Chinese History

The nature of a research project will determine what can serve as a primary text. Literary critics will use literary works as primary texts, in order to find passages that will support their arguments about the meaning of literary works and their place in literary history. Historians will use documents like diaries, newspaper articles, letters, and personal narratives as primary texts, in order to create a fresh interpretation of an historical event.

When you are looking for primary sources, you can use Library Catalog or WorldCat. Search by author for the name of a writer from the time period or enter a subject in combination with any of the subject headings used to define primary sources:

Examples of relevant subject headings for primary sources:

China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 -- Sources;
China -- History -- 20th century -- Sources;