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If there is light in the soul,
there will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person,
there will be harmony in the house.
If there is harmony in the house,
there will be order in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
there will be peace in the world.

Which China are you seeking? Anyway, keep an open mind on the question. You may be pleasantly surprised at what you discover!

This website will help you to acquire multidisciplinary insights into historical and contemporary China.

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• Timelines of Chinese History from The British Museum provide dates and color-coded maps for important events and political history. Also, technology and other inventions, and the emergence of religions, and thumbnail biographies for influential people are included.

• Patricia Buckley Ebrey's Visual sourcebook for Chinese Civilization includes pictures and explanations of geography, ancient tombs, Buddhism, calligraphy, military technology, painting, homes, gardens, clothing and graphic arts.

• View Thomas H. Hahn's photographic documentaries of the following developments:

• Chinese modern art
• urbanization and architecture (both historical and modern)
• Daoist and/or Buddhist mountains, monasteries and "theme parks"
• the city of Tianjin (formerly, Tientsin)
• the cities Fuzhou and Yangzhou
• impressions of Tibet (scanned photographs from visit in 1986)

• United Societies of China Studies (USCS) is a nexus for networking among China scholars and professional researchers.

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• Start with China resources at Hamilton Library.

• Visit the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

• Consider registering in undergraduate and graduate China-focused courses in the Asian Studies Program, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, or elsewhere at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

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• View colorful Maps of China and neighboring countries, courtesy of Dr. Ming L. Pei.

• For historical, thematic and city maps of China, visit the Perry Castañeda Library Map Collection.

• Culturally and economically, China and other civilizations were linked by ancient silk roads.

• Hermann's Historical Atlas of China is a classic collection of sixty maps of ancient and modern China (up through the 1930s).

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• Take a self-guided tour of Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

• How many questions can you answer correctly in Paul Halsall's China map exercise?

• See NationMaster's 95 maps of China. Some are contemporary. Others are historical maps depicting the dispersal and concentration of political power in the early and mid-twentieth century.

• Access Harvard University's China Historical GIS Datasets. Registration (free) is required.

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Source: Andrea Nakamura, Special Collections poster, January 2004 Hamilton Library, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

• Expressed in dates from the more familiar Gregorian ("Western") calendar, the lunar year 4706 (the Year of the "Rat") began on 6 February 2008.

• "People born in the Year of the Rat.....work hard to achieve their goals, acquire possessions, and are likely to be perfectionists. They are basically thrifty with money. Rat people are easily angered and love to gossip. Their ambitions are big, and they are usually very successful. They are most compatible with people born in the years of the Dragon, Monkey, and Ox," according to the Zodiac Page of the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco.

• View a photograph of two recent commemorative "Year of the Rat" postage stamps from China:

Source: People's Daily Online, 26 January 2008;
permission requested, 26 January 2008.

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• First recorded at least as early as the Shang Dynasty (1766 BCE - 1122 BCE), the Chinese Animal Zodiac rotates in twelve-year cycles with a different animal each year. According to the legend, the twelve animals argued among themselves about who would go first! Why does the Year of the Rat come first in the cycle? And why does the Year of the Pig come last?

• Fengshui symbols for a Pig include a red sack and a money bag.

• Rotating through the elements of metal, water, wood, fire and earth, each of the twelve animals has its own five-year subcycle, expanding the larger cycle to sixty years. On top of that, a binary yin-and-yang cycle doubles each of the twelve periods, further expanding an already enlarged cycle to 120 years.

• In which lunar year were you born?

• Monkey people are said to be "great mentors." Monkeys "have a burning passion for knowledge of every kind and they magically are surrounded by the finer things in life." If you wish, meet a Wood Monkey! Then read its horoscope.

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• Consult Philip Clart's bibliography of publications in Western languages on Chinese popular religion in Western languages (1995 to present).

• The Taoism and the Arts of China has been prepared by The Art Institute of Chicago.

• In addition to a short history of Daoism and other basic information, the Daoist Studies website "contains information on four areas.....important to Daoist Studies." These are as follows:

• a bibliography database with almost 3,000 entries
• a database of over 300 scholars and researchers
• a research section
• teaching

• Headquartered in Beijing, the Confucius Institutes project is a global network reaching to the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and beyond. Directed by the China National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, its purpose is to encourage learning Chinese language and culture (in Chinese, English, French and Spanish).

