Arts of China Consortium

Museums and Exhibitions

• Orientations: calendar of Asian art events

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AUSTRALASIA

• Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore
• Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
• Art Retreat Museum, Singapore
• Aurora Art Museum, Taipei
• Ayala Art Museum, Makati City, Philippines, including Roberto T. Villanueva collection of trade ceramics
• Chi Mei Museum, Tainan
• Juming (Ju Ming) Museum, Chin-shan, Taiwan
• Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts
• Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MOCA Taipei)
• National Art Gallery, Singapore
• National Museum of History, Taipei
• National Museum of Singapore
• National Palace Museum, Taipei
• National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
• National University of Singapore Museum, including Lee Kong Chian Collection
• Peranakan Museum, Singapore
• Singapore Art Museum
• Taipei Biennial
• Taipei Fine Arts Museum
• Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa
• Yuz Museum, Jakarta

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CHINA

• Asia Pacific Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai
• Beijing Fine Art Academy: Art Museum and Qi Baishi Memorial Museum
• Beijing Imperial City Art Museum
• CAFA Art Museum, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
• Capital Museum (Shoudu Bowuguan), Beijing
• China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou
• Chinese University of Hong Kong, Art Museum
• Flagstaff House Museum of Teaware, Hong Kong
• Doland Art Museum, Shanghai (aka Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art)
• Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen
• Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou: Guangzhou Triennial
• He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
• Hemudu Site Museum, Zhejiang
• Henan Museum, Luoyang
• Himalayas Art Museum, aka Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
• Hong Kong Heritage Museum
• Hong Kong Museum of Art
• Hong Kong Museum of History
• Hubei Provincial Museum, including permanent exhibitions on Chu culture and archaeological sites, e.g., Qujialing, Panlongcheng, the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, and the tomb of the Ming Hongxi emperor's brother, the Prince of Liangzhuang
• Liaoning Provincial Museum, Shenyang
• Lu Xun Museum, Beijing
• Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
• MOCA Shanghai
• Museu de Arte de Macau (Macao Museum of Art)
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing (MOCA Beijing)
• Museum of Qin Shihuang Terracotta Warriors and Horses, Xi'an
• Nanjing Museum and its Academic Exchanges on Conservation in China
• National Art Museum of China, Beijing
• National Library of China, Beijing
  • Visible Traces: Rare Books and Special Collections from the National Library of China (2000) on-line exhibition, teacher's guide, etc.
• National Museum of China (formerly National Museum of Chinese History), Beijing
• Palace Museum, Beijing, and "The Forbidden City: Beyond Space and Time" project
• Qing imperial tombs: Qing Eastern tombs (Qing Dongling, Zunhua, Hebei) and Qing Western tombs (Qing Xiling, Yixian, Hebei)
• Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
• Sanxingdui Museum, Guanghan, Sichuan
• Shaanxi History Museum, Xi'an
• Shandong University, Ji'nan: Archaeological Digital Museum
• Shanghai Museum
• Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center: over 5000 works in the private collection of Yang Pei Ming, director
• Tianjin Museum, combining the Tianjin Art Museum and Tianjin Historical Museum
• Today Art Museum, Beijing
• Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
• University of Hong Kong, University Museum and Art Gallery
• Xi'an Beilin Museum (Forest of Steles)
• Yonghegong (Lama Temple), Beijing

