E-resources in Chinese
February 19, 2015 | Niki | Comments (0)
Happy New Year! Happy Year of the Yang! The big debate over Sheep or Goat is explored in this CTV story but most treat it philosophically: "The year of the yang, 2015, is neither a sheep nor a goat. It is a beautiful and elegant milk yang! Abundant milk, clothes and food. It will be a halcyon year," wrote one user on Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter.
To celebrate this major, global holiday I thought I'd look at some of the e-resources that we have in the Chinese language.
Overdrive: Overdrive has about 1200 eBook titles in Chinese. You can filter a search by language or click on Chinese in the Language Collections at the top of the home page to bring up a list to browse. We could also type a search in Chinese characters that would bring up the title. Most titles appear to be in simplified script.
Zinio: Zinio has about 40 magazines. The great thing about its content is that many are popular, Hong Kong and Taiwanese titles. They include various editions of Cosmopolitan and GQ as well as well as Common Health Magazine and Next . These can also be searched in Chinese characters but with 40 titles its easy to browse.
hoopla: While unable to search in Chinese characters hoopla does have a good browsing collection of movies in "Chinese Cinema". The language is specified as Cantonese, Mandarin or (unhelpfully) Chinese.
Chinese E-magazines: This carries 2300 full-text magazines from the People's Republic of China. They cover a broad range of subjects including art, literature, history, science, politics, health, business, economics and more. The magazines can be viewed in both simplified and traditional characters. The interface can be set to traditional or simplified so the magazines are more accessible.
This is just a quick list. What have I missed?