| 600
Years of Urban Development and Planning in & around Tianjin
1404-2004 |
Exhibit of Cornell Tianjin Project: Chinese & foreign
architecture; city & palace maps; historical background; noteworthy
people; expatriate community; commerce, industries, & finance |
 Brooklyn
College Core 9: Chinese Culture Page |
Paul Halsall's syllabus with
course outline, bibliographic guide, texts, images, & other
useful information |
| China
and Europe, 1500-2000 and Beyond: What is Modern? |
A teaching unit from Columbia University's
Asia for Educators, with multimedia features & reading list,
by Ken Pomeranz & Bin Wong, UC Irvine |
| China & Salt |
Illustrated history of the salt industry
in China, from David Bloch's Salt Made the World Go Round site |
| China
History (to Qing Dynasty) |
Links to Web resources compiled by the
East Asian Library, University of Southern California |
| Chinese
History |
A series of short essays with maps & illustrations |
| Chinese
Western Calendar Conversion Tool, CE 1-2100 |
(in Chinese) Academia Sinica Computing Centre's
tool for converting Chinese dates (by dynasty, emperor or reign
era) to & from Western dates, with explanatory notes |
 Classical
Historiography for Chinese History |
Compiled by Benjamin A. Elman, Princeton
University: introduction; relevant electronic sources; dictionaries;
Selected List Of Bibliographical & Geographical Aids and
Chronologies in Chinese, Japanese & Western Languages; biographical
aids; Some Aids For Translating Chinese Official Titles & Institutions;
Reference Guide to Classical Book Titles; The Four Parts of the
Imperial Library; Select Bibliography of Chinese Classics & Literature
In Translation With Recent Related Histories; Selected English
Bibliography For Chinese Civilization: A Brief Topical and Historical
Survey to Ming Times; Sources For The Ming Dynasty; Sources For
The Qing Dynasty; Civil and Military Examination Bibliographies;
Epigraphy |
| Coins of Ancient
China |
Images & descriptions: part of The
Coins & History of Asia Web site |
| Condensed
China: Chinese History for Beginners |
Paul Frankenstein's brief account with
a short bibliography |
| Dunhuang
Caves |
(in Chinese) From Dunhuang Academy: Historical & geographical
overview; preservation & scale of the grottoes; religious,
artistic & social heritage; discussion forum; Shockwave & Quicktime
VR clips for grottoes 61 & 323 |
| Dutiful
Daughters: Seven Moral Exemplars in Chinese History |
Essay by Barbara Bennett Peterson (World
History Connected, May 2004) |
| Edgar
Snow Papers |
Description & inventory of collection
at University of Missouri, with biography of Snow |
| Era & Timeline
of Chinese History |
A bilingual chronology compiled by Seke
Wei |
| Fairbank
Chinese History Library |
Rob Gray's virtual library
covering the Qing, the Republic & the PRC: articles, maps,
images, sounds |
| Formation
of the Chinese Civilization |
From China Internet Information Center:
the origin of man; farming & sericulture; home of ceramics;
handicraft industry & technological advances; great thinkers;
astronomy & mathematics; medicine; the 4 great inventions |
| The
Great Wall |
Excerpt from Peter Hessler's National
Geographic Magazine essay on road trip along the Great
Wall of China, with image gallery, map, video, additional information,
related links, bibliography, & National Geographic resources |
| History
of China |
Leon Poon's hypertext version
of the Army Area Handbook with maps, pictures, bios,
timeline, & search tool |
| History
of China |
Part of Richard Stockton College's Global
History Consortium: history & culture of China from ancient
times to the present |
| The
History of Chinese Bookbinding |
"a comprehensive introduction to the
different kinds of Chinese bookbinding contained in the Dunhuang
collection of the British Library" |
| Imperial
China: The Art of the Horse in Chinese History |
Web site for exhibition at Kentucky Horse
Park, International Museum of the Horse: information on exhibition & related
programs; selected artifacts photos; educational materials |
| Is
Smoking Chinese? |
Timothy Brook's reflections on the incorporation
of smoking into the Chinese cultural world as an example of many
things from abroad adopted enthusiastically by the Chinese |
| Modern Chinese
History: A Basic Bibliography |
Brent Irvin's list of basic
works, organized by era (from the Qing to the People's Republic) & by
topic |
| The National
Museum of China |
(in Chinese & English) Information
on the museum, its collection & its
past, present & future exhibitions; academic research archaeological
investigations; cultural history of China; services, etc. |
| The
Palace Museum |
(in Chinese, Japanese & English) Introduction & guide
to the museum; news; exhibitions |
| Political,
Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China |
Wide-ranging essays & translations on
historical & contemporary China by a Chinese whose thesis
is that China's society is a caste society |
| Shixue
Lianxian (History On-line) |
(in Chinese) Online resources on Chinese & Taiwanese
history: (1) History Research Institutes; (2) Search Engines,
Indices, & Mailing lists; (3) Chinese History; (4) World
History; (5) Taiwan History; (6) Topical History; (7) Museums;
(8) Libraries; (9) Electronic Texts; (10) Full-text databases;
(11)Periodicals; (12) Geographic Aids; (13) Search; (14) Discussion
Groups; (15) Miscellaneous |
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