Author Archives: Yunshan Ye
Annual Reviews Comes to the Rescue!
Ever felt overwhelmed by the amount of information you get when researching for that big term paper? Wouldn’t it be nice if someone could summarize the existing scholarship for you so that you could get a quick grasp on what … Continue reading
Announcing a New Chinese Studies Workshop
The past year has seen dramatic growth in Chinese Studies Collections, with the additions of major digital resources such as People’s Daily (1946-), Duxiu, and more recently, ChinaMaxx Digital Library. ChinaMaxx Digital Library alone contains over 700,000 titles of Chinese … Continue reading
You seek, but do you find? Join us for a tour of…
Google, Google Books, and Google Scholar. Our workshop will focus on Google’s specialized search functions that have proven most useful for scholarly research. Date/Time: Tuesday, Feb 26, 4-5pmLocation: Electronic Resources Center, M-Level, MSE Library But you don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to benefit. … Continue reading
The Strange Life of the Snake According to People’s Daily
The digital edition of People’s Daily is one of the recent additions to our growing collection of Chinese language resources. What is People’s Daily? People’s Daily (Renmin ribao) is the most important daily newspaper in the People’s Republic of China. … Continue reading
Did you miss us at this year’s Intersession?
If you did not get the chance to sign up for our intersession course, “Introduction to Library Research,” co-taught by Chella Vaidyanathan and Yunshan Ye, hear what the students who did have to say about the course upon finishing the … Continue reading
Was the 2012 Presidential Election a Historical Rarity?
The answer is yes, according to the CQ Press. Among all US presidents who sought re-election, President Obama joined a very small club of those winning re-election by less than 5%. Throughout US history, presidents seeking re-election either suffered defeats … Continue reading
The Other Election
For better or worse, the most expensive presidential election in US history is finally over. With high emotions subsiding and bruises healing, people pick up where they left and go about their normal business. TV channels fill the void left … Continue reading
Introducing Mo Yan
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 was awarded to the Chinese author, Mo Yan. Mo Yan is perhaps best known to the Western audience through a successful film adaptation of one of his early works, Red Sorghum, by one of … Continue reading
China in Ten Words
How is it possible to summarize a country as complex as China in ten words? Yu Hua, a renowned novelist in China, did just that. In his first work of nonfiction published in English, entitled China in Ten Words, Yu … Continue reading
The Election is Coming! The Election is Coming!
Now, it does not take the ride of Paul Revere to set the nation on its ear. The Election is not just coming. It is upon us, all around us, and everywhere. The deluge of political sound bites and chitchats … Continue reading