This page gives you lists of additional material that will be useful in your further exploration of the world of magical creatures in China. If you find materials that help you, and they’re not on the list, let me know and I will add them!
Don’t forget to check out the Topics Portal tab, with a drop down menu of a growing list of topics. Over time, I hope to consolidate all content related to topics there. Apologies for the inconvenience until that transition is fully completed.
Table of contents
- Open Education Resources
- The OER textbook China’s Magical Creatures (and where to find them)
- Videos on how to edit your Pressbooks chapter. [links need to be updated]
- Campus and college services
- Chinese history in general
- Open Education Resources
- Ghosts and ancestors
- The First Emperor’s mausoleum
OER Textbook resources
- Trexler Library Subject Guide: Useful links to get started on your research
- Writing Center: Spring 2020 Remote appointments: details
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- Writing Assistants and Tutors at the Center help you to improve your writing, from finding a good topic based on the material and ideas you have, to provide another pair of eyes for helping you to pick out mistakes and polishing your sentences. Do use their services!
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- The Hive (Digital Learning Center): drop in DLA Schedule Spring 20: every weekday 2-6pm (Now via Google Meet: find the link on the Canvas Homepage under the green “zoom drop in tutorials” header)
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- Technical issues? Want to try something new? Broke your website and can’t save it? Meet with a DLA!
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- Library resources during Covid19 Remote Learning
- Our course’s library subject guide
Chinese history in general
- ChinaX: This is a Harvard MOOC, with useful background information on the history of China. You need to sign up (free), but you don’t need to take the tests/surveys. Parts 1-5 give you a complete background in Chinese history before the modern era.
- Cambridge History of China (search in Trexler Library)
- multivolume reference work providing you with access to the who, what, when, where, how and why of most of Chinese history. The project is ongoing (I’m waiting for part 2 of Volume 3 to appear…). Uses a lot of the Standard Histories (zhengshi), the official historical record created by the imperial bureaucracy.
- History of Imperial China (available through Trexler Library, some as e-books)
- six volumes covering the major events, trends and topics from the Qin (221BCE) to the end of the Qing (1911CE). The bibliography is very detailed, too.
OER (Open Education Resources)
Open Education Resources provide high quality teaching and learning materials, but without the cost of a textbook. There are several websites that “collect” OER. These can be useful for your larger project in the second half of the semester: many of them have a license (Creative Commons) that allows you to re-use materials. We will talk about that side of OER more in a future class.
- OER Commons: large and growing collection of online open access materials.
- MERLOT: large and growing collection of online open access materials.
