China Institute Gallery
http://www.chinainstitute.org/
The China Institute Gallery in New York City hosts three to four exhibitionsof Chinese art per year. In addition, the Gallery hosts a series of lectures, symposia, gallery tours, and student classes in conjunction with each exhibition. The website features a small number of images from exhibitions.
Arts of China Consortium
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/html/chinese/
This site provides information on symposia, grants, employment opportunities, and other similar items of interest for scholars of Chinese and Japanese Art. It is updated about once a month.
Diamond Sutra, British Library
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
By selecting the “The Oldest Printed ‘Book’” users can view a digitized version of the Diamond Sutra hand scroll, the world’s oldest dated printed book (868 CE). Users can move backward and forward through the scroll. Requires broadband connection and a Shockwave plug-in (downloadable from the site).
International Dunhuang Project
http://idp.bl.uk/pages/education.a4d
The Education section of the International Dunhuang Project’s website features several resources with images and background information, including Buddhism on the Silk Road, Bookbinding, and the Silk Road Virtual Exhibition. The Education section also includes a collection of useful links for exploring Buddhism, the Silk Road, and Dunhuang.
Internet Guide for China Studies: Culture and Art
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/igcult.htm
Culture and art links from the China WWW Virtual Library, organized by topic: “General,” “Architecture,” “Bookbinding,” “Photography,” “Drawing and Illustration,” “Painting,” “Calligraphy,” “Music,” “Furniture,” “Jade,” “Martial Arts,” and “Scholarly Journals.”
Stefan Landsberger’s Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages
http://www.iisg.nl/landsberger/
Presented by Stefan Landsberger (University of Amsterdam and Leiden University), this website includes around 1,700 images of Chinese propaganda posters dating from 1949 to the present, additional background on the majority of the posters, and suggestions for further reading. The posters are searchable by topic or artist.
Ling long Women’s Magazine
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/linglong/index.html
Columbia University’s C. V. Starr East Asian Library provides over 200 digitized issues of this 1930s Shanghai women’s magazine online.
A Look at Chinese Painting, MetropolitanMuseum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/chin/hd_chin.htm
Features several paintings and works of calligraphy from the Met’s Chinese art collection. Each painting is accompanied by a question and answer game. The website also includes a glossary of key terms.
Los AngelesCountyMuseum of Art (LACMA) Chinese Art Collection
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=browpage&dept=chinese&direct=yes
Much of the Chinese art collection may be viewed online and is searchable by artist, type of artwork, and place. Includes background information on each object. Site also has links to teacher resources.
MaoPost
http://www.maopost.com:8000/wcat=mao&wlan=en&wreq=home
Primarily a retail website dedicated to selling posters, this site features images of around 1,000 mid to late twentieth century Chinese propaganda posters, with a focus on the Mao era. The posters are organized by category and each poster is accompanied by English language translations of text.
The Mongols in World History, Columbia University
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongols/
A teaching unit presented by Asia for Educators in consultation with Morris Rossabi. Topics explored include “The Mongols’ Mark on Global History,” Mongol conquests, the Mongols in China , key figures in Mongol history, and the pastoral nomadic lifestyle. Features an image gallery and links to maps.
Morning Sun, Long Bow Group
http://www.morningsun.org
Companion website to the Long Bow Group’s film about China’s Cultural Revolution. Features an excellent collection of primary materials, including music clips, personnel files, pamphlets, quotations from Mao Zedong, and much more.
The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946, Harvard-Yenching Library
http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/harvard-yenching/collections/morrison/
The Hedda Morrison Photograph Collection of China includes 5,000 photographs (as well as 10,000 negatives mounted in albums) taken in Beijing by Morrison between 1933 and 1946. This site includes background on Hedda Morrison and copies of all images. The images are available online by searching the VIA system.
Norton Museum of Art
http://www.norton.org/Collections/ChineseArt/tabid/100/Default.aspx
The Norton Museum of Art ( West Palm Beach, FL) has an extensive collection of Chinese art, with a focus on prehistoric and archaic jades. Select objects (only about six or seven) from the collection are depicted online.
Picture China
http://www.daneckstein.com/china.html
Picture China is the photoblog of Dan Eckstein, a New York-based photographer. Eckstein’s photos of contemporary China are organized both by location and topic heading. Each group of photos is followed by a few paragraphs of commentary from the photographer. Viewers are also allowed to leave their own comments.
Picturing Power: Posters of the Cultural Revolution, The Ohio State University, College of the Arts
http://huntingtonarchive.osu.edu/Exhibitions/picturingPower.html
Online exhibition of Cultural Revolution posters from a 1999 traveling exhibition that originated at Indiana University .
Seattle Asian Arxt Museum
http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/Exhibit/Archive/sichuan/default.htm (online Sichuan art exhibition)
An online teaching exhibition: “Treasures from the Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan.”
Shanghai Living Photo Exhibition
http://www.shanghart.com/exhibitions/huyang/default.htm
Features photographs of contemporary Shanghai residents by photographer Hu Yang.
Silk RoadSeattle, University of Washington
http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/exhibit/index.shtml
Dedicated to explaining the history and culture of the Silk Road. Includes image galleries, a map quiz, select primary documents, and annotated bibliographies dealing with the Silk Road.
Smithsonian Institution: The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery & Freer Gallery of Art
http://www.asia.si.edu/education/teacherResources/onlineGuidesChinese.htm
Select “Art and Archaeology of Ancient China” for a three-part teaching unit on the art, history, and culture of ancient China . The guide includes historical background, information on highlights from the museum’s collection, and four lesson plans.
The Song Dynasty in China (960-1279): Life in the Song Seen Through a 12 th-century Scroll, Columbia University
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/song/
A multimedia teaching unit presented by Asia for Educators. Includes images of the Beijing qingming hand scroll from the National Palace Museum in Beijing . Topics explored include economic growth, commercialization, urbanization, intellectual life, and social changes.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
http://www.vmfa.state.va.us/Collections/EastAsian/
Online exhibition: “Ancient Worlds: China and Egypt.”
A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization, Patricia Buckley Ebrey, University of Washington
http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/index.htm
A collection of images and visual resources by period and topic, with teacher guides.
Women’s Magazines from the Republican Period, Barbara Mittler, University of Heidelberg
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/womag/index.htm
Features introductions to and select images from several women’s magazines published in China from 1911-1941. Also includes a bibliography.
Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home, Peabody Essex Museum
http://www.pem.org/yinyutang/
Yin Yu Tang is a late Qing dynasty merchants’ home from southeastern China that has been re-erected at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. The website features animation that allows users to move through the house, footage of the village, the house, and its dismantling, images of the interior structure of the house and its belongings, audio interviews, and more.