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| Altered States: Zhang Huan |
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| Asia Society
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"Asia Society Museum presents the first-ever museum retrospective of Zhang Huan, one of the most important and widely recognized Chinese artists working in the United States and China. Altered States: Zhang Huan includes 55 of the artist's major works produced over the past 15 years in Beijing, New York, and Shanghai, including photographs and sculpture." Uses Flash.
Go to Museum Resource: http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/zhanghuan/ | |
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| Art and China's Revolution |
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| Asia Society
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"Art and China’s Revolution reflects upon one of the most tumultuous and catastrophic periods in recent Chinese history⎯the three decades following the establishment of the Peoples Republic of China in 1949. During this time, the government led by Mao Zedong sought to modernize China across all aspects of society, a process that included suppressing or destroying much of traditional culture. The government also sought to create a new visual culture to communicate its goals and ideology to the Chinese people. Artists were encouraged to create art that reflected the revolutionary spirit of the time, in Mao’s words, to create art for the people. The impact of this directive on artists and art making was enormous. ... Until now, little effort has been made to take account of this period, during which art and politics were so closely intertwined. ... This exhibition marks a first attempt, which we hope will be the start of many, to examine these artistic developments within an historical framework that prompts a discussion of their impact on Chinese culture today." With extensive text and images of several works from the exhibition, as well as an interactive timeline of Chinese art from 1949 to 1979. Uses Flash.
Go to Museum Resource: http://sites.asiasociety.org/chinarevo/ | |
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| The Artist as Collector: Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the C. C. Wang Family Collection |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 1999-2000 exhibition that "illuminates the entire tradition of scholar painting from its birth and early development in the Song and Yuan dynasties (10th to 14th century) to its later transformation and elaboration during the Ming and Qing dynasties (14th to 20th century)." With images of 14 related artworks dating from the 10th century to 1711.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/1999/chinese-painting | |
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| Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China |
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| Asia Society
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Online presentation of a 2004 exhibition that takes "a comprehensive look at the innovative photo and video art produced since the mid-1990s in China." Featured topics: History and Memory; Reimagining the Body; People and Places; and Performing the Self.
Go to Museum Resource: http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/past_future/index.html | |
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| Bridging East and West: The Chinese Diaspora and Lin Yutang |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2008 exhibition featuring "43 paintings and calligraphies by 19 leading Chinese artists of the mid-20th century." With images of 12 artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2007/lin-yutang | |
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| Buddhist Cave Temple Sculpture |
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| Victoria and Albert Museum
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The Central Asian tradition of building such complexes was been practiced for centuries, primarily with Imperial sponsorship in the Northern regions, where Buddhism first took hold. The very act of creating these vast monuments, hollowed out from rock faces and decorated so lavishly within, was considered an act of 'piety' resulting in the accrual of merit, which in Buddhism is accumulated as a result of good deeds, acts or thoughts. This merit is then carried over to later in life or to a person's next birth. The sculptures and paintings also functioned as an important focus for worship and as symbolic links between the worldly and heavenly realms. People would have travelled great distances to see them and to worship and make offerings before them.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/chinese-buddhist-cave-temple-sculpture/ | |
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| Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe |
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| Guggenheim Museum
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"Cai Guo-Qiang has literally exploded the accepted parameters of art making in our time. Drawing freely from ancient mythology, military history, Taoist cosmology, extraterrestrial observations, Maoist revolutionary tactics, Buddhist philosophy, gunpowder-related technology, Chinese medicine, and methods of terrorist violence, Cai’s art is a form of social energy, constantly mutable, linking what he refers to as 'the seen and unseen worlds.' This retrospective presents the full spectrum of the artist’s protean, multimedia art in all its conceptual complexity." With video documentation and an online exhibition of selected works. See also: Teaching Materials.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/cai-guo-qiang-i-want-to-believe-2 | |
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| Cai Guo-Qiang on the Roof: Transparent Monument |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2006 installation at the Metropolitan Museum by the contemporary Chinese-born artist Cai Guo-Qiang, who is "known for his elaborate sculpture installations and gunpowder projects." With 7 images from the rooftop installation.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2006/cai-guo-qiang | |
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| Cai Guo-Qiang: "Traveler" |
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| National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
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Website documenting two site-specific installations at the Sackler Gallery and the Hirshhorn Museum created by the contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang (b. 1957), an artist who "integrates aspects of Eastern history into contemporary contexts." With photographs and descriptions of installations and the transcript from a 2004 interview with the artist. Uses Flash.
