General Search tips:
- Fields indicated with ‘(中文 / English)’ support search
terms in either English or traditional Chinese characters.
- Use UK English spelling.
- Hanyu Pinyin is used for Romanised Chinese spelling, except for
Taiwanese names, which use the Wade-Giles system.
- Do not use accented or modified characters.
- Searches are not case-sensitive.
- There is no spell check function, therefore incorrect spelling
will show an inaccurate search result.
- For general reference books, exhibition catalogues and periodicals,
only content related to Asian countries or Asian artists is recorded,
under the ‘Chapter Headings’ and ‘Participating
Artists’ fields.
Search tips for ‘Name’:
- Searches can be undertaken using both traditional Chinese characters
and English (中文/English).
- Enter Chinese names in either Romanised English spelling with no
hyphenation or traditional Chinese characters, for example:
a) either 姚瑞中, Yao Ruizhong or Yao Juichung (in Wade-Giles system)
b) either 徐冰 or Xu Bing
- Names can be searched for in various forms, for example:
to search for Raymond Wingkee Fung, enter ‘馮永基’ or ‘Raymond
Wingkee Fung’ or ‘Fung Wingkee’ or ‘Raymond
Fung’ or ‘Fung Raymond’.
- Search for only one person at a time, i.e., search ‘Gu Wenda’, ‘Xu
Bing’ separately. A search for ‘Gu Wenda and Xu Bing’ will
not return any result.
Search tips for ‘Title’:
- Searches can be undertaken using both traditional Chinese characters
and English (中文/English).
- Use Boolean operator ‘and’ or ‘or’ if searching
partial title. For example,
’creative and contemporary’.
- Otherwise, search title words must be entered in the exact sequence
of the original title. For example, to search for the title Creative
Ceramics: Works by Contemporary Artists from Macao and Hong Kong,
input‘creative works contemporary’, not ‘works
by contemporary artists’.
- Titles are entered in the exact way in which they are published,
including symbols such as: &, +, =, ^. For example, 4+1 New
Chinese Contemporary Art.
- If an original title is only in Chinese, a translated English title
in Hanyu Pinyin will be assigned.
Search tips for ‘Keywords’:
- Searches can be undertaken using both traditional Chinese characters
and English (中文/English).
- Use this field to search for words that appear in the following
fields: Title, Abstract, Keywords, Chapter Headings, Description,
and Names.
- Apply Boolean operators (‘and’, ‘or’) for
multiple search terms. For example:
a) enter ‘China and Japan and photography and sculpture’ to
find records which have all the search terms on the same record;
b) enter ‘installation or photography’ to
find records in which the word ‘installation’ or ‘photography’ appears.
Search tips for ‘Organiser’ and ‘Published/Produced
By’:
- Use ‘Organiser’ to look for an event or exhibition
organised by a particular party or organisation.
- Use ‘Published/Produced by’ to look for publishers.
- Combined searches are not available in these fields, i.e., do not
use Boolean operators in this field.
Search tips for ‘Categories’:
- Use this field to narrow down the search results.
- Select the type(s) of record to be searched.
You may want to know:
Monograph: refers to publications featuring individual artist.
Exhibition Catalogue: refers to catalogues of joint exhibition.
Reference: includes books of art theory, art history and cultural studies, as well as resources such as directory, guides and index.
AAA files: refers to primary and secondary source materials gathered and arranged by AAA in folders. AAA files consist of ‘individual file’, ‘organisation file’, ‘event file’ and ‘project file’.
- Click on ‘Select All’ to search for all types of records
in the Archive.
Search tips for ‘Year’:
- To search a specific period of time, for example, ‘2001’ to ‘2006’.
- To look for records from 2000 and before, enter: [leave blank]
to ‘2000’.
- To look for records from 2000 to current, enter: ‘2000’ to
[leave blank].
Search tips for ‘ISBN/ISSN’
- Use this field to search for publications only if you know the
ISBN (International Standard Book Number) or ISSN (International
Standard Serial Number).
- Enter the number without hyphenation, i.e., enter 1234567890, not
123-4567-890.
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