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 China's visual culture
Late Neolithic period (ca. 5000-2000 BCE) through Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

Web sources on contemporary China's 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 UBC library guidelines on thinking critically about sources of information (including the web) as a starting point.

Language

click here for a Wade-Giles- Pinyin conversion tables (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Chinese pronunciation guide (Harvard)

Maps

1795 map of the Qing state (click here)
aerial map of the Forbidden City (click here)
plane map of the Forbidden City (click here)
schematic city map of Beijing (click here)

Museum collections

Office hours

Lisa's office hours are after conference and by appointment..
Office location: FAB 3-89B.
Telephone: 780-248-1758
Email: claylisa@ualberta.ca

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.