Interesting and Useful Web Sites

1. The Council on East Asian Libraries Homepage
(http://purl.oclc.org/net/ceal)
This is a nearly comprehensive list of academically oriented sites on East Asia. This site is a good starting point from which to beginning browsing. The University of Washington hosts the site at this time; however, the University of Oregon still maintains this link.

2. Chinese Cultural Studies: Bibliography
(http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/chinbib.html)
This is a useful on-line bibliography with several direct links to on-line texts.

3. W3C/ANU/Vienna University- Internet Guide for China Studies
(http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ )
This web site, maintained by Australia National University and Vienna University, contains an enormous amount of material on China and Chinese studies. I must provide a word of warning, however, for those persons accessing this site on slower connections. The search engine for this site is slow and often inaccurate.

4. Classical Historiography for Chinese History
(http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib)
This site was started by Benjamin Elman, a professor of Chinese intellectual history at UCLA. It is the most useful research-oriented sites on Chinese History available on the Web today. Unfortunately, the text requires a Chinese text reader (Big5 code) to be legible.

5. The Golden Elixir Home Page
(http://www.unive.it/~dsie/pregadio/index.html)
This is a web site dedicated to the study of Chinese alchemy and that practice's connections to Taoist Philosophy. This site is both a good source of cultural history and a fun forum through which to explore the lesser-known worlds of Chinese alchemists and magicians.

6. Su Tzu's Chinese Philosophy Page
(http://mars.superLInk.net/user/fsu/index.html)
This site contains a number of useful sources, translated texts, and links to sites concerned with Chinese philosophy.