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Sub-Topics Three Gorges Dam Also Try Ancient Chinese Awesome Library in Chinese (Requires Simplified Chinese font.) Chinese Books Chinese History (Poon) Provides an elaborate history of China, organized by periods. Lesson Plans USA and China Meet Over Plane Collision (CNN) Provides lessons for studying the relationship between the USA and China in terms of international politics. 5-01 Lists Ancient Chinese Games - Chinese Chess (Martin) Provides information on an ancient game that has continued to the present, Xiang Qi or Chinese chess. Ancient Chinese Philosophy - I Ching (WWW Virtual Library) Provides sources of information on the I Ching, pronounced "Yi Jing," a classical Chinese text that is valued for its philosophy. It is often used in a ceremonial way to provide guidance. Ancient Chinese Philosophy - Taoism (WWW Virtual Library) Provides sources of information on the Tao Te Ching, the central text for Taoism. Taoism is pronounced "Daoism." Text was written by Lao-tzu. Beijing - China (Lycos) China (China Publications Project) Provides resources on Chinese culture. From China. 2-00 China (Yahoo) China - World Factbook (CIA) Provides information about the people, land, history, and culture. 1-05 China -Chinese News Provides online versions of newspapers and magazines from China. China Daily (ChinaDaily.net) 02-06 China, Hong Kong, and Macau (Lycos) Select a city from the list at the right to find detailed information. Note that cities are listed by province, not in straight alphabetical order. China, Hong Kong, and Macau (Lycos) Select a city from the list at the right to find detailed information. Note that cities are listed by province, not in straight alphabetical order. Chinese Art Chinese Cities Provides comprehensive factual and cultural information. Chinese Economy (ChinaEco.com) Chinese Government and Culture (Yahoo) Provides hundreds of sources of information on China. 2-00 Chinese Search Engines (Search Engines Worldwide - Takakuwa) Provides 10 search engines available in China. 8-00 Chinese Version - Ecology and the Environment (Awesome Library) Provides sources of information on ecology and the environment. Provided in the Chinese language (Simplified font). 7-02 Chinese Version - English Lessons and Literature (Awesome Library) Provides sources of books, articles, and lessons. Provided in the Chinese language (Simplified font). 7-02 Chinese Version - Health and Medical Information (Awesome Library) Provides sources of information in medicine and health. Provided in the Chinese language (Simplified font). 7-02 Chinese Version - Math Lessons and Articles (Awesome Library) Provides sources of articles and lessons. Provided in the Chinese language (Simplified font). 7-02 Chinese Version - Science by Topic (Awesome Library) Provides sources of information in science, by topic. Provided in the Chinese language (Simplified font). 7-02 Chinese Version - Special Education (Awesome Library) Provides sources of information in special education and handicapping conditions. Provided in the Chinese language (Simplified font). 7-02 Chinese and Korean Chess Games (Martin) Provides sources of information on Chinese and Korean chess. 1-02 Hong Kong (China) 1997 Provides historical information, information on the change to Chinese control, and more. A Chinese Web site. Materials -Awesome Library in Chinese (ArcNet) Provides online translations of the Web. 7-02 Awesome Library in Russian (Promt) Provides online translations of the Web. 7-02  Chinese Search Engine (CNCO.net) Provides searches in Chinese. Requires (Simplified) Chinese font. 6-02 Chinese Search Engine (ChinaTranslate.net) Provides searches in Chinese. Requires (Traditional) Chinese font. 6-02 Chinese Search Engine (EZSearch.com) Provides searches in Chinese. Requires (Traditional) Chinese font. 6-02 Chinese Search Engine (Net-Ease.com) Provides searches in Chinese. Requires (Simplified) Chinese font. 6-02 Pictures of Famous Places in China (PicturesofPlaces.com) Provides pictures of many of the tourist spots. 5-02 News -02-05-08 China Hit by Coldest Winter in 100 Years (MSNBC News) "Millions remained stranded in China on Monday ahead of the biggest holiday of the year as parts of the country suffered their coldest winter in a century." "Freezing weather has killed scores of people and left travelers stranded before the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival — the only opportunity many people have to take a holiday all year." 02-08 -03-15-03 Jintao New President of China (CBS News) "Hu Jintao was selected Saturday to replace Jiang Zemin as the president of a fast-changing China, the last major step in a sweeping transition to a younger generation of leaders that has been years in the making." 3-03 -04-28-07 Illiteracy Decreasing in China (MSNBC News) "Illiteracy is increasing in China, despite a 50-year-old campaign to stamp it out and a declaration by the government in 2000 that it had been nearly eradicated. The reasons are complex, from the cost of a rural education to the growing appeal of migrant work that draws Chinese away from classrooms and toward far-off cities." 