Also Try
- Ancient Chinese
- Awesome Library in Chinese (Requires Simplified Chinese font.)
- Chinese
Books
- Chinese History (Poon)
Provides an elaborate history of China, organized by periods.
Lesson Plans
- USA and China Meet Over Plane Collision (CNN)
Provides lessons for studying the relationship between the USA and China in terms of international politics. 5-01
Lists
- Ancient Chinese Games - Chinese Chess (Martin)
Provides information on an ancient game that has continued to the present, Xiang Qi or Chinese chess.
- Ancient Chinese Philosophy - I Ching (WWW Virtual Library)
Provides sources of information on the I Ching, pronounced "Yi Jing," a classical Chinese text that is valued for its philosophy. It is often used in a ceremonial way to provide guidance.
- Ancient Chinese Philosophy - Taoism (WWW Virtual Library)
Provides sources of information on the Tao Te Ching, the central text for Taoism. Taoism is pronounced "Daoism." Text was written by Lao-tzu.
- Beijing - China (Lycos)
- China (China Publications Project)
Provides resources on Chinese culture. From China. 2-00
- China (Yahoo)
- China - World Factbook (CIA)
Provides information about the people, land, history, and culture. 6-02
- China -Chinese News
Provides online versions of newspapers and magazines from China.
- China Daily (ChinaDaily.net)
- China, Hong Kong, and Macau (Lycos)
Select a city from the list at the right to find detailed information. Note that cities are listed by province, not in straight alphabetical order.
- China, Hong Kong, and Macau (Lycos)
Select a city from the list at the right to find detailed information. Note that cities are listed by province, not in straight alphabetical order.
- Chinese Art
- Chinese Cities
Provides comprehensive factual and cultural information.
- Chinese Economy (ChinaEco.com)
- Chinese Government and Culture (Yahoo)
Provides hundreds of sources of information on China. 2-00
- Chinese Search Engines (Search Engines Worldwide - Takakuwa)
Provides 10 search engines available in China. 8-00
- Chinese Version - Ecology and the Environment (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information on ecology and the environment. Provided in the Chinese language (Simplified font). 7-02
- Chinese Version - English Lessons and Literature (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of books, articles, and lessons. Provided in the Chinese language (Simplified font). 7-02
- Chinese Version - Health and Medical Information (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information in medicine and health. Provided in the Chinese language (Simplified font). 7-02
- Chinese Version - Math Lessons and Articles (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of articles and lessons. Provided in the Chinese language (Simplified font). 7-02
- Chinese Version - Science by Topic (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information in science, by topic. Provided in the Chinese language (Simplified font). 7-02
- Chinese Version - Special Education (Awesome Library)
Provides sources of information in special education and handicapping conditions. Provided in the Chinese language (Simplified font). 7-02
- Chinese and Korean Chess Games (Martin)
Provides sources of information on Chinese and Korean chess. 1-02
- Hong Kong (China) 1997
Provides historical information, information on the change to Chinese control, and more. A Chinese Web site.
Materials
- -Awesome Library in Chinese (ArcNet)
 Provides online translations of the Web. 7-02
- Awesome Library in Russian (Promt)
Provides online translations of the Web. 7-02
- Chinese Search Engine (CNCO.net)
Provides searches in Chinese. Requires (Simplified) Chinese font. 6-02
- Chinese Search Engine (ChinaTranslate.net)
Provides searches in Chinese. Requires (Traditional) Chinese font. 6-02
- Chinese Search Engine (EZSearch.com)
Provides searches in Chinese. Requires (Traditional) Chinese font. 6-02
- Chinese Search Engine (Net-Ease.com)
Provides searches in Chinese. Requires (Simplified) Chinese font. 6-02
- Pictures of Famous Places in China (PicturesofPlaces.com)
Provides pictures of many of the tourist spots. 5-02
News
- -01-05-04 China Modernizing State Banks (ABC News)
"China announced plans Tuesday to use $45 billion from its foreign reserves to turn two of its biggest state-owned commercial banks into joint-stock corporations."
"The announcement in state media came amid efforts to modernize China's state banks in preparation for allowing foreign competitors into the industry. Chinese banks are trying to clear away mountains of unpaid debts accumulated by state industries." 1-04
- -03-15-03 Jintao New President of China (CBS News)
"Hu Jintao was selected Saturday to replace Jiang Zemin as the president of a fast-changing China, the last major step in a sweeping transition to a younger generation of leaders that has been years in the making." 3-03
- 01-26-03 China Executes Tibetan After Secret Re-Trial (San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center - Hocevar)
"Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) is outraged to learn that Chinese authorities executed Lobsang Dhondup after a secret re-trial at the Sichuan Provincial Higher People’s Court. The court also upheld the death sentence passed down to Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, an influential Buddhist leader. Tenzin Delek Rinpoche had been sentenced to death with a suspension of two years and Lobsang Dhondup to immediate death in a trial at the Kandze Intermediate People’s Court in December, 2002, and both men had reportedly appealed their sentences."
