Resources

Citations

Art historians use the MLA, Chicago, or APA citation styles. Whichever you choose, be consistent.

Click here for overview of Chicago citation style

Creating Image Lists

Electronic Resources

Web sources on Imperial Chinese Visual Culture
Late Neolithic period (ca. 5000-2000 BCE) through Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

Web sources on Contemporary Chinese Visual Culture
Republican era (1912-1949), Maoist China (1949-1976), and China Now (1976-today)

Critically Assessing Information on the Web
Remember that materials on the web must be evaluated as critically as any other texts we consider in this course. See the UCLA library guidelines on thinking critically about the web as a starting point.

Further reading

Language

click here for a Wade-Giles to Pinyin conversion table (UCLA)
click here for a Pinyin to Wade-Giles conversion table (UCLA)

Chinese pronunciation guide (Harvard)

Maps

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Map of Beijing

Map of Hong Kong

Map of Shanghai

Map of the People's Republic of China

Museums

Office hours

Lisa's office hours are on Monday from noon to 4:00 and by appointment.
Office location: Library 321.
Telephone: x7364
Email: claypool@reed.edu

Time chart of periods and dynasties

Click here for handy chart from Robert L Thorp and Richard Ellis Vinograd, Chinese Art & Culture (New York: Prentice Hall, 2001), 25.