Online Resources Tomb Treasures Minneapolis Institute of Arts Han Dynsaty Map http://www.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/history/han-dynasty-map.cfm Library of Congress, Country Studies, China Includes chronology of Chinese dynasties http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cntoc.html Los County Museum of Art Chinese Art Collection http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=browpage&dept=chinese&method=artwork&permission=3 Lee Kong Chian Art Museum National University of Singapore Ceramics Collection http://www.nus.edu.sg/weblkc/c00.htm Minneapolis Institute of Art World Ceramics http://www.artsmia.org/world-ceramics/ National Gallery of Art The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology http://www.nga.gov/education/chinatp_splash.htm National Palace Museum Taipei, Taiwan The Development of Porcelain in China http://www.npm.gov.tw/exhbition/cpor2000/english/epor2000.htm Asian Gateways Chinese Tomb Treasures http://gallery.sjsu.edu/oldworld/asiangate/chinesetombs/tomb-tombs-page.htm Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Ancient Chinese Pottery and Bronze http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/ancientChinesePottery.htm Seattle Art Museum Porcelain Stories http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/Exhibit/Archive/porcelainstories/ Secrets of the Great Wall Discovery Channel http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/greatwall/ ThinkQuest Ancient Chinese Technology [student created] http://library.thinkquest.org/23062/ University of Evansville, Indiana Exploring Ancient World Cultures, China http://eawc.evansville.edu/chpage.htm The Heavenly Horse in China http://www.turanianhorse.org/silkroad.html#horsekeeping The Art of the Horse in Chinese History Kentucky Horse Park International Museum of the Horse http://www.ket.org/artofthehorse   Reaching Distant Lands Asian Society, New York Fire over Earth: Ceramics from the Collection http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/ceramics/ Celadon Techniques Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/celadon/html/tech.htm Google 3D Warehouse Model of Forbidden City http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=9240292f0a4c552c5000b0ccb86b2848 Iraq and China: Ceramics, Trade, and Innovation Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/iraqChina/defaultIC.htm Manufacture of Porcelain, 1743 http://www.gotheborg.com/twentyillustrations/index.shtml Porcelain from the Henan Museum, China http://www.chnmus.net/Template/home/chnmuse/Collection/collection_list_porcelain.jsp?currCatalogID=20060510543874 NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab Radar Images of Silk Route http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/silkroad.html Lost Cities of the Silk Route http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~pamlogan/silkroad/ Should China End Zheng He's Treasure Voyages? Curriculum on Trade in the Indian Ocean http://www.askasia.org/teachers/lessons/plan.php?no=63   Fit for the Emperor Dragons Dragons in China China the Beautiful http://www.chinapage.org/dragon1.html Dragon Robes Minneapolis Institute of the Arts http://www.artsmia.org/world-myths/artbytheme/dragon_keyideas.html Dragon Robes of China's Last Dynasty San Diego Museum of Art http://www.sdmart.org/dragonrobes/   Chinese Symbols Chinese porcelain Minneapolis Institute of Arts http://www.artsmia.org/art-of-asia/ceramics/early-Chinese-ceramics-porcelain.cfm   Confucius Chinese Culture, Original Source Texts Fordham University http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts.html Lessons on Daoism and Confucianism Cleveland Museum of Art http://www.clevelandart.org/educef/asianodyssey/html/DaoConf.html Works by Confucius, The Internet Classics Archive, MIT http://classics.mit.edu/Browse/browse-Confucius.html Confucianism AskAsia.org, Asia Society http://www.askasia.org/teachers/essays/essay.php?no=38&era=&grade=&geo=   Ceramics General Ceramics Today http://www.ceramicstoday.com/index.html Ceramics Glossary Rufford Ceramic Center, UK http://www.ruffordceramiccentre.org.uk/ceramic/artists/index.htm   Print Resources For students Bellerophon Books. 