Chinese Studies

• Academia Sinica   Academia Sinica, founded in 1928, is the highest-ranking academic institution in the Republic of China. It is composed of 18 institutes with nearly 800 research fellows. The site features information on Academia Sinica, links to its ftp archives (including software and working papers) and to its online catalog. In English and Chinese.

• Asia-Pacific Network Links to information for H-Asia, H-Japan, H-Anzau and KIAPS, including job postings, Logs and Threads, E-Journals, Reviews and Links to other sites. Covers East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Australia-New Zealand.

• Association for Asian Studies

• China Dimensions World Wide Web site. This site offers access to a unique data collection that has been designed to facilitate a wide range of natural science and socioeconomic research and educational activities. It includes the following data resources:

1. China Administrative Regions GIS Data: 1:1M, County Level, 1990
2. GB (Guo Biao -- National Standard) Codes for the Administrative Divisions of the People's Republic of China.
3. Fundamental GIS: Digital Chart of China, 1:1M, Version 1. Includes layers for roads, railroads, drainage system, contours, populated places and  urbanized areas.
4. Interactive access to the China Census of Population, 1% Sample, 1982.
5. County-Level Data on Population and Agriculture, 1990: Keyed to 1:1M GIS Map.
6. County-Level Data on Provincial Economic Yearbooks, 1990-91: Keyed to 1:1M GIS Map.
7. Agricultural Statistics of the People's Republic of China, 1949-94.
8. County-Level Data on Hospitals and Epidemiology Stations, 1950-85.
9. Priority Program for China's Agenda 21.

• China Education and Research Network Provides information on the building of the internet in China, Chinese scholars abroad, postdocs in China and other issues related to education.

• China Internet Information Center  Includes government White Papers and China News from the People's Republic of China.

• The Chinese Biographical Database The Chinese Biographical Database (CBD) is an interactive, scholarly moderated online database. It is developed as an interdisciplinary, multilingual tool open to anyone who feels they can use the information. Although post-1850 figures have been the focus, the chronological scope of the database is open-ended. In addition, non-Chinese who played some role in Chinese history are welcome to be placed in the database.The CBD is based on multiple tables of which 11 are now online: Basic Biographical Information, Career, Alternate Names, Family, Education, Youth Activities, Affiliations, Official Positions, Historical Events, Locator Table, and Source.

• Chinese Conventional Place Names: From Library of congress, the list consists primarily of the provinces and the provincial capitals and other major cities.
  
  
• Chinese historical geography Authority Database Information on place names from Buddhist sources with latitude and
  longitude. [Downloadable Google Earth files with the places' coordinates] KML [and real-time online Google maps] output."
  
  
• Chinese calendar Authority Database based on the Julian Day Number (JDN) format. For conversion into Western dates, the proleptic
  Gregorian calendar is used with the year 0. The database contains detailed Chinese calendar data from the beginning of the Qin dynasty [16th Nov. 221 BC] to the end of the Qing [18th Jan. 1912 AD - ed.].
  
  
• Overseas Chinese Media Guide: a comprehensive guide on overseas Chinese media. It contains a complete list and descriptions of major overseas Chinese newspaper, Chinese TV stations, Chinese radio stations, and Chinese websites [in Australia, Cambodia, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, The Netherlands, The Philippines, The United Kingdom, and United States - ed]
  

• Digital Chinese Library Center for Chinese Studies Library at the University of California. CSSL focuses on contemporary China; this server provides information on the library and its resources, as well as links to online resources for contemporary China

• ACHS - Digital Archive for Chinese Studies Archiving and making accessible Internet resouces relevant for Chinese Studies, with special emphasis given on social and political discourse as reflected by articulations on the Chinese Internet.

• Electronic Bibliographies for Chinese Studies This site is maintained by Prof. Fabrizio Pregadio and is part of the China WWW Virtual Library - Internet Guide for China Studies (IGCS) and the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library. It contains links to bibliographies available via the WWW and is arranged into the following sections: Reference Works; History; Religion and Philosophy; Art; Medicine; Dictionaries; Miscellaneous Subjects; Other Lists of Bibliographies.

• European Association of Sinological Librarians (EASL) Information on EASL and its members (including links) and an extensive guide to internet sites relevant to East Asian Studies (libraries, universities, databases, journals etc.).

• Internet in China (World Bank Project)

• Internet and Chinese Studies Resources (Bick-har Yeung, Library, East Asian Coll., Univ. of Melbourne, Australia)

• Hong Kong World Wide Web Database The best index of educational sites and Internet Service Providers, at Chinese University, who also maintain a list of WWW sites about Hong Kong.

• Marjorie Chan's China Links (Ohio State Univ., USA) An extensive and well sorted guide with some emphasis on Chinese linguistics and language.

• National Bureau of Asian Research A nonprofit, nonpartisan institution that conducts advanced research on policy-relevant issues in Asia. It also serves as the global clearinghouse for Asia research conducted by specialists and institutions worldwide.

• Portal to Asian Resources Developed by University of Wisconsin - Madison. A Title VI-funded project, the Portal to Asian Internet Resources (PAIR) offers scholars, students and the interested public more than six thousand professionally selected, cataloged and annotated online resources.

• 中国大全 Claimed the most comprehensive internet directory to China related web site, this enormous database has more than 500 direct links to mainland-related Web sites on virtually every topic.