East Asian Canadians/Americans

Here a few suggestions to help you locate information on East Asian Canadians/Americans
Dictionaries
Biographical Sources
Bibliographies
Indexes
Texts
Internet Resources
- DS 805 K64 1983 (2LB-REF)
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan - 9 vols. + supplement
- The Canadian Encyclopedia - see articles "Chinese" "Japanese Canadians" "Koreans" etc.
- E 184 A1 B574 2000 (2LB-REF)
Encyclopedia of Minorities in American Politics
- vol. 1 African Americans and Asian Americans
- FC 104 E63 1999 (2LB-REF)
Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples
- PS 153 M56 P43 1992 (2LB-REF)
American ethnic literatures: Native American, African American, Hispanic American and Asian American writers and their backgrounds
- PS 338 A74 A85 2002 (9LT - Fine Arts Reference)
Asian American playwrights: a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook
- BL 1055 F44 1995 (2LB-REF) South Asian Religions in the Americas: an annotated bibliography of immigrant religious traditions
- BL 1802 T545 1985 (2LB-REF)
Chinese Religion in Western Languages: a comprehensive and classified bibliography of publications in English, French and German through 1980
- see Part II section 41 "Overseas Chinese" and Part III section 20 "Taiwan and overseas"
- updated by:
Chinese Religions: 1981-1990 (BL 1802 T5452 1993 (2LB-REF))
Chinese Religions Volume 3: 1991-1995 (BL 1802 T5453 1998 (2LB-REF))
Bibliography of Western Language Publications on Chinese Popular Religion (1995 to present)
- BL 2018 R34 1989 (2LB-REF) Sikhism and the Sikhs : an annotated bibliography
- see chapter "Sikhs Abroad"
- CD 3622 A2 N86 1999 v.1-2 (2LB-REF) Canada and Asia: guide to archive and manuscript sources in Canada
- E 184 O6 A85 1989 (2LB-REF)
Asian American Studies : an annotated bibliography and research guide
- FC 104 G697 1996 (2LB-REF)
A bibliography of Canada's peoples 1980 - 1989
- see Supplement volume for listing of works by ethnic group
- FC 104 G72 1972 (2LB -REF)
Canadian ethnic groups bibliography
- PR 9699 A52 1981 (2LB-REF)
Asian Literature in English : a guide to information sources
- PS 8089.5 M5 M572 1990 (2LB-REF)
Ethnic and native Canadian literature: a bibliography
- Comprehensive bibliography of Overseas Chinese studies
- Japanese Canadian Timeline and bibliography - from the Japanese Canadian National Museum
(These resources are available only to University of Calgary
students, faculty and staff)
Use the the Research Databases choice on the Library's Home Page to see a full list of databases available
through the Internet.
- Academic Search Premier - full-text for over 2,600 scholarly journals; indexes over 4,300 journals.
- Early Canadiana Online - full-text resource of primary documents for Canadian History including government documents, books and pamphlets.
- Ebrary - over 20,000 books full-text
- Electronic HRAF - Updates the microform HRAF (Human Relations
Area Files) collection. Each year, the Electronic HRAF is enhanced with
the conversion of selected full-text files from the microform collection.
The microfilm collection contains a wealth of material for Asia; over 19,000 pages of text for China, over 6,000 for Korea.
Eventually all microform files will be converted to electronic format.
Currently the Electronic HRAF contains the full-text of
documents for approximately 40 cultures, including Chinese Canadians (6 documents), Chinese Americans (16 documents) and Korean Americans (17 documents).
- Factiva - full text of newspapers from around the world
- JSTOR - full-text searchable archive of over 242 journals, coverage begins at the start of each journal and stops with 3-5 years of the present.
- Sociological Collection - full-text of 600 journals covering all aspects of Sociology.
- World News Connection - index and full-text of world news from non-US sources. Includes translations and analyses of information found in the news, periodicals and goverment statements.
Web sites
Guides to books and journals articles
- Population Index -
provides author, subject and geographic access to journals and books on
all aspects of population studies (fertility, migration etc.) Covers
works published from 1986 to 2000.
- SASI: The Southeast Asian Serials Index
- Ingenta - Table of contents
service providing key word searching for over 27,000 journals, covers from 1997 on.
Saundra Lipton (220-3793)
lipton@ucalgary.ca
The University of Calgary Library