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EUROPE

• Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg
• Les Arts Décoratifs (Decorative Arts), Paris
• Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, and the Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art: online exhibitions and collections search; Barlow Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Jades and Bronzes transferred to Ashmolean in 2011
• The Asia and Pacific Museum in Warsaw (Muzeum Azji i Pacyfiku w Warszawie)
• Asian Art Museum (formerly Museum of East Asian Art and Museum of Indian Art), Berlin
• Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
  • Chine, l'Empire du trait (Calligraphy, the Preeminent Art Form)
• Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, UK: Chinese glass collection
• British Library, London, and its Images Online
• British Museum, London and its A History of the World in 100 Objects and online tours on Chinese jade, Chinese New Year, the "Caves of the Thousand Buddhas," and "Mountains and water: Chinese landscape painting"
• Burrell Collection, Glasgow
• Casa Asia (Asia House), Barcelona and Madrid
• Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
  • Telling Images of China: Narrative and Figure Paintings 15th-20th Century from the Shanghai Museum
• Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK
• Collections Baur, Geneva
• Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
• Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London
• Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen and Beijing: contemporary art collected by Luise and Jens Faurschou
• Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
• Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
• Hallwyl House Museum, Stockholm, Sweden: former home of Count and Countess Walther and Wilhelmina von Hallwyl, collector in the Karlbeck Syndicate
• State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg: Oriental Art
• Applied Art Museum - Hopp Ferenc East-Asian Art Museum [aka Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts], Budapest
• Kibo Foundation, London: Khalili Collection of Japanese Art (mainly Meiji decorative art)
• Kulttuurien museo (Museum of Cultures), Helsinki
• Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK, and its Chinese Collection Online Catalogue
• Linden-Museum Stuttgart Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
• Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris
• Musée Cernuschi - musée des arts de l'Asie de la Ville de Paris
• Musée des Arts Asiatiques (Museum of Asian Arts), Toulon
• Musée d’ethnographie de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
• musée du quai Branly, Paris
• Musée National des Arts Asiatiques (National Museum of Asian Art) - Guimet, Paris
• Musées d'Extrême-Orient (Museums of the Far East), Brussels: Tour japonaise, Pavillon chinois, Musée d'Art japonais
• Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire (Royal Museums of Art and History), Brussels: China, Korea, Japan
• Museo d'Arte Orientale Edoardo Chiossone (Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art), Genoa
• Museo d'arte Cinese ed Etnografico (Museum of Chinese Art and Ethnography), Parma
• Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale "Giuseppe Tucci" ("Giuseppe Tucci" National Museum of Oriental Art), Rome
• Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
• Museu Etnològic (Ethnology Museum), Barcelona
• Museu do Oriente (Museum of the Orient), Lisbon
• Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (National Museum of Ancient Art), Lisbon
• Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt (Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt), Germany
• Museum für Lackkunst (Museum of Lacquer Art), Münster
• Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst (Museum of East Asian Art), Köln (Cologne); photographs of items in the collection also appear at "Kulturelles Erbe Köln [Cultural heritage Cologne]"
• Museum für Völkerkunde (Museum of Ethnology), Berlin-Dahlem
• Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK
• Museum of Asiatic Art, Corfu
• Museum of Croydon (formerly Riesco Gallery), UK
• Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, UK
• Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Ostasiatiska Museet), Stockholm
• Museum of World Culture (Världskulturmuseet), Gothenburg, Sweden
• Museum Rietberg Zürich
• Museum Volkenkunde (Museum of Ethnology), Leiden
• National Museum in Krakow, Poland
• National Gallery in Prague, with Asian collections in the Kinsky Palace
• National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
• National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
• 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
• Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
• Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
• Röhsska museet, Göteborg, Sweden: extensive collection of Chinese and Japanese design
• Musée national de la céramique, Sèvres, aka Cité de la céramique, Paris
• SieboldHuis Japanmuseum, Leiden: Japanese art and Dutch-Japanese relations; home of Netherlands-Japan Review
• Situation Kunst, Bochen, Germany
• Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections): Porzellansammlung (Porcelain Collection) of Augustus the Strong (1670-1733), Japanese Palace and Museum of Ethnology
• Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München (Munich State Museum of Ethnology)
• University of Durham, Oriental Museum
• Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum (West Norway Museum of Applied Arts), Bergen, Norway
• Victoria & Albert Museum, London
  • Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, 2005
  • China Design Now, 2008
• World Museum, Liverpool

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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 Archaeological Museum and House of Nobunaga, Shiga prefecture
• Benesse Art Site Naoshima, comprising Chichu Art Museum, Lee Ufan Museum, Art House Project, Benesse House Museum, Christian Boltanski's Les Archives du Cœur, Teshima Art Museum, Inujima Art Project Seirensho and Inujima Art House Project
• Chiba City Museum of Art
• Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art
• Chikatsu-Asuka Historical Museum, Osaka
• e-Museum: National Treasures & Important Cultural Properties of National Museums, Japan
• Edo-Tokyo Museum
• Eisei-Bunko Museum, Tokyo
• Fukuoka Art Museum
• Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
• Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art
• Gotoh Museum, Tokyo
• Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
• Hatakeyama Memorial Museum of Fine Art, Tokyo
• Hiroshima Museum of Art
• Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo and Moji (Fukuoka)
• Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume
• Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo: collection of Edo paintings, Taisho avant-garde works and contemporary art
• Itsuo Art Museum, Nirasaki
• Japan-China Friendship Center, Tokyo
• Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Tokyo
• Japan Ukiyo-e Museum, Matsumoto
• Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History, Yokohama
• Kanagawa Prefectural Kanazawa-Bunko Museum, Yokohama
• 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
• Kyoto Seishu Netsuke Art Museum
• Kyushu National Museum, Dazaifu City, Fukuoka
• Miho Museum, Shiga Prefecture
• Miyazaki Prefectural Art Museum
• MOA Museum of Art, Atami
• Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
• Museum of Contemporary Art Sapporo
• Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
• Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
• Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka
• Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts
• Nagoya City 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 Museum, Tokyo (formerly Nezu Institute of Fine Arts)
• 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
• Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki
• Okayama Prefectural Museum
• Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art
• Osaka City Museum of Fine Art (formerly Osaka Municipal Museum of Art)  
• Raku Museum, Kyoto
• Sannai-Maruyama site, Aomori prefecture: Jomon excavations since 1992
• 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
• Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art
• Shoto Museum of Art, Tokyo
• 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 (Watari Museum of Contemporary Art), Tokyo
• Yamatane Museum of Art, Tokyo
• Yushukan, Yasukuni Shrine, Tokyo
• Yokohama Museum of Art
• Yokoyama Taikan Memorial Hall, Tokyo

