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| CHINA:
HISTORY-ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Ming
Dynasty (1368-1644) |
Video Unit • Social Policy and Social Practice in Ming and Qing [Open Learning Initiative, Harvard Extension School]
Video Unit • Silver and Social Change in Late Ming [Open Learning Initiative, Harvard Extension School]
Lectures 18 and 19 of 37 from the Harvard Open Learning Initiative course, China: Traditions and Transformations. These 50-minute lecture presentations, each with an accompanying slide presentation that can be controlled separately, are part of an introductory course on China for undergraduates at Harvard. Taught by two of the leading scholars of the China field — professors Peter Bol and William Kirby — the presentations provide background for teachers and students alike. Suitable for secondary school classrooms, especially AP-World History courses. (The link above leads to the main course page listing all 37 lectures. Scroll to Lecture 18: Social Policy and Social Practice in Ming and Qing and Lecture 19: Silver and Social Change in Late Ming and select a connection type to view or listen to these lectures.)
Overview Maps • Dynasties
of China [The Genographic Project: Atlas
of the Human Journey, NationalGeographic.com]
Eight small maps displayed together, showing China's eight major dynasties from the
Shang to the Qing. The maps are very small, but shown together and with text summarizing
the history of all eight dynasties, they effectively provide an excellent overview
of China's history from ca. 1750 B.C.E. to today.
Printable Map • Maps
of Chinese Dynasties: Ming Dynasty [The
Art of Asia, Minneapolis Institute of Arts]
Color map showing land ruled by China's Ming dynasty relative to
present-day political boundaries. Can be downloaded as a .pdf file.
Interactive Map • Ming
Dynasty, 1368–1644 [Princeton University
Art Museum]
An excellent brief overview of the Ming dynasty. With six related
art objects, all with lengthy descriptions, and an
interactive map with an excellent COMPARE feature that allows
the user to select any two dynastic periods in Chinese history and
compare them by moving from one map to the other.
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| Qing
Dynasty (1644-1912) |
Overview Maps • Dynasties
of China [The Genographic Project: Atlas
of the Human Journey, NationalGeographic.com]
Eight small maps displayed together, showing China's eight major dynasties from the
Shang to the Qing. The maps are very small, but shown together and with text summarizing
the history of all eight dynasties, they effectively provide an excellent overview
of China's history from ca. 1750 B.C.E. to today.
Printable Map • Maps
of Chinese Dynasties: Ch'ing (Qing) Dynasty [The
Art of Asia, Minneapolis Institute of Arts]
Color map showing land ruled by China's Qing dynasty relative to
present-day political boundaries. Can be downloaded as a .pdf file.
Interactive Map • Qing
Dynasty, 1644–1912 [Princeton University
Art Museum]
An excellent brief overview of the Qing dynasty. With four related
art objects, all with lengthy descriptions, and an
interactive map with an excellent COMPARE feature that allows
the user to select any two dynastic periods in Chinese history and
compare them by moving from one map to the other.
• Splendors of China's Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong [The
Field Museum]
Online presentation of a 2004 traveling exhibition developed in cooperation with
the Palace Museum in Beijing. With a video introduction to the exhibition, plus a
gallery of images organized under the following topics: 1) Symbols of Power; 2) Effective
Leadership; 3) Family Life; 4) The Private World of the Emperor; 5) Religion. Also
a Q&A section with eleven commonly asked questions about Imperial China.
Maps • Recording
the Grandeur of the Qing [Columbia University
and The Metropolitan Museum of Art]
This interactive teaching unit gives the viewer unprecedented access to four monumental
artworks of the Qing period — four of the twenty-four southern inspection tour
scrolls commissioned by the Qing emperors Kangxi (r. 1662-1722) and Qianlong (r.
1736-1795). Each of the four featured scrolls is displayed online in its entirety,
with key details annotated by Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Maxwell K. Hearn.
Five background essays by Dr. Hearn and Columbia history professor Madeleine Zelin
serve as guides to the historical and artistic context in which the scrolls were
created. Topics discussed at length include: the reigns of the
two emperors who commissioned the scrolls, Kangxi and Qianlong, as well as key
aspects of the Qing
government, economy,
and art.
