Chinese Culture General Links

(Many well-known sites are ommited here. You can find them almost everywhere on the web. If you need, you can start from here or use my search engines page. )

1. Chinese Culture - Images
   
2. Chinese Culture - Texts
   (Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture Web site. Rich source on both images and texts on Chinese Culture)
   
3. Great National Treasures of China (Collections from the National Palace Museum, Taiwan. Covering Antiquities ;Painting and Calligraphy; Rare Books and Documents. I am extremely excited to see such a good site on the web. You have to visit to appriciate it)
   
4. The Culture Pavilion (Taiwan)
   
5. Chinese Culture many files with pitures at Chinese Cyber City
   
6. Hong Kong's Culture (What a title? It made me wonder & hooked. )
   
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1. Tibet Artifact Show
2. Louver Palace Art Collection
3. Chinese Statue Show
4. Chinese Classic Fan Show
5. Ceramic Show
6. Old Farmers' Wares Show
7. Native Taiwanese Museum
8. The National Palace Museum
   
   
   
   
   

Chinese Archaeology & Architecture

1. Yuan Ming Yuan (Garden of Centred Wisdom)
   
2. Bird's-eye view of the Forbidden City
   
3. Ancient and Modern Structures in Nanjing
   
4. Detailed Study: Late Shang Vehicles (Late Shang Dynasty, c. 1400-1100 BC)
   
5. The Ancient Chinese
   
6. Architectural Continuity in China
   
7. Architecture (introduction: Historical Background ; Palaces ; Temples ; Tombs ; Pagodas; Pavilions; Gardens ; Chinese Quadrangles; Bridges )
   
   
   
   
   

Chinese Fine Arts & Calligraphy

1. Chinese Calligraphy
   
2. Appreciation of Chinese Calligraphy
   
3. Classical Chinese Paintings
4. History of Chinese Arts and Paintings
   
5. The Art of Chinese Calligraphy
   
6. Art of China
7. Chinese Art Gallery
8. An Autostudio of the Fine Arts - Chinese Paintings
9. Chinese Contemporary Art -- Chinese Young Artists
10. WaterColour Paintings
11. Chinese Rainbow Calligraphy
    
12. Chinese Painting--Qi Bai-shi & His Art
    
13. Art Gallery (52 paintings by 10 contemporary Chinese painters)
    
14. The University of Oregon Museum of Art Collection
    
15. Chinese Gallery--Áõ¹ú·ª (gif)
    
16. Special Exhibition of Seventy Restricted Works of Outstanding Calligraphy and Painting --(National Palace Museum)
    
17. Cathay Arts( commercial gallery featuring works of art by contemporary artists in China )
    
18. Chop Engraving (The Art of Chinese Chop Engraving--Chinese Seal or "signature")
    
19. Chinese Art
    
20. Origin of the Chinese Script
    
21. Types of Early Chinese Script
    
22. Five Categories of Chinese Calligraphy
    
23. Chinese Painting Including Traditional Chinese Painting ;History of Chinese Painting ;Achievements of Chinese Painting;
24. Chinese Contemporary Watercolor Painting ;
25. Four Treasures of the Study ;
26. Chinese Paintings Of Qi Bai Shi
27. International Dunhuang Project (IDP)
28. Modern Chinese Woodcut
29. TechArt Center, Taiwan
30. World Art Treasures - LA CHINE

Buddhist Images

1. Guan Yin
   
2. Great Faces of The Buddha
   
3. Tibetan Sculpture
   
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Chinese Jade & Other Antiques

1. Chinese Archaic Jades from the Kwan Collection
   
2. Collection of Chines Export Antiques (an auction site)
   
3. The Wonders of Ancient China----Alfred Koo Gallery on the Net (14 pitures)
   
4. Grace Wu Bruce Inc
   
5. Chinese Jades (brief introduction)
   
6. Jade Carving
   
7. Ivory Carving
   
8. Brick Carving
   
9. Chinese Jade (6 images)

Chinese Perfoming Arts & Music

1. Chinese Opera & Chinese Music at Chinese Student Association (Seattle Univ.)
   
2. Beijing(Peking) Opera(Wendy A. Levine)
   
3. Peking Opera
4. Chinese Music--A Brief History
   
5. Chinese Dragon and Lion Dancers
   
6. Fine Arts & Performance Arts
7. KUNQU (Kun Opera--Older than Beijing Opera) Read the plays on-line
   
8. Chinese Opera Experience
   
9. Taiwan Theater Museum
   
10. Beijing Opera Page Dedicated site with rich info.
    
11. Kung Qu Opera
    
12. Beijing Opera Stories ( Orphan of Zhao Family | Story of the White Snake | Fifteen Strings of Coppers | The Drunken Concubine | The Use of Empty City )
    
