Duke’s Chinese collection focuses on contemporary economics, politics and society, public policy and popular cultures and Buddhist and avant-garde art history. Search in Duke catalog to find Chinese language materials:
1.Which Romanization system to use?
Duke catalog adopts Pinyin as the way to display Romanized Chinese characters. Please consult the Wade-Giles to Zhuyin to Pinyin Conversion Table. if you are more familiar with Wade-Giles or Zhuyin.
2. How to search the catalog with Pinyin?
In general, enter the Pinyin for each Chinese character with a space, such as Ying Han Da Ci Dian for 英漢大詞典. However, sometimes you need to join syllables, examples:
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3. How to search the catalog with Chinese characters?
Chinese searches entered in keyword searches retrieve records across Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Terms can be combined using Boolean operators; you can also combine terms in different languages -- Chinese characters, Japanese kana, Korean Hangul and English. Character adjacency is the default, so combining characters will produce results for the compound not the single characters.
Duke has a longstanding cooperative collection development agreement with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). Search at TRLN http://search.trln.org/ to find titles at both Duke and UNC.
Search a full-text database of more than 50,000 Chinese-language ebooks, including books published in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Mainland China.
