Internet resources for Sociology

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.

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.

The Chinese Express 快報 was a Chinese newspaper
publishing daily from 1971 to 1989. It served as a
source of general news, covering world events and
Canadian politics, as well as that of specific
interest to the Chinese community. Its entire run has
been digitized and will be released in the
Multicultural Canada website.

Although it developed later than the British Columbia
community, Chinese immigration to Ontario was already
a significant force in the 1950s. After changes to
immigration policy in 1967 opened the doors to
skilled workers, large Chinese communities began to
form in Toronto, Ottawa, and other Canadian cities.
As a result, the size and internal diversity of
Ontario’s Chinese communities increased dramatically
in the 1970s and 1980s. This increased presence led
to community activism around issues such as
education, language maintenance, and city
development, as well as the formation of the Chinese
Canadian National Council for Equality (CCNC), based
in Toronto. The Chinese Express rode this wave and
was the witness to the expansion of the Chinese
Canadian community in Toronto.

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.

Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics is a digital library collection created under the Harward University Library Open Collections Program. It brings together a unique set of resources from Harvard University libraries -- over 500,000 pages of digitized copies of books, serials, pamphlets, incunabula, and manuscripts -- to offer valuable insights into the historical context for current epidemiology and contribute to the understanding of the global, social-hisotry, and public-policy implications of disease.

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.

This database project studies the first wave of postcards
with a Chinese subject. Users not only find images of the
postcards, but also their historical context information
about what they are, who produced them and where, how they
were used, and what's their significance. The growing
collection focuses on early (1896-1920) postcards of China
with the bulk back to the time of the late imprial (before
1911). It has stopped updating in 2004 and the 462 images
the site hosts are available to view and download.

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.

Images from the History of Medicine (IHM) is a database of
over 70,000 images in the U.S. National Library of
Medicine's historical collections. The collections include
portraits, photographs, fine prints, caricatures, genre
scenes, posters, and other graphic art, which illustrate
the social and historical aspects of medicine from the
Middle Ages to the present. Subjects range from medieval
medical practice and 19th-century slum conditions to World
War I hospitals and the international fight against drug
abuse and AIDS. That said, the majority of the images date
back to earlier time periods from before World War II. The
geographical coverage of the database is international,
but the majority of the images is sourced from Europe and
the United States.

Constituting a visual record of early European contacts
with Asia and Africa, Images of Colonialism Collection is
a primary visual resource for historical and socio-
cultural studies. Made up largely of late-19th and early-
20th century trade cards and illustrated European
newspapers, this collection of more than 700 images offers
insight into European perspectives on varying aspects of
colonial experience by documenting how popular perceptions
of Asia and Africa were created and disseminated. The
collection can also be used to draw contrasts between
colonial attitudes among the French, British, German, and
Dutch colonizers and the realities in the colonies.

The Qiaopi Database is a digital project conducted by the
Shantou University Library to display and promote its
special colleciton of Qiaopi (侨批), remittance receipts
in the form of family letters from overseas Chinese to
their families in China. Most of the surviving qiaopi have
been preserved by archives in Guangdong and Fujian
Province. Qiaopi, as a unique type of historical
documents, has been recognized since 2003 as the world's
documentary heritage on the list of the UNESCO Memory of
the World. This database of Shantou University has
information and digital images about 30,000 pieces of
qiaopi.

Claude L Pickens, Jr. (1900-1985) and his wife, Elizabeth
Zwemer Pickens, were Christian missionaries of the China
Inland Mission (C.I.M.) and had a particular interest in the
category of China's Muslims who are now officially
designated as \Hui\ in China. This digital collection has
over 1,000 photos taken by Pickens, of Muslims and Christian
missionaries working among them in Western China in the
1920s and 1930s. In addition to those, supplemented
resources include several hundred books, pamphlets,
broadsides, etc., in several languages.

Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968), an amateur photographer, was a
sociologist and renowned China scholar. He visited China
several times in the early 20th century to collect data for
social-economic surveys and photographed Chinese urban and
rural life, public events, architecture, religious statuary,
etc. After his death, Gamble's photos were donated to Duke
University by his daughter. This digital collection has
more than 5,000 photos, primarily of China, taken between
1908 and 1932.

The Ming Shi-lu (明實錄) (also known as the Veritable
Records of the Ming Dynasty) is a collective name for the
successive reign annals of the emperors of Ming China
(1368-1644). Among the unique materials contained within
the Ming Shi-lu (MSL) are a wide range of references to
polities and societies which today we consider to be parts
of \Southeast Asia\. Given the annalistic nature of the
MSL and the difficulties of searching such a huge corpus,
many of these have long remained unknown. This work
identifies all of the references to Southeast Asia
contained within the MSL and provides them to readers in
English-language translation.

Teochew Letters is a website set up and maintained by the
Cheung Kong School of Journalism and Communication, Shantou
University, to promote knowledge about qiaopi, a combination
of remittance and correspondence that is also known as the
Teochew Letters (\Qiaopi\ in Mandarin).