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| RELIGION,
PHILOSOPHY, THOUGHT |
| Neo-Confucianism
during the Ming |
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| Books of
Moral Instruction, Ming and Qing |
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| Christianity
Enters China |
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| GOVERNMENT
AND ADMINISTRATION |
| Provincial
and Imperial
Government under the Qing |
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| TECHNOLOGY,
INVENTIONS, SCIENCE |
| Astronomy:
The Jesuits in China |
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| ECONOMY,
WORK, TRADE, FOREIGN RELATIONS |
| Analyzing
China's Advanced Economy |
• China
and Europe, 1500-1800 [Asia
for Educators]
Part of the teaching module China
and Europe: 1500-2000 and Beyond,
with consultants Ken Pomeranz (Professor of History, University
of California at Irvine) and R. Bin Wong (Professor of History,
University of California at Los Angeles). The section on 1500-1800
compares the economies of China and Europe during this period,
focusing specifically on China's market economy and the silver
trade between China and Europe. With video interviews of the faculty
experts, additional maps, images, and readings throughout.
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| SOCIETY |
| Homes
and Gardens, Ming and Qing Periods |
• Homes [A
Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization, University of Washington]
A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization, prepared by University
of Washington history professor Patricia Buckley Ebrey, is an excellent
resource, with images, questions for discussion, timelines, maps,
and suggested readings throughout. This particular unit examines
how people constructed, decorated, and furnished their homes during
the Ming, in order to gain a better understanding about the resources,
aesthetic preferences, and social habits prevalent during that time.
• Gardens [A
Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization, University of Washington]
A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization, prepared by University
of Washington history professor Patricia Buckley Ebrey, is an excellent
resource, with images, questions for discussion, timelines, maps,
and suggested readings throughout. This particular unit discusses
the origins, design, social uses, and aesthetics of Chinese garden
design, which reached its fullest development during the late Ming.
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| Women |
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| LITERATURE |
| Essays,
Poems, and Fantasy Tales of the Qing |
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| ART
AND MUSIC |
| Painting |
• The Qing Dynasty (1644–1911): Painting [Timeline
of Art History, The Metropolitan Museum of Art]
A discussion of painting during the Qing dynasty, with a focus on three principal
groups of artists working during the Qing: the traditionalists, the individualists,
and the courtiers and professional artists. With 14 related artworks.
• Fine Works of the Ming and Qing Women Painters [The
Palace Museum]
With paintings by twenty-seven artists active during the Ming and
Qing period. With one selected work for each artist, along with brief
biographical information. Several works are fan paintings.
• Splendors
of China's Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong [The
Field Museum]
Online presentation of a 2004 traveling exhibition developed in cooperation with
the Palace Museum in Beijing. With a video introduction to the exhibition, plus a
gallery of images organized under the following topics: 1) Symbols of Power; 2) Effective
Leadership; 3) Family Life; 4) The Private World of the Emperor; 5) Religion. Also
a Q&A section with 11 commonly asked questions about Imperial China.
• Recording
the Grandeur of the Qing [Columbia University
and The Metropolitan Museum of Art]
This interactive teaching unit gives the viewer unprecedented access to four monumental
artworks of the Qing period — four of the twenty-four southern inspection tour
scrolls commissioned by the Qing emperors Kangxi (r. 1662-1722) and Qianlong (r.
1736-1795). Each of the four featured scrolls is displayed online in its entirety,
with key details annotated by Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Maxwell K. Hearn.
Five background essays by Dr. Hearn and Columbia history professor Madeleine Zelin
serve as guides to the historical and artistic context in which the scrolls were
created. Topics discussed at length include: the reigns of the
two emperors who commissioned the scrolls, Kangxi and Qianlong, as well as key
aspects of the Qing government, economy,
and art.
• Tracing the Che School in Chinese Painting [National Palace Museum]
"The 'Che School' does not refer to a particular institution
or atelier of painters, but is instead a term used to designate a
group of artists who worked in a similar style in China during the
15th and 16th century, representing one of the most important painting
manners of the early Ming dynasty. ... Che School painters, with
strong support in the private market and patronage from the imperial
family, flourished in local areas as well as the painting academy
at court." A highly sophisticated multimedia website featuring
hundreds of images.
Find
more art-related resources for China,
1450-1750 CE
at OMuRAA (Online Museum Resources on Asian
Art)
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