Foreign Languages

Chinese is one of the Sino-Tibetan languages– or rather, it is a group of different languages, all descended from proto-Sino-Tibetan.

In origin, the Chinese languages are the speech of the farming communities of northern and south-eastern China and of the peoples of the coast as far as the borders of Vietnam. But one of them is also the language of a great and very long-lived empire. Fifteen hundred years ago, the northern Chinese – speakers of the language that is directly ancestral to ‘Mandarin’ – were already spreading their rule southwards and inland. In the 20th century the southern Chinese languages, like the unrelated minority languages of the south and south-west, are all of them threatened by the inexorable encroachment of the speech of the capitol.

MLA International Bibliography
The MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books, and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers. Subjects consist of literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing. Listings on rhetoric and composition and the history, theory, and practice of teaching language and literature are also included. In addition to the bibliography, the database includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals; the association's proprietary thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the bibliography; and a proprietary, searchable directory of noted authors' names, with links to brief descriptive notes.

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database, with more than 6,100 full-text periodicals, including more than 5,100 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 10,100 journals and a total of 10,600 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database is updated daily and features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.

JSTOR
An electronic archive of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The JSTOR database is unique because the complete archives of these core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s

Research Library (Proquest)
Research Library provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects and includes full-text access for thousands of titles, including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.