Arts of China Consortium

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

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AUSTRALASIA

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CHINA

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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
Kibo Foundation, London: The Khalili Collection of Japanese Art (mainly Meiji decorative 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
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 Museum of Oriental Art "Giuseppe Tucci", Rome
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, University of Oxford
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (National Museum of Ethnology), Leiden
Situation Kunst, Bochen, Germany
University of Durham, Oriental Museum
University of Sussex, The Barlow Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Jades and Bronzes
Victoria & Albert Museum of Art, London

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JAPAN

Adachi 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

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NORTH AMERICA

Allen 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 and 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
The Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture (formerly the Ruth & Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art), Hanford, CA
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
Gardiner Museum, Toronto
Guggenheim Museum, New York: the modern art component of the exhibit 5,000 Years of Chinese Art
Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville
Honolulu Academy of Arts
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Japan Society of New York
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, and its collection online Cornell University (Insight software download recommended)
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Mactaggart Art Collection, University of Alberta
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 Chinese 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
Portland Classical Chinese Garden, Portland, OR
Princeton University Art Museum
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Florida State University, Sarasota, FL
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
David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
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

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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 in 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
• Hong Kong University Theses Online, back to 1941
• 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.
• [Taiwan] Electronic Theses and Dissertations System (ETDS), National Central Library, Taiwan
• University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Electronic Publications: Michigan Classics Online, CJS Faculty Series, and Out-of-Print Books Online
• Helen Wang, ed., Sir Aurel Stein, proceedings of the British Museum study day, 23 March 2002
• Helen Wang and John Perkins, eds., Handbook to the Collections of Sir Aurel Stein in the UK, 2008 updated and expanded edition

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

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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)
• Asian Research Institute of Underwater Archaeology (ARIUA), formerly Kyûshû Okinawa Society for Underwater Archaeology (KOSUWA)
• 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)
• Maritime Asia, covering shipwrecks in Malaysian waters
• Nanhai Marine Archaeology, Malaysia
• National Maritime Museum, South Korea, includes extensive documentation of Sinan wreck
• Nautical Japan, on marine archaeology in Japan and East Asia

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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
• Centro de História de Além-Mar (CHAM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Universidade dos Acores, Portugal: research relating to the Portuguese
  Portuguese maritime expansion and cultural exchange
• Digital Silk Roads Project, Tôyô Bunko, Tokyo, Japan
• Dissertations in Central Asian Studies: grouped by author, institution, subject
• History of Euro-Asian Cultural Exchange, Wolfgang Michel-Zaitsu Portal (in Japanese and English)
• 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)

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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

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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
• China Historical GIS, Harvard University, "database of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of Chinese history between 222 BCE and 1911 CE, ... for use in spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and representation of selected historical units as digital maps";
• 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)
• 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
• Virtual Shanghai: Shanghai Urban Space in Time, edited by Christian Henriot (IAO - Lyon 2 University), a research and resource platform on the history of Shanghai from the mid-nineteenth century to nowadays, incorporating essays, original documents, photographies, and maps.
• 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

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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

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JAPANESE HISTORY + CULTURE

• Bibliography of Japanese History up to 1912, compiled by Peter Kornicki, University of Cambridge
• "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

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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]
• Digital Archive of Chinese Buddhist Temple Gazetteers, Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taipei, Taiwan: (1) Du Jiexiang, ed., Zhongguo fosi shizhi huikan (1980-85), 110 vols.; (2) Zhang Zhi, comp., Zhongguo fosizhi congkan (2006), 130 vols.
• Mundus - Missionary Collections in the UK, SOAS: on-line guide to missionary-related resources
• Online Index of Chinese Buddhism, Columbia University: texts, bibliographies and other essential resoures
• The SAT Daizokyo Text Database, University of Tokyo: the full text of 85 volumes of Taisho Shinshu Daizokyo
• Taisho Tripitaka (in Japanese)
• The Taoism Information Page: English-language scholarly and philosophical information

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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

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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"
• Indica et Buddhica Repositorium includes a number of Chinese, Sanskrit and Tibetan lexica and wordlists
• 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)

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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
• Journal of Asian Studies, Association for Asian Studies
• 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)
• Sino-Japanese Studies
• 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

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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
• Bucklin China Archive: large-format photographs of Seattle, Yokohama and Shanghai in 1924
• 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)
• Colonial Pictorial Works Taiwan Image Collection, Lafayette College: 59 sepia photographs of Taiwan, 1933-1938, published in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
• Formosa digital archive, Reed College: 19th-c. American and European representations
• Fotoasia.com: royalty-free images of Asia for creative and publishing needs at competitive prices
• Sidney D. Gamble Photograph Collection, Duke University: photographs primarily of China, 1917-1932
• 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
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Antique Maps Database: "more than 230 maps, charts, pictures, books and atlases,... representing almost all samples of China maps produced by European cartographers from the 16th to 19th centuries"
• Image Database to Enhance Asian Studies (IDEAS): collaboration between Colorado College, Earlham College, Lake Forest College, and St Olaf College to make multi-media materials more widely available for specialists and non-specialists alike
• Images from the Cultural Revolution: Xinhua News Agency photographs from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s, compiled by Thomas Hahn (Cornell University)
• Image Use Protocol for publishing images from Japan, compiled by the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC)
• The Internet Mission Photography Archive, University of Southern California: database of historical photographs from mission repositories in North America, Britain, and continental Europe
• The Meiji and Taisho Eras in Photographs, National Diet Library, Tokyo
• Michael Lewis Taiwan Image Collection, Lafayette College: 530 color postcards from March 1918 to February 1933
• Sotheby's: search Sold Lot Archive for auction lots back to 1990s
• Tales of Old China, 1840-1950
• Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection, Lafayette College: urban and rural life in Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule
• World Heritage Tour: 360-degree panoramic photos of sites listed with UNESCO and World Monuments Fund Watch List

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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
• Japanese Institutional Repositories Online (JAIRO): searchable journal articles, theses and dissertations, departmental bulletin papers, conference papers, books, technical reports, &c.
• 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
• Center for Chinese Studies, National Central Library, Taiwan
• 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
• Second Historical Archives of China, Nanjing
• 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

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ORGANIZATIONS

• Asia Center, Harvard University
• Asia House, London
• Asian Art in London, annual event in November
• Asian Arts Society of Australia
• 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
• Associação Amigos do Oriente, Portugal
• 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
• 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 Architectural History Network (EAHN)
• 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
• European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS)
• 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 Archaeological Association (JAA)
• 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 Hong Kong
• 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 
• Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Singapore
• State Administration of Cultural Heritage, PRC (in Chinese)
• 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
• Women's Studies Group 1558-1837, London

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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
• Education About Asia
• 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

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