• Dip into selected online papers in Chinese intellectual and cultural history by Benjamin A. Elman at Princeton University's Program in East Asian Studies.

• The Online Sutta Correspondence Project "enables one to identify the Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit 'parallels' or 'counterparts' to the suttas of the four main Pali Nikayas — or vice versa. It is designed for those whose interest in the Early Buddhist discourses extends beyond the limits of the Pali Sutta-piṭaka to include the extensive corresponding materials found elsewhere: the Agamas and individual sutras preserved in Chinese, the occasional sutra translations contained in the Tibetan Kanjur, and the numerous published fragments of sutras in Sanskrit and related languages. It is an up-dated and revised successor to Akanuma's Comparative Catalogue of Chinese Agamas & Pali Nikayas (1929), and is the natural starting point in navigating around this vast mass of textual material."

• 電子佛教辭典 is Charles Muller's Digital Dictionary of Buddhism This is "intended specifically for those engaged in research and translation of canonical source texts — primarily texts written in literary Chinese."

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• Song Research Tools "is a guide to bibliographies, indexes, dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases and chronologies of use to those interested in all aspects of Chinese society during the Song Dynasty (960-1279)."

• The record of Chinese seafaring history stands on its own. It need not be embellished with exaggerated claims by Gavin Menzies who asserts that the talented Muslim long-distance navigator Admiral Zheng He (Cheng Ho [1371-1435]) sailed to New Zealand and South America. Reputable cartographers, linguists and historians have thoroughly refuted Menzies' claim as fradulent.

• See also Jonathan Mirsky's review of Edward L. Dreyer Zheng He: China and the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty 1405-1433 (New York: Pearson Longman, 2007).

• Xuanye (1654-1722), the Kangxi Emperor (reigned 1662-1722), and that of his grandson Hongli (1711-1799), the Qianlong Emperor (reigned 1736-1796) were the most important early emperors in the Qing Dynasty. The Kangxi and Qianlong Emperors made many inspection visits throughout their vast empire. For insight into Qing Dynasty statecraft, economy and aesthetics, view the Southern Inspection Tour Scrolls.

• The Revolution of 1911/1912 and the establishment of the Republic of China mark the end of the Qing ("Manchu") Dynasty (1644-1912).

• Specialists may wish to consult Princeton University's Classical Historiography for Chinese History.

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• Visit Chinese Poems to find "Chinese, pinyin and English texts of poems by some of the greatest Chinese poets."

• MountainSongs is Gary Flint's "website of Chinese poetry," linking "poems to place by means of digital images and GIS waypoints leading to Google Earth.....Poems are displayed in traditional Chinese, English translations and pinyin with tonal marks." Although "China proper" is the principal focus" of MountainSongs, poems written in Chinese from the larger Sinitic community, Vietnam, Japan, the Ryukyus, Mongolia and Korea, are gradually being added."

• Take Chinese literature classes with Associate Professor Ming-Bao Yue at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

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• Learn from "The Past in China's Present" — by Richard J. Smith of Rice University (20 January 1997).

• View Robert Bickers' edited collection Historical Photographs of China. Spanning the period 1870-1950, "the photographs archived here come from the collections of a Chinese diplomat, foreign businessmen, staff of the administrations in the Chinese treaty ports, missionaries, and officials of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. They shed light on political events such as the 1925 May Thirtieth incident, on working and social life, on treaty port architecture, commercial history, the history of dress and fashion, and of course the history of photography in China. They were taken by talented amateur photographers, by foreign snap-shotters, professional studio photographers, and others. These images were taken, acquired or bought by those living [in] or visiting China" (The Asian Studies WWW Monitor late Aug 2007, Vol. 14, No. 11 [268])

• Collective understandings of the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895) continue to influence China-Japan relations today. Consider the condescending Japan-centric images of Asia in John Dower's Throwing Off Asia woodblock prints of that War and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905).

