The three colleges own many films about China including documentaries and movie theater releases.
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Articles about China:
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and many full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope.
In addition to searching by keyword, you can also look for articles about China in specific magazines including ones that combine coverage of current events with analysis for the general reader :
Atlantic Monthly
Current History
Harper's Magazine
New Yorker
In addition to searching by keyword, you can also look for articles about China in specific magazines including ones that combine coverage of current events with analysis for the general reader :
Atlantic Monthly
Current History
Harper's Magazine
New Yorker
News from China:
China daily (North American edition)
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1997-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1997-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1997-present.
Publisher: New York, NY : China Daily Distribution Corp.,
English language national daily newspaper available online in its North American edition.
China Digital Times
A news site on contemporary life in China with entries translated into English as well as notices taken from the international press. Run by the Berkeley China Internet Project. Articles are quite brief but sometimes refer to additional sources.
World news connection
Contains hundreds of news items that are added daily. Material is obtained from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. To find full-text news reports that originate from China:
1) Go to the Advanced Search Screen
2) Put Bejing in the "City/Source" box
1) Go to the Advanced Search Screen
2) Put Bejing in the "City/Source" box
Films:
Er shi si cheng ji
Publisher: New York : Cinema Guild, 2008.
Performer: Joan Chen, Lü Liping, Zhao Tao, Chen Jianbin.
Production: director, Jia Zhang-Ke ; screenwriter, JiaZhangKe, ZhaiYongming ; producer JiaZhang-Ke, Shozo Ichiyama, WangHong ; Xstream Pictures presents ; Shanghai Film Group Corporation, China Resources (Holdings) Co., Ltd.
Format: DVD-R, all regions.
A documentary film on the state-owned Factory 420, also called as the Chengdu Engine Group, which was founded in 1958 to produce aviation engines. Now abandoned, the fatory is sold for millions to real estate developers to be transformed into a complex of luxury apartment blocks called 24 City. The film revolves around eight dramatic interviews that present three generations with ties to the factory: the first factory workers, more recent employees, and the children of former laborers. Woven into this oral history are three fictional monologues delivered by actors.
Lost in Beijing
Publisher: [New York] : New Yorker Video, c2008.
Performer: Tony Leung Ka Fai, Fan Bingbing, Tong Dawei, Elaine Jin Yam Ling.
Production: Director of photography, Wang Yu ; editor, Zeng Jian ; music, Payman Yazdanian ; art director, Liu Weixin ; costume designer, Xu Zhen.
Format: DVD; widescreen (16:9, enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround or 2.0 stereo.
A tale of prostitution, blackmail, and rape in modern-day Beijing centered on a ménage-a-quatre involving a young woman, her boss, her husband and her boss's wife.
Please vote for me
Publisher: [New York, NY] : First Run Features, 2007.
Production: Cinematography and sound, Weijun Chen and Zhao Hua ; editor, Jean Tsien.
Format: DVD.
In a third-grade class at an elementary school in the city of Wuhan in central China, two males and a female vie for office of class monitor, indulging in low blows and spin, character assassination and gestures of goodwill, all the while gauging their standing with voters.
Stolen life
Publisher: [United States] : Global Film Initiative : 2005.
Format: DVD, widescreen presentation.
Yan'ni starts college, but once there she immediately falls in love with Muyu. Muyu begins an intricate deception that will take Yan'ni's child and the belief in any future she has.
Ying xiong
Publisher: Guangzhou Shi : Guangzhou yin xiang chu ban she, 2003.
Performer: Li Lianjie, Liang Chaowei, Zhang Manyu, Chen Daoming, Zhang Ziyi.
Production: Director, Zhang Yimou ; photography, Zhao Xiaoding ; music director, Tan Dun ; screenplay, Li Feng, Zhang Yimou, Wang Bin.
Format: DVD, Dolby surround.
An epic of Qin shi huang, China's first emperor of Qin dynasty, defeating and detecting his assassins from seven states. A story about what it means to be a hero.
For guides and background on Chinese films, see these books:
Postsocialist modernity
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2008.
"This book examines Chinese culture in the age of market reforms. Beginning in the early 1990s and on into the new century, fields such as literature and film have been fundamentally transformed by the forces of the market as China is integrated ever more closely into the world economic system. As a result, the formerly unified revolutionary culture has been changed into a pluralized state that reflects the diversity of individual experience in the reform era. New autonomous forms of culture that have arisen include avant-garde as well as commercial literature, and independent film as well as a new entertainment cinema. Chinese people find their experiences of postsocialist modernity reflected in all kinds of new cultural products as well as critical debates that often question the direction of Chinese society in the midst of comprehensive and rapid change."--BOOK JACKET.
Sentimental fabulations, contemporary Chinese films
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2007.
Popular Culture:
Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture
This online handbook brings together essays by scholars on topics of interest for this class including gender, the revolutionary tradition, art, film, sports, and the internet.
Chinese Posters, 1937 - Present: Propaganda, Politics, History
Stefan Landsberger (University of Amsterdam and University of Leiden) and the International Institute of Social History present this rich site on Chinese propaganda posters. Many images are arranged thematically along with background information on artists, social history and sources for more information.
Image Archives (Transnational China Project)
Faculty at Rice University have collected images from China related to advertising and consumer culture.
Collections include:
China's Public Advertising Culture
Contemporary Consumer Culture in Chinese Cities: Subway Ads
Outdoor Commercial Advertising in China: Shanghai
Collections include:
China's Public Advertising Culture
Contemporary Consumer Culture in Chinese Cities: Subway Ads
Outdoor Commercial Advertising in China: Shanghai
Internet Chinese Music Archive
Online selections of Chinese music including recent popular songs as well as traditional pieces. Unfortunately translations of lyrics are not included.
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
This site is a subject portal maintained by Kirk Denton and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State University.
Book Reviews:
Book review index
Provider: Gale
A comprehensive online guide to book reviews with over five million review citations from thousands of publications. Covers 1965-present.
China review international
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1999-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1999-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1999-present.
Publisher: Honolulu, HI : University of Hawaii Center for Chinese Studies and University of Hawaii Press.
The journal publishes reviews only of recent books about China. It is a good place for browsing as well as finding evaluations of books that you are currently reading.
New York review of books
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1963-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1963-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1963-present.
Publisher: [New York : Rea S. Hederman.
The New York Review of Books delivers long and thoughtful critiques of recent scholarly books. The reviewers often cite important related works, giving you a valuable view of the authors you need to read.
TLS, the Times literary supplement
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1994-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1994-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1994-present.
Publisher: [London, Times Newspapers Ltd.]
TLS also publishes substantial and reflective reviews. Since it is based in Britain, it often covers European publications not otherwise reviewed.