"Over 2,750 Chinese propaganda posters are shown on this website, with information about their history, background and design." The posters are from "the collections of Stefan Landsberger (Leiden University, University of Amsterdam), the International Institute of Social History (IISH, Amsterdam, Netherlands), and an anonymous private collector."
"The East Asia Image Collection (EAIC) is an open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, rare books and slides under the general editorship of Paul D. Barclay, Associate Professor of History at Lafayette College, in partnership with staff at Digital Scholarship Services and Special Collections & College Archives." Scroll down to find a search box; scroll further to find collections of images related to various topics.
Focusing primarily on Asia, "Visualizing Cultures weds images and scholarly commentary in innovative ways to illuminate social and cultural history." From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Virtual Cities Project works with images and spatial information to advance historical research about urban areas. Links in small print on the top of the page point to collections of maps, images, media, and texts. A list on the bottom of this page links the various cities, many of them in China, included on the site; the portion on Shanghai is the best-developed.
