If you would like to have a link on your site to us, please click here. Asian Art and Antiques Resources Asian Art Museum of San Francisco The History of China On-line home of one of the largest museums in the western world devoted exclusively to Asian art and culture. Excellent timeline from the beginning of Chinese civilization through the 1980's China the Beautiful The Art of China Classical Chinese Art, Calligraphy, Poetry, History, Literature, Painting and Philosophy Chinese Music, Art, and Language Japanese Occupation Postage Stamps The Palace Museum History of postal item during the Japanese Occupation of the British Colonies during WWII. The National Palace Museum houses a rich collection of precious treasures from 7,000 years of Chinese history Asian Arts Chinese contemporary art soaring The on-line journal for the study and exhibition of the arts of Asia Wealthy buyers from China and other parts of Asia are now jockeying with European and American collectors to buy Chinese works that only five years ago were largely ignored by the international art market. Traveling China Introduction to China Explore the Yunnan-Guishou Plateau China has always been inward-looking. China is the "middle kingdom". Click this link for great introduction to China. Yunnan is the most southwestern province in China, with the Tropic of Cancer running through its southern part. The Kingdom of Dali The Bai people of the Yunnan Province Dali is the ancient capital of both the Bai kingdom Nanzhao, which flourished in the area during the 8th and 9th centuries, and the Kingdom of Dali, which reigned from 937-1253. Dali was also the center of the Panthay Rebellion from 1856-1863. Of the 1,858,063 Bai people, 80 per cent live in concentrated communities in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, southwest China. The rest are scattered in Xichang and Bijie in neighboring Sichuan and Guizhou provinces respectively. Yunnan and its history It is Yunnan's biggest festival and one of its oldest. It this link you will find good general articles about Yunnan and its history. Please explore. It is Yunnan's biggest festival and one of its oldest. Held for centuries on the on the full moon of the third month it is now a giant shopping fair that attracts close to a million people. Our Featured Artists He Qi Fang Xiang In his works, He Qi has blended together Chinese folk customs and traditional Chinese painting techniques with the western painting art of the Middle and Modern Ages, and has created an artistic style of color-on-paper painting. Fang employs a unique technique that involves ink water splash on handmade rice paper. To achieve the delicate washed backgrounds of his peices, he repeats a process of wetting and drying layer upon layer. Educational Resources Asia for Educators at Columbia University Educational Resources at Columbia University   Add us to your site. Please copy and use this html code to link to us: If you would like us to add your site to the list of resources above, please click here.