to identify Chinese characters /Han tzu ju ho pien jen. --------------------------- -Author: Nancy N. Seymour. Call #: PL1171.S45 [This book details the basic radicals of Chinese and proposes strategies for deriving a character's meaning based on etymological and orthographical components of the words.]

8.) Information China: the comprehensive and authoritative reference source of new China/ organized by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences------------------------------ Editor: C.V. James. Call #: DS706.I5 1988

9.) One thousand Chinese characters with literary glosses--------------------------- Author:Hugh M. Stimson. Call #: PL1481.W3

10.) Oxford Chinese dictionary: English-Chinese, Chinese-English/Ying-Han, Han-Ying. monolingual English text edited by Martin H. Manser; English-Chinese dictionary edited and translated by Zhu Yuan, Wang Liangbi, Ren Yongchang. Call #PL1455.O94 2003 [Note: this dictionary is indexed alphabetically. The Chinese-English section is indexed according to pin-yin. Headwords appear in both Chinese characters and pin-yin in the English-Chinese section and pin yin headwords throughout the work. The Chinese-English section also contains pin-yin pronunciation for headwords.]

11.)Columbia history of Chinese literature. Editor: Victor H. Mair ----------------------------- Call #: PL2265.C65 2001

12.) The Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Chinese Language. [10 vols.] Publisher: China Academy Yang Ming Shan, Taeipei Taiwan, Rep. of China. Call #PL1420.C57 1973

13.) Encyclopedia of Chinese philosophy. Editor: Antoinio S. Cua. Call #: B126.E496 2003

14.) Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture. Ed. Edward L. Davis. ----------------- Call #: DS779.23.E53 2005

15.) Xinhua wenzhai--Chinese journal ------located in Fenwick periodicals.

16.) Shih chieh jih pao/World Journal East -- Chinese American Newspaper -located in Johnson Center ******************************************************************************************