1997. A Coloring Book of Ancient China. Santa Barbara, CA. Bateson-Hill, Margaret. Lao Lao of Dragon Mountain. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1996. Calliope: World History for Young People. The Ming Dynasty: The World of the Yongle Emperor. May/June, 1995. Conrad, Pamela. 1999. Blue Willow. New York: Philomel Books. Cotterell, Arthur. 1994. Ancient China: Eyewitness Books. New York: Alfred A Knopf. Davol, Marguerite W. 1997. The Paper Dragon. Boston, MA: Atheneum. A scholar and artist wins over an angry dragon. Demi. 1990. The Empty Pot. New York: Henry Holt. An empty pot—a piece of Chinese porcelain—is featured in this story and illustrations echo porcelain designs. Elmer, Margaret, et al. 1991. Hands On: China. Seattle: The Children's Museum. Finney, Susan and Patricia Kindle. China Then and Now. Carthage, IL: Good Apple, Inc., 1988. Gates, Doris. 1976. Blue Willow. New York: Viking. Goldstein, Peggy. 1991. Long is a Dragon: Chinese Writing for Children. New York: Scholastic Inc. Hillman, Elizabeth. 1992. Min-Yo and the Moon Dragon. Chesnut Hill, MA: Harcourt Brace. Min-Yo the smallest and lightest person in the land asks the Moon Dragon for help. Ho, Minfong. 1996. Maples in the Mist: Poems from the Tang Dynasty. New York: Lothrop Lee. Poems for students from China's Golden Age of poetry. Kerven, Rosalind. 1994. In the Court of the Jade Emperor: Stories from Old China. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. Tales of dragon princesses and gods and goddesses. Major, John S. 1996. The Silk Route: 7,000 Miles of History. New York: HarperTrophy. Covers the Silk Route between China to Byzantium. Martell, Hazel Mary. Imperial China 221 BC to AD 1294. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1999. Nicholson, Robert and Claire Watts. Journey into Civilization: Ancient China. NY: Chelsea Juniors, 1994. Spagnoli, Cathy. 1992. Treasury of Asian Stories & Activities for Schools & Libraries. Fort Atkinson, WI: Alleyside Press. Teague, Ken. 1993. Growing Up in Ancient China. Mahwah, NJ: Troll Assoc. Ancient China from a young person's perspective, covering customs, school, food, family life, clothing. Williams, Jay. Everyone Knows What a Dragon Looks Like. New York: Four Winds Press, 1976. Williams, Suzanne. 1997. Made in China: Ideas and Inventions from Ancient China. Berkeley, CA: Pacific View Press. Chinese technological innovations, including bronze casting, astronomical research, and ceramics. Teachers guide available. Xuan, Yongshent. 1999. The Dragon Lover and Other Chinese Proverbs. Auburn, CA: Shen's Books. English and Chinese versions of traditional stories. Young, Russell. 2000. Dragonsong: A Fable for the New Millennium. Auburn, CA: Shen's Books. A young dragon searches the world for wisdom.   For Adults Brown, Roxanna and Sten Sjostrand. 2000. Turiang: A Fourteenth-Century Shipwreck in Southeast Asian Waters. Pasadena, CA: Pacific Asia Museum. Caroselli, Susan L., ed. 1987. The Quest for Eternity: Chinese Ceramic Sculptures from the People's Republic of China. Los Angeles; Los Angelse County Museum of Art. Carswell, John. 1985. Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain and its Impact on the Western World. Chicago: David and Alfred Smart Gallery, 1985. Curtis, Julia B. 1995. Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century: Landscapes, Scholars Motifs, and Narratives. New York: China Institute in America, 1995. He, Li. 1996. Chinese Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. New York: Rizzoli. Ledderose, Lothar, 2000. Ten Thousand Things: Module and Mass Production in Chinese Art. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Medley, Margaret. 1976. The Chinese Potter. Oxford: Phaedon. Pierson, Stacey. 1996. Earth, Fire, and Water: Chines Ceramic Technology, A handbook for Non-specialists. London: University of London, Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. Sullivan, M. 1977. The Arts of China. Berkeley: University of California. Thorp, Robert L. 1988. Son of Heaven: Imperial Arts of China. Seattle, WA: Son of Heaven Press. Wood, Nigel. 1999. Chinese Glazes: Their Origins, Chemistry, and Re-creation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.