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KOREA

• Busan Museum of Art
• National Museum of Korea, Seoul

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MIDDLE EAST

• Wilfrid Israel Museum of Oriental Art and Studies, Kibbutz Hazorea, Israel

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NORTH AMERICA

• Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
• 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
  • Inside Out: New Chinese Art, 1998
  • Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia, 4th-7th Centuries, 2001-2002
  • Gilded Splendor: Treasures of China's Liao Empire (907-1125), 2006-2007
• 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 & Pacific Film Archive, and James Cahill's Ching Yüan Chai Collection
• 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
• Cincinnati Art Museum
• Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture (formerly the Ruth & Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art), Hanford, CA
• Cleveland Museum of Art
• Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
• Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, TX
• Denver Art Museum and its Asian Art Department
• Detroit Institute of Arts
• Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden, Vancouver
• Field Museum, Chicago
• Freer Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
  • Song and Yuan Dynasty Painting and Calligraphy, featuring 82 canonical works
  • The Story of the Beautiful: Freer, Whistler & Their Points of Contact, a comprehensive guide to James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room
• Gardiner Museum, Toronto
• Guggenheim Museum, New York
  • Contemplating the Void, 2010, includes proposals by contemporary Chinese artists
• Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville
• Honolulu Academy of Arts
• Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA
• 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)
• 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
• Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, New York
• Maridon Museum, Butler, PA
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • "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
  • The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty (28 September 2010 - 2 January 2011)
• Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts
• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts: World Cultures collection
• Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Delray Beach, FL
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
  • Landscapes East / Landscapes West: Representing Nature from Mount Fuji to Canyon de Chelly (27 August 2011 - 26 February 2012)
• Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
• Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, NY, and the Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné
• Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
• Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
• Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
• Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, its Yin Yu Tang, a late Qing dynasty (1644-1911) house, and the Herbert Offen Research Collection on Chinese furniture, architecture and gardens
• 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 Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, in the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art
• Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC [see also Freer Gallery above]
• Saint Louis Art Museum
• San Diego Museum of Art
• Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Portland, OR
• Seattle Art Museum and Seattle Asian Art Museum
• Seattle Chinese Garden
• David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
• Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
• The Textile Museum, Washington, DC
• Tibet House Gallery, New York
• University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
• University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
• Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
• Williams College Museum of Art and its microsite "Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art," featuring works from its exhibition Tradition and Transition: Recent Chinese Art from the Collection (2009)
• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, and the Yale Digital Commons, public access to images in the collections of the Yale Peabody Museum, Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University Library Map Collection, Lewis Walpole Library Prints and Drawings, and the Office of Digital Dissemination

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Books

BOOKS ONLINE

• Bibliotheca Sinica 2.0: links to digitized old books on China, compiled by Drs. Monika + Georg Lehner
• Digital Silk Road Project, National Institute of Informatics: Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books
• William Gates, Early Chinese Painting (1916): Harvard University copy digitized by Google
• "German Sales from 1930 to 1945: Art Works, Art Markets, and Cultural Policy": digitized auction catalogues from Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the Art Library of the National Museums in Berlin, University of Heidelberg library, and the Getty Research Institute
• Getty Research Portal: digitized art history texts in the public domain, including the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library at Columbia University, the Frick Art Reference Library, the Getty Research Institute, the Heidelberg University Library, the Institut national d'histoire de l'art, and the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Helen Wang and John Perkins, eds., Handbook to the Collections of Sir Aurel Stein in the UK, 2008 updated and expanded edition
• KU ScholarWorks, University of Kansas: open access to titles from the Center for East Asian Studies Publication Series and publications by KU faculty
• MetPublications: portal to the Met's comprehensive publishing program, beginning with nearly 650 titles published from 1964 to the present, this resource will continue to expand and could eventually offer access to nearly all books, Bulletins, and Journals published by the Metropolitan Museum [available as .pdf files]
• Lynn Struve, The Ming-Qing Conflict, 1619-1683: A Historiography and Source Guide, Indiana University Scholar Works Repository
• 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
• John Becker,with the collaboration of Donald B. Wagner, Pattern and Loom: A Practical Study of the Development of Weaving Techniques in China, Western Asia, and Europe, 2nd ed. (2009).
• Shipwrecked: Tang Treasures and Monsoon Winds exhibition catalogue (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 2010)
• Jonathan Hay, Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001): out of print
• Helen Wang, ed., Sir Aurel Stein, proceedings of the British Museum study day, 23 March 2002
• Robert Hartwell, Tribute Missions to China, 960-1126 (1983), originally printed for private distribution, now available as a .pdf file
• ScholarSpace, University of Hawaii at Manoa: open-access books on Asia in the University of Hawai'i Press backlist
• University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Electronic Publications: Michigan Classics Online, CJS Faculty Series, and Out-of-Print Books Online

