Links
of interest
Chinese
language learning sites
- Integrated Chinese
- IC Home Page
- Class Materials for Integrated Chinese
- Jeffrey J. Hayden's Homepage (go here for downloadable flashcards)
- Writing Chinese stroke by stroke (how to write IC characters by lesson; site uses some Chinese fonts)
- Online " flashcards" for Integrated Chinese, Parts 1 & 2
- IC2 Workbook Supplements: Simplified Character Version (downloadable pdf files)
- Zev Handel's Supplementary Materials Packet for Integrated Chinese Level 2 (downloadable pdf files)
- Character tutorial (downloadable; especially good for learning common radicals)
- Chinese at About.com
- Chinese Annotation Tools
- Chinese Code Converter (via omnitalk.com)
- Chinese Cultural Studies: The Chinese Language and Writing (scroll to the bottom of the page to see a typewriter)
- Chinese idioms
- Chinese Language Information Page
- Chinese language
- Chinese languages & dialects
- Chinese on the computer
- BabelPad Unicode text editor for Windows
- look up characters by radical or pinyin
- Convert between simplified and traditional
Chinese characters
- CquickTrans (shareware: dictionary, study list building and flashcards)
- Cangjie Input Method
- Mac Chinese Language Support
- Windows XP East Asian Language Support
- Installing East Asian Language Support & Chinese Input in Windows XP (or)
- Enabling East Asian Languages in Microsoft Windows XP
- Chinese IME's (input method editors to type Chinese characters)
- Google Pinyin
- Sogou Pinyin
- InputKing Online Chinese Input System (especially good for when you're on a computer with no Chinese input)
- Installing Simplified Chinese pinyin input
- Chinese under English Operating Systems (for pre-XP systems)
- Pinyin on the computer
- Typing pinyin with tone marks
- EasyTone Pinyin Fonts
- How to Use Unicode Pinyin Fonts in Word 97 or 2000
- Online conversion of pinyin with tone numbers to pinyin with tone marks
- Input method editor to type pinyin with tone marks (scroll down for download link)
- Adding or converting pinyin from Chinese text
- Automatically insert Chinese numbers in Microsoft Office XP (for lists, date and time, footnotes and page numbers)
- Chinesenow.net (Chinese Language Learning discussion forum)
- Chinese-forums.com
- Chinese Text Sampler
- Global Chinese Language & Culture Center Online
- Glossaries
- How
Many Speak it?
- Input Chinese characters online (pinyin)
- Nigel Greenwood's Chinese page (includes GR converter)
- Ocrat.com mirror project
- animated introduction to Chinese characters
- Chinese Character Pronunciations
- Voice of America text and sound, and more
- On-line Chinese Tools
- Get a Chinese name
- Chinese Family Titles
- DimSum...and more
- Pinyin text with tone marks online input
- Radical Components
- pinyin.info (guide to the writing of Mandarin in romanization)
- tigernt conversion to *.gif
- Teaching and Learning Chinese (Kenyon)
- USC Chinese Department
- Online dictionaries
- No Chinese software required:
- cnWORD 1000
- Dictionary of Chinese Characters
- Dictionary of Chinese characters (English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean....)