Go to Museum Resource: https://archive.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/cai/traveler.htm | |
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| Cave as Canvas: Hidden Images of Worship Along the Ancient Silk Routes |
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| National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
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Buddhist Cave Temples in Chinese Central Asia. Buddhism reached Chinese Central Asia (modern Xinjiang) from India around the first century A.D., brought by missionaries via the ancient Silk Routes. By the third century A.D., this new religion was flourishing in all the oasis kingdoms in the Tarim Basin (the Taklamakan Desert), also known as eastern Turkestan. As the Buddhist religion took hold and piety increased, the Indian tradition of excavating caves to serve as Buddhist sanctuaries proliferated in this region. In many of the Central Asian states, monasteries and temples were hewn out of the cliffs in secluded river valleys. With the patronage of local rulers, the elite, and wealthy merchants, these institutions gradually became major Buddhist centers. They continued to grow and prosper until the advent of Islam. Today, such Buddhist rock-cut cave complexes are some of the finest, if little known, monuments preserved in Chinese Central Asia.
Go to Museum Resource: https://archive.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/cave/default.htm | |
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| The Chairman Smiles |
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| International Institute of Social History
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"The former Soviet Union, Cuba, and China: three countries where posters played an important political role and received a large amount of artistic attention. This is a selection of 145 political posters, famous masterpieces as well as equally beautiful but unknown examples drawn from the collection of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. ... The Chinese posters include not only a number from the period of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), with the glorification of Mao Zedong, idyllic scenes in agricultural communes and sharp attacks on political opponents, but also extremely rare posters from circa 1949 to the early 1960s, with the establishment of the People's Republic and the campaign for the Great Leap Forward. There are also posters from the 1980s and early 1990s, the period of Deng Xiaoping and the economic modernization."
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.iisg.nl/exhibitions/chairman/index.php | |
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| China: 5000 Years |
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| Guggenheim Museum
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Online presentation of a 1998 exhibition that "explores the themes of innovation and transformation during the great eras of Chinese art." Two sections -- TRADITIONAL and MODERN -- but only the TRADITIONAL section is functional and is organized into seven major categories: Jade, Bronze, Grave Goods, Ceramics, Sculpture, Calligraphy, and Painting. There is extensive text under each category but only a few small images, none of which enlarge.
Go to Museum Resource: http://pastexhibitions.guggenheim.org/china/index.html | |
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| China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200–750 AD |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Publication of the exhibit that explores exceptional works of art from forty-six institutions in the People's Republic of China. Includes references to works of art in the Metropolitan's permanent collection, relevant literary references, maps, and details about how certain objects were crafted. See also exhibition publication.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2004/china-dawn-of-a-golden-age | |
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| China on Paper: European and Chinese Works from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century |
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| Getty Museum
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Online presentation of a 2007-08 exhibition presenting "works on paper from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute that document the fascinating story of cultural exchanges between Chinese and Europeans in the early-modern era." With text discussing the key role that Jesuit missionaries in China played in the story of this exchange, illustrated with six works from the exhibition.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/china_paper/ | |
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| Chinese Arts of the Brush |
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| National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
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"Long before the Chinese invented paper in the first century B.C.E., they devised the round brush, which is used for both writing and painting." The unique versatility of the Chinese brush lies in its tapered tip, which is composed of a careful grouping of chosen animal hairs. Through this resilient tip flow the ever-changing linear qualities of the twin arts of the brush: calligraphy and painting. An historical overview of the "twin arts" of calligraphy and painting in Chinese art.
