ALTERNATE TITLE
图片库 (中华数字书苑)
CATEGORY
Images
ACCESS
subscription
URL
http://www.apabi.com/
DESCRIPTION
Choose the tupianku 图片库 tab to use. This collection is highly organized; the top-level categories (called “museums”) are Chinese art, calligraphy, folk art, red (i.e. socialist) art, unearthed objects, old photographs, ancient design, modern graphic design, historical costumes, rare book illustrations, classical painting manuals, typography, and pattern design. Each museum has “rooms.” The database contains over 200,000 images; the largest categories are old photographs (75,000), Chinese art (35,000), rare book illustrations (30,000), folk art (13,000) and calligraphy (12,000). Short descriptions of images, as well as the usual image functions including scrolling through an image, are provided. “High resolution” is up to 300 dpi. Images can be downloaded after individual registration. Suggestions for related images are provided. While the China Digital Library, of which this is a part, has an English interface, very little of this particular database is available in romanization or English; thus, knowledge of Chinese is required. One can search all divisions at once, or separately; main search criteria are by image title, artist, period, place of origin of the work, and current location. In addition, each museum can be browsed using criteria appropriate to that museum: Please note: The producer of this database has seized support of the database. Currently access is only available to pre-2017 content.
SOURCE LIST
Princeton China Studies Research Guide
TAGS
LAST MODIFIED
2026-01-16