- General
Databases
- Guoxue ("Chinese studies") - A comprehensive site with access to on-line texts (simplified characters), tables of contents of academic journals, research materials, information on leading modern scholars and further connections to relevant sites. Highly recommended.
- Classical Historiography for Chinese History, Benjamin Elman, UCLA
Chinese History (A universal guide for China studies from Chinaknowledge)
Maps of China (current and historical - maintained via "China the beautiful")
Chinese Conventional Place Names (proper Romanization from the Library of Congress)
Chinese Romanization Guidelines, Library of Congress
Bibliographies
On-line bibliography of Chinese publications about the Classics
Toyogaku bunken ruimoku Journal Articles Database, since 1981
List of articles by the Bulletin of the Sinological Society of Japan
Others
- Chinese era names (nianhao) in Chinese
- History of China a short book
A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization (Prepared by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Mongolia - historical introduction [Excerpted from Mongolia - A Country Study. Robert L. Worden and Andrea Matles Savada, eds. Washington, DC: Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress, 1989]
- China Historical GIS, Harvard University (includes historical maps)
- Archeology
General
Archaeologica: Current News and Information
The International Center for East Asian Archaeology & Cultural History, Boston University
Zhongguo kaogu - China archeology network: Chinese or English
Teaching the Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Chifeng excavations North-eastern China
Yayoi culture (Japan) - Articles and abstracts from Japanese journals, translated into English
On-Line Articles and Publications
China Heritage Newsletter (China Heritage Project, The Australian National University)
- Pre-Qin
Searchable Text
Searchable database of epigraphic sources via Academia Sinica
Guodian searchable database via Hong Kong University
Database of Early Chinese Manuscripts By Enno Giele through Early China site
Recently discovered manuscripts (jianbo.org)
"Recently discovered manuscripts 2" (Wuhan University)
Pre-Qin history (Chinese site)
Chu Culture (Chinese site)
- A Bibliography of Materials Pertaining to the Guodian and Shanghai Museum Manuscripts from Early China site
An Etymological Dictionary of Common Chinese Characters by Wiliam Baxter
On-Line Articles and Publications
- Fully Dated Western Zhou Bronze Inscriptions by David Nivison, 1997
The Riddle of the Bamboo Annals by David Nivison, 1997
The concept of Friendship in Early China by Maria Khayutina, in Russian
The dating of the Chu graves of Changsha by Donald Wagner; Acta Orientalia [Copenhagen], 1987, 48: 111-156
Early iron in China, Korea and Japan by Donald Wagner
The earliest use of iron in China by Donald Wagner, Published in Metals in antiquity,ed. by Suzanne M. M. Young, Mark Pollard, Paul Budd and Robert A. Ixer, oxford: Archaeopress, 1999, pp. 1-9
"Toward a dynamic theory of International Politics: Insights from comparing ancient China and Early Modern Europe" By Victoria Tin-Bor Hui
- Qin-Han
General
- The Early Medieval China Group Maintained by Ken Klein
- Search for Chinese language scholarly articles about Han thinkers (1912-1996)
- The Society for Qin-Han History
- The Han Dynasty - Bibliography by Maine University
- The Han Dynasty Project (works by Homer Dubs and Jack L. Dull - including unbpulished papers
On-Line Articles and Publications
- Rafe de Crespigny: On-line publications ANU:
Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling
To Establish Peace volume 1
To Establish Peace volume 2
The Northern Frontier of Later Han
Later Han and the Xiongnu
Later Han Civil Administration
Later Han Military Organisation
South China during Han
South China under the Later Han Dynasty
Poems and Rhapsodies of the Later Han and Three Kingdoms
Ladies of the Court of Emperor Huan of Han - The First Neo-Confucianism An Introduction to Yang Hsiung's "Canon Of Supreme Mystery" T'ai Hsuan Ching, Ca. 4 B.C. (by Michael Nylan and Nathan Sivin)
2000 Years of Barbarians (by John J., Emerson)
- The Administrative Documents from Yinwan: A Summary of Certain Issues Raised By Michael Loewe
The Texts of Early Heavenly Master Taoism By Franciscus Verellen
Taming the Floodwaters from China Heritage Newsletter
Silk Road Narratives: a Collection of Historical Texts (University of Washington, Seattle):
Chinese Accounts of Rome, Byzantium and the Middle East, c.91 B.C.E. - 1643 C.E.
