Chinese Internet List
Various Chinese language sites or sites relating to China I found interesting or wanted to remember. Many to do with history, but not necessarily.
Reference
- zdic Free online Chinese dictionary with articles and information on the history of Chinese characters and other useful features. 中文
- China Knowledge Free online encylopaedia about all topics Chinese. Not sure of its reliablity as I have not used it frequently. 英文
- PRC History Website of an academic network dedicated to PRC history. Has journals, reviews and a great resource list. 英文
- 百度 General purpose online encyclopedia. 中文
Reading
- China Heritage Quarterly A discontinued? academic quarterly on China. 英文
- Bryan W. Van Norden’s Blog Personal website of scholar studying Chinese philosophy. 英文
- China Media Project Articles of varying quality on Chinese media. Feels excessively American in outlook. 英文
- Chinese Feminism 中文
- Dream of the Red Chamber Pressbook Free open textbook covering a wide range of aspects of 红楼梦. 英文
- 乌有之乡 Red as anything. 中文
- Four Books Site for studing the Confucian classics. 英语/中文
- 求是 A party theory journal. 中文
Archives
- Chinese Film Classics A great project preserving and making accessible early Chinese film, with lots of supplementary material to help study. 英文
- Chinese Cyberfeminism Archive Wonderfully presented collection of archived sites made by Chinese feminists. 中文
- China Unofficial Archives An archive of Chinese dissident material. 中文/英文
- Chinese Posters Gallery of 5,000+ propaganda posters. 英文
- Beijing Silvermine Page of art project collecting film photographs of daily life in China from 1985 to 2005. Has some digitised material and artbooks. 英文
- Historical Photographs of China Archive of digitised photos of China. As far as I can tell mostly before 1949 and taken by Westerners in China. 英文
- China Biographical Database Project (CBDB) 英文/中文
- Early Chinese Periodicals Online What it says. A very good archive of 民国时代 periodicals. 英文/中文
- Maoist Legacy Archive of Mao era material. Need to sign up for access. 英文/中文
- Smithsonian Chinese Art Collection 英文
- CSIS Interperet: China Translated and Orignial texts of documents and writings related to Geopolitics. Painfully American. 英文/中文
- 婦女雜誌 中文
- The Internet Chinese Music Archive 中文/英文
- Chinese Christian Posters 英文
- Everyday Life in Mao’s China 英文
- 公共数据开放平台 Has among other things an extensive archive of the 人民日报. 中文
- China Textbooks Github mass upload of Chinese school textbooks. 中文
- Chinese Text Project Well stocked online library of Chinese classics with lots of features. 中文/英文
Organisations
- 中华人民共和国中央人民政府 Website of the state council. 中文
- dGenerate Films Company distributing films from mainland China abroad. 英文
- The Janus Project A study group? at Oxford? dedicated to moments of encounter between the Greco-Roman and Chinese classics (think Jesuits). 英文
- China Academic Network on Gender — CHANGE Academic Network on the theme of gender in Chinese society and history. 英文
Resources
- Jiumo Diary Good place for books. 中文
- Paula Curtis Resources A table of digital resources related to East Asian history on the personal site of an academic. Skews toward Japan but lots of great China stuff here too. 英文
- Harvard Library Research Guide for Chinese History Exactly what it says in the name. Many of these databases are not accessible to the general public however. 英文