China - Links to helpful documents

 

 General Links:

Chinese Culture (course at Brooklyn College) http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/index.html

Exploring Ancient World Cultures: China  http://eawc.evansville.edu/chpage.htm

China: A Visual Sourcebook  http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/index.htm

Resources for East Asian Language & Thought http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/index.html

China Internet Resources http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CHIINRES.HTM

About China    http://chineseculture.about.com/cs/aboutchina/

Visions of China (CNN special) http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/china.50/

China WWW Virtual Library - Internet Guide for Chinese Studies  http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs

China the Beautiful    http://www.chinapage.com/china.html

Nancy Mautz's Creative Impulse: China http://history.evansville.net/china.html

China - A Country Study  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cntoc.html

China Gateway  http://www.vrg.utoronto.ca/~lium/archives/china.html

Art of China  http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/agenmc/china/china.html

Chinese Culture   http://www.openface.ca/~dstephen/chphil.htm

Western-Chinese Calendar Convertor   http://www.mandarintools.com/calconv.html


History:

* History of China  http://fractal.umd.edu/history/toc.html

The Rise of Ancient China  http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch06.htm

The Rise and Fall of Han China  http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch14.htm (see also here)

Condensed China: Chinese History for Beginners  http://asterius.com/china/

ChinaSite.com History  http://www.chinasite.com/Culture/History.html

History of China   http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/welcome.html

The Civilization of Ancient China  http://www.drhistory.org/chapter6/index.html

Daily Life in Ancient China  http://members.aol.com/Donnclass/Chinalife.html

Early China  http://www.ualberta.ca/~csmackay/CLASS_110/Early.China.html

China  http://www.anthro.mankato.msus.edu/prehistory/china/index.shtml

Qin Dynasty On-Line Source Book  http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/7547/

Warring States Project: On-line Publications  http://www.umass.edu/wsp/publications/

China 10k: History  http://www.china10k.com/English/history/

China: History   http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/china-history.html


Religion in China:

General Links

Religion Index: East Asia   http://religion.rutgers.edu/vri/china.html

Academic Info - China Studies: Religions in China    http://www.academicinfo.net/chinarelig.html

Society for the Study of Chinese Religions: Links  http://www.library.wisc.edu/guides/EastAsia/SSCR/linksrel.html

Chad Hansen's Chinese Philosophy Pages  http://www.hku.hk/philodep/ch/

Ancient China: Chinese Philosophy  http://www.wsu.edu/%7Edee/CHPHIL/CONTENTS.HTM

Chinese Religions Timeline (from OWR) http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/china/index.html

S. F. Teiser, "The Spirits of Chinese Religion"   http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/lopez.html

Kenneth Morgan, "Asian Religions"   http://www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll/showarticle?item_id=581

C. S. Braden, "The Sacred Literature of the Chinese"   http://www.religion-online.org/cgi-bin/relsearchd.dll/showchapter?chapter_id=950

Chinese Ethics  http://www.hku.hk/philodep/courses/EWEthics/

History of Ethics: China   http://www.san.beck.org/EC13-Chou.html

Chinese Religion  http://maxpages.com/lisaliu/Chinese_Religion

 

Taoism

Taoism Information Page   http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/

Center for Traditional Taoist Studies  http://www.tao.org/welcome.htm

The TaoTeChing   http://www.chinapage.com/gnl.html

Taoist Studies in the World Wide Web http://helios.unive.it/~pregadio/taoism.html

Taoist Mysticism    http://www.digiserve.com/mystic/Taoist/index.html

Taoism and the Philosophy of Tai Chi Chuan   http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Taichi/taoism.html

Daoist Texts   http://go.to/taoistarts

Daoist Studies   http://www.daoiststudies.org/

Taoism for Dummies   http://www.geocities.com/tao4dummies/

Taoism (from Overview of World Religions)  http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/taoism/index.html

Articles by Russell Kirkland:

"The Book of the Way (The Tao Te Ching)", in Ian McGreal (ed.), Great Literature of the Eastern World, New York: Harper Collins, 1996, pp.24-29  [available on-line at http://www.uga.edu/religion/rk/basehtml/pubs/DAODE.html]

"Taoism", from the Encyclopedia of Education [available on-line at:  http://www.uga.edu/religion/rk/basehtml/pubs/ref/TAOISM.html]

