Many thanks go to Philip George, Findouter Search Engines, for link verification (June 2006).
http://www.unive.it/~dsie/vl/biblio.html
Part of the Internet Guide for China Studies and the Asian
Studies WWW Virtual Library. Has 38 links to electronic bibliographies of reference works,
history, religion and philosophy, art, medicine, dictionaries, women in Chinese history,
education, inscriptions and oracle bones, etc.
http://www.findouter.com/Asia/China/Education
A list of academic and educational web sites in China; A listing of URLs of
universities, colleges, research institutes, schools, ordered by importance. From the China Findouter search engine
http://www.lcsc.edu/cbiouser/
A scholarly moderated Chinese Biographical Database website;
contains over two dozen searches, ten report forms. Users can enter new biographies and
missing data; both English and Chinese.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis
The China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS) project
will establish a standardized coding system to identify historical administrative units
for different periods in Chinese History, and will also provide a base GIS platform for
researchers to use for spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and representation
of selected historical units as digital maps.
Stock Photos Search "China" and browse over 20,000 results!
Chinese Information & Culture Center: http://www.taipei.org
Much information about Taiwan, provided by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New
York.
eRenlai Magazine
eRenlai magazine (www.erenlai.com)
is a website available in English, traditional and simplified Chinese. The site
offers videos, documentaries, animations, articles and networking tools. It
centers on the interaction between the youth of China and of the rest of the
world, with special focus on the link between inner growth and sustainable
development issues, encouraging change by reporting on replicable success
stories at the local level. The first monthly topic explores China's water
challenge. eRenlai already actively integrates a community of more than
100 contributors relaying the initiatives of 50 groups and organizations located
in over 30 cities in Asia and the rest of the world. Please join us!
Chinese Film, Chinese Media: http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/filmbib.htm
Author studies, catalogs, Chinese-language electronic texts, references (dictionaries,
bibliographies, biographies, journals, how to locate material); online references (links
to journals, texts, references, modern Chinese culture, literary studies); translations;
film resources (links to general information, early films, films of 1950s to 1970s,
post-Mao era films, directors, references).
Library Resources for Chinese Studies: http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs
This site includes a section on "Libraries and Library Resources for Chinese
Studies." It will be developed as a system containing pages on libraries in Asia and
the West, library associations, book dealers in Asian studies, conferences, reports and
guides, and media. Links are annotated and will contain information on holdings of
individual libraries. Part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library.
Chinese Military History Group: http://www.fau.edu/divdept/hist/Chinese.Military.History.htm
The Group seeks to establish contacts with European scholars interested in any aspect of
Chinese or East Asian military history and "aims to encourage communication and
exchange of ideas between scholars working in different disciplines and studying different
historical periods who share a common interest in armed conflict and the role of the
military in China." Website contains member information, research notes,
bibliography, book reviews.
China; New Resources: http://www.lib.umich.edu/asia/china/new/cnewbk.htm
A catalog of existing resources on China, from the Asia Library at the Univ. of Michigan.
Contains daily news, general information, web resources, full-text or abstracts of
journals, etc.
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture: http://mclc.osu.edu/
Website of journal previously named Modern Chinese Literature. Contains a very extensive
bibliography of English-language studies on modern Chinese literature and media, music,
translations, e-texts, journals, etc.
http://www.chinapage.com/poetry9.html
Classical Chinese Poetry: Presents Chinese texts and English
translations of classical Chinese poems, with audio versions of some. Some require Chinese
software, others do not. Includes Tang Shi San Bai Shou,complete poems of Li Bai and
others. Also has selected Chinese translations of Longfellow and Shelley.
http://povlibrary.worldbank.org/library/country/37/
Poverty in China: Searchable
site containing an archive of old and new papers on poverty, inequality, and related subjects.
http://www.library.pitt.edu/gateway
Chinese Academic Journal Articles Service: "The Digital
Document Delivery Center [East Asian Library, Univ. of Pittsburgh] provides free delivery
of full-text copies of Chinese-language academic journal articles to any researcher in the
United States." The service focuses on publications that are not held by U.S.
research libraries and provides copies within copyright guidelines.
http://mail.bris.ac.uk/~hirab/smp2.html
Shanghai Municipal Police Directory: A directory of British,
White Russian, and some Chinese and Japanese members of the Shanghai Municipal Police,
mostly for the period 1900–1945. The force was founded in 1854 to police the
International Settlement in Shanghai. Includes some 1,700 names with selected personal and
professional details (dates of service, place of birth, name of spouse).