Go to Museum Resource: https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/gallery-guide-chinese-arts-of-the-brush/ | |
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| Chinese Textiles from the Collection of The Field Museum |
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| The Field Museum
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A selection of images from the Museum's collection of Chinese folk textiles, which constitutes the largest collection of early-20th-century Chinese folk textiles in the world. Items includes clothing, household items, theatrical costumes, religious items, and other accessories. See also:
The Carl Schuster Collection of Chinese Textiles.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.fieldmuseum.org/node/4951 | |
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| Chinese Woodblock Prints: A Selection from the Collection of A. E. Maia do Amaral |
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| Universidade de Coimbra
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A collection of 20th-century Chinese woodblock prints of various types, including traditional ritual prints for doors, walls, and windows, etc., as well as modern decorative prints. Each print has brief information about its ritual purpose and/or iconography.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www1.ci.uc.pt/pessoal/maiaa/index.htm | |
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| Cinnabar: The Chinese Art of Carved Lacquer |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2009-2010 exhibition showcasing "approximately fifty examples dating from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century. ... [including] several recently acquired works as well as small boxes for holding incense or cosmetics and larger containers used for papers, scrolls, or presenting gifts." With images of 15 artworks, mostly dating from the 13th to the 18th century.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2009/cinnabar | |
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| Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art |
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| The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Asian Art
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Online presentation of a 2004 exhibition, with images of art, artifacts, ritual objects and practices, and related diagrams organized into 13 topics covering a range of issues related to enlightenment, meditation, and other Buddhist practice. In-depth explanatory text for all topics and images. Most of the artworks are from Tibet, Nepal, India, and China.
Go to Museum Resource: https://huntingtonarchive.org/Exhibitions/circleOfBliss.php | |
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| Cultivated Landscapes: Reflections of Nature in Chinese Painting |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2002-2003 exhibition that encompasses "landscapes and garden scenes dating from the Five Dynasties period (907–960) to the late twentieth century" and explores the "manifold uses of natural imagery in Chinese painting as a reflection of human beliefs and emotions." With images of 8 related artworks. See also the exhibition publication.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2002/cultivated-landscapes | |
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| The Douglas Dillon Legacy: Chinese Painting for the Metropolitan Museum |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2004 exhibition. "Spanning more than 1,000 years of Chinese painting, from the 8th to the 18th century, the exhibition constitutes a compelling survey of all the major schools and trends of the last four dynasties." With images of 8 related artworks dating from the 8th century to 1770.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2004/chinese-painting | |
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| Dr. Sun Yat Sen Chinese Garden |
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| Sun Yat Sen Chinese Garden
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Take an online tour of this Vancouver garden. Also read more about the garden's history, design, construction, and symbolism under "About" at top.
Go to Museum Resource: https://vancouverchinesegarden.com/ | |
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| The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2000-2001 exhibition "of more than fifty-five hanging scrolls, handscrolls, and album leaves from the Elliott collection, accompanied by a nearly equal number of selections from the Metropolitan's renowned John M. Crawford Collection Jr. and private collections, constitutes the most important display of calligraphy ever assembled in the West." With images of 9 related artworks dating from the 4th to the 17th century.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2000/john-b-elliott-collection | |
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| Emperor QinShihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum |
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| Museum of the Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang
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Museum of the Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang. This is the website of the official Qin Shihuangdi tomb site museum and an excellent resource for information about the more than 8,000 clay warrior figures and 10,000 bronze weapons that have been found in the tomb. This is the English version of the website; the Chinese version has even more information.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.bmy.com.cn/2015new/bmyweb/ | |
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| Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice across Asia |
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| National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
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Buddhism—and the art it inspired—helped shape the cultures of Asia. Today, its extraordinary art is a source of beauty and contemplation for audiences across the world.Encountering the Buddha brings together more than two hundred artworks, spanning two millennia, to explore Asia’s rich Buddhist heritage. They represent diverse schools that arose from the Buddha’s teachings.Throughout the exhibition and the website, we explore how Buddhist artworks are endowed with sacred power. We ask, why were they created? How did Buddhists engage with them? And how do Buddhist understandings of such objects differ from those of art museums?
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.freersackler.si.edu/exhibition/encountering-the-buddha-art-and-prac... | |
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| Fire Over Earth: Ceramics from the Collection of the Asia Society |
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| Asia Society
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Explores the interrelationships between the ceramic traditions of China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia in terms of techniques, styles and the roles played by ceramics in different contexts. Features seven objects with accompanying text and a glossary.
Go to Museum Resource: http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/ceramics/ | |
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| Gilded Splendor: Treasures of China's Liao Empire (907-1125) |
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| Asia Society
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This excellent interactive website explores the complex cultural and religious legacy of the Khitan and their reign over China during the Liao Dynasty (907-1125). Features an extensive image gallery of objects (organized into the following topics: 1) Nomadic Heritage; 2) Chinese Tomb Tradition; 3) Luxuries and Necessities; 4) Religious Life); an interactive tour of two Liao tombs; plus an interactive map of recently excavated Liao sites in Inner Mongolia (with images); two additional historic maps; and a timeline.
