China
Chinese Studies: Subject
guides (综述)
- Bibliographies
(书目)
- Images
(图片)
- Databases
(检索) Culture and History
- Chronological Timeline
- Condensed China : General history on China for everyone. Includes bibliographies.
- A Modern Chinese History Virtual Library
- Modern China an account from 1911 - present.
- Macau
- The Chinese Experience , history of Chinese-American, a Bill Moyers's special from PBS.
- WWW Virtual Library on China : A comprehensive Internet guide on China.
- CEAL : Home page of the Council of East Asian Libraries, a complete internet resource guide on China.
- MUSEUMS
- The World Heritage in China
- More Chinese History Resources
Dictionaries
- Chinese Character Geneaology : A Web-Based Etymological Dictionary for Learning Chinese Characters.
- GuoYu CiDian 1998 edition. A Chinese-Chinese Dictionary edited by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan. In addition to the main dictionary, two very useful supplements are included on-line for looking up synonyms, antonyms, use of punctuations, etc.
- Chinese Characters Dictionary WEB The major Chinese character dictionaries on the web are interlinking at a character-to-character level, allowing visitors to quickly jump across dictionaries to check the same character entry without having to search again for the character.
- English-Chinese dictionary
- Chinese Computer Terminology Dictionary from the Hong Kong Computer Society to publicize and promote the official set of computer terms in Chinese published by the Standard Terminology Assessment Committee of China. Including audio sound.
- Buddism Fo Guang Da Ci Dian.
- Ru Xue Ci Dian Lexicon of Confucianism.
Language
On-Line Lessons
- Introduction to TONES in Mandarin Chinese.
- Practice Tones
- A Beginning Chinese Volcabulary GAME from the U.of Michigan.
Media
- Voice of America Broadcasts
- BBC Broadcasts .
- Voice of America News (GB).
- BBC News (in Big5 and GB).
- Archived VOA Chinese newscripts
- CCTV news from China Central TV
- Xin Lang Xin Wen
- On-line Chinese Newspapers
Class Reading Materials from UVa Chinese language programs
- Elementary Chinese This program is designed for students in the Elementary Chinese level.
- Chinese Reading World This program is designed for students who are currently enrolled in Chinese language classes in the Division of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures.
- Lienu zhuan This text is designed for the course "Legendary Women of Ancient China" which will be regularly offered at the Division of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures.
- Character Learning
Romanization Systems
- PinYin
- Wade-Giles and Pinyin Equivalents
- On-line Converter
- Chinese Romanization Guidelines from the Library of Congress.
Writing
- Chinese Writing : An introduction.
- Calligraphy : Includes illustrations of various calligraphy styles.
- Four Treasures of a Chinese Studio : An introduction to Chinese traditional writing elements.
Other Links
- Chinese On-line Tools These pages hope to provide tools to assist people in learning and uing the Chinese language.
- A Quick Guide to Installing and Using East Asian Languages Under Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP
Literature
- Chinese Literature : type "chinese literature" and get the introduction from the Encyclopedia of Britannica.
- Chinese Poetic Literature : An Introduction.
- Zhongguo wen xue an introduction.
- Contemporary Literature : A database from the Taiwan National Central Library , includes works and biographical materials of some 600 present authors. Can be viewed and searched with Big5.
- Individual Authors(Modern)
Sites with on-line Full-Texts
- Chinese Text Initiative : A project at the University of Virginia Library devoted to presenting Chinese texts of classical literature for the WEB users, some texts include English translations.
Electronic Library from
China. This site contains a vast number of texts in all subjects.
However, all texts are in PDF. Table of contents are readable with
Netscape or MSIE but to open text files you need to first download a
Chinese reader, SuperSatr, at ssread.exe. - Chinese Classical Literature : This site contains Chinese classics with each character hyperlinked to its definition and etymology.
- Neo-Confucian : Full-text from Wesleyan's Neo-Confucian Etext Project.
- Institute of History & Philology at Academia Sinica Taiwan : Searchable databases of poems, novels, and also archives from Ming and Ching dynasties. Big5
- *** Gu Dian Wen Xian Chuan Wen Jian Shuo Zi Liao Ku A Full-text database including ShiJi, Han Shu,etc. and more.
- CND : Collection of poems, novels. GB
English Translations of Chinese Classics
- Stephen' s Library: Including Lun Yu, The Analects; Meng Zi, Mencius; Dao De Jing, etc.
- Da Xue The Great Learning by Confucius.
