Internet Resources--China Studies: Popular Culture
East Asian Library, University of Kansas

Web Directory Guide

• The Internet Chinese Text Archive (in Chinese)
  Collections of Chinese text in different topics
  http://www.ibiblio.org/chinese-text/
  
• Chinese Information and Culture Center
  New York's largest public resource center for culture and contemporary life in Taiwan http://www.taipei.org/teco/cicc/library/
• Entertainment and Music Directory by ChinaSite.com
  The Complete Reference to the Web Sites of Chinese Music
  http://www.chinasite.com/Entertainment/Music.html
  
• NetVigator (in Chinese)
  http://www.netvigator.com
• Chinese Culture - About.com (in English & Chinese)
  Extensive directory about Chinese culture
  http://chinese.about.com/
• Ray's World : Who's Who in Hong Kong Music Industry
  http://ray.com.hk/~rayc/musicind.html
• Researching History Online - Pop Culture
  http://members.aol.com/historyresearch/popculture.html

Animation & Film

• A-kuei.com Taiwan Online Animation Company (in Chinese)
  Online flash animations and games
  http://www.a-kuei.com/
• Asian Film Connections: China
  Catalog of Chinse films since 1998, awarded films since 1988, essays on the new chinese cinema. Featured directors page includes video clips (currently Zhang Yimou) http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/asianfilm/china/
  
• Bibliography of Chinese Film
  Categorized by both period and director, also includes reference and non-film media
  http://deall.osu.edu/
• China, Japan, Korea & Pacific Island Studies; Videotapes in the University of California at Berkeley Media resources Center
  Gives synopses, length, citations for reviews.
  http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/CJKVid.html
  
• Chinese Film Association (in Chinese)
  http://www.cfa.com.cn/
• Chinese Movie Database
  Links to resources, critics, journals, etc.
  http://www.dianying.com/en/links.shtml
  
• Hong Kong Movie Database
  Extensive information about Hong Kong movies by genre, year, and title
  http://www.hkmdb.com/
  
• Martin Gieselmann's annotated links on Chinese film
  Listing provided by the Internet Guide on Chinese Studies
  http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/igfilm.htm

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Art & Music

Art

• New Chinese Art - Selected Bibliography by AsiaSociety.org
  http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/insideout/bibliography.html
  
• NewChinese-art.com
  http://www.newchineseart.com/
  New Chinese Art was established in 1999 as a centre for contemporary Chinese art. The website is a good resource for people worldwide to view art by Chinese artists. New Chinese Art allows Chinese artists from throughout China to display their art for free.
• Cloud Gate Dance Company , (Chinese & English Version)
  Example of art and technology in culture. http://www.cyberstage.com.tw/
  
  Music
• cctv.com Channel V Music Channel (China, in Chinese)
  Pop music channel website in China
  http://www.cctv.com/entertainment/channelv/
• Manfredwong.com - (Hong Kong, in Chinese)
  Pop music, interview and CD review
  http://www.manfredwong.com
• iClubs.com (Taiwan, in Chinese)
  By Hito pop music and news
  http://www.iclubs.com.tw
• Peking Opera by ChinaPage.com
  Provides information about Peking Opera costume, stage, instruments and music
  http://www.chinapages.com/culture/jj_home.htm
  
• Sinomania.com - Pop Music in China (in Chinese)
  Information about music trends and artists
  http://www.sinomania.com/MUSIC/
  

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Celebrity & Television

• TV Stations Listing http://english.hongkong.com/directory/entertainment/guides.html
• Asian Idol Hong Kong Celebrity Listing - (in Chinese)
  Download photos of celebrities from Hong Kong, Taiwan, S. Korea and Japan.
  http://www2.asian-idol.com/list.mv?hk+1
• 1Chinastar.com - (in Eng, Big5 and GB)
  The Ultimate Chinese Celebrity Database by Muzi.com (includes news, ranking and information about celebrities from China and Taiwan)
  http://www2.asian-idol.com/list.mv?hk+1