04-07 -06-07-06 China Blocks Google.com (BBC News) "Chinese authorities have blocked most domestic users from the main Google.com search engine, a media watchdog said." " 'It was only to be expected that Google.com would be gradually sidelined after the censored version was launched in January,' Reporters Without Borders said in a statement." 06-06 -06-16-06 Toxic Spill in China Approaches Water Supply for 10 Million (MSNBC News) "Chinese authorities tried to slow the spread of a toxic spill by building 51 makeshift dams along the tainted river and using fire trucks to pump out polluted water before it reaches a reservoir serving a city of 10 million people, state media said Friday." 06-06 -07-19-07 Chinese May See Other Views Better Than Americans (MSNBC News) "Rugged American individualism could hinder our ability to understand other peoples' point of view, a new study suggests." "And in contrast, the researchers found that Chinese are more skilled at understanding other people's perspectives, possibly because they live in a more 'collectivist' society." 07-07 -07-31-07 China's Me Generation (Time Magazine) "There are roughly 300 million adults in China under age 30, a demographic cohort that serves as a bridge between the closed, xenophobic China of the Mao years and the globalized economic powerhouse that it is becoming. Young Chinese are the drivers and chief beneficiaries of the country's current boom: according to a recent survey by Credit Suisse First Boston, the incomes of 20- to 29-year-olds grew 34% in the past three years, by far the biggest of any age group. And because of their self-interested, apolitical pragmatism, they could turn out to be the salvation of the ruling Communist Party — so long as it keeps delivering the economic goods. Survey young, urban Chinese today, and you will find them drinking Starbucks, wearing Nikes and blogging obsessively. But you will detect little interest in demanding voting rights, let alone overthrowing the country's communist rulers. 'On their wish list,' says Hong Huang, a publisher of several lifestyle magazines, 'a Nintendo Wii comes way ahead of democracy.' " 07-07 -09-20-04 "Gendercide" in China Creates a Crisis (MSNBC News) "China is asking where all the girls have gone." "And the sobering answer is that this vast nation, now the world's fastest-growing economy, is confronting a self-perpetuated demographic disaster that some experts describe as "gendercide" -- the phenomenom caused by millions of families resorting to abortion and infanticide to make sure their one child was a boy." 9-04 -09-27-07 China and Others Running Out of Water (New York Times) "The North China Plain undoubtedly needs any water it can get. An economic powerhouse with more than 200 million residents, the region has limited rainfall and depends on groundwater for 60 percent of its water supply. Other countries have aquifers that are being drained to dangerously low levels, like Yemen, India, Mexico and the United States. But scientists say the aquifers below the North China Plain may be drained within 30 years." "'There’s no uncertainty,' said Richard Evans, a hydrologist who has worked in China for two decades and has served as a consultant to the World Bank and China’s Ministry of Water Resources. 'The rate of decline is very clear, very well documented. They will run out of groundwater if the current rate continues.' " 09-07 -10-27-07 Algae Cause Severe Water Problem in China (BBC News) "China is to spend millions of dollars in an effort to clean up one of its largest lakes, which has been severely polluted by years of waste dumping." "An algae infestation earlier this year in Lake Tai, in Jiangsu province, led to a public panic and the suspension of water supplies from the lake." 10-07 -10-27-07 Algae Cause Severe Water Problem in China (BBC News) "China is to spend millions of dollars in an effort to clean up one of its largest lakes, which has been severely polluted by years of waste dumping." "An algae infestation earlier this year in Lake Tai, in Jiangsu province, led to a public panic and the suspension of water supplies from the lake." 10-07 -11-04-04 Richest People in China (China View) "The first 100 people in the ranking have 29.2 billion US dollars in combined assets, a growth of 42 percent compared with those for the year-earlier ranking." 11-04 -11-05-04 Chinese Toilet Renovations (CNN News) China is updated its toilets in tourist areas from basically open trenches to modern facilities." 11-04 -11-23-05 China Desalinating Water from the Ocean (CBS News) "China plans to use desalinated seawater to combat water shortages in coastal areas, producing up to 250 million gallons of water per day by 2010, a news report said Tuesday." 