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Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

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Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World) (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing) First Edition

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Plenty of books tell you how to do research. This book helps you figure out WHAT to research in the first place, and why it matters.

The hardest part of research isn't answering a question. It's knowing what to do before you know what your question is . Where Research Begins tackles the two challenges every researcher faces with every new project: How do I find a compelling problem to investigate—one that truly matters to me, deeply and personally? How do I then design my research project so that the results will matter to anyone else?

This book will help you start your new research project the right way for you with a series of simple yet ingenious exercises. Written in a conversational style and packed with real-world examples, this easy-to-follow workbook offers an engaging guide to finding research inspiration within yourself, and in the broader world of ideas.

Read this book if you (or your students):

Under the expert guidance of award-winning researchers Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, you will find yourself on the path to a compelling and meaningful research project, one that matters to you—and the world.

  • ISBN-10 022681744X
  • ISBN-13 978-0226817446
  • Edition First Edition
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press
  • Publication date April 1, 2022
  • Part of series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
  • Language English
  • Dimensions 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
  • Print length 218 pages
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  • have difficulty choosing a research topic
  • know your topic, but are unsure how to turn it into a research project

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  • feel intimidated by or unqualified to do research
  • worry that you’re asking the wrong questions about your research topic

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  • have plenty of good ideas, but aren’t sure which one to commit to
  • feel like your research topic was imposed by someone else

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  • want to learn new ways to think about how to do research

This book is designed to be practical, first and foremost, providing specific and tested techniques to help you:

  • choose a research topic;
  • transform this topic into a set of concrete and compelling questions;
  • identify the underlying problem motivating the questions you’re asking;
  • deal with the assumptions, biases, and preconceived notions you might have about your topic;
  • articulate the stakes involved in this problem and prioritize competing interests and concerns;
  • approach and navigate the broader community of researchers who work on the same “topic” as you (that is, your “major” or “field”);
  • discover and map out relevant researcher communities that exist beyond your field;
  • find sources that will be useful to your research project;
  • use the sources you find to refine your questions further (especially during the preliminary research stage);
  • deal with mental roadblocks and keep up your momentum during the critical early stages of your project, when it’s easiest to feel lost;
  • remain flexible, nimble, astute, and motivated as a researcher.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press; First Edition (April 1, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 218 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 022681744X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226817446
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
  • #10 in Research Reference Books
  • #13 in Academic & Scholarly Writing
  • #26 in Reference (Books)

About the authors

Thomas s. mullaney.

Thomas S. Mullaney is Professor of History at Stanford University, a Guggenheim Fellow, and the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress.

He is the author or lead editor of 7 books, including Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project that Matters to You (and the World), The Chinese Deathscape, The Chinese Typewriter (winner of the Fairbank prize), Your Computer is on Fire, Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China, and the forthcoming The Chinese Computer—the first comprehensive history of Chinese-language computing.

His writings have appeared in dozens of outlets, including MIT Technology Review, The Boston Globe, Fast Company, South China Morning Post, the Journal of Asian Studies, Technology & Culture, Aeon, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, among others, and his work has been featured in the LA Times, The Atlantic, the BBC, and in invited lectures at Google, Microsoft, Adobe, and more.

He holds a PhD from Columbia University.

Christopher G. Rea

Christopher Rea is Professor of Chinese and former Director of the Centre for Chinese Research at the University of British Columbia.

Learn about his books and research at: https://asia.ubc.ca/profile/christopher-rea/

He is the creator of the Chinese Film Classics project, the world's largest collection of early Chinese films with English subtitles: chinesefilmclassics.org

Subscribe to his YouTube channel @ModernChineseCulturalStudies

"Where Research Begins," co-authored with Thomas S. Mullaney, is a guide for the researcher starting a new project. Editions forthcoming in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Thai.

"Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949" is an essential guide to 14 Chinese cinematic masterworks of the black-and-white era. Chinese edition forthcoming.

"The Book of Swindles" is a 400-year-old Chinese collection of stories about fraud, and especially the perils faced by merchants traveling in the southern reaches of empire during the late Ming dynasty. A second volume is under contract with Columbia University Press.

"The Age of Irreverence" is a history of how China laughed its way into the modern age. It traces an unruly current in modern Chinese culture, following the stories of whimsical poets, vaudevillian entrepreneurs, renowned revilers, twee essayists, winking farceurs, and self-promoting jokesters--as well as the vocal opponents who tried to tame them. The Association of Asian Studies awarded "The Age of Irreverence" the Joseph Levenson Book Prize (Post-1900 China) in 2017. A Taiwan edition was published by Rye Field (Maitian) in 2018; a PRC edition is forthcoming from Peking University Press.

"The Business of Culture" is a study of cultural entrepreneurship that traces the rise of cultural personalities, tycoons, and collective cultural enterprises in China and Southeast Asia, from Tianjin and Shanghai to Hong Kong and Singapore.

"Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts," is a translated collection of stories and essays by Qian Zhongshu, twentieth-century China's paragon of urbane wit and acerbic satire.

"China's Literary Cosmopolitans" offers a comprehensive survey of the literary oeuvres of two of China's leading scholar-writers, Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang, and explains their contributions to the notion of literary cosmopolitanism.

"Imperfect Understanding: Intimate Portraits of Modern Chinese Celebrities" features fifty witty and idiosyncratic pen sketches, written in English by a Cambridge-educated author born in the Dutch East Indies, of Chinese cultural celebrities in the 1930s.

"China's Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces by Xu Zhuodai" is a humor anthology that will answer the questions that have been keeping you up at night, such as: What is a father’s duty when he and his son are courting the same prostitute? And why should you never, never, never pull a hair from a horse’s tail?

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  6. Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That ...

    Written in a conversational style and packed with real-world examples, this easy-to-follow workbook offers an engaging guide to finding research inspiration within yourself, and in the broader world of ideas. Read this book if you (or your students): want to learn new ways to think about how to do research.