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Food & Health

• Asia Food- Asia Source - Glossary, articles, and recipes of different regions in asia.
  http://www.asiafood.org/features.cfm
• Chinese Cuisine - Index - Extensive subject listing by About.com
  http://chinesefood.about.com/mbody.htm
• Herb News Headline - Includes herb news, research reviews and sicence news. http://www.herbs.org/current/topnews.html
• Learn to Cook Chinese Dishes - With instructions and pictures of food by China.org.cn.
  http://www.china.org.cn/english/food/26593.htm
• Tea Culture http://www.orientalfood.com/culture/tea/
• Tea Tradition - Finger Tapping http://www.orientalfood.com/culture/etiquette/thankyoumylord.shtml

• Chinese Yang's Shadow Boxing (Tai Chi) (Chinese GB version)
  Introduction to Tai Chi
  http://taiji.tonghua.com
• Hong Kong Tai Chi Association
  Introduces elements of Tai Chi and news, partially in English.
  http://members.tripod.com/taichionline/home.htm
• Chinaqigong.net - Qi Gong (in Chinese) by Soul Source, Ltd. (English)
  Includes health tips, studies and more.
  http://www.chinaqigong.net/
• Qi Journal - Traditional Eastern Health & Fitness http://www.qi-journal.com/
  Include Chinese culture links of Feng Shui, Taoist immortals, Chiense Astrology, zodiac, and green tea drinks.

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Lifestyle

• Need find English names
  http://www.cityguide.com.tw/ad/english/e1.html
  
• PopArt H.K. - about pets, babies and kids
  http://www.popart.com.hk/
  
• Trendsmag.com (In Chinese) - about latest fashion and trends
  http://www.trendsmag.com.cn/
• Cityguide - PC Home (in Chinese) Taipei leisure and entertainment directory
  http://www.cityguide.com.tw/
  

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Mass Media

Newspaper:

• China Site - Reference
  A good listing of articles and information on Chinese politics, history, culture, weather…
  http://chinasite.com/
  
• Beijing News Nets
  Include links to People's Daily, Beijing Daily Chinese & English, and more.
  http://thebeijingnews.net/
  
• Renmin Ribao - The People's Daily
  China's major newspaper.English summaries, full stories Chinese (GB) only.
  http://www.peopledaily.com.cn/
  
• South China Morning Post
  Hong Kong's Leading English Newspaper
  http://www.scmp.com/
  
• Xinhua News Agency , English Version
  China's central news service. English and Chinese. Includes archive search engine.
  http://www.xinhua.org/ , http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/index.htm
  
• Epaper Dian Zi Bao Lian Meng (Taiwan, in Chinese)
  Subscribe electronic newspaper about life, education, leisure entertainment and technology.
  http://www.epaper.com.tw/

  Books & Magazines:
  

• About Love magazine (Hong Kong, in Chinese)
  Teen on-line magazine about love and relationship
  http://www2.netvigator.com/ente/hobbylove/index.html
• Tentop (Star) Bookstore (in Chinese)
  Taiwan comics, fictions and books
  http://www.tentop.com.tw/
• i-Mook.com Pop Magazine Store (Taiwan, in Chinese)
  http://www.i-mook.com.tw/
• Next Media Magazine (Hong Kong, in Chinese)
  Includes news, interviews, entertainment, trends, and more.
  http://www.nextmedia.com.hk/

  Radio and Broadcasting:

• China Radio International (several languages)
  http://web12.cri.com.cn/index.htm
  • English Site http://web12.cri.com.cn/english/index.htm
    This website contains extensive information about news, business, culture, music, life,
    sport and more.
• Radio Television Hong Kong (in English and Chinese)
  Major radio station in Hong Kong
  http://www.rthk.org.hk/
• Chineseradionet.com (in English and Chinese)
  Listing of radio stations.
  http://www.chineseradionet.com/yingyu/index.html

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Bibliography

• Journal of Popular Culture
  Dates/Numbering: v. 1- summer 1967-
  Publisher: [Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University], 1967-
  Format: Periodical
  General Notes: Some vols. accompanied by supplements. Available on microfilm and microfiche from UMI, on microfilm from Kraus-Thomson Organization.Official publication of the Popular Literature Section (Comparative Literature II) of the Modern Language Association of America, [summer 1970- ] with the Popular Culture Association and the Popular Culture Section
  of the Midwest Modern Language Association, [1967-] with the Folklore Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association.
  