11-05 -11-23-05 China Short on Water Supplies (CBS News) "A Chinese city of 3.8 million people closed schools and was trucking in drinking water Wednesday after shutting down its water system following a chemical plant explosion that officials said polluted a nearby river with toxic benzene." "The disaster highlighted the precarious state of China's water supplies." "The country's 1.3 billion people and the factories and farms of its booming economy compete for scarce supplies. The government says all of China's major rivers are dangerously polluted." "Due to its vast population, China ranks among countries with the smallest water supplies per person." 11-05 -11-24-05 Chinese River Pollution 100 Tons (BBC News) "A blast at a Chinese plant 12 days ago sent the equivalent of 10 tanker-loads of toxic chemicals into the Songhua river, Chinese state media report." 11-05 -12-02-05 U.N.: Torture Still Widespread in China (Guardian Unlimited) "Human rights groups say brutality and degradation are common in Chinese prisons, where many of the victims are from the Tibetan and Uighur ethnic minorities, political dissidents, followers of the banned Falun Gong sect and members of underground churches." "Although China outlawed torture in 1996, its definition of illegal acts - those leaving physical marks - is so narrow that interrogators can employ a wide range of methods contravening UN standards." 12-05 -4-12-05 Tensions High Between China and Japan (CNN News) "Protests are rare in China, with the government keeping a tight rein on any public gatherings and banning most demonstrations." "But while China's government has urged protesters to remain calm, and avoid extremist behavior, it has been tolerant of these anti-Japanese demonstrations, urging Tokyo to take a 'responsible attitude' towards history." "The protests saw tens of thousands of protesters call for a boycott of Japanese products, burning flags and shouting anti-Japanese slogans." "Tokyo has demanded an apology and compensation from Beijing for the damage caused by protesters, and demanded that Chinese authorities protect Japanese in China." "The tensions can be traced back to Japan's military campaigns in the last century. Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931, and occupied various parts of China until 1945." 4-05 -4-16-05 Tensions High Between China and Japan (CBS News) "About 20,000 anti-Japanese protesters rampaged in Shanghai on Saturday, stoning Japan's consulate and smashing cars and shops in a protest over Tokyo's wartime history and its bid for a permanent U.N. Security Council seat. Thousands of police watched but did little to restrain the crowd." "Japan filed an official protest, complaining that Chinese authorities failed to stop the violence." "The Shanghai government, however, blamed Japan for the protest, saying it was sparked by 'Japan's wrong attitudes and actions on a series of issues such as its history of agression,' the official Xinhua news agency quoted government spokeswoman Jiao Yang as saying late Saturday." 4-05 -News in Chinese (Google News) Provides news in Chinese. 05-06 01-26-03 China Executes Tibetan After Secret Re-Trial (San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center - Hocevar) "Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) is outraged to learn that Chinese authorities executed Lobsang Dhondup after a secret re-trial at the Sichuan Provincial Higher People’s Court. The court also upheld the death sentence passed down to Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, an influential Buddhist leader. Tenzin Delek Rinpoche had been sentenced to death with a suspension of two years and Lobsang Dhondup to immediate death in a trial at the Kandze Intermediate People’s Court in December, 2002, and both men had reportedly appealed their sentences." "International outcry about the cases has been enormous. SFT members alone have sent almost 10,000 faxes and emails calling for fair and open trial proceedings for the men. Around the world, Tibetans and supporters have held demonstrations and called on their governments to intervene in a case they view as unjust." 1-03 07-09-03 Anti-Subversion Bill Delayed (BBC News) "Hong Kong's leader has agreed to delay an anti-subversion bill that prompted a protest by about 500,000 people who called it a threat to their freedoms." 7-03 07-09-03 Hong Kong Economy Under Stress (BBC News) Describes the key issues affecting the Hong Kong economy. 7-03 07-17-03 China Calls on N. Korea and U.S. to Honor Agreement (Bloomberg) "China's government called on the U.S. and North Korea to return to a 1994 agreement in order to defuse a dispute about North Korea's nuclear weapons development program." 7-03 China - People's Daily 10-00 China News (China Education and Research Network) Provides news stories. 3-05 China Re-Elects President Hu Jintao (Time.com) "China's legislature has re-elected President Hu Jintao to a second term five-year term. Hu was also re-appointed as head of China's military commission." 