Middle Period Research Tools

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Middle Period Research Tools is an ongoing project. It aims to provide an online guide to bibliographies, indexes, dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases and chronologies of use to those interested in all aspects of the study of Chinese, Jurchen, Khitan, Tangut, and Mongol history. The time span of the collection of the Middle Period Research Tools covers the period from the tenth century and the founding of the Song and Liao dynasties to the end of the Yuan dynasty in the fourteenth century.

At this stage, users can access the reference collection of the Middle Period Research Tools via this link to our online library. In the near future, the Middle Period Research Tools will further provide users an annotated guide to its reference collection on the SSYCDS website.

• The online library URL; more information about access, see FQA.
  https://www.zotero.org/groups/5253758/middle-period_research_tools/library
• For general comments and suggestions, contact Xiong Huei-Lan.

Acknowledgments

Middle Period Research Tools is compiled based on Hilde De Weerdt’s (Leuven University) Song Research Tools in 2006. Its history further goes back to Peter Bol's (Harvard University) Research Tools for the Study of Sung History, published in 1990 as part of the Monograph Series of the Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies. From 2019 onwards, Xiong Huei-Lan 熊慧嵐 carried out a project to update the Song Research Tools. With the support of the Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies, the initial update evolved into the project of Middle Period Research Tools.

In 2023, the project first launched its online collection of research references. The collection contains all titles in the 2006 edition of Song Research Tools in addition with more than 300 new titles. The new titles include those on Song studies published after 2006, and the references on the studies of Xixia, Khitan, Jin and Yuan.

Throughout the course of its development, many organizations and individuals have supported the project:

• The SSYCDS, the Harvard-Yenching Library, the Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers Grants, and the Balzan Foundation project “The Formation, Maintenance, and Failure of States in the Muslim World before 1800” generously provided financial support for the reference collection.
• The SSYCDS, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and the China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies sponsored the technical construction of the Middle Period Research Tools.
• Special thanks are also due to Hilde De Weerdt for providing her private collection for the compilation of the Middle Period Research Tools. Xiong Huei-Lan created the online library with the help of Jialong Liu 劉家隆, and revised the webpage with the help of Daniel Lin (4Point Design) and Amelia Ying Qin.

Frequently Asked Questions

• How to use the online library

• As a guest user
  The Middle Period Research Tools' online library is open to the public. Everyone is welcome to use it as a guest user on the Zotero platform. Guest users can browse the collection, or search for the information by using the built-in research functions through keywords, or search through the tags created for the Middle Period Research Tools.
• As a group member
  Users are also welcome to join this library group by sending a request with one’s Zotero account via email. By joining the Middle Period Research Tools library group, members can enjoy automatic updates of the library collection if turning on the synchronizing function in one’s local standalone version of Zotero.
  

• How to recommend references

• Recommendations for research tools are much appreciated. Please make your recommendations through this link.