Links:

Password-protected class blog for reflections on poetry and other literature, painting, calligraphy, drama, and potentially music.

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.

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

H-Histsex, an H-Net discussion list. The searchable logs of scholarly discussions of the history of sexuality may be useful in your research.

H-Women, an H-Net discussion list. The searchable discussion logs and women's studies links may be useful in your research.

Gender and Sexuality in Pre-Modern China: Bibliography of Materials in Western Languages, compiled by Paul R. Goldin of the University of Pennsylvania. An invaluable resource, organized alphabetically by author.

pmjs (Premodern Japanese Studies) index, edited by Prof. Michael Watson of Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama, Japan. The archive and the searchable discussion logs may be useful in your research.

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.

Traditions of Exemplary Women (Lienü zhuan), conceived by Anne Behnke Kinney of the University of Virginia and published as part of the Chinese Text Initiative site. Her introduction to the Lienü zhuan is especially useful. The Chinese text is available as well (for serious linguists only).

Chinese Text Initiative and Japanese Text Initiative, excellent sites for East Asian literature in the original languages, created and maintained by the University of Virginia Library.

Viewing Japanese Prints: Illustrated Essays on the Artists, Designs, and Techniques of Traditional and Modern Japanese Woodblock Prints, designed and written by John Fiorillo. This is especially useful for its information on the ukiyo-e traditions of Edo and Osaka, as well as for a brief discussion of the phenomenon of onnagata. The page includes information on individual artists as well as technical information on woodblock printing. He has a good links page too.

Ukiyo-e: The Pictures of the Floating World, by Hans Olof Johansson. Here you can look for prints by artist or subject category. There is also a section on artists' signatures and, of course, more links.

The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams and Substance, an online exhibition at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.

A companion website for Liza Dalby's Geisha, with links.

Arts of China Consortium (formerly Chinese and Japanese Art History WWW Virtual Library), created by Nixi Cura of Christie's Education. 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 will connect you to museums, libraries, bookstores and various kinds of online research sources all devoted to Chinese and Japanese art.

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.

HWS Writes, for help writing academic papers of all kinds.

And, finally, Artifact, our own Visual Resources Collection (for those on the HWS campus network only).

Links last checked on 10 January 2012.