Links:

A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization, prepared by Patricia Buckley Ebrey of the University of Washington. This is a must-see for students of Chinese art history! Topics include Ancient Tombs, Buddhism, Calligraphy, Military Technology, Painting, Homes, Gardens, Clothing and Graphic Arts.

James Cahill's Hills beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yüan Dynasty, 1279-1368, first published in 1976 by Weatherhill, now out of print but available online at the Knowledge Bank at Ohio State University. This book is an essential resource on Yuan painting. NOTE: the link is to a very large PDF file; do not attempt to open it over anything less than an ethernet or Broadband connection.

The Digital Scrolling Paintings Project, created and maintained by the University of Chicago's Center for the Art of East Asia. This invaluable resource provides high-resolution, scrolling digital images of Chinese handscrolls, including several important examples from the period covered by our class. A bonus: the images are annotated.

Song and Yuan Dynasty Painting and Calligraphy documents the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution. An incredible resource, this site includes object documentation and images for 82 paintings and three independent works of calligraphy.

China Bibliography, a terrific resource maintained by Marilyn Shea, Department of Psychology, University of Maine at Farmington. Here you can find lists of books and articles and much, much more! There are pages titled About Buddhism in China, Chinese Calligraphy, Chinese Cities and Urbanization, The Cultural Revolution, Silk Road and Women in Chinese History. There are also pronunciation guides for provinces and dynasties as well as Chinese-English dictionaries.

Encyclopedia Mythica: Asia, a glossary of deities and places important in Asian religions. There is a special section on Chinese mythology.

The Silkroad Foundation. Visit this site for images from the Mogao caves at Dunhuang, news of the Silk Road, a bibliography of articles and great maps.

International Dunhuang Project, a project of the British Library. This site provides general information about Buddhism in India, Central Asia, China and Tibet, as well as a selection of images from Silk Road sites.

BuddhaNet's Buddhist Studies, a site that provides an introduction to several aspects of Buddhism, with sections entitled Basic Buddhism Guide; Buddhist Studies for Primary and Secondary Schools; Online Study Guide; Buddhist History and Culture; and The Buddhist World.

The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art, created and maintained by Janice M. Glowski of Ohio State University. Especially valuable for its online exhibitions (including China: 5,000 Years) and projects (including the following pages: Buddhist Art of China; and --under construction--an online searchable database of the images of the Huntington Archive).

H-Asia, an H-Net discussion list. The searchable discussion logs and Asian studies links may be useful in your research.

The Bibliography of Asian Studies Online, published by the Association for Asian Studies, is an invaluable resource for research in Asian art and Asian studies generally. Use it to locate books and articles for your term papers. Note: you must connect to it through the HWS campus network.

Arts of China Consortium (formerly Chinese and Japanese Art History WWW Virtual Library), created by Nixi Cura. If you are considering studying East Asian art in graduate school, this site will have everything you'll need in the future. If not, you should still check out their links page--much more comprehensive than this one. It includes links to museums, libraries, bookstores and various kinds of online research sources.

The award-winning Mother of All Art and Art History Links Pages, started and maintained by my old friends (Andrew Midkiff and Patrick Young) at the University of Michigan. A very good general source for all art historians.

Virtual Library Museums Pages, maintained by Jonathan Bowen. Want to know about the collections and special exhibitions of museums all over the world? Go here first and find their websites.

And, finally, our own Visual Resources Collection (for those on the HWS campus network only). The more you review, the better you'll do!

Links last checked on 10 January 2007