  ISSN: 0022-3840
  Location: Watson Library Periodicals
  Call Number: AP2 .J686X
  
  
• China into Film : Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema
  (Envisioning Asia)
  Author: Silbergeld, Jerome.
  Subject(s): Motion pictures--China.
  Motion picture industry--China.
  Motion pictures--China.
  Motion picture industry--China.
  Publisher: London : Reaktion Books, 1999.
  Series: Envisioning Asia
  Format: Book
  Description: 351 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
  General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-347) and index.
  
  ISBN: 1861890508
  Location: Watson Library Stacks
  Call Number: PN1993.5.C4 S54 1999
  
  
• Chinese popular culture and Ming chantefables
  Author: McLaren, Anne E. (Anne Elizabeth)
  Subject(s): Folk drama, Chinese--History and criticism.
  Chinese drama--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644--History and criticism.
  Popular culture--China.
  Publisher: Leiden [Netherlands] ; Boston : Brill, 1998.
  Series: Sinica Leidensia, v. 41
  Format: Book
  Description:viii, 340 p. ; 25 cm.
  General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-323) and index.
  
  ISBN: 9004109986 (alk. paper)
  Location: Watson Library Stacks
  Call Number: GR335 .M4 1998
  
  
• City on Fire: Hong Kong Cinema
  Author: Stokes, Lisa Odham.
  Subject(s): Motion pictures--China--Hong Kong.
  Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, 1999.
  Format: Book
  Description: x, 372 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
  General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [318]-363) and index.
  
  ISBN: 1859847161 (cloth)
  1859842038 (pbk.)
  Location: Watson Library Stacks
  Call Number: PN1993.5.H6 S76 1999
  
  
• Handbook of Chinese popular culture / edited by Wu Dingbo and Patrick D. Murphy.
  Other Entries: Wu, Dingbo. Murphy, Patrick D., 1951-
  Subject(s): Popular culture--China--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  China--Social life and customs--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
  Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1994.
  Format: Book
  Description: ix, 409 p. ; 25 cm.
  Table of Contents
  
  • Introduction : cultural tradition and popular culture / W. Dingbo
    
  • Lifestyles : commercialization and concepts of choice / R.H. Weiner
    
  • Food / E.N. Anderson
    
  • Tea drinking and its culture / I. Kramer
    
  • Religion / J. Paper
    
  • Chinese herbal medicine / H. Lee
    
  • Sports / S.E. Brownell
    
  • Taijiquan and Qigong / J.A. English-Lueck
    
  • Wushu / Z. Wei and T. Xiujun
    
  • The Chinese mass media / X. Xinyi
    
  • Film / W. Dingbo
    
  • Traditional Chinese drama / J. Xingyu
    
  • Chinese gallant fiction / C. Zhengwen
    
  • Chinese science fiction / W. Dingbo
  • Comic Art/ John Lent
  • Chinese calligraphy / Q. Wang
    
  • Popular rural architecture / R.G. Knapp
    
  • Transportation in the People's Republic of China / J. Marney
    

  General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-396) and index.
  ISBN: 0313278083 (alk. paper)
  Location: Watson Library Stacks
  Call Number: HM101 .H255 1994

• Hong Kong Cinema : The Extra Dimensions
  Author: Teo, Stephen.
  Other Entries: British Film Institute.
  Subject(s): Motion pictures--China--Hong Kong--History.
  Publisher: London : BFI, 1997.
  Format: Book
  Description: xi, 308 p. ; 25 cm.
  General Notes: Includes filmography and index.
  
  ISBN: 0851704964
  0851705146 (pbk.)
  Location: Watson Library Stacks
  Call Number: PN1993.5.H6 T46 1997
  
  
• In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture.
  Author: Barme, Geremie.
  Subject(s): China--Civilization--1949-
  China--Politics and government--1976-
  China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.
  Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c1999.
  Format: Book
  Description: xxii, 512 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-473) and index.
  
