Arts of China Consortium: links Arts of China Consortium (formerly Chinese and Japanese Art History WWW Virtual Library) LINKS ACC INFO + INDEX ATTEND CALLS GRADUATE PROGRAMS/STUDENTS GRANTS LINKS POSITIONS Museums AUSTRALASIA CHINA EUROPE JAPAN NORTH AMERICA Books BOOKSELLERS BOOKS ONLINE BOOK REVIEWS Research + Reference ARCHAEOLOGY ASIA CHINESE ART CHINESE HISTORY + CULTURE JAPANESE ART JAPANESE HISTORY + CULTURE RELIGION DATABASES DICTIONARIES E-JOURNALS IMAGE ARCHIVES LIBRARIES + ARCHIVES ORGANIZATIONS Pedagogy TEACHING GUIDES SYLLABI Museums and Exhibitions AsiaEVENTS: Asia-related exhibitions, conferences, readings, screenings, performances, and discussions happening around the searchable world by date, location, or keyword Newsletter for East Asian Art and Archaeology: exhibitions, conferences, lectures, workshops Orientations: calendar of Asian art events back to page index AUSTRALASIAAsian Civilisations Museum, SingaporeArt Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Lee Kong Chian Art Museum, National University of Singapore National Museum of History, Taipei National Palace Museum, Taipei Singapore Art Museum back to page index CHINAThe Chinese University of Hong Kong, Art MuseumFlagstaff House Museum of Teaware, Hong Kong Guangdong Museum of Art Hangzhou Southern Song Guan Kiln Museum Henan Museum, Luoyang Hong Kong Heritage Museum Hong Kong Museum of Art Hong Kong Museum of History Museum of Qin Shihuang Terracotta Warriors and Horses, Xi'an Nanjing Museum and its Academic Exchanges on Conservation in China The National Museum of Chinese History (Zhongguo lishi bowuguan), Beijing Palace Museum, Beijing Shaanxi History Museum, Xi'an Shanghai Museum University of Hong Kong, University Museum and Art Gallery Visible Traces: Rare Books and Special Collections from the National Library of China: on-line exhibition, teacher's guide, etc. back to page index EUROPE Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford: Eastern art Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, UK: Chinese glass collection British Library, London, and its Images Online British Museum, London Burrell Collection, Glasgow Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Collections Baur, Geneva Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg: Oriental Art Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris Musée Cernuschi - musée des arts de l'Asie de la Ville de Paris Museum of Asian Art (formerly Museum of East Asian Art), Berlin Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst (Museum of East Asian Art), Köln (Cologne) Museum für Völkerkunde (Museum of Ethnology), Berlin-Dahlem Kibo Foundation, London: The Khalili Collection of Japanese Art (mainly Meiji decorative art) musée du quai Branly, Paris Musée National des Arts Asiatiques - Guimet, Paris Museum of Croydon (formerly Riesco Gallery), UK Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, UK Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Ostasiatiska Museet), Stockholm Museum Rietberg Zürich National Museums of Scotland Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, collections have moved to the British Museum (ceramics) and SOAS library (books and sherds) Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (National Museum of Ethnology), Leiden University of Durham, Oriental Museum University of Sussex, The Barlow Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Jades and Bronzes Victoria & Albert Museum of Art, London back to page index JAPANAdachi Museum of Art, Yasugi Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya Art Tower Mito (Tokyo Contemporary Art Center) Asuka Historical Museum Azuchi Castle Museum, "House of Nobunaga" Chiba City Museum of Art Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art Chihiro Art Museum, Tokyo and Azumino Edo-Tokyo Museum Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Gotoh Museum, Tokyo (in Japanese) Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Hatakeyama Memorial Museum of Fine Art, Tokyo Hiroshima Museum of Art Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo Japan Ukiyo-e Museum, Matsumoto Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume Itsuo Art Museum, Nirasaki The Japan Folk Crafts Museum Japan Ukiyo-e Museum, Matsumoto Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History, Yokohama Kanagawa Prefectural Kanazawa-Bunko Museum Kawasaki City Museum Kuroda Memorial Hall, Tokyo Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, Izumi Kurita Museum, Ashikaga Kurokawa Institute of Ancient Cultures, Nishinomiya Kyoto National Museum Kyushu National Museum Miho Museum, Shiga Prefecture Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum Museum of Contemporary Art Sapporo Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts Nagoya City Museum Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum Nara National Museum Nara National Research Institute of Cultural Properties National Museum of Art, Osaka National Museum of Japanese History, Chiba