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Guide to 20th Century China: Find biographical Information

This guide provides information on journals, dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographical sources, article databases, and other resources useful for research on 20th century China.

Biographical Information in Chinese

Minguo bai ren zhuan 民國百人傳. by Wu Xiangxiang 吳相湘.
Call Number: DS778.A1 W89 1971
Li dai ren wu nian li bei zhuan zong biao 歷代人物年里碑傳綜表. by Jiang Liangfu zuan ding ; Tao Qiuying jiao [xiu bu] 姜亮夫纂定 ; 陶秋英校[修補].
Call Number: DS734 .C53 1961
Zhong gong ren ming lu 中共人名錄. by 主編者何思因 ; 編著者國立政治大學國際關係硏究中心「中共人名錄」編修委員會
Call Number: DS778.A1 Z43 1999
Located in the GRC Asia reference section

Biographical Information in English

Biographical dictionary of Republican China by Howard L. Boorman, editor; Richard C. Howard, associate editor.
Call Number: DS778.A1 B5
ISBN: 0231089589
Located in the GRC's Asia reference section
Current biography yearbook
Call Number: CT 100 .C8
This annual publication is located in Gelman library's reference section
Eminent Chinese of the Ching period (1644-1912) by Arthur W. Hummel (ed)
Call Number: DS734 .U65
Modern China: a bibliographical guide to Chinese works, 1898-1937 by John King Fairbank and Kwang-ching Liu
Call Number: DS774.F34
The library has multiple copies of this title.
Who's Who in the People's Republic of China by Wolfgang Bartke
Call Number: DS 778.A1 B33
Who’s who current Chinese leaders 中国党政军高级领导人词典 by He Meirong
Call Number: DS779.28 .W45 2003
This book is in Chinese and English
Zhonghua min guo xian dai ming ren lu 中華民國現代名人錄
Call Number: DS799.832 .Z47 1982
Publication Date: 1982
In both English and Chinese.

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