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• Sociologist Sidney D. Gamble (1890-1968) shot about 5,000 photographs primarily in China in four different periods during 1917 and 1932. Gamble traveled extensively from Liaoning province in the northeast to Guangdong province in the south and to the western edge of Sichuan province along the border of Tibet. Gamble's photos have been digitized by Duke University Libraries. Photos taken by Gamble in 1908 will be added to the collection.

• 1,000 or more "photos of Muslims and Christians working among them in Western China in the 1920s and 1930s" will be found in The Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China. See also the Shackford Collection of Photographs of southern China in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

• Collectively learned memories of the horrors endured during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1931-1945) have had an even stronger impact in China, especially since the early 1980s.

• As the late Professor Tang Tsou insisted, the holocaust of Chinese civilians systematically murdered by Japanese soldiers (1931-1945) was just as painful for Chinese victims of those atrocities as the torments suffered by Jewish victims of the Nazis' industrial-style murder machine in Europe:

• The Nanjing Massacre of http://chp.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/1937 in China is an extended horrifying example among many others deserving equal attention.
• Visit Robert Y. Eng's annotated links on the 2nd Sino-Japanese War, a project linking to Andrew Field's "Photos of the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum" and similar websites.
• Consider The Rape of Nanking documentation by Rhawn Joseph.

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• Having accepted Russian assistance, a tiny Communist Party of China let itself be misled by the then-prestigious Communist Party of the Soviet Union into joining a nearly-fatal united front with the Guomindang (Kuomintang ["Nationalist Party"]) in the mid-1920s. During the united front period, Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was an alternate member of the Central Committee of the Guomindang.

• By 1936, Mao had emerged as the pre-eminent leader of the Communist Party of China.

• During a lengthy campaign against the Guomindang and the Japanese, the Communist Party of China gradually won the allegiance of Chinese concerned with improving their wretched livelihoods while defending China against foreign occupation and rule.

• For contemporary government-sponsored views of those turbulent decades of modern Chinese political history, consult the official and semi-official mass communications news media.

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"Song Dong's Breathing, a moving performance he carried out in front of Tiananmen in 1996, demonstrated his maturity as a politically minded avant-garde artist. It was a cold night at the beginning of 1996. Holiday lights outlined the familiar contour of Tiananmen in the distance; the temperature was minus 7° Celsius. Song Dong lay prone and motionless in the deserted Square, breathing onto the cement pavement for 40 minutes. On the ground before his mouth a thin layer of ice gradually formed, which seemed to increase in thickness and solidity with each breath. When he left the square, the ice was still shimmering like an elusive islet in an ocean of concrete. It disappeared before the next morning, leaving no visible trace" (Wu Hung, Remaking Beijing — Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space [London: Reaktion Books, 2005]; from the People's Architecture website).

• Overviews of Chinese art history from the seventh millennium B.C.E. through the late twentieth century are presented in 36 thematic essays, timelines, images and links by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

• Peoples Architecture "is a multi-disciplinary forum for the exchange of ideas, with the goal of facilitating a better global understanding of China's architectural, urban, infrastructural and cultural development."

• See 360 hours of digital video in the Wen Pulin archive of Chinese Avant Garde Art.

• Click many wonderful links in Nixi Cura's Arts of China Consortium.

• Visit Martin Gieselmann's Chinese Film and Movies portal with links to Chinese film-focused websites specializing in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore.

• SinoFlicker "provides "the most authoritative information about the Chinese entertainment industry and the media industry."

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• Take classes in Chinese visual arts with Assistant Professor Kate W. Lingley at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

• Stanley E. Henning has been a practitioner and scholar of Chinese martial arts since the 1970s. On the Hawaii Karate Seinenkai website, Henning's "Chinese Martial Studies Research" is a bibliography of online and printed martial arts historical articles. Henning is an alumnus of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

• See Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Posters from 1937 until the present.

• Political posters produced during Mao Zedong's "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" (1966-1976) shed insight into the emotions of this chaotic, tumultuous period (descriptions in Chinese or English).

• Visit a Virtual Museum of the "Cultural Revolution." While much of the text had not yet been translated from Chinese as of late 2007, the table of contents is in English.

• And see The Australian National University's Chinese Digital Archive 1966-1976.

