| Culture (General) |
| China Bibliography |
Marilyn
Shea's collection of general references & resources on various topics
in Chinese culture, history & society |
|
The China Experience:
China Culture Index |
ChinaVista.com's
extensive set of articles on aspects of Chinese culture: arts & crafts;
clothing; festivals; food & drink; transportation; script & calligraphy;
folk custom; literature; ancient relics; performing arts; architecture;
people |
| China the Beautiful - Chinese
Art & Literature |
Poetry
in translation, calligraphy, painting gallery, flashcards for learning Chinese,
portraits of emperors, links to museums |
| China10k
|
(in Chinese &
English) From China10K Omnimedia, a Chinese culture content provider, articles
on China's history & culture, special programs, cultural marketplace,
travel information, & museums |
|
Chinabao |
(in Chinese) China
Federation of Literary & Art Circles's commercial arts Web site : literature;
visual arts; performing arts; music |
| ChinaLinks for HyperChina Users |
Sinologic's
list of sites categorized by subject: language, literature, history, philosophy,
etc. |
| Chinese Cultural Studies:
Bibliography |
Paul
Halsall's extensive bibliography of sources in English, organized by topic |
| The
Chinese Odyssey |
A Thinkquest project:
history; the arts; picture gallery; military game |
|
Chinese Sourcebook
on the Internet |
Yoav Ariel's collection
of links on Chinese philosophy/classics, sinology, art, history, & language
|
|
Cultural Institute |
(in Chinese) Cultural
magazine, news, & activities |
|
The Glory of Chinese
Printing |
An online exhibition:
a history illustrated with images of artefacts from the Printing Museum
of China |
| Guide to Tibetan Art, Theater
& Music |
Maintained by Janice
M. Glowski & part of the Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library |
|
Literacy,
Writing & Education |
Barend J. ter Haar's
topically organized bibliography of secondary literature on literacy, orality,
writing (functions & status) & education from pre-Qin period to
the present |
|
kpworld.com |
(in Chinese) A Web
site for news on Chinese culture & entertainment |
 Modern
Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center |
"bibliographies
of mostly English-language materials on modern Chinese literature, film,
art, and culture ... maintained by Kirk A. Denton and Thomas Chan," Ohio
State University |
|
Rethinking
Cultural Revolution Culture |
Heidelberg workshop
& multimedia exhibition reevaluating culture & cultural life during
the Cultural Revolution (2001) |
| Sinophilia Homepage |
A site on Chinese
religions, art & history created by Diana Lavarini & Anna del Franco
of Italy |
| TOM.COM
|
(in Chinese &
English) "Discover China"; artistic heritage; "Ask TOM";
the zodiac |
|
Transnational China Project |
Project seeking "
to expand the study of the influence of the transnational circulation of
people, technologies, commodities & ideas in Chinese societies": commentaries
in text & RealAudio formats; curriculum materials; image archive of
China's consumer culture |
|
Visible Traces: Rare Books
& Special Collections from the National Library of China |
Asia Society's online
exhibition with teacher's guide, games & links: rare books & manuscripts;
epigraphical & pictorial rubbings; maps & atlases; texts & illustrations
from China's ethnic minorities |
 |
| Art & Architecture |
|
Antique Chinese Porcelain Collector's
Free Help & Info Page |
"more than 290
pages of information ... about antique Chinese & Japanese porcelain,
history, porcelain potting & the old East India company trade to China"
|
| Art of China Homepage |
Images
of art, crafts, & scenery; audio clips of music; food recipes; the Chinese
zodiac |
|
The Art of the Horse in Chinese
History |
"the first exhibition
ever to explore the role of the horse in ... Chinese history & culture,"
hosted by the International Museum of the Horse |
|
The Art of Tibet |
The Himalayan Art
Project of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, seeking to "preserve
the sacred art of the Himalayas": a searchable database of over 1,000
thangkas, with "information & commentary on [their] historical
& religious significance" |
| The Art of Tibetan Sand
Painting |
A virtual voyage viewing
Tibetan monks create a mandala |
|
Art Scene China |
A commercial contemporary
Chinese art gallery |
| Beijing Wenbo Information
Net: Relics & Museums |
Beijing Administrative
Bureau of Cultural Relics' guide to museums, historic sites, exhibitions,
auctions, & treasures of Beijing |
