Art of China (http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/%7Eagenhtml/agenmc/china/china.html)
Purdue University's site for the art, music, language of China and other Chinese related sites. (File last updated: December, 10 1997). It's music page provides links to a slection of sound recordings of violin solos, instrumental folk music, songs, contemporary music, as well as Chinese comedy.
Asian Film Connections (http://www.asianfilms.org/)
Asian Film Connections seeks to create a deeper awareness and understanding of Asian cinema by providing immediate and comprehensive information about films from Asia, especially the cinemas of China, Hong kong, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea. Site can be viewed in English, Chinese, Japanese, or Korean. Includes brief notices of film-related events, introduction to films of each of the target areas, and introduction to each of highlighted films made since 1988.
China : fifty years inside the People's Republic (http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/chinaphotos/frame%5Fset.html)
Asia Society website depicting photographs of an exhibition. Includes introduction essay titled "This is our China" by Rae Yang, currently Chair of the East Asian Studies Program at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., USA. Frames capable browser required.
The China Experience: China Culture Index (ChinaVista.com) (http://www.chinavista.com/experience/)
The China Experience explores Chinese culture with weekly essays on topics from Chinese literature to traditional clothing to popular festivals. Also includes a popular Chinese recipe section. It provides rich culture related information resource, divided into various subjects, such as Arts & Crafts, Festivals, Articles, Food & Drink, Transportation, Script & Calligraphy, Folk Custom, Literature, Ancient Relics, Performing Arts, Architecture, and People.
China Links = Zhongguo wen hua wang / China Links = 中國文化網 (http://www.sinologic.com/ChinaLinks.html)
The site contains: learning Chinese, language, history, philosophy, literature, music, art, movies, and travel. Provides extensive links with annotations.
China the beautiful (http://www.chinapage.com/main2.html)
Maintained by Prof. Pei Minglong, it includes sites dealing with Chinese classics, arts, history, literature, poetry, calligraphy, and painting. Also provides links to sound recordings of poetry and music.
Chinese Pop Posters (http://www.atlasmagazine.com/illust/china%5Fposters/index.html)
A sequence of 24 Chinese propaganda posters (including some stamps), collected by Oliver Laude, editor of Atlas Magazine; produced by the central government in Beijing. Begins with an informative introduction, and includes commentary on most posters. No index.
Chinese Rural Architecture (http://www.atlasmagazine.com/photo/laude6/index.html)
A photo album about Chinese vernacular architecture, with photographs by Olivier Laude, editor of the Atlas Magazine, and text by Ronald G. Knapp, Chairman of the Dept. of Geography, State University of New York.
Chinese and Japanese Art History Virtual Library (http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/html/chinese/index.html)
The site, compiled for the Arts of China Consortium, provides information on symposia, conferences, grants and other items of interest to scholars of Chinese and Japanese art history. Includes: Positions available; Calls Fellowships and Grants: Links to other websites related Asian art.
Chinese characters and culture (http://www.zhongwen.com)
Developed by Rick Harbaugh, the web site contains the complete searchable web version of his "Chinese characters: a genealogy and dictionary" and other culture related materials, such as "300 Tang poems", Chinese dynasties, etc. All Chinese characters are linked to the corresponding entry of the Dictionary.
Chinese music (http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/%7Eagenhtml/agenmc/china/cmusic.html)
Provided by Art of China, the site contains samples of traditional and modern Chinese music. Included are some Chinese comedy piecces.
Cities/Buildings Image Archive (http://www.washington.edu/ark2/)
The database contains a few general photos of Asian buildings. There are two methods of searching the database. The first is found by clicking the "Old Site" link. Information in the Old Database is organized into four layers: (1) Country; (2) City or Location; (3) Subject; (4) View, Detail. Geographic coverage inclues China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, and others. Each photograph is annotated according to the following schedule: slide number; file format; subject; detail; nation; city; state; site; date; architect; materials; type; keywords; photographer; copyright holder; photographer's reference no.; transmission data; date of photograph; source. The second method of search is accessed by clicking "Enter the Database." This method allows up to four search terms to be entered a number of categories.