Go to Museum Resource: http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/liao/ | |
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| The Great Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from The People's Republic of China |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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"Nearly 4,000 years ago, the ancient Chinese made a discovery that would determine the course of their history and culture for two millennia—the alloy of tin and copper known as bronze. Bronze was used for tools and weapons and even musical instruments, but the Great Bronze Age of China has come down to us mainly in the ritual vessels that symbolized power and prestige for China's first three dynasties: the Xia, the Shang, and the Zhou." This page contains the publication that accompanied the "Great Bronze Age Exhibition." See also AFE's Teacher's Guide to the Exhibition.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/The_Great_Bronze_Age_of_China_An_... | |
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| Great Waves: Chinese Themes in the Arts of Korea and Japan |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2003 exhibition that "explores how Chinese pictorial themes—Buddhist iconography, landscape imagery, flower and bird subjects, and figural narratives—were selectively adopted and reinterpreted by native artists in Korea and Japan." With images of 16 related artworks dating from the 10th to the 18th century.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2003/great-waves | |
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| Hall of Jades |
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| The Field Museum
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Online presentation of a 2004 exhibition. With background information about jade -- jade as a stone, the colors of jade, jade-working methods, and where jade can be found -- plus images of jade objects produced throughout China's history, from Neolithic China to the present.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibitions/elizabeth-hubert-malott-hall-jades | |
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| History of Chinese in America: An Interactive Timeline |
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| Museum of Chinese in America
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A timeline of key figures and events in the political and cultural history of Chinese Americans from 1933 to 2009.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.mocanyc.org/learn/timeline | |
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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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| Inside Out: New Chinese Art |
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| Asia Society
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Online presentation of a 1998-99 exhibition of new art produced by artists in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and by selected artists who emigrated to the West in the late 1980s. Focuses on works of art that explore the complex relationship between culturally specific issues and larger developments of a modern/postmodern age. Site includes images of more than 20 works (but without descriptions), plus profiles of two commissioned works and one "work in progress" by the artist Xu Bing.
Go to Museum Resource: http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/insideout/index.html | |
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| Iraq and China: Ceramics, Trade, and Innovation |
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| National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
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"Influenced by sea trade with China, Iraqi pottery was transformed in the 9th century. These innovations, in turn, inspired ceramic arts across the region." With two topics related to technique ("Blue & White" and "Luster") and one related to trade ("Spread of Innovation"); the latter discusses the dissemination of techniques to Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Italy, and England. Uses Flash.
Go to Museum Resource: https://archive.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/iraqChina/default.htm | |
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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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| Landscape of Memory: The Art of Mu Xin |
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| Asia Society
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Online presentation of a 2003 exhibition of art by Chinese contemporary artist Mu Xin. With an essay discussing the connections between Mu Xin's work and the tradition of Chinese landscape painting and Chinese history; his appreciation of Western humanist philosophy; his imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution; and an analysis of his technique.
Go to Museum Resource: http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/muxin/index.html | |
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| Laufer China Expedition (1901-1904) |
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| American Museum of Natural History
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Featuring more than 6,500 objects from China and Tibet, acquired between 1901 and 1904 during the Jacob H. Schiff expedition to China led by sinologist Berthold Laufer… exploring the history and culture of a sophisticated people that had not yet experienced the industrial transformation… The collection includes "objects used in daily life, agriculture, folk religion, medicine, and in the practice of such crafts as printing, bookbinding, carpentry, enamelware, ceramics, and laquerware. [Laufer] also collected antique bronzes and Han Dynasty ceramics[, and his] interest in the theater led him to make the most extensive collection of Chinese puppets in North America including shadow puppets, rod puppets, and glove puppets in several regional styles, and to record performances on wax cylinders. The collection also includes costumes, musical instruments, and stilts for the Yang Ko folk drama."
