RESOURCES
The MCLC Resource Center is the online face of the print journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. It publishes online articles (see “WEB PUBS”) and book reviews (see “REVIEWS”) and sponsors the MCLC LIST (see “BLOG”). It also houses bibliographies of mostly English-language materials on modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film/media, visual arts, music, education, and culture. An image archive (see “Bibliographies”) is comprised mostly of images originally published with essays in issues of the print journal. The Video Lecture Series hosts lectures by leading experts on facets of modern Chinese literature.
Collected by Maghiel van Crevel (柯雷), Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Leiden University, the collection contains early specimens of unofficial poetry published outside the System in post-Mao China from the late 1970s to the early 21st century. It mainly consists of journals but also includes a limited number of monographs.
CIFA is dedicated to the preservation of and access to Chinese independent film culture. It holds a large and rare collection of films and footage, their associated material culture, existing publications on Chinese independent cinema in both English and Chinese, and oral history material with a wide range of stakeholders.
This is a Pilot of the Digital Library of Chinese Theatre that the international research network Staging China is building alongside the project’s many partners. The aim is to provide a central hub for Chinese Theatre resources that can be used for teaching, research, increasing knowledge or simply as a way of accessing theatre that would otherwise remain unknown. This Pilot contains over 30 pieces of theatrical work (some are full plays and some are short clips accompanied by long or short notes). Chinese theatre has far more genres than any of the Western theatre forms and thus, each ‘play’ can be presented by a large variety of different genres creating different interpretations.
This Youtube channel contains videos on modern Chinese culture, created and selected by Christopher Rea (雷勤風), Professor of Chinese in the Department of Asian Studies of the University of British Columbia. It features the best English translations of early Chinese films and two online courses on Chinese Film Classics and The Modern Chinese Novel.
China Digital Times (CDT; 中國數字時代) is a US-based organization that runs a bilingual news website covering China. The site focuses on news items which are blocked, deleted or suppressed by China's state censors.
Cofounded and edited by Norman Smith and Miya Xie and on-line with the University of Guelph, this website brings together academics from Canada, China, Czechia, Japan, Korea, Malta, Taiwan, and the United States to post translations, original sources, and web materials that shed important critical light on a region of great importance to East Asia’s modern history.
The China Media Project is an independent research project specializing in the study of the Chinese media landscape both within the PRC and globally, as well as the specialized media and political discourse of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
“Zuni Experimental Theatre Arts Archive” is an open public archive that fully illustrates Zuni’s experimental art in forty years - including performance photos and videos, manuscripts, critics, publications, etc. Founded in 1982, Zuni Icosahedron has produced over 270 theatre productions, witnessing and leading the development of experimental theatre in Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific region. Over the years, Zuni has accumulated a collection of historical documents invaluable to the local and international academia and span a wide range of areas, including art production, art education, cultural policy, and cultural exchange - records of the development and aesthetics of Hong Kong experimental theatre.
China Heritage is a continuation and expansion of the China Heritage Project established by Geremie R. Barmé in 2005 and the e-journal China Heritage Quarterly, which appeared under the auspices of that project from 2005 to 2012.
China Heritage, which was launched in December 2016, is also the online home of The Wairarapa Academy for New Sinology 清漪書院, which is based in South Wairarapa, New Zealand.