National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, Tokyo Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Nagaoka Niigata Prefectural Museum of History, Nagaoka: with links to articles on Japanese archaeology and English abstracts for Kokogaku Kenkyu Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki Okayama Prefectural Museum Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art Raku Museum, Kyoto Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki Saga Prefectural Museum/Art Museum Sano Museum of Art, Mishima, Shizuoka prefecture Seikado Bunko Art Museum, Tokyo Sen-oku Hakuko Kan (Sumimoto Collection), Kyoto and Tokyo Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano Shimane Art Museum Shinshushinmachi Art Museum, Nagano Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo Takaoka Art Museum, Toyama Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art (formerly Seiji Togo Memorial Yasuda Kasai Museum of Art), Tokyo Tokugawa Art Museum, Nagoya City Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Tokyo National Museum Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo Watari-um (The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art), Tokyo Yamatane Museum of Art, Tokyo Yushukan, Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo Yokohama Museum of Art (in Japanese) Yokoyama Taikan Memorial Hall, Tokyo back to page index NORTH AMERICAAllen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH: Asian art Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia Art Institute of Chicago and its online exhibition Taoism and the Arts of China Asia Society Museum, New York: (1) Inside Out: New Chinese Art; (2) Gilded Splendor: Treasures of China's Liao Empire (907-1125) Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, and its Society for Asian Art Asian Arts & Culture Center, Towson State University, Towson, MD University of California, Berkeley Art Museum Brooklyn Museum of Art Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University Chazen Museum of Art (formerly Elvehjem Museum of Art), University of Wisconsin China Institute in America, New York Cleveland Museum of Art Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, TX Denver Art Museum Detroit Institute of Arts Field Museum, Chicago Freer Gallery and Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Guggenheim Museum, New York: the modern art component of the exhibit 5,000 Years of Chinese Art Honolulu Academy of Arts Japan Society of New York Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, and its collection online Cornell University (Insight software download recommended) Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX The Ruth & Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art (formerly the Clark Center for Japanese Art), Hanford, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL Manyo'an Collection of Japanese Art: Edo-period (1615-1868) works of Zenga, Nanga, Rinpa, Maruyama-Shijo, Ukiyo-e, and Eccentric styles Maridon Museum, Butler, PA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Minneapolis Institute of Arts Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, FL Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City Newark Museum, Newark, NJ New York Scholar's Garden, Staten Island Botanical Garden Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, NY Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, and the online catalogue of works in the collection of James Cahill (the Ching Yüan Chai Collection) Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, and its Yin Yu Tang, a late Qing dynasty (1644-1911) house Philadelphia Museum of Art Phoenix Art Museum Portland Art Museum Princeton University Art Museum Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto Rubin Museum of Art, New York Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, and its Collections Online Freer Gallery and Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Saint Louis Art Museum San Diego Museum of Art Seattle Art Museum and Seattle Asian Art Museum Shin'enkan Foundation, Los Angeles: The Etsuko and Joe Price Collection David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas Tacoma Art Museum Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY The Textile Museum, Washington, DC University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT back to page index Books BOOKSELLERS ABQ Asian Books: books in English, Chinese, and Japanese formerly in the collection of Profs. Karen L. Brock and Robert L. Thorp (ret., Washington University, St. Louis) Asia Bookroom, Canberra Asian Rare Books, Manila (formerly New York) Beijing Bookworm: A Guide for Beginning Chinese-language Foreign Bookworms of Beijing, by David Cowhig, U.S. Embassy, Beijing Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden Han-Shan Tang Books, London: East Asian Art, Archaeology and Area Studies The Old Bookroom, Portland, OR: out of print, antiquarian, and uncommon new books on Asia Paragon Books, Chicago: specializing in Asian art materials; Check the News