http://www.sjmc.umn.edu/cca
Chinese Communication Association: On communication and media in
China, including print media, television, cinema, radio. Topics include history, public
relations, entertainment, language, public opinion. Includes job listings in
communications, membership directory, links to universities, online journals. Has
bibliography of publications on communication research related to Chinese communities
outside of China.
http://www.lcsc.edu/hstcc/
Historical Society for 20th Century China: Newsletter,
by-laws, membership directory, symposium archives, resources on Chinese history
(under construction).
http://idp.bl.uk/education/bookbinding/bookbinding.a4d
History of Chinese Bookbinding: "This site, by combining
textual descriptions with diagrams illustrating binding techniques and photographs of the
actual objects, aims to give a comprehensive introduction to the different kinds of
Chinese bookbinding contained in the Dunhuang collection of the British Library."
Includes a bibliography.
http://www.monumenta-serica.de/
SVD China Institute, Monumenta Serica: Information on the
Institute, in Germany, its history, activities, its monograph series, its journal
Monumenta Serica, Journal of Oriental Studies, and other publications not in series. The
Institute was founded in Beijing in 1934.
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/corps/guy1.html
Boxer Rebellion: Text of an article by John W. Guy.
http://www.geocities.com/treatyport01/TREATY01.html
Treaty Ports in China 1920s China Information on treaty
ports, settlements, and concessions; extraterritoriality, flags of the treaty ports before
World War I; foreign colonies; termination of treaty rights; foreign armed forces in
China; Shanghai Municipal Council; maps of Shanghai, Shameen Island, Hankow; links to
related sites (Jewish community in Shanghai, China Marine Association, etc.).
Feng Shui Gate: http://www.fengshuigate.com/
Scholarly essays on the origin and early history of the Chinese art of dwelling
orientation, by Stephen L. Field, an associate professor of Chinese at Trinity University,
San Antonio, Texas
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/china/
Provides access to China national- and local-level data collections
on natural history, socioeconomics, education; downloadable maps.
http://staff.hum.ku.dk/dbwagner
Publications by Don Wagner on the history of science and technology in China,
particularly metallurgy and mathematics, including some texts, references, notices of
reviews; Scandinavian library holdings on East Asia.
http://www.rom.on.ca/ebuff/unicorn.htm
Information "intended to finally prove...that the mythic Chinese unicorn
was not the qilin but a one-horned goat-like beast called the zhi."
http://www.savetibet.org/news/newsitem.php?id=68
Leaked PRC Statement on 'Tibet-Related External Propaganda' Statement from Zhao Qizheng at the 12 June 2000 meeting on national research in Tibetology and external propaganda on Tibet. Zhao Qizheng is minister in charge of
the Information Office of the State Council, People's Republic of China. From the web site of International Campaign for Tibet.
http://www.oakton.edu/~friend/chinajews.html
Homepage of the China Judaic Studies Association. Notes
publications, seminars, conferences; list of recently published books on Chinese Jews;
text of Association’s newsletter; articles on Jews of Kaifeng, anti-semitism, etc.
http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~cb863/china.html
Primarily links to China news sites, including the Chinese
Consulate in New York, Chinese and English newspapers, human rights organizations.
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9706/hk97/
The CNN's interactive feature on the handover of Hong Kong in 1997,
with a 48 sec QuickTime movie.
http://www.friends-partners.org/fpchina/welcome/index.html
"Friends and Partners, China, is designed to explore use of
the Internet as a means of promoting understanding and exchange with the culture and
people of China." Covers culture, environment, exchange, funding sources, commerce,
community, etc.
http://china-a2z.com/cgi-china-a2z/news.cgi
From the China Information Center, Denmark. A China-related news
archive updated daily with over 1000 new entries; database searchable by Chinese and
English keywords.
http://www.onb.ac.at/online_s/sinica/sinicafr.htm
Site of the Sinica Collection, Austrian National Library, Vienna.
http://www.princeton.edu/~nanking
On the Nanking Massacre, with information on events at Princeton
marking the 60th anniversary of the incident.
http://www.HRIChina.org
Website of the organization Human Rights in China. In Chinese
and English. Includes contents of the quarterly publication China Rights Forum, and the
organization’s press releases from the past two years. Links to information on the
current human rights situation in China, Human Rights Education site, and materials on Wei
Jingsheng.
http://www.china-embassy.org
Site of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C. Corporate
information, press releases, Three Gorges Project, human rights issues, economy and
commerce, political system, culture, population, etc.
