Infusing Modern China into the

Undergraduate Curriculum

General

• Asia for Educators (Columbia University)
• A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization (by Patricia Ebrey)
• UCLA-Internet Resources for Chinese Studies
• H-PRC:  H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online on the People's Republic of China
• A Universal Guide for China Studies--Chinaknowledge
• China Institute Learning Materials & Resources
• Collection of Asia & the Pacific by Australian National University
• Academia Sinica:  traditional and electronic collections on China studies, information on current research.
• Education about Asia:  Association for Asian Studies
• Key Issues in Asian Studies:  Association for Asian Studies
• The China WWW Virtual Library:  Internet Guide for Chinese Studies:  Descriptions of and links to a wide range of resources dealing with China
• China Watch by the Washington Post 
• New York Times Sinosphere:  Insight, Analysis and Conversation about Chinese Culture, Media and Politics 
• The International Dunhuang Project:  The Silk Road Online:  international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artifacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road. 
• Central Intelligence Agency:  China:  geography, people and society, government, economy, energy, and more. 

• East Asian History-Online Sourcebook (Fordham University)
• Chinese History-Timelines and Maps (by Ulrich Theobald)
• Timeline of Chinese History
• Classical Historiography for Chinese History (by Benjamin Elman)
• An Illustrated History of the Communist Party of China
• The China Historical Geographic Information System by Harvard University:  a free database of placenames and historical administrative units for the Chinese Dynasties.

• Journal of Chinese Studies
• A Scholarly Review of Chinese Studies in North America:  Association for Asian Studies
• Gender Issues in Traditional China:  Oxford Bibliographies
• Electronic Journal Intersections:  Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
• Publications by the Association for Asian Studies
• Directory of Open Access Journals to search in your interested fields
• Directory of Open Access Books
• Open DOAR:  The Directory of Open Access Repositories
• Archive.org:  eBooks and Texts internet Archive:  Internet archive and open library, fully accessible books and texts.
• The National Academies Press:  download by chapters or books
• OAIster:  Find the Pearls:  scholarly publications from universities all over the world
• Asia Past & Present:  Publications by the Association for Asian Studies

Languages

• Resources for East Asian Language and Thought by Dr. Charles Muller, University of Tokyo
• Word Dictionary:  look up Chinese, Pinyin or English
• CJKV-English Dictionary:  A dictionary of Sinitic characters and compounds related to East Asian cultural, Political, and Intellectual History

Literature

• Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center (Ohio State University)
• Primary Source Document with Questions (DBQs):  Excerpts from Admonitions for Women by Ban Zhao, Asia for Educators/Columbia University
• Greenhalgh, Susan. (1977). "Bound Feet, Hobbled Lives." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 2:1 (Spring 1977), pp. 7-21

• National Central Library:  access to library catalogs and databases.
• National Library of China/National Digital Library of China
  
• World Digital Library:  cultural treasures from around the world in one site
  
• Digital Collections of Sources for Chinese Studies:  FOREAST (Free Open Resources for East Asian Studies):  The Internet East Asian Library
  
• C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University Libraries
  
• Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler Museums:  Harvard Art Museums:  devoted to Asian art and searchable by keyword, title, artist, etc.
  
• The Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art
  
• Harvard-Yenching Library--Asia Collections
  
• Smithsonian Freer-Sackler Museum of Asian Art
  
• Sydney D. Gamble Photographs:  Digital Collections by Duke University Libraries
  
• The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946, Harvard College Library
  
• Ling long Women's Magazine, Columbia University Libraries:  one of the most complete collection outside China. 
  
• Chinese Propaganda Posters by Chinese Posters Foundation:  over 1,500 Chinese propaganda poster from the collections of the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, and Stefan R. Landsberger (University of Amsterdam, Leiden University). 
• Visualizing Cultures, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  

• Six Chinese Classics:  A. Charles Muller, University of Tokyo
• Essential Readings on Chinese Philosophy, Compiled by Bryan W. Van Norden
  
• Chinese Philosophical Etext Project:  Wesleyan University
  
• Confucius Resources, China Institute
  
• Confucius Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
  
• Resources on Buddhism by Society for the Study of Chinese Religions
  
• The Zen Site:  Teachings, Essays, Academic sites & Journals, and more.
  
• International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism--Hanazono University, Kyoto
  
• On the Theravada Buddhist Tradition--Access to Insight
  

Culture

• ChinaCulture.org
  
• Chinese Movie Database
  
• On traditional Chinese family by David Johnson
  

Maps

• China Maps
• Chinese History-Timelines and Maps (by Ulrich Theobald) 

Research

• Research Guide for Chinese Studies, Harvard Library:  access to digitization projects, other databases, media sources, and much more
• Census and Statistics Department:  The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
  
• China Data Online:  The most comprehensive database on statistics of China
  
• World Bank Open Knowledge Repository:  includes studies, journal articles, books, etc. from the World Bank Economic Review and World Bank Research Observer, WB annual reports
  
• UNdata:  free data access to UN statistical databases, containing over 60 million data points and covering a wide range of themes from agriculture, crime, education to energy, environment, and industry
  
• The World Bank's Open Data Initiative:  comprehensive set of data on living standards around the globe, including 2,000 indicators
  

Suggested Links from the Institute

• China's Cultural Revolution in Memories:  The CR/10 Project in the Digital Collection of the University of Pittsburg:  This collection contains video interviews with people who experienced China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). The CR/10 (Cultural Revolution: 10) Project also includes interviews with young Chinese people born after the Cultural Revolution, who discuss how they learned of this historical incident.