| Bibliography of Titles
on Photography in China before 1949 |
Thomas
H. Kahn's detailed descriptions of pre-1949 photo albums |
| Century
Online China Art Networks |
(in Chinese &
English) "a large international professional art network ... Aiming
to promote Chinese national culture & arts" |
|
China: 5,000 Years: the Modern Section |
Electronic exhibition:
"Innovations in Chinese Painting (1850-1950)"; "The Modernist Generations
(1920-1950)"; "Art for New China (1950-1980)"; Transformations of Tradition
(1980-The Present)" |
|
China Avant-Garde: Chinese Contemporary
Art |
A commercial site
with online galleries |
|
Chinese Art
and Architecture: An Annotated List of Recent Works in Western Languages
|
From Smithsonian
Institution, categorized list with introduction |
| Chinese
Art News Net |
(in Chinese) Chinese
art news; artists; columns; art institutions; sources & studies; publications;
the art market |
| The
Chinese Art Portal: Contemporary, Modern & Traditional Chinese Art from
China |
Books, magazine,
e-bulletin, & galleries |
| Chinese Art Slides |
Colby College collection
that can be viewed by period, title, or medium |
| Chinese Calligraphy |
An introduction to
the art of calligraphy with gallery & explanation of styles with examples |
|
Chinese Folk Fine
Arts Information Service System |
From Southeast University
(Nanjing), a comprehensive introduction to the genres of & research
on Chinese folk arts; index of the Journal of Chinese Folk Arts & Crafts
|
| Chinese Paper Arts |
Traditional folds,
Wei Xian paper cutting, modern money folds as practiced in the West, &
links |
|
Chinese Traditional
Art |
A quarterly Webzine
edited by Yin Jinan of the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts: translations of
articles on art history & archaeology by Chinese scholars, exhibition
reviews, & auction updates |
| Chinese Type Contemporary
Art Magazine |
Articles on contemporary
Chinese artists, collections & exhibitions |
|
Classical Chinese Furniture |
Information on decoration
& style, materials, dating, joinery & construction, categories,
history; also related links |
| Eternal China: Splendors
from the First Dynasties |
Exhibition of sculptural
objects from the Qin & Han dynasties |
|
From
Heaven & Earth: Chinese Jade in Context |
From the Huntington
Archive, an online exhibition featuring 177 images with explanatory text,
& essays on the craft of jade making & on the culture & society
of China from ancient times through the 10th century |
| Inside
Out -- New Chinese Art |
A Time Asia
Photo Essay (10/24/2000) |
|
Mirrors of the Heart-Mind |
Online exhibition
of the Rezek Collection of Tibetan Art: 85 images with didactic text &
45 essays written by guest curators |
|
The Long March Project
|
"project [aiming]
to take both contemporary Chinese & international art to ... those people
who live in communities along the route of Mao Zedong's historic Long March"
|
|
Monks
and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia,
4th-7th Century |
Asia Society exhibition:
heavenly horses; nomad rulers; Buddhism & China; Buddhist cave temples;
Bodhisattvas; monks; merchants & currencies; the Tang Dynasty; the Silk
Road |
|
Rubbings of Chinese Inscriptions
|
Selected scans from
the collection of the East Asian Library at the University of California,
Berkeley |
| ShanghaiART |
"The first gallery
for contemporary art in Shanghai," with capsule biographies of artists &
images of their work |
| Sinophilia: Art |
A history of Chinese
art; various topics |
| Taoism
& the Arts of China |
An NEH-funded exhibition
at the Art Institute of Chicago |
| Tales from the Land of
Dragons |
Exhibition of Chinese
paintings from the permanent collection of Boston's Museum of Fine Arts |
|
Tibet: Tradition & Change |
Exhibition of Tibetan
art objects inspired by Buddhism at the Albuquerque Museum |
| Tibetan Art: Thanka Paintings |
An introduction to
the figural tradition of Tibetan art |
|
The
Tibetan Tanka Exhibit |
Tankas from the Koelz
Expedition owned by Univ. of Michigan's Museum of Anthropology & from
the Koelz estate, with explanatory essays |
|
Treasures
from a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan |
Exhibition of artifacts
from burial pits dated around 1200 B.C. at Sanxingdui, & from Sichuan
sites of the Western Zhou & Eastern Han dynasties |
|
Yin Yu Tang, A Chinese Home
|
Virtual exhibition
of Peabody Essex Museum's re-erection of a Qing Dynasty merchant mansion
|
|
Yishu - Journal of
Contemporary Chinese Art |
Tables of content
with some articles available online |
