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Databases

Scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles may be located by searching our subscription databases. Listed below are suggestions for the most useful databases for articles about the Cantonese language or literature. A complete list of all our Digital Resources are available from the Databases link.

• Academic Search Premier [INFO]
• Humanities International Index [INFO]
• MLA International Bibliography[INFO]

Books and More

The Library catalog (LOLA) is a collection of books and other print/non-print materials, such as videos/DVDs, music CDs, and scores. The catalog offers a variety of searches - Keyword, Subject, Author, Title, and Call Number.There are few works on cantonese specifically, for example:

• Subject search for chinese language dialects canton

Subject search for chinese language

Subject search for chinese literature (or fiction, poetry, drama, etc.)

Reference Material

Reference sources are usually a good starting point for research - they provide background information on a topic, define key concepts, or cite critical research that has been done. Examples for Chinese language or literature are listed below.

• A practical English-Chinese pronouncing dictionary; English, Chinese characters, Romanized Mandarin and Cantonese.
• Essential Chinese for travelers
• The Indiana companion to traditional Chinese literature
• Facts about the World’s languages: An encyclopedia of the world’s major languages, past and present
  See pp.164-168: Chinese Languages: Yue (Cantonese).>/li>
• The atlas of languages
  See pp.65-71

Web Sites

In general, web sites are not the best choices for serious research because there is no guarantee the information posted there is authoritative, current, or sufficiently in-depth. Only use sites that you know are reputable, scholarly, current, and unbiased. The following are links to sites that seem to meet these criteria:

• The Alternative Cantonese Dictionary
• Cantonese Language Association
• UCLA Language Materials Project/Cantonese
• Omniglot: Writing Systems & Languages of the World: Cantonese
• IMBd Guide to Cantonese Language Movies
• Cantonese Opera
• Index of websites related to chinese language

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• Ask a Librarian
• Subject librarian: Lissa Zinfon

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