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CHINA:
HISTORY-ARCHAEOLOGY |
Qing
Dynasty (1644-1912) |
Video Unit Achievements and Limits of Manchu Rule [Open Learning Initiative, Harvard Extension School]
Video Unit Opium and the Opium Wars [Open Learning Initiative, Harvard Extension School]
Video Unit Christianity and Chinese Salvation [Open Learning Initiative, Harvard Extension School]
Lectures 21, 23, and 25 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 21: Achievements and Limits of Manchu Rule, Lecture 23: Opium and the Opium Wars, and Lecture 25: Christianity and Chinese Salvation 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. Site removed at NGS temporarily; check back.
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.
The
Late Qing Empire in Global History [PDF] [Education
About Asia, Association for Asian Studies]
"'The role of the Chinese empires in global history at the height
of their economic power (roughly 1400–1800) has been well described
in powerful books by Andre Gunder Frank, Kenneth Pomeranz, and Bin
Wong. In that period, China’s advanced technology and commercial
economy, as well as access to their markets over sea and land, created
a market that drove technological development, efficiency in industrial
organization, and an increasing volume of long-distance trade. The
effects were felt first in East Asia and Southeast Asia, but eventually
powered the development of travel, trade, and finance throughout
the Indian Ocean, and finally drew Europeans, eager to connect with
the center of wealth, out of their continent and into the oceans.
After roughly 1800, however, various factors caused China to lose
its global economic leadership as it experienced social turmoil,
economic fracturing, and the imposition of European imperialism.
Global historians sometimes lose sight of the China thread between
this threshold of 1800 and the appearance of modern China as an ascendant
power in the late twentieth century, but there are many reasons why
we should continue to see important trends and their effects reflected
in the modern Chinese experience."
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RELIGION,
PHILOSOPHY, THOUGHT |
"Self-Strengthening"
and "Learning from the West" |
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Calls
for Radical Social Reform |
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The
May Fourth Movement (ca. 1916-1920s) |
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GOVERNMENT
AND ADMINISTRATION |
Introduction
to China's Modern History [Asia for Educators]
An introduction to modern Chinese history for teachers and students.
Includes a brief introductory reading highlighting four major themes
for teaching about modern Chinese history; a longer reading, "China
in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries," providing an overview
of the many significant changes in Chinese society, polity, and
economy; and an annotated timeline of modern Chinese history from
the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) to China's civil war (1946-49).
Video Unit The Defining Issues of Modern Chinese History [Open Learning Initiative, Harvard Extension School]
Lecture 20 of 37 from the Harvard Open Learning Initiative course, China: Traditions and Transformations. This 50-minute lecture presentation, with an accompanying slide presentation that can be controlled separately, is 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 20: The Defining Issues of Modern Chinese History and select a connection type to view or listen to this lecture.)
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The
Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) |
Video Unit Christianity and Chinese Salvation [Open Learning Initiative, Harvard Extension School]
Lecture 24 of 37 from the Harvard Open Learning Initiative course, China: Traditions and Transformations. This 50-minute lecture presentation, with an accompanying slide presentation that can be controlled separately, is 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 24: Christianity and Chinese Salvation and select a connection type to view or listen to this lecture.)
Taiping
Rebellion (1850-1864) [Asia for Educators]
An introductory overview of the Taiping rebellion. With suggested
activities for students.
Primary Source w/DBQs Excerpts
from The Land System of the Heavenly Kingdom (Tianzhao tianumu
zhidu): "The Taiping Economic Program" [PDF] [Asia
for Educators]
Primary Source w/DBQs Excerpts
from Ode for Youth [PDF] [Asia for
Educators]
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Internal
Crisis and Famine (1876-1879; 1887-1888); The Boxer Rebellion (1899-1900) |
Primary Source Qing
China's Internal Crisis: Land Shortage, Famine, Rural Poverty [Asia
for Educators]
This unit explores the domestic crises that China faced in the late
nineteenth century. With woodblock prints that portray the extent
of the 1876-1879 famine and a primary-source reading about the 1887-88
famine that afflicted North China. With discussion questions and
suggested activities for students.
Primary Source Fei
Ch'i-hao on the Boxer Rebellion [Modern
History Sourcebook, Fordham University]
The account of "the activities of the millennialist 'Boxers'
in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900," by Fei Ch'i-hao, a Chinese
Christian.
Walter
LaFeber on Revolution in China and Walter
LaFeber on the American Government Response to the Boxer Rebellion [America
1900, PBS]
In these transcripts of an interview aired as part of the PBS program America
1900, Cornell University history professor Walter LaFeber discusses
the circumstances leading to and surrounding the instability and
anarchy in China around the year 1900, focusing on the Boxer Rebellion
and the American government's response to the Boxer Rebellion.