|
| Literature &
Language |
|
The Asociation of Chinese & Comparative
Literature Website |
News & announcements
of organization promoting "exchanges between scholars working in the
field of Chinese & Comparative Literature in the U.S., China, Taiwan,
Hong Kong, Canada" |
| Banyan
Tree |
(in Chinese) Original
literary works by Chinese writers around the globe |
| Bibliography of Modern Chinese Literature
& Film |
Extensive bibliography
of mainly English-language materials maintained by Kirk A. Denton &
Jeremy Sieg: Reference works, translations, author studies, Lu Xun, film,
general studies, catalogs, online sources, e-texts |
|
A Chinese-Cantonese
Syllabary Pronounced according to the Dialect of Canton |
(in Chinese) Electronic
version of S.L. Wong's book, with search engine allowing inputting a Chinese
character to find the Cantonese pronunciation or inputting Cantonese sound
to find Chinese characters |
|
Chinese Characters Dictionary Web
|
"The major Chinese
character dictionaries on the web ... [interlinked] at a character-to-character
level" |
|
Chinese Language |
Arthur Mitski's About.com
guide to various aspects of Chinese language (including calligraphy, characters,
dialects, dictionaries, idioms & slang, & literature), as well as
comics, software, music, etc. |
|
The Chinese
Language: Myths & Facts |
Article written by
Timothy Light for the Asia Society's Focus on Asian Studies |
| Chinese Language Related Information
Page |
Viewing
& listening to Chinese on the Web; FTP sites & text files; educational,
linguistic, & librarianship resources; Chinese-language software &
radio broadcasts |
| Chinese Language Teachers
Association (Links) |
Links to Chinese language
& culture organizations, institutions teaching Chinese, study abroad/internship
programs, sources on Chinese teaching & learning, & other resources
relevant to the Chinese Language Teachers Association |
|
Chinese
Literature |
(in Chinese) A comprehensive
directory of links on Chinese literature, grouped by genre |
|
Chinese Online Reading
Assistant |
"vocabulary-annotated
Chinese articles for advanced students," created for a project with
participation of 6 Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) institutions
|
| Chinese Text Initiative |
E-texts of classical
literature from the University of Virginia Library East Asian Section &
Electronic Text Center |
|
Chinese
Women Writers: A Working Selected Detailed Annotated Bibliography |
A compilation by
by Jace Condravy for the development of a course on Asian women writers
|
|
Dictionary of Chinese
Characters |
Definitions of characters
in Chinese or English, & readings in Mandarin, Cantonese, & Hakka
|
|
Dictionaryhk.com |
Translate words from
English to English, Chinese traditional, Chinese simplified or Japanese |
|
Epics in China: A Working
Bibliography |
Translation of a
Chinese bibliography by students of Mark Bender's graduate seminar on Chinese
epic traditions at Ohio State University |
|
Getting to Know Chinese Rare Books
|
(in Chinese) From
the National Central Library, Taiwan, |
|
Guoxue.com |
(in Chinese) An enormous
site for National Studies: full texts of classics, histories, philosophers,
miscellaneous; modern studies; profiles of scholars; news; academic articles,
journals, institutions & conferences; specialized fields of study such
as Tang studies, poetry & lyrics, novels, theater; etc. |
|
Hanquan Database of Ancient
Texts |
(in Chinese) From
the Palace Museum in Taipei, a searchable database of Chinese classical
texts including the 13 Classics, pre-Qin philosophers, complete Tang poems,
& the 25 Histories |
|
HKdict.com |
English-Chinese &
Chinese-English dictionaries, in both Big5 & Guobiao versions |
|
The
Horror of Being Ignored and the Pleasure of Being Left Alone: Notes on the
Chinese Poetry Scene |
Essay by Maghiel
van Crevel, Leiden University (Dec. 2002) |
| Hsi Yu Chi: The Chinese
Fantasy Novel |
A site devoted to
the classic Chinese novel The Journey to the West: summary; glossary
& character profiles; downloadables; versions & interpretations;
discussion forum |
|
Index &
Database on Chinese Writers |
Biographies of over
420 writers, with bibliographies & listings of works translated in Renditions
|
|
Jin Yong Inn |
(in Chinese) Novels
by & information on the noted martial arts novelist |
|
Journal of Modern Literature
in Chinese |
The only bilingual
refereed journal on contemporary literature in Chinese, published by Centre
for Literature & Translation, Lingnan University, Hong Kong |
|
Kleine Bibliothek der Xiucixue.
