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• The Records of the Grand Historian of China (The Shih Chi) (6th century BCE), by Sima Qian
• The Legalist Polices of the Qin, by Sima Qian
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• Summary of The Dream of the Red Chamber
• Selections from the Dao der Jing
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• Arbeitsgemeinschaft junger Chinawissenschaftler/Innen [Universitä Heidelberg-German]
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• Chinese Biographical Database
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• Western Missionaries in China (Chronology)

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• General

• Chinese History in General
• The Chinese Collection, from the University of Southern California (USC)
• History of China, Leon Poon
• The Chinese Empire. The Middle Kingdom
• The (US) Army Handbook of China [downloadable files]
• Cultura China [Spanish - introdución extensiva a la historia]
• China
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• Tales of Old China
• Introduction to China
• Ancient China
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• History by Period to the Qing Dynasty

• Prehistory

• The Society for the Study of Early China
• The Dawn of History, from LOC
• The Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution in China, by Dennis A. Etler
• Fossil Hominids in China [map series]
• Fossil Remains [images and commentary]
• The Archaeology of Prehistoric China
• Prehistoric China
• Neolithic China
• Map of the Neolithic China

• Xia Dynasty 2000-1500 B.C.

• History of the Xia Dynasty
• The Ancent Dynasties: Xia
• The Archaeology of Bronze Age China

• Shang Dynasty 1700-1027 B.C.

• Map of the Shang Dynasty
• Shang Dynasty History
• The Archaeology of Bronze Age China

• Western Zhou Dynasty 1027-771 B.C.

• Map of the Western Zhou Dynasty
• The End of Shang and the Zhou period
• History of the Zhou Dynasty
• The Chou, 1050-256 BC
• Images of Late Zhou. The Age of Philosophers
• Arts of China: #3 The Chou (Zhou) Dynasty
• The Archaeology of Bronze Age China
• The Archaeology of Chu and Other Cultures

• Spring and Autumn Era 770-476 B.C.

• Map of the Eastern Chou Dynasty
• The Hundred Schools of Thought
• Early iron in China, by Donald B. Wagner (1993)
• The earliest use of iron in China, edited by Suzanne M.M. Young (1999)

• Warring States 475-221 B.C

• Warring States Project
• Klassische chinesische Philosophie neu erlebt [rich in graphics]

• Qin 221-207 B.C.

• Map of the Qin Dynasty
• Qing Dynasty, by Marilyn Shea
• History of the Qin Dynasty
• Images of Qin
• Materials for the Study of the Period of the Qin Dynasty
• The Archaeology of Early Imperial China

• Western Han 206 B.C.-A.D. 9

• Map of the Han Dynasty
• History of the Han Dynasty
• Images of Han
• What are the Strength and Weakness of the Civil Service Examination
  System in Ancient Chinese History? What Was Its Impact on Traditional
  Chinese Society?
• Traditions of Exemplary Women, by Liu Xiang (77-76 BC)
• The Silk Road

• ca. 120 B.C. Origins of the Silk Road
• Map of the Silk Road
• Websites About the Silk Road and Dunhuang Grottos
• Wang Mang interregnum 9-24

• The Xia Dynasty 9-23

• Eastern Han 24-220

• The Archaeology of Early Imperial China

• Three Kingdoms 220-280

• History, 220-589 [work in progress. already extensive]
• History of the Three Kingdoms
• The Great Wall

• The Great Wall
• Great Wall of China, Section Revealed by Radar Images
• Images of the Great Wall
• Image of the Freat Wall
• Jin 265-420

• History, 220-589 [work in progress. already extensive]
• History of the Chin Dynasty
• The Archaeology of Early Imperial China
• Te Tomb of Shih Huan Ti

• Northern and Southern Dynasties 420-588

• History, 220-589 [work in progress. already extensive]
• History of the Dynasties of the North and South

• Sui 581-617

• Map of the Sui Dynasty
• History of the Sui Dynasty
• Images of Sui/Tang
• The Archaeology of Early Imperial China
• A DRA Campaign for the Fall of the Sui Dynasty China 617-618 AD, by Steven Neate [A war=gaming background]

• Tang 618-907

• Map of the Tang Dynasty
• "War and the Founding of the Tang Dynasty", by David Graff
• History of the Tang Dynasty
• Images of Sui/Tang
• Origins of Christianity in China, by T.V. Philip
• The Archaeology of Early Imperial China