Go to Museum Resource: https://anthro.amnh.org/laufer_collection | |
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| Ling Long Woman's Magazine (Shanghai, 1931 to 1937) |
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| Columbia University, Libraries
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A digital archive of Ling Long Women's Magazine, "originally published in Shanghai from 1931 to 1937 and of significant scholarly research value in several disciplines." With extensive background information about the magazine and the social and cultural context in which it was produced.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/linglong/index.html | |
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| The Margaret Grigg Nanjing Friendship Garden |
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| Missouri Botanical Garden
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An excellent online tour of the Missouri Botanical Garden's Chinese garden. Scroll to the bottom of this Introduction page to see links to four more pages about Chinese gardens in general (An Ancient Tradition; A Frame and Focus; Mountains and Water; Plants as Symbols) plus four pages about specific aspects of this Chinese garden (The Moon Gate; Tai Hu Stones; The Pavilion; The Lotus Gate). With photographs throughout.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.mobot.org/hort/tours/cgtourintro.shtml | |
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| Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia, 4th-7th Century |
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| Asia Society
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Features more than 35 objects organized into the following topics: 1) Heavenly Horses; 2) Nomadic Rulers; 3) Buddhism and China; 4) Buddhist Cave Temples; 5) Bodhisattvas; 6) Monks; 7) Merchants and Currencies; 8) The Tang Dynasty. Each topic has overview text, and each object is accompanied by short descriptive text. An additional topic on the Silk Road itself gives extensive background information on the geographical, historical, religious, and cultural context of the Silk Road.
Go to Museum Resource: http://sites.asiasociety.org/arts/monksandmerchants/index.html | |
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| National Bonsai and Penjing Museum |
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| The United States National Arboretum
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"The miniature masterpieces that we call bonsai and penjing are the pinnacle of gardening skill, and the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum has one of the largest collections of these timeless trees in North America. The Japanese art of bonsai, and its precursor, the Chinese art of penjing, are rooted in the traditions of Asian culture. The placement of branches, styling, and the pot all convey deep symbolism and reverence for nature." One-page historical background about the museum. Select BONSAI VIRTUAL TOUR for a 38-slide presentation that guides the visitor through the museum.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.usna.usda.gov/discover/gardens-collections/national-bonsai-penjing-... | |
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| One Hand Clapping |
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| Guggenheim Museum
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The artists in this exhibition explore the ways in which globalization affects our understanding of the future. Their commissioned works represent a range of traditional and new mediums, from oil on canvas to virtual-reality software. The show’s title, One Hand Clapping, is derived from a koan—a riddle used in Zen Buddhist practice to transcend the limitations of logical reasoning—that asks, “We know the sound of two hands clapping. But what is the sound of one hand clapping?” Emerging from a tradition that originates in China’s Tang period (618–907), the phrase “one hand clapping” encompasses a history of cross-cultural translation and appropriation that continues into the present. Popularized by its use as the epigraph to American author J. D. Salinger’s 1953 book of fiction, Nine Stories, this koan has also served as the name of a British band, the title of an Australian film, and the title and lyrics of a Cantonese pop song. In this exhibition, “one hand clapping” serves as a metaphor for the ways in which meaning is destabilized in a globalized world. Evoking the idea of solitude, the image of “one hand clapping” also speaks to the ability of artists to put forth a singular vision that can contest entrenched beliefs, stereotypes, and power structures.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/one-hand-clapping | |
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| Recarving China's Past: Art, Archeology, and Architecture of the Wu Family Shrines |
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| Princeton University Art Museum
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Interactive virtual reality tour, "Explore the Wu Family Shrines"; two pdf files: "Exhibition Handout," "Recarving China's Past"; "Map of Shandong Region Han Dynasty Archaeology Sites" with labels for the Wu Family Shrine and many other archaeological sites. “An interactive model of the Wu Family Shrine – created using 3D modeling software and GPS readings – allows you to explore the foundations of one of ancient China’s richest cultural eras.”
Go to Museum Resource: https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/legacy-projects/WuShrines/interactive.htm | |
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| Remembering 1882: Fighting for Civil Rights in the Shadow of the Chinese Exclusion Act |
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| Chinese Historical Society of America
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"In 1882 Congress passed the nation's first major immigration legislation -- a law to prevent people of Chinese descent from entering the United States. Remembering 1882 explores the historical debate around the Exclusion Act from its origins through its full repeal in 1968, the civil rights struggle of Chinese Americans and allies, and the historic importance of habeas corpus in the Chinese American community."