http://www.albion.edu/history/chimed/
On the history of Chinese medicine. Links to institutions,
libraries, online resources, bibliographies.
http://www.usc.cuhk.edu.hk/databank.asp
A "Databank for China Studies, which aims to promote
qualitative studies on China and data sharing in the academic community." Based on
the collections of the Universities Service Centre, Hong Kong, est. 1963.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism
English-language resources for the study of texts in translation, secondary literature,
and philosophical perspectives on Taoism.
http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/sandt/
Some 200 reports on the environment, science and technology, energy, PRC
science policy, from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS)
http://fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/
The CHGIS will establish a standardized coding system to identify historical
administrative units and settlements for different periods in Chinese history, and provide
a base GIS platform for spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and
representation of selected history units as digital maps. The project intends to make the
multi-lingual base GIS available to the scholarly community free through download sites
throughout the world.
Songs and Stories of the Hua Miao
http://www.archives.ecs.soton.ac.uk/miao/
Traditional songs and stories of the Miao of southwest China; includes sections on the
symbols and sounds of the Miao script, Miao history and social life; online Hua
Miao-English glossary; downloadable Ahmao font.
Chinese Popular Religion Bibliography
http://web.missouri.edu/~religpc/bibliography_CPR.html
Bibliography of Western-language works published since 1995, arranged in 20 subject
categories, including specific deities and cults, pilgrimage, shamanism, popular religion
and folk art, religious calendar and festivals. Frequently updated.
China Statistical Information Network
http://www.stats.gov.cn
Statistics, in English, from the Chinese government, including census, monthly data for
2000, a 1% sampling of the first agricultural census, text of the 1998 and 1999 China
Statistical Yearbook. Also a link to the Chinese-language version.
Mao Tse-tung (Zedong) Internet Library
http://www.marx2mao.com/Mao/Index.html
A searchable database of English-language translations of five volumes of Selected Works
of Mao Tse-tung and other texts, including Quotations from Chairman Mao.
China New Energy (CNE) Website
http://www.newenergy.org.cn/english/index.asp
From China’s State Ministry of Science & Technology. Provides information on
science and technology news, academic conferences and events, solar and wind power,
biomass, geothermal energy, related links.
Three Gorges Dam Resources
http://www.pbs.org/itvs/greatwall/resources.html
Related to the documentary film “Great Wall Across the Yangtze River,” from
Independent Television Service, USA. Has links to numerous articles and other publications
about the Three Gorges Dam project in China and its environmental, human rights, and
economic impacts.
Chinese Studies Association of Australia
http://www.csaa.org.au/
CSAA is the professional organization for research and teaching about China in Australia.
Site has conference announcements, abstracts from the 1999 conference, information on
opportunities for China specialists, links to related websites.
Modern Chinese Literature & Culture Resource Center
http://mclc.osu.edu/
The Center, at Ohio State University, is associated with the journal Modern Chinese
Literature and Culture. Site has list of translations of modern Chinese literature,
bibliographies of literary and media studies, visual arts, education, and music; lists of
important journals in the field with links to their websites; links to Chinese e-texts.
Centre of Research on Education in China
http://www.hku.hk/chinaed
Covers all aspects of education in contemporary China, including a weekly update (by
subscription) on development of education in China.
South China Sea WWW VL News
http://www.middlebury.edu/SouthChinaSea/journals.html
Part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library, this is a monthly email-based newsletter
for scholars and policy-makers interested in South China Sea regional development,
environment, and security issues.
Chinese Computer Terminology
http://ccts.cs.cuhk.edu.hk/
A database that allows English or Chinese keyword searching for corresponding terms used
in computer technology. Divided into a Hong Kong database and a China database, as terms
are not necessarily the same. Results can be selected as bitmapped images or text and in
simplified or traditional characters. From the Hong Kong Computer Society.
Chinese Language on the Web
http://www.chinasona.com/bamboo/chinese.html
Guides to viewing and listening to Chinese on the web, links to Chinese-language related
FTP sites, sources of Chinese text files, Chinese educational resources, resources for
East Asian librarianship, Chinese-language radio broadcasts; has searchable “Global
Chinese People Finder.” Created by Carlos McEvilly.
AIDS in China
http://www.unchina.org/unaids/
Links to United Nations sites on HIV/AIDS in China; additional resources are available
from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing at http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn, under the
“Health” category of the Environment and Science section.
Chinese Military Power
http://www.comw.org/cmp
A compendium of online resources about Chinese military policy and capabilities; includes
a gateway to full-text online analyses and research tools, and regularly updated articles,
reports, and government documents that assess China’s military modernization, and a
bibliography of readings, links to online databases, lists of leading area specialists and
research sites.