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• If you are searching for Chinese words in Google.com/, use Pinyin spelling to elicit automatic Chinese keyword conversion.

• To search with Chinese characters, use Baidu ("hundreds of times"). Also, Baidu will let you search with Pinyin spelling of Chinese words.

• Also, try Advanced Baidu.

• And let the SoHu "Search Fox" work for you!

• Search Renmin Ribao ("People's Daily") on the Zhongguo Zhishi Ziyuan Zongku database. "To view the articles, you need either a copy of Adobe acrobat that supports Chinese characters, and/or the CAJ viewer software" (Source: Flora Sapio, Swedish Research Council, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, H-Asia, 30 September 2007).

• Websites not approved by the government may have been filtered — blocked from — Baidu, as well as from search engines linked below. Therefore, depending on the political sensitivity of your research topic, you may have to supplement conventional search methods with more imaginative effort

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• China Google News (in Chinese).

• Hong Kong Google News (in Chinese).

• Taiwan Google News (in Chinese).

• Convert Chinese characters to tonal Hanyu Pinyin and Unicode for use on non-Chinese-language search engines, as well as for writing html on your website.

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Weasel kit noses its adoptive cat mother, Xinjiang Autonomous Region. Source: Xinhua ("New China News Agency"), China Daily, 3 August 2006.

• China Elections & Governance is a project of the Beijing Center for Policy Research (in Chinese and English).

• Since 2002, the Carter Center (Atlanta, Georgia) and Beijing University's Research Center on Chinese Local Governance have sponsored China Elections and Governance. This may be accessed in English or Chinese.

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• China's top 50: the China power list is produced by Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs, UK) and Open Democracy.

• See Alice Lyman Miller's handy list of China's national Party leadership, as of June 2006. For each official in the Communist Party's Politburo, Secretariat, national State leadership, State Council, and the Central Military Commission, the list states his/her age, province of birth, and profession. Also, "Retired Elders" of the Communist Party's leadership are named.

• CHINA aktuell Data Supplement "offers monthly updates on PRC national and provincial leadership changes, on laws, agreements with foreign countries, [and] political data."

• Lubna Malik and Lynn White have compiled the downloadable Contemporary China: A Book List, Winter 2007-2008 edition.

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• China's Constitution (4 December 1982) has been amended in 1988, 1993, 1999, and 2004.

• Sponsored by the Supreme People's Court of China, China Court reports on cases, laws, and regulations (in Chinese and English).

• The China Legislative Information Network System is administered by China's State Council (in Chinese and English).

• The People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation and four Central Asian states that seceded from the former U.S.S.R. are allies in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (a/k/a "the Shanghai Six"). For Russian perspectives on the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, consult RIA Novosti. This is a service of the Russian News & Information Agency. However, "only a part of the information published by RIA Novosti is available on the Web site."

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• China Vitae "is a resource of biographical information on more than 3000 Chinese leaders in government, politics, the military, education, business, and the media.....China Vitae also tracks the appearances and travel of up to 200 leading Chinese officials. Searchable information is available on the date and location of the activity, the officials in attendance, the topics raised, and the source of the data."

• China Business Review is a publication of the US-China Business Council.

• Learn how the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) is governed.

• To keep pace with the rapidly changing Chinese legal environment, consult the China Law Digest.

• The Association of Chinese Political Studies (ACPS) holds annual meetings. The website includes abstracts of ACPS conference papers.

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A self-controlled train moves for a test run as it makes its debut at the Beijing Capital Airport in Beijing. Source: Xinhua ("New China News Agency"), 26 June 2007.

• A majority of Chinese still work in agriculture or in occupations dependent on agriculture. Find articles on this topic in Chinese and English from the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

• Thomas Hahn (Cornell University) has photographically documented "China's "rather rapid transformation from a rural to an urban-centered society."

• For eighteen links to websites on China's economy and economic reforms in the PRC, see Chatham House's China Project.

• The China Economic Databases project (in Chinese and English) is sponsored by the Center for China Studies in National Chengchi University and is supported by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan.

• Gerhard K. Heilig's China-Profile "provides information on China's human development, natural resources & environment, economic development, infrastructure, science and technology, as well as policy and social structure. The Web site currently provides a research section with data-related analyses, a timeline of key events in China since 1949, a collection of high-quality Web links and an extensive bibliography on contemporary China studies."

