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HIEA 128: History of Material Culture in China: Art and Geography Resources

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Art, Museum, and Audiovisual

ARTstor Licensed by UCSD

http://library.artstor.org/library/welcome.html

Comprised of 300,000 digital images and their corresponding data and the tools to make active use of those images; includes many East Asian images

Getting started using ARTstor http://libguides.ucsd.edu/content.php?pid=119251&sid=1028203

ARTstor Asian Studies guide http://www.artstor.org/using-artstor/u-pdf/sg_asianstudies.pdf

Image Guide

http://libguides.ucsd.edu/content.php?pid=119251

Use this guide to find images for research and class presentations

Bata Shoe Museum

http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/

Podcasts on Handmade Chinese Winter Shoes and Shoe Stories of Notable People -- The Dalai Lama

Freer and Sackler Galleries: The Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art

http://www.asia.si.edu/

One of the finest museum collections of Chinese art outside of China, with over ten thousand objects dating from Neolithic times (ca. 7000–ca. 2000 B.C.E.) to the present

National Palace Museum Online 

http://www.npm.gov.tw/en/

An image archive of treasures at the National Palace Museum in Taiwan that includes paintings, calligraphy, ceramics, jade, bronzes, Buddhist antiques, etc.

OCA Internet Archive 

http://www.archive.org/index.php

Offers access to open source digital resources including texts, audio, moving images, software, as well as archived web pages

Moving images include: animation and cartoons, cultural and academic films, ephemeral films, movies, home movies, sports videos, non-English movies, etc.

Oxford Art Online Licensed by UCSD

http://uclibs.org/PID/153166

Provides access to Grove Art Online, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.

Includes image partnerships with ARTstor, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Images for College Teaching, Art Resource, Artists Rights Society and numerous international art galleries and artists

http://www.oxfordartonline.com/subscriber/browse?type=biography

With biographical resources

Peabody Essex Museum

http://www.pem.org/

Yin Yu Tang 蔭餘堂, a Qing dynasty merchant's house re-located from China and re-erected at this museum

http://www.pem.org/sites/yinyutang/

 

Geographic

China Historical GIS

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/

A database of populated places and historical administrative units for the period of Chinese history between 221 BCE and 1911 CE

Electronic Cultural Atlas Institute

http://ecai.org/culturalatlasportal/cab-countryQdisplay.asp

A fairly comprehensive collection of interactive cultural atlases on China

The Religious Atlas of China and Himalaya including Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Christianity, and Judaism