Asian Studies Resource Guide: Literature, Art, Music, Culture

Available online in The Cambridge Histories Online database. (v. 1. To 1375 -- v. 2. From 1375 to the present.) "...spans three thousand years of literacy in China, from oracle bones to Internet literature...Each chapter discusses changes in social, political, and material culture and the resulting impact on the production, circulation, and meaning of literature.." (CHOICE magazine review.)

REF PN1993.5.J3 S45 2011
Contains a chronology,an introductory essay, and appendixes of film titles, film companies, studios, and individuals. Main body of dictionary covers "key films, genres, studios, directors, performers, and other individuals."

Available as an e-book.

REF DS904 .S68 1993
This is a 2-volume set that presents essays which discuss important topics in Korean culture and history. Volume 1 examines Korea from the origins of Korean culture to the sixteenth century while Volume 2 covers the seventeenth century to the modern period.

REF PL2303 .Y59 2010
This dictionary begins coverage with the "May Fourth Movement" in 1919 and provides concise entries on literary movements and authors and their works prefaced by a chronology of literary events. The extensive bibliography includes "primary works by individual authors, anthologies, surveys and general critical works, and critical works on individual authors."

REF PL723 .M563 2001
Lengthy surveys of 23 of the "most important modern Japanese writers" plus an essay on "writers of the atomic bomb." Each entry is signed and includes a bibliography.

Literary biographies of 53 Asian American authors, historians, journalists, screenwriters, publishers, and playwrights. Also available in print in the Reference collection (REF PS153.A84 A28 2005).

REF PS153.A84 A82 1999
Includes essays on Asian American writers of many genres (poets, essayists, memoirists etc.) and from a range of historical periods.

REF PJ31 .D5
3 volumes covering East Asia, South and South-East Asia, and West Asia and North Africa.

REF PL2303 .Y59 2010
Includes a chronology as well as alphabetically arranged entries on authors and their works. Bibliographies provided for each author entry.

REF ML100 .N48
This 20-volume dictionary includes entries on musical history, composers, artists and more. Entries on the music of China, Japan, Korea, and India are each several pages in length.

REF ML102.W67 W67 1999
Volume 2 of this set includes entries on the popular, folk, and classical music traditions of countries in "Asia and the Pacific."