13. Chinese Operas ( audio, mov. files available )
    
14. Chinese Music Exhibit ( History ; Songs ; Instrumental Music ; Dancing & Singing ; Opera )
    
15. Quyi Performances ÇúÒÕ (brief intro)
16. Puppet Show ľżϷ brief intro
17. Chinese Puppetry & Shadow Play
    
18. Chinese puppetry (Taiwan)
    
19. Shadow Show ƤӰϷ brief intro
20. Chinese Modern Drama

Chinese Dynasties

1. Chinese Dynasties
   
2. The 100 Chinese Emperors (by ASIAPAC)
   
3. Concise Political History of China
   
4. History of China (Hypertext version of "Army Area Handbook")
   
5. Tang Dynasty City--theme park (recreation of the ancient capital city of Chang'An in the Tang Dynasty - the golden era in ancient China)
   
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Chinese Food & Recipes

-----refer to my Chinese Recipe folder

Chinese Tea and Other Drink

1. The Chinese Art of Tea Drinking
   
2. Tea Quotes--14 pages worth of tea quotes
   
3. The Way of Tea
   
4. A World of Tea (Great site for Tea, Tea Fan, and Tea Quotes)
   
5. Tea Drinking and Tradition Health Claims and Is Drinking Tea Healthy?
   
6. The Chinese Art of Tea Drinking
   
7. Tea & its Category
   
8. Chinese Alcoholic Drinks
   
9. Du-zhong Leaf tea

Chinese Ancient Science & Inventions

1. Chinese Inventions - Can You Name Them?
   
2. The Invention of Paper and find out everything about paper-making at The Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking
   
3. The Art of Printing (Matteo Ricci)
   
4. The Origin of Chinese Books and Printing
   
5. Chinese bookmaking an ancient craft
   
6. Paper, a contribution to human progress
   
7. The History of Chinese Mathematics
   
8. Chinese Ancient Science & Technology
   
9. Chinese Ancient Agriculture
   
10. The Coins of Ancient China
    
11. Chinese Agriculture
    
12. Invented in China?
    
13. The History of Calculating (abacus)
    Return of the Dragon: Hazards of Man-Made Magnetism (a discussion)
    

Chinese Abacus

1. Chinese Abacus
2. The Abacus:The Art of Calculating with Beads
   
3. Calculating Machines
   
4. The Abacus: The Art of Calculating with Beads --Luis Fernandes (new)
   
5. ¼ÆË㹤¾ßµÄ·¢Õ¹ (Chinese big5)
   
6. THE AMAZING ABACUS learn to use it
   
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Chinese Acrobatics

Acrobatics is a pearl in the treasure house of Chinese traditional art.

1. Chinese Acrobatics
2. Acrobatics in the P.R.C.
3. The History of Chinese Acrobatics
4. Traditional Chinese Acrobatic Arts with images
5. All Our Yestodays (Excerpts on juggling in ancient China show a long history of the art--Acrobatics)
6. The Flying Boards--·ÉÅÌ
7. The Great Circus of China
8. Show Goes On for Nanjing Jugglers (Interview with Qian Jian Ping, a juggler from the Nanjing Acrobatic Troupe)

Chinese Kites

1. Chinese Kites--History & Shop
   
2. Chinese KitesAuthentic Kites - Handmade in PRC
3. Kite Flying in China
4. Jason's Web Kite Site(many pitures)
   
5. Kites & Kids
   
6. Make Kites In 20 Minutes
   
7. The Museum of Kites in Tokyo
   Modern Kiting
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10. Tianjin Kite Wei Art Craft Companyand Example
    
11. parrots,seagulls, butterflies, made by Beth Matthews
    
12. Kite Sites
13. Colors in the Wind Japanese kites
14. What's Your Kite Called kite' foreign names
15. HandiLinksTM To Kites
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Flora of China

1. Flora of China (beautiful images of Chinese Flowers of many kinds)
   
2. Chinese Version of the Flora of China Guidelines
   

   (Flora of China is a collaborative project to publish the first modern English-language account of the approximately 30,000 species of vascular plants of China (one-eighth of the world's flora)
   