"International outcry about the cases has been enormous. SFT members alone have sent almost 10,000 faxes and emails calling for fair and open trial proceedings for the men. Around the world, Tibetans and supporters have held demonstrations and called on their governments to intervene in a case they view as unjust." 1-03
- 06-12-03 Gorges Dam has cracks (Guardian Unlimited - Gittings)
"China says that 80 cracks have appeared in the Three Gorges dam, only days after the huge reservoir behind it was filled for the first time."
"The reservoir now extends upstream for 219km (350 miles), with a maximum water depth of 135 metres (440ft)."
"A failure of the dam could have catastrophic consequences downstream in the fertile and densely populated middle Yangtze valley." 6-03
- 07-09-03 Anti-Subversion Bill Delayed (BBC News)
"Hong Kong's leader has agreed to delay an anti-subversion bill that prompted a protest by about 500,000 people who called it a threat to their freedoms." 7-03
- 07-09-03 Hong Kong Economy Under Stress (BBC News)
Describes the key issues affecting the Hong Kong economy. 7-03
- 07-17-03 China Calls on N. Korea and U.S. to Honor Agreement (Bloomberg)
"China's government called on the U.S. and North Korea to return to a 1994 agreement in order to defuse a dispute about North Korea's nuclear weapons development program." 7-03
- China - People's Daily 10-00
- China Starts World's Largest Reforestation Effort (Guardian Unlimited)
"After decades of logging that has left large swathes of the country looking like a desert wasteland, China embarked Tuesday on a $12 billion, 10-year program to plant 170,000 square miles of trees - an area roughly the size of California."
"It is the largest reforestation project ever, forestry officials said, suggesting only an unprecedented effort can stop the expanding deserts, chronic droughts and deadly flooding blamed on wholesale logging." 5-02
- Chinese News (sina.com)
Provides news from a Chinese perspective. (Stories are in Chinese.) 12-99
- Chinese News in Chinese (LanguageBox.com)
Provides news from China, about China, in Chinese. Provides an opportunity to download Chinese fonts. Includes China News, Ta Kung Pao, Guangzhou Daily, Fujian News, Singtao Electronic Daily, and Xinhua News Agency. 8-00
Papers
- Ancient China (Beavers)
- Ancient China (Frankenstein)
Explores ancient Chinese history. 12-00
- Ancient Chinese Furniture (Purdue - Big Sky)
Provides pictures and text for classical Chinese furniture.
- Ancient Chinese Literature (Purdue - Big Sky)
Provides samples of classical Chinese literature, including Confucian, Taoist, and others.
- Ancient Chinese Musical Instruments (Purdue - Big Sky)
Provides a short description and a picture of the gongs, drums, guan, sheng, suona, bawu, di, and others.
- China (CountryReports.org)
Provides a profile by topic, including Economy, Defense, Geography, Government, People, National Anthem, Lyrics and Related Links. Provides a map, news, and a flag. 6-02
- China - Daily Life in Ancient China (Donn)
Provides a comprehensive view of ancient China, including daily life activities and overall history.
- China - Historical Events by Location (Time Asia)
Provides a history of major Chinese movements or events, especially since the middle of the 20th century. 6-01
- China - Host for Olympics in 2008 (PBS NewsHour)
States that China has won as host for the Olympics in 2008. 12-01
- China - Recent Chinese History (Megastories.com)
Provides a history of major Chinese movements, especially since the middle of the 20th century. 6-01
- China Launches Publicity Campaign About Tibet (ABC News)
"Portrayed as Tibet's oppressor since communist troops marched into the region in 1950, Beijing is in the midst of a charm offensive aimed at promoting a more benign image." 8-02
- China Running Out of Water Quickly (WorldWaterConservation.com)
"The decline in China's capacity to irrigate its crops-signs of which include the drying-up of rivers and wells all over the northern region of the country-is coming at a time when depleted world grain stocks are near an all-time low. With its booming economy and huge trade surpluses, China can survive its water shortages by simply importing more of its food, because it can afford to pay more for grain. But low-income countries with growing grain deficits may not be able to pay these higher prices. For the 1.3 billion of the world's people who live on $1 a day or less, higher grain prices could quickly become life threatening. The problem is now so clearly linked to global security that the U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC) the umbrella over all U.S. intelligence agencies, has begun to monitor the situation with the kind of attention it once focused on Soviet military maneuvers."
