AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer: Wired Learning: Searching for China Hotlist

a collection of Internet sites on China

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Introduction

Welcome to "China on the Net," a hotlist on China. The following links are a good starting point for studying China. This hotlist is part of a series of formats. We have also included a Treasure Hunt, a Multimedia Scrapbook, a Subject Sampler and two different WebQuests. You can explore all of these other formats or simply use the links below.

Many of the sites below are also hotlists in case you need to do more searching. Otherwise, the sites in this "China on the Net" page have been grouped together into narrower categories to help you zoom right to the particular aspect of China you're interested in.

The Internet Resources

Background Information

CIA World Fact Book China - information on geography, people, government, economy, transportation, communication, and defense forces.
Army Area Handbook - see the Table of Contents for access to specific parts of the handbook (note: these are text documents).
U.S. Department of State Background Notes on China (particularly look at the section titled: U.S RELATIONS)
Embassy for the People's Republic of China located in Washington, D.C.
Visions of China: 50 Years of the People's Republic from CNN
Newsfile: China from Time magazine
The Outlook for China from a CIA Perspective, speech given in 1996.
Chinaguide from OneWorld UK
Chinese Culture from about.com
Links to China from Yahoo
Librarians Internet Index search result for China
Super Chinese Websites

Touring the Country

Study a Map of China observe it in relation to its neighbors, and Its Provinces and Other Regions
Going to China - travel site
China Virtual Tours from ChinaVista
South China by Bicycle a personal travelogue
Travel Blogs in China online journals, diaries, photos, and information supplied by travellers
Travel Journals Wikipedia definition
Travel Guides from the Lonely Planet

News Updates

Inside China Today, posted by the European Internet Network, Inc.
Beijing Review, the online version of the Chinese magazine
News from the Chinese Embassy in the United States of America
The American Embassy in China
Washington Post world reference: China. Menu on the right side leads to recent stories about China from the Post and API.
People's Daily, the online version of the Chinese newspaper

Chinese Culture

San Francisco Public Library Chinese Center
The Fable of the Master and the Servant by Liezi
Chinese Proverbs with Annotations and Connotations, compiled by Haiwang Yuan
Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
300 Tang Poems from the golden age of Chinese poetry
Chinese Fable Stories from about.com
English Translation of Classical Chinese Poetry from China the Beautiful
Culture of China from Chinatown Online UK - legends, medicine, beliefs, music, etc.

Religion

Freedom of Religious Belief in China from the Chinese Embassy
Taoism Information from Stan Rosenthal's Tao Te Ching. See also Taoism Information Page.
Buddhism in a Nutshell: The Four Noble Truths
A Monk doing "Washu" at the Shaolin Temple
Images of Divinities from Brooklyn College's Chinese Culture web site
The Ten Precepts of Buddhism are guidelines Buddhists attempt to live by.
Frequently Asked Questions about Zen which was known as Ch'an in China.
10 Oxherd Drawings show the stages to enlightenment
Background on the Dalai Lama from the Noble Prize Internet Archive
Panchen Lama
The Dalai Lama's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (1989)
Views on Religious Freedom from the U.S. Secretary of State
Falun Gong and Falun Dafa:What it is and what it does
Falun Dafa Information Center

The Visual Arts

Collections

Mongolia: The Legacy of Chinggis Khan, presented by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Tibet: Tradition and Change from The Albuquerque Museum
NY Metropolitan Museum of Art - Asian Collection
San Francisco Asian Art Museum
Museums around the world with Chinese collections

Individual Pieces

Nagaraja, King of the Serpents a temple statue from Tibet
The Medicine Buddha Tibetan painting
Structure of the Mandala describes mandalas' parts.
Mandala of Bhutadamara blends religion and art
View samples of Tibetan Mandalas - long downloads, but worth examining.
Figures Gallery
Chinese Bodhisattva
Chinese Calligraphy
Chinese Artists (Ming Dynasty 1368-1644 A.D.).