Bibliography on Shamanism in China
http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/staff/bth/shamanism.htm
Prepared by Barend ter Haar, site includes bibliographies and references, general
theoretical studies, general studies on shamanism in China, fieldwork studies, spirit
writing, history, and Daoism and its shamanic roots.
Bibliography on Violence in Chinese Culture
http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/staff/bth/violence.htm
Annotated bibliography by Barend ter Haar covering collective violence (riots,
rebellions), discussions on violence in China, crime, punishments, torture, sacrifice,
cannibalism, suicide, exorcist violence, language of/for violence, folktales and fairy
tales, violence in post-1949 China, state monopoly of violence, festivals, Buddhism and
violence, family abuse, theory of violence.
China’s Female Musicians
http://www.asiasource.org/arts/unbreaksprts/unbreakable.cfm
From the Asia Society in New York, site features audio clips from a twelve-part radio
series, “Unbreakable Spirits,” on China’s emerging women musical and
performance artists. Requires RealAudio (free download available).
China Labour Bulletin
http://www.china-labour.org.hk
An online bulletin from an organization of the same name founded in 1994. Focuses
primarily on organizing workers in the PRC. Contains text of articles and reports,
searchable database of earlier issues, links to relevant sites (Hong Kong Confederation of
Trade Unions, Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee, etc.), list of labor-activist and
trade-unionist detainees in Chinese prisons. Has both Chinese and English versions.
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations
http://www.ncuscr.org
A nonprofit educational organization, founded in 1966, that encourages understanding
between Chinese and Americans. Site contains texts of articles and speeches, list of
publications (including Newsletter, China Policy Series), Scholar Orientation Program for
Chinese scholars coming to the U.S., links to think tanks, Chinese government
organizations and institutions in the U.S., etc.
Chinese Folk Performance Traditions
http://deall.ohio-state.edu/bender.4/perform/default.htm
Links to information on Chinese folk performances including opera, puppetry, festivals,
dance, and storytelling.
Cultural Revolution Posters
http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/poster/exhibintro.html
Selections from a 1999 exhibition of posters from the Cultural Revolution in the
collection of the Huntington Archive at Ohio State University.
China White Papers
http://www.china.org.cn/e-white/index.htm
A collection of White Papers, in English, issued by the Information Office of the State
Council of the PRC on a wide variety of current issues.
Science and Technology in China
http://www.staff.hum.ku.dk/dbwagner/
New URL for the long list of articles by Donald B. Wagner on the history and archaeology
of science and technology—particularly mathematics and metallurgy—in China.
Chinese Art Online
http://www.chinese-art.com
An illustrated, online magazine on China’s traditional and contemporary, including
exhibitions, and a subscription form for the publisher’s monthly electronic
newsletter.
Chinese Archives
http://orpheus.uscd.edu/chinesehistory
Contains guide to Chinese- and English-language material on historical research on modern
China; information on local archives in China; bibliography of English-language works on
Qing, Republican and PRC history; current research section on who is doing what research.
Gallup China Survey Consumer Report
http://poll.gallup.com/content/default.aspx?ci=9892&pg=1
Introduction to the Gallup Organization’s 1999 survey of consumer attitudes and lifestyle
trends in China. Full text available only to Gallup Poll on Demand subscribers.
Internet and Chinese Studies Resources
http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/asian/Internet-ChiResources.html
Text of a paper that includes internet and Chinese studies resources, including tables
showing features of Chinese search engines, links to libraries, etc.
The Chinese in British Guiana 1853–1900
http://members.tripod.com/~CGRoots/
A site related to a recent history of the Chinese in British Guiana [Guyana] published as
Cane Reapers. The Chinese arrived between 1853 and 1879 as indentured laborers on sugar
plantations.
Lienu Zhuan
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/chinese/lienu/browse/Lienu.html
Site contains complete reproduction of a woodblock edition of the text and illustrations
of the early Chinese book on exemplary women. Prepared in collaboration with the Univ. of
Virginia Library’s Chinese Text Initiative.
Beijing Scene E-Journal
http://www.beijingscene.com
A popular publication aimed at young foreigners living in Beijing. Covers much that is
ignored by the mainstream press.
Can China Feed Itself?
http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/ChinaFood/
Results of a three-year research project on China’s food security, with charts,
tables, and maps on such topics as age groups, business skills, changes in diet,
disasters, land, pollution, urbanization.