section for digests of recent articles from Oriental Art, Orientations, and the Asian Art Newsletter Timezone 8 Art Books: specializing in contemporary exhibition catalogues and mainland China publications Ukiyo-e Books, Leiden BOOKS ONLINE Robert Hartwell, Tribute Missions to China, 960-1126 (1983), originally printed for private distribution, now available as a .pdf file Ohio State University Library KnowledgeBank: online publication of "orphan" books--out of print but still under copyright--including James Cahill's Hills Beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368 and Parting at the Shore: Chinese Painting of the Early and Middle Ming Dynasty, 1368-1580. University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Electronic Publications: Michigan Classics Online, CJS Faculty Series, and Out-of-Print Books Online BOOK REVIEWS caa.reviews & ArtsBiB: detailed information on newly published books on art history and visual culture; recent and archived peer reviews of books and exhibitions (available to CAA members only with login) H-NET Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences Persimmon: Asian Arts, Literature, and Culture book reviews back to page index Research + Reference ARCHAEOLOGY Academic Sinica, Institute of History and Philology: searchable database on Chinese Archaeology, including electronic version of the Yearbook of Chinese Archaeology: Bibliography of Archaeological Literature (in Chinese) "Archaeology in Depth," Nanjing Museum (in Chinese) Beijing Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage (in English and Chinese) China Cultural Heritage Net, State Administration of Cultural Heritage "Chinese Archaeology," Institute of Archaeology, Central Academy of Social Sciences (in Chinese) International Dunhuang Project, British Library, UK: image database of manuscripts; resources on the Silk Road; IDP News and other publications Internet Guide for China Studies: Archaeology, edited by Jenny Liu and Sarah Talbot Jiangsu Information Museum Net, Jiangsu Cultural Relics Bureau (in Chinese and English) back to page index ASIA Asian Historical Architecture: "over 5700 photos of 404 sites in fifteen countries,with extensive background information and 'virtual tours'" Asian Studies WWW VL Search Engine: search the hundreds of web pages belonging to the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library project Asianart.com: focus on Himalayan art Digital Silk Roads Project, Tôyô Bunko, Tokyo, Japan Dissertations in Central Asian Studies: grouped by author, institution, subject Silk Road Narratives: A Collection of Historical Texts, University of Washington, includes the following texts: Chinese accounts [of Rome, Byzantium and the Middle East], 91 BCE - 1643 CE The Han Histories, 206 BCE - 220 CE Hou Han shu ("The Western Regions according to the Hou Han Shu"), 25-220 CE Ancient Sogdian Letters, 313/14 CE Faxian (Fa-Hsien), 399-414 Benjamin of Tudela, 1160-1173 William of Rubruck, 1253-1255 Rabban Bar Sauma, 1278-1313 Francesco Balducci Pegolotti's Merchant Handbook, 14c Pero Tafur, 1435-1439 The Tarikh-i-Rashidi by Mirza Muhammad Haidar, 1546-1547 Memoirs of Babur, early 16c Anthony Jenkinson, 1557-1560 Richard Steel & John Crowther, 1615-1616 Journey of Benedict Goes, early 17c Adam Olearius, 1633-1639 Jean Chardin, 1660s-1670s Silk Road Seattle Project, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington: extensive sections on (1) historical texts, (2) cities and architecture, (3) museum collections, (4) traditional culture, and (5) a Silk Road atlas Tôyôgaku bunken ruimoku (Annual Bibliography of Oriental Studies): full text searchable database version of the important bibliography, covering books and articles in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and English, published since 1981(in Japanese) back to page index CHINESE ART Antique Chinese Porcelain Collector's Page: 500+ pages on the history of and research on Chinese pottery and porcelain Bibliography of Contemporary Chinese Art , including mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and diaspora, compiled by Britta Erickson, 1998-1999 Bibliography of Photo-Albums and Materials Related to the History of Photography in China and Tibet before 1949, compiled by Thomas H. Hahn, Ithaca, NY James Cahill (Professor Emeritus, University of California): "a repository of my (mostly unpublished, or hard-to-find) writings, to be read and downloaded" The China Collection: research and licensing location devoted to contemporary Chinese art and culture, featuring the Hefner Collection of Contemporary Chinese Art China Cultural Heritage Net, State Administration of Cultural Heritage Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages WWW compiled by Stephan Landsberger Classical Chinese Furniture Collections of Chinese Painting, compiled by the Department of East Asian Art, Institute for Oriental Culture, and originally published in the multi-volume publication Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings (First Series, 5 volumes, 1980; Second Series, 4 volumes, 2001); searchable by painter, subject, collection in English and Japanese Digital Scrolling Paintings Project, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images: documentary photography on the themes of (1) Chinese modern art; (2) urbanization and architecture; (3) Daoist and/or Buddhist mountains, monasteries, and "theme parks"; (4) the city of Tianjin; (5) views of the cities Fuzhou and Yangzhou; (6) impressions of Tibet Holmes Welch Collection, University of Wisconsin-Madison: religious themes and the Tianjin Collection International Dunhuang Project, British Library, UK: image database of manuscripts; resources on the Silk Road; IDP News and other publications Lienu zhuan: woodblock-printed volume made available on-line "The Long March Project - A Walking Visual Display": "The curatorial team along with two camera crews will accompany the trek of 100+ artists for four months documenting and archiving the experience. Local and international artists will join the team at different venues. Twenty historically, politically, and geographically significant locations have been carefully selected for exhibitions and lectures. Original artworks and secondary sources (slides, videos, exhibition catalogues) will be displayed." "Recording the Grandeur of the Qing: The Southern Inspection Tour Scrolls of the Kangxi and Qianlong Emperors": web module created by Metropolitan Museum of Art and the East Asian Curriculum Project of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University back to page index CHINESE HISTORY + CULTURE Academica Sinica, Taiwan, and its Chinese text retrieval system (in Chinese) China Biographical Database Project, Harvard-Yenching Library China Bibliography: Collections of Resources, maintained by Marilyn Shea (Department of Psychology University of Maine at Farmington) Chinese Civilization in Time and Space (CCTS), Academia Sinica: WebGIS based on The Historical Atlas of China Sources on Modern Chinese History, UCSD: sources, archives, bibliography, current research Classical Historiography for Chinese History, compiled by Benjamin A. Elman (Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University) Cultural Relations between China and the West, maintained by the East Asian History Seminar, University of Zurich Culture and Society of Hong Kong: A Bibliography, Anthropology Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: groupings include 1. Belief Systems; 2. Cultural Symbolism; 3. Ethnicity; 4.Food and Health; 5. Gender and Sex; 6. Human Ecology; 7. Language; 8. Marriage and Family; 9. Migration; 10. Political life; 11. Popular Culture; 12. Social Development; 13. Socialization and Education; 14. Work and Economics; 15. Related Bibliographies Gateway Service Center of Chinese Academic Journal Publications: provides free delivery of full-text copies of Chinese-language academic journal articles to any researcher in the U.S.; articles are transmitted electronically from the following institutions: Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Fu Ssu-nien Library of Academia Sinica, University of Pittsburgh, Qinghua University, Fudan University Hanquan Database of Ancient Texts (in Chinese): free, searchable database containing the following texts (with more to be added in the future): Shisan jing (13 Classics; based on Ruan Yuan's edition, but without commentaries) Xian-Qin zhuzi (Pre-Qin Philosophers; containing Baopuzi, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Liezi, Mozi, Yanzi Chunqiu, Guanzi, Shangjunshu, Shenzi, Hanfeizi, Sunzi, Wuzi, Yinwenzi, Lushi chunqiu) Quan Tang shi (based on the Zhonghua shuju edition in 25 vols) Song Yuan xu'an Mingru xue'an Siku quanshu zongmu Zhuzi yulei Hong lou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) Baisha quanji (Complete works of Chen Xianzhang, 15th c.) Zizhi tongjian Xu Zizhi tongjian Ershiwu shi (25 Histories) Index to Chinese Periodicals of Hong Kong (in traditional Chinese): Chinese/bilingual periodicals published in Hong Kong "International Exhibitions, Expositions Universelles and World's Fairs, 1851-1951: A Bibliography": a comprehensive bibliography of secondary sources on the history of world's fairs updated and expanded mid-2002 by Alexander C. T. Geppert, Jean Coffey, and Tammy Lau Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC) Resource Center: contains, among other things, an image archive of 20th-century Chinese culture and bibliographies of mostly English-language materials on modern Chinese literature, film, art, and culture Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946, Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University, with the following picture categories: Buddhist nuns ca. 1933-1946; Chung Hai ca. 1933-1946;;Fa-hai ssu ca. 1933-1946; Forbidden City, temples, walls, Ming 1933-1946; Funerals, weddings, Miao-feng Mountain 1933-1946; Handicrafts 1933-1946; Hua Shan 1935; Jehol 1934-1935; Lost Tribe 1936; Nan-hai ca. 1933; Pai-yun kuan ca. 