03-08 China Starts World's Largest Reforestation Effort (Guardian Unlimited) "After decades of logging that has left large swathes of the country looking like a desert wasteland, China embarked Tuesday on a $12 billion, 10-year program to plant 170,000 square miles of trees - an area roughly the size of California." "It is the largest reforestation project ever, forestry officials said, suggesting only an unprecedented effort can stop the expanding deserts, chronic droughts and deadly flooding blamed on wholesale logging." 5-02 Chinese News (sina.com) Provides news from a Chinese perspective. (Stories are in Chinese.) 02-06 Papers Ancient China (Beavers) Ancient China (Frankenstein) Explores ancient Chinese history. 12-00 Ancient Chinese Furniture (Purdue - Big Sky) Provides pictures and text for classical Chinese furniture. Ancient Chinese Literature (Purdue - Big Sky) Provides samples of classical Chinese literature, including Confucian, Taoist, and others. Ancient Chinese Musical Instruments (Purdue - Big Sky) Provides a short description and a picture of the gongs, drums, guan, sheng, suona, bawu, di, and others. China (CountryReports.org) Provides a profile by topic, including Economy, Defense, Geography, Government, People, National Anthem, Lyrics and Related Links. Provides a map, news, and a flag. 6-02 China - Historical Events by Location (Time Asia) Provides a history of major Chinese movements or events, especially since the middle of the 20th century. 6-01 China - Host for Olympics in 2008 (PBS NewsHour) States that China has won as host for the Olympics in 2008. 12-01 China - Recent Chinese History (Megastories.com) Provides a history of major Chinese movements, especially since the middle of the 20th century. 6-01 China Running Out of Water Quickly (WorldWaterConservation.com) "The decline in China's capacity to irrigate its crops-signs of which include the drying-up of rivers and wells all over the northern region of the country-is coming at a time when depleted world grain stocks are near an all-time low. With its booming economy and huge trade surpluses, China can survive its water shortages by simply importing more of its food, because it can afford to pay more for grain. But low-income countries with growing grain deficits may not be able to pay these higher prices. For the 1.3 billion of the world's people who live on $1 a day or less, higher grain prices could quickly become life threatening. The problem is now so clearly linked to global security that the U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC) the umbrella over all U.S. intelligence agencies, has begun to monitor the situation with the kind of attention it once focused on Soviet military maneuvers." China Search Engine and Directory (ChinaBurst.com) Provides a Chinese search engine and directory in English. 3-00 China and Amnesty International Report (BBC News) Summarizes an Amnesty International report that China has executed more people in a three month period than the rest of the countries of the world have executed in three years. 6-01 China's Relationship With the United States (PBS - Frontline) Discusses the delicate political and economic relationship between China and the USA, with a special emphasis on the role of Taiwan. The discussion is called "Dangerous Straits." 10-01 China's Top Nine Leaders (CNN) "A highlight of the first session of the new Communist Party Central Committee held on Friday was to pick the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), China's supreme ruling council." Chinese (Simplified) Encyclopedia (Wikipedia.org) Provides over 10,000 articles in the language. 12-04 Chinese (Traditional) Encyclopedia (Wikipedia.org) Provides over 10,000 articles in the language. 12-04 Chinese - English Dictionary (Harbaugh) "This dictionary uses traditional etymologies and a unique series of charts based on them to show the close relationships between Chinese characters -- which are all derived from about 200 simple pictographs and ideographs in ways that are usually quite logical and easy to remember." - Gene R. Thursby Chinese Calligraphy (China, The Beautiful - Pei) Provides information for appreciation of the art form. 3-00 Chinese Culture (Wonderful China) Provides information on Chinese culture in Russian. 7-00 Chinese Culture and History (China, The Beautiful - Pei) Provides information by subject, such as calligraphy, painting, poetry, stories, dictionaries, and more. 3-00 Chinese Embassy in the USA Provides the Web page for China's Embassy in the USA. Warning- Information on Tibetan history and culture should be regarded as propaganda rather than factual information. 2-00 Chinese Version - Sustainable Planet Development (Awesome Library) Provides an article on what needs to be done to preserve and protect the planet. Provided in the Chinese language (Simplified font). 7-02 Daily Life in Ancient China (Donn) Provides a comprehensive view of ancient China, including daily life activities and overall history. 