UCLA Center for East Asian Studies

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China via the Web

Academic Institutions/Organizations || Academic Journals || Agriculture || Art/Posters || Bibliographies/Syllabi || Bookstores || Computing || Demography || Economics/Business || Film || General || Government || History || Human Rights || Images || Language || Law || Libraries || Literature/E-texts || Maps || Minorities || Museums || Music || News and Opinion || Personalities || Philosophy || Places || Politics || Religion || Science || Travel/Exploration || US-China Affairs || Women ||

Note that there are also pages in the Asia via the Web series devoted to Hong Kong/Macao and Taiwan.

Academic Institutions/Organizations

Academic Web Sites

A list of academic and educational world-wide web sites in China. It includes the URLs of Chinese universities, colleges, research institutes, high schools and some other resources. Access through a clickable imagemap or a text list.

Academica Sinica

Established in 1928 in Nanjing, China and now based in Taipei, Taiwan, Academica Sinica is a large and respected center of research and graduate training. The bilingual AS website offers a wide array of information about the institution as well as access to the large AS databases which include dynastic histories and more.

Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

In addition to information about the UCLA China Studies program, faculty members, and scholarships, this site features details about conferences organized by the center. In some cases the papers to be presented at the conferences appear on the site as well.

Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation

Established in 1989, the foundation offers fellowships for graduate and postgraduate research as well as institutional support.

The China Institute in America

Established in 1926 by John Dewey and Hu Shih, the China Institute seeks to promote understanding of traditional and contemporary Chinese culture. Based in New York, the organization has its own gallery and lecture series. In addition, it supports the development of curriculum materials and provides speakers for corporate functions.

Committee on Scholarly Communication with China

CSCC (formerly CSCPRC) is a U.S. program under the American Council of Learned Societies and for many years has sponsored graduate and postgraduate research in China. Program descriptions and application forms are available at the CSCC/ACLS website.

Discussion list, primarily academics, active

To join send SUB CHINA Firstname Lastname to  listproc@lists.princeton.edu

International Federation of Chinese Scholars and Students

As much a political organization as it is academic, IFCSS maintains a large collection of documents related to the democracy movements of the 1980s and other issues.  Get information by sending an e-mail message GET INFO to  listserv@ifcss.org

Contemporary China Centre
    Australian National University

Needham Center home page
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK

Provides links to pages relating to the life and work of Joseph Needham, the great China scholar and historian of  science, and to the ways in which his work is being continued and developed. A list of the works published in the Science and Civilization in China series as well as Needham's formal letter requesting the Cambridge University Press publish the work is included.

Social Science Research Council

This U.S. based nongovernmental body supports research in a wide variety of areas. The SSRC website describes the organization's programs, many of which are open to non-U.S. citizens are support graduate training, dissertation work, postdoctoral training and research, professional foreign travel, and institutional support.

Yale University Silk Road Conference, July 1998

Abstracts of papers from this international conference are available.Topics include religion, administration, law, and ritual.

Academic Journals

Australia National University's compilation of Chinese journals.

China Development Briefing

Bi-monthly issues include news reports, sectoral analyses, regional surveys, profiles of funding institutions and Chinese organizations, detailed descriptions of noteworthy projects, summaries of donor activity and digests of projects in particular sectors.

The China Journal
The Contemporary China Centre, Australian National University

You can peruse the table of contents of the current issue and previous issues at this site. The journal is published twice a year. Abstracts are included on-line.

Chinese Science

This annual journal began publication in 1975 and since 1993 has been published at UCLA. UCLA history professor Benjamin Elman serves as the editor and is assisted by Richard Gunde. The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies and the UCLA Center for Pacific Rim Studies collaborate in producing the journal. Recent issues are available on-line as are tables of contents from earlier issues.

The Road to East Asia

This is an e-journal founded and edited by York University's Isabella Wai. Most articles are written by Prof. Wai's students and deal with writers and contemporary literature, principally of China, but also of other cultures.

Agriculture

Agricultural Graphs and Maps

The University of California, Davis's East Asia Center on Population Resources and Welfare has prepared an extensive and easy to access collection of graphs showing agricultural output by crop, region, and year. In addition, GIS agricultural maps of China are available.

