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General
Sites
Artifacts, astrology, Buddha, Buddhism, Confucianism, Confucius, Dragons,
Dynasties,
Feng Shui, I Ching, Inventions and Remedies, Mathematics, Music, Mythology,
Script, Seals, Taoism, The Great China Wall,
http://www.crystalinks.com/china.html
CIA World
Factbook
Get information on the people, geography, government, economy, and much
more http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.html
Fact Monster
China
: History and Early Origins
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/world/A0857295.html
The Three Teaching: Confucianism; Taoism; Buddhism; Dynasties: Xia (Hsia),
Shang, Chou (Zhou), Ch’in (Qin), Han, T’ang
http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Chinalife.html#TAO
China
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cntoc.html
Chinese History for Beginners
http://asterius.com/china/
The Main Dynasties
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=10662&url=10662/dynasty.htm
Traditional Chinese Culture in
Includes pages on 28 aspects of Chinese culture including
medicine, food, folk arts, painting, calligraphy, study, architecture,
furniture, clothing, tea, written language, music, festivals, paper cutting,
puppetry and many more
http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/culture/culture.html
Specific
Sites
Fact Monster Almanac
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0811912.html
(table)
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0775280.html
Taoism – advanced reading
http://www.thebigview.com/tao-te-ching/tao-te-ching.html
China
Virtual
Includes The
http://www.chinavista.com/travel/virtualtours.html
The
http://library.thinkquest.org/13406/sr/
The
http://central.k12.ca.us/akers/silk_road.html
Maps of The
http://www.chinapage.com/silkmap.html
The
http://abe.www.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/agenmc/china/scenfc.html
The
http://www.chinavista.com/beijing/gugong/!start.html
Secrets of The
Facts, photos, and videos (play the Java clips)
http://www.discovery.com/stories/history/greatwall/greatwall.html
Walk The Great
Wall - All photos and
video. The video is a 360-degree
panorama.
Great Wall of China
http://central.k12.ca.us/akers/great_wall.html
People
Marco Polo
Text
http://www.carmensandiego.com/products/time/marcoc06/marcopolo.html
Kublai Khan
http://campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/China/KublaiKhan.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0828304.html
Portraits of
Chinese Emperors
http://www.chinapage.com/emperor.html
The Emperor Wu-ti:
Han Dynasty
Shi Huangdi –
The First Emperor
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0900114.html
Inventions
Virtual Museum
– Chinese Inventions and Innovations
Paper, printing, compass, explosives, toys and games
Inventions
http://central.k12.ca.us/akers/inventions.html
Compass
http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/compass2.html
Paper
History of Paper
http://www.mead.com/ml/docs/facts/history.html
The Invention of Paper
http://www.ipst.edu/amp/museum_invention_paper.htm
Chinese
Calligraphy
Also has a fact page about
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3614/
Chinese Writing
System
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/society/A0857298.html
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/society/A0861091.html
History of Silk and Silkworms
http://www.pclaunch.com/~kayton/Silkworms/history.htm
Silkworm Information
http://insected.arizona.edu/silkinfo.htm
Chang Jiang
“
Wonderful photos
http://library.thinkquest.org/20443/yangtze.html
Center for Global
Environmental Education -
http://cgee.hamline.edu/rivers/Resources/river_profiles/Yangtze.html
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cu4w-kwsm/chin9601/fwb806.htm
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/world/A0841353.html
Nen
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/world/A0835191.html
Pearl
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/world/A0837984.html
Han
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/world/A0822595.html
China’s Three
Gorges Dam
Medicine
Acupuncture
http://www.healthy.net/asp/templates/article.asp?PageType=article&ID=1819
Chinese Medicine
Sampler
Chinese Herbal Medicine – A Very Brief History
http://www.chinesemedicinesampler.com/Herbal_Medicine/history.html
http://www.campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/China/TerraWar.html
The Terra Cotta
Army
http://central.k12.ca.us/akers/terracotta_army.html
Chinese New Year
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html
Dragon Boat Festival (music)
Harvest Moon
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/moon.htm
Lantern Festival
http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/glue_e/glue.htm
Mid-Autumn
http://dcepea.harvard.edu/extension/cscie23/student_pages/lai/Mid-AutumnFestival.htm
Qing Ming
http://www.chinatown-online.co.uk/pages/culture/qingming.html
Tomb Sweeping Day
http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/tomb_e/tomb.htm
Astrology;
Chinese Zodiac
http://cat.nyu.edu/liaos/horoscope_old.html
http://central.k12.ca.us/akers/zodiac.html
The Chinese Dragon
http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/goldendawn/102/Dragons/chinese.html
The grandeur of the Chinese dragon
- text only
http://wi.essortment.com/chinesedragons_rijh.htm
Dragons in paintings, architecture and culture
http://www.chinapage.com/dragon1.html
Food
History of Chinese Cooking
http://chineseculture.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cookingtogether.com%2Fhistory.html
http://chineseculture.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalgourmet.com%2Fdestinations%2Fchina%2F
An Edible Journey Through
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0122155/en/journey.php
Daily Life in
Ancient
http://central.k12.ca.us/akers/dailylife.html
The Splendors of Imperial
http://www.unc.edu/~rwilkers/frames-china.htm
http://flora.harvard.edu/china/images/flora.map.gif
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/abacus.htm%7F
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/proverb.html
Taoism/ Yin Yang
http://library.thinkquest.org/16325/slide.html
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