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JOURNALS ONLINE

• Art Journal: free selections from the print journal, with web-only content
• The Art Newspaper online
• Asian Art Newspaper: online taster articles and links
• Asian Arts E-Journal
• Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific: open source, back issues 1957-2008
• Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA): includes both BHA (covering 1990-2007) and the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), covering the years 2008 and part of 2009. The Répertoire de la litterature de l'art (RILA), one of the predecessors of BHA, with records that cover 1975-1989, will be online by May 1 [2010]
• Buddhist Art News: compilation of news items, reviews, resources, and sites related to Buddhist art, archaeology, and architecture
• Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient
• Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
• Burlington Magazine: complete index of all articles but also an index of all illustrations, 1903-2002
• China Heritage Quarterly, formerly China Heritage Newsletter, covers recent developments and scholarship in areas related to China's heritage
• Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, a joint enterprise of the Institute f East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, and the Research Institute of Korean Studies, Korea University
• E-ASPAC, journal of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast
• E-Journal on Hong Kong Cultural and Social Studies, Hong Kong University
• Education about Asia: online archives of all issues, 1996-2008, free with registration
• Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies
• 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
• Invisible Culture 15 (Fall 2010), "Spectacle East Asia": four articles on contemporary East Asian visual culture
• Japan Review, published by the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken): all content available online
• Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies: full and free online access of this publication by the International Association of Buddhist Studies
• JSTOR Early Journal Content: journal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world
• Leap: The International Magazine of Contemporary China: table of contents and some articles available online
• MCLC Resource Center
  • Ellen Johnston Laing, "Shanghai Manhua, the Neo-Sensationist School of Literature, and Scenes of Urban Life"
• 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
• JSTOR: global free access to Early Journal Content (prior to 1923 in the USA and prior to 1870 elsewhere)
• Palace Museum Journal (Gugong bowuyuan yuankan): searchable by title, author, subject from 2004
• Renditions: Chinese authors and translators index, with over 470 bios
• The Silk Road e-journal, published by Silkroad Foundation, Saratoga, CA
• Sino-Japanese Studies
• Studies on Asia, sponsored by the Asian Studies Center at MSU and the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs
• Trans Asia Photography Review, published by Hampshire College in collaboration with the University of Michigan Scholarly Publishing Office
• Twentieth-Century China (formerly Republican China) issues available from 1994, as well as book reviews, in collaboration with The China Beat, from January 2011
• West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture: digital edition of the inaugural issue (Spring 2011) available free for a limited time
• Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art online archive

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DISSERTATIONS

• Asian Art History Dissertation Reviews, field editor Michelle C. Wang (Georgetown University)
• Australian Dissertations on Asia, 1999-2001, compiled by the Asian Studies Association of Australia
• Chinese History Dissertation Reviews: overviews of recently defended, unpublished doctoral dissertations, edited by Thomas S. Mullaney (Stanford University)
• Dissertations in Central Asian Studies: grouped by author, institution, subject
• Hong Kong University Theses Online, back to 1941
• Kunstchronik: searchable index of 26,000 German dissertations, 1985-1998
• National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan, National Central Library, Taiwan
• PhdData, Universal Index of Doctoral Dissertations in Progress
• 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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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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LIBRARIES + ARCHIVES

• 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..."
• Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong, and Asia Art Archive in America: collection of material related to contemporary Asian art, with 20,000+ titles accessible to the public free of charge, via the physical space, and searchable from the online catalogue
• Biblioteca Archivio Piero Calamandrei, Montepulciano: holdings of ancient and modern books from/on China
• Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris: Chine, l'Empire du trait (Calligraphy, the Preeminent Art Form)
• British Library, London: Images Online and Endangered Archives in Asia
• "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: 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