1986 Map of Agricultural Regions

Art

Bibliography on Chinese Art 

China the Beautiful

Features biographies of artists and writers as well as poetry. The poetry pages include Chinese text and sound files.

Posters

Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Posters Pages

Landsberger provides several excellent examples of these posters in his pages, includes an extensive list of other poster sites, and includes a good bibliography. He contributed to the excellent virtual and real exhibition "The Chairman Smiles" at the Groninger Museum in Amsterdam.

Oliver Laude's Chinese Posters

Oliver Laude visited China between 1989 and 1992 and assembled a terrific collection of pop culture artifacts. Among these are posters and stamps. The translations of the captions are sometimes a little rough, but the images are extremely sharp and interesting.

Treasures of the Chinese Scholar -- University of Pennsylvania Museum Online Exhibition

Concise introduction to the exhibition and a nice collection of images.

Bibliographies/Syllabi

 Bibliography - Collections of Resources
Univ. of Maine at Farmington

Many large files, including dictionary links and impressive lists of works on China (e.g. "China and the West").

China Studies Bibliography

Twentieth-century Chinese language reference works, compiled and annotated by Vickie Doll, Chinese studies bibliographer at the University of Kansas library.

Chinese Bibliography
Shinshu University, Japan

Available in Jis, Big5 and GB Code. (These are means by which Japanese and Chinese characters are coded for importation into browsers, word processors, and the like.         Big5---http://soshi.shinshu-u.ac.jp/blist5.html         GB-----http://soshi.shinshu-u.ac.jp/blistg.html    

Also, a bibliography on Chinese art:  (http://soshi.shinshu-u.ac.jp/alistj.html)

Online Bibliography of Modern Chinese Literature and Film

Ohio State University's Kirk Denton maintains this rich bibliography.

UC San Diego Chinese History Bibliography

This bibliography includes reference works in Chinese and English.

Bookstores

Cheng and Tsui

Boston-based Cheng & Tsui has an extensive catalog of films, music, computer software, and books.

China Books and Periodicals

This is a good source for language learning materials and general interest books, as well as for films on video and music on cd-rom and cassette tape.

Computing

Macintosh Chinese software: information, reviews, programs

1. http://polylot.lss.wisc.edu/hmac/    2. MacBlue ftp.ifcss.org pub/software/mac/networking

For Web radio and television

To listen to web radio broadcasts or to watch web television broadcasts, you need a piece of software known as a player. You can download a player without charge from the Real Networks website. Some sites have Quicktime movies available. Download the Quicktime viewer from Apple. Of course, much of the text on these  sites is in Chinese, Japanese or Korean. Download the NJWin viewer for a free trial to permit you to do this.

Demography

1983 map showing population densities

UN list of Chinese cities with populations over 100,000 (1990 census)

Economics/Business

Energy Sources and Minerals (1983 map)
Industry (1983 map)
Special Economic Zones (1996 map)

China Chamber of International Commerce

Government maintained site, includes information and links to companies and trade organizations.

Chinese Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation

A rich bilingual website offering information on economic trends, laws, and specific companies.

Employment in China-related Fields

Sign up to receive notifications of job openings by e-mail. The system is not yet too sophisticated, offering only a couple of broad employment categories.

Hong Kong Trade Development Council: Market Profile on Chinese Mainland

Reviews recent economic indicators, reform legislation and practices, and provides information on Hong Kong - China trade.

Import/Export News

To subscribe send SUB CHINA-LINK Firstname Lastname to listserv@ifcss.org

Market Indicators

Hang Seng Index (Hong Kong)

Yahoo! Finance
CBS Marketwatch

Shanghai Composite

Yahoo! Finance
CBS Marketwatch

Shenzhen

Yahoo! Finance

Taiwan Weighted (from CBS Marketwatch)

Yahoo Finance: China

Information on the Shenzhen and Shanghai Stock Exchanges, finance-related news coverage, and more.

