1. See what materials are cited in Chinese related monographs and articles, and then go to the external network to learn about the research status of these scholars.

2. If there are no Chinese monographs or the number is limited, search for keywords in foreign magazines of related disciplines according to your research topic, and you will find a research summary introducing this topic or related issues. This foreign magazine is available in the university library.

You should know who has studied this topic abroad. As long as you know one, search online for his monographs and articles, especially articles, and you will definitely quote other researchers, and so on, you will know more about the research situation.

4. The most direct method: Ask the tutor which foreign scholars have studied this topic.

China HowNet, Elsevier and springer.

1. If you need the research status of Chinese abroad, you can go directly to China HowNet to find a summary article on Chinese and the first chapter of the master's thesis.

2. If you need the English version of foreign research status, you can go to the websites of professional foreign language journals such as Elsevier and springer to obtain foreign literature.

3. Search China HowNet on Baidu and select Open. After opening, select the research direction and keywords to search. For example, if you search with "education" as the key word and choose a thesis, under normal circumstances, the research situation in the master's thesis is relatively comprehensive.

4. Open the title link of the paper, choose the reading mode as "online reading", have the right to download directly, find the "research status" of the first chapter, and then simply quote.