"Taoism and Confucianism (through the Han Dynasty)", from the Encyclopedia of Taoism

[available on-line at: http://www.uga.edu/religion/rk/basehtml/pubs/eot-TAOCON.html]

"Taoism", from the Encyclopedia of Taoism [available on-line at: http://www.uga.edu/religion/rk/basehtml/pubs/eot-THOUGHT.html]

Selections from Xunzi   http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/hsun-tse.html

The Abode of the Eternal Tao  http://www.abodetao.com/

China, Taoism, & Religions   http://www.index-china.com/index-english/Taoism%20and%20A%20Few%20Words.html

About Taoism   http://www.religioustolerance.org/taoism.htm

The Taoist Restoration Society  http://www.taorestore.org

I Ching

I Ching Index   http://www.sacred-texts.com/ich/

The I Ching on the Net  http://www.pacificcoast.net/~wh/Index.html

I Ching    http://www.zhouyi.com/

Ask the I Ching a Question  http://www.facade.com/attraction/i_ching/


Confucianism

Analects of Confucius   http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/analects.txt

The Great Learning   http://www.chinapage.com/daxue-e.html

Selections from Mencius    http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/mencius.html

Judith Berling, "Confucianism" http://www.askasia.org/frclasrm/readings/r000004.htm

Confucianism (from OWR) http://philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/encyclopedia/confuc/index.html

Wm. Theodore de Bary, "The Trouble with Confucianism" http://www.tannerlectures.utah.edu/lectures/debary89.pdf

Bryan W van Norden, "Confucius: Introduction"  http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/Phil110/earlyhistory.html

Li Hwang, "To Become a Sage: The Essence of Neo-Confucianism"  http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/ebook/h-k/2001/sage/mkalton.html


Primary Texts:

Five Chinese Classics, translated by Charles Muller  http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/fiveclassics.htm

Electronic Religious Texts:  http://www.ucalgary.ca/~lipton/texts.html

13 Confucian Classics  http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Classics/classics.htm

Chinese Philosophical E-Text Archive  http://sangle.web.wesleyan.edu/etext/index.html  [N.B. in Chinese]

Literature from China  http://www.intranet.csupomona.edu/~inch/china.html

Classical Chinese Literature  http://zhongwen.com/gudian.htm

Useful Links to Chinese Literature   http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/wen/links.html

Mencius (James Legge's Translation)  http://www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/menc/

Mencius (D. C. Lau's translation)  http://www.wesleyan.edu/phil/courses/205/restricted/lau_mencius.html

The Tao Te Ching (James Legge's translation) http://www.geocities.com/Athens/1940/art-of-virtue/

The I Ching (James Legge's translation)  http://oaks.nvg.org/re5ra17.html

The Tao Te Ching (translated by J. H. McDonald) http://www.wright-house.com/religions/taoism/tao-te-ching.html

Additional copies of the Tao Te Ching

http://www.mindmatters.no/tao/rosenthal/default.htm

http://www.carleton.ca/~rgray/TaoTeChing/

http://www.mindmatters.no/tao/merel/gnl_tao.html

University of Virginia Chinese Text Initiative   http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/chinese/

 

Other links:

Convert your birthday to the Chinese calendar:  www.mandarintools.com/calconv.html

Basic Chinese: A 25-Lesson Course  http://books.iuniverse.com/viewbooks.asp?isbn=15834826281&page=1

Guides to the pronunciation of Chinese   http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/pinyin1.html  http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/chinlng1.html

How to write Chinese calligraphy   http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/3614/drawing.htm

Chinese Script and Language  http://www.omniglot.com/writing/chinese.htm

Learn Chinese Language  http://www.languagelearninglibrary.org/chinese/index.htm

Theories about the origins of sports in ancient China  http://www.umist.ac.uk/UMIST_Sport/peiser2.html

Learn about the Chinese New Year   http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html

Arts in Asia: China   http://www.artsmia.org/arts-of-asia/china/maps/index.cfm

Chinese Art Exhibit at Indianapolis Museum of Art  http://www.ima-art.org/onlineExhibitions.asp?SID=5ACF63D46A0E463E88302CDDBC483FB0&page=exhibition


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