• Harvard University
  • Chinese Rubbings Collection
  • 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
• 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
• Institut national d'histoire de l'art, France
• Japan Art Catalog Project, moved to National Art Center, Tokyo, in 2004
• 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; 18.42 million images dating from 1868 to 1945
• Japanese Institutional Repositories Online (JAIRO): searchable journal articles, theses and dissertations, departmental bulletin papers, conference papers, books, technical reports, &c.
• Kyoto University Research Information Repository (Kurenai): peer-reviewed journal articles, dissertations, departmental bulletin papers and any kind of scholarly works of Kyoto University
• 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
• Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Ostasiatiska Museet), Stockholm, library catalogue
• National Archives of Singapore: the search portal Archives and Artefacts Online
• National Diet of Japan: on-line public access catalogue
• National Central Library, Taiwan: Center for Chinese Studies
• National Library of Australia: "Chinese art, archaeology and rare books: the Yetts Collection," by Andrew Gosling
• National Library of China and National Digital Library of China, Beijing: open-source full-text databases of doctoral dissertations; local gazetteers before the Republican period; Republican-era books, journals and legal code; image databases of oracle bone writings, rubbings, New Year's prints, Xixia materials; selected rare books
• North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources: includes resources on requesting materials from Japanese libraries
• Second Historical Archives of China, Nanjing
• Staatsbibliothek, Berlin: East and Southeast Asia Virtual Library
• Tôyô Bunko (Institute of Oriental Culture), Tokyo: Digital Silk Road Project and its searchable [Chinese Materials and Rare Book Full-text-and-image Database]
• 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
  • Rubbings of Chinese Inscriptions
• University of Tokyo: on-line public access catalogue
• Waseda Kotenseki Sogo Database, Waseda University Library: 300,000 volumes of Japanese and Chinese classics, full-text readable and downloadable
• WorldCat: online union catalog of thousands of research libraries in North America, Europe, Japan, Australia, and elsewhere

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BOOKSELLERS

• Absaroka Asian Books (formerly ABQ Asian Books), Red Lodge, MT: books in English, Chinese, and Japanese formerly in the collection of Karen L. Brock and Robert L. Thorp (Emeritus, Washington University in St. Louis)
• Asia Bookroom, Macquarie, Australia: books on Asia, Pacific & the Middle East
• Asia Fine Books, Charlottesville, VA
• Asian Rare Books, Manila (formerly New York)
• Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden
• Han Shan Tang Books, London: East Asian Art, Archaeology and Area Studies
• Japan-China Friendship Center, Tokyo: carries recent publications from the PRC
• McBlain Books, Hamden, CT: antiquarian booksellers with an extensive "Asia and the Pacific" catalogue
• New Books in East Asian Studies: discussions with scholars of East Asia about their new books, hosted by C. Nappi (University of British Columbia)
• 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
• Rinrôkaku Bookstore, Tokyo: new and rare books, Chinese and Japanese
• Sanseido Bookstore, Tokyo
• Southern Materials Center (SMC Publishing), Taipei: reprints of out-of-print Sinological materials
• Tao Library, platform for Daoist-related publications set up by Livia Kohn
• Timezone 8 Art Books, Beijing: specializing in contemporary exhibition catalogues and mainland China publications
• Tôhô Shoten, Tokyo: books on China
• Ukiyo-e Books, Leiden
• Uchiyama Shoten, Tokyo: sinological material in Chinese and Japanese
• Yamamoto Shoten, Tokyo: original prints and books dating from the Ming

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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)
• 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
• 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: marine archaeology in Japan and East Asia
• Nonaka Kofun: "Ancient Japan Revealed through Kofun," organized by the Department of Archaeology, Osaka Universiity
• Southwest China Heritage Watch: "a spotlight on the archaeology, cultural heritage & minority cultures of China's southwestern provinces"
• "Western Language Bibliography of East Asian Archaeology" by Gina Barnes, January 2010, Society for East Asian Archaeology

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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
• "History of Gardens in East Asia," François Louis (Bard Graduate Center, New York)
• Perspectives on Artistic and Cultural Exchanges between Europe and East Asia, 1600-1800, Academia Sinica, Taiwan: organized by Wang Cheng-hua from the project "Multi-Perspectival Contemplation: The Meeting and Interaction of Visual Culture and Material Culture in Early Modern Europe and East Asia"
• 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
• ARTLINKART: bilingual online database of contemporary Chinese art
• The "Battle Copper Prints" of the Qianlong (1736-1795) Emperor, Staatsbibliothek, Berlin
• 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"
• "China and Revolution: History, Parody and Memory in Contemporary Art," part of the research project "Posters of the Cultural Revolution: Contemporary Chinese Perspectives on an Era of Propaganda"
• 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
• "Dunhuang Art through the Eyes of Duan Wenjie," English translations of Duan Wenjie's writings byTan Chung (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi)
• 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 c Road; IDP News and other publications
• Liang Sicheng Lin Huiyin, 2010 CCTV documentary directed by Hu Jingcao
• 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."
• "Merit, Opulence, and the Buddhist Networks of Wealth," Northwestern University (Sarah Fraser, project director) and Dunhuang Research Academy: Dunhuang caves 196 and 285 in 3D
• The Nianhua Gallery, James Flath (University of Western Ontario)
• Rent Collection Courtyard: digital reproduction of a China Reconstructs 1967 supplement
• Don Wagner (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), Copenhagen, Denmark): publications on Chinese science, technology, history, archaeology, and language
• Xiangtangshan Caves Project, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago

