Asian Links

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Methuen High School Media Center--Methuen, MA

Pathfinders are pages that offer students selected resources in a variety
of media on a topic they are researching. They provide a head start for
students as they begin their research project.

ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS

To find books in the MHS Media Center, open Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop. Most materials on Southeast Asia will be found between 950 and 959 in both the numbered and reference sections in the media center. Type in the topic you want to search. If you don't already have a topic, some of the subject headings you can look for are:

China--Civilization
China--History
Korea--History
Japan--History
Asia, Southeastern--Civilization
East Asia--History
East Asia--Civilization
Civilization--Ancient

Some titles we have are:

911.5 BAR	Barnes, Ian R. *The History Atlas of Asia*. New York, NY: Macmillan, 1998.
950 COT	Cotterell, Arthur. East Asia : From Chinese Predominance to the Rise of the Pacific Rim. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1994.
950 EAS	Mackerras, Colin. Eastern Asia : An Introductory History. 3rd ed. Melbourne, Australia: Longman Cheshire, 2000.
950 MAS	Mason, Colin. A Short History of Asia : Stone Age to 2000 AD. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
951 PAL	Paludan, Ann. Chronicle of the Chinese Emperors : The Reign-by-reign Record of the Rulers of Imperial China. New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998.
B GEN	Goldberg, Enid A. Genghis Khan : 13th Century Mongol Tyrant. New York: Franklin Watts, 2008.
B POL	Bergreen Laurence.. Marco Polo : *From Venice to Xanadu*. New York: A. A. Knopf, 2008.
REF 911.54 HIS	A Historical Atlas of South Asia. Edited by Joseph E. Schwartzberg. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
REF 950 EMB	Embree, Ainslie Thomas. Encyclopedia of Asian History. New York: Scribner, 1988.

SELECTED WEB SITES

	The Mongols and the Emergence of Moscow http://www.interknowledge.com/russia/rushis03.htm Extensive article concentrating on the Mongols invasion of Russia and Eastern Europe.
	Timeline of Chinese Dynasties http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/time_line.html Timeline with some active links to very good articles about Chinese history. Look specifically at the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties from 1000-1500 AD.
	Chinese History to the Qing Dynasty http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/libraries/eastasian/china/toqing.html Links to sites containing information about the dynasties of China.
	Japan Guide-History http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e641.html Historical overview of Japan, with good, readable articles organized by time period.
	The History of Japan http://hammer.prohosting.com/~stryder/ Very simple site that introduces some aspects of life during the medieval time period in Japan. Good for a very basic introduction to Japanese history.
	East Asian Studies-An Annotated Directory http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/index.html A directory with links to many Asian countries.

Northeastern Asia
http://www.edunetconnect.com/cat/timemachine/700nea.html
Brief History of the Mongols and Genghis Khan. Includes picture of Khan.

ONLINE RESOURCES

Infotrac -- contains databases of magazine articles, a biography resource, and health and business references. Try Reference Center Gold, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Biography Resource Center.

bigchalk eLibrary -- online reference center including books, magazines, newspapers, pictures, maps, and TV transcripts.

Massachusetts Newsstand -- newspaper articles from the Boston Globe (1980 - current), Boston Herald (1991 - current), and ten other Massachusetts newspapers.

Grolier Online -- 2 electronic encyclopedias-- New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Articles in these encyclopedias link you to other articles and also to relevant web sites where you can find more information on your topic.

REMOTE ACCESS

These databases are also available from home. You can gain access to these resources from
home by going to the Answers...To Go! web page made available from the Northeast
Massachusetts Regional Library System:

http://www.nmrls.org/answers/dbmvlc.html

and enter your public library card number (from Methuen or any MVLC member library)
where you are prompted for a patron or user number.

CITING SOURCES

Using MLA Style to Cite and Document Sources
www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite5.html
OWL Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html#Works-Cited
NoodleBib
http://www.noodletools.com/login.php
Online tool to assist you in citing your sources easily and correctly in the MLA style format.

Using these links indicates the user is leaving
the district server and that linked material
is not necessarily approved by the district.

Edited by Media Staff
11/05/04
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