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HIST 313: Time, Space and Modernity in East Asia (HC)

History 313: Time, Space and Modernity in East Asia (Shin) Spring 2021

Republic of China

             Sidney D. Gamble, November 29 student demonstration in Tiananmen Square, 1919 (Wikimedia Commons, public domain)                                                     See more photos of the demonstration in the Duke University archive.

Finding Scholarly Studies in Books

Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  This link opens in a new windowConnect from Haverford College  This link opens in a new windowConnect from Swarthmore College  to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.  

The following searches are a sampling of possibilities.  To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.  Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel.  In examples #1 and 4 below, using keywords (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.

        "public space*" AND (korea* OR japan* OR china OR chinese) AND history  [Keyword search]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College   Icon  Icon

        (japan* OR tokyo)  [Keyword]  AND (time OR chronolog*) [Title] AND (history) [Subject]  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon

        (china OR chinese) AND (19th OR 20th) AND (modern*) [Subjects] NOT literature [Subject]   Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon

        (korea* OR seoul) [Subject] AND (millenar* OR revolution*) [Keywords] AND history  [Subject]  Connect from Bryn Mawr College  Icon  Icon

**  Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your subject interest.

Beyond the Tri-College Collections

WorldCat is an important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 500 million records for titles owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan.  Use the  button to place requests.