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East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
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Chinese Art & Architecture
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General Chinese Paintings Chinese Calligraphy
Chinese Architecture Miscellaneous Art Forms Tibetan Art
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General
Art of China Homepage Images of art, crafts, & scenery; audio clips of music; food recipes; the Chinese zodiac
The Art of the Horse in Chinese History "the first exhibition ever to explore the role of the horse in ... Chinese history & culture," hosted by the International Museum of the Horse
Art Scene China A commercial contemporary Chinese art gallery
Arts of Asia: China From the Minneapolis Institute of Arts collection: artistic production throughout China's past; curator's discussion of some collection highlights; browseable & searchable database; suggested readings; maps; study guide
Beijing Wenbo Information Net: Relics & Museums Beijing Administrative Bureau of Cultural Relics' guide to museums, historic sites, exhibitions, auctions, & treasures of Beijing
Content-Rich Century Online: Chinese Art Networks (in Chinese & English) "a large-scale professional art network in China, integrating media information, artistic display, artistic education, artistic forum, e-commerce and other on-line services ... the history and current status of the Chinese arts throughout the whole world"
China: 5,000 Years: the Modern Section Electronic exhibition: "Innovations in Chinese Painting (1850-1950)"; "The Modernist Generations (1920-1950)"; "Art for New China (1950-1980)"; Transformations of Tradition (1980-The Present)"
China Avant-Garde: Chinese Contemporary Art A commercial site with online galleries
Content-Rich ChinaArtsWeb.com (in Chinese) A comprehensive site providing news of the Chinese art world & promoting the awareness of artists in the fine & performing arts & appreciation & sales of their works
Content-Rich Chinese Art and Architecture: An Annotated List of Recent Works in Western Languages From Smithsonian Institution, categorized list with introduction
Chinese Art News Net (in Chinese) Chinese art news; artists; columns; art institutions; sources & studies; publications; the art market
NewDefining Yongle: Imperial Art in Early Fifteenth-Century China A Metropolitan Museum of Art Special Exhibition: "sculptures, lacquers, metalwork, ceramics, textiles, and ivories created in the imperial workshops during the reign of the Yongle emperor (r. 1403-1424)"
Dunhuang Art through the Eyes of Duan Wenjie "English translation of selected writings of Prof. Duan Wenjie, Director of the Dunhuang Academy who has given a chronological study of the contents inside the Mogao caves"
Eternal China: Splendors from the First Dynasties Exhibition of sculptural objects from the Qin & Han dynasties
From Heaven & Earth: Chinese Jade in Context From the Huntington Archive, an online exhibition featuring 177 images with explanatory text, & essays on the craft of jade making & on the culture & society of China from ancient times through the 10th century
Inside Out -- New Chinese Art A Time Asia Photo Essay (10/24/2000)
The Long March Project "project [aiming] to take both contemporary Chinese & international art to ... those people who live in communities along the route of Mao Zedong's historic Long March"
Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia, 4th-7th Century Asia Society exhibition: heavenly horses; nomad rulers; Buddhism & China; Buddhist cave temples; Bodhisattvas; monks; merchants & currencies; the Tang Dynasty; the Silk Road
New Chinese Art - Inside Out Asia Society's online exhibition presenting "the dynamic new art being produced by artists in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and by selected artists who emigrated to the West in the late 1980s," with chronologies, artist biographies & bibliography
ShanghaiART "The first gallery for contemporary art in Shanghai," with capsule biographies of artists & images of their work
Sinophilia: Art A history of Chinese art; various topics
Taoism & the Arts of China An NEH-funded exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago
Treasures from a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan Exhibition of artifacts from burial pits dated around 1200 B.C. at Sanxingdui, & from Sichuan sites of the Western Zhou & Eastern Han dynasties
Yishu - Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art Tables of content with some articles available online
NewYuanmingyuan Artists' Village (in Chinese) History of the artists' colony at Fuyuanming, Beijing before they were driven away by police in 1995; independent artists & exhibitions
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Chinese Paintings
Icons of the Celestial Kingdom Christian scrolls executed by art professors from the Catholic Fu-jen University in Beijing in the 1930s & 1940s
Newpaintervillage.net (in Chinese) Online collective of contemporary artists; exhibitions; bios & works of individual artists
The Qing Dynasty (1644-1911): Painting A Metropolitan Museum of Art special topic page: traditionalists; loyalists & individualists; courtiers, officials, & professional artists
Tales from the Land of Dragons Exhibition of Chinese paintings from the permanent collection of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
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Chinese Calligraphy
Chinese Calligraphy An introduction to the art of calligraphy with gallery & explanation of styles with examples
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Chinese Architecture
Clan Homes in Fujian Illustrated essay on tulou (clan homes in earth walled building) by architect Jens Aaberg-Jorgensen, with links & sources on Chinese vernacular architecture
Rebuilding China Time Asia Magazine stores on how "The world's most visionary architects are rebuilding China" (May 3, 2004)
A Scholars Garden (in Chinese, English & French) Virtual tour of Dr. Sun Yat-sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver, BC; features on related cultural aspects including feng shui & garden design, Daoism & art, & mountain & water
Yin Yu Tang, A Chinese Home Virtual exhibition of Peabody Essex Museum's re-erection of a Qing Dynasty merchant mansion
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Miscellaneous Art Forms
Antique Chinese Porcelain Collector's Free Help & Info Page "more than 290 pages of information ... about antique Chinese & Japanese porcelain, history, porcelain potting & the old East India company trade to China"
Chinese Folk Fine Arts Information Service System From Southeast University (Nanjing), a comprehensive introduction to the genres of & research on Chinese folk arts; index of the Journal of Chinese Folk Arts & Crafts
Chinese Paper Arts Traditional folds, Wei Xian paper cutting, modern money folds as practiced in the West, & links
Classical Chinese Furniture Information on decoration & style, materials, dating, joinery & construction, categories, history; also related links
On China's China "some of the carefully held secrets of early Chinese porcelain-makers"
Rubbings of Chinese Inscriptions Selected scans from the collection of the East Asian Library at the University of California, Berkeley
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Tibetan Art
Content-Rich Himalayan Art "An online gallery with over 17,000 images of art from the Himalaya"; catalogue of "all Himalayan art objects that are known through past or present collections or publications"
Mirrors of the Heart-Mind Online exhibition of the Rezek Collection of Tibetan Art: 85 images with didactic text & 45 essays written by guest curators
Tibet: Tradition & Change Exhibition of Tibetan art objects inspired by Buddhism at the Albuquerque Museum
The Tibetan Tanka Exhibit Tankas from the Koelz Expedition owned by Univ. of Michigan's Museum of Anthropology & from the Koelz estate, with explanatory essays
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