Guoxue.com

http://www.guoxue.com

This is a leading site for articles and resources on all aspects of Chinese classical culture and history.

Centre for the Study of Ancient Chinese History

This is their site in Chinese, 国史网 - an excellent resource for articles and news on newly-published books.

http://www.cnhistory.net

A great related site is Ivory Tower 象牙塔 (国史探微): http://xiangyata.net/history

And another one is Wangfu 往复: http://www.wangf.net

Yuan Ding's Collection of History Books

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~yding/history/index.html

The owner of this site has kindly shared a number of history books written by various internet writers. They are written for a popular readership, and make entertaining reading while also being very educational for beginners.

HYPOTHESES ON THE RISE OF CHINGGIS QAN


http://www.idiocentrism.com/turan.conquest.htm

Role of the United States Marines During the Relief of Peking,
The Boxer Rebellion - 1900

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/corps/guy1.html

History of China

http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/toc.html

世界遗产名录 - 中国

Historical places in China

http://www.cctv.com/geography/shijieyichan/index.html

Just found this great site (actually introduced by snowybeagle)

>>中国文化经典书库 (chinese cultural classics books database)
Link: http://www.white-collar.net/02-lib/01-zg/03-guoxue/


>>中国大百科全书 - 中国历史 (China Great Encyclopaedia - Chinese History)
Link: http://www.white-collar.net/02-lib/01-zg/0...1490;/index.htm

If you wish to have indepth discussion on "chinese history and culture" in chinese, you can try the forum of Guoxue.com

国学论坛 (Chinese History & Culture Forum)
>> http://bbs.guoxue.com/index.php

Can anyone here help me out? I went to Guoxue.com, and I was fine on the first few 'pages,' but when I clicked on Hongloumeng studies I didn't get characters anymore. Instead I got a bunch of ... ah...formatting symbols(?) (I'm at a somewhat meager level of computer-savvy). Is it possible to get Hanzi out of that, or am I just stuck?

Thanks to anyone.

Uhm... I didn't encounter this problem. I think you need to clear your cache & cookies, or encode IE in chinese.

Just found this gem: http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/china.html

David K. Jordan, an anthropologist, has some very useful resources on various aspects of Chinese history and culture here, including imperial reign tables, outlines to territorial administrative units, the imperial examination system, philosophical terms, and an interactive program explaining the Five Phases (Wu Xing). Check it out!!

Another good chinese site for finding questions and answers to chinese history:

http://zhidao.baidu.com/browse/761

And the largest chinese library online with several e-books on chinese classics

http://www.nlc.gov.cn/

Check this out guys..

Chinese Dynasties - (in Mandarin)

History of China - (in English)

Hi, is there an English site regarding Classical Chinese? My Chinese is not that good. Thank you.

Just found this blog by a very learned student of Chinese history. It contains articles (all in Chinese) focusing on aspects of Age of Fragmentation and ethnic history, particularly relating to Central Asia. Very balanced and well-researched articles - well worth a look!

夷夏东西 http://www.newsmth.net/pc/index.php?id=cinason

Here's an online set of the Twenty-five dynastic histories, Five Confucian Classics, and assorted philosophies, etc.

http://www.sinica.edu.tw/~tdbproj/handy1/

Searchable.

you can input hanzi 红楼梦研究. then begin to search for it. try it please. my email address is jm_email@163.com

I found this site the other day. It's the contents of an entire book. The bit I've read is interesting. It would be great if someone verified the portrayal of society in Zhou times.
Medieval Chinese Society and the "Local Community"

Thanks Wang Yun,

I wish there was more work by Japanese scholars available in English. They have been involved in Chinese studies far longer than anyone in the West. There's bound to be some good insights there.

Then again, more translations of Chinese works would be good too.

This link opens HiChina Web Solutions. Can you find a new link to that site?

How disappointing that most of the links are in mardarin but I will check out those very few links that are in English.

Thanks.

http://www.chinese-thought.org/

The website is my favorite in all historical website I seen. The quality is the best I think in the aspect of cultural researching, modern history, historical thoughts .

same here , i would like to find some excellent English chinese history site

I found this educated website about half a year ago. It contains famous chinese novels, including RTK, Water Margin and Journey To The West. It's worth checking I guess.

http://www.china-on-site.com/

It is in e-comic style with a picture on every page. The bad point about this web is it takes quite sometimes to load (since every page contains an illustrated picture). But for users with higher speed i-connection, it won't matter (mine is still using 56.6 Kbps connection). I have read 2 stories of them (RTK & Water Margin). I haven't read others yet, though I wish to.

Thank you for posting this. It really is an amazing site.

u r welcome Pattie I'm glad if I can contribute something worthy for this forum. BTW, I happened to browse Youtube and found these great videos about Qin Shi Huang.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcunDFfmxMQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRizdgGDzbI

The first one lasts for about one & half minutes, but it takes quite sometime to load. I prefer the second one, more illustrative. It lasts about 9 and half minutes.

Excellent videos about Qinshihuang (1st emperor of China), including Qin military and warfare

Also, check out the following:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN-QJ-96vhQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrRiP1GEJ3U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg5fvzu8cx8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9CwaDsQ8Qg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfz5ibtwL40

Has anyone ever heard about "The Rape Of Nanking" ?

Perhaps this information can be useful :

1937 - 1938 The Rape Of Nan King
This was one of the Black History in China. It was rarely mentioned, but it had been written as one of the history in modern China.

It started the day Japanese captured Nanjing (or Nanking). As it's named, the history recorded that approximately 80,000 of Nanjing female civilian and girls were raped. I got this complete site, together with pictures (some of the pictures are quite irritating for me). It's worth checking at.

http://www.centurychina.com/wiihist/njmassac/nmintro.htm

Reminder : Don't read this while you r about to go to sleep or having your meal

Ah-ha, about that. I came across this interesting site where it tried to disprove the event of Rape of Nanking by disproving the reliability of the famous Rape of Nanking pictures such as the baby left on its own in the middle of a warzone, and it said that photographers actually put the baby there to make the picture more agonising than it was in fact. And a picture of the japanese leading the women to be executed, was actually leading them to the fields to harvest food...I found that site interesting, anyone know what I mean of it?

Thanks General Zhao for recommendation. These are great documentary videos. I only watched the first part (thanks to my lame connection. Hmmpph ). It was great.

Thanks General Zhao for recommendation. These are great documentary videos. I only watched the first part (thanks to my lame connection. Hmmpph ). It was great.

Analon : I heard about the story about 10 years ago. But I was kindda forgotten. I started recalling and searching for resources again about a year ago. Right after the news about the Japanese were apologizing for their crimes during pre-WWI to post WWII in Asia.

Do you know how there are those (usually far right reactionaries) who say the Holocaust never existed by arguing 6 million bodies would've been nearly impossible to dispose?

Same concept here.

As far as the history of Taiwan and Okinawa before the 1700s, what does Chinese historians records about it? Were Taiwan and Okinawa ever once was a vassal State or part of any Chinese dynasty? So far, history have not mention anything about that ( unless I am reading the wrong history materials?, Taiwan was siad to be a colony of the Dutch before the Qing invaded, while Okinawa was an independent State before the SHoguns of mainland Japan invaded ), does anyone know or what does the history base on Chinese scholars or historians say?

I was searching for some info about Wang Hailing. Unfortunately, I was only able to find one article about her at china.org.cn. But, on the right side of that page I found a section called Archives. In it were the following links:

International Forum on the Daodejing
Zheng He: 600 Years On
Three Gorges: Journey Through Time
Famous Bells in China