3. The Art of Classical Chinese Flower Arrangement (In English from Taiwan)
   
4. Chinese Rose, Chinese Lantern Plant, Chinese Lotus at Flowers
   
5. Philadelphia Inquirer: Health & Science ( a reading not just for a horticulturist. Find out who is credited with introducing to the United States more than 1,000 plants from China. )
6. Flora and Fauna (in Hong Kong)

Chinese Animals & Insects

1. Pandas Forever!! (a panda fan's site)
2. Panda Collection (pictures)
3. Giant panda
4. The Panda Bear
5. Raymond Joe's e-Pandas Homepage
6. Giant Panda Bears and other bears
7. The Panda defined
8. Panda Conservation Comes of Age--efforts by the Chinese government and WWF-World Wide Fund to save the giant panda from extinction
9. Chinese Cricket Culture: an Introduction to Cultural Entomology in China
10. Worshipped and Cursed--The Turtles' Place in Chinese Culture
    
11. Insects in Chinese Culture ( Sericulture, insects as pets, as medicine, as food...etc )
    
12. Huang Zhiyong's Bug-Eating Page (pitures of Giant Silk Worm Pupae cooked)
    

The Silk Road

1. Gateway to Silk Road(Japan)
   
2. The Silk Road(Oliver Wild)
   
3. China--A Trip Along the Silk Road(3 part)
   
4. International Dunhuang Project (IDP)
   
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Chinese Ancient Relics

1. Museum of Qin Shi Huang's Buried Sculpture Legion The Famous Chinese Scenic Wonders
   
2. Terracotta Figures Pictures--1,2, 3
   
3. The Tomb of Shih Huang Ti (computer generated pictures - Taisei Corp. JP)
   
4. The Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution in China
   
5. Searching for Our Primate Ancestors in China
   
6. A Table Listing All Chinese Fossil Hominids Known to Date
   
7. Picture gallery - Photographs of Major Chinese Fossil Ape and Human Specimens
8. Atlas of Human Evolution in China
   
9. Interactive Time Line of Human Evolution in China
   
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Pottery and Porcelain

1. Chinese Pottery and Porcelain
   
2. Orientique--Fine Antiques & Works of Art
   
3. Chinese Porcelain Collection (from Ming to Qing Dynasty) & (from Han to Tang Dynasty)
   
4. Collecting Chinese Antique Porcelain (Patrick Wang)
   
5. Chinese Porcelain (Aronson Antiquairs of Amsterdam)
   
6. The Oriental Art Gallery Ltd
   
7. Vanderven & Vanderven Oriental Art
   
8. Chinese porcelain (Why the name of porcelain? Find it out.)
   
9. The Decorative Arts Collections ---A Brief History of the Teapot
   
10. Yixing Ware Teapots
    
11. Asian Export Art--Porcelain
    
12. The Hester Collection (The majority of the collection consists of Chinese monochromes or the Sung, Yuan, and early Ming periods.)
    
13. Jing De Zhen color tea set
    
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Chinese Dragon

1. Dragons in Ancient China Your first stop.
2. Cloisonne enamel double dragon plate
3. Oriental Dragon Collection ( Shunguo Liu )
4. Dragons...why do we wear them as ornaments?
5. Index of /gifs/dragons
6. Lung (or Dragon)
7. Dragon Stories -- An Annotated List (from around world)
8. alt.fan.dragons (long lists of links to dragons on the web)
9. In Search of Dragons (around world. " Dragons are a universal tie that binds all cultures together")

Chinese Fables & Legends

1. Chinese Myths(legends retold by students at Kapiolani Community College)
   
2. Chinese Fables (1-19) & (20-44) (Chinese Gif & English Translations)
   
3. Chinese Proverbs (English translation Compiled by Haiwang Yuan )
   
4. Cowherd & the Weaving Girl
   
5. Chinese Mythology---Chapter One: Pan Gu, Creator Of The Universe
   
6. STORIES FROM LIAO TSAI CHI YI (English)
   
7. Awakening the Dragon (dragon boat race)
   
8. Dragons in Ancient China ( texts and images about dragons)
   
9. The Four Dragons
   
10. The Bright Pearl
    
11. Natural Enemies
    
12. We Are All One
    
13. The Superior Pet
    
14. The Jeweled Sea
    The above 6 tales are from Tales of Wonder--- Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World
    
15. Crazy Wisdom and Tibetan Teaching Tales Told by Lamas
    
16. Dragon Boats Racing and Zong2 Zi--ÁúÖÛÓëôÕ×Ó
    
17. Understanding Chinese Ghosts
    
18. The Legend of Miao-shan ( about Kuan Yin or Guan Yin ¹ÛÒô)
19. 100 Celebrated Chinese Women in History (with illustrations )
    