Film

Asian Film Connections: China

This University of Southern California website offers information about Chinese feature films released since 1998 and noteworthy films since 1988.

Cheng and Tsui

Boston-based Cheng & Tsui has an extensive catalog of films, music, computer software, and books.

China Books and Periodicals

This is a good source for language learning materials and general interest books, as well as for films on video and music on cd-rom and cassette tape.

Chinese Movies

This Shanghai website (sh.com) offers capsule summaries of recent Chinese films.

Online Bibliography on Chinese Film

Maintained by Kirk Denton at Ohio State University.

General 

Across the Country

This PRC government site houses a great deal of information on various places in China. There are pages devoted to each of China's major municipalities, provinces, and regions. The Shanghai page, for example, includes introductory materials to the economy of the rural suburbs, foreign trade, and more.

Calendar Conversion Help

Traditionally, Chinese noted the year by the reign title of the emperor and the year of the reign. Beginning with the founding of the Republic of China in 1912, the ROC used the same system with the word republic ("minguo") preceeding the year. This system remains in use in Taiwan. In the People's Republic of China, the common era designation is used. Click here to visit a handy conversion table for the period 1860-the present.

China the Beautiful (Chinapage.com)

Ming L. Pei's site focuses on Chinese literature and the arts, including pages devoted to calligraphy, poetry, opera, philosophical works and more. It is well-illustrated and easy to use, ranking among the best bilingual sites around.

          China Homepage

Maintained in Beijing by the Institute of High Energy Physics. In addition to science and technology, there are also resources on culture and society. Includes a section offering short biographies of "women in China" and "women in Beijing." Most of those featured have an impressive list of scholarly, managerial, or entrepreneurial achievements.

 Country Study: China

The US Library of Congress has compiled a great deal of information about China into this print/on-line guide. This edition contains data gathered through 1987.

 China Vista

This is a fun site with jokes, recipes, and news about Chinese business, tourism, and culture. Business news includes market reports and analysis of trends. Various goods are available for on-line purchase as well. The travel section features photos and descriptions of several destinations.

Walton's Infonet

Includes a chat section and personal homepages.

Government

Constitution of the PRC

1982 version and 1988 modifications are available at several sites, including the Washburn University School of Law and the US House of Representatives law site. The International Constitutional Law site has the 1988 version and a key for finding particular sections quickly.

PRC New York Consulate

Primarily summaries and simple introductory materials. Official statistics on education, economy, ethnicities, science, culture, and so on. Visa information is also available.

PRC Government Structure

Inside China Today, a web-based news service, has compiled a collection of brief articles on various parts of China's government including the National People's Congress, the State Council, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, State Level Corporations, and the Presidency.

PRC Washington Embassy  

History

Classical Chinese Historiography

Compiled by UCLA history professor Ben Elman to aid in the training of graduate students, this is a rich collection of annotated lists of research aids. Features exercises designed to expose students to a wide variety of essential reference tools. Highly recommended.

Cultural Revolution -- Virtual Museum

A small but interesting page with artifacts from the Cultural Revolution, including stamps, dictionary extracts, a song denouncing Liu Shaoqi, and more.

Fairbank Chinese History Virtual Library

Includes outline histories, maps, timelines, audio files, and documents.

 Historical Geography Bibliography

Maintained by Thomas H. Hahn, Institute for Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg.

History of China (from China Commercial Net)

Simple and illustrated description of Chinese history since Qin Shihuang. Offers a distilled PRC interpretation of modern Chinese history.

The History of Silk

Silk-Road.com offers a short, well-illustrated history of this important textile.

Nanjing Massacre

Maintained by China News Digest.

Taiwan Documents Project

An impressive collection of documents in English pertaining to Taiwan's history. Materials range from the 17th to the 20th century and include treaties and communiques.

UC San Diego Chinese History Bibliography

This bibliography includes reference works in Chinese and English.

 Human Rights

During the Democracy Wall movement in the winter of 1978-79, some activists composed a Declaration of Human Rights. The International Constitutional Law site has a translation of this document.

