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Class Syllabus

Hesse: Siddhartha --- Study Questions. (Dover edition)

Articles and Databases:

• MLA International Bibliography~International index to literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore.
• Wilson Select Plus - includes full text to articles
• Periodical Abstracts - includes some full text to articles

• Gale Databases~ Includes Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Also includes the Twayne series which provides criticism of the works of major U.S., English, and world authors from Aristophanes to the present. Author entries range from 175-200 pages.
• Britannica Online

Elmhurst Public Library - Online Catalog - also includes other public libraries in the Suburban Library System
http://www.elmhurst.lib.il.us/catalog.html

Illinet Online - Elmhurst College's Online Catalog - also includes other college and university libraries in Illinois'
http://pac.ilcso.uiuc.edu

Selected Web Sites:

General Asian Studies
Case Western Reserve Asian Studies - Interesting Web Sites
http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/asia/asiaweb.htm
 

General Asian Literature
The Internet Public Library - Online Texts Collection
http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/

Asian Myths
http://raven.cybercom.com/~grandpa/asianmyths.html

Pegasos
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/indeksi.htm

USC:Asian Film Connections - sections for China, India, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan
http://www.asianfilms.org/netpac/

Hollywood Video
http://www.hollywoodvideo.com/

BlockBuster
http://www.blockbuster.com/
 

China
I-Ching Sites:
http://www.zhouyi.com/

Chinese Culture - Chinese Literature in English (About.com)
http://chineseculture.about.com/culture/chineseculture/msub9103.htm

Selected Stories of Lu Hsun
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/hsun/hsun.htm

Original I Ching
http://users.lanminds.com/%7Etlc/iching/index.html

Lu Xun - Father of Chinese Literature
http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~gallaher/luxun/luxun.html

Legendary Chinese Stories
http://m237.arc.leon.k12.fl.us/~leoc/stories.html = Legendary Chinese Stories

Beijing Opera page
http://web.syr.edu/%7exwang02/index0.html = Beijing Opera page
 

China ~ Literature and Film
Lu Xun's Diary of a Madman
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~zac/lxmadman.htm

Chinese Myths and Fantasies
http://www.chinavista.com/experience/myth/myth.html

Chinese Literature Classics - includes links to:
http://www.chinapage.com/classic1.html

TaoDeChing
• http://www.chinapage.com/gnl.html

Legend of the White Snake
• http://www.chinapage.com/wsnake.html

India
RAMAYANA myth & modern TV SERIES on web
http://frontpage.hindunet.org/ramayana/discouse.htm

Tagore

• The Hungry Stones and Other Stories - http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/rt/hungry.htm
• The Home and the World  -  http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/rt/hw.htm
• The Post Office - http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/rt/po.htm

Narayan-- IndiaWrites.com
http://www.indiawrites.com/profile.cfm?article_id=71

University of Virginia Centre for South Asian Studies
http://www.virginia.edu/~soasia/

Virtual e-Text Archive of Indic Texts
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgadkw/indnet-textarchive.html

The filmmaker Satyajit Ray
http://members.tripod.com/satyajit_ray/index.htm
 

India ~ Literature and Film
Satyajit Ray: Film & Study Collection, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
http://arts.ucsc.edu/rayFASC/welcome

Kamasutra of Vatsyayana
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/1961/kama1.html

India World - Short Stories
http://www.indiaworld.co.in/open/rec/stories/archives.html

Delhi - an excerpt from the novel by Khushwant Singh
http://www.indiaworld.co.in/subscribe/rec/stories/nov17-99delhisingh.html

Rabindranath Tagore
http://www.gl.umbc.edu/~achatt1/Bio/rabi.html

Indian Literature Links
http://epore.mit.edu/~tgowrish/tgowrish/india/india_literature.html
 

Japan
JAPANESE MYTHS
http://ancienthistory.about.com/homework/ancienthistory/msub_myth_asia_fareast_japan.htm

O-Hayo Sensei's Online
http://www.ohayosensei.com/books/lit.html

Enchi Fumiko
http://www.willamette.edu/~rloftus/enchi.htm = Enchi2

Sunzi's Art of Warfare
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Ginza/2786/e1.htm
 

Japanese ~ Literature and Film
A Haiku Homepage
http://home.clara.net/pka/haiku/haiku.htm

Introduction to Haiku
http://mikan.cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp/~shiki/intro.html

Shiki Masaoka
http://cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp/~shiki/kim/shikihaiku.html

The Shiki Internet
http://www.cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp/~kametaro/

Japanese Text Initiative - University of Virginia/University of Pittsburgh
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/

Jlit: japanese literature
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~zenzen/jlit.htm

Natsume Soseki
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/ns/soseki.html

Japanorama's Modern Japanese Fiction
http://www.japanorama.com/fiction.html

Who is Miyazawa Kenji?
http://www.gsh.co.jp/kenji/english/who/who.html

Excite.com ~ Japanese Aughors
http://www.excite.com/guide/entertainment/celebrities/authors/international/japanese

Haruki Murakami Forum
http://network54.com/Hide/Forum/goto?forumid=15537

History of Japan's Literature
http://www.kanzaki.com/jinfo/jliterature.html

Narratives of Postwar Japan
http://students.haverford.edu/east/east260/topics.html
 

Japanese ~ Film
Japanese Cinema
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/japan.html

Kurosawa Related Linked List
http://www2.tky.3web.ne.jp/~adk/kurosawa/AKlink.html

CNN.com Asia Now - Akira Kurosawa
http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/time/asia/magazine/1999/990823/kurosawa1.html

Akira Kurosawa
http://members.aol.com/ronintom/Kurosawa.htm
 

Created 5 September 2000 by Donna Goodwyn
Elmhurst College Library
Last updated 14 September 2000