Library Research Guides: WGST 307: Geisha Robots, Cyberpunk Warriors, and Asian Futures: Asian Futures/Cities/Scapes

Tokyo Modern - I, II, and III
II: https://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/tokyo_modern_02/index.html
III: https://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/tokyo_modern_03/index.html

“100 Views of Great Tokyo in the Shōwa Era,” a series of woodblock prints produced between 1928 and 1940 by Koizumi Kishio, explore the rebirth of Tokyo in the years following the Great Kantō earthquake of 1923. Koizumi’s prints depict the transformation of an important Asian city as it embraced modernity, maintained traditions, and became the site of ultimately disastrous political policies.
Beijing City Lab
Micro-data and maps Beijing and/or all of China, mostly mined from OpenStreetMap

Wikipedia's Public Domain Images
List of sites with images in the public domain
Wikimedia Commons
All of the images you'll find here have clear information about permission for use. Many are in the public domain.
Flickr.com
Browse Creative Commons images / Search for Creative Commons images / Search by color with MulticolorEngine
morgueFile
Contains free high resolution digital stock photography for use in all creative pursuits.
Compfight
Search Flickr and other photo sites for freely-available images. Narrow your search by Creative Commons license to find images for public use.

Artstor This link opens in a new window
Digitized images of art, architecture, and other forms of visual culture from around the world, from museums, archaeology, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference works, dating from B.C.E. to present.

Requires creation of an Artstor account to download images. This account also grants you off-campus access for 60 days. If your account is inactivated or you need to create an account, make sure to use a library link (such as this one) to get to Artstor so that you will be recognized as a Wellesley user.

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Large streaming video collection, including feature films and documentaries. PBS, BBC, Criterion, and more.

Try searching for films that employ techno-orientalist themes; a keyword search will search the transcript of the film.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Over 3000 educational films and documentaries on history, music, and dance.

Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
YouTube
after your initial search, click on the link to filter your results, then click "creative commons" under Features.
Music
- Free Music Archive
  an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. Conditions of use vary and are determined by the rightsholders themselves (see their FAQ for details).
- Legal Music for Videos
  The Creative Commons site maintains a list of links to sites offering music licensed under CC.
- ccMixter
  ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
- Jamendo
  All the music on jamendo is available under one of the six Creative Commons licenses. They authorize free download and enable the artists to promote their music while protecting their rights.

Search news sites and papers for stories about Asia and surveillance, reviews of movies that include themes of Asian futurism, and reports on Asian cities and technology.

CNN: Future Cities Asia
From Kolkata to Seoul, CNN's Future Cities Asia series explores city planning, tech, infrastructure and connectivity innovations across Asia.

New York Times, 1980-present This link opens in a new window
Global Newsstream provides current coverage, but only news and editorial content in HTML format.
Boston Globe, 1980-present This link opens in a new window
Searchable full-text of this newspaper
OpinionArchives This link opens in a new window
Cross-searchable full-text archives of many news and cultural commentary magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper's, Commentary, Commonweal, Dissent, Moment, and the New York Review of Books.
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), full text database of newspapers, magazines, and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses, 1960 to present.
Los Angeles Times, 1996-present This link opens in a new window
The West Coast's major newspaper. More recent coverage is only news and editorial content.
Los Angeles Times, 1881-1996 This link opens in a new window
The West Coast's major newspaper. The full-text replica from 1881 to 1996 includes graphics and ads.
Washington Post, 1996-present This link opens in a new window
News and editorial content in text format only.