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bullet Ancient China Index - many links to other sections of the site covering all major aspects of Chinese life and culture
bullet Asian Religions and Cultures
bullet Calligraphy of the Chinese Masters
bullet The China Experience: China Culture Index
bullet China On Site: A Guide to Chinese Culture
bullet China: One Hundred Treasures (exhibited in Jerusalem) - beautifully clear images of 100 pieces of Chinese art
bullet China's Writing System
bullet Chinese Calendar and Zodiac
bullet Chinese Culture (Government Information Office, Taiwan) - an excellent site
bullet Chinese Foot Binding     (Bound Feet picture)
bullet Chinese Games
bullet Chinese Gardens
bullet Chinese Herbs and Acupuncture
bullet Chinese Holidays
bullet Chinese Holidays and Festivals
bullet Chinese Inventions and Remedies
bullet Chinese Inventions Timeline (CNN)
bullet Chinese Language
bullet Chinese Manners in Daily Life
bullet Chinese Music
bullet Chinese Painting
bullet Chinese Philosophy
bullet Chinese Recipes (1)
bullet Chinese Recipes (2)
bullet Chinese Zodiac
bullet Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine
bullet CNN.com Asia
bullet The Coins and History of Asia
bullet "Furniture Placement With Feng Shui" by Patricia Santhuff
bullet "History of Acupuncture" - essay by Jon Fishman
bullet History of Chinese Mathematics
bullet The Internet Chinese Music Archive
bullet "Islam in China" - Yusuf Abdul Rahman
bullet Let's Learn some Chinese! (WellGot Inc.)
bullet Masterpieces of 20th-Century Chinese Painting
bullet Mathematics in China
bullet "One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and Demise " - essay by Marie Vento
bullet The Palace Museum in Beijing
bullet Pandit Ravi Shankar - biography
bullet The Philately of the Hong Kong Treaty Ports
bullet Sacred Sites of Asia
bullet Scripts of All Asia
bullet The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy
bullet A Taste of China - recipes
bullet Treasures of a Chinese Scholar - exhibition (many images) at the McClung Museum (Knoxville, TN)
bullet A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
bullet Why Are Chinese Letters So Complicated?
bullet Women and Foot Binding in China
bullet Women in China - Past and Present
bullet Women in Chinese History - bibliography
bullet Women in Traditional China
bullet "The Worship of Ancestors, 1900" - essay by W. A. P. Martin
 

   The Arts:
bullet AnthroArcheArt.org - huge numbers of stock photos of Asian art and architecture
bullet Appreciation of the Art of Chinese Calligraphy
bullet Art of China
bullet Artcyclopedia -- The Arts of China
bullet Art for New China:  1950-1980
bullet Artifacts from Imperial Tombs of China
bullet The Arts of Asia - China (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
bullet The Arts of Asia - Tibet (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
bullet Asianart.net
bullet Asian Art - Metropolitan Museum of New York
bullet Asian Art Images - data base
bullet Asian Arts: The on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia
bullet Asian Historical Architecture - Over 5,000 photos of 350 sites in Asia
bullet Blue and White Chinese Porcelain
bullet The British Museum - China Exhibit
bullet Buddhist Art of China
bullet Calabash Gate - In a Calabash, a Chinese Myth of Origins
bullet Canton Porcelains
bullet Ceramics of the Late Ming Period (The Asia Society)
bullet Ceramics of the Song and Jin Periods (The Asia Society)
bullet China- 5,000 Years - Transformations of Tradition
bullet Chinese-Art.com - Traditional Art
bullet Chinese Art - many, many images (Berger Foundation)
bullet Chinese Art - an extensive collection (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
bullet Chinese Arts & Crafts Page
bullet Chinese Bronzes of the Shang Dynasty
bullet Chinese Bronzes of the Shang and Zhou Periods (The Asia Society)
bullet Chinese Buddhist Sculpture (The Asia Society)
bullet Chinese Jades
bullet Classical Chinese Painting
bullet Early Chinese Ceramics (The Asia Society)
bullet "From Earth and Heaven: Chinese Jade in Context" (Columbus, OH Museum of Art)
bullet The Glory of Chinese Printing
bullet Han Dynasty Bronzes (The Asia Society)
bullet

Heavens' Embroidered Cloths - One Thousand Years of Chinese Textiles
bullet Henan Museum - Bronzes 
bullet The Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art
bullet Imperial Chinese Ceramics of the 15th Century (The Asia Society)
bullet The Internet Chinese Music Archive
bullet Jade and Lacquer in China (The Asia Society)
bullet Landscape Painting in China (The Asia Society)
bullet Porcelains of the Yuan and Early Ming Periods (The Asia Society)
bullet Qing Dynasty Porcelain (The Asia Society)
bullet "Reflections of a Golden Age: Chinese Tang Pottery" - exhibit at the McClung Museum (Knoxville, TN)
bullet Sculpture from Tombs (The Asia Society)
bullet Tales from the Land of the Dragons - Boston Museum of Fine Arts
bullet Tang and Liao Dynasty Metalwork (The Asia Society)
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Taoism and The Arts of China - Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
bullet Ten Laments - Technology and education in ancient China
bullet Tomb China I    II
bullet Treasures of the Chinese Scholar (University of PA Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology)
bullet "Treasures from a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan" - The Royal Ontario Museum
bullet Yuan Dynasty Art
bullet What is Feng Shui?

