Research Guides: CHIN 3371 Topics in Chinese Film: Find Primary Sources

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Kanopy
Kanopy offers over 8,500 streaming films, documentaries, educational and training videos from an array of producers and distributors including BBC Active and Criterion Collection/Janus films. All videos work on PCs with Flash, iPads, iPhones, and mobile devices.
Alexander Street (Alexander Street)
A search interface that provides access to audio, video, and text resources from Alexander Street Press.

ARTstor
Database of over one million high-quality images, useful not only for the fine arts but as a general image resource.

MIT Visualizing Cultures
The Visualizing Cultures' mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be). Topical units to date focus on Japan in the modern world and early-modern China.

Francis E. Stafford photographs, 1909-1933
Stafford was an American missionary in China from 1909 to 1915 and 1932 to 1933. A lithographer and photographer, he arrived in Shanghai in 1909 and was hired by the Commercial Press-then Asia's largest publishing company--to manage its printing division from 1909 to 1915. During the onset of the Wuchang Uprising in October 1911, Stafford was on hand to capture remarkable photos of the Qing Dynasty's collapse.
China in the 1930's/Tianjin Collection
historical images that present a visual archive of 20th century East Asian cultural heritage. Currently, the collection consists of images that document early 20th century China including the the Sino-Japanese Conflict (1937-1945), a visual history of Buddhist practices and temples in China, and other images of daily life in both rural and urban China.
Sidney D. Gamble Photographs
Over 5,000 photographsm primarily of China, 1908-1932
Shackford Collection of Photographs of China
Photographs taken during the late 1920s and early 1930s by John B. Shackford during his travels and tenure as an English teacher in southern China.

Ann Tompkins (Tang Fandi) and Lincoln Cushing Chinese Poster Collection
Political posters from China's Cultural Revolution
Chinese Cultural Revolution Posters
Propaganda posters created by various Chinese agencies, 1968-1989