Republic of China at a Glance
http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/aboutroc/index.htm
Covers geography and climate, people and language, politics and government, foreign
relations, economy, education, cross-strait relations with the mainland, tourism.
Environmental Resources Management Online
http://www.erm.com/ERM/LOC/erm_china.NSF
Environmental Resources Management is the first privately- operated and -managed
joint venture corporation in China to provide consulting services on the environment,
health and safety. Contains reports, news, regulations, trends, free newsletter by
request.
International Dunhuang Project
http://idp.bl.uk/
An interactive database devoted to the study and preservation of manuscripts and printed
documents from Dunhuang and other Central Asian sites. The Project secretariat is at the
British Library. Site features a searchable database of Aurel Stein’s maps and
photographs, a page on Chinese bookbinding, information on IDP publications and the text
of its newsletter, annotated links to related sites.
European Association of Chinese Studies
http://www.soas.ac.uk/eacs/
A redesigned and improved site. “It contains the largest collection of links related
to Chinese studies in Europe,” including those to libraries, job listings, other
European associations for Asian studies, an online discussion forum, links to European
museums with Chinese art, etc.
Chinese Literacy, Writing, Education
http://website.leidenuniv.nl/~haarbjter/literacy.htm
“A survey-in-progress of the most important and more recent secondary literature on
[Chinese] literacy, orality, writing, and education in the past and the present, topically
arranged.” Primarily an annotated bibliography covering such topics as the
examination system and academies, printing and it cultural effects, libraries, writing and
Chinese religious culture, vernacular language, modern printing, visual dimensions of
writing.
The Gate of Heavenly Peace
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/gateofhp.html
Information on Carma Hinton’s film, and documents about the “Beijing
Spring” of 1989 and the symbolism of Tiananmen. Includes reviews and transcript of
the film and a bibliography.
http://www.chsa.org/
One of the oldest (founded 1963) organizations for the study, documentation and
dissemination of Chinese American history; annually publishes the journal Chinese America:
History and Perspectives. Site includes a list of the Society’s and other
publications on Chinese in America.
Chinese Southern Diaspora
http://rspas.anu.edu.au/cscsd/
From the Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora at Australian National
University, on the Chinese interaction with the countries of Southeast Asia, Australia,
and the Southwest Pacific, “and the multiple roles and identities of people of
Chinese origin in these countries.” Exchange of information is through subscription
to the Centre’s online network.
Universities Service Centre
http://www.usc.cuhk.edu.hk/
Located within the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Centre provides access to the
largest collection of printed research on the PRC, access to the data archive of
computerized social science data for contemporary China, professional research assistance
to help scholars search for documentary materials.
Classical Historiography for Chinese History
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib/
Contains introduction to classical Chinese historiography; relevant electronic resources;
dictionaries; bibliographical and geographical aids; aids for translating official titles;
sources for Ming and Qing history; bibliography on civil and military examinations, more.
Chinese Archives Guide
http://orpheus.uscd.edu/chinesehistory/chinese-archives.htm
Part of the "Chinese History Research Site." Collects and exchanges information
on experiences using Chinese archives, and provides information on Chinese local archives,
gleaned from local gazetteers. The parent site gives information on resources on
historical research on modem Chinese, Chinese local archives, English-language works on
modern Chinese history, and China-related web sites.
History of Christianity in China
http://ricci.rt.usfca.edu/
An international database for the study of the history of Christianity in China; the focus
"is on the construction of the archival, biographical and bibliographical sources of
China mission history," and related subjects.
1904 Photos of China
http://www.ChinaExhibit.org
Samples and background of a travelling exhibition seeking venues. The photographer, R.
Harvey Sargent, was a topographer for a Carnegie Foundation-sponsored scientific
expedition in North China, 1903–04.
Chinese Foreign Policy
http://www.stanford.edu/~travel/chinafp.htm
Indexes online information sources on Chinese foreign policy by issue area (e.g., arms
control) and bilateral relationships. Focuses on linking official PRC sources with
academic reports and policy papers, where relevant.
Working on Religious Culture in 20th Century China
http://website.leidenuniv.nl/~haarbjter/chinPRCbib.html
Bibliography by Barend J. ter Haar, incorporating both traditional style printed works and
electronic resources. Has guides to finding internet resources, finding books and
articles, general introductions to Chinese religious cultures, journals, etc.
Nixon-Zhou Talks, 1972
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/DOC_readers/kissinger/nixzhou/
Richard Nixon's talks with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai have been declassified (except for 3
documents) by the National Security Archive and are reproduced at this site.