1933-1946; Pao-ting Fu 1940; Pei-hai ca. 1933-1946; Portraits ca. 1933-1946; Shantung 1942; Shop signs, calls, houses, fields 1933-1946; Street life 1933-1946; Summer Palace, Jade Fountain, hills temples 1933-1946; Tai miao ca. 1933-1946; Temple of Heaven ca. 1933-1946; untitled ca. 1933-1946; Wei Hai Wei 1937; Yün-kang 1933 Old China Hands Archive, California State University, Northridge: "established in the fall of 1996 to preserve and publicize the heritage of the many people from other countries and cultures who have resided and worked in China" Old Photos of Henan, taken by Joseph Skarbek from 1906-1909, arranged into three sections: trains, religious sites, and daily life (in French) Shanghai in Images, maintained by Institut d'Asie Orientale, Lyon, France and the Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley Shuhai Wenyuan: Classical Chinese Digital Database (Department of Philosophy, University of Hawai'i), with content contributed by: Chinese University of Hong Kong Chinese Ancient Texts Center: concordance series of classical Chinese texts Edwin Pulleyblank and the University of British Columbia Press: Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar Charles Muller: pre-modern Chinese definitions from his CJKV-English Dictionary William Baxter: reconstructions of Old Chinese pronunciations Michael Loewe, the Society for the Study of Early China, and the Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley: Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide John DeFrancis, the University of Hawai'i Press, and Tom Bishop of Wenlin Institute: pinyin pronunciations and modern definitions from ABC Chinese-English Dictionary Song Research Tools, "a guide to bibliographies, indexes, dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases and chronologies of use to those interested in all aspects of Chinese society during the Song Dynasty (960-1279)," edited by Hilde De Weerdt Tibet Visual History Online, "an extraordinarily rich collection of over 4000 historical photographs of Tibet taken by British colonial photographers between 1908 and 1950," Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford The Virtual Museum of the Cultural Revolution, created by China News Digest A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization: an indispensable guide prepared by Patricia Buckley Ebrey "to add to the material teachers can use to help their students understand Chinese history, culture, and society"; topics include geography, ancient tombs, Buddhism, calligraphy, military technology, painting, homes, gardens, clothing, and graphic arts Women's Magazines from the Republican Period [China], compiled by Barbara Mittler, Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University back to page index JAPANESE ART Anime Check-list of Japanese animation since 1917, including charts analyzing trends in the anime industry, edited by Giuseppe Albanese artelino: database of ukiyo-e signatures edited by Dieter Wanczura CBEL: Traditional Japanese Art: 210 links to other websites relating to Japanese art Collections of Japanese Art Online and in Print, compiled by Rosina Buckland (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) Dentokogei.com: devoted to showcasing the work of the shokunin, or artisans, still working and carrying on the traditions of handcraft production in Japan The Japanese Garden: dedicated to the Japanese garden, and specifically to the historic gardens of Kyoto and its environs; includes overview, origins, elements, bibliography, glossary, and links; edited by Clifton Olds (Bowdoin College) Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period, Nagasaki University Library Japanese Pottery Information Center: Glossary of Terms, Living National Treasures, Exhibitions and Reviews, Links to Japanese Museums Jim Breen's Ukiyo-E Gallery, categorized by artist A Reader's Guide to the Arts of Japan: an introductory-level syllabus provided by the Asia Society, New York Red-Haired Barbarians: 40 rare Japanese prints depicting the Dutch and other foreigners in Nagasaki and Yokohama, 1800-1865 (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam) Ukiyo-e: The Pictures of the Floating World, compiled by Hans Olof Johansson Viewing Japanese Prints: John Fiorillo's compilation of images and explanations of Japanese prints, including introductions to ukiyo-e, 20th-c. shin hanga (new prints), sôsaku hanga (creative prints), and modern/contemporary prints back to page index JAPANESE HISTORY + CULTURE Bibliography of Japanese History up to 1912, compiled by Peter Kornicki, University of Cambridge, 1996 "International Exhibitions, Expositions Universelles and World's Fairs, 1851-1951: A Bibliography": a comprehensive bibliography of secondary sources on the history of world's fairs updated and expanded mid-2002 by Alexander C. T. Geppert, Jean Coffey, and Tammy Lau Japanese Historical Text Initiative, University of California, Berkeley: historical texts and English translations of 1. ancient chronicles; 