Ein Archiv |
Klaus Horsten's bibliography
of literature on xiucixue (rhetoric) |
|
Learning Chinese Online
|
Resources on learning
pronunciation, conversations, characters, & grammar; reading materials;
online dictionaries, etc. |
|
Lexiconer Online English-Chinese and
Chinese-English Dictionaries |
Dictionary input
by either traditional or simplified Chinese characters; vocabulary practices
for TOEFL & GRE |
|
Lin Yutang's Chinese-English
Dictionary of Modern Usage (CUHK) |
With search tool,
& radical, pinyin & English indices |
|
Literature in Line: Lianhuanhua Picture Stories from China |
Electronic
version of exhibition at the Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library:
13 picture stories ranging from historical & mythological to modern
subjects |
| The
Literature of Leisure in Late Imperial China |
Part of research project
compiling bibliographic information on Ming-Qing leisure literature: author
guide; collections; bibliography; reference; links |
| Louis
Cha |
(in Chinese &
English) Photos of Jin Yong, with biography, interviews, commentaries, &
links to translations, songs, & novels |
|
Lu Xun Home Page |
(in Chinese) Complete
texts & critical analyses of Lu Xun's works, biographical accounts &
chronology of his life, & news reports |
|
Lu Xun, Father
of Modern Chinese Literature |
Tim Gallaher's site
dedicated to 20th century China's greatest writer, with biographical sketch,
introduction to major works, & bibliography of & links to available
translations |
|
Luc Devroye's Page on
Chinese Fonts |
A compilation of
Web links |
| Marjorie Chan's Chinese Language
& Gender On-Line Bibliography |
A Chinese linguistics
bibliography on language & gender, with a general linguistics bibliography
on language & gender, links to online syllabi, & a bibliography
of works on gender issues by scholars of Chinese not in the discipline of
linguistics |
|
Learn Chinese with Clavis Sinica
|
Commercial software
"Combining a versatile Chinese text reader with a comprehensive &
richly cross-referenced Chinese dictionary" |
|
Literary Selections from Women
Writers |
(in Chinese) Contemporary
women writers from mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, overseas, & on
the Internet; women writers of the past; news; commentaries; search tool
|
| Marjorie Chan: Word Lists &
Online Glossaries/Dictionaries |
An annotated list
of Chinese & Japanese dictionaries & word lists |
| Modern Chinese Literature & Culture |
Scholarly journal
publishing on "literature of all genres, film & television, popular
culture, performance & visual art, print & material culture, etc.":
tables of contents; resource center of bibliographies, links & image
archive |
|
The Novels of Gulong
|
(in Chinese) Novels
by the noted martial arts novelist |
| Novels of Jin Yong |
FAQ, essays, links,
& trivia on the martial arts novels of Louis Cha (Jin Rong), the most
popular novelist of the Chinese language |
|
Olive Tree: Chinese Literature & Culture
|
A Philadelphia-based
Chinese online monthly literary magazine |
| On-line
Chinese Tools |
Erik Peterson's "tools
to assist people in learning and using the beautiful Chinese language,"
including flash cards, romanization converter, learning to draw Chinese
characters, dictionaries, Chinese encoding converter, Western-Chinese calendar
converter, East Asian currency converter, Chinese measurements, get a Chinese
name, Chinese family relationships, etc. |
| Pearl S. Buck |
Peter
Conn's Web site: photographic tour, video documentaries, films based on
Buck's novels, news on Buck & her foundation |
|
PL480 Microfiche
Edition of Tibetan Literature Online Search |
Database in progress
at the Toyo Bunko for the PL480 Microfiche Edition of Tibetan Literature
preserved in the Library of Congress |
| Pristine Lexicon |
A searchable Chinese-English-pinyin
lexicon of over 120,000 entries |
|
Renditions |
Chinese-English translation
journal published by the Research Centre for Translation of the Chinese
University of Hong Kong |
|
Scripta Sinica |
(in Chinese) From
Academia Sinica Computer Center (ASCC), Taiwan, a full-text database of
classical texts, works on modern Chinese history, & studies on Taiwan
history & culture |
| Speak
Mandarin Campaign |
Singapore government's
campaign to promote the use of Mandarin among Chinese Singaporeans: sample
conversation lessons; vocabulary lists; multimedia features |
| Study Mandarin Using VOA |
Learn by listening
to Voice of America newscast sound clips "while viewing the corresponding
Chinese characters, pinyin pronunciations, & vocabulary lists with word
definitions" |
|
Seventh
Sister & the Serpent |
A narrative poem
of the Yi people, & "a rich repository of Yi social life, customs
& mores" |
|
Tools
in the Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library: Software |
Tools for Tibetan input, diacritic input, Tibetan translation, etc. |
| USC:
Chinese Language Program |
Information
on the program; readings in Chinese including humor stories, historical
