Resources for Teaching about Asia
- The Asia Society’s “Ask Asia” page for Teachers:
http://www.askasia.org/teachers/ - Asia for Educators, Columbia University
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/ - MIT Visualizing Cultures
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027j/menu/vc_intro.html - Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Galleries:
http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/default.htm - Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asian Art Collection:
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/department.asp?dep=6 - Indiana University East Asian Studies Center
http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eeasc/ - Indian University Library’s East Asian Collection Internet Resources:
http://www.indiana.edu/~libeast/internet.html
The Asia Center icon is based on the Flying Horse of Gansu, China. On June 15, 2000, the city of Xi'an, China presented a life-size, bronze copy of this Han dynasty (206 BC to 220 AD) antique to Lexington, the "Horse Capital of the World", and it is now a downtown landmark.