reflects upon one of the most tumultuous and catastrophic periods in recent Chinese history⎯ the three decades following the establishment of the Peoples Republic of China in 1949.

This has been collecting material related to contemporary Asian art since its inception in 2000 and currently holds one of the most comprehensive collections of material in the field, with over 20,000 titles accessible to the public free of charge, via the physical space, and searchable from the online catalogue. The highlight of the AAA collection is materials of the future: documenting contemporary Chinese Art from 1980-1990.

Over 2,100 Chinese propaganda posters are shown on this website, with information about their history, background and design. From the collection of Stefan Landsberger

A site that allows historians and other Asia scholars to share teaching and research interests

The Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art contains nearly 300,000 original slides and photographs – photographic documentation of art and architecture throughout Asia. Countries covered in the collection include India, Indonesia, Burma, China, and Japan. The documentation covers in situ works of art and architecture ranging from approximately 2500 B.C.E. to the present, as well as pieces found in most major Asian, European, and American museums

Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC 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). Note: Good sections here on the monthly art periodical Modern Sketch 时代漫画

a huge bibliography of modern Asian art, formerly maintained by John Clark at the University of Sydney

many arts-related bibliographies, on subjects including photography, media/film, music, architecture and urban studies

The museum holds more than 110,000 pieces of various collections, most of which are representative works of different periods and great artworks of Chinese art masters from ancient times till today. It includes a rather large collection of historical and contemporary photographs.

An image archive of treasures at Taipei Palace Museum including paintings, calligraphy, ceramics, jade, bronze, Buddhist antiques, etc.

website to accompany the exhibition Picturing Power: Art and Propaganda in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Hosted by the University of Heidelberg

China’s leading contemporary art institution.

The University has an amazing collection of early photographs including renowned works by Scottish photographer John Thomson, who travelled extensively in China

Unique archival collection from the University of Westminster of some 800 posters spanning the period between the late 1950s and the early 1980s. The majority of the collection dates from the 1960s to the 1970s, making it an important resource for the study of the Cultural Revolution.

an edited volume of essays on modern Chinese history.

the first English language journal to focus on Chinese contemporary art and culture.

Includes paintings, calligraphy, ceramics, jade, bronze, Buddhist antiques, etc.

offers access to 30 grottoes dating to as early as Northern Wei Dynasty that is ruled what is now northern China. Has completed 150 caves. standard resolution images are freely available, high resolution images required a subscription.

The Sheng Xuanhuai Archives of the Shanghai Library are the records of the Sheng Xuanhuai Family from 1850-1936. There are more than 170000 items, including diaries, manuscripts, letters, telegrams, account books, contracts, etc. It is the first collection of private archives in China, containing primary sources for the study of modern Chinese history.

approximately 2,000 shadow figures were collected by Guion Moore Gest, the founder of the Gest Library.

includes more than 2900 photos, one diary, and some slides and postcards collected by Elsie Anderson who spent seventeen years in China as a Secretary for Young Women's Christian Association of China (YWCA) between 1920s-1940s.