http://www.123soho.com/artgroup/national_palace_museum/
0702/np_3ex2.htm
For Chinese tea ceremony vessels

http://www.artsmia.org/arts-of-asia/china/dynasties
For a timeline of Chinese dynasties

http://www.asia-art.net/japanese_tea.html
For more on the Japanese tea ceremony

http://www.asia.si.edu/education/artofbuddhism.pdf
For a teacher's guide to the art of Buddhism

http://www.chinapage.com/emperor.html
To see portraits of Chinese emperors, including the Yongle Emperor

http://urbandesires.com/1.4/Food/Docs/tea2.html
For a modern version of the Chinese tea ceremony

http://filmakers.com/indivs/RobertFortune.htm
For a description of the video "Robert Fortune: The Tea Thief" which chronicles the 18th century espionage mission to steal the secret of tea production from Imperial China. 

http://www.enhancetv.com.au/study_it/robfort.pdf
For more information about the video "Robert Fortune: The Tea Thief".  It includes a history of the transportation of tea from East Asia to Western cultures

http://www.easterntea.com/tea/panyaro.htm
For more information on the Korean tea ceremony

http://employees.csbsju.edu/jmakepeace/
perspectives99/f23Turay.html
For more about the Japanese tea ceremony

http://ias.berkeley.edu/orias/pallop/timeline.html
For more about the explorer Zheng He 

http://www.japansociety.org/edu_minisite/
teacher_resource/index.cfm
For more on many aspects of Japanese culture

http://www.koreana.or.kr/pdf_Þle/1997/1997_WINTER_CO22.pdf
To learn more about Korea's tea culture 

http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/cambodia/suryavar.htm
To learn more about Cambodian sculpture 

http://www.pbs.org/hiddenkorea/religion.htm
To learn more about the symbols on the Korean flag 

http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/Exhibit/Archive/
grandfathershouse/
To see an example of a traditional Korean home 

http://www.silkroadproject.org
For more information on cross-cultural lesson plans for teachers 

http://www.sportstune.com/chinese/coins/index.html
For more about Chinese coins 

http://www.staff.hum.ku.dk/dbwagner/
cangzhou/cangzhou-fg.html
For images of the cast iron Chinese lion of Cangzhou


* All Web sites accurate as of February 2004.