China
(Boxer Rebellion), 1900-01 [Australian
War Memorial]
The Boxer Rebellion from the perspective of Australia, at that time
a British colony offering material support to the intervening Western
powers (Britain, Italy, and the United States).
See the International
Relations sections, below, for content about China's
relations with Britain and the United States in the years before
the Boxer Rebellion.
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The
Years of Reform: Prologue to Revolution |
Primary Sources From
Reform to Revolution, 1842 to 1911 [Asia
for Educators]
After China's defeat in the Opium War of 1842, thinkers tried to
understand what made the West so strong and how China could best
respond. This unit traces the debates about reform from the mid-nineteenth
into the early twentieth century, as arguments for more radical reform,
including revolution, increased. Includes background readings, two
primary-source readings (Feng
Guifen's "On the Adoption of Western Learning" [PDF] and Yan
Fu's "Learning from the West" [PDF]) and brief discussions
of Liang Qichao's ideas on democracy and Sun Yatsen's "Three
People's Principles." Also see the
Religion, Philosophy, Thought section, above, for more readings by
these and other reformist thinkers.
China's
First Experiment in Overseas Education, 1872-1881 [Chinese
Educational Mission Connections]
"Beset by the military and economic domination of the Western
colonial powers, China had been forced to open up the country to
foreign trade and settlements in the so-called Treaty Ports. The
dispatch of the 120 students on what was called the Chinese Educational
Mission (CEM) was a belated effort by the government of the Qing
dynasty to stem the growing tide of aggression: harness the aggressors’ know-how
and technology to defeat them at their own game." This website,
created by several third-generation descendants of CEM students,
provides an in-depth look at the history of the Chinese Educational
Mission, with archival photographs and basic biographical profiles
of all 120 CEM students.
Chu Chengbo's 1895
memorial to Qing emperor Guanxu (1871-1908, r. 1875-1908)
Primary Source w/DBQs Excerpts
from Reforming Men's Minds Comes Before Reforming Institutions
[PDF] [Asia for Educators]
Kang Youwei's 1898
memorial to Qing emperor Guanxu (1871-1908, r. 1875-1908)
Primary Source w/DBQs Excerpts
from Comprehensive Consideration of the Whole Situation [PDF] [Asia
for Educators]
Reform Imperial
Edict of 1901 (Issued by the Empress Dowager Cixi, 1835-1908)
Primary Source w/DBQs Reform
Edict of the Qing Imperial Government (January 29, 1901) [PDF] [Asia
for Educators]
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MILITARY
AND DEFENSE |
Sino-Japanese
War, 1894-1895 |
Teaching Unit w/Lesson
Plans Throwing
Off Asia II: Woodblock Prints of the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) [Visualizing
Cultures, Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
Featuring propaganda prints illustrating Japan's victory in the Sino-Japanese
War (1894-1895). A teaching unit richly illustrated with high-resolution
images and maps and featuring essays by John W. Dower, MIT professor
of Japanese history. The Visual Narratives section offers a shorthand
view of the unit's primary themes and images; the Curriculum section
includes eight lesson plans related to the unit.
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ECONOMY,
WORK, TRADE, FOREIGN RELATIONS |
International
Relations: China and Europe
(Canton Trade System, Macartney Embassy, Opium War) |
History
of the China Trade [British Library]
A brief history of British trade with China from 1637 to the 1840s.
With images from the British Library's collection.
Rise
and Fall of the Canton Trade System [Visualizing
Cultures, Massachusetts Institute of Technology]
I. China in the World (1700-1860s) | II. Macau & Whampoa Anchorage |
III. Canton & Hong Kong | IV. Image Galleries | "From early times China engaged in extensive trade relations
with other countries, and until the mid 19th century Chinese officials
directed by the imperial court in Beijing dictated the conditions
under which such trade was conducted. From the 16th century to mid
1800s, three cities became the centers of the trading system linking
the 'Middle Kingdom' to Western European powers and eventually the
United States: Macau, Canton, and Hong Kong." An extensive look
at the Canton Trade system, richly illustrated with high-resolution
images and maps. With essays by MIT Professor Emeritus of History
Peter C. Perdue. The images in the galleries section "portray the abundant variety of commercial, art, and craft goods exchanged in the Canton region during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Three cities became the center of the trading system that linked China to the Western European powers and the United States. Macau, the oldest, stayed under Portuguese control from 1557 to 1999. Canton gathered traders from Europe, Southeast Asia, the U.S., and the rest of China. Hong Kong, acquired by the British after the Opium War, grew from a small fishing village to a major international port during the 19th century."