Amnesty International on China

Amnesty International is also listed under "Human Rights" but their extensive work on China merits inclusion here as well. Among the resources worth investigating is an interactive program they've developed for downloading. "Legacy of Tiananmen" is free and is available for Windows and Macintosh computers.

Images

Click here to go to JEASC's list of sites with photographs and other images of China.

Photographs -- Bibliography of books on pre-1949 China

Maintained by  Thomas Hahn (hahn@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de) at the University of  Heidelberg, Germany. This is an extremely detailed listing.

Language

Chinese-English dictionary

In Big-5 code, the dictionary shows the creation of over 4000 characters from about 200 simple ideographs and pictographs.  A printed edition was published in August 1996. This site does not require special software and allows newcomers to the language a quick look at how Chinese characters are constructed. Highly recommended for newcomers to the language or for browsers.

Chinese language teaching/study

This is a much improved site. It now includes links to a variety of study aids, including sites where sound files may be downloaded. A list of shortwave sources of news in Chinese is also provided.

An operation named Ocrat has created a website which uses VOA Mandarin broadcasts as part of a language teaching program. It is not affiliated with the VOA, but is well worth a visit. The Ocrat home page offers a variety of other resources, including animated character instruction.

Learning Chinese Online

Includes a rich set of links. Xie Tianwen's site is particularly interesting.

Linguistics

Ethnolinguistic areas (1983 map)
Linguistic areas (1990 map)

Law

Chinese Law Net This site permits web access to various threads being discussed by members of this internet discussion list.

Constitution of the PRC The 982 version and 1988 modifications are available at several sites, including the Washburn University School of Law and the US House of Representatives law site. The International Constitutional Law site has the 1988 version and a key for finding particular sections quickly.

Hong Kong University "Law On-line" resource, not updated since 1997.  

Washburn University School of Law Library Good site to locate the Chinese constitution and other documents.

US House of Representatives law site This particular section of the site is devoted to English language documents on Chinese law. It includes links to constitutions and more.

Libraries

Center for Chinese Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley

Includes links to other Chinese studies resources.

China Papers - C.P. Fitzgerald (1902-1992)
National Library of Australia, Australia

The papers of the eminent China scholar Charles Patrick Fitzgerald (1902-1992), Professor of Far Eastern History at the Australian National University from 1953-67.

China Papers - N. Jose (1952- )
National Library of Australia, Australia

Papers of the Australian author and former Cultural Counsellor in China Nicholas Jose (1952-)

US Library of Congress

Information on the LOC Chinese collection.

Bibliographies concerning the LOC Chinese collection.

Literature/E-Texts 

Ancient Chinese Fables

This is a large bilingual collection of fables, drawn from a wide variety of sources including early Chinese philosophers.

China the Beautiful (Chinapage.com)

Ming L. Pei's site focuses on Chinese literature and the arts, including pages devoted to calligraphy, poetry, opera, philosophical works and more. Poetry pages include sound files as well as the texts. It is well-illustrated and easy to use, ranking among the best bilingual sites around.

Chinese Buddhist Texts

Christian Wittern has created a database of Chinese Buddhist texts. One can access the database via the web and read the texts using a couple of scripts (Big-5 and Japanese for now, Unicode in the future).

Chinese Literature

Chinese Literature is a quarterly in English and currently has six issues online.

Chinese novels (in Chinese using Big5 mapping)
    telnet: gopher.ntu.edu.tw

Hanquan Database of Ancient Texts
Chen Yufu, Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

This is a searchable database providing access to a large number of essential Chinese texts, including the 13 Classics, works of pre-Qin dynasty philosophers, Tang poetry as well as works from other eras, the guide to the 4 Treasuries, and the 25 dynastic histories.

Lu Xun's Short Stories -- read to you over the Web

Download a free copy of the Real Audio Player, follow the installation directions and then visit Broadcast.com, a site which includes a selection of audiobooks you can listen to for free (after hearing and seeing a 15-second advertisement for an audiobook company). Hook up a cassette recorder and you can make tapes for jogging or for the car. Lu Xun, the great early 20th century Chinese author is only one of the writers you can hear via this site.