origins of idioms & myths; business Chinese vocabulary & phrases;
links |
|
Writers-in-exile after
Tiananmen Tragedy |
Essays in Road
to East Asia |
| zhongwen.com |
Rick
Harbaugh's Searchable Chinese character dictionary with zipu or "character
genealogies"; Chinese dictionary Web; online readings; vocabularies; FAQ
& other tools & links for learning Chinese characters |
| Xin Yu Si (New Threads) |
Monthly electronic
publication of original essays, criticisms, & creative writings in Chinese |
|
Yahoo! Hong Kong Dictionary
|
Searchable in Chinese
or English |
|
| Nobel Laureate Gao
Xingjian |
| The
Case for Literature |
(In Chinese, English,
& Swedish) Gao Xingjian's Nobel Lecture |
|
A Conversation with Gao
Xingjian |
An AsiaSource interview
|
|
Fleshing
out the Dramaturgy of Gao Xingjian |
Claire Conceison's
essay for Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, with images &
video clips |
| Gao
Xingjian - Video on Demand |
Interview by Horace
Engdahl (Dec. 13, 2000); Nobel lecture |
| Gao
Xingjian: Receiving Award at the "Other Shore" |
(in Chinese) Information
on Gao & his Nobel award; reactions & criticisms of his work |
|
Gao Xingjian
Receives 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature |
A UCLA Center for
East Asian Studies (CEAS) Newsfile (Oct. 12, 2000), with news stories, reviews
of Gao's work, & bibliography |
|
Gao
Xingjian's Talk at City University of Hong Kong |
A transcript of the
Chinese text of Gao's lecture (Jan. 31, 2001) |
|
The Nobel Prize
in Literature 2000 |
The Nobel Foundation:
Press release; presentation speech; biography; Nobel lecture; other resources |
| Nobel
Laureate 2000 Gao Xingjian & his Novel Soul Mountain |
Mabel Lee's essay
in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature & Culture: A WWWeb Journal
2.3 (2000) |
|
Soul
Mountain |
Chapters 1 &
2 from Mabel Lee's translation |
|
Special Edition of
Gao Xingjian's Nobel Award |
A China News Digest
supplement (Oct. 14, 2000) |
|
Works by
Gao Xingjian |
An exhibition of
Gao's art at the Schimmel Virtual Gallery |
|
| Music & Theater
|
|
9,000 Year Old Chinese Flutes |
Article in Nature on oldest playable playable musical instruments found at early Neolithic site in China, with images & sound file |
|
Abing,
A Chinese Folk Musician |
Jonathan Stock's
introduction to the life & music of the early 20th century musician
Abing |
|
Bright Sheng, Composer,
Pianist, Conductor |
Homepage of the MacArthur
Fellowship recipient |
|
Cantonese Opera Home
Page |
A bilingual site:
history; artists; playwrights; instruments; events; questions & answers;
forum |
|
CHIME - European Foundation for Chinese
Music Research |
"a foundation
for the promotion of Chinese music research, based in Leiden, the Netherlands":
annual journal & conferences; monographs; projects; bibliography of
books & articles on Chinese music |
|
Chinese Music |
A brief introduction
to the traditional music & musical instruments of China, with images
|
|
Chinese Music International
Journal |
"an international
refereed journal published quarterly by the Chinese Music Society of North
America ... devoted wholly to the study of the music & acoustics of
China" |
|
Chinese Music Society of North America
|
Information on musical
groups, programs & publications, & short features on Chinese music
& musicians |
| Chinese
Rock Music Black List
|
Chinese rock music
links |
|
Christopher Evans'
Guqin Pages |
A comprehsive introduction
to traditional Chinese music in general & the guqin & its music
in particular, with a list of Chinese music references & glossary |
| Cui
Jian |
(in Chinese &
English) Official site of the pioneering Chinese rock musician |
|
Development
of Beijing Opera During the Cultural Revolution in China |
Excerpts from Wendy
A. Levine's 1995 thesis, with bibliography & image gallery |
|
Giving
the People What They Want: Cantonese Opera in the Twenties & Thirties
|
A short account of
a period of innovations in Cantonese opera |
|
The
Internet Chinese Music Archive |
A comprehensive
archive of music files in SUN audio format: traditional music; modern music;
popular music; ceremonial music; historical speeches, etc. |
|
Model
Operas (Yangban xi) |
(in Chinese) Scanned
comic book versions of the model operas of the Cultural Revolution |
|
Peking Opera
|
A comprehensive introduction
to the history & aspects of Beijing (or Peking) Opera |
|
Singing the Chinese Blues:
An Interview with Liu Sola |
Conversation with
"a composer & vocalist whose work combines elements of traditional
Chinese folk music with contemporary American jazz & blues" |
| Songs
of the Cultural Revolution |
Downloadable songs |
|
Traditional Songs &
Stories & a Glossary of Phrases of the Hua Miao of South West China
|
Collected & translated
by R. Keith Parsons, & maintained by Steve Rake: an archive of songs
reflecting Miao history, society & culture, with map & introduction
to Miao script |
|
The
Ultimate Turandot: House of Spectacle |
Photoessay on the
1998 production at the Forbidden City |
|
| Film |
