Image collections - East Asia: China
Mystical Arts of Tibet
Virtual exhibition designed to accompany an exhibition held in the Provincial Museum of Alberta in 2000. Includes 28 images of artefacts, places and people relating to Tibetan arts.
China the Beautiful: Chinese Art and Literature
Web site for classical Chinese art, calligraphy, painting, poetry, history, literature, and philosophy with many colourful images.
China: 5,000 years
Part of an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, exploring 5,000 years of Chinese painting. Contains an electronic version of the section on modern Chinese painting (1850 to the present), with 300 images.
http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/gug/intr/china.html
Chinese Painting Database
A list of photographic archive of collections of Chinese painting in Japan and overseas, inventoried by the Institute of Oriental Culture at the University of Tokyo. All of the photographs used for their publication Comprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings (1980-2001). The photographic archive altogether includes some 200,000 items. The index can be searched by painter, subject, collection, and so forth, for now in both English and Japanese.
Chinese Propaganda Posters
Online exhibition of Chinese propaganda posters, from 1949 to the present. Comprehensive and wide-ranging, each poster is explained.
Chinese in California: 1850-1925
Digital collection of over 8000 images and pages of primary source materials which illustrate 19th and early 20th century Chinese immigration to California.
Glory of Chinese Printing
Chronological exploration of Chinese printing, from its origins in the 6th century BC to the 18th century. A good introduction, with a number of illustrations and photographs.
Mirrors of the Heart-Mind: The Rezk Collection of Tibetan Art from the Permanent Collection of the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
Includes images and accompanying essays.
http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/sama/samaintr.html
Palace Museum, Beijing
A small selection from the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing.
Tibet Visual History Online
Online collection of 400 images taken from a collection of over 4000 historical photographs of Tibet held in the Pitts River Museum.
Tibetan Tankas
Online exhibition of over 70 images of Tibetan Tankas. Site produced by the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan
http://lw.lsa.umich.edu/umma/exhibits/Koelz/tanka/text/museumtanka1.html
Chinese Posters
The Chinese posters on this site are divided in three sections: the early years (1949-1965), the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) and the period of modernization up to the present (1977-1997).