Classical Chinese Furniture (http://www.chinese-furniture.com/)
Decoration & Style, Materials, Materials, Dating, Joinery & Construction, Categories, History, Piece of the Month; Resources (Conservation, Museum Collections, Dealers, Bibliography, Consulting, Links). Includes an extensive bibliography.
Formosa: Nineteenth Century Images (http://academic.reed.edu/formosa/)
A digital library of primarily 19th-century European and American images of the island of Taiwan and its peoples; includes woodcuts, maps, linguistic data and textual representations. Site contents: (1) Introduction; (2) Maps (90+ maps); (3) Texts (approx. 30 travelogues, reports and ethnographies in full text); (4) Images (100+ woodcuts, sketches and etchings); (5) Linguistic Data (seven tables of comparative word lists); (6) Timeline; (7) Search; (8) Feedback; (9) Credits.
Inside Out - New Chinese Art (http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/insideout/)
Website of the exhibition "Inside Out - New Chinese Art", co-curated by the Asia Society and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Includes: (1) Introduction; (2) Works (23 selected images of the exhibition and a checklist of every work in the show); (3) Commissions (information on two pieces by Cai Guo-qiang and Wenda Gu); (4) Work in Progress (a video of a work in progress by the artist Xu Bing; warning - the file takes several minutes to download); (5) Chronologies (development of contemporary Chinese art in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan); (6) Artist Biographies; (7) Selected Bibliography; (8) Related Programs; (9) Exhibition Catalogue (on-line ordering facility); (10) Chinese Text description of the show.
International Dunhuang Project (http://idp.bl.uk)
International Dunhuang Project, an international collaboration to make more than 100,000 manuscripts, paintings and artifacts from Dunhuang and other Silk Road sites available on Internet. Items are shown in context, with bibliographies, maps, photographs, site plans and other information relating to their provenance, history and present condition. The site provides links to: http://idp.bl.uk/chapters/links/links.html to Buddhism and Dunhuang and the Silk Road. The web site was last revised in November 2002. General text was written by Kate Hampson, Vic Swift and Susan Whitfield.
The Internet Chinese Music Archive (http://www.ibiblio.org/chinese-music/)
The site provides selections from traditional, modern and popular music, as well as ceremonial music and opera. Also provides links to many related sites, such as the Chinese Music Society of North America (http:chinesemusic.net).
New Music Web (http://www.sinologic.com/newmusic/)
The site is dedicated to the dissemination of information on experimental/avant-garde Chinese music. Includes in-depth criticism and world-wide links. In Chinese. Powered by: sino:- )ogic.
Picturing Power: Posters of the Cultural Revolution (http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/poster/exhibintro.html)
Presents approximately 10% of the collection of Cultural Revolution posters from the University of Westminster Centre for the Study of Democracy, U.K.: 74 posters (1963-1979) with descriptions including - where available - name of artist, date, title in Chinese characters and in English translation, and some background information on the poster. Frames capable browser needed.
Rethinking Cultural Revolution Culture (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/conf/propaganda/)
Includes posters from the Centre for the Study of Democracy of University of Westminster collection in London; also video and audio-footage formerly exhibited and prepared at Indiana University and Ohio State University, U.S.
Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages (http://www.iisg.nl/%7Elandsberger/)
The site is dedicated to Chinese political propaganda posters as they have been published since 1949 until the present day. Contains over 1,000 posters covering broad range of subjects. Includes a bibliography and name index.
Traditional Songs and Stories of the Hua Miao of South West China (http://www.archives.ecs.soton.ac.uk/miao/)
Traditional songs and stories of the Miao people of South West China, collected and translated by the Rev. Keith Parsons. Includes sections on the symbols and sounds of the Miao script, and Miao history and social life. No sound examples are available. Provides searchable English-Miao Miao-English dictionary (download of a Miao font is necessary).
Uyghur Information Agency (http://www.uyghurinfo.com/)
This agency is an independent and nonprofit news organization. The Uyghur Information Agency (UIA) was created by a group of young, talented and dedicated Uyghurs in the United States of America on September 10, 2000. Most of the information regarding the current situation of the Uyghur people and history of Eastern Turkestan is directly from the official Chinese sources. The official Chinese sources only represent the will of the Chinese Communist Party.
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