Interesting and Useful Web Sites

 

  1. China: Subject Guide
    (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~felsing/ceal/welcome.html) 
    This is a nearly comprehensive list of academically oriented sites on East Asia. Click on China. You will find a number of useful charts and maps in the History section. This site is a good starting point from which to beginning browsing. The University of Oregon maintains this site.
  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. Trying the U. of O. "Darkwing" sites first might be your best bet.
  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.
  7. Chinese Philosophical Bibliographies
    (http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~sab/cpbib.html)
    This site contains a massive bibliography, often pointing in the direction of lesser-known materials. This list was compiled by Steven Brown, who (I believe) is affiliated with Monash University (Australia).
  8. "Zhaodaola (I found it!)" Chinese Search Engine

(http://www.zhaodaola.com/english/index.html)

According to the corporate bio, this site was first established in 1996 as the Global Business Development Network (GBDN) to facilitate stronger web-based contacts for Chinese companies wishing to do business with foreign firms. The bio notes that M. G. ("Pat") Robertson and MUI Media LTD played important roles in providing the capital needed to launch the site as it appears today. Although I do not see a strong connection between the private interests of the site's financial backers and the site content, students ought to keep this fact in mind when surfing through material presented here. However, anyone interested in the lives and activities of internationally minded folks in modern urban China should certainly take a look at this Web page.