27 Nov 2006

Song Research Tools
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, US
Supplied note: "Song Research Tools is an online research guide [est. 2003 - ed.] that lists and describes reference materials relating to all aspects of Song society. The online edition, last updated in November 2006, is a revised edition of Peter Bol's Sung Research Tools, which appeared first in 1990 and in a second edition in 1996. This online edition, maintained since 2003 by Hilde De Weerdt, contains more than 200 new titles. - hdw."
Site contents:
* I. GUIDES TO THE STATE OF THE FIELD SOCIETIES, NEWSLETTERS, AND JOURNALS; RETROSPECTIVE ASSESSMENTS OF THE FIELD (Scholarship in the People's Republic of China, Scholarship in the Republic of China and Hong Kong, Scholarship in Japan and Korea, Scholarship in the West, Scholarship in Particular Fields, Intellectual and Religious History, Literature and Art, Social and Economic History, Political History and International Relations); INTRODUCTIONS TO THE STUDY OF SUNG HISTORY
* II. BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND ABSTRACTS OF RECENT SCHOLARSHIP IN WESTERN LANGUAGES; IN CHINESE; IN JAPANESE AND KOREAN; SPECIALIZED BIBLIOGRAPHIES (General, Historiography, Government, Biographical information, Geography, Social and economic history, Philosophy and religion, Literature, Arts).
* III. BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND ABSTRACTS OF SUNG-PERIOD SOURCES MODERN COMPREHENSIVE BIBLIOGRAPHIES; MODERN SPECIALIZED BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND SERIES (Literati Writing, Literary Collections, Poetry, Notes on Poetry, Drama, Historical Writings, Commentaries on the Classics, Painting, Calligraphy, and Ceramics, Taoist Writings, Buddhist Writings); SUNG-PERIOD BIBLIOGRAPHIES; SUNG EDITIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS.
* IV. HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND MODERN CHRONOLOGIES IV.A. HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES (Sung History, General Encyclopedias of Chinese History, Topical Encyclopedias and Dictionaries: All Periods of Chinese History, Series, Encyclopedias of Literature, Other Encyclopedias); IV.B. CHRONOLOGIES (Political Chronologies, Reign Dates, Other Chronologies).
* V. BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES AND INDEXES TO BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES; INDEXES TO COMPREHENSIVE BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION; DATES OF SUNG FIGURES; PERSONAL-NAME INDEXES (Personal-name Indexes to Historical Works, Personal-name Indexes to Other Works); BIOGRAPHICAL SERIES.
* VI. INDEXES AND CONCORDANCES TO SUNG TEXTS THE SUNG SHIH; OTHER HISTORICAL WORKS; LITERARY WRITINGS AND MISCELLANIES; NEO-CONFUCIAN AND BUDDHIST TEXTS; INDEXES TO SUNG TEXTS WHOSE CONTENTS ARE MAINLY PRE-SUNG; COMPREHENSIVE INDEXES AND ELECTRONIC DATABASES.
* VII. ATLASES, MAPS AND PLACE-NAME INDEXES ATLASES AND MAPS (Historical Atlases and GIS Tools, Various Maps); GUIDES TO ADMINISTRATIVE AND GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; INDEXES TO SUNG-PERIOD GEOGRAPHIES; PLACE-NAME INDEXES TO OTHER WORKS; MODERN GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES AND SERIES.
* VIII. RESOURCES ON THE GOVERNMENT THE STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT; BUREAUCRATIC RANKS; INCUMBENTS IN CERTAIN OFFICES; OFFICES AND OFFICIAL TITLES.
* IX. DICTIONARIES AND GLOSSARIES MODERN DICTIONARIES AND GLOSSARIES (General Language, Institutional Terms and Usage, Documentary Terms and Usage, Literature, Religious and Intellectual Life); SUNG-PERIOD DICTIONARIES AND ANNOTATED GLOSSARIES (Indexed Dictionaries, Glossaries, Encyclopedias and Manuals).
* X. SUNG WORKS WITH DETAILED TABLES OF CONTENTS
* APPENDIX List of Library of Congress Subject Headings Related to the Song Dynasty.
URL http://sunsite.utk.edu/songtool/
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