|
100 Greatest Chinese
Films of the 20th Century |
As chosen by Asia
Weekly, & translated & provided with links by Shelly Kraicer
|
|
Absence
as Spectacle -- Zhang Yimou's Hero |
Shelly Kraicer's
review for Cinema Scope (3/2003) |
|
Asian Film Connections:
China |
"background
information about the Chinese film industry, current trends & important
events"; highlighted films with film stills & video clips; highlighted
directors; educational curriculum |
|
Chinese Cinema |
"history, news,
& visual materials about Chinese cinema, ... [&] a bibliography
of selected publications in English on Chinese cinema" |
| Chinese
Cinema Page |
Shelly Kraicer's reviews
of contemporary Chinese films from Taiwan, Hong Kong, & mainland China |
|
Chinese Film in the 1930s
|
Film synopses, critical
studies, film magazines, image archive, & related links |
| Chinese Movie Database |
Searchable database
of Chinese movies from 1905 to the present |
|
The
Emperor & The Assassin |
Official site of
Chen Kaige's film, with synopsis, historical background, production notes,
character guide, cast & credits, biographies, & stills & clips
|
|
The
Emperor and the Assassin |
Richard Falcon's
review of Chen Kaige's 1999 film (Sight and Sound, Aug. 2000) |
| Film & Media Bibliography |
Bibliography listings
by period, director & other categories -- Part of the Modern Chinese
Literature & Culture (MCLC) Resource Center |
|
Hero |
Official site of
Zhang Yimou's martial arts film about the First Emperor: production &
cast information; seminars featuring discussion by principals; "making-of"
|
|
Hero
|
Sina.com's collection
of news & reviews |
|
Jia
Zhangke: A Critical Database |
Compiled with critical
essay by Kevin Lee: filmography; bibliography; articles in Senses of
Cinema; Web resources |
|
Love
and Swords: The Dialectics of Martial Arts Romance |
A Review of Crouching
Tiger Hidden Dragon by Stephen Teo (Senses of Cinema, Issue
No. 11, Dec 2000 - Jan 2001) |
|
Not
One Less / Yi Ge Dou Bu Neng Shao |
Philip Kemp's review
of Zhang Yimou's 1998 film (Sight and Sound, Aug. 2000) |
|
Popular Cinema |
(in Chinese) Online
version of Shanghai magazine on Chinese & world cinema, founded in 1950
|
|
Riding
Towards the Future: Wang Xiaoshuai's Beijing Bicycle |
Essay by Elizabeth
Wright (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 18, January-February 2002) |
|
Screening Modern China: Chinese
Film & Culture |
Eileen Chow's fall
2001 course at Harvard |
|
Shadow
Magic. Imperial Peking's Cinematic Initiation |
Essay by Elizabeth
Wright (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 17, Nov.-Dec. 2001) |
|
Shanghai Film Studio |
(in Chinese &
English) movie stars, directors & creative artists; movie database;
company information, etc. |
|
|
Suzhou
River |
Review of Lou Ye's
2000 film by Lizzie Francke (Sight & Sound Dec. 2000) |
|
The
Road Home |
Essay on Zhang Yimou's
1999 film by Dimitri Tsahuridis (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 8, July-Aug
2000) |
|
The
Road Home / Wo De Fu Qin Mu Qin |
John Mount's review
of Zhang Yimou's 1999 film (Sight and Sound, Dec. 2000) |
|
"We
Kicked Jackie Chan’s Ass!" |
An Interview with
James Schamus, co-writer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, by Stephen Teo
(Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 13, Apr-May 2001) |
|
Xiao
Wu |
Tony Rayns' review
of Jia Zhangke's 1997 film (Sight and Sound, March 2000) |
|
Xiu Xiu |
Story, clips &
reviews of the film by Joan Chen |
|
Zhang
Yimou: A Critical Database |
Compiled with critical
essay by Mary Farquhar: filmography; bibliography; articles in Senses
of Cinema; Web resources |
|
Zhang
Yuan’s Seventeen Years and Crazy English and Thai film
Nang Nak |
Freda Freiberg's
essay on 2 films of a leading 6th Generation director & a Thai ghost
film (Senses of Cinema, Issue No. 8, July-Aug 2000) |
|
Zhang Ziyi Forever |
A fan site of the
Chinese actress with biography, filmography, pictures, & message board
|
|
| Social Issues &
Conditions |
|
6 Billion &
Beyond: China |
The China section
of a companion Web site to a PBS documentary on global population in the
new millenium: overview; the environment; reproductive health; the economy;
women's status |
|
AiZi |
(in Chinese) Web
site of an AIDS activist group in China |
|
Annotated
bibliography on violence in Chinese culture |
Compiled by by Barend
ter Haar, Leiden University, & organized into numerous categories |
|
Averting a Full-blown
HIV/AIDS Epidemic in China |
Report of the CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies) HIV/AIDS Delegation to
China (Jan. 2003) |
| Beijing Scene |
"feature articles,
profiles of opinion-makers in China & regular columns" providing "readers
with an accurate, up-to-date & humorous insight into living &
doing business in China's capital today" |
| China
Along the Yellow River -- A Scholar's Observations & Meditations on
Chinese Rural Society; Pt. II |
David Cowhig's reading
notes on Book 1 of a rural survey by Chinese scholar Cao Jinqing (Sept.