2. ancient gazetteers; 3. ancient religio-civil code; 4. medieval stories; 5. medieval and early-modern interpretive histories; 6. Japanese state and imperial Shinto; 7. scriptures of Japan's new religions. Virtual Kyoto: covers the history and culture of Kyoto starting from the 8th century, including 3-D flythroughs and maps back to page index RELIGION Bibliography of Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon into Western Languages, compiled by Marcus Bingenheimer, February 2002 Chinese popular religion: bibliography of Western-language publications (1995 to present) compiled by Philip Clart Digital Buddhist Library and Museum, National Taiwan University and Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies, Taipei: Translations from the Chinese Buddhist canon into Western languages; bibliography of Buddhist studies bibliographies in Western languages; list of Buddhist periodicals Dao House... of discourses and dreams: a compendium of online Daoist resources, with descriptions of and quotations from hundreds of sites, organized into sections on: The Basics; Laozi; Zhuangzi; Metaphysics?; Early History (The Philosophical Tradition); Later History (The Religious Tradition); Yijing; Fengshui; Practical Dao; Therapeutic Dao; Political Dao; Daoist Art; Daoist Poetry; Daoist Literature; Sermons and Such; Resources A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous; Charles Muller [ed. digitized version] Mundus - Missionary Collections in the UK, SOAS: on-line guide to missionary-related resources Taishô Shinshû Daizôkyô: searchable SAT Daizôkyô Text Database Taisho Tripitaka (in Japanese) The Taoism Information Page: English-language scholarly and philosophical information back to page index DATABASES Aardvark: Asia's Web Resource for Librarians: "... more than 2,500 links including 910 Asian universities, 103 preprint archives, 594 library science ejournals (the biggest on the Web), 146 Asian databases (the only list on the Web), 130 conferences (25 in Asia), 252 publishers..." Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts and its predecessor, IIC Abstracts, compiled by the Getty Conservation Institute, in association with London's International Istitute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (36 volumes) Australian Dissertations on Asia, 1999-2001, compiled by the Asian Studies Association of Australia Digital Dictionary of Buddhism, edited by Charles Muller, Toyo Gakuen University Getty Institute Introduction to Vocabularies : Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Union List of Artist Names, and Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names, among a wide variety of resources Kunstchronik: searchable index of 26,000 German dissertations, 1985-1998 Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database: includes Chinese index of bamboo names, Chinese index of mushroom names, Japanese index of Fungi names, citrus in Chinese & Japanese, prunus in Chinese & Japanese, zea (corn/maize) in Chinese & Japanese, perilla (herbal/medicinal) in Chinese & Japanese, phaseolus and Vigna (beans/peas) in Chinese & Japanese, capsicum (chillies/peppers) in Chinese & Japanese PhdData, Universal Index of Doctoral Dissertations in Progress Resources for East Asian Language and Thought, by Charles Muller: links to CJK-English dictionary/database, a dictionary of East Asian CJK Buddhist terms, and other resources relating to the study of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism Resources in Art History for Graduate Students: updated newsletter of grants, fellowships, internships and study abroad opportunities for graduate students in art history edited by Adrienne DeAngelis back to page index DICTIONARIES Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage by Lin Yutang, based on the first edition published in 1972 by the Chinese University Press, Hong Kong Hepburn Japanese-English-Japanese Dictionary (in Japanese), "a rich source for expressions current in Meiji Japan" Sanseido On-line Japanese Dictionary: 1.2 million terms from 16 dictionaries including Daijirin, Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten, Konsaisu Nihon Chimei Jiten, and Eiwa Jiten, Futsuwa Jiten, Dokuwa Jiten, etc. (in Japanese, launch scheduled for 12 January 2001) back to page index ELECTRONIC JOURNALS The Ancient East Asia Website: formerly China Archaeological News, devoted to the archaeology and prehistory of China, Japan and Korea, inviting contributions from archaeologists, scholars and interested members of the public; recent papers posted include CAO Bingwu's "Chinese Archaeology in the 20th Century and Beyond" The Art Newspaper on-line Asian Arts E-Journal Buddhist Art News: compilation of news items, reviews, resources, and sites related to Buddhist art, archaeology, and architecture. Bulletin de l'Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association E-ASPAC, journal of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast E-Journal on Hong Kong Cultural and Social Studies, Hong