  ISBN: 0231106149 (alk. paper)
  Location: Watson Library Stacks
  Call Number: DS777.6 .B37 1999
  
  
• Popular culture in late imperial China / edited by David Johnson, Andrew J. Nathan, Evelyn S. Rawski ; contributors, Judith A. Berling ... [et al.].
  Other Entries: Johnson, David G. (David George), 1938-. Nathan, Andrew J. (Andrew James) Rawski, Evelyn
  Sakakida. Berling, Judith A. American Council of Learned Societies. Committee on
  Studies of Chinese Civilization.
  Subject(s): Popular culture--China. China--Civilization--1644-1912.
  Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1985.
  Series: Studies on China ; 4
  Format: Book
  Description: xvii, 449 p. : map ; 24 cm.
  General Notes: Based on a conference sponsored by the Committee on
  Studies of Chinese Civilization of the American Council of Learned Societies. Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
  ISBN: 0520051203
  Call Number: DS754.14 .P66 1985
  

• Popular media in China : shaping new cultural patterns / edited by Godwin C. Chu ; foreword by A.Doak Barnett.
  Other Entries: Chu, Godwin C., 1927-
  Subject(s): Mass media--China.
  Popular culture--China.
  Publisher: Honolulu : Published for the East-West Center by the University Press of Hawaii, c1978.
  Format: Book
  Description: x, 263 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  General Notes: Includes index. Bibliography: p. [249]-254.
  
  ISBN: 0824806220
  Location: Watson Library Stacks
  Call Number: P92.C5 P6
  

• Shanghai modern : the flowering of a new urban culture in China, 1930-1945
  Author: Lee, Leo Ou-fan
  Subject(s): Popular culture--China--Shanghai.
  Shanghai (China)--Social life and customs.
  China--Civilization--1912-1949.
  Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
  Format: Book
  Description: xvii, 409 p., [26] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
  Table of Contents: The background of urban culture. Remapping Shanghai ; The construction
  of modernity in print culture ; The urban milieu of Shanghai cinema ; Textual transactions: discovering literary modernism through books and journals.
  The modern literary imagination: writers and texts. The erotic, the fantastic, and the uncanny:
  Shi Zhecun's experimental stories ; Face, body and the city: the fiction of Liu Na'ou and Mu Shiying ; Decadent and dandy: Shao Xunmei and Ye Lingfeng ; Eileen Chang: romances in a fallen city Reflections. Shanghai cosmopolitanism ; Epilogue: a tale of two cities.
  General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-386) and index.
  
  ISBN: 067480550X (alk. paper) 0674805518 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  Location: Watson Library Stacks
  Call Number: DS796.S25 L43 1999
  

• Unofficial China : popular culture and thought in the People's Republic / edited by Perry Link, Richard Madsen, Paul G. Pickowicz.
  Other Entries: Link, E. Perry (Eugene Perry), 1944-
  Madsen, Richard, 1941-
  Pickowicz, Paul.
  Subject(s): Popular culture--China.
  China--Social life and customs--1976-
  China--Intellectual life--1976-
  Publisher: Boulder : Westview Press, 1989.
  Format: Book
  Description: ix, 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  General Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-224) and index.
  
  ISBN: 0813309239 (alk. paper) 0813309247 (pbk.)
  Location: Watson Library Stacks
  Call Number: DS779.23 .U56 1989
  

• Value change in Chinese society / [edited by] Richard W. Wilson, Amy Auerbacher Wilson, and Sidney L. Greenblatt.
  Other Entries: Wilson, Richard W., 1933-
  Wilson, Amy Auerbacher, 1934-
  Greenblatt, Sidney L.
  Subject(s): Social values. Social change. Popular culture.
  China--Social conditions--1949-1976.
  Taiwan--Social conditions.
  Publisher: New York : Praeger, 1979.
  Format: Book
  Description: xiii, 309 p. 24 cm.
  General Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
  Location: Watson Library Stacks
  Call Number: HN737 .V34
  

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