“China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998,” Digital National Security Archive
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/publications/china-us/
This collection includes over 2,000 government documents (mostly from 1969-1998) related to US-China relations. This link includes information about documents and a historical overview. In order to view documents, users must be able to access the ProQuest database.
Chinese Cultural Studies: Texts, Brooklyn College
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts.html
A wide selection of translated Chinese texts. Includes a large number of Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist works. Other primary and secondary sources on Chinese culture are also listed.
Chinese Philosophical E-text Archive, Wesleyan University
http://sangle.web.wesleyan.edu/etext/index.html
Provides electronic versions of Chinese philosophical works (in Chinese) and additional information on the texts. Divided into three searchable categories: Pre-Qing, Song through Mid-Qing, and Late Qing and Republic.
Diamond Sutra, British Library
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
By selecting the “The Oldest Printed ‘Book’” users can view a digitized version of the Diamond Sutra hand scroll, the world’s oldest dated printed book (868 CE). Users can move backward and forward through the scroll. Requires broadband connection and a Shockwave plug-in (downloadable from the site).
Five Chinese Classics, Charles Muller ( Toyo Gakuen University )
http://www.acmuller.net/con-dao/index.html
Includes Muller’s translations of the Analects of Confucius, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Mencius, and the Daodejing. Muller also includes Chinese text for the Analects and Mencius’s writings.
Stefan Landsberger’s Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages
http://www.iisg.nl/landsberger/
Presented by Stefan Landsberger (University of Amsterdam and Leiden University), this website includes around 1,700 images of Chinese propaganda posters dating from 1949 to the present, additional background on the majority of the posters, and suggestions for further reading. The posters are searchable by topic or artist.
Ling long Women’s Magazine
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/linglong/index.html
Columbia University’s C. V. Starr East Asian Library provides over 200 digitized issues of this 1930s Shanghai women’s magazine online.
Morning Sun, Long Bow Group
www.morningsun.org
Companion website to the Long Bow Group’s film about China’s Cultural Revolution. Features an excellent collection of primary materials, including music clips, personnel files, pamphlets, quotations from Mao Zedong., and much more.
Picturing Power: Posters of the Cultural Revolution, The Ohio State University, College of the Arts
http://huntingtonarchive.osu.edu/Exhibitions/picturingPower.html
Online exhibition of Cultural Revolution posters from a 1999 traveling exhibition that originated at Indiana University.
Shenbao Index, Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/database/shenbao/manual.htm
Electronic index to the early (1872-1888) years of the Shanghai-based Chinese-language newspaper Shenbao. Database is searchable in both Chinese and English.
Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home, PeabodyEssexMuseum
http://www.pem.org/yinyutang/
Yin Yu Tang is a late Qing dynasty merchants’ home from southeastern China that has been re-erected at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. The website features animation that allows users to move through the house, footage of the village, the house, and its dismantling, images of the interior structure of the house and its belongings, audio interviews, and more.