Kong University Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies Ex/Change, the Newsletter of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies at the City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong Journals Online: a full-text image database providing access to selected academic and professional journals, both in English and Chinese, published in Hong Kong Museum of Underwater Archaeology: Japanese Wooden Boats in Woodblock Prints: A Research Project Journal, by East Carolina University graduate student Michelle Damian Palace Museum Journal (Gugong bowuyuan yuankan): searchable indices for years 1958, 1960, 1979-2005 Renditions: database of Chinese authors translated on Renditions, with over 470 bios Sino-Collector (Zhongguo Shoucangjia): news and other resources on the art market in China (in Chinese and some English) Studies on Asia, sponsored by the Asian Studies Center at MSU and the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs Yishu - Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art: some articles can be downloaded in .pdf format back to page index IMAGE ARCHIVES Basel Mission Picture Archive: high-resolution scans of 28,400 photographs taken by Swiss missionaries from 1850 to 1950 in China, India, and West Africa Christie's: search for auction lots for the previous six months Cities/Buildings Archive, University of Washington, Department of Architecture: photographic database of Chinese architecture (imperial & vernacular, temples & gardens) Fotoasia.com: royalty-free images of Asia for creative and publishing needs at competitive prices Himalayan Art: database of images and links to related sites Historical Photographs of China, University of Bristol: images of modern China held mostly in private hands overseas The Internet Mission Photography Archive, University of Southern California: database of historical photographs from mission repositories in North America, Britain, and continental Europe Sotheby's: search Sold Lot Archive for auction lots back to 1990s Tales of Old China, 1840-1950 back to page index LIBRARIES + ARCHIVES Art Catalog Library, Japan: art catalogs of exhibitions held in museums, galleries, department stores in Japan; collection moved to National Art Center, Tokyo, in 2004 Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris British Library, London, and its Images Online "Chinese Archives," Department of History, University of San Diego: an extension of Joseph Esherick and Ye Wa's Chinese Archives: An Introductory Guide, 1996 Cornell University East Asia Program Video Lending Library: over 300 feature films and documentaries on China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan and Tibet available to U.S. and Canada teachers and students or educational purposes at no charge for up to one month The European Library: portal to online catalogues of: UK British Library DE German National Library PT National Library of Portugal NL Koninklijke Bibliotheek FI Helsinki University libraries CH Swiss National Library SI Slovene National and University Library IT SBN OPAC FR Bibliothèque nationale de France HR Croatian National Bibliography of Books : 1990-2003 SR Serbian Union Catalogue HU National Széchényi Library of Hungary LV National Library of Latvia CZ National Library of the Czech Republic SK The Slovak Library ET National Library of Estonia (ESTER) DK Danish National Collections Institut national d'histoire de l'art, France International Directory of Art Libraries, the product of a survey undertaken for the Section by the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto Hong Kong Art Archive: promoting awareness and study of Hong Kong artistic achievement, with a particular focus on the work of living artists Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Library and its Antique Maps [of China] Database Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR), National Archives of Japan: official documents of the Cabinet, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Army and Navy, dating from the Meiji era through 1945 Library of Congress, Washington, DC, and its "Portals to the World," containing selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information and research links about other nations "Mapping Asia" provides access to UK library holdings for researchers working in all subject areas of the humanities and social sciences relating to Asia, the Middle East and North Africa National Archives of Singapore: the search portal Archives and Artefacts Online National Diet of Japan: on-line public access catalogue National Library of China and National Digital Library of China, Beijing North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources: includes resources on requesting materials from Japanese libraries Tôyô Bunko (Oriental Library), Tokyo University of California, Berkeley, East Asian Library A Hundred Harvests: The History of Asian Studies at Berkeley Library, University of California at Berkeley Japanese Historical Maps