The Bronze Age

Interactive Timelines on the Bronze Age at the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

Neolithic and Shang Timeline with art and description
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/03/eac/ht03eac.htm

Zhou Dynasty timeline with art and description
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/04/eac/ht04eac.htm

"The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from the People’s Republic of China." A 1999-2000 special exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. Good overview of Bronze Age Chinese art and culture.
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/chbro_bron.htmBronze Age section of "China: 5000 years," an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. This 1998 exhibition included approximately 500 objects from the Neolithic period to the twentieth-century. The text was written by scholars in Chinese art history and archaeology.
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/past_exhibitions/china/bronze/index.htmlThe National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan: textual overview of the Bronze Age.
http://www.npm.gov.tw/exhbition/cves2000/english/eves2000.htmAsian Art Study Guide on the Bronze Age Era
This study guide offers study questions, additional links to Bronze Age artifacts, related poems and articles. It includes the modern interpretation of ancient Chinese bronzes by San Francisco painter, Lampo Leong.
http://www.geocities.com/~thinkink/guide/bronzeguide.htm

Books about The Great Bronze Age

Chang, K.C. Art, Myth and Ritual: the Path to Political Puthority in Ancient China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983.Fong, Wen, ed. The Great Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from the People’s Republic of China. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980.

Hsu, Cho-yun & Linduff, Katheryn M. Western Chou Civilization. Yale University Press, 1988.Karlgren, Bernhard. A Catalogue of the Chinese Bronzes in the Alfred E. Pillsbury Collection. Minneapolis, 1952.Keightley, David Noel, ed. The Origins of Chinese Civilisation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

Rawson, Jessica. Mysteries of Ancient China: New Discoveries From the Early Dynasties. London: British Museum Press, 1996.Von Falkenhausen, Lothar. Suspended Music: Chime-Bells in the Culture of Bronze Age China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.Yang, Xiaoneng, ed. The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology: Celebrated Discoveries from the People’s Republic of China. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

General Overview of Chinese Art

Books:

Clunas, Craig. Art in China. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.Fong, Wen, et al. Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996.Lee, Sherman E. China, 5000 Years: Innovation and Transformation in the Arts. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1998.Li, Zehou. The Path of Beauty: A Study of Chinese Aesthetics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Sullivan, Michael. The Arts of China, 5^th edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Museum Resourcces:

http://www.artsmia.org/

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

http://www.artsconnected.org/

The Minneapolis Institute of Art’s online educational resource site, includes database of objects in the Museum’s permanent collection.

http://www.metmuseum.org/

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

http://www.npm.gov.tw

National Palace Museum, Taipei

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/

The British Museum

http://www.chinapage.com/museum.html

Links to museums in the U.S. and around the world with exhibitions of Chinese art.

http://www.askasia.org/index.html

Educational resources from The Asia Society. Includes children’s activities and numerous articles on Chinese culture.Miscellaneous Links

http://www.orientations.com.hk/link.htm

General listing of links related to Chinese art by Orientations journal.

http://sunrain.net/index_e.shtml

An easy-to-use online English-Chinese, Chinese-English dictionary. Audio clips slow to load.