2000) |
| China & the World |
Leftist
Chinese views on social, political & historical developments of contemporary
China |
|
China
Country Assessment: Two Decades of Poverty Reduction |
Country profile from
the UNDP Poverty Report 2000 |
|
China Development Brief
|
(in English &
Chinese) "an independent publication established in 1996 to report
on aid to China, highlighting the work of international and Chinese NGOs"
|
|
China Development Briefing |
A Hong
Kong journal on China's social & human development |
| China: Exploring the Interior,
1903-1904 |
Exhibition of R. Harvey
Sargent's photos of the land & people of early 20th century North China,
with explanatory captions |
|
Chinese
Education & Research Network: Statistics |
A set of statistics
on education, technology, & culture |
| Chinese Educational Resources Information
Centre (Chinese ERIC) |
Electronic database
of Chinese journal articles, policy papers, dissertations & theses on
education, searchable by keywords |
| China Foundation, Inc |
A non-profit, charitable
organization, the mission of which is "to raise funds to improve basic
health services & elementary education in underdeveloped rural areas
in China" |
|
China in
the Red |
Companion site to
PBS Frontline documentary on China's transition to a market economy: program
in streaming video; roundtable discussion on "prospects for democratic
reform and human rights in China" by 4 experts; China & the Internet;
"Birth of a Beijing Music Scene," with Cui Jian music video; producer
interview; chronology; teacher's guide |
|
China's Credibility
Gap: Public Opinion & Instability in China |
Special report published
by the Woodrow Wilson Center's Asia Program (Aug. 2002) |
|
China's
Labor Lost |
Time Magazine's
reports on joblessness, women in the workforce, & economic migrants
(June 17, 2002) |
|
China's
Next Cultural Revolution |
TIME Asia's special
report on rapid cultural & social change in China (Nov. 11, 2002) |
|
China's
Population and Development in the 21st Century |
White paper released
by the Information Office of the State Council (Dec. 2000) |
| Chineseroots.com
|
(in Chinese &
English) Genealogical resources including: Surname dictionary; ask an expert;
genealogical data based on the Shanghai Library collection; database of
records of births & marriages |
|
Classically
Romantic -- The Chinese View of Love |
An essay in Sinorama
Magazine |
|
daoyi.com |
(in Chinese) A medical
information & community site |
|
The
Development-oriented Poverty Reduction Program for Rural China |
White paper released
by the Information Office of the State Council (Oct. 2001) |
|
Educational
Disengagement: Undermining Academic Quality at a Chinese University
|
Michael Agelasto's
portrayal of Shenzhen University, "the most comprehensive study written
to date about education at a Chinese university" |
|
An Evaluation of
the One Percent Cluster Sample of the 1990 Census of China |
Paper by William
M. Mason & William Lavely (Oct. 2001) |
| Families with Children from China |
"nondenominational
organization of families who have adopted children from China," providing
network of support for adoptive parents |
|
First Impressions
of the 2000 Census of China |
Paper by William
Lavely, University of Washington (Nov. 2001) |
|
Globalisation,
Drugs, and Criminalisation: Final Research Report on Brazil, China, India,
& Mexico |
An UNESCO report
(2002): Drug Trafficking & the State; Drug Trafficking, Criminal Organisations
& Money Laundering; "Social & Cultural Dimensions of Drug Trafficking;
Methodological, Institutional & Policy Dimensions of the Research on
Drug Trafficking |
|
HIV/AIDS:
China's Titanic Peril |
2001 update of the
AIDS Situation & Needs Assessment Report by the UN Theme Group on HIV/AIDS
in China (June 2002) |
|
The Hukou System
& Rural-urban Migration in China: Processes & Changes |
Paper by Kam Wing
Chan & Li Zhang (1998) |
|
Inter-provincial
Migration in China in the Post-1949 Era: Types, Spatial Patterns, &
Comparisons |
Paper by Kam Wing
Chan & Yunyan Yang (1996) |
|
Labor
and Social Security in China |
White paper released
by the Information Office of the State Council (Apr. 2002) |
| Living Arrangements &
Mortality Risks of the Urban Elderly in Yunnan Province, China, 1995 |
Downloadable paper
published by Population Studies Center, University of Michigan |
| Made in China |
A digital
expedition: Explorations, Candide in China |
|
Netor Memorial |
Where mourners can
set up memorials for people & events, & leave eulogies, songs, flowers &
candles; distinguished pedigrees; genealogies; memorial words; stories;
religious works & knowledge; Chinese customs; classics; introduction to
the dynasties |
| Newsweek:
The New China |
A special report dated
June 29, 1998, in conjunction with Clinton's state visit to China |
| On
Workers' Rights to Organize & To Strike |
Notes on an article
by Chang Kai, Professor of Labor Relations |
|
The Politics of Rural
Land Use Planning in China |
Frank Pieke's working
paper for the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (2002) |
| Poverty
Alleviation in China: Commitment, Policies & Expenditures |
A United Nations
Human Development Programme occasional paper by Amei Zhang (1993) |
|
Precious Children
|
A companion Web site
to a PBS documentary on early education in China |
|
Rural-Urban
Labor Migration Process in China |
A paper by Qiming
Liu & Kam Wing Chan, Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology,
Univ. of Washington (July 1999) |
| State Family Planning Commission |
Poulation & family
planning in China: facts, views, & policies |
|
University in Turmoil: The Political
Economy of Shenzhen University |
Michael Agelasto's
portrait of Shenzhen University, "the most comprehensive study written
to date about a Chinese work-unit" |
| An
Unsafe Playing Field: Labor Relations in Foreign Enterprises in China
|
Ying Zhang-White's
essay in Harvard Asia Quarterly (Summer 1999) |
|
Voices
from modern China |
BBC NEWS Online:
"a range of people across the country ... speak about their daily lives,
their hopes for the future, and how they are coping with the country's rapid
change" (2002) |
|
Young China
|
A special issue of
Time Asia (10/23/2000): patriotism; 'Generation Yellow'; gay culture
& social developments; trends in the arts; youth & the future; statistics
|
|
Was
World Bank Support for the Qinghai Anti-Poverty Project in China Ill-Considered?