Selections from the Han Narrative Histories
The Western Regions according to the Hou Hanshu - The Xiyu Juan, "chapter on the Western Regions" from Hou Hanshu 88; second edition (extensively revised with additional notes and appendices). Translated by John E. Hill
- Fragmentation (Han to Sui)
General
The Early Medieval China Group Maintained by Ken Klein
- Zoumalou Wu bamboo strips database (走馬樓三國吳簡嘉禾吏民田家資料庫) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong 香港中文大學
On-Line Articles and Publications
- The Stirrup and its Effect on Chinese Military History by Albert Dien
- International Academic Conference on the Changsha Bamboo Documents Dating to Wu of the Three Kingdom by Vivienne Lo
Rafe de Crespigny: On-line publications ANU
Silk Road Narratives: a Collection of Historical Texts (University of Washington, Seattle):
"The People of the West" from the Weilu by Yu Huan: A Third Century Chinese Account Composed between 239 and 265 CE Quoted in zhuan 30 of the Sanguozhi Published in 429 CE; Draft English translation by John E. Hill
"The Sogdian Ancient Letters" 1,2,3, and 5 translated by Prof. Nicholas Sims-Williams (SOAS); Introduction by Prof. Daniel C. Waugh, University of Washington
Translation of the Kharosthi Documents from Chinese Turkestan, by T. Burrow
- Sui - Tang - 5 Dynasties
General
The Early Medieval China Group Maintained by Ken Klein
- The Tang Dynasty - Bibliography by Maine University
- Chinese Society for the Study of Tang History (Zhongguo Tang shi xuehui)
On-Line Articles and Publications
- Silk Road Narratives: a Collection of Historical Texts (University of Washington, Seattle):
Xuanzang's Record of the Wester Regions (BOOK ONE), translated by Samuel Beal (1884)
Nestorian Tablet: Eulogizing the Propagation of the Illustrious Religion in China, with a preface, composed by a priest of the Syriac Church, 781 A.D.
The "New Tang History" (Hsin T'ang-shu) on the History of the Uighurs. Translated and annotated by Professor Colin Mackerras, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia; Edited and introduced for the Internet by Daniel C. Waugh
- Song - Liao - Jin - Yuan
General
The Society for Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies
- Song studies in Taiwan
Digital Gazetteer of the Song Dynasty (DGSD) (hosted by the University of California, Merced library) [added 30.05.2010]
The Song Dynasty - Bibliography by Maine University
The Liao Dynasty A.D. 916 - A.D. 1125
- The Yuan Dynasty 1271 - 1368 AD - Bibliography by Maine University
- Yuan Painting
- Mongol bibliography
- International Dunhuang Project IDP
- Dunhuang Academy China
- Khitan script
On-Line Articles and Publications
- Shen Kua (1031-1095) by Nathan Sivin, from "Science in Ancient China"
The Sheng Wu Qin Zheng lu An annotated translation of the Sheng-wu Qin-zheng Lu beginning where Pelliot and Hambis left off, and continuing as far as Temujin's proclamation as Chinggis Qan by John J., Emerson
F. Wood's "Did Marco Polo Go To China?": A Critical Appraisal by I. de Rachewiltz
"Blast Furnaces in Song-Yuan China" by Donald Wagner
"The Administration of the Iron Industry in the Eleventh Century China" by Donald Wagner
Silk Road Narratives: a Collection of Historical Texts (University of Washington, Seattle):
"Accounts of a Journey to the West" (Xi you lu), 1219-1224 By Ye-lv Ch'u ts'ai, translated by E. Bretschneider (1888)
"Description of the West by a Chinese Envoy, 1220" [or "Notes on an Embassy to the North" (Bei shi ji)] translated by E. Bretschneider (1888)
"The Travels of Ch'ang Ch'un to the West, 1220-1223", recorded by his disciple Li Chi-ch'ang, translated by E. Bretschneider (1888)
The Journey of Friar John of Pian de Carpine to the Court of Kuyuk Khan, 1245-1247", translated by William Woodville Rockhill (1990)
"William of Rubruck's Account of the Mongols"
"The History of the Life and Travels of Rabban Sawma", Translated from the Syriac by E. A. Wallis Budge
"The Travels of the John De Margignolli, 1339-1353"
"Pegolotti's Merchant Handbook"
- Ming
General
- Website on Ming-Qing History at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Maintained by Lu Miaw-fen at the Institute of Modern History
The Ming Dynasty 1368 - 1644 AD - Bibliography by Maine University
Matteo Ricci from Catholic Encyclopedia
Adam Schall von Bell from Catholic Encyclopedia
Jesuits in China Vatican publication
Ming Tombs (a private site by Irvin Hultengren)
On-Line Articles and Publications
- Wang Xishan (1628-1682) by Nathan Sivin, from "Science in Ancient China
- Zheng He and his maritime expeditions
- Zheng He - another source
- "The state iron works in Zunhua, Hebei, 1403-1581" by Donald Wagner
- Qing
Modern Chinese History Website, prepared by Joseph Esherick and others at the University of California, San Diego.
