China
Contemporary Chinese Art	Chinese texts: 1. Selection from "The Zhuangzi" 2.Selections from Mengzi Meng-tse [Mencius] 3. Selections from Tao Te Ching 4. Kung tzu (Confucius) 5. Confucius Kongfuzi
China the Beautiful	Lao Tzu
Chinese History Art and Facts from the Cultural Revolution Fine Art of New China Woodcuts of liberated Areas	Lu Xun-Biography and works Ha Jin
Chinese Images	1. Foot Binding 2. Women in China and Foot Binding
Germany
Original Documents related to German History	Karl Marx Web Site Friedrich Engels
Richard Wagner Biography
German History — in German
German History — mostly in English The Art of René Böll Bertolt Brecht Link Hanns Eisler Link 1. Pictures of an Exhibition 2. Awareness of Emptiness 3. The Body and Fascist Aesthetics 4. Leni Riefenstahl
Art 1. Venus of Milo 2. The art of Gustave Courbet 3. The art of Manet 4. Art archive
Architecture 1. Greek Art and Architecture
Albert Speer: Die Reichskanzlei
Great Buildings
Popular Culture
Popcultures
Film
German film classics: Nosferatu and Dr. Caligari
Aesthetics and literary criticism
— Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutic
—Literary criticism data base (Chinese and English) — Bob Doyle's Schiller pages
Political and philosophical texts and links
Herbert Marcuse
Jean -Jacques Rousseau: Music Short Biography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto
Jean Baudrillard 1
Jean Baudrillard 2
Walter Benjamin Excerpts from: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (The whole text)		This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. --Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History, IX"
Political art and propaganda Virtual Museum of Political Art East German Art

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