AMES 334K: Globalization and Cultural Trends in China: Film & Art

Select internet resources

Film Studies, in general:

• Guide on the study of Media from MCLC (Modern Chinese Literature and Culture)
• Bibliography of performing arts in the east in Western languages
• Chinese mirror: a journal of Chinese film history
• Chinese Taipei Film Archive (in Chinese & English) Dedicated to the preservation of Taiwan's film heritage: news; events; collections; publications; links
• Database of Taiwan Cinema (in Chinese) New films; filmographies; bibliographies; index to major events; statistics; history, etc.
• Hong Kong Film Archive (in Chinese & English) Archive functions; public access facilities; programs & seminars; exhibitions; archive collections; newsletters & publication
• Hong Kong Film Critics Society Reviews & essays by members
• Hong Kong Movie DataBase Searchable by title or name & by English or Chinese

Art, in general:

• Visualizing Modern China
• Arts of China Consortium (ACC):  collects websites on Chinese art history, archaeology and visual and material culture
• Chinese Art (through ArtLex)
• Chinese Art (through Asia-art.net)
• China (through the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation's World Art Treasures)
• 中国艺术新闻网

Photography

Before 1949:

• Sidney D. Gamble Photographs from Duke's special collection, approximately 5000 photographs, 1917-1932.
• Historical Photographs of China 中国摄影史图片库 part of the site by Thomas H. Hahn, collections are on China or relate to China,
• Virtual Shanghai is part of the IAO-Databases Project and contains 4,000 images(mostly before 1949).

1966-1976 Cultural Revolution:

• China 1972 [Cultural Revolution] Image Database 'Serve the People': Daily Life in China During the Cultural Revolution (1972)
• Images from Cultural Revolution 文化大革命图片库 : part of the site by Thomas H. Hahn in 12 subjects like The anti-Kong anti-Lin campaign in Qufu, etc.
• Morning Sun: A film and website about cultural revolution with photographs, art images and Mao Badges
• Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images - Images from the Cultural Revolution : a collection of Xinhua News Agency photographs from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s.

Post-1980 :

• Chinese contemporary photography: a virtual exhibition of a private collection of 150 works from 40 artists.
• Contemporary Chinese Photography : part of the Conscientious site with 28 Chinese artists' works.
• New Chinese Art: contemporary Chinese photography : has works of 17 Chinese artists, no information on the artists.