LibGuides: Chinese Studies: Visual Materials

Videos

Databases
Videos on China at UVic

Asian Education Media Service Database
Maintains over 5,000 records for DVDs, video and audio cassettes to help educators find Asia related AV materials. Please contact Your Librarian if you want to submit a video request.
Chinese Movie Database 中文电影资料库
Provide information for thousands of Chinese movies since 1905
The Mathew Ko colour films: Victoria’s Chinatown and region, c.1939-c.1950
The films vividly document significant social, cultural and political events in Chinatown and other areas of downtown Victoria and surrounding neighborhoods, Vancouver Island, the City of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.
UVic Video Collection
The search engine allows you to search or browse the UVic Library's video collection by language and by genre. If you cannot find the recording that you want, We can borrow for you from other BC academic libraries, as well as Pic A Flic, a local video store. Here is the detail: http://library.uvic.ca/site/dept/access/media/videosnotatuvic.html
Independent documentaries on the Mao era (1992-2015)

Please find here documentary videos about Chinese culture and history with the public performance rights. You can click here to book a video for your class use.

Documentary Videos about China

Here is a list of feature films from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Most of them are home use only.

Chinese Feature Films

Images

China Posters Online
University of Westminister (UK)
Chinese Historical Postcard Project: 1896-1920
Chinese Pamphlets Collection 連環畫
Center for Research Library
Digital Dunhuang
The paintings, sculptures, murals and calligraphy in the Buddhism caves display the art styles in more than a thousand years. This digital project shows the images in great detail, allowing the download of any part of the paintings for research use.
Enemy of the People - Visual Depictions of Chiang Kai-shek This site includes visual depictions of Chiang Kai-shek from various forms of propaganda and other art from the 1940s through to the 2000s, with a particular concentration on negative images of Chiang (ranging from anti-Chiang pamphlets produced by the Japanese military during the Second Sino-Japanese War to caricatures of Chiang appearing in the American press during the 1970s).
Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946
About 5,000 historical photographs from 1933-1946
International Dunhuang Project
British Library
National Palace Musuem (Taiwan)
Sidney D. Gamble China Photographs
Duke University Libraries; about 5,000 photographs of China from 1919-1932
Taiwan National Repository of Cultural Heritage 台灣國家文化資料庫
From Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Posters of the Chinese Independent Film Festivals
Chinese Independent Film Festival posters and ephemera from the Li Xianting Film Fund Archive and REEL China Film Festival that occurred during 2004 to 2016.

Art Works

ARTstor
Searchable database of more than 300,000 digital images and associated catalog data covering different periods and cultures, and documenting the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design.

Harvard Chinese Rubbings Collection
Harvard University Libraries: About 2,000 rubbings made from ancient stone stelae, tomb tablets, Buddhist and Daoist scriptures on stelae and rocks.
Holdings Information of Chinese Paintings 中国絵画所在情報データベース
University of Tokyo – Institute of Oriental Culture
Yale Silk Road Collection
over 6,000 images of major sites in the Silk Road region; Permission to publish any image from this collection in print or on the Web is granted at the discretion of the relevant copyright holder and requests may be forwarded to the Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University