Internet resources for Contemporary

Asia Pacific Perspectives is a peer-reviewed electronic
journal published by the University of
San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim. It welcomes
submissions from all fields of the social sciences and the
humanities with relevance to the Asia Pacific/Pacific Rim.
In keeping with the Jesuit traditions of the University of
San Francisco, Asia Pacific Perspectives commits itself to
the highest standards of learning and scholarship. Papers
adopting a comparative, interdisciplinary approach to
issues of interrelatedness across the Pacific will be
especially welcome.

Asian Film Online offers a view of Asian culture as seen
through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. Through
a selection of over 1,000 narrative feature films,
documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and
critics, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives
and insights onto themes relevant across Asia, including
modernity, globalization, female agency, social and
political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity. Such
themes are central to any meaningful discussion of
contemporary Asian culture and society.

Asymptote is an open-access international journal dedicated
to literary translation and bringing together comtemporary
writing in one place. The journal is interested in
encounters between languages and the consequences of such
cross-language/culture/border encounters.

The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) is a
research institution established to enhance the existing
capabilities of The Australian National University (ANU).
It
aims to be an integrated, world-leading institution for
Chinese Studies and the understanding of China, or what
has
been called 'Greater China' or the 'Chinese Commonwealth'
(the People's Republic of China, the Hong Kong and Macau
Special Administrative Regions, as well as Taiwan and the
Chinese diaspora), on a global scale.

Basic Law Drafting History Online (BLDHO) is an online
resource providing information and materials from the
drafting history of Hong Kong's constitution, The Basic Law
of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the
People's Republic of China. BLDHO is a joint project of the
Centre for Comparative and Public Law and the HKU Libraries.

EThOS is the UK’s national open access thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses. There are approximately 350,000 records relating to theses awarded by over 120 institutions. Around 120,000 of these also provide access to the full text thesis, either via download from the EThOS database or via links to the institution’s own repository. Of the remaining 250,000 records dating back to at least 1800, three quarters are available to be ordered for scanning through the EThOS digitisation-on-demand facility.

China Film Insider is a leading trade publication that
reports on the relationship between China’s film industry,
Hollywood, and the rest of the world. It provides daily news
and in-depth analyses of the exchanges of capital,
information, and talent flowing between China and Hollywood
now at an increasingly fervent pace.

This blog discusses the practical aspects of Chinese law and
how it impacts business.

The University of Westminster’s Chinese Poster Collection
is an archival collection of some 800 posters
spanning the 1950s to the 1980s. Most of the Collection
dates from the 1960s to the 1970s, making it an important
resource for study of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976),
a period of China’s modern history commonly characterised
as the ‘ten dark years of chaos’ but given increasing
critical attention research, documentary films and
important museum collections. The collection also has a
range of memorabilia from the same period, such as puzzles
and toys, badges, handkerchiefs and ration coupons,
tickets and receipts, postcard and print sets, picture
books (lianhuanhua), paper cuts and a small but valuable
library of books on Chinese art of the period.

The China Story Yearbook is an annual series
publication by the China experts at Australian
National University's Center on China in the
World. The first issue was published in 2012.
Each issue focuses on a specific topic. The
yearbook looks at issues of China with insight and
perspectives one usually does not find in
commercial media.

China Vitae is a resource of biographical information on
more than 5000 Chinese leaders in government, politics, the
military, education, business, and the media. China Vitae
tracks the appearances and travel of approximately 500
leading Chinese officials. Searchable information is
available on date and location of activity, officials in
attendance, topics raised, and source of the data. CV also
records official announcements as they occur of new
appointments to senior Party and government positions.

The China Youth Daily (中国青年报, or 中青报 for
short) is the popular official newspaper of the
Communist Youth League (CYL) of China (中国共青
团). It has been operated by the CYL since 1951.
The newspaper got its online version in 2000
(www.cyol.net). The CYOL.net website hosts an
online archive of the newspaper's past issues
dating back to 2005.

The China-Africa Knowledge Project Resource Hub is a one-
stop shop for researchers and practitioners working on the
China-Africa relationship. As the primary platform for the
work of the Social Science Research Council's China-Africa
Knowledge Project, this site actively builds generative
connections between scholars across disciplines and regions
while organizing a growing and fragmented body of knowledge
and connecting it to important trends in the social sciences
relevant for understanding Africa's new international
relations.

ChinaFile is an online magazine published by the Center on
U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society, dedicated to promoting
an informed, nuanced, and vibrant public conversation about
China, in the U.S. and around the world.

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验，提供中文法律法规、司法案例、法学期刊、律所实务、专题参考、英
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译本、法宝视频七大数据库在线检索服务，自主研发的法宝联想全方位立
体
化展示法律信息，清晰便捷。另外，北大法律信息网还提供法律咨询服
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chinaSMACK is about Chinese internet users, about what
they’re looking at, and what they’re discussing online.
chinaSMACK is about Chinese internet culture and society.

Published by the Chinese Publicity Bureau in
Vancouver, British Columbia, the Chinatown News
was an English-language biweekly magazine that
represented the interests of the English-speaking
Chinese-Canadians in Vancouver. Topic wise, the
newspaper had an international scope and was
inclusive of all people of the Chinese heritage.
The publicatoin was constant in its effort to
construct a distinct Chinese-Canadian identity and
was a principle instrument of reclaiming a culture
for Chinese-Canadians. It was tarted in 1953 as
\Chinatown\; the title was changed to \Chinatown
News\ in 1956.

This online portal is created by the Multicultural
History Society of Ontario (MHSO) to bring
together over 1,000 historical photographs, 33
oral history interviews and numerous other
archival materials about Chinese Canadian women to
address their life experiences,
challenges and accomplishments. The years between
1923 and 1967 in Canada were marked by
discriminatory immigration policy. During this
period of time, severe restrictions on Chinese
immigration, coupled with prior patterns of
Chinese migration, led to disproportionately few
women within the Chinese Canadian population. In
spite of this, Chinese Canadian women were able to
make a significant impact on their communities and
the country that they called home.

The bulk of the items in the collection are transcripts for
the documentary films and newsreels from the Cultural
Revolution, 1966-1976. Documentary films and newsreels were
two of the major mass media and communication channels in
China from the 1950’s through the 1970’s. They covered all
aspects of social activities, though the emphasis was on
developments in the building of a socialist country.