Online Bibliography of Modern Chinese Literature and Film

Ohio State University's Kirk Denton maintains this rich bibliography.

Selected Myths and Fables

Chinavista.com offers an extensive list and description of well-known Chinese stories. These include "The Cowherd and the Girl Weaver."

University of Virgina E-Text Library

The Shijing (Book of Odes), one of the earliest of the Chinese classics. The Chinese texts and James Legge's English translations are provided.

Maps

Please note that many of these maps travel in "jpeg" and "gif" files that are over 200 kb in size. Patience is required for those using slow modem connections.

Administrative (1991 map which includes the characters for each province and a
    pronunciation guide)
Agricultural regions (1986 map)
Clothing (map suggests appropriate clothing for particular parts of China at different times of the
    year)
Energy Sources and Minerals (1983 map)
Ethnolinguistic areas (1983 map)
Industry (1983 map)
Linguistic areas (1990 map)
Military regions (1996 map)
Physical relief (1996 map)
Population density (1983 map)
Precipitation patterns
Small map (1997, 86k)
Special Economic Zones (1996 map)

Minorities

Manchus and Manchuria

Tibet via the Web -- part of this Asia via the Web series.

Museums

National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

This museum is known as having the world's finest collection of Chinese art. The website (with pages in Chinese and in English) offers photos of many objects, details about current exhibitions, including those of contemporary artists, and more.

Shanghai Museum of Art

In the last decade, this museum has dramatically improved the manner in which it preserves and displays its impressive collection. And now - some of the collection can be seen via the web. The site offers both Chinese and English language pages.

Music

Music

You may download a variety of music files from this site. The selection includes Beijing Opera, Teresa Teng's pop hits, and classics from the Cultural Revolution.

News and Opinion

Beijing Review

A nearly forty-year old publication conveying the views of the PRC government on events and trends in China and elsewhere. Based at the China Internet Information Center.

China and the World (Zhongguo yu Shijie)

Electronic magazine with sections in Chinese and English. Contents can be read on screen without special software (GIF formatted), but articles are in GB code or in Postscript and must be downloaded. Includes historic speeches by Deng Xiaoping and Mao Zedong.

China Daily

Official PRC English-language newspaper published in Beijing and circulated in China and elsewhere. Full text articles with news on China and Chinese views of the world.

China Internet Information Center

Operated by the PRC government, this is a useful resource, allowing web surfers access to publications such as China Today, Chinese Literature, and Beijing Review.

China News

This is an umbrella site for official views from the People's Republic of China. The site (and its mirror in the US) contain links to several publications (including China Today and Beijing Review). Many people will find the government white paper section of the site particularly useful. These white papers are extensive discussions of major issues, including human rights in China and Chinese foreign policy. The Tribune for Special Topics section includes texts of speeches, press conferences and more. This section's Hong Kong subsection even includes the official posters commemorating the 1997 resumption of control over Hong Kong.

China News Agency -- articles on Washington, Taipei, and Beijing relations

This page lists recent articles from Taiwan's official government news agency on Taiwan-US-China affairs.

China News Digest

Copyright worries and time have lessened this source of information about China, but it remains a useful digest of news concerning China. The all volunteer crew at CND also publishes digests aimed primarily at Chinese living in particular places (e.g. North America) and maintains an excellent website. You can look into the CND archives and visit virtual exhibits.

China Online

This business-oriented site includes translations from the Chinese press and articles from China observers. For a charge, the site's owners will provide translations of articles not listed on the site.

China Today

Formerly known as China Reconstructs, this is a general interest publication established by Song Qingling, the widow of Sun Yatsen in the early 1950s.

Inside China Today

This is a remarkable compendium of news and photos culled from Chinese and foreign reports. It is updated daily. This site also provides a great deal of background information about governmental structure (for China and for Taiwan), religion, education, and more. Highly useful.

Shanghai Daily

This website focuses on local economic, social, and cultural news and offers information on the weather. A link to a 20 minute English language newscast is included at the site. It is possible to look at back issues as well.