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CHINESE HISTORY + CULTURE

• Academica Sinica, Taiwan, and its full-text keyword searchable Hanji Digitized Material Database
• "Chang'an 26 BC: Exploring the Ancient Capital of 'Perpetual Peace,'" Department of History, University of California, Berkeley (under construction)
• China Biographical Database Project (CBDB), Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, in collaboration with the Institute of History and Philology of Academia Sinica and the Center for Research on Ancient Chinese History, Peking University
• China Bibliography: Collections of Resources, maintained by Marilyn Shea (Department of Psychology University of Maine at Farmington)
• 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";
• Chinese Civilization in Time and Space (CCTS), Academia Sinica: WebGIS based on The Historical Atlas of China
• Chinese Names of Western Scholars, a directory compiled and maintained by Philip Clart (University of Leipzig)
• Chinese Text Project: provides dictionary entries of each word in the passage, parallels between the passage in question and other passages; photographic representation of the page(s) containing the passage; text of Chinese commentaries corresponding to this passage, &c.
• "Chinese Torture / Supplice Chinois: Iconographic, Historical and Literary Approaches of an Exotic Representation," Jérôme Bourgon (Institut d'Asie Orientale, Lyon)
• 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
• Digital Archive of Chinese Buddhist Temple Gazetteers, Temple Gazetteer Project, Dharma Drum Buddhist College, Taiwan: downloadable archives with image files, metadata and, where applicable, full text (in XML/TEI)
• Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty, University of California, Merced, co-authored by Ruth Mostern and Elijah Meeks
• Electronic Index to the Early Shenbao, compiled by Andrea Janku and Nany Kim
• 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
• 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
• Sources on Modern Chinese History, UCSD: sources, archives, bibliography, current research
• 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 (with some updates for late 2005 by Henry Smith)
• 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
• 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)
• Research Access in Japanese Museums, Libraries, and Archives, compiled by the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC); includes bilingual templates for letters of introduction and materials request forms
• 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
• "Working Words: New Approaches in Japanese Studies": 13 essays, each on one critical Japanese term (and its movement through historical, literary and theoretical contexts; so far: ongaku/onkyô, shigaku, zange, bijin, otaku, kyôdo, kioku/omoide, saburaimu, kagaku, bungaku, yôga

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RELIGION

• A to Z Photo Dictionary of Japanese Sculpture & Art (Buddhist and Shinto Deities), maintained by Mark Schumacher
• Chinese popular religion: bibliography of Western-language publications (1995 to present) compiled by Philip Clart
• Daoist Studies Group, American Academy of Religion: bibliography, conferences, jobs, &c., edited by James Miller
• 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
• 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.
• Digital Bibliography of Chinese Buddhism: Chinese-language Buddhist publications dating from 1860 to the 1950s, compiled by Gregory Adam Scott (Columbia University)
• 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
• Select Bibliography on Buddhism in Western Central Asia, Seminar for Oriental Archaeology and Art History, University of Halle, Germany
• Thesaurus Literaturae Buddhicae, University of Oslo: quadrilingual presentation of Buddhist literature sentence by sentence in Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan and English
• href="http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-MISC/101819.htm">Tools for Buddhist Studies, compiled by Marcus Bingenheimer, Taiwan
  • Bibliography of Translations from the Chinese Buddhist Canon into Western Languages
  • Bibliography of Buddhist Studies Bibliographies in Western Languages
  • Buddhist Studies Monographs published in Germany, Switzerland and Austria
  • The Xiyuji in English – A Digitized Version of Samuel Beal's Translation
  • A Digital Comparative Catalog of Agama Literature
  • A Comprehensive List of Buddhist Periodicals
  • A Chinese Translation of Buddhadatta's Pali English Dictionary
  • A Digital Comparative Edition and Translation of the Shorter Chinese Samyukta Agama