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• The massive China Infobank is "a conglomerate" of twelve databanks. China Infobank "provides access to real time business news, China general news articles and magazines, information and statistics on government, reports and statistics of various industries and regions in China. With information collected from over 1,000 media companies, both from China and outside China, and leading government and enterprise organizations, China Infobank dissects the data into 194 different industries. It is indexed and updated daily, with over 10 million articles and is accumulating at a rate of 20 million Chinese characters per day."

• Soshoo "offers yearly and monthly statistical data on social and economic situation of China. The information sourced from national and provincial statistical yearbooks, industrial yearbooks, the People's Bank of China Quarterly Statistical Bulletin, China's Customs Statistics, etc. since 1997 with some dated back to 1949. Users can download data into an Excel sheet" (in Chinese and English).

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• The Unbearable Heaviness of Industry is Zhou Hai's collection of photographs. They document the toll of industrial production on China's working class. Zhou tells us:

We do not know how we become unaware of the unbearable heaviness of industry and industrialization. What wealth can they create, what a wonderful world — we tell ourselves. What we do not see is this: In many of the industrial sectors, what people have been doing is not only physically demanding. Fumes and dust are but physical proof of the hardship. One may be surprised to notice the absence of machinery where it should play a role. When labour is a source of pride, material return is less of a concern for the labourers. When this pride wears out in the course of time and as money sneaks in to be a standard measure, the glory is lost and survival instincts take over.

• "In the Spring of 1989, Chinese students and workers occupied Beijing's Tiananmen Square and began the largest nonviolent political protest in China's history." For more, visit The Gate of Heavenly Peace.

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• View a timeline depicting China's population growth and projected growth to 2050 from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).

• Also, see animated population pyramids representing actual and projected age cohorts in China, 1950-2050.

• China's government and society face enormous environmental challenges.

• Catch up with UH Center for Chinese Studies' Chinese Ethnic Nationalities Program.

• According to its self-description, Tibet Blogs "displays blog updates from tibetan bloggers and serves as an online directory for tibet related weblogs. If you run a blog site, feel free to Add Your Blog to our directory."

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• China Women Net is a project of the All China Women's Federation (in Chinese and English).

• Unbreakable Spirits features links to radio programs. This "series takes listeners to the heart and soul of China's emerging women musical and performance artists from Beijing, Liaoning Province, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Through interviews and music, meet the first all-female rock band, the first woman conductor, and a female Buddhist monk. Though years of research and travel, Ann Feldman, Executive Director of Artistic Circles, produced Unbreakable Spirits as an overview of Chinese women's cultural creativity in classical, traditional and contemporary music, in religious practice and cultural ceremony."

• Visit the Women and Gender in Chinese Studies Network.

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• Putonghua (or "generally understood speech") is the official name for China's national language. It also is known as Modern Standard Chinese. It is based on the Northern Mandarin dialect of Beijing. As a result, many years ago foreigners began calling it "Mandarin Chinese."

• For cultural and political reasons, Chinese is often described as a single language with many dialects, for example, Shanghainese, Honkongese, Sichuanese, and so on. However, linguists often consider it a family of languages not mutually intelligible to Chinese who speak only one of them. John Defrancis's nuantial category regionalects is a way of explaining the interrelationships within that family.

• Register for Chinese language classes taught in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Hawai‘i - Mānoa.

• Study Chinese at Hainan University through the Study Abroad Center, University of Hawai‘i - Mānoa.

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• Look, listen and practice with the BBC's "Real Chinese" Chinese language lessons.

• Practice learning Chinese online, thanks to Dr. Tianwei Xie of California State University at Long Beach. This includes pronunciation, conversation, characters, grammar, reading, listening and translation exercises.

• Read Xinhua's report on the World of Chinese, China's first bilingual magazine for world learners of Chinese. An outlet of the State Council's Department of Publicity, Xinhua ("New China News Agency") is the official governmment news agency.

• Access 35 Chinese-English and English-Chinese dictionaries.

