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East Asian History in new electronic form
HomeCurrent issueArchiveContributeFree subscriptionSearchWelcome to East Asian History in its new electronic form. East Asian History is an international refereed journal publishing scholarly research...
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TV Review "Marco Polo"
Indiewood/ Hollywoodn't December 17, 2014‘Marco Polo,’ Netflix’s shiny new epic, may not live up to the lofty, unfair “Game of Thrones”comparisons foisted on it by the media. But the young property,...
View ArticleARTouch Interview: The British Museum Ming: 50 years that changed China
ARTouch Consulting interviewed Ms. Jan Stuart (Keeper of Asia Department of British Museum) and one of the two curators of the exhibition Ms. Jessica Harrison-Hall. The interview transcripts is on...
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Buddhist sculptures discovered in Haripur
From: Dawn.com December 27, 2014Excavation underway in Haripur.PESHAWAR: Archaeologists have discovered Buddhist sculptures and heads during the excavation in Haripur district.Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...
View Article2 more videos over the BM exhibition Ming: 50 years that changed China
Ming: 50 Years That Changed China The Exhibition explores the years 1400 – 1450, a pivotal 50 year period that transformed China during the rule of the Ming dynasty.In this film we hear from the...
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This Christmas, follow the original art stars of the east
Two thousand years ago, Buddhist not Christian art was our guiding light – and had all the best nativity scenes The great departure of Buddha: stone relief, c.100-300 from Gandhara, showing Prince...
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Restoration Eastern Qing Tombs
The tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi (right) was looted by a warlord in the 1920s. Photo: Courtesy of Hong Kong University PressSouth China Morning Post 24 December 2014China is set to spend more than...
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Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Han to Liao
Women Shall Not Rule: Imperial Wives and Concubines in China from Han to LiaoBy Keith McMahonHardcover: 310 pagesPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (June 6, 2013)Language: EnglishISBN-10:...
View ArticleMasterpieces of Chinese Painting 700 - 1900: How a Silk Painting was Made
Such a pleasure to watch !Victoria and Albert MuseumRecreating a figure from a Chinese painting in the gongbi style. Gongbi paintings are characterised by meticulous brushwork and highly coloured...
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Islam and Tibet Interactions along the Musk Routes
Islam and Tibet Interactions along the Musk RoutesBy Anna Akasoy , Charles Burnett , Ronit Yoeli-TlalimHardcover: 420 pagesPublisher: Ashgate (November 1, 2010)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0754669564The...
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Entire collection Smithsonian's Asian Art Museum online 1 January 2015
During a behind-the-scenes tour for the media, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery officials show how photographers create three-dimensional images of objects. (Kate Patterson/For The...
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Nanhai One: Removal of silt reveals shipwreck artefacts
China Daily 1 January 2015An important step has been made in the recovery of thousands of relics from a famous Song Dynasty ship which sunk in the South China Sea about 800 years ago.After one year...
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Restored mural suggests 1,300 years of ties between Goguryeo (Korea) and...
Korea News December 26, 2014Samarkand is a city in Uzbekistan, in Central Asia. Geographically located at the midpoint along the Silk Road, between Asia and Europe, the city enjoyed many years of...
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Digital show of Qianlong Emperor's tour opens at National Museum
A part of the Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour. [Photo/chnmuseum.cn]China Daily 29 December 2014The digitization display of The Qianlong Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour opened at the...
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This Sunday last day of the Ming exhibition in the British Museum
The unregarded woman: another look at a Ming paintingCraig Clunas, Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford and co-curator of the BP Exhibition Ming: 50 years that changed ChinaOf the many...
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Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History
Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural Historyby James A. BennUniversity of Hawaii Press, 2015Cloth: 978-0-8248-3963-5 | Paper: 978-0-8248-3964-2 | eISBN: 978-0-8248-5398-3ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR...
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Ancient Chu tomb unearthed in Hubei
Chinaculture.org 30 December 2104A Chu tomb belonging to the Chinese Warring States Period (475-221 BC) has been unearthed at Xiajiatai cemetery in Jingzhou city of Central China's Hubei province on...
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Diana Driscoll's lectures on the Silk road and India
DIANA driscoll'S LECTURES on the Silk Road and IndiaDiana gives lectures on her tours with Cox and Kings and also gives gallery talks at the British Museum. The objective of her lectures and gallery...
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More about the restored Sogdian wall painting that seems to show a group of...
Quite recently I published an article from the Korean Government about a Sogdian wall painting from the 7th century.In 1965, a new mural was discovered in the Afrasiab Hills where an old palace was...
View ArticleThe Silk Road: Border Crossing (4/4) - duolecture in English
The Hellenistic East&Sculpture and the question of contacts between China and the Hellenistic East This duo-lecture is English spoken.This session brings together the worlds of Alexander the Great...
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