- Website on Ming-Qing History at Academia Sinica, Taiwan
The Qing Dynasty 1644 - 1911 AD - Bibliography by Maine University
Late Imperial China journal
Electronic Index to the Early Shenbao 申報 (1872-1895) the most important of the early Chinese-language Shanghai newspapers
Adam Schall von Bell from Catholic Encyclopedia
Jesuits in China Vatican publication
The Opium War from Digital China - Harvard
- Republic
General
Modern Chinese History Website, prepared by Joseph Esherick and others at the University of California, San Diego.
The Republican Era 1911 - 1949 AD Period of Wars and Revolutions - Bibliography by Maine University
- TREATY PORTS & EXTRATERRITORIALITY IN 1920s CHINA
On-Line Articles and Publications
- Selected writings and speeches of Chairman Mao Tse-tung
Trotskyism in China by Robert J. Alexander
Dimensions of Chinese Anarchism: An Interview with Arif Dirlik from Perspectives on Anarchist Theory
Anarchists and the May 4 Movement in China By Nohara Shiro; translated by Philip Billingsley
The Chinese Communist Party During the Era of the Comintern (1919-1943) By Tony Saich
Zhou Enlai: THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL AND THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY 1960; From Selected Works of Zhou Enlai
- "The CCP and the Fujian Rebellion" by Frederick S. Litten from Republican China
- PRC and Taiwan province
PRC and Taiwan Official Sites
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China
Language: Chinese (GB); EnglishZhongguo falu daquan Complete Guide to Chinese Law - in Chinese
Mainland Affairs Council Taiwan: Published by Executive Yuan, "Republic of China"
This site offers a welter of material on cross-straits relations. Please notice that most documents in Chinese version are not translated in the English version of the siteTaiwan Cross-Strait Directory Brief summaries and annotated links in the Cross-Strait Directory connect the user to online indicators of domestic and international sources of conflict and conflict resolution in Taibei-Beijing relations
Scholarly Resources
- Historical Society for 20th Century China
- Mao Zedong Internet LibraryA searchable data-base of English translations of Chairman's Selected Works and other texts
- The Maoist Documentation Project
- The Cultural Revolution - Bibliography by Maine University
- Rethinking Cultural Revolution Culture Workshop and Exhibition, Heidelberg 22-24. 2. 2001
Law in China - list of sites maintained by the Asian Law Centre (ALC), University of Melbourne, Australia
- Three Gorges Dam Resources (From the International River Project)
- Chinese Space Program
Tiananmen events, 1989 - The Declassified History Prepared by Jeffrey T. Richelson and Michael L. Evans, June 1, 1999
Bibliography of the Chinese Uyghurs by Sara Davis
- China's Environment: on-line resources
- China Politics Links (by Prof. William A. Joseph, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College) [new! 22.03.2010]
On-Line Articles and Publications
- Selected writings and speeches of Chairman Mao Tse-tung
"White Hats, Oil Cakes, And Common Blood: The Huizu in the Contemporary Chinese State" (by Jonathan N. Lipman, Department of History, Mount Holyoke College)
- Singapore