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Foreign Languages & Literature: Chinese

Department Research Guides identify and define standard information retrieval tools for a specific department. Each guide was created and is maintained by the library liaison for that department. We encourage you to recommend resources for the guides.

Dictionaries

Dictionaries:

Concise English-Chinese, Chinese-English Dictionary.
A.P. Cowie, A. Evison. 1986. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.
Available at: REF. PL1455.C69 1986

Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary.
R.H. Mathews. 1966, c1944. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Available at: REF. PL1455.M34 1943

Oxford Advanced Learner's English-Chinese Dictionary = Niu chin hsien tai kao chi Ying Han shuang chieh tzʻu tien
A.S. Hornby, F.-C. Chang. 1994. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press.
Available at: REF. PL1455 .N58 1994

LINE Dict: Online Chinese-English Dictionary
Available online at: http://ce.linedict.com/dict.html#/cnen/home

Characters:

Chinese Character Dictionary
Available online at: http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict.html

Learning Chinese Characters.
2007. A. Matthews, L. Matthews. Rutland, VT: Tuttle Pub.
Available at: PL1171.M28 2007 (Level 5)

Chinese Characters: Their Origin, Etymology, History, Classification and Signification.
1965. L. Wieger. 2nd ed. New York : Paragon.
Available at: PL1171.W6 1965

Or search for more print and online books using the WestCat library catalog below.

Grammars & Tutorials

Chinese Language: Its History and Current Usage.
D. Kane. 2006. North Clarendon, VT: Tuttle.
Available at: PL1071.K36 2006 (Level 5).

Chinese for Beginners.
Peking Language Institute. 1976. Beijing : Foreign Languages Press.
Available at: PL1115.C483 (Level 5).

Learn Chinese (Chinese_Tools.com)
Available online at: http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese

Clavis Sinica
Available online at: http://www.clavisinica.com/resources.html

Multimedia

DVDs in Chinese at WIU Libraries

Search for DVDs and VHS using the WestCat library catalog. Set the Limit to "Films/Videos."

Websites with Audio & Video

Chinese Video Exercises (Connecticut College)
Available online at: https://www.conncoll.edu/academics/majors-departments-programs/departments/east-asian-languages-and-cultures/courses/chinese-video-exercises/

Learn Chinese Through Video (U of Puget Sound)
Available online at: http://webspace.pugetsound.edu/facultypages/perry/video/home.htm

Video Clips of Survival Chinese
Available online at: http://personal.kenyon.edu/bai/vcsc.htm

Audio Tutorial of Basic Chinese
Available online at: http://people.wku.edu/haiwang.yuan/AudioChinese/index.html