Shuhai Wenyuan Content: Grammar

How to Cite Shuhai Wenyuan

Bibliographically speaking, Shuhai Wenyuan is a database. When you cite Shuhai Wenyuan as a source in scholarly writing, do so according to your standard style's rules for citing Web publications. The Web site Online! reproduces guidelines from the most popular styles. In addition to your standard style, here are some general pointers:

• If you refer to the entire site, the following (in MLA style) may act as an example:

Shuhai Wenyuan: Classical Chinese Digital Database and Interactive Internet Worktable. Ed. Brian Bruya. January, 2003. U of Hawai'i. 13 January 2003 <http://www.shuhai.hawaii.edu>.

• If you refer to a specific document or piece of information on the site, here are some examples you may follow (in MLA style):

• A Chinese text:
Confucius. Lunyu. Ed. Che Wah Ho. Shuhai Wenyuan: Classical Chinese Digital Database and Interactive Internet Worktable. Ed. Brian Bruya. January, 2003. U of Hawai'i. 2 March 2003 <http://www.shuhai.hawaii.edu>.

• An English translation of a Chinese text:
Confucius. Analects of Confucius. Trans. James Legge. Shuhai Wenyuan: Classical Chinese Digital Database and Interactive Internet Worktable. Ed. Brian Bruya. January, 2003. U of Hawai'i. 2 March 2003 <http://www.shuhai.hawaii.edu>.

• Pulleyblank's grammar:
Pulleyblank, Edwin G. Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar. Shuhai Wenyuan: Classical Chinese Digital Database and Interactive Internet Worktable. Ed. Brian Bruya. January, 2003. U of Hawai'i. 2 March 2003 <http://www.shuhai.hawaii.edu>.

• Old Chinese pronunciations:
Baxter, William. "Ren" entry of Lexicon. Shuhai Wenyuan: Classical Chinese Digital Database and Interactive Internet Worktable. Ed. Brian Bruya. January, 2003. U of Hawai'i. 2 March 2003 <http://www.shuhai.hawaii.edu>.

• Meanings:
Muller, Charles. "Ren" entry of Lexicon. Shuhai Wenyuan: Classical Chinese Digital Database and Interactive Internet Worktable. Ed. Brian Bruya. January, 2003. U of Hawai'i. 2 March 2003 <http://www.shuhai.hawaii.edu>.

• Philosophical excerpt:
Ames, Roger T. Excerpt from "The Mencian Conception of Renxing: Does it Mean 'Human Nature'?" Shuhai Wenyuan: Classical Chinese Digital Database and Interactive Internet Worktable. Ed. Brian Bruya. January, 2003. U of Hawai'i. 2 March 2003 <http://www.shuhai.hawaii.edu>.

Updated 3/03