|
Essay by Pieter Bottelier
in Harvard Asia Quarterly (Winter 2001) |
|
WashingtonPost.com: China, the Next Generation |
Series of 5 articles |
|
Xungen |
"the first Chinese
genealogy hub on the Internet dealing with Xing [family name] & Jia
Pu [Chinese family tree]" |
|
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|
banbiantian.com |
(in Chinese) A virtual
community providing 14 topics of interest to Chinese women, chat room, BBS,
interviews of famous people, etc. |
|
China Women's News
|
(in Chinese &
English) "only nationwide daily for women ... established [by All China
Women's Federation] for the cause of the equality, liberation, & development
of women" |
|
Chinese Women on the Web |
Hong Kong-based "Chinese
women's interest site which provides high quality content, community services,
& e-commerce focused on important life events" |
| Chinese
Women's Network |
(in Chinese &
English) Official site of All-China Women's Federation |
| cwow.com
|
"a place for
educated, modern Chinese women to find personalized real-life advice, easy-to-use
interactive tools, support, & all the resources needed during life's
big transitions" |
| Footbinding |
An essay by Dawnelle
Loiselle |
|
halfworld.com |
(in Chinese) "a
homestead targeting the young & independent ladies & female-product
providers" |
|
(Inter)disciplining
Chinese Women: An Introduction to the English Language Literature on Women's
Studies in China |
Patricia Arend's
bibliographic essay introducing the basic issues, with timeline & annotated
bibliography |
|
Gaogenxie.com |
(in Chinese) A community
site providing a forum for Chinese women's issues & concerns |
|
LadyNow |
(in Chinese) News
& informational channels, bbs, & other features for the modern woman
|
|
Nan
Nü: Men, Women and Gender in Early and Imperial China |
TOC of e-journal
(Jan. 2000 issue free) |
| One
Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding |
A student paper by
Marie Vento for a Brooklyn College course on Chinese Culture |
|
Sex Preference for
Children in a Meifu Li Community in Hainan, China |
Paper by William
Lavely, Jianke Li, & Jianghong Li (March 2001) |
|
The Storm over Wuya
|
(in Chinese) Discussion
forum on the controversy over Wuya (Crow), a novel about
gold-digging Chinese women in Singapore |
|
Traditions
of Exemplary Women (Lienu zhuan) |
Chinese text of "the
earliest extant book in the Chinese tradition solely devoted to the moral
education of women," with introduction by Anne Behnke Kinney |
|
Village
Works: Photographs by Women in China's Yunnan Province |
An exhibition of
pictures taken by Chinese women in 1992-93 during during a Women's Reproductive
Health & Development Program in "an experimental "photovoice"
approach to assessing the needs & resources of mountain villages in
southwest China" |
|
Women & Gender in Chinese
Studies Network |
Network aiming to
link European scholars working in Chinese women's/gender studies |
|
Women Network |
(in Chinese) A women's
community site run by Lianhe Zaobao |
|
World of Nushu |
(in English &
Japanese) Research by Orie Endo of Bunkyo University on an endangered system
of writing invented by women for communication among women |
|
Yesee.com |
(in Chinese) A Chinese
women's Web forum based in Beijing |
|
| Cross-Cultural Relations
|
|
China Center for Adoption Affairs (CCAA)
|
(in English &
Chinese) "responsible for receiving and reviewing the applications
and other certifying documents of foreigners coming to China for adopting
children": news; laws & regulations; relevant documents; guidelines;
friendly exchanges & visits |
|
Dashan |
(in English &
Chinese) Official site of Canadian Mark Rowswell, a TV personality &
"arguably the most famous foreigner in China" |
|
Living & Teaching
in China |
"the day-to-day
experiences of a foreigner living & working in China," articles
on marriage, family, & other issues, links & tips, & photo essays
& slide show |
|
Teaching in China
|
Karen Huber's tips
on teaching in China (Free Pint, Nov. 2002) |
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|
Chinese Heritage of Australian
Federation Project |
Celebration of "the
contribution of Australia's Chinese communities to the early founding &
subsequent development of Australia": exhibition; resources; index
to Tung Wah Times; stories; links |
| Chinese in Guyana: Their Roots |
History of Chinese
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