Duke University LibGuides - Researching China (English language resources)

Photograhs

Duke Library has an impressive collection of pictorial works(most of them are photographs) about China. An easy way to find them is to perform a search of 'China -- Pictorial works'. (English language)

Some China related historical and contemporary photography:

Sidney D. Gamble Photographs (from Duke): Approximately 5000 photographs, primarily of China, 1917-1932.

Bibliography of the History of Photography in China and Tibet before 1949

Historical Photographs of China: Collections of a Chinese diplomat, foreign businessmen, staff of the administrations in the Chinese treaty ports, missionaries, and officials of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service for 19th century and early 20th century.

Virtual Shanghai: contains more than 1000 images of the great metropolis from the late nineteenth century to today.

Hong Kong Picture Archive

Taiwan:

Taiwan Colonial Pictorial Works: A collection of 59 sepia photographs from Taiwan from the period 1933-1938
The Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection : A photographic record of a US consul's impressions of urban and rural life in Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule.
The Michael Lewis Taiwan Image Collection: A collection of 530 colour postcards from the period March 1918-February 1933.
Formosa: This digital library has a large body of primarily European and American images of the island of Taiwan -- called Formosa' by foreign visitors in the 19th Century.

Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images : Contains

Chinese modern art, including avant-garde photography;
The city of Tianjin (formerly known as Tientsin);
Views of the cities of Fuzhou and Yangzhou.

Art Images

Himalayan Art: database of images and links to related sites

Taoism and the Arts of China (special exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago Museum)

Innovations in Chinese Painting (1850 - 1950) (through The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art, Ohio State University, Columbus)

China (through the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation's World Art Treasures)

The Saatchi gallery : New Chinese Art

Asian Historical Architecture : contains over 6450 photos of 457 sites across seventeen countries. The geographical parameters of the site are limited to areas heavily influenced by Buddhism, Confucianism, or Hinduism.

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