People's Daily

The Chinese Communist Party's official voice, People's Daily is published in Beijing and distributed all over China and an overseas edition is printed and distributed abroad. The paper's website offers stories in Chinese, English, and Japanese. Click here for the US mirror site.

Washington Post: 1998 Report on China's "Next Generation"

This five part report looks at younger government officials, new Communist Party recruits, entrepreneurs, internet innovators, artists, and more.

Personalities

Confucius || Deng Xiaoping || Jiang Zemin || Mao Zedong || Marco Polo || Matteo Ricci || Wang Dan || Wei Jingsheng ||

Confucius

Biography of Confucius -- read over the web

Download a free copy of the Real Audio Player, follow the installation directions and then visit Broadcast.com, a site which includes a selection of audiobooks you can listen to for free (after hearing and seeing a 15-second advertisement for an audiobook company). Hook up a cassette recorder and you can make tapes for jogging or for the car.

Deng Xiaoping ( 1904 -1997)

Deng Chronology

Deng in Pictures

Chinese government news agencies and departments prepared an elaborate set of excellent photos of Deng Xiaoping.

Time Magazine - "The Last Emperor: From Dynasty to Capitalism"

Time offers a well-illustrated set of pages with a chronology of Deng's life, quotations revealing his attitudes on economics and power, and more.

Time for Kids also featured a review of Deng's life and legacy.

Deng Speaks

Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping

English language translations of all three volumes in this collection are available at the Renmin Ribao (People's Daily) website. Organized chronologically, the second and third volumes contain his speeches pertaining to reforming China's economy.

Associated Press: Quotations from Deng Xiaoping

Audio File of Deng Speaking in 1982

Deng Praises the People's Liberation Army's Suppression of the Tiananmen Square Democracy Movement

Deng endorsed the violent suppression of the Beijing pro-democracy demonstrations. On June 9, 1989, he addressed a group of army officers. The text is translated from a Beijing Television broadcast and is located at The Gate of Heavenly Peace website.

Obituaries and Funeral Coverage

The Detroit Free Press

The Free Press has created an admirable site, "Farewell to Deng Xiaoping," which includes a clickable map of the funeral site, a pronunciation guide, and brief snippets on how Deng changed China and who has taken over leadership of the world's largest country.

Foreign Affairs

The Foreign Affairs website offers a set of statements from Deng's family, Xinhua (China's government news agency), and various world leaders marking the 1997 death of Deng Xiaoping.

The Newshour Online

PBS's Newshour featured a British news agency's report on the death of Deng Xiaoping and a discussion among U.S. China watchers Arthur Hummel, Michel Oksenberg, Minxin Pei, and Jim Hoagland on Deng's legacy. The page offers both a print transcript and a Real Audio feed. A week later, the Newshour covered Deng's funeral and further discussed his legacy with Winston Lord and Zbigniew Brzezinski.

South China Morning Post

SCMP is the largest circulation English-language daily newspaper in Hong Kong. The paper's webpage on Deng's death includes short .wav audio file clips of the Chinese Central Television's announcement of Deng's death (in English and Mandarin). The site also offers an extensive photo collection (e.g. Deng with family members, Deng with Mao, Deng with Ho Chi Minh, and Deng with Jimmy Carter).

Time Magazine's obituary

Time twice selected Deng as "the man of the year."

World Socialist Website

In March 1997, the website of the International Committee of the Fourth International offered a harsh assessment the impact of Deng's reforms on the Chinese public.

Jiang Zemin 江泽民

Following the June 4, 1989 suppression of the pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing and the arrest of Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, Deng Xiaoping and other senior leaders selected Jiang Zemin, the relatively little-known head of the Shanghai branch of the Communist Party to take over as titular chief of the CCP. Jiang now holds three important posts: CCP General Secretary, President (primarily a ceremonial position), and chair of the CCP's Central Military Commission (effectively commander in chief of the Chinese military).

People's Daily Celebration of Jiang

Renmin Ribao (People's Daily) is the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party. This website offers a biography, photos, translations of speeches, and "the latest news" involving Jiang Zemin.

Mao Zedong (毛泽东  Mao Tse-tung)

The Mao Zedong Internet Archive

Extensive collection of Mao's speeches and essays. This is part of the Marx/Engels Internet Archive.

