Internet resources for Contemporary

This research network brings together scholars in the UK,
China, other parts of Asia, Europe and the USA who are
working on film festivals in Chinese-language territories
and cultures (including the People's Republic, Taiwan, Hong
Kong, and elsewhere). It aims to interrogate the rapid
growth of Chinese film festivals from a cultural translation
perspective?

This database covers production, cast and crew, awards and
biographies, reviews and books, and many other information
of Chinese language movies made in mainland China, Hong
Kong, Taiwan, and other regions. Starting from 2006, the
Database also includes TV programmes. In total there are
16563 feature films, 509 TV programmes, 18453 unique
individules, and 1204 companies in the Database
(statistics).

The database has mass education materials
published in Hong Kong and in Mainland China,
particularly Shanghai, in the years 1947-1954.
These cartoon books, pamphlets, postcards and
magazines, on topics such as foreign threats to
Chinese security, Chinese relations with the
Soviet Union, industrial and agricultural
production, and marriage reform, were produced by
both Kuomintang (Nationalist) and Gongchantang
(Communist) supporters.

The Center for Chinese Studies at the University of
Michigan
possesses a stunning collection of rare propaganda
papercuts
from the Cultural Revolution--a period of massive
political
upheaval in China that began in 1966 and lasted about a
decade. The papercuts were scanned and made available as
high-resolution digital images in this collection by the
University Library Digital Library Production Service
(DLPS).

Chineseposters is a continually growing web-database that
presents Chinese propaganda posters through vitural
exhibitions, theme presentations, etc. Most of the featured
posters are from the collections of Stefan Landsberger and
the Interantional Institute of Social History (IISH,
Amsterdam, Netherlands). The website is maintained by the
Chinese Posters Foundation.

This webpage has 17 working papers by Faculty of Law of the
Chinese University of Hong Kong.

The online database, Christian Sources in New Local
Gazetteers of China, is the result of a seminal project
undertaken by the Hong Kong Christian Council and Hong Kong
Spirit Seminary College (of the Roman Catholic Church). The
database specializes in delivering digitalized Christian
sources excerpted from the New Local Gazetteers of China,
published between the 1980s and the 2000s. It covers
Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, Nestorian and Judaic sources
as are recorded in the New Local Gazetteers of various
administrative levels.

Started in 2006, ChurchChina is an online magazine that is
concerned with the
current state and development of Christian churches in
China. It has professional theological articles from
scholars as well as autobiographical ones for general
readers.

The handwritten manuscripts in the collection come in a
large variety of forms, which include poetry, prose, novels,
letters, diaries, scripts and reviews. In addition, this
collection also focus on different kinds of brushworks by
well-known contemporary artists and writers, such as
calligraphy, Chinese ink paintings, sketches, watercolors
and oil paintings.

The handwritten manuscripts in the collection come in a
large variety of forms, which include poetry, prose, novels,
letters, diaries, scripts and reviews. In addition, this
collection also focus on different kinds of brushworks by
well-known contemporary artists and writers, such as
calligraphy, Chinese ink paintings, sketches, watercolors
and oil paintings.

Cross-Currents is an open-access e-journal co-sponsored by
the Research Institute of Korean Studies at Korea
University (RIKS) and the Institute of East Asian Studies
at the University of California–Berkeley (IEAS). It is
published quarterly online and semi-annually in print, and
gives priority to papers that have significant
implications for current models of understanding East
Asian history and culture. It is particularly interested
in promoting scholarship that extends East Asian studies
beyond issues traditionally addressed by Western
humanities and social science jounals and engages with
issues of immediate concern to contemorary scholars in
China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.

The online archive results from a digitization project
undertaken by the Chinese University of Hong Kong to
digitize the works and papers of Professor David Hawke,
including his original translation manuscript of The Story
of the Stone (石頭記, Chapter 2~Chapter 80).

The Digital Collections is the National Library of
Medicine's free online archive of biomedical books and
videos. All of the content in Digital Collections is freely
available worldwide and, unless otherwise indicated, in the
public domain. Digital Collections provides unique access to
NLM's rich, historical resources.

U.S. National Library of Medicine has understaken a great
number of digital projects to create free online archives of
biomedical resources that are in the public domain, and make
them freely available worldwide. This web page has a list
of the NIH digital projects and allows users to browse and
identify relevant digital resources by subject.

Visual Cultures in East Asia is the new generic platform of
the Institute of Asian Studies (IrAsia) for the development
and display of research projects and collections that
involve the use of visual and cartographic materials. It
will actually serve as a portal for the individual as well
as collective projects of the LEAS scholars and graduate
students, as well as their partners.

The e-Asia Digital Library is a digital collection
developed by the University of Oregon Library. The
project aims to build \a collection of digitalized
e-books and a database of full text web resources\
to contribute to research and scholarship on East
Asia, while not duplicating nor displacing printed
traditional materials. The focus is on East Asia,
including China, Japan, Taiwan, and Korea (South
and North). It currently holds over 4,000 items.

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信息
中心共同开发和维护的法律 数据库产品，经过20多年的不断创新，目前
已
发展成为法律法规、司法案例、法学期刊、律所实务、专题参考、英文译
本
和法宝视频七大检索系统，在内容和功能上全面领先，已成为法律信息服
务
领导品牌，是法律工作者的必备工具，受到国内外客户的一致好评。同
时，
基于北大法宝庞大内容支持的法律软件开发业务日益受到用户青睐。

Published semi-annually, the Film Appreciation Academic
Journal (peer-reviewed) was started in 2004 by Taiwan Film
Digital Archives (TFDA). The journal's articles are freely
downloadable for registered members. Website registration is
free.

Film Appreciation Seasonal Magazine is a popular magazine published by Taiwan Film Digital Archives (TFDA). This website has the table of contents for the current and past issues of the Magazine.

This resource, published in six parts, makes available the
complete British Foreign Office files dealing with China,
Hong Kong and Taiwan during these decades. The documents
combine eyewitness accounts, weekly and monthly summaries,
annual reviews, reports and analyses with a synthesis of
newspaper articles and conference reports, economic
assessments and synopses on leading Chinese personalities.
There is a constant exchange of information between London
and British diplomatic outposts in China and a continual
dialogue on issues relating to East Asia between Britain
and America as well as with European and Commonwealth
partners. Sino-Soviet relations also become a very
important consideration in the Cold War era.