Tools

• Chinese Character Dictionary (mandarintools.com), search a radical with a range of residual strokes and print results as *.gif, unicode, GB, or Big5.
• Chinese Character Dictionary (chinalanguage.com), search a radical and residual strokes, English keywords, hanyu pinyin (including toneless), Hakka pinjim, Cantonese jyutping, Sino-Japanese, Sino-Korean, four-corner, Cangjie, unicode, or Big5.
• Animated Characters, shows the stroke order and direction for most characters using animated *.gif.
• Zhongwen: Chinese Characters and Culture, wide range of information, including extensive etymology of each character, online dictionary, full text of Dao De Jing, and Confucian works.
• Chinese Forums, Chinese Language and Culture forum, searchable and posting topics is available after free registration.

E-texts, News and Journals in Chinese

• "Hua Xia Wen Zhai", Chinese Reader's Digest; with special columns such as news, literature, memoirs, history, essays, politics, etc.
• Chinesenewsnet, news, essays, reports, discussion, etc.
• China Today, general information provided by the government.
• China Vista, offers in-depth information on China business, industry and culture, accessible in both Chinese and English.
• Hu's Personal Website, general information.
• New Threads, (Xin Yu Si) e-texts; social commentary, politics, literary criticism, encyclopedia, etc.
• Wen Xue Cheng, (City of literature) literary criticism, reports, social commentary, etc.
• Yifan Public Library, e-texts in classical and modern literature.
• Baidu, Chinese search engine.
• China Guide Company, feng-shui, shopping tips, etc.
• Chinese Books Cyberstore, a new internet Chinese bookstore.
• Deutsche Welle Chinese Broadcast, click the speaker icon to listen to Chinese daily news.
• The Central People's Broadcast of China, Station (1);
• MACC (Master of Arts in Contemporary China) at Nanyang Technological University, details about the MACC program. Applications can be submitted only be submitted digitally.
• MA in Contemporary China Studies at Renmin University, find degree description or download an application.

Academic Sites and Addresses

• Integrated Chinese Homepage, Homepage of the Integrated Chinese textbooks.
• Reading Chinese Online
• Association for Asian Studies, Asian related academic publications, research projects and conferences.
• International Comparative Literature Association, conferences and publication.
• Marjorie Chan's ChinaLink, linguist at OSU and useful links.
• Supplementary language materials, site maintained by instructors who use Integrated Chinese Textbook at various U.S. colleges and universities.
• Art and Violence in the Cultural Revolution, Xiaofei Tian's course at Harvard University.
• Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, MCLC resource center in OSU.
• Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at OSU, useful links to people and databases.
• Chinese Studies at University of Hawaii, useful links.
• Kenyon College Chinese Program Home Page, maintained by Professor Bai, with links to other useful sites.
• Feminism in China, bibliographies and biographies.
• Professor Audrew Li's home Page, online resources and general readings.
• Video Clips of Survival Chinese, Videos of how to do the basics while visiting China, including ordering a meal, getting a taxi, going to the post office, seeing a doctor.

Technical Support

• Reading and Writing Chinese Characters and Pinyin on the Web Using Unicode, Great resource for making webpages with Chinese characters and pinyin.
• Website101 - Master Text to HTML Converter, Converts anything to html using unicode; a good tool to convert Chinese characters to unicode.
• Pinyin to Unicode, Type in the pinyin, and it will display the html unicode reference needed to display the pinyin in html.

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