• Practice speaking Chinese with an online conversation partner

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• Courtesy of David L. Porter (University of Michigan), Clavis Sinica offers free online learning resources for high school and college students of Chinese language. These resources encourage reading practice and vocabulary review:

• Chinese Text Annotator - display and print any Chinese text with line-by-line Pinyin annotation keyed to your skill level.

• Chinese Flashcards - drill yourself on the 800 most commonly used characters and all 189 radicals.

• Chinese Character Test - take a simple character recognition test to help estimate how many characters you already know.

• Vocabulary Extractor - create a customized vocabulary list or printable vocabulary review sheet from any digitized Chinese text.

• Chinese Voices Project - a collection of short, accessible mini-essays with accompanying MP3 audio podcasts on a wide variety of topics about life in modern Beijing.

• Chinese Text Sampler - an annotated selection of 85 well-known, useful texts including stories, poems, song lyrics, historical documents, jokes, common idioms, and film scripts.

• Listen to and practice Chinese online at Mandarin English XL — although that is a commercial website, some of the learning materials are free.

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• In 1948, People's Daily was established as the newspaper of the Communist Party of China. This paper's online edition began in January 1998. As "the official newspaper of the People's Republic of China," People's Daily publishes government-oriented "policy information and resolutions" (in Chinese, English, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, and French).

• Sponsored by the official Xinhua News Agency, China View covers local, national and world news.

• News of the Communist Party of China (in Chinese, English and other languages).

• The international weekly magazine Beijing Review has also been publishing online since January 1998. The print (hard copy) edition of this indexed magazine — published in several languages — began in 1958.

• Published in a hard copy North America edition since 1981, an e-mail edition of China Daily [Zhongguo ribao] first appeared in 1994. A Web edition followed in 1995.

• China Central Television (CCTV) broadcasts on the Web in Chinese and in English. This website offers printed news and "video on demand."

• SINA English is an "English-language destination for news and information about China" and "general information on life, culture and travel in China."

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• Published online since 2001, the Shanghai Daily styles itself the "English Window to China News." Although there is a hard copy (paper) edition of the Shanghai Daily, "most stories published in the print copy are also available online. Advertisements, cartoons, puzzles, horoscopes, and some advertorials are not included on the site."

• "English.east.day.com/ provides subscribers with an online experience to complement that of Shanghai Daily print edition."

• Since at least 2003, China Digital Times has been a "collaborative news website covering China's social and political transition and its emerging role in the world." The goal of China Digital Times is "to aggregate the most up-to-the-minute news and analysis about China from around the Web, while providing independent reporting, translations from Chinese cyberspace, and perspectives from across the geographical, political and social spectrum." China Digital Times "is run by the Berkeley China Internet Project (BCIP) out of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley."

• Archives of the daily newspaper South China Morning Press date from 1993. Registration (free!) is required for reading the current day's news. Searching the archives also is free. However, viewing, printing or saving an archived article costs a small fee.

• "Blogging How the East is Read," The China Beat "examines media coverage of China, providing context and criticism from China scholars and writers."

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• BizAsia News updates its "Asian Newsstand" reporting every 15 minutes.

• The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has an Asia-Pacific service. It covers China. Also, Changing China is a montage of BBC links.

• To read the Chinese or English versions of the expatriate China News Digest, registration (free!) is required. Archives from 1989 onwards are searchable by topic and by date.

• Since 2002, China Information Center has maintained Observe.China for news reports and analysis (in Chinese).

• China News from Yahoo! also brings you "headlines and latest stories" from and about China.

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• Playing with a homonym of "red" in a well-known slogan from the Maoist era is the title of The China Beat: Blogging How the East is Read

• China Rises is a four-part project. It is co-produced by The New York Times, Discovery Times, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, ZDF, France 5, and S4C. Discussing China's politics, economy, environment and society, this website uses "an XML-based format for content distribution." Check out the interactive map!

• Some college and university libraries subscribe to Wisers. This service is self-described as "the leading provider of time sensitive and mission-critical information from Greater China."

• Morning China is a project of the World Security Institute's China Program. Supported by the Robert and Ardis James Foundation, the World Security Institute promotes "independent research and journalism on global affairs." Also, free e-mail subscriptions to China Morning are available.

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