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Chinese Studies: Books

How do I access my reading lists?

You can access your course reading lists in Blackboard. Log in via MyManchester, then click the ‘Reading Lists Online’ link in the left-hand menu to see your lists, or use the link below:

Locating and Borrowing Books

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Find help and support with all aspects of locating and borrowing resources.

Humanities e-books

You can find e-books by accessing Library Search or by using the links below:

General e-books

You can find e-books by searching the Library Search or by using the links below:

Printed books, e-books and theses

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New Books

Borrowing and returning books

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Find help and support with all aspects of locating and borrowing books.

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Guide to printed stock

The main East Asian Collection is located on Purple Area Floor 2 in the Main Library. The collection includes all Chinese and Japanese script materials in all subjects within the library plus the English materials subject in:

  • Chinese Language (classification No. begins with 495.1)
  • Chinese Literature (classification No. begins with 895.1)
  • Pictorial material demonstrating Chinese and Japanese art and culture (classification No. begins with 375.495)

All the other English materials about Japan and China will be distributed into other subject areas. For example, Chinese history will be distributed into the history section; Japanese politics will be found within the politics section etc.

How to find and access theses?

You can find further information on theses held at the University of Manchester and elsewhere on our theses guide.

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Doctoral/Research Theses

Electronic versions of many open-access University of Manchester research theses, submitted from the 2010 session onwards, are available on Pure, the University of Manchester’s internal repository.

Inter-Library Loans service

The University of Manchester Library is one of the largest subscribers to e-journals and databases in the UK but we don’t have access to everything.

If you find that we don’t hold a book, report, journal article or conference paper that you need, you can use our Inter-Library Loans service.

Using Google Books

It is worthwhile carrying out a search on Google Books to see if a book is available to view online.

If you have a reading list for your course and the books are in use by other students, you can check to see if it has been fully or partially digitised by Google.

Google Book Search
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