Revised March 2, 2009
Links to Chinese texts and other materials online
There are a variety
of links related to Chinese visual arts
in my Museums and Art
pages.
Chinese
mythology is well covered in the Encyclopedia
Mythica.
L'Association
Francaise des Professeurs de Chinois (AFPC) has a very fine, comprehensive
site, in French. Especially to be noted is their list of China-related links, that includes
links to sites offering fine resources of texts. But more interesting still for
many will be their library of
online Classical Texts where individual texts are covered in pages that
combine French and English with the original Chinese. The pages devoted to the Book of Odes (Shi jing)
are especially rewarding. Each character of the original texts on this site is
linked to a dictionary that provides a full definition when the cursor is on a
character. The list of links to text-related sites lower down this same index
page is especially valuable.
The World Wide Web
Virtual Library's Internet
Guide for Chinese Studies has useful links.
The East Asian History site has a
very fine historical survey Topics in
Pre-Modern Chinese History that focuses on the history of thought, and each
chapter includes many valuable links to other resources.
Chinaknowledge, a universal guide for
China studies by one German enthusiast is full of good things in history, art,
philosophy, literature...
Another site based
in Germany offers links to the texts of some 80 translations
of Lao Tse in 15 languages with various Chinese texts of the original.
The Internet Public Library has a fine list of links
to sites offering Chinese
texts online.
Toronto University's
Cheng Yu Tung East Asia Library has a valuable set of links.
I have put online the full text of the Romance
of the Three Kingdoms in English.
The vast resources
of Poetry in Translation run
by A.S.Kline includes a valuable site devoted to The Tang
Dynasty and the Tao. But the Tang poems page in the AFPC site offers the
originals as well as translations of 300 Tang poems.
Very useful is the list of variant
spellings of names in A.S.Kline's site.
Nationmaster.com
offers a dateline
of Chinese history enabling you to (for example) identify the Era Names
within the reign of any emperor of any period / dynasty. The same information
on all the
Chinese rulers is available in a single long page from AdaGo.
Learn Chinese Online lists
sites useful if you wish to learn Chinese online. Especially useful might be
the animated stroke order
site.