Visual Cultures in East Asia

[Juan Liebana-Mena]

Visual Cultures in East Asia (www.vcea.net) is a very complete website with plenty of resources to learn more about the visual culture of East Asian countries. Their digital library section is divided into images, maps, biographies, bibliography, and book originals. The images section contains over ten thousand images from 1800 to our time. You can also browse all imabes by topic nature and location. This is a great way to teach about the evolution of some cities such as Beijing or Shanghai through images. 

The maps section also contains a wide arrange of valuable maps ranging from virtual, paper, slide, xerox, or source maps. The representations and information in some of these maps is of high value and can help students better understand the geography and history of these countries.

[Daniel Horowitz]

This is quite a resource for cartography. I found searching through the photo images a bit random, though interesting nonetheless. They are quite different from the images in our history texts, which tend to depict historical events. There is a picture of a bride and groom from 1865. This isn't an image we would see in a history text (unless they were historical figures), but it's an amazing glimpse into the past and a great depiction of historical costume.

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