Mao Badges

During the China's Cultural Revolution workplaces, tourist destinations, and other organizations developed badges featuring Chairman Mao Zedong. These were energetically collected by many young revolutionaries and are now collected by those interested in memorabilia from a remarkable period in China's history. This page is an article written by Bill Bishop. The site is hosted by China News Digest.

Mao Sayings

Part of Rick Harbaugh's Chinese-English Dictionary site, this collection of sayings from "The Little Red Book" include the Chinese original (in simplified characters) and the English translation.

Marco Polo

"The Worlds of Marco Polo" from Jonathan D. Spence's The Chan's of China: China in Western Minds

This is an excerpt from Spence's 1998 work available at the W.W. Norton website.

Wang Dan

Wang Dan

This 20 year old student was among the leaders of the Tian'anmen Square demonstrations in 1989. This page, created in advance of a talk he gave at UCLA, includes links to articles and petitions concerning Wang Dan and his fellow pro-democracy activists.

Wei Jingsheng

An electrician at the Beijing Zoo, Wei came to international attention through his "Democracy Wall" era essay: "The Fifth Modernization: Democracy" circulated in December 1978. He was subsequently tried and convicted of providing a foreigner with state secrets. Altogether, Wei served two prison stints, totalling 19 years. Read "The Fifth Modernization" at the Democracy in China website.

Wei's prison writings have been translated and published as The Courage to Stand Alone. This site includes information about Wei's activities and views since he was released from prison and expelled from China on November 16, 1997.

In 1992, while still a prisoner, Wei Jingsheng wrote to Deng Xiaoping about the Chinese government's handling of Tibet.

Wei has advocated using trade sanctions to pressure China into political reform. Not long after his release, he wrote "What to do about China" for Newsweek magazine.

On February 3, 1998, Wei testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights. A transcript of his testimony is available at the American Foreign Policy Council's website.

Philosophy

Biography of Confucius -- read over the web

Download a free copy of the Real Audio Player, follow the installation directions and then visit Broadcast.com, a site which includes a selection of audiobooks you can listen to for free (after hearing and seeing a 15-second advertisement for an audiobook company). Hook up a cassette recorder and you can make tapes for jogging or for the car.

Chad Hansen's Chinese Philosophy Page

Hansen notes that his pages reflect a Daoist orientation. He is a professor at the University of Hong Kong.

The Classical Chinese Philosophy Page

Maintained by University of Miami professor John Knoblock, this site features interesting graphics, primary source selections, suggested readings, and more.

Essential Readings in Chinese Philosophy

This is an annotated list of secondary sources. It was compiled by Bryan W. Van Norden at Vassar.

The Four Books

The Great Learning, The Golden Mean, The Confucian Analects and The Mencius -- four works from Zhou era China which became part of the canon for civil service examination candidates in China -- can be found at a University of Kentucky site.

I Ching (Yijing or Classic of Changes) resources

Translations (into several languages) and Chinese versions, conventional commentary, unconventional commentary, divination on the Net, software, general China/Chinese resources.

Religious Tolerance.org Page on Confucianism

Short and clear description of key principles.

6th Graders Create Posters on Chinese Philosophy

6th graders at Urbana (Illinois, US) Middle School studied early Chinese philosophy and created posters to convey key concepts.

Su Tzu's Chinese Philosophy Page

This page includes links to primary sources and bibliographies.

Taoism (Daoism) Information Page
Maintained at the University of Florida, USA

English-language resources for study of Taoism (Daoism). Includes links to translations.

Sun Zi

The Giles (1910) translation of Sun Zi's The Art of War.

Places

A Virtual Tour of the Great Wall

Part of the Purdue University Multicultural website, this tour features a large number of photographs.

Politics
Note that works by Chinese political figures ancient and contemporary can be found in the Personalities and Philosophy sections of this page.

China Strategic Institute

Washington based institute, promoting democracy and modernization in China. Prominent Chinese dissidents are honorary board members. Site includes research articles and other information.