• Five Dynasties 907-960

• Map of the Five Dynasties
• History of the Five Dynasties

• Ten Kingdoms 907-979
• Song 960-1279

• Map of the Northern Song Dynasty
• Map of the Southern Song Dynasty
• The Imperial Era: Restoration of Empire
• History of the Northern and Southern Song
• Images of Song
• Sung Dynasty
• History of the Song Dynasty

• Yuan 1279-1368

• Map of the Yuan Dynasty
• History of the Yüan Dynasty
• Map of the Mongol Empire
• The Mongols After Genghis

• Ming 1368-1644

• Map of the Ming Dynasty
• History of the Ming Dynasty
• Early Christianity in China, by T.V. Philip
• Ming China 1368-1664
• The Voyages of Zheng He (Cheng Ho)m 1405-1453
• Lena Shoal. Sunken Treasure: Cargo of a Chinese Junk [15th-century sea-trade]
• The Rise and Fall of 15th-Century Chinese Sea-Power, Michael L. Bosworth

• Qing 1644-1911

• Map of the Qing Dynasty
• History of the Qing Dynasty
• Ch'ing China
• China History: Qing Dynasty
• Jingban Tianwen QuantuCapital Edition Of A Complete Map (Of The World Based On) Astronomy [1780's or 1790's]
• The Manchus
• China and the Manchus, by Herbert A. Giles
• The Establishment of the Ch'ing Empire
• The Ch'ing State
• The Arrival of the Europeans

• Western Missionaries in China (Chronology)
• Les Jésuites en Chine
• The "Ocean Devils" [the coming of the Europeans]
• War along the Amur 1682-1689

• Prelude to Modern China
• Opium in China 1700-1860
• Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832, and 1833, by Charles Gutzlaff
• China um 1900 in den Augen der Zeit [accounts of travellers in Imperial China. In German]
• "Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria," Lin Tse-Hsü (1839)
• "England and China," The United States Magazine and Democratic Review Vol 7 (1840)
• Opium War (1839-1842): Britain Stole Hong Kong From China
• The Opium Wars
• "Condition of China, With Reference to the Malthusian Theory...,", The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Vol. 22 (1848)
• "Battle with Chinese Pirates" New York Times, 19 October 1855
• The Taiping Rebellion, 1853-1864
• The Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864, from Armed Conflict
• The Taiping Rebellion 3
• Chinese Sketches, by Herbert A. Giles, 1875
• "Self-Strengthening" 1878-1898
• The "One Hundred Days of Reform" 1898
• The Boxer Rebellion

• China Through the Stereoscope at the Time of the Boxer Rebellion, by By James Ricalton, 1901
• The Boxer Rebellion 1898-1901
• The Boxer Rebellion 1900
• When the Allies Entered Peking, 1900, Pierre Loti
• My Adventures During the Boxer War, 1900, Yao Chen-Yuan

• Tzu Hsi - The Dowager Empress of China
• Dragon Lady. Dowager Empress Cixi (reigned 1898-1908]
• China um 1900 in den Augen der Zeit [accounts of travellers in Imperial China. In German]
• Description gééographique, historique, chronologique, politique et physique de l'empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie chinoise, by le P. J.-B. du Halde, from Gallica
• The March to Lhasa 1901, by C.G. Rawlings [from Hillsdale]
• Ch'ing Decline and Nationalist Movements, 1901-1912
• Tales of Old Shanghai. Houseboat Days in China, by J.O.P. Bland, 1906.
• Tales of Old Shanghai. Letters of a Shanghai Griffin, by Jay Denby, 1910.
• Republic of China 1911-1949
• Map of the Extent of Modern China
• Women in China at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
• Republic of China
• China and the World War, by W. Reginald Wheeler, 1919
• Treaty Ports and Extraterritoriality in the 1920's
• Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, March 1927, Mao Zhedong
• The Fourth Marines in China, 1927-1941
• The Revolution in China and the Tasks of the Comintern, J. V. Stalin (1927)
• The Civil War

