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LANG 5072 - English Academic Writing on Chinese Culture & LANG 5070 - Advanced Critical Writing for Academic Purposes: Primary Sources, etc.

This guide is to help students to get familiar with search tools for LANG 5072.

Primary Sources

Archives and Government Papers

The making of the modern world, Part 1 - Gale Primary Resources

The Goldsmiths-Kress Library of Economic Literature, 1450-1850

61,000 rare books and 466 serials (mostly 19th century magazines) from the Goldsmiths’ Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at the Harvard Business School.

The collection shows the development of the modern western world through the lens of trade and wealth, encompassing law, geography, politics and international relations, social history, business and women’s studies. 2/3s is in English, with thousands of texts in French, German, and Italian.

Primary Sources - HKUST Created and Owned

HKUST Special Collections

Our collections include also Maps of China from the late Qing Dynasty-to 1949, thread bound books and other pre-1949 Chinese material, works about China and the Far East by western writers from 1500s to 1949, Fine Reproductions of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy.

Consult our digital collections online at the Rare & Special e-Zone or visit us in the Special Collection Reading Room (by appointment).

Digital Humanities & Digital Scholarship

HKUST launched its Digital Humanities Initiative in 2022.  Among its components are: Courses for UG & PGs, recommended  materials and  recommended tools

Two important tools - to help you engage with HKUST's subscribed resources

Gale Digital Scholar Lab

  • Is a platform for text analysis, data mining, and data visualization.
  • Users can create and analyze content sets from Using our licensed content in “Gale Primary Sources” collections,

Constellate

  • Provides Text and data mining tools and teaching with JSTOR, Portico, and other IThaka collections.

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