China
and Europe, 1780-1937 [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 1780-1937 discusses China's decline, focusing specifically
on resource differences and the "Asian trade boom."
With video interviews of the faculty experts, additional maps, images,
and readings throughout.
Video Unit Opium and the Opium Wars [Open Learning Initiative, Harvard Extension School]
Lecture 23 of 37 from the Harvard Open Learning Initiative course, China: Traditions and Transformations. This 50-minute lecture presentation, with an accompanying slide presentation that can be controlled separately, is 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 23: Opium and the Opium Wars and select a connection type to view or listen to this lecture.)
Primary Source w/DBQs Macartney
and the Emperor [Asia for Educators]
The Qing dynasty's restrictions on foreign trade increasingly frustrated
Europeans, especially the British. In 1792 Great Britain sent a diplomat,
Lord George Macartney (1737-1806), to present its demands to the
Qianlong emperor (r. 1736-1796). This unit includes an introductory
note to teachers with suggestions for teaching about Macartney's
mission; a student reading discussing European contact and trade
with China prior to and on the eve of Macartney's mission to China;
and the primary-source reading Two
Edicts from the Qianlong Emperor, which were the Qianlong emperor's
responses to the Macartney mission. With discussion questions and
suggested activities for students.
Lesson Plan + Classroom Activity Qianlong
Meets Macartney: Collision of Two World Views (A One-Act Play) [Education
About Asia, Association for Asian Studies]
A lesson plan that aims "to illustrate in dramatic form the
clash of diplomatic objectives and ideological assumptions characterizing
the Macartney mission and its reception in China; to lay out the
issues dividing the British and the Chinese, and to assess their
significance for future interaction between China and the West." With
an in-depth teachers' introduction and study guide, full text of
the play to be performed, and related questions and activities.
Primary Sources w/DBQs The
"Opening" of the East: Differing Perspectives [PDF] [Education
About Asia, Association for Asian Studies]
Provided with eight short primary-source selections and given only
the date of the selection for reference, students are asked to provide
a brief summary of the speaker’s position, to identify the
nationality of the speaker, and to provide a rationale for choosing
that speaker. Particularly relevant for AP World History courses.
Trading
Places: East India Company: Opium and the Expansion of Trade [British
Library]
A brief look at the circumstances leading to the British East India
Company's smuggling of opium from India into China. Part of a larger
unit on the history of the East India Company. With images from the
British Library's collection.
Primary Source w/DBQs The
Opium War and Foreign Encroachment [Asia
for Educators]
In the fifty years after Macartney's visit (see "Macartney and
the Emperor," above), Western powers pushed their demands on
China further, leading to war and the gradual shift from tribute
to treaty relations. This unit examines the events surrounding the
Opium War and the Treaty of Nanjing, which concluded that war, and
the increasing foreign encroachments upon China during the nineteenth
century. Included are two primary-source readings: Commissioner Lin
Zexu's "Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria" (1839) and The
Treaty of Nanjing (1842) [PDF]. With discussion questions and
suggested activities for students.
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International
Relations: China and the United States
(American Missionaries in China; Chinese Immigrants in the U.S.) |
Video Unit Christianity and Chinese Salvation [Open Learning Initiative, Harvard Extension School]
Lecture 24 of 37 from the Harvard Open Learning Initiative course, China: Traditions and Transformations. This 50-minute lecture presentation, with an accompanying slide presentation that can be controlled separately, is 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 24: Christianity and Chinese Salvation and select a connection type to view or listen to this lecture.)
Two
Hundred Years of U.S. Trade with China (1784-1984) [Asia
for Educators]
This unit explores the 200-year history of U.S. trade with China.
Discussion questions and a U.S.-China Trade Timeline are included.
Teaching Unit w/Lesson Plans Early
American Trade with China [Center for East
Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]
"After gaining its independence from Great Britain, the United
States needed to develop its economic base. Restricted during colonial
times to supplying raw materials to the industrializing English economy,
and excluded from most of the British markets after independence,
Americans looked to international trade as a means to generate wealth
and provide employment for many. Trade with China, from which the
colonies had been barred, seemed to offer immediate opportunities
for wealth. .... The activities in this unit use the early China
trade to explore the place of the United States in the world order
and economy of late 18th and early 19th centuries. They also provide
insight into the role of trade in nation building before and after
the War of 1812. In addition, they provide the background for understanding
the United States' interest in events in and along the Pacific Rim
later in the 19th century." Includes lesson plans and questions
for discussion.