   Literature:
bullet 300 Tang Poems
bullet Ancient Chinese Fables
bullet Chinese Cultural Studies: Texts
bullet Chinese Literature
bullet Chinese Poetry
bullet Classical Chinese Poetry
bullet Du Fu
bullet Li Bo
bullet Tang Poetry
bullet Wang Wei
bullet Water Margin and accompanying art work
 
   Confucianism:
bullet Confucian Teaching
bullet The Confucian Tradition
bullet Confucianism (1)
bullet Confucianism (2)
bullet Confucianism and the Chinese Scholastic System
bullet Confucius (1)
bullet Confucius (2)
bullet Confucius (3)
bullet "Confucius and Socrates:  The Teaching of Wisdom" - Sanderson Beck
bullet Confucius Page
bullet Han Synthesis
bullet Mencius (1)
bullet Mencius (2)
bullet Mo Tzu
bullet Neo-Confucianism
bullet The Philosopher Confucius:  551-479 BCE
bullet Pre-Confucian China and the Five Classics

   Taoism:
bullet The Development of Taoism
bullet Frequently asked questions about Taoism
bullet The I Ching
bullet Lao Tse References
bullet Lao-tzu - biography
bullet Readings from Lao Tzu
bullet Reflections on The Tao Te Ching
bullet TaoTeChing
bullet Taoism (1)
bullet Taoism (2)
bullet "Taoism and the Arts of China" - Art Institute of Chicago
bullet Taoism - A Brief History
bullet Taoism Information Page
bullet The True Tao Page
bullet Yin and Yang
bullet Yin and Yang in Medical Theory

   Legalism:
bullet Legalism

   Buddhism:
bullet The Art of Buddhism - Smithsonian Institution
bullet Buddha Mind / Rainbow Body - many great links
bullet BuddhaNet
bullet Buddhism (1)
bullet Buddhism (2)
bullet Buddhism (3)
bullet Buddhism:  An Introduction
bullet Buddhist Basics
bullet The Four Noble Truths
bullet Journal of Buddhist Ethics
bullet "The Origins of Buddhism" by Lise F. Vail , Hobart and Wm. Smith Colleges
bullet Theravada Women
bullet The Tibetan Book of the Dead
bullet Tibetan Nuns of Katmandu
 
   Korea:
bullet Arts of Korea
bullet Cultural Heritage of South-North Korea - over 8000 images
bullet Cultural Properties Administration of Korea
bullet Korean Art - an extensive collection (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
bullet Korean Ceramics (The Asia Society)
bullet National Folk Museum of Korea
bullet Slides (100s) on Korean Culture and the Korean People

   Taiwan:
 
    Tibet:
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An exhibition of Tibetan Calligraphy - Indigo Gallery, Kathmandu
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Early Tibetan Mandalas
bullet Himalayan Art - Tibetan Art
bullet

Sacred Visions - Early Paintings from Central Tibet
bullet Sculpture from Tibet (The Asia Society)
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The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet - Buddhist Art in the Nyingjei Lam Collection
bullet A Short Guide to Tibetan Buddhism
bullet The Tibetan Book of the Dead
bullet Tibetan Buddhism


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bullet Chinese Proverbs
bullet Excerpts from the Tao Te Ching
bullet 6c BCE:  The Mandate of Heaven, Selections from the Shu Jing (The Classic of History)
bullet 600-500 BCE:  Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
bullet 500 BCE:  The Analects - Confucius (1)      (2)      (3)
bullet 233 BCE:  Han Fei Tzu- Legalist Views on Good Government
bullet 3c BCE:  Ta-Hsüeh- The Great Learning
bullet 80:  Lessons for Women - Ban Zhao [Pan Chao, ca. 45-116]
bullet 3c:  Liu Hsün's wife- The Curtain of the Wedding Bed
bullet 5c:  Ballad of Mulan
bullet 772-846:  Po Chu-i, Fu Hsuan, Mei Yao Ch'en, Su Tung-p'o - poetry samples
bullet 8c:  Li Po poem - Drinking Alone by Moonlight
bullet 868:  The earliest printed book - China
bullet 14c:  Examples of Filial Piety
bullet 17c-19c?:  Dream of the Red Chamber

 

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