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Region / Country China-Contemporary Society

All China Women’s Federation (ACWF)
http://www.women.org.cn/english/index.htm

This governmental organization was founded in 1949 to promote gender equality in China. The website includes information about the organization, translations of relevant laws and regulations, statistics, and other information on women in China.

China Development Brief
http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com/

Features news and other information on social development in China, with a focus on international and Chinese nongovernmental organizations (NGO)s. Includes an NGO directory, translations of relevant laws, and a PDF archive of newsletters.

China Rise, The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/specials/chinarises/intro/index.html

This interactive website accompanies the multi-part, co-produced TV series China Rises. The site is divided into sections for each segment of the series: Chinese politics, economy, environment, and society. Under each segment are multimedia profiles of individuals, headlines from New York Times articles on the subject, and informative interactive maps.

CNN: Tiananmen Revisited, 1989-2001
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/06/07/tiananmen.remembered/index.html/

The CNN website on the June Fourth Movement looks at Tiananmen twelve years later. The site is divided into: Tiananmen Papers, Who’s Who, A Look Back, 12 th Anniversary, The Right to Protest, and Zhang Liang on ’89. Each category contains articles, both new and old, moies, photographs, and interview transcripts.

Stefan Landsberger’s Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages
http://www.iisg.nl/landsberger/

Presented by Stefan Landsberger (University of Amsterdam and Leiden University), this website includes around 1,700 images of Chinese propaganda posters dating frovm 1949 to the present, additional background on the majority of the posters, and suggestions for further reading. The posters are searchable by topic or artist. Contemporary topics include SARS, HIV/AIDS, the Chinese space program, and the Beijing 2008 olympics.

Modern Chinese Literature and CultureResourceCenter (MCLC), OhioStateUniversity
http://mclc.osu.edu/default.htm

Maintained by Kirk A. Denton at Ohio State University , the MCLC Resource Center website includes articles, images, and bibliographies of English-language sources on modern Chinese literature, film, art, and culture. This site also maintains a mailing list that facilitates discussion about the culture of twentieth and twenty-first century China.

Shanghai Living Photo Exhibition
http://www.shanghart.com/exhibitions/huyang/default.htm

Features photographs of contemporary Shanghai residents by photographer Hu Yang.

A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, University of Washington
http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/contents.htm

The Twentieth Century section includes units on clothing and graphic arts. The latter includes a collection of images of contemporary Chinese advertising.

Professor Guobin Yang’s Home Page, Barnard College
http://bc.barnard.columbia.edu/~gyang/China.html

Features links to Chinese environmental NGOs, Chinese language intellectual websites and forums, Chinese literary websites, China-related academic organizations, academic journals on China, and academic journals on East Asia.

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