International Federation of Chinese Scholars and Students

As much a political organization as it is academic, IFCSS maintains a large collection of documents related to the democracy movements of the 1980s and other issues.  Get information by sending an e-mail message GET INFO to  listserv@ifcss.org

Tian'anmen Square Movement

Gate of Heavenly Peace

The 1995 Richard Gordon/Carma Hinton (Longbow) documentary for PBS is remarkably well supported on the web, including links to a wide variety of primary source selections and biographical entries on key players in the Beijing Spring tragedy.

Tian'anmen Square Democracy Movement Photographs

A joint effort by Support Democracy in China and Christus Rex et Redemptor Mundi, this photo archive is quite large, if slow loading.

Religion

Chinese Buddhist Texts

Christian Wittern has created a database of Chinese Buddhist texts. One can access the database via the web and read the texts using a couple of scripts (Big-5 and Japanese for now, Unicode in the future).

The Jesuits in China

This is a JEASC list of websites concerning Jesuit (and other Catholic) efforts in China. It includes links to sites and documents about and by Matteo Ricci.

Missionaries (Christian) in China

Billy Graham Center Archives at Wheaton College

Protestant Church in China
Maintained by The Amity Foundation, Hong Kong

News updates and documents on laws and regulations on religion. Generally offers a PRC government view of conditions.

Science

Publications by Don Wagner

Wagner is a member of the Asian Studies Department of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. This website includes the names of books he has written or contributed to as well as the full text of some of the articles he has published on Chinese science and mathematics.

Travel/Exploration

Adrian Ross's Journey Across Asia

In 1994 Adrian Ross made a 40,000 kilometer journey from Russia through Asia and back to Europe. This site has photographs and stories for China and Tibet as well as other Asian regions.

Selection from The Travels of Marco Polo

The Medieval Sourcebook, an electronic resource based at Fordham University includes bits from chapters 44-47 of The Travels.

"The Worlds of Marco Polo" from Jonathan D. Spence's The Chan's of China: China in Western Minds

This is an excerpt from Spence's 1998 work available at the W.W. Norton website.

United States - China Affairs

Clinton in China

In 1998, Bill Clinton made the first U.S. state visit to China in nine years. This page includes photographs from the visit and links to sites where one can read news articles and full text copies of the speeches and press conferences presented during the visit.

United States Embassy in Beijing

This site features English and Chinese versions of reports, speeches, and other information. The science and technology staff has produced rich summaries of conferences and studies done in China. Among these are reports on population trends, environmental protection, genetic research, and Chinese students abroad. The site also has economic, commercial, agricultural, and consular sections.

Taiwan Documents Project

An impressive collection of documents in English pertaining to Taiwan's history. Materials range from the 17th to the 20th century. The collection includes joint communiques between the Chinese and United States government.

U.S.S. Vandegrift's 1998 Shanghai Port Visit

The site offers photos of the December 4-8, 1998 visit of the American vessel to China's largest city.

VOA Cantonese and Mandarin Broadcasts

The Voice of America, part of the United States government's United States Information Agency, broadcasts in many languages. Some broadcasts are relatively short, others go beyond news to include cultural programming. Click here to see a list of new programs available for net-listening.  Some VOA English broadcasts focus on Asian issues as well.

Click here to get access to this week's Chinese broadcast scripts.

Women

100 Celebrated Chinese Women Lu Yanguang's illustrations are accompanied by brief biographies of these women from Chinese history. Kate Foster handled the translations.

Women in the World History Curriculum, a project of Lyn Reese, has a site advertising lesson plans and including biographies of a couple of women from Chinese history:
Wu Zetian (ruled during the Tang dynasty)      Sorghaghtani Beki, (mother of Khublai Khan)

World Bank Projects in China

Official reports and potentially quite useful. Unfortunately, most of the links to the actual reports have flaws.

Yahoo -- China

A quick link to those sites the Yahoo staff has chosen to include in its China list.

 

This page and the others in this Asia via the Web series are maintained by Clayton Dube. Send comments and suggestions to him at the UCLA Asia Institute (cdube@isop.ucla.edu).

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