China's

Golden Age

Some Search Terms to use:

Ancient China China / Chinese History Chinese Social Life & Customs
Confucianism Buddhism Daoism
Legalism Ancestor Worship Huns
Chinese Religions Chinese Women Chinese Men

Athena – to locate books using the automated catalog type, China or Chinese in the search box. For some sub-topics try locating general books on the larger subjects and look in the index for further information. Atlases and Almanacs are located by the vertical file as well as in the Reference Section.

Cherry Hill Public Library:  www.chplnj.org

Reference Section:

Encyclopedias

REF 306.03 Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World    Cultures

REF 390 CUL Culturegrams

REF 910 LAN Lands and Peoples

REF 951.20 A History of Chinese Civilization  

Other Dewey Sections:

200.951  - Chinese Religions

294.3 - Buddhism

299 - Confucianism

915.1  & 951 - China

931 - Ancient China

Beck’s Virtual Library: Go to the “Beck Home Page” then go to “for students”. Click on “Virtual Library”. You can find the following subject headings by following the “Library Links” page of the Library Home Page.

Subscription Services (passwords are on screen)

·        EBSCO (magazines) current articles

·        Reference Suite

·        Facts on File

·        World Book

·        Grolier Encyclopedias

·        Student Resource Center (great for info. on culture)

Social Studies:

·        The History Net

·        The History Channel

·        HyperHistory Online

·        Smithsonian Home Page

Science

·        Discovery Channel

·        National Geographic Online

Other Web Sites:

Dynastic China http://regentsprep.org/Regents/global/themes/goldenages/china.cfm

Mrs. Donn's Ancient China http://k12east.mrdonn.org/China.html#Ancient

Chinese Cultural Studies: Concise Political History of China http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/chinhist.html

The Franklin Institute http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/info/current/inventions.html

Ancient Chinese Technology http://library.thinkquest.org/23062/

China's Age of Invention http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/china/age.html

Yin and Yang in Medical Theory http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/yinyang.html

Lessons for a Women http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/banzhao.html

China Links http://www.sinologic.com/ChinaLinks.html#anchor655366