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Harvard has abundant resources for the study of East Asian art. Local museum collections offer innumerable case studies for students. Specialists in the library and museums provide personalized assistance to enable students’ research goals. Many faculty in adjacent fields of East Asian studies embrace the study of visual and material objects in their research and work closely with our students. Specialists in other art history fields also work with students to develop comparative frameworks for their projects.

## Research Archives

### [Chinese Ink Rubbing Collection](http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/finearts/collections/rubbings.cfm)

Housed with the Fine Arts Library, this collection has 2,602 individual East Asian rubbings, the majority of which are from China.

### [Kenzo Tange Archive](http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/projects/utopia-across-scales-kenzo-tange-archive.html)

The Graduate School of Design houses Japanese architect Kenzo Tange's plans, drawings and models from throughout his career, which is actively used by faculty and students to study the history of modern Japanese architecture and urbanism.



 

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###    Bibliographies  expand\_more  

- [Chinese Art Bibliography](http://libweb5.princeton.edu/marquand/cbwebsites.htm)
- [20th Century Chinese Art Bibliography](http://www.stanford.edu/dept/art/china/bibliography.html)
- [James Cahill's Website (Full Text Database of his Writings)](http://jamescahill.info/)
- [Association for Critical Race Art History Bibliography](https://acrah.org/bibliographies/asian-diasporaasian-american/)

 

 



###    Collections  expand\_more  

- [Harvard Art Museums](http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/)
- [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston](http://www.mfa.org/)
- [Peabody Essex Museum](http://pem.org/homepage/index.php/)

 

 



###    Dunhuang  expand\_more  

- [International Dunhuang Project](http://idp.bl.uk/idp.a4d)
- [Dunhuang Collections, Fu Ssu-Nien library](http://lib.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/pages/03-rare/dunhuang/02-2.htm)
- [Silkroad Foundation](http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html)

 

 



###    Forums  expand\_more  

- [Arts of China Consortium](http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/fineart/html/chinese/)
- [Japan Art History Forum](http://jahf.net/home.htm) (important: JAHF members can access resources such as bibliographies, course descriptions, and links for digital image sources)
- [Early Medieval China Group](http://www.earlymedievalchinagroup.org/) (Bibliography, Resources, Publications, Discourse)

 

 



###    Guides to Museums and Sites in Asia  expand\_more  

- [China Guide to Museums in China](http://www.chinamuseums.com/index.html)
- [Virtual Library Museums Pages: A Distributed Directory of Online Museums](http://archives.icom.museum/vlmp/)
- [Yishu, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art](http://www.yishujournal.com/)
- [National Treasures and Important Cultural Properties, Japan](http://www.emuseum.jp/)
- [East Asian Historical Architecture](http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/)

 

 



###    Harvard Libraries  expand\_more  

- [Fine Arts Library, Rubel Collection](http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/finearts/collections/rubel.html)
- [Fine Arts Library, Chinese Rubbings Collection](http://vc.lib.harvard.edu/vc/deliver/home?_collection=rubbings)
- [Fung Library](http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/fung/)
- [Harvard Yenching Library](http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/harvard-yenching/)

 

 



###    Image Databases  expand\_more  

- [Huntington Archive](http://www.huntingtonarchive.osu.edu/) (Buddhist Art)
- [Chinese Paintings Database, University of Tokyo](http://cpdb.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/)

 

 



###    Tools  expand\_more  

- [Dictionary of Japanese Art Historical and Architectural Terminology](http://www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/)
- [Interactive Map of India](http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/01/india-ancient-art/map-interactive)
- [Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization, by Patricia Ebrey](http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/)

 

 



 

 

 

 

### Bibliography Resource 

 

**Nanni Deng**

**Contact Info**  
617-495-0570  
Mon-Fri 9:00-5:00  
[Send Email](mailto:ndeng@fas.harvard.edu)

[Profile & Guides](http://guides.library.harvard.edu/EastAsianArt)



 



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