I went to an art exhibit by Hung Liu and ended up looking up her website. http://www.hungliu.com The things that I liked most about her website include the bio and the timeline--this covers her life from 1948 living in China to 2014 and her retirement from Mills College. The information given over the years is impressive and reflective of so much of what we have learned about this semester. It shares art information, political information, and personal information on the timeline. There is a video of her working--which would be interesting for an art class. There are newsletters from her studio, art from when she was in China, as well as, art from her time in America. I also love the description of the techniques she uses in her art.

Overall this website could be used by teachers of many different subjects--from a history perspective, check out the timeline and what she went through in China and her coming to America. From an art perspective, showing her art and techniques would be interesting. From an English perspective, showing her art could be tied to literature--she has art that could be used with many themes or if reading Chinese poetry/literature could be used to help students "see" the people and time period as a hook into the literature.
edited by cgao on 2/7/2017
edited by cgao on 2/7/2017

It is surprisingly difficult to find websites that specifically focus on East Asia. I did however find one that will work well with my lesson plan on the dropping of the atomic plans. This website uses google maps to compare the effects of the dropping of an atomic bomb on your very hometown. Morbid? A bit. But this can serve as good anticipatory set/hook for my lesson on the Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as provide context for further conversations about nucleur proliferation.

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/classic/

A third website that I found was one published by the Stanford History Education Group. Although not focused specifically on east Asia it has a number or relevant and important lessons that tell history from a number of perspectives.
http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

I have a book from the lonely planet called, 'happy', Secrets to Happiness from the Cultures of the World. (You can get a FREE digital copy of this book if you have an Amazon Prime membership, and read it from your kindle cloud reader.) In this book was a page about Korea and their tradition of Obangsaek as a means to balancing your life and health. So I looked up Obangsaek, which led me to a website called, 'Gastro Tour Seoul."

https://www.gastrotourseoul.com/the-five-colors-of-korea-what-do-you-know-about-o-bang-saek/
http://www.gastrotourseoul.com

'O-bang' means 'five directions', and 'saek' means 'color'. These five colors are especially significant and used in the traditional Korean dress, called 'Hanbok." They are also used in paintings, musical instruments, festivals, architecture, flags, symbols, and FOOD.

BLUE - EAST and WOOD
RED - SOUTH and FIRE
YELLOW - CENTER and EARTH
WHITE - WEST and METAL
BLACK - NORTH and WATER
These are considered necessary for a healthy, prosperous, and long life. This originated from the ancient Chinese pholsophy of yin and yang - everything balanced in these five directions.

There are beautiful, color pictures of musical instruments, clothing, food, and etc., on this website. Including types of Obangsaek foods like bibimbap, kimbap, gujeolpan, and japchae, as well as side dishes called ban chan.