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.civilrightssuite.org/crs/InfoPage.php/iID/180 | |
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| Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries |
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| National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
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"In 1996 a chance discovery in Qingzhou ... in the northeastern province of Shangdong, brought to light an incredible buried treasure. Workers leveling a school sports field stumbled upon a pit brimming with hundreds of broken, but otherwise well-preserved, sixth-century Buddhist statues." Content organized into five topics -- Discovery (about the excavation), Color, Styles, Gallery (featuring 9 sculptures), and Resources (links to related websites).
Go to Museum Resource: https://archive.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/returnofbuddha/base.html | |
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| Sacred Texts: Chinese Qur'an |
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| The British Library
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This Chinese Qur'an from the 17th century "shows how Islamic styles of calligraphy and illumination were combined with local styles, symbols, and aesthetics that came from a very different culture." Featuring excellent high-resolution images of one leaf from this manuscript, along with background information about the Qur'an and Islam in China.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/chinesequran.html | |
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| Sacred Texts: The Ashem Vohu |
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| The British Library
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This is a "9th or 10th century Sogdian manuscript from Dunhuang, China," containing "a version of one of the holiest Zoroastrian prayers: the Ashem Vohu, composed originally in the Avestan (old Iranian) language." Featuring excellent high-resolution images of the manuscript, along with background information on the Songdians, Zoroastrianism in Central Asia, and the significance of this particular manuscript.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/ashem.html | |
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| Sacred Texts: The Diamond Sutra |
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| The British Library
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The British Library's copy of the Diamond Sutra, printed in China and dating to 868 CE, is the world's earliest dated, printed book. A central text of Indian Buddhism, the Diamond Sutra was first translated from Sanskrit into Chinese in about 400 CE. This webpage gives background information on Buddhism, sutras, and the significance of the Diamond Sutra. There is also a link to detailed information about this particular copy of the Sutra, as well as excellent images and even a "Turning Pages" feature that gives viewers a close-up look at the Sutra.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/diamondsutra.html | |
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| Sacred Texts: The Kaifeng Torah |
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| The British Library
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This 17th-century scroll "was specially prepared for one of the farthest-flung and most remarkable religious communities of history: the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng." Featuring excellent high-resolution images of one section of the scroll, along with background information about Kaifeng and Judaism in China.
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/kaifengtorah.html | |
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| Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove |
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| Asia Society
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"The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove were a group of Chinese learned men from the third century CE. During a time of political upheaval, the group distanced themselves from governmental service, choosing instead to spend time engaged in Daoist-inspired discussions, poetry, and music, sometimes while inebriated. ... Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, featuring traditional works of art from China and Japan, has been organized to accompany and provide some cultural context for Asia Society’s exhibition of Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest, the contemporary video work by Chinese artist Yang Fudong."
Go to Museum Resource: https://asiasociety.org/new-york/exhibitions/seven-sages-bamboo-grove | |
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| Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2009-2010 exhibition that "celebrates the musical heritage of China—one of the oldest continuously documented traditions with roots reaching back more than eight thousand years. Featuring some sixty objects and illustrations ... Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China reveals the dynamic interplay of cultures, the continuity of musical practice, and the diversity of China's musical traditions from the fifth century B.C. to the present." With images of 18 objects, mostly dating from the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2009/silk-and-bamboo | |
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| Song and Yuan Dynasty Painting and Calligraphy |
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| National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
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"Presented here in text and image are eighty-five works of Song and Yuan dynasty painting and calligraphy in the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art. The works are arranged in five thematic groups: secular figure painting (17 examples); landscape painting (29 examples); religious figure painting (25 examples); natural subjects (11 examples); calligraphy and rubbings (3 examples). Each group is further subdivided into topical categories arranged in rough chronological order. Some groups contain contemporary paintings created in border regions beyond the control of Song and Yuan authorities as well as a small number of Ming dynasty works that continue Yuan styles. Every work is fully documented through images and related text. Labels, frontispieces, inscriptions, colophons, and seals have been transcribed, and texts of art historical relevance are accompanied by annotated English translations."
