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Chinese Language, Literature & Culture
Library guide to print and online sources to learn Chinese language, literature and culture
Streaming
- Alexander Street This link opens in a new windowCross-search a multidisciplinary suite of streaming video and audio, music scores, film scripts and text collections. Videos can be linked or embedded and include full, searchable transcripts. Use Advanced Search to specify collections or choose parameters such as language or format.
Collections include:
- Academic Video Online: Premium
- Anthropology Online
- Border and Migration Studies Online
- Counseling and Therapy in Video
- Early Encounters in North America
- Engineering Case Studies
- Film Scripts Online
- Filmakers Library Online
- Music and Performing Arts Online
- PBS Video Online
- African American Music Reference
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries
- Theatre in Context Collection
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
- Sony Picture Classics - Chinese Language Films - Alexander Street Press14 Chinese language feature films from Sony Picture Classes.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowFind streaming video about Chinese language, history, and culture.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new windowDigitally streams thousands of popular films and documentaries, as well as educational videos in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Business, and K-12 Education. Includes distributors such as PBS, Criterion Collection, Film Movement, Flicker Alley, and California Newsreel.
Chinese Films at the UTSA Libraries
This is only a sampling of the many Chinese films available at the UTSA Libraries. Click on a title to check its availability.
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden DragonCall Number: PN1997.A8 W64 2001Set in 19th-century China, two master warriors are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocratic woman prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her romantic past. As each warrior battles for justice, they come face-to-face with their worst enemy, and the enduring power of love. Academy Awards Winner for Best Foreign Language Film.
- Farewell My ConcubineCall Number: PN1997.A8 B39 1999Story that spans more than 50 years in the lives of two men at the Peking Opera, friends since childhood, and the woman who comes between them. Also an absorbing drama of the period in Chinese history from the warlord era through the Cultural Revolution. An Academy Awards Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
- Flowers of ShanghaiCall Number: PN1997.A8 H149 2000Set in late nineteenth-century Shanghai and takes place in an elegant brothel. With its own highly ritualized codes of behavior, the lives of the "Flower girls" depend on their ability to win, and then keep, the affections of their wealthy callers.
- HeroCall Number: PN1997.A8 Y56 2004With supernatural skill and no fear a nameless soldier embarks on a mission of revenge against the fearsome army that massacred his people. Now, to achieve the justice he seeks, he must take on the empire's most ruthless assassins and reach the enemy he has sworn to defeat. An Academy Awards Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
- House of Flying DaggersCall Number: PN1997.A8 H68 2005During the reign of the Tang dynasty in China, a secret organization called "The House of the Flying Daggers" rises and opposes the government. Leo is a police officer who sends officer Jin to investigate a young dancer named Mei, claiming that she has ties to the "Flying Daggers" organization. Leo ends up arresting Mei, only to have Jin break her free in a plot to gain her trust and lead the police to the new leader of the secret organization. But things are far more complicated than they seem.
- Ju DouCall Number: PN1997.A8 J8 2005The abused wife of a sadistic Chinese mill owner and his overworked nephew fall in love. Only murder could free the lovers from the mill owner's tyranny- or could it? An Academy Awards Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
- Red SorghumCall Number: PN1997.A8 H658 2005Beginning as a lusty romantic comedy about a nervous young bride's arrival and ensuing seduction at a remote winery, and ending as a heroic drama of partisan resistance during the Japanese occupation. An Academy Awards Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film.
- Shanghai TriadCall Number: PN1997.A8 Y3639 2000An award-winning film from the novel Gang Law by Li Xiao. A young boy fresh from the countryside is assigned to serve the girlfriend of an organized crime boss. A bloody assault forces the wounded boss and his assistants to a remote island, where they re-group and plan their strategy of revenge. Meanwhile, his girlfriend befriends the boy and two naive neighbors with tragic results.
- Yi Yi = A One and a TwoCall Number: PN1997.A8 Y5 2001This story follows the individual lives of the Jian family. Due to many circumstances, the entire family will have to re-evaluate who they are and what their lives have become.
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News
Chinese news outlets
- South China Morning PostEnglish language newspaper from Hong Kong. 1990s - present. Available in several UTSA database subscriptions.
- The Global TimesChinese newspaper in English. 2013 - present. Available through one of UTSA's subscription databases.
- China Pictorial (Ren min hua bao. English.)This English edition of China Pictorial showcases the historical, cultural, and scenic magnificence of China; narrates meaningful stories of the Chinese people of today; and offers practical information about living, working, studying, and traveling in China. Full image 2013-current in EBSCO MasterFILE
- Current Digest of the Chinese Press (EastView Press) This link opens in a new windowArticles in English translation from a variety of key Chinese newspapers on such topics as politics, international relations, security, economics, business, public health, environment, education, and culture. All articles are explicitly targeted to a domestic – not foreign – audience and provide a comprehensive, broad-survey understanding of current events as reported by mass media in the People’s Republic of China. 2011- current
China Maps & Facts
- China MapMap of China and city maps for major cities.
- CIA World Factbook - ChinaProfile of China includes geography, government, economy, population, maps, etc.
Culture
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- The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture by Kam LouieCall Number: DS775.2 .C452424 2008
- Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture by Edward L. DavisCall Number: DS779.23 .E53 2005Available in print and as an e-book
- The Cambridge Illustrated History of China by Patricia Buckley EbreyCall Number: DS706 .E37 2010
- Directory of World Cinema: China by Gary BettinsonCall Number: PN1993.5.C6 C53 2012
- Chinese National Cinema by Yingjin ZhangCall Number: PN1993.5 .C4 Z49 2004Available in print and e-book
- China A to Z : everything you need to know to understand Chinese customs and culture by May-lee Chai; Winberg ChaiCall Number: E-book and printPublication Date: 2007Explains the essential customs, culture, and etiquette in one hundred brief, reader-friendly chapters. China A to Z introduces a general audience to contemporary Chinese society, as well as its venerable history.