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| Diving Deeper into Buddhism – Guanyin |
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| Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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Students who are already familiar with Siddhartha Gautama, or Shakyamuni, the Historical Buddha, will deepen their understanding of Buddhist beliefs and artwork. They will analyze and interpret works of art that reveal how people live around the world and what they value. They will identify how works of art reflect times, places, cultures, and beliefs.
Go to Museum Resource: https://asia.si.edu/learn/for-educators/teaching-china-with-the-smithsonian/les... | |
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| East and West: Chinese Export Porcelain |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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An introduction to Chinese export porcelain -- objects produced in China specifically for export to the West, beginning in the early 16th century. With 12 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ewpor/hd_ewpor.htm | |
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| Exploring Chinese Painting: A Test Module for Undergraduate Teaching |
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| Columbia University, Media Center for Art History
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A workspace allowing students to view and compare a group of important Chinese hand scrolls and hanging scrolls from the 10th to the 17th centuries. Uses Flash.
Go to Museum Resource: http://projects.mcah.columbia.edu/nehasian/zoomify/scrolls/swf/start.html | |
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| The Forbidden City (Imperial Palace of China) |
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| The Palace Museum, Beijing
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Provides an annotated map of the Palace with live links to images and background on each of the locations. The Imperial Palace was “the center of imperial governance and family life, the Forbidden City consists of various structures that were designed for specific functions. Each structure was built in accordance with the traditional Chinese architectural hierarchy and designed to reflect imperial power and authority.”
Go to Museum Resource: https://en.dpm.org.cn/collections/architecture/ | |
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| Imperial Elegance: Chinese Ceramics from the Asia Society's Rockefeller Collection |
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| Asia Society
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"This exhibition reveals the broad range of aesthetics that appealed to Chinese imperial patrons of Chinese ceramics during a period that spans more than six hundred years, from the Song (960–1279) through the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Selected works have been grouped to show how color and form in imperial ceramics can provide clues to their function. A final section explores some of the meanings represented by the decorative motifs found on imperial ceramics."
Go to Museum Resource: http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/imperialelegance/index.html | |
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| Imperial Silks (of the Manchu Court) |
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| Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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"When the nomadic Manchu warriors overthrew the Ming dynasty in 1644 and founded Ch'ing [Qing], they took over the world's largest population, greatest bureaucracy, and one of the most luxurious courts in existence. They remained, however, a clear minority... To ease an orderly political transition while guarding against total cultural assimilation, the Manchus adjusted to a Chinese style bureaucracy and adopted the Buddhist religion while simultaneously enforcing certain ethnic and cultural differences. One of the clearest distinctions made was that of court attire." An overview, plus 14 related examples of court attire from the Manchu period, all with descriptions.
Go to Museum Resource: http://archive.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/explore/explore-collection-imperial-silk... | |
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| The Influence of East Asian Lacquer on European Furniture |
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| Victoria and Albert Museum
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When lacquered objects made in East Asia first reached Europe in about the early 16th century, they were highly prized for their flawless finish and light-reflecting qualities. Lacquer became available to European elites, along with other luxury items including silk and porcelain, once Portuguese explorers discovered a sea route to the East around the southern tip of Africa and across the Indian Ocean. The flow of goods increased in the early 17th century when the Dutch and English East India Companies began to bring goods to markets in Amsterdam and London. By 1700 many European country houses and palaces contained examples of East Asian export lacquer. Asian lacquer was admired as a precious and mysterious material.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/east-asian-lacquer-influence | |
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| John Thomson's China: Illustrations of China and Its People (1873-1874) |
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visualizing Cultures
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"John Thomson, born in Edinburgh, was the first Western photographer to travel widely through the length and breadth of China. This unit is a full reproduction of his celebrated Illustrations of China and Its People: A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, with Letterpress Descriptive of the Places and People Represented, published in four volumes from 1873 to 1874." With an in-depth essay by Allen Hockley, professor of art history at Dartmouth College.
Go to Museum Resource: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/john_thomson_china_01/index.html | |
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