LibGuides: 6th GR: Modern China Research: Home

Suggested Resources

Gale in Context Global Issues This link opens in a new window
Britannica Online School Edition This link opens in a new window
World History: The Modern Era (ABC-CLIO) This link opens in a new window
Modern World History (Infobase) This link opens in a new window
Issues (ABC-CLIO) This link opens in a new window brings important issues in today’s world to students’ attention, highlighting the complete historical background, contemporary status, and global view of each. It provides students authoritative context, diverse expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources for truly understanding the issues that currently affect much of our global society, and for developing informed positions on those engendering controversy.
Culturegrams World Edition This link opens in a new window
Britannica Image Quest This link opens in a new window
World Religions (ABC-CLIO) This link opens in a new window
World Religions (Infobase) This link opens in a new window EXPORTS YOUR CITATIONS TO NOODLETOOLS.

Gale in Context Environmental Studies (in POWER Library)

ProQuest Database collection This link opens in a new window
contains the full text of articles from over 2000 newspapers, magazines, journals

East and Southeast Asia 2020-2022 by James E. Hoare
Call Number: 910 WTS EAS 2020-2022
ISBN: 9781475856514
Publication Date: 2021-09-15
See the entry for China, then skim the topic headings for your search terms.

AccessIt Library Catalog This link opens in a new window
Catalog of library books and online resources
You may browse the Catalog as a Guest or use Single Sign On / SSO to use other features such as "Holds" and to sign on to other databases and ebooks when you are off-campus.

Encyclopedia of Modern China This link opens in a new window
Proquest Ebook Central This link opens in a new window More than 150,000 ebooks are available for multiple people to access at once. This new platform allows you to find books for your research in many subjects. Your PC Gmail username and password allow you to log in with a Single Sign On. These titles do not appear in the AccessIt catalog, so remember this source when looking for research or non-fiction books.

Selected example ebooks - use ISBN to cite these, the add the URL and database name. Search databases for more current information.

Britannica, Educational Publishing Staff. The History of China, edited by Kenneth Pletcher, Rosen Publishing Group, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/penncharter/detail.action?docID=514081
Britannica, Educational Publishing Staff. The Geography of China : Sacred and Historic Places, edited by Kenneth Pletcher, Rosen Publishing Group, 2010. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/penncharter/detail.action?docID=547732
Chandler, Julia. Richard Nixon, edited by Meredith Day, Rosen Publishing Group, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/penncharter/detail.action?docID=4573481
Bush, Richard C.. Hong Kong in the Shadow of China : Living with the Leviathan, Brookings Institution Press, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/penncharter/detail.action?docID=4618995 - a more challenging read!
Belt and Road search - Proquest Ebooks - several ebooks
Tibet - Proquest Ebooks - several books

BBC- China country profile

BBC News - China top stories
BBC - Profile Tibet
BBC - Profile Hong Kong
Science - BBC - May 2016
CIA World Factbook - China
CIA Word Factbook - Hong Kong
- Citation example:

The World Factbook 2021. Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 2021.
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/

New York Times (website) - also in our Proquest database

China

Human Rights Watch

Amnesty International

China Report

Britannica Image Quest This link opens in a new window Images authorized for educational use, citations provided http://quest.eb.com/projects
ABC-CLIO (metasearch) This link opens in a new window
This link allows you to cross-search all the ABC-CLIO databases in our collection, except their ebooks.
Gale in Context Global Issues This link opens in a new window Global Issues is updated daily and offers 250 country pages and more than 400 issue pages. More than 6,000 viewpoint commentaries provide background and guidance on significant topics like Food Security, Genocide, Human Rights, Extreme Weather, and more.

CIA World Factbook - China - has public domain images
CIA Word Factbook - Hong Kong - has public domain images

You may use images that you find in ebooks, and database articles. In Gale and ABC-Clio you may click on the image to view a larger format, AND, to also export the citation to your Noodletools project. In these databases you may also restrict your search to just images.

Remember to cite all images that you use in your project.