Contemporary

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.

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

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.

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).

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.

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

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

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.

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).

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