• Civil War (1927-1949)
• Theses on the Chinese Revolution, by Cajo Brendel (1967)
• Some Reflections on the Counter-Revolutionary Nature of Chinese Diplomacy, by Cajo Brendel (1967)
• Why Is It That Red Political Power Can Exist in China?, Mao Tse-Tung, 5 October 1928.
• Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War, by Mao Tse-Tung, December 1936

• The War with the Japanese, 1937-1945

• Japanese Invasions of China
• On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism, by Mau Tse-Tung, 27 December 1935
• Japanese Army's Atrocities - Nanjing
• The Tasks of the Chinese Communist Party in the Period of resistance to Japan, by Mao Tse-Tung, 3 May 1937
• WWW Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre (1937-1938)
• The Chinese Revolution and the Communist Party, by Mao Tse-Tung, December 1939
• On New Democracy, by Mao Tse-Tung, January 1940
• Map of the Japanese Occupation, 1940
• "In Defense of the Chinese Revolution: The record of Workers World Party", by Deirdre Griswold (1976)

• The Civil War Resumed, 1945-1949 (Maps)

• Situation at the End of World War II
• Chiang Kai-shek's Strategy, 1947
• Communist Offensives, September- November 1948
• Communist Offensives, November 1948- January 1949
• Communist Offensives, April- October 1949
• People's Republic of China 1949-

• China, 1949-1972, from CNN [consists of several episodes eamined in depth]
• "United States Position on China, August 1949", Dean Atcheson
• The Yalu River and its Security Implications for China, from ICE
• The United States and the Chinese Nuclear Program, 1960-1964
• The Chinese Nuclear Weapons Program: Problems of Intelligence Collection and Analysis, 1964-1972, ed. William Burr [from The National Security Archives]
• New Archival Evidence on Taiwanese "Nuclear Intentions", 1966-1976, ed. William Burr [from The National Security Archives]
• The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1970

• The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in China,1966-1976, a summary by Thayer Watkins
• Mao Tse-Tung's Thought is the Telescope and Microscope of Our Revolutionary Cause, Editorial of the Liberation Army Daily (Jiefangjun Bao), 7 June 1966, from The Modern History Sourcebook
• The Virtual Museum of the "Cultural Revolution", Chinese and English, a massive and scholarly resource.
• Bibliography of The Cultural Revolution, by Marilyn Shea
• The Suppression of the Left in China, by Sam Marcy, from The Workers' World, 1976-1977 [originally published as China: The Suppression of the Left

• The Sino-Soviet Border Conflict 1969. U.S. Reactions and Diplomatic Maneuvers, ed. William Burr [from The National Security Archive]
• Sino-Soviet Amur Conflict
• Artifacts from the Cultural Revolution [1966-1976]
• Sayings of Chairman Mao [Chinese and English]
• Reconaissance Flights and Sino-American Relations, 1969-1970, ed. William Burr [from The National Security Archive]
• Nixon's China Game: 1972
• 1977: End of the Revolutionary Mao Era
• Discussion of Mao's Political Ideology and the erosion of the CCP's ideology after Mao's Death.
• Mao's Successors

• Modernization
• The Ten-Year Plan of 1978-1988, by Thayer Watkins
• River Development Projects, by Thayer Watkins
• The Period of Rapid Growth, by Thayer Watkins

• China Posters Online
• The Tienanmen Square Uprising

• Around Tienanmen Square [interactive panorama]
• Gate of Heavenly Peace 4 June 1989
• A Great Story of a Tiananmen Survivor, from The Historical Text Archive
• The 10th Annivarary of the Tienanmen Repression
• The U.S. Tienanmen Papers, ed. Michael L. Evans [from The National Security Archive]

• China Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 1996
• Images: CHINA: Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic
• Religion
• Buddhist
• Dharma | The Chinese Buddhist Canon
• WWW Database of Chinese Buddhist texts
• Chinese Buddhist philosophy
• Chinese Buddhist Resources
• Confucius
• The Philosopher Confucius
• Confucian Classics [With links to English Translations]
• Confucianism as a Way of Chinese Life
• Electronic Passport to Confucius
• Taoism
• Gateway to China - religions
• Taoist Tradition
• Studies on the Taoist Canon (Intro)
• Taoism Information Page
• Falun Cong - Falun Dafa
• Falun Dafa
• Falun Dafa & Falun Gong
• Falun Dafa - Common Questions
• China: Falun Gong (or Falun Dafa)

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