- Mandarin book
- English-Chinese Online Dictionary
- Sunrain (Chinese-English English-Chinese, but no Chinese pronunciations)
- Zhongwen.com
- Chinese-English English-Chinese
- provides Chinese etymology
- forums...and more
- Chinese software required:
- DrEye
- Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary
- Guoyu cidian (Taiwan: all Chinese)
- Chinese-tools.com dictionary
- Ciyang.com (all Chinese; simplified)
- Cojak Hanzi Dictionary
- Dict.CN
- Dict.tw (traditional; no pinyin)
- Edenli (simplified)
- MDBG Chinese-English dictionary (with "handwriting" input)
- Pristine Lexicon (search for Chinese or English; free registration required)
- Jim Breen's WWWJDIC Japanese-English Dictionary (Japanese software required)
- Firefox users may download the Context Search extension for Firefox to highlight words to search with various Firefox search engines. After having installed the Context Search extension, go to this page for the plugins
- Kanji Networks (regarding Japanese use of Chinese characters, but includes etymologies)
- Phrase dictionaries (simplified; no pinyin)
- Online Encylopedias
- Online Chinese texts
- Academia sinica (old site)
- Academia sinica (new site)
- Digital Indexed Zuozhuan
- Indices to Poetry and Fiction collections
- Poetry
- Poetry Collections
- Quan Tang shi or Quan Tang shi (Complete Tang poems)
- Gu Yao Yan
- Hanquan Database of Ancient Texts
- Hermetica.Info (mostly Taoist)
- Hong Kong Society of Humanistic Philosophy
- Hua Xia Wen Zhai
- Nanjing Museum
- National Library of China
- shu ku
- Shuhai Wenyuan (includes Edwin G. Pulleyblank's Outline of Classical Chinese Grammar)
- University of Heidelberg
- 文 学视界
- 中国 文化经典书库
- Voice of America Lessons
general sites
general academic sites
- Association for Asian Studies
- asian studies sites
- Asian Studies WWW VL
- Early Medieval China Group
- European Association of Sinological Librarians
- Chinese language programs
- Universities, Colleges and Schools Offering Chinese Courses
- for graduate programs in Chinese, look for Asian Language(s) at:
- Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (excellent!)
- journals online
- Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks
- SUNY New Paltz
- University of Melbourne East Asian Collection Chinese Studies WWW Virtual Library
- U of V Chinese sites
art & museums
- Architecture
- Cities/Buildings Database Select "nation," type China, and browse the pics, or for title, type:
- Binglingsi Caves
- Big Goose Pagoda
- Forbidden City; see also Imperial Palace, Tian'an Men
- Fort
- garden
- Great Mosque
- Great Wall
- Hong Kong cityscape
- market; marketplace
- Mogao Caves
- Nan Men
- Qin Emperor's Tomb
- Shaanxi cave dwellings
- YSS1 (Potala Palace; for other pics of Tibet, type "Tibet" in "nation" [sic])
- Sian
- Street scene
- Sunday Bazaar
- Temple of Heaven
- Wenshu shan monastery (note the desecrated paintings)
- Chinese Calligraphy
- Forbidden City "This panchromatic image was collected by QuickBird on February 11, 2002. Notice the ability to distinguish individual people throughout the City, a capability available for the first time in commercial satellite imagery with the stunning detail captured by QuickBird." (via www.digitalglobe.com)
- Jade I
- Jade II
- Chinese Paintings from the Guggenheim Museum
- Click on Electronic Exhibition of Modern Section, then on the 4 pictures
- on the left side of the next page
- Cultural Revolution posters (74 images)
- Chinese posters (79 images, including some of the same Cultural Revolution posters)
- Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages (huge categorized collection)
- Asianart.com several online exhibitions, but now defunct?
