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HIEA 136: History of Thought and Religion in China: Daoism: Primary Sources

Primary Sources

Online Guide to Primary Sources

 http://libguides.ucsd.edu/primarysources

Created by Kelly Smith, Government Information and Urban Studies and Planning Librarian, this online guide will help you find online primary sources

Internet History Sourcebooks Project

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/

Huge collections of well-organized primary texts, including Internet East Asian History Sourcebook

Internet Sacred Text Archive

http://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/index.htm

Principal canons of Taoism, including works by Lao Tzu

UC Press e-Books

http://content.cdlib.org/ucpress/

Primary sources can often be found (hyperlinked) in the bibliographies or footnotes of these scholarly e-books

You can also try a Google Scholar search with your topic keywords and the word "primary source" in quotations

http://scholar.google.com/

World Digital Library: China

http://www.wdl.org/en/search/gallery/?countries=CN

Significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world

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