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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
• Chongbian Hanyu cidian xiuding ben: online Chinese dictionary maintained by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan
• CJKV-English Dictionary: A Dictionary of Sinitic Characters and Compounds Related to East Asian Cultural, Political, and Intellectual History, edited by Charles Muller, University of Tokyo
• William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous, A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms, digitized 2003 [for corrected version, see the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism]
• Charles O. Hucker, A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China, searchable on Scribd or Harvard iSites
• Digital Dictionary of Buddhism, edited by Charles Muller, University of Tokyo
• 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
• 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
• Japanese Architecture and Net Users System (JAANUS): online Dictionary of Japanese Architectural and Art Historical Terminology compiled by Mary Neighbour Parent
• Japanese Garden Dictionary: A Glossary for Japanese Gardens and Their History, compiled and edited by Ono Kenkichi and Walter Edwards at Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (Nabunken)
• Modern Chinese Scientific Technologies: A Repository of Chinese Scientific, Philosophical and Political Terms Coined in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century, by Michael Lackner, Iwo Amelung, and Joachim Kurtz; based on sources, not dictionaries
• 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
• Online Japanese Dictionaries and Glossaries, edited and annotated by Jim Breen: language and subject-specific dictionaries, thesauri, &c.
• 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
• 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)
• Thesaurus Linguae Sericae, Christoph Harbsmeier, ed.: complex database of–as yet mostly–pre-Buddhist (i.e. pre-third century CE) Chinese, which provides detailed and sourced information on grammatical functions and synonyms of lexemes

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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
• China Posters Online, University of Westminster Chinese poster collection
• 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)
• East Asia Image Collections, Lafayette College: open-access archive of digitized photographs, negatives, postcards, and slides of imperial Japan (1868-1945), its Asian empire (1895-1945) and occupied Japan (1947-52)
• 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
• Google Art Project: high-resolution images of exhibition spaces and a selection of works in world-wide collections, e.g. (as of 5 Feb 2011): Freer Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA New York, Van Gogh Museum
• Himalayan Art: database of images and links to related sites
• Historical Chinese Postcard Project, Institut d'Asie Orientale, Lyon, France: edited by Régine Thiriez
• 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"
• Huntington Photographic Archive of Asian Art, Ohio State University
• 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
• Musical Instrument Museums Online (MIMO): freely accessible database for information on musical instruments held in public collections
• 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)
• Sotheby's: search Sold Lot Archive for auction lots back to 1990s
• Tibet from the collections of the American Geographical Society Library
• "Visualising China," University of Bristol: 6000 digitised images of historical photographs of China taken between 1870 and 1950, Robert Bickers, ed.
• World Digital Library: manuscripts, maps, rare books, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other types of primary sources from every UNESCO member country, organized by Library of Congress and UNESCO
• World Heritage Tour: 360-degree panoramic photos of sites listed with UNESCO and World Monuments Fund Watch List