- Metropolitan Museum (the first 15 items of the 50 online Asian Art highlights are Chinese; 18-29 are Japanese)
- Picture Stories
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art collections online
- Kyoto National Museum a searchable collection including a few Chinese pieces,
- most notably Returning Sails off a Distant Shore
- National Palace Museum (Taiwan)
- click on the links to Collections or Exhibitions
- screensavers & other downloads also available
- Vernacular Architecture in Historic Chinese Cities
- world art treasures sculpture and pottery
- China's Public Advertising Culture
- Xu Bing's Word Play
astrology & calendars
- Downloadable solar/lunar calendars: choose a year 年 and month 月from the drop-down list
- calendar converter
- Microsoft Chinese Date & Time Utility for Windows XP
bookstores
China-related blogs
- Asia Business Intelligence
- big white guy
- bokane.org
- chuck@china
- Chi-Chu Tschang
- The China Hand
- Danwei
- EastWestNorthSouth
- fengniao.com
- flyingchair
- Hailey Xie
- Hemlock's Diary
- Kaohsiung Pedestrian
- 3q2u
- Shanghai Eye
- The LongBow Papers
- Micah Sittig
- OldTasty
- The Peking Duck
- Poagao's journal
- Prince Roy's Realm
- Rice Cooker
- Simon World
- Speaking of China
- TrekEarth photos
- Ziboy
food
- About.com: Chinese Cuisine
- Chinese greens
- Chinese recipes I
- Chinese recipes II
- Chinese recipes (in Chinese)
- Chinese Restaurant Myth
- farmers' markets
- Meiwah (Chinese restaurant signs & menus)
- Miscellaneous
- Nutrition Country Profile of China (1999)
- Tea
- Vegetables I
- Vegetables II
history
flags, anthems, currencies
literature
maps
- Asia I (with links to other maps of China & Taiwan)
- Asia II
- China (major cities)
- Historical maps
- Han China
- Northern Song
- Southern Song
- Mongol Empire
- Yuan China
- Ming China
- Ming naval expeditions
- 1910 Foreign Incursions
- 1911 Revolution
- Under the Warlords
- Under the Nationalist Party (Guomindang)
- Chinese Civil War
- Cold War Alignment 1945-1960
- Cold War Alignment 1960-1991
- Is the Great Wall the only manmade object visible from outer space? I
- Is the Great Wall the only manmade object visible from outer space? II
- Is the Great Wall the only manmade object visible from outer space? III
- NYT China map
- Mapbar (only works in IExplorer)
- South China Sea Islands (Map from the often slow South China Sea islands site)
- National Geographic Political Map (slow; other maps available on the site)
martial arts/medicine/Fengshui
- shaolin
- Taijiquan I (T'ai Chi)
- Taijiquan II
- wudang
- Chinese medicine (Taiwan)
- Chinese medicine
- The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine (evidence of Chinese medicine's fallibility)
- Fengshui
-
Xiaoxiao
Flashtoon movies (click on "enter at the bottom of the
screen")
movies
- Chinese Movie Database searchable bilingual information
- HKCinemagic
- muzi entertainment searchable bilingual information
Music clips & downloads
Chinese Language news
- China Affairs (opinion)
- China Information Center
- dacankao and xiaocankao etc
- epochtime
- Index of -CND-Global
- lianhe bao
- New Century Net (opinion)
- qiao bao
- renmin bao
- renmin ribao
- nanfang daily
- News in Chinese
- Secretchina.com
- shijie ribao
- sina.com
- Sinotimes (Wenhui zhoukan)
- Tianya
- VOA China Branch
- Yangcheng wanbao
- zhongshi dianzi bao
news in English
- Asian Labour News
- Asia Media
- Asia Times
- BBC Asia
- China Daily
- China Digital News
- China Post
- China News Digest (CND)
- Far Eastern Economic Review
- Google China news
- Google Taiwan news
- New York Times--recent China articles
- New York Times--recent Taiwan articles
- People's Daily English edition
- Press
Interpreter
- South China Morning Post
- Time Asia
- Taiwan news links
- Taipei Times
- Washington Post (recent China articles)
- Yahoo! China News
- Yahoo! Taiwan news
- Yahoo! Taiwan/China news
philosophy & religion
- Buddhist Canonical Writings (in English and Chinese with dictionary links to each character)
- Confucius
- The Analects (downloadable translation)
- The Analects (bilingual in several languages)
- The Analects of Confucius (translations by Legge, Lau and Couvreur)
- The Analects of Confucius (Charles Muller's translation)
- Chinese Philosophy
- Chinese religion bibliography
- Falun Gong 101
- Five Chinese Classics (Chinese with Charles Muller's English translation & commentary)
- Gods, ghosts, & ancestors
- An Overview of Buddhism
- Taoism Information Page
- Texts and Scriptures
statistics
women
- Bound Feet (pictures)
- Footbinding (an alternate take)
- Nü shu (Chinese Women's Writing)
miscellaneous
Charles E. Hammond
Associate Professor of Chinese
Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Southern Illinois University
(618) 453-5418
e-mail me: chammond@siu.edu