Internet resources for Contemporary

Format:
newspapers
in English; Chinese

Founded in April 2009, the English-language Global Times is
one of the most dynamic players among Chinese media, and has
rapidly become the major English newspaper in the nation.
The Global Times’ readers, both foreign and Chinese, include
ambassadors, business leaders, politicians, and
intellectuals.

by Harvard University
Format:
databases, photographs & images
in English

VIA is a growing online union catalogue at Harvard
University Library, documenting the arts, material
culture,
and social history. It contains descriptive records and
images representing paintings, sculpture, photography,
drawings, prints, architecture, decorative arts, trade
cards, rubbings, theater designs, maps and plans from
participating archives, museums, libraries, and other
collections throughout Harvard University. Included are
thousands of digital images on China, Japan, and Korea.

Format:
guides
in English

Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online is a full-text image
database providing access to past revised editions of Hong
Kong laws. The database comprises a total of six
consolidations of the laws of Hong Kong: 1890, 1901, 1912,
1923, 1937, 1950, and 1964 (last updated to 1989).

by Hong Kong University
Format:
databases
in English

Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online is a full-text image
database providing access to past revised editions of Hong
Kong Laws. The database comprises a total of seven
consolidations of the laws of Hong Kong: 1890, 1901, 1912,
1923, 1937, 1950, and 1964 (last updated to 1989). The
Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online database is a valuable
source for legal research on the historical development of
the law of Hong Kong.

by Visual Cultures in East Asia, Lyons Institute of East Asian Studies
Format:
photographs & images
in English

This project results from a collaboration between scholars
at the University of Bristol, University of Lincoln, the
Institut d'Asie Orientale and TGE-Adonis. It aims to locate,
archive, and disseminate photographs from the substantial
holdings of images of modern China held mostly in private
hands overseas.

by The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Format:
databases
in Chinese

Hong Kong Literature Database is the first database on Hong
Kong literature. The Database is powered by various
searching functions. Full-text is available in a major part
of the database.

by Hong Kong Film Critics Society
Format:
journals & magazines
in Chinese

Hkinema is the quaterly magazine published by Hong Kong Film
Critics Society. The magazine was started in December 2007,
and the PDF versions of archival issues can be downloaded
from the Hkinema website.

by Hong Kong Film Critics Society
Format:
archive, institution
in Chinese

Established in 1995, Hong Kong Film Critics Society is a
cultural organization that advocates independence for film
critics and takes it as its mission to use film criticism
to
promote the development of Hong Kong film industry. The
Film Critics Society is behind many film activities of
Hong
Kong. Its website publishes articles of its members and
makes available the current and archival issues of
Hkinema,
the quarterly magazine of the Society.

by The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Format:
journals & magazines, databases
in Chinese

「港澳期刊网」目前主要收录在香港及澳门出版的中文及双语期刊,内容方
面以人文科学及社会科学为主。引用的期刊共超过三百种;大部份期刊之索
引资料从一九八零年开始,但重要之学术期刊则从创刊号开始。

by University of Hong Kong
Format:
databases
in English

The HKWCT Collection provides details of, and access to, the
case files of 46 trials involving 123 persons who were tried
in Hong Kong for war crimes committed during the Second
World War. Due to restrictions imposed by the copyright
holder, The National Archives, it is only possible for
persons based at one of the universities in Hong Kong to
have full access to the case files. However, other
documents are available to everyone.

by St. Olaf College
Format:
photographs & images, databases
in English

The goal of the Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies
[IDEAS] is to unify digitizing efforts already in progress
at various campuses into a shared searchable database,
open
to anyone with access to the World Wide Web. IDEAS focuses
on the generally underrepresented area of Asia in an
attempt
to make multi-media materials more widely available for
specialists and non-specialists alike. IDEAS is the first
multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, pan-Asian
searchable
database in the country.

by University of North Carolina at Chapeil Hill
Format:
archive
in English; Chinese

The index was compiled by His-chu Bolick (黃熹珠) and Ling-
k'uan Huang (黃齡寬) in 1996 because of the lack of access
tools to \ Guo Moruo quanji wenxue pian (郭沫若全集文學篇)\ at
the Academic Affairs Library of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was compiled using the renmin
wenxue chubanshe 1982 edition of the \Wenxuepian\. Last
modification of the site was 1997. Some of the messages are
garbled.

by Internet Archive
Format:
in English

This is a collection of Chinese films in the
Moving Image Archive (of the Internet Archive).

by Internet Archive
Format:
NULL
in Multilingual

This is a sub-collection of the Moving Image Archive (of the Internet Archive). It has digitized feature films, shorts, silent films, and trailers from around the world.

by Internet Archive
Format:
NULL
in Multilingual

This digital library contains digital movies uploaded by users of the Internet Archive, which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.

by Washington University School of Law Library, St.Louis, Missouri
Format:
guides
in English; Chinese

This site is created and maintained By Wei Luo, lecturer of
Law and Director of Technical Services, Washington
University School of Law Library. It intends to provide
links to Chinese (Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong)
legal resources on the Internet, legal research guides and
other information related to Chinese legal research.

by 杭州西湖区司法局
Subjects:
Format:
encyclopedias, journals & magazines
in Chinese

The is one of the largest website in China that focuses
particularly on law. It is a combination of an online
bookstore, update of new legal regulations and articles, as
well as information pool of law-related news.

by Library of Congress
Format:
journals & magazines
in English

The U.S. Newspaper Directory, 1690-Present, has information
of newspapers published in the United States since 1690 and
can help identify what titles exist for a specific place and
time, and how to access them.

by The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Format:
dictionaries
in English; Chinese

The production of the Web edition of Lin Yutang's Chinese-
English Dictionary of Modern Usage is based on the first
edition of the work (hereafter called \the original
edition\) published in 1972 by the Chinese University Press.
The dictionary comprises a total of 8,169 head characters,
together with 44,407 explanatory entries of grammatical
usage and 40,379 entries of Chinese words or phrases.

by Marxists Internet Archive
Format:
digital libraries, archive
in English

This is an open-access internet archive that collects works,
poetry, and images by and of Mao Zedong.