- China Search Engine and Directory (ChinaBurst.com)
Provides a Chinese search engine and directory in English. 3-00
- China and Amnesty International Report (BBC News)
Summarizes an Amnesty International report that China has executed more people in a three month period than the rest of the countries of the world have executed in three years. 6-01
- China's Relationship With the United States (PBS - Frontline)
Discusses the delicate political and economic relationship between China and the USA, with a special emphasis on the role of Taiwan. The discussion is called "Dangerous Straits." 10-01
- China's Top Nine Leaders (CNN)
"A highlight of the first session of the new Communist Party Central Committee held on Friday was to pick the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), China's supreme ruling council."
- Chinese - English Dictionary (Harbaugh)
"This dictionary uses traditional etymologies and a unique series of charts based on them to show the close relationships between Chinese characters -- which are all derived from about 200 simple pictographs and ideographs in ways that are usually quite logical and easy to remember." - Gene R. Thursby
- Chinese Calligraphy (China, The Beautiful - Pei)
Provides information for appreciation of the art form. 3-00
- Chinese Culture (Wonderful China)
Provides information on Chinese culture in Russian. 7-00
- Chinese Culture and History (China, The Beautiful - Pei)
Provides information by subject, such as calligraphy, painting, poetry, stories, dictionaries, and more. 3-00
- Chinese Embassy in the USA
Provides the Web page for China's Embassy in the USA. Warning- Information on Tibetan history and culture should be regarded as propoganda rather than factual information. 2-00
- Chinese Version - Sustainable Planet Development (Awesome Library)
Provides an article on what needs to be done to preserve and protect the planet. Provided in the Chinese language (Simplified font). 7-02
- Gigantic Dust Cloud Threatens Food Supplies (Independent News - Lean)
"Gigantic dust clouds swirling over China are threatening the world's most populous country with the first-ever 'ecological meltdown', experts here warn."
"As the crisis continues, Mr Brown predicts, the world will soon feel the pinch. So far China has compensated for its falling harvests by eating stocks, but soon it will have to buy massive amounts of grain on world markets. He warns: 'Grain prices could double – impoverishing more people in a shorter period of time than any event in history. It would create a world food economy dominated by scarcity rather than by surpluses, as has been the case over most of the last half a century.' " Independent News is a British newspaper. 1-03
- Jintao New President of China (CBS News)
"Hu Jintao was selected Saturday to replace Jiang Zemin as the president of a fast-changing China, the last major step in a sweeping transition to a younger generation of leaders that has been years in the making." 3-03
- New Leaders for China (CNN)
"Confirming long-standing speculation, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and five other senior leaders are stepping down from their posts in the ruling Communist Party, state media has reported."
"The move signals the start of a carefully regimented transfer of power to a new, so-called 'fourth generation' of Chinese leaders as the week-long Congress of the Chinese Communist Party draws to a close in Beijing." 11-02
- New Leaders for China (CNN)
"Confirming long-standing speculation, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and five other senior leaders are stepping down from their posts in the ruling Communist Party, state media has reported."
"The move signals the start of a carefully regimented transfer of power to a new, so-called 'fourth generation' of Chinese leaders as the week-long Congress of the Chinese Communist Party draws to a close in Beijing." 11-14-02
- Recent Chinese History (Megastories.com)
Provides a history of major Chinese movements, especially since the middle of the 20th century. 6-01
- USA and China - Relationship Since the 1950's (CNN)
Provides a short summary of each key event that changed the relationship between the USA and China since the 1950's. 5-01
- Women of China (Asiapac - Internova)
Provides illustrated biographies of 100 celebrated women of China.
- Yao Ming (MSN News)
Reports on China's tallest basketball player. "China's tallest player Yao Ming, who stands 7 feet 5 inches, led the Shanghai Sharks to the Chinese Basketball Association championship...." 5-02
- Zemin, Jiang - Profile (BBC News)
Provides a biographical profile of the leader of China. leaders, rulers, Presidents, and Prime Ministers 6-01
Periodicals
- Chinese Culture (Wei Ming)
Provides a magazine on Chinese art and culture.
Projects
- Chinese Edcuational Resources (Dim Sum)
Provides information and activities related to Chines culture and Chinese-American culture.
- Ethical Dilemmas from Four Views (Donn)
Provides a variety of current ethical dilemmas that students may face and requires them to answer from four points of view from ancient China - Confucianist, Taoist, Buddhist, and Legalist.
Research
- Deafness - Aspirin May Prevent Deafness (applesforhealth)
University of Michigan researchers say aspirin may prevent a type of hearing loss common in China and other Asian countries caused by low-cost antibiotics. 07-30-99.
Worksheets
- China Worksheets (AbcTeach)
Provides dozens of worksheets to help children have a better understanding of this region of the world. 8-01
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