Links to Resources in Asian Art on the Web

Links to resources in Asian art on the web

GENERAL

Associate Sites of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library's links to resources.

Nixi Cura's website on Chinese and Japanese art history. This site includes links to museums, libraries, databases, bibliographies, on-line journals, images, and more.

Ma Meng-ching's website on Chinese art (in Chinese and English), focusing on exhibitions and conferences worldwide.

The Five College Center for East Asian Studies is sponsored by a consortium of colleges. The website provides access to a library of resources and useful links for research and teaching in East Asian studies, as well as an extensive listing of lectures and exhibitions about Asian art in New England.

A site based in Japan that provides links to museums worldwide with exhibitions of Chinese painting. Click here.

Proquest Digitial Dissertations.

Gujin tushu jicheng.

search the Suzuki Kei Chinese painting catalogues.

Classical Historiography for Chinese History, with an emphasis on Ming and Qing dynasties.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

The Asia Society's Asia Source bibliographies relating to Asian studies from various universities and individuals.

Britta Erickson's Bibliography of Contemporary Chinese Art includes a general bibliography and listings by artist.

The Freer Gallery's annotated bilbiography on Chinese art and architecture.

IMAGES

The John and Susan Huntington Archive of Buddhist and related Art

JOURNALS

ARTAsiaPacific is a magazine focused on contemporary art and artists from Asia and the Pacific.

asianart.com is an on-line journal with broad coverage on history and exhibitions of Asian art.

MUSEUMS

The Metropolitan Museum's timeline of world art includes 175 timelines, 250 special topics, 1700 works of art, 100 maps, and comprehensive index.

ARTIST SITES

Zhang Hongtu is a contemporary artist whose pop images of Mao have become particularly famous.

Zhang Huan is a performance artist whose work frequently involves testing the limits of his own body.

Wenda GU is a contemporary artist whose installations of human hair rendered into pseudo-language are internationally known.

Xu Bing is a contemporary artist whose work involving language, culture, and meaning has earned him worldwide fame and recently a Macarthur "genius" award. Also visit an interactive site featuring some of his work at the Smithsonian Institution. Click here.

MISCELLANEOUS

A virtual tour of the Forbidden City in Beijing.

A virtual tour of Ming-dynasty gardens in Suzhou.

LANGUAGE

click here for a wade-giles to pinyin conversion table
click here for a pinyin to wade-giles conversion table