03-06 Gigantic Dust Cloud Threatens Food Supplies (Independent News - Lean) "Gigantic dust clouds swirling over China are threatening the world's most populous country with the first-ever 'ecological meltdown', experts here warn." "As the crisis continues, Mr Brown predicts, the world will soon feel the pinch. So far China has compensated for its falling harvests by eating stocks, but soon it will have to buy massive amounts of grain on world markets. He warns: 'Grain prices could double – impoverishing more people in a shorter period of time than any event in history. It would create a world food economy dominated by scarcity rather than by surpluses, as has been the case over most of the last half a century.' " Independent News is a British newspaper. 1-03 History of Sino-Japanese Conflict (Guardian Observer) "August 1894: Start of the first Sino-Japanese War. This one-sided conflict was effectively ended when the Chinese northern fleet was destroyed off the mouth of the Yalu river. China was forced to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki in April 1895, when it ceded Taiwan and other territory to Japan and allowed Korea to become a Japanese protectorate." 4-05 Jintao New President of China (CBS News) "Hu Jintao was selected Saturday to replace Jiang Zemin as the president of a fast-changing China, the last major step in a sweeping transition to a younger generation of leaders that has been years in the making." 3-03 New Leaders for China (CNN) "Confirming long-standing speculation, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and five other senior leaders are stepping down from their posts in the ruling Communist Party, state media has reported." "The move signals the start of a carefully regimented transfer of power to a new, so-called 'fourth generation' of Chinese leaders as the week-long Congress of the Chinese Communist Party draws to a close in Beijing." 11-02 New Leaders for China (CNN) "Confirming long-standing speculation, Chinese President Jiang Zemin and five other senior leaders are stepping down from their posts in the ruling Communist Party, state media has reported." "The move signals the start of a carefully regimented transfer of power to a new, so-called 'fourth generation' of Chinese leaders as the week-long Congress of the Chinese Communist Party draws to a close in Beijing." 11-14-02 Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes in China (MSNBC News) "No country in history has emerged as a major industrial power without creating a legacy of environmental damage that can take decades and big dollops of public wealth to undo." "But just as the speed and scale of China’s rise as an economic power have no clear parallel in history, so its pollution problem has shattered all precedents. Environmental degradation is now so severe, with such stark domestic and international repercussions, that pollution poses not only a major long-term burden on the Chinese public but also an acute political challenge to the ruling Communist Party. And it is not clear that China can rein in its own economic juggernaut." 08-07 Recent Chinese History (Megastories.com) Provides a history of major Chinese movements, especially since the middle of the 20th century. 6-01 USA and China - Relationship Since the 1950's (CNN) Provides a short summary of each key event that changed the relationship between the USA and China since the 1950's. 5-01 Women of China (Asiapac - Internova) Provides illustrated biographies of 100 celebrated women of China. Zemin, Jiang - Profile (BBC News) Provides a biographical profile of the leader of China. leaders, rulers, Presidents, and Prime Ministers 6-01 Ziyang, Zhao - Former Premier of China (Bloomberg.com) "Zhao Ziyang, the Chinese Communist Party leader ousted for sympathizing with student activists during the 1989 military crackdown in Tiananmen Square, died in a Beijing hospital at age 85." 1-05 Ziyang, Zhao - Former Premier of China (USA Today) "Zhao Ziyang, the former Chinese Communist Party leader who helped pioneer reforms that launched China's economic boom but was ousted after the 1989 Tiananmen Square prodemocracy protests, died Monday at a Beijing hospital. He was 85." "During the Tiananmen protests, Zhao called for compromise and expressed sympathy for some of the student's demands." 1-05 Periodicals Chinese Culture (Wei Ming) Provides a magazine on Chinese art and culture. Projects Chinese Edcuational Resources (Dim Sum) Provides information and activities related to Chines culture and Chinese-American culture. Ethical Dilemmas from Four Views (Donn) Provides a variety of current ethical dilemmas that students may face and requires them to answer from four points of view from ancient China - Confucianist, Taoist, Buddhist, and Legalist. Research Deafness - Aspirin May Prevent Deafness (applesforhealth) University of Michigan researchers say aspirin may prevent a type of hearing loss common in China and other Asian countries caused by low-cost antibiotics. 07-30-99. Worksheets China Worksheets (AbcTeach) Provides dozens of worksheets to help children have a better understanding of this region of the world. 8-01

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