- Art
of China
- Prepared by Remy Rong Guo, a Ph.D. student at Purdue University, this
site presents an interesting cross-section of Chinese art including visual
art, crafts, music, cooking, calligraphy and other modes of expression,
from a wide range of time periods. Art of China also includes
sections on the zodiac and Chinese scenery. The section devoted to scenery
features brief tours of the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, and the
Imperial Gardens.
- Asian
Arts: The on-line forum for the study and exhibition of the arts of
Asia
- "The Asian Arts site is dedicated to all aspects of Asian art.
It is our ambition to offer a forum for scholars, museums and commercial
galleries; we will display highlights of exhibitions in public and private
institutions and galleries; present new discoveries by scholars; and, by
providing space for private galleries to present their works, offer the
visitor a selection of fine Asian art worldwide." Asian Arts
features the following exhibitions: Lao Textiles Revisited, Mongolia:
The Legacy of Chinggis Khan, Heaven's Embroidered Cloths: One Thousand
Years of Chinese Textiles, Images of Faith, and Early Tibetan
Mandalas. The site also features several articles. Presented by Web
Art Publishing, Asian Arts is an attractive presentation well-worth
the visit.
- China the
Beautiful
- This very popular site is dedicated to Classical Chinese Art,
Calligraphy, Poetry, History, Literature, Painting and Philosophy. Dr.
Ming L. Pei, the site's webmaster and editor, recommends that new visitors
begin with the China
Room, which is "like visiting the Chinese gallery in an art museum."
For readers of Chinese, this site includes Chinese texts, but special
software is needed to see Chinese characters. No special software is
needed for the China Room.
- China 5K -
Timeline of the History of China
- Chinese
Culture
- Another of Paul Halsall's excellent internet sites for teaching,
Core 9: Chinese Culture constitutes a complete resource center for
a course at Brooklyn College. Along with a Syllabus, the site features a
hyperlinked Course
Outline along with images, texts, class handouts, class projects, a
bibliography and a list of links to other sites. This site is extensive
and well-worth the visit. Paul Halsall is the Associate Editor for the
Medieval Europe portion of Exploring Ancient World Cultures.
- The Council on
East Asian Libraries
- CEAL was designed with a three-fold purpose in mind: "(a) to
serve as a faculty-librarians' forum for the discussion of East Asian
library problems of common concern; (b) to formulate programs for the
development of East Asian library resources, bibliographic controls, and
access; and (c) to improve inter-library and international cooperation in
East Asian library development and services." As part of this effort,
CEAL supports a rather extensive series of internet pages on East
Asia, including this index of
resources on China. Readers should not miss the index page on Buddhism.
- Information on
China
- Robert Crowley of the University of Illinois at Springfield maintains
several pages dedicated to China as part of a larger project, The Pacific Century. The
site features a special page dedicated to a brief History of China from
the earliest dynasties until the 10th century CE. Other pages are
dedicated to contemporary China and focus on Culture, Economy, Religion
and Education, Government, Land Resources, Politics and Foreign Relations.
- Introduction
to Buddhism
- Mathematics in
China