University of Tokyo: on-line public access catalogue WorldCat: online union catalog of thousands of research libraries in North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and elsewhere back to page index ORGANIZATIONS Asia Center, Harvard University Asia House, London Asian Art in London, annual event in November Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Inc., Australia, and the peer-reviewed proceedings from its annual conference Asiatic Society of Japan, Tokyo International University, Tokyo, Japan Association for Art History, "welcoming the prospect of a lively forum free from narrow doctrinal and political orthodoxies" Association of Art Historians, UK (AAH) Association for Asian Studies: newsletter, conferences, positions available British Association for Chinese Studies Central and Inner Asia Seminar (CIAS), University of Toronto Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), Harvard University: annual conference, Central Eurasian Studies Review, Central-Eurasia-L Announcement List College Art Association: conference information, listings of new and completed dissertations, book reviews, advice for job applicants, etc. The Early Medieval China Group: members, Early Medieval China tables of contents, bibliographies, and archived back issues European Association for Japanese Studies European Association of Chinese Studies: conference information, on-line links to Chinese studies, Chinese collections in Europe, job vacancies in Europe European Association of Sinological Librarians: includes links to European libraries, conferences, bookdealers, and other research resources H-ASIA Discussion Network: discussion list for "region-wide, comparative and professional issues important to scholars of Asia" Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China (formerly Historical Society for 20th Century China in North America) Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands: Excellent resource for research and scholarship in European institutions Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies, Columbia University Japanese Archaeological Association Japan Art History Forum (JAHF), affiliated with the College Art Association and the Association for Asian Studies Japan Society of the UK Japan Studies Association Japanese Art Society of America, Inc. (formerly Ukiyo-e Society of America) New Zealand Asian Studies Society Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Oriental Ceramic Society of London Premodern Japanese Studies Mailing List: interdisciplinary forum moderated by Michael Watson (Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama) Réseau Asie - Asia Network, a.k.a. Institut des Mondes asiatiques (IMASIE) Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA) Society for Japanese Arts Society for Ming Studies (Ming shi xuehui) Society for the Study of Japanese Religions T'ang Studies Society Universities Service Center for China Studies, City University of Hong Kong: excellent resource for the study of contemporary China; provides assistance with visa applications and lodging arrangements, and can offer a limited number of small study rooms and carrels for long-term users Urban China Research Network, a joint venture between the Lewis Mumford Center and the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis (CSDA) in Albany, NY Warring States Project: methodology, text updates, publications, conference news, and the journal Warring States Papers back to page index Pedagogy TEACHING GUIDES Asian Educational Media Service James Cahill, "The Painter's Practice in China: Practical Aspects of the Production and Uses of Paintings in China" James Cahill, "Rules and Suggestions for Term Papers" China Institute in America: resources on Buddhist art to accompany the exhibition Buddhist Sculpture from China: Selections from the Xi'an Beilin Museum Fifth through Ninth Centuries ExEAS: Teaching Materials & Resourcees on Asia, compiled by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Teaching Buddhism: papers & articles, Buddhist Studies programs, syllabi, book & film reviews, links to related resources De-nin D. Lee, "Buddhist Art in East Asia: Three Introductory Lessons towards Visual Literacy" De-nin D. Lee, "A Comparative Exercise in Art History of Asia" SYLLABI [This section remains under construction. ACC encourages instructors to submit sample syllabi as reference materials for new instructors, instructors considering new courses, and instructors outside the fields of Chinese and Japanese art history.] James Cahill :: "Representations of Gardens in Chinese Painting" :: seminar :: University of California, Berkeley :: 1995 Robert Harrist :: "Early Chinese Calligrapy" :: seminar :: Columbia University back to page index Last modified 17 May 2008. Copyright ©1996-2007 by Nixi Cura. This web page may be linked to any other web pages. Contents may not be altered. Unauthorized use or electronic dissemination is prohibited by applicable laws. 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