- Zhong Yong Doctrine of Mean by Confucius.
- Chinese Text Initiative
Newspapers & Journals
Newspaper Indexes
- Shen Bao 1872-1895
- Ren min ri bao 1946-2001 ; 1995-
- Zhong yang ri bao, 1928-1949
- Newspapers from Taiwan early newspapers 1945- ; 1986-2002
Current On-line Newspapers
Note: use Microsoft Internet Explorer to read Chinese, Japanese or Korean language WEB materials.
Journals
- Late Imperial China This journal is for historians of China specialize in the Ming and Qing dynasties. (Project Muse)
- Beijing Review
- China Review Published by the Great Britain-China Center. Includes book reviews. Back issues available on-line.
- China Informed a news service focused exclusively on China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
- Road to East Asia : A journal on contemporary East Asian literature in English.
- AsianDOC Electronic Newsletter : A quaterly newsletter on the WWW. Its purpose is to support scholars, librarians, and researchers world-wide who are developing text or image databases in the various fields of Asian/EurAsian Studies or who are incorporating materials in Asian languages into larger databases, and to promote better communication among them.
- JOURNALS IN CHINESE
Academic Centers and Associations
- University of Virginia
- Division of Asian & Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures
- East Asia Center
- Asian Studies Faculty Homepages
- International Relations Organization An independent organization run by students at the University of Virginia who share same interest in current international affairs. Provides information and resource links to ASEAN countires.
- The Fairback Center for East Asian Research
- Universities Service Centre from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. This research center specializes in post 1949 publications in social sciences from China. In addition to the impressive size of its collection, the Center also provides one-on-one research assistance to scholars and interlibrary loan service to users worldwide. Its complete holding information is available on-line in Chinese (GB).
- Digital Buddhist Library and Museum A truely "Comprehensive Cyberspace for Buddhist Studies" and the colleciton is still growing.
- Center for Chinese Studies , Taiwan.
- China Data Center at the University of Michigan. Its mission is to support research in the human and natural components of local,regional and global change.
- Association for Asian Studies(AAS)
Book News
UVa library new acquisitions
Chinese Book Reviews
- Bestsellers from China with book reviews.
- Book Information compiled by the Asia Library, University of Michigan .
Book Reviews
in the Humanities and Social Sciences from the H-Net(H-Net is an
interdisciplinary organization of scholars dedicated to developing the
educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web.)
Bookstores
- Beijng Language and Culture University Press list of publications from the Beijing Yu Yan Wen Hua Da Xue. A good site to find language teaching and learning materials.
- Cheng & Tsui Co. (Boston)
- China Books & Periodicals Inc. (San Francisco)
- Commercial Press(Hong Kong)
- San Min Book Store ( Taiwan)Provides weekly new titles from Taiwan. Some titles with abstracts.
- Joint Publishing (Hong Kong)
- Dragonsource on-line bookstore.(U.S. Canada)
Indexes & Other Resources
- Chinese Serials Database : A co-operative project between the Australian National University Library and the National Library of China. The Database provides romanized versions and English translations of the tables of contents of some 100 serial titles from China. Original titles and table of contents in Chinese are also presented.
- CNKI China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) a comprehensive database provides indexes to academic journals, major newspapes, disserations in all disciplines from the PRC , 1994 - . While non-subscriber can search for citations , on-line full-text available only to subscribers or users with purchased card.
- READncl : In Chinese and English. This is a valuable service to remote users, Chinese studies in particular. Searchable indices to 2000+ titles of Chinese and Western language periodicals and journals published in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. Also includes TOC, some full-text. A long-distance document delivery provided by the National Central Library , Taiwan.
- Chinalaw A useful commercial site includes information on new regulations, backfiles of Renmin Fayuan Bao, etc. all searchable.
- PRC Government Online A starting point to find current government news and regulations from branches of PRC and provinces.
- China Statistical Information Network: From the PRC government's Statistical Bureau, current data available.
- China Statistical Data a monthly chinese macro-economy statistics data base
- Gender Studies of East Asia
- Chinese Movies Database : This site covers Chinese movies made in PRChina,Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other countries/regions. Periods cover from 1905 to current. Has both Chinese and English version. Searchable.
- Library of Congress Asian Division
- University Libraries from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
- WWW Virtual Library arranged by Subjects
- H-Net Asia Online: This site provides information and resources for all those interested in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and serves as a central information storehouse for H-Net's extensive network of e-mail lists. One of the networks is theAsia-Pacific Network.
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