    
    
    

Chinese Astrology

1. Chinese Divinations ÖйúÊõÊý the systems of Chinese fortune telling)
   
2. ¥Í¨v¡A¬P®y Astrology files in Chinese
   
3. Feng Shui (List of Chinese Geomancy sites)
   
4. Asian Astrology by William L. Cassidy
   
5. London's Feng Shui Guru (Hundreds of residences and offices in the U.K. have been rearranged on Wong's advice)
   
6. Does Feng Shui Really Work? (what do you think?)
   
7. Feng Shui and GIS
   
8. Chinese Hand Analysis
   
9. Chinese Astrology by Shelly Wu
   
   
   
   
   
   

Chinese Alchemy---Á¶µ¤Êõ

1. THE GOLDEN ELIXIR Resources on Chinese Alchemy
   
2. A Short Introduction to Chinese Alchemy
   
3. Jindan sibai zi---ª÷¤¦¥|¦Ê¦r (Chinese BIG5)
   
4. CHINESE ALCHEMY (AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WESTERN-LANGUAGE STUDIES)
   
5. The Alchemy Virtual Library (28 megabytes of information on alchemy in all its facets. Hong Kong)
   
6. "ALCHEMY, TAOISM, GOD & ALL THAT STUFF." (Are you an "Alchemist"?)
   
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Chinese Folk Arts

1. Chinese Folk Arts
   
2. History of Chinese Embroidery(from Taiwan)
   
3. Chinese Stamps
   
4. Chinese Cloth & Clay Toys
   
5. Chinese Paper-Cut Stories ( Chinese folk stories retold in paper-cut forms)
   
6. Chinese Stamps (another collection)
   
7. Modern Chinese Woodcut
   
8. Chinese Clay Figurines 2 images
   
9. Chinese Dough Figurines
   
10. Batik of wax printing
    
11. Basketry and Matting
    
12. Tri-Colour Pottery of Tang Dynasty
    
13. Famous Schools of Song Dynasty Porcelain
14. Ceramic Craftsmanship in the Ming Dynasty
15. Ceramic Craftsmanship in the Qing Dynasty
16. Ceramic Arts in the P.R.C.
17. Introduction to Chinese Lacquerware

Chinese Cloisonn?& Bronze

1. Chinese Cloisonne(Taiwan)
   
2. Asian Village "Bringing the brightest new designs of Asia to your home"
   
3. Cloisonn?Chinese Beijing Opera face mask
   
4. Cloisonn?Chinese classical wine bottle and more at Ancient Qin Palace--Çع¬
   
5. Cloisonn?2 images
   
6. Bronze
   

Chinese Sculptures

1. Cao Chong-en's Sculpture Collection
   
2. Some Chinese collection of sculptures
   
3. Tibetan Sculpture
   
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Chinese Paper-Cut

1. Beijing Opera Masks
   
2. Chinese Papercuts (20 gif files)
   
3. Traditional Chinese Paper-cut
   
4. Paper Cutting
   
5. Chinese Paper Cutting Art (Peacock series by Yuen-bin WU )
   
6. Chinese Papercut (8 images)
   
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Chinese Macram?-ties that bind