China's
First Experiment in Overseas Education, 1872-1881 [Chinese
Educational Mission Connections]
"Beset by the military and economic domination of the Western
colonial powers, China had been forced to open up the country to
foreign trade and settlements in the so-called Treaty Ports. The
dispatch of the 120 students on what was called the Chinese Educational
Mission (CEM) was a belated effort by the government of the Qing
dynasty to stem the growing tide of aggression: harness the aggressors’ know-how
and technology to defeat them at their own game." This website,
created by several third-generation descendants of CEM students,
provides an in-depth look at the history of the Chinese Educational
Mission, with archival photographs and basic biographical profiles
of all 120 CEM students.
Walter
LaFeber on American Missionaries China [America
1900, PBS]
Transcript of an interview aired as part of the PBS program America
1900, with Cornell University history professor Walter LaFeber.
Primary Source "The
Missionary Enterprise in China," by Chester Holcombe (1906) [The
Atlantic Monthly]
A defense of "the missionary enterprise in China," written
by American diplomat and author Chester Holcombe (1842-1912) after
the Boxer uprising. Holcombe was also an ordained minister and had
worked as a missionary in China.
Looking
East: William Howard Taft and the 1905 Mission to Asia (The Photographs
of Harry Fowler Woods) [Ohio Historical
Society]
"On July 8, 1905, one of the first and largest U.S. foreign
diplomatic delegations to Asia embarked from San Francisco for a
three-month goodwill tour, stopping in Japan, the Philippines, and
China. Under the leadership of Secretary of War, William Howard Taft...
The 1905 voyage carried two serious diplomatic purposes: to assist
with peace negotiations in order to end the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05);
and to demonstrate American accomplishments in the Philippines." Includes
a 25-page curriculum guide providing extensive historical background
information, plus primary-source documents and map activities.
Immigration
from China [Pacific
Link, KQED Asian Education Initiative]
This short history of Chinese immigrants in the United States is
part of a website about the Angel Island Immigration Station (San
Francisco), which was in operation from 1910 to 1940. Also see the
HISTORY and TIMELINES sections for more information about China.
Primary Sources Rise
of Industrial America, 1876-1900: Chinese Immigration to the United
States, 1851-1900 [The
Library of Congress]
"After the Civil War, immigrants again began to stream to the
United States. ... a relatively large group of Chinese immigrated
to the United States between the start of the California gold rush
in 1849 and 1882, when federal law stopped their immigration."
A brief overview, with eight primary source documents on Chinese
immigration written by various Americans of the time (including Mark
Twain).
Primary Sources The
Chinese in California, 1850-1925 [The
Library of Congress]
"The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 illustrates nineteenth
and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California through
about 8,000 images and pages of primary source materials. Included
are photographs, original art, cartoons and other illustrations;
letters, excerpts from diaries, business records, and legal documents;
as well as pamphlets, broadsides, speeches, sheet music, and other
printed matter." With essays discussing "Chinese and Westward
Expansion," "San Francisco's Chinatown," "Anti-Chinese
Movement and Chinese Exclusion," and more.
Teaching Unit w/Lesson Plans The
Chinese-American Experience in 19th Century America [Center
for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]
"To understand the experience of Chinese immigrants to the United
States in the mid-19th century, it is necessary to look at the intellectual,
economic, and political climate of the times. Many of the issues
that were important then are still part of the current discussion
concerning political and economic effects of immigration and whether
peoples who do not come from European stock are true Americans." Includes
lesson plans and questions for discussion.
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SOCIETY |
Video Unit Social Policy and Social Practice in Ming and Qing [Open Learning Initiative, Harvard Extension School]
Video Unit Art and Local Society in Later Imperial China [Open Learning Initiative, Harvard Extension School]
Lectures 18 and 22 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 23: Art and Local Society in Later Imperial China and select a connection type to view or listen to these lectures.)
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Homes
and Gardens |
Yin
Yu Tang: A Chinese Home [Peabody Essex
Museum]
"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.
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 |
Primary Source
+ Lesson Plan + DBQ Western
Views of Chinese Women [Women in World
History, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University]
An excellent teaching module about Western views of Chinese women,
drawn from ten primary source documents, mostly from missionary journals
dating from the 1830s to the 1890. With a lesson plan for high school
students and a document based question (DBQ).
He Zhen (wife of
Liu Shipei, 1884-1917)
Primary Source w/DBQs "What
Women Should Know About Communism" [PDF] [Asia
for Educators]
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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.
Video Unit Art and Local Society in Later Imperial China [Open Learning Initiative, Harvard Extension School]
Lecture 22 of 37 from the Harvard Open Learning Initiative course, China: Traditions and Transformations. This 50-minute lecture presentation, with an accompanying slide presentation that can be controlled separately, is 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 22: Art and Local Society in Later Imperial China and select a connection type to view or listen to this lecture.)
Find more art-related
resources for China,
1750-1919 CE
at OMuRAA (Online Museum Resources on Asian
Art)
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