Go to Museum Resource: https://asia.si.edu/publications/songyuan/ | |
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| Tales of Our Time |
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| Guggenheim Museum
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The artists in this exhibition challenge the conventional understanding of place. By portraying often-overlooked cultural and historical narratives, Chia-En Jao, Kan Xuan, Sun Xun, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Tsang Kin-Wah, Yangjiang Group, and Zhou Tao explore concepts of geography and nation-state. Their artworks address specific locations, such as their hometowns, remote borderlands, or a group of uninhabited islands, as well as abstract ideas, such as territory, boundaries, or even utopia. China, too, is presented here, not only as a country but also as a notion that is open for questioning and reinvention.
The exhibition’s title riffs on Gushi xin bian (Old Tales Retold,1936), the name of a book by modern Chinese literary giant Lu Xun in which he recasts ancient legends to critique society, reimagine history, and illuminate problems of his era. The artists in Tales of Our Time similarly call attention to the dynamic relationship between storytelling and history writing. Official histories are, in their eyes, full of fabrications, and storytelling provides a means to reconstruct the past and demystify the present. While some of the artists engage storytelling by creating characters and plots, others imbue their forms with narrative content by adapting metaphor and allegory. All of them, however, dispute the line between fiction and fact in order to make and unmake boundaries—those dividing communities, regions, nations, and continents, as well as those separating past and present, reality and dreams, and rationality and absurdity.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/tales-of-our-time | |
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| Tianlongshan Caves Project |
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| Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago
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The Buddhist cave temples of Tianlongshan (Heavenly Dragon Mountain) are located in the mountains thirty-six kilometers southwest of Taiyuan city in the central part of Shanxi province. They exist today in a damaged state with so many of the sculptures now missing, that visitors to the caves cannot imagine how they looked in the past. Many of the sculptures from the caves are now in museums around the world. However, though the sculptures may be preserved and displayed, visitors to museums cannot understand them in their original historical, spatial, and religious contexts. For these reasons the Center for the Art of East Asia in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago initiated the Tianlongshan Caves Project in 2013 to pursue research and digital imaging of the caves and their sculptures. The Project seeks to record and archive the sculptures and to compile data that can identify the fragments and their places of origin. In carrying this out, the Project aims to foster better understanding of the sculptural art, the history, and the meaning of the Tianlongshan Caves through creation of this website and through an exhibition of the results of the Project based on digital information.
Go to Museum Resource: https://tls.uchicago.edu/ | |
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| To Enjoy and Defend Our American Citizenship |
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| Chinese Historical Society of America
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This exhibit "(explores) the experiences of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance in their groundbreaking work alongside groups such as the NAACP to challenge discriminatory laws and create the support systems necessary for survival in a segregated United States."
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.civilrightssuite.org/OurAmericanCitizenship/index.php/iID/232 | |
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| Traveling the Silk Road: Take a Journey |
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| American Museum of Natural History
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An online "travel journal" to introduce visitors to the 2010 AMNH exhibition on the Silk Road. With an interactive series of articles covering "stops" in Baghdad, Samarkand, Turfan, and Xi'an. The section on Xi'an covers silk-making and music of the Tang-dynasty era.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/traveling-the-silk-road/take-a-journey | |
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| Treasures from a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2002 exhibition that "presents the fascinating art and material culture of ancient Sichuan, in remote southwest China, uncovered by archaeology of the last 15 years. The 128 works of art on exhibit include monumental bronze images of deities, lively human figures, fantastic ritual vessels, exquisite jades, and spirited ceramic sculptures dating from the late phase of Sanxingdui culture (13th–11th century B.C.) to the Han dynasty (3rd century B.C.–3rd century A.D.). " With images of 10 related artifacts.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2002/sichuan | |
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| When the Manchus Ruled China: Painting under the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2002 exhibition. "The most comprehensive exhibition of Qing dynasty painting ever mounted in the West, this selection of more than 60 works will focus on painting under the brilliant reigns of the Kangxi (r. 1662–1722) and Qianlong (r. 1736–95) emperors—a period when the Manchus embraced Chinese cultural traditions and the court became a leading patron in the arts." With images of 6 related artworks.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2002/qing-dynasty-painting | |
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| Word Play: Contemporary Art by Xu Bing |
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| National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution
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Interactive website designed to complement a 2001 exhibition of works by contemporary artist Xu Bing, who is known for his "bold, teasingly thought-provoking works of art (that) challenge preconceptions about written communication." Includes audio interviews with the artist and interactive explorations of three works from the exhibition. Uses Flash.
