Links and Resources

History and Culture

History of China: A terrific online overview of Chinese history from ancient to modern; includes extensive bibliography
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/toc.html

CUNY Chinese Cultural Studies: A concise political history of China
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chinhist.html

PBS Precious Children: History and Culture
http://www.pbs.org/kcts/preciouschildren/china/cultural.html

Wikipedia: History of China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China

Media Library: Short video clips of scenes from June 4, the Cultural Revolution, founding day of the PRC, and more
http://www.tsquare.tv/media/filmclips.html

Religion and Philosophy

Daoism: Scholarly website on Daoism
http://venus.unive.it/pregadio/home.html

Popular Culture

Chintok: Chinese zodiac, astrology, cooking, and more; a bit cheesy
http://www.est-direct.com/china/newyear.php?lang=en

East South West North: Translated Chinese blogs
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/weblog.htm

China Blog List: a collection of links to English language weblogs focused on China.
http://www.chinabloglist.org/

Dianying.com: Chinese movie database
http://www.dianying.com/en/

Hanzi Smatter: “Dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters in Western culture.”
http://www.hanzismatter.com/

News and Current Events

BBC Country Profile of China: Overview of China including key facts, political leaders and notes on the media
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1287798.stm

BBC News-Changing China: In-depth news on China’s current transformation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/asia_pacific/2004/china/default.stm

Inside China Today: Articles from scores of Chinese news sources
http://www.einnews.com/china/

China View: Online version of China’s Xinhua state news agency
http://www.chinaview.cn/

Yahoo! News on China
http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=world&cat=china

The Economist - Country Briefings - China
http://www.economist.com/countries/China/index.cfm

Kidon Media Link: Extensive listing of news media in China and Hong Kong
http://www.kidon.com/media-link/hk.php

The United States Embassy in Beijing
http://beijing.usembassy.gov/

Google News Alerts: Sign up for regular Google news alerts on China.
http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en

People’s Daily: Online version of People’s Daily (Renmin Ribao), China’s official Communist Party newspaper
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/

China Daily: Online version of China’s major English language newspaper (government run)
www.chinadaily.com

Travel Information

Lonely Planet China Page
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/asia/china

U.S. State Department’s Tips for Travelers to China
http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/regional/regional_1173.html

Passplanet’s Backpacker’s Travel Guide to China
http://www.passplanet.com/China/

Learning Mandarin Chinese

Online Chinese Tools: Includes flash cards, FAQs that dispel some myths, pinyin converter
http://www.mandarintools.com/

Language Guide.Org: Well done with colorful pictures, pinyin, characters, and audio
http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/index.jsp

Conversational Mandarin Chinese Online: includes audio; useful beginning conversations
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm

Online English-Chinese & Chinese-English dictionary
http://www.tigernt.com/

English-Chinese Online Medical Dictionary
http://www.esaurus.org/

Non-governmental Organizations (NGOS)

China Development Brief: Database of over 200 NGOs in China
http://www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com/dingo/

Chinese Cuisine

Overview of Chinese cuisine & discussion of regional cuisine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cuisine

Imperial Cuisine
http://www.china.org.cn/english/imperial/25792.htm

Miscellaneous

World Clock: Quick way of finding the time anywhere
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

Currency Converter
http://www.x-rates.com/calculator.html

Xianzai (“Now”): Free online subscription magazine for people living in China
http://www.xianzai.com/