1. Chinese Macrame
   
2. Chinese Macram?/font>
   
3. Chinese Knotting Home Page--¹ÅµäÖйú½áÒÕ
   
4. Chinese Decorative Knotting
   
5. How Oriental rugs are made
   

Chinese Ancient & Modern Think-tanks

1. Kong Fu Zi -- Confucius (James A. A. Tucker )
   
2. The Philosopher Confucius (551-479 B.C.)
   
3. The Analects--Confucius (English text)
   
4. THE Great Learning--Confucius (English text
   
5. The Doctrine of the Mean--Confucius (English text)
   
6. Mencius--Meng Zi and some text (GB)
   
7. Mao Zedong -- A Great Man in China History
   
8. Man of the Year--Teng Hsiao-p'ing(Times)
   
9. The Tao Te Ching --Lao Tzu ( Translated by S. Mitchell )
   
10. XUN KUANG (Xunzi-25 B.C)
    
11. Han Fei
    
12. Welcome to Taoist Resource Center A Complete Guide to Taoism and its many applications.
    
13. Chuangtse, Mystic and Humorist (ׯ×Ó--long English Text)
14. ASIAWEEK - MAO NOW - The Great Helmsman led China into some of the most monumental disasters of the modern era. Now, 20 years after his death, Mao Zedong's star is shining as brightly as ever. How can it be so?
15. CNN: In China, nostalgia lingers for Mao's cultural revolution - :...some Chinese still look back with some fondness at this dark period in China's history. "
16. Chairman Mao's Poems - In Chinese (GIF).
17. Dr. Sun Yat-Sun - The founding father of Republic of China.
18. Mao Zedong - An unofficial site which collects quotations of Mao and some articles on Mao. [CHINESE GB] [CHINESE PS]
19. Mao Zedong -- A Great Man in China History - Internet resources on Mao & his era.
20. Sun Yat-sen: Fundamentals of National Reconstruction - "This book is Sun Yat-sen's most important political statement. It enunciates his famous three principles whereby he set China on the road to modernity. "
21. DENG Xiaoping - Deng Xiaoping leads a far-reaching, audacious but Risky Second Revolution ( Man of the Year 1985, Time Magazine )(in English)
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Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine

1. Chinese Acupuncture
   
2. Acupuncture Home Page (Britain)
   
3. Acupuncture.com Resources(US)
   
4. TuiNa & Chinese Massage
   
5. Modern Acupuncture Methods (on-line instructions)
   
6. 5,000 Year Ming-Dynasty Health Formulas Recovered! ( promotion. You don't have to buy products)
   
7. The Lost Art of War: Sun Bin's Art of War
   
8. Traditional Chinese Sexology
   
9. Tuina--Chinese Bodywork Therapy (Bill Helm)
   
10. Natural Chi-Gong
    
11. Chinese Medicine (a brief introduction)
    
12. Herbs, Fertility & Contraception

Chinese Military Affair

1. Ancient Militarism
   
2. Wiles of War
   --36 Military Strategies from Ancient China
   
3. The Art of War--Sun Tzu (Translated by Lionel Giles) The Oldest Military Treatise in the World.
   
4. The Art of War--Sun Tzu (Thigpen)
   
5. The Art of War-- (a serious translation w/ background info. )
   
6. The Art of War--Sun Tzu (Chinese BIG5) GB coded version
   

1. Modern Military Affair
   
2. China Defense (Image intensive site. You might like his collection of defense-related LINKS, too.)
3. Chinese Weapons Homepage (Wei Jun Wen )
4. Chinese Navy Homepage (Wei Jun Wen )
5. Chinese Military Aviation (by Hui Tong)
6. Chinese Military Force (Army) (Jingyang Deng)
7. Military Aviation (Taiwan) (Wei-Bin Chang)

Sexology & Sex in China

1. ( This section contains grown-ups' life and death material, please stay away if you are not physically, emotionally and mentally grown-up. Pearls or garbages, nothing there represents my view.)
   
2. The Tao of Love and Sex: The Ancient Chinese Way to Ecstasy
   
3. Tantric Sex A Spiritual Path of Ecstasy
   
4. The Homosexual Tradition in China
   
5. The Tao - What Swingers Should Learn of True Intimacy
   
6. Sino-sexology (Marcy Sheiner)
   
7. Spirituality and Sexuality (Steven Ericsson Zenith)
   
8. Traditional Chinese Sexology Sale of CD
   
9. SECRETS OF THE CHINESE MASTERS
   
10. Healthy Sex--- ½¡¿µµÄÐÔ (Taiwan. Chinese BIG5)
    
11. Tantra in China: Chinese Buddhism
    
12. Tao sexual yoga Learn how to have sex to promote your health!
    
13. A word about Dark Side of Taoism
    
14. Deadly Sex
    
15. ǧ¹Å·çÁ÷--¸ßÂÞÅåÆäÈË.....
    
16. The Yin-Yang Butterfly a book
    

Chinese Martial Arts

1. (Check my Martial Arts Folder for more)
2. ShaoLin FAEM Association
   
3. Chinese Kung Fu Introduction
   
4. Martial Arts Web Resource
   
5. Qigong Association of America
   
6. Chinese Kung Fu ( brief introduction )
   

Miscellaneous

1. Fei-Chien, or Flying Money: A Study of Chinese Underground Banking
   
2. Travels in the Chinese Empire ---or The Adventures of Huc (1813-1860)
   
3. Rice-Fish Culture in China: The Past, Present, and Future (raising fish in rice field)
   
4. A visual travel to the Chinese past
5. China-Related Graphics
   
6. Chinese Interpersonal Relations
   
7. Chinese Poets ( messed up when I visited on 11-12-96 , but looks promising)
   
8. Traditional Chinese Music (brief introduction)
   
9. Marco Polo in China
   
10. Chinese Poetry By Various Authors English translation
    

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