Go to Museum Resource: https://archive.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/xubing/default.html | |
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| The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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“This exhibition covers the period from 1215, the year of Khubilai's birth, to 1368, the year of the fall of the Yuan dynasty in China founded by Khubilai Khan, and features every art form, including paintings, sculpture, gold and silver, textiles, ceramics, lacquer, and other decorative arts, religious and secular. The exhibition highlights new art forms and styles generated in China as a result of the unification of China under the Yuan dynasty and the massive influx of craftsmen from all over the vast Mongol Empire—with reverberations in Italian art of the fourteenth century.” Includes the video “The World of Khubilai Khan: A Revolution in Painting,” with Maxwell K. Hearn. See also exhibition publication.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2010/khubilai-khan | |
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| The World of Scholars' Rocks: Gardens, Studios, and Paintings |
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Online presentation of a 2000 exhibition that "features more than 30 scholars' rocks from the noted collection of the Richard Rosenblum family, ranging in size from desktop pieces to freestanding works of several feet in height. They are accompanied by about 90 paintings dating from the 11th to 20th century, drawn primarily from the Museum's collection." With images of 9 related rocks and paintings.
Go to Museum Resource: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2000/world-of-scholars | |
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| Wutaishan: Pilgrimage to Five Peak Mountain |
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| Rubin Museum of Art
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"The sacred mountain Wutaishan (Mount Wutai), located in Shanxi Province, China, is believed to be the earthly abode of the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, Manjushri, and for a thousand years it has been a focus of transnational pilgrimage for the Chinese, Tibetans, Mongols, and Manchus alike." This online archive of a 2007 exhibition features an excellent interactive tool for viewing the "focal point of the exhibition: ... an intricately-detailed, hand-painted woodblock print map of Wutaishan, created in the 19th century by a Mongolian monk at a monastery on Wutaishan, called Cifusi. Six feet wide, this rare map offers a panoramic view of Wutaishan, which can be read as both a primary historical record of the lay of the land and as a declaration of the political primacy of Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhism, claiming Mongolian ethnic and sectarian identity over the mountain."
Go to Museum Resource: http://www.himalayanart.org/search/set.cfm?setID=1274 | |
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| Xiangtangshan Caves Project |
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| Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago
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The Northern Qi dynasty (550-577) produced a large body of important works of art during its brief existence. A central achievement of the period is the complex of Buddhist caves of Xiangtangshan and their stone sculptures and engraved inscriptions, created near the Northern Qi capital with official sponsorship. Unfortunately, the cave shrines are now severely damaged and the sculptures and fragments of carvings from the cave sites scattered around the world. The Xiangtangshan Project has sought to acquire a better understanding the caves in broader narratives of the art and visual culture of the Northern Qi period and of the history of Buddhism in China. Its components and objectives were to 1) to conduct collaborative research, 2) to create a digital database of images and information on the caves and sculptures of Xiangtangshan, and 3) to present of the results of research with digital reconstruction of the caves, an exhibition, and international conferences. This website serves as a database of the project's results and a resource for future research. See also: supplemental website with Buddhist sutras and dedicatory inscriptions.
Go to Museum Resource: https://xts.uchicago.edu/ | |
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| Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest |
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| Asia Society
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"In 2003, Yang Fudong produced the first part of his now seminal, five-part film, Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest. One part of the film was created each year (in sequential order), and the entire work was finished in 2007. The work has no clear narrative, although each part takes place in a different setting. Some parts take place in a rural environment, while others are set in cities. The film poses questions about the dissonance between men and women, individuals and society, the past and present, and reality and an ideal world."
Go to Museum Resource: http://sites.asiasociety.org/yangfudong/ | |
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| Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home |
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| Peabody Essex Museum
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"Yin Yu Tang, a late Qing dynasty merchants' house, was originally located in southeastern China. Re-erected at the Peabody Essex Museum, Yin Yu Tang is now open to visitors." This companion website to the permanent installation at the museum allows visitors to explore "this rare example of the region's renowned architecture and to learn about the daily life of the Huang family, who lived in Yin Yu Tang for over 200 years." With in-depth text, images, and diagrams organized around the topics Orientation, Construction, Ornamentation, Belongings, and Preservation. Uses Flash.
Go to Museum Resource: http://yinyutang.pem.org/ | |
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