Chinese Iconography Thesaurus (CIT) is a freely accessible site for the study of Chinese visual culture, with a complementary image archive. Traditionally iconography has been used to index and access images of European art. The database can be consulted in both Chinese and English and is regularly updated; Currently, it contains 10,000 terms extracted primarily from pre-1900 sources and 2700 images of objects from the V&A, the MET, and the NPM Taipei.