Business

U.S. Trade with China in 2000 from the US Census Bureau
CATO INSTITUTE on Key Trade Issues-China
U.S. Department of Agriculture - China
Doing Business in China, a brief guide
Doing Business in China - resource
"Developing the Internet in China" from the BBC World Service
Negotiating and Building Effective Relationships with People in China summary of a paper presented by Sidney Rittenberg

Trade and Retaliation

"Albright urges keeping normal trade with China" from CNN
China drops trade barriers
Ambassador Comments on China Trade Deal
Why Boycott? from the boycott made in china campaign website

Human Rights

Universal Declaration of Human Rights from the U.N.
Chinese Cultural Tradition and Modern Human Rights by Albert H Y Chen, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong
Human Rights Watch World Report 2001: China and Tibet
Human Rights Watch - Asia
People's Daily: Human Rights Record of the U.S. report (2003)
Search "human rights china" on Librarians Index to the Internet
Picturing Power: Posters of the Cultural Revolution China, 1966-1976
Images from Tiananmen, April-June 1989 from Support Democracy in China.
"Made up as a bad guy" from Digital Freedom Network
Death by Default: A Policy of Fatal Neglect in China's State Orphanages from Human Rights Watch
The Dalai Lama's Nobel Prize acceptance speech
Wang Wanxing: dissidentÕs continued detention in a psychiatric hospital, China from Amnesty International

The Environment

Search for environmental articles in the People's Daily
Curbing Chinese Pollution: A Tale Of Two Cities, a June 2000 report from U.S. Embassy Beijing
China Satellite Imagery from the US Dept of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service
Reducing Air Pollution in China from The World Bank
The Three Gorges Project: A Brief Introduction from the Chinese Embassy
Chronology of Three Gorges Project from the Chinese Embassy
"China's Three Gorges Dam" from CNN.com
Analysis of China from the energy perspective from the US Energy Information Administration
Environmental Issues in China
E-Waste: Dark Side of Digital Age
China jumps into e-waste initiative
Environmental Protection in China from the Information Office of the State Council Of the People's Republic of China
"Endangered Animal Rescue Center Erected in South China", an article in the People's Daily
Human and Nature in Harmony from the Institute of Environment and Development, China
Photo essay: China's hi-tech toxics by photo-journalist Jeroen Bouman

China's Relations with her Neighbors

China's National Defense in 2000 from the PRC
Liu Huaqiu on China's Foreign Policy
"Regional 'godfather' or local bully?" from CNN.com
China-US Partnership in the New Century from the Chinese Embassy
Chinese Foreign Minister on relationship between China, neighbors
Q&A: Taiwan's relations with China from the BBC. See also more current news items from the BCC.
China-US Partnership in the New Century from the Chinese Embassy. See also more current news items.
Nanking 1937 memorializes the Japanese invasion and massacre in China
CIA - The World Factbook - Taiwan
Taiwan - an Inalienable Part of China from the People's Republic of China
The Taiwan Issue and Reunification of China from the People's Daily Online
Q&A: Taiwan's relations with China from the BBC
Dangerous Straits: the future of US-China Relations and the issue of Taiwan from PBS
Discover Hong Kong with the Hong Kong Tourist Board
Hong Kong: Between Two Worlds from CNN Interactive
U.S. and Hong Kong (Key Government Documents) (Archives) from the US consulate in Hong Kong

Tibet

Conserving Tibetan Art and Architecture from asianart.com
Images from Tibet from the Tibet Information Network
Freedom of Religious Belief in China from the Chinese Embassy
The Government of Tibet in Exile Homepage is the official Website of the Dalai Lama
Tibet Online Resource Gathering operated by the Tibet Support Group
Information on Tibet from the International Campaign for Tibet
Seven Things You can do to Help Tibet from the International Campaign for Tibet
"Zone of Peace" PBS interview with the Dalai Lama
Free Tibet Campaign
Newsgroup: Politics in Tibet is available for reading and then on-line discussions.
The Tibet Game

Asian Leaders

Deng Xiaoping from Asiaweek magazine
The Legacy of Deng Xiaoping from PBS
The Dalai Lama, including a speech on human rights.

China and the Bid for the 2008 Olympics

China to relax press limits ahead of 2008 Olympics and search for other news items in the Christian Science Monitor online.

Official Website Of The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG)
"China slams U.S. Olympics resolution" from CNN
Dalai Lama latest news
"Human Rights Abuses Shadow Countdown to 2008 Beijing Games" from Human Rights Watch
"China shrugs off Olympic warning on human rights" from the Observer newspaper
Olympic Bid 2008, a CNN special report

First posted 1995.
Last modified Tuesday September 23, 2008