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ORGANIZATIONS

• American Association for Chinese Studies (AACS)
• American Oriental Society
• Asia-Europe Museum Network (ASEMUS)
• Asia House, London
• Asian Art in London, annual event in November
• Asian Arts Society of Australia
• Asian Contemporary Arts Consortium: not-for-profit coalition dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding, to building audiences and to promoting and sustaining interest in Asian contemporary arts and design in San Francisco and the Bay Area
• 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 Asian Studies
• Association of Art Historians, UK (AAH)
• Association Française des Études Chinoises (AFEC)
• Association Franco-Japonaise and its Bulletin de l'Association Franco-Japonaise
• Associazione Italiana Studi Cinesi holds a biennial conference
• British Association for Chinese Studies
• Central and Inner Asia Seminar (CIAS), University of Toronto
• Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS): annual conference, Central Eurasian Studies Review, Central-Eurasia-L Announcement List
• China Tibetology Network: scholarship in Beijing, Tibet, Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu, andYunnan
• Chinese Studies Research Group at the University of San Francisco (USF) meets three times per year at USF; contact Melissa Dale (Center for the Pacific Rim, USF)
• College Art Association: conference information, listings of new and completed dissertations in art history and visual studies (USA and Canada), book reviews, advice for job applicants, archive of historical conference programs, (1937-) etc.
• Design History Society: publishes the Journal of Design History
• Early Medieval China Group: members, Early Medieval China tables of contents, bibliographies, and archived back issues
• Early Modern Architecture: Design, Theory, History Redrawn: web forum, newsletter, research projects, dissertations in progress and completed, syllabi, bibliographies and other resources
• European Architectural History Network (EAHN)
• European Association for Japanese Studies
• European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS): 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)
• Forum for the History of Science in Asia (FHSAsia), hosted by Grace Shen (Fordham University) and Carla Nappi (University of British Columbia)
• 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)
• Hong Kong Archaeological Society
• Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
• Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden: excellent resource for research and scholarship in European institutions
• Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies: focus on pre-Meiji era Japan
• International Netsuke Society and its European Chapter
• Israeli Association for Japanese Studies (IAJS), established February 2012, producing a newsletter and annual conference
• 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, its journal Nihon Kokogaku, and its annual report, Archaeologica Nipponica
• Japanese Art Society of America, Inc. (formerly Ukiyo-e Society of America) 
• Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris
• New Zealand Asian Studies Society
• Nichibunken (International Research Center for Japanese Studies), Kyoto
• Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
• Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong
• Oriental Ceramic Society of London
• Oriental Club of Philadelphia
• PoNJA-GenKon: Post-1945 (Nineteen forty five) Japanese Art Discussion Group / Gendai Bijutsu Kondankai
• Premodern Japanese Studies: interdisciplinary forum moderated by Michael Watson (Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama)
• Réseau Asie - AsiaNetwork, 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 Qing Studies
• Society for the Study of Chinese Religions (SSCR)
• Society for the Study of Early China (SSEC) and its journal Early China
• Society for the Study of Japanese Religions (SSJR)
• Society of Contemporary Art Historians (SCAH)
• Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Singapore
• State Administration of Cultural Heritage, PRC (in Chinese)
• T'ang Studies Society: all current members of the Society have access to the full run of T'ang Studies back issues
• UK Association for Buddhist Studies, which publishes the journal Buddhist Studies Review
• 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
• Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst (Association for Friends of Asian Art), the Netherlands
• 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, "A Pure and Remote View: Visualizing Early Chinese Landscape Painting": six lectures with video files and lecture notes, also available on YouTube
• 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"
• Visualizing Cultures, MIT: image-driven scholarship
  • Peter C. Perdue, "Rise and Fall of the Canton Trade System"
    • I. China in the World (1770-1860s)
    • II. Macau and Whampoa Anchorage (1770-1860s)
    • III. Canton & Hong Kong (1770-1860s)
    • IV. Image Galleries
  • Peter C. Perdue, ""The First Opium War: The Anglo-Chinese War of 1839-1842"
  • John W. Dower, "Black Ships & Samurai: Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan (1853-1854)"
  • John W. Dower, "Yokohama Boomtown, "Foreigners in Treaty-Port Japan (1859-1872)"
  • Allen Hockley, "Felice Beato's Japan: Places"
  • Alona C. Wilson, " "Felice Beato's Japan: People"
  • Allen Hockley, "Globetrotters' Japan"
  • Allen Hockley, "John Thomson's China"
  • John W. Dower, "Throwing off Asia"
    • I. Woodblock Prints of Domestic "Westernization" (1868-1912)
    • II. Woodblock Prints of the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
    • III. Woodblock Prints of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)
  • John W. Dower, "Asia Rising: Japanese Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)"
  • John W. Dower, "Yellow Promise/Yellow Peril: Foreign Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)"
  • Gennifer Weisenfeld, "Selling Shiseido: Cosmetics Advertising & Design in Early 20th-Century Japan"
  • James T. Ulak, "Tokyo Modern: '100 Views' of the Imperial Capital (1928-1940)"
  • John W. Dower, "Ground Zero 1945: Pictures by Atomic Bomb Survivors"

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.]

• "Chinese Art: Modern and Contemporary," Stanford University, compiled by Christine Ho and Hui-Chi Lo
• Craig Clunas (University of Oxford)
  • Art in China since 1911, 2010
  • Painting and Culture in Ming China, 2009-2010
• Susanna Fessler (University at Albany, State University of New York)
  • "Japanese Research & Bibliographic Methods for Undergraduates": A full curriculum for students in undergraduate programs who have studied at least one year of Japanese, hosted by the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC)
• Robert Harrist (Columbia University)
  • "Early Chinese Calligraphy" seminar
• Henry Smith (Columbia University)
  • "Buildings and Cities in Japanese History" 1998 lecture syllabus, student web projects and final course report
  • "Chûshingura and the Samurai Tradition" 2002 lecture syllabus and website
  • "The History of East Asian Writing" 1995 graduate seminar
  • "The History of Visual Culture in Meiji-Taisho Japan" 1998 graduate seminar
  • "Japanese History Through Art and Literature" slide lectures on Ise, Hôryûji, and The Tale of Genji
  • "Material Culture in the History of Modern Japan" 1996 graduate seminar
  • "Meiji Culture: Space, City, Image" 1994 graduate symposium
  • "Tokyo: History, Form, and Spirit" 1998 seminar

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