China

General Information

Made in China a digital expedition through the land that brought you paper, pistols and parachutes. Covers the culture, history, geography and more of China
Tour in China
Map of China
China Windows a virtual trip to China's provinces
General Information on China
The Silk Road The story of one of the world's oldest and most historically important trade routes and its influences on the culture of China, Central Asia and the West
China Guide Company - The Gateway to Chinese Culture
China Daily Science and Culture Reports from China is made by China Daily's Feature Department, it provides you interesting feature stories about China.
History and Culture in China includes two sound files
Chinese Culture - Images
Chinese Culture - Texts (Brooklyn College Core 9 Chinese Culture Web site. Rich source on both images and texts on Chinese Culture)
Great National Treasures of China (Collections from the National Palace Museum, Taiwan. Covering Antiquities ;Painting and Calligraphy; Rare Books and Documents.
The Culture Pavilion (Taiwan)
Chinese Culture many files with pitures at Chinese Cyber City
Hong Kong's Culture (What a title? It made me wonder & hooked. )
Yuan Ming Yuan (Garden of Centred Wisdom)

Architecture

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

Fine Arts

Chinese Calligraphy
Appreciation of Chinese Calligraphy
Classical Chinese Paintings History of Chinese Arts and Paintings
The Art of Chinese Calligraphy
Art of China Chinese Art Gallery An Autostudio of the Fine Arts - Chinese Paintings Chinese Contemporary Art -- Chinese Young Artists WaterColour Paintings Chinese Rainbow Calligraphy
Chinese Painting--Qi Bai-shi & His Art
Art Gallery (52 paintings by 10 contemporary Chinese painters)
The University of Oregon Museum of Art Collection
Chinese Gallery--Áõ¹ú·ª (gif)
Special Exhibition of Seventy Restricted Works of Outstanding Calligraphy and Painting --(National Palace Museum)
Cathay Arts( commercial gallery featuring works of art by contemporary artists in China )
Chop Engraving (The Art of Chinese Chop Engraving--Chinese Seal or "signature")
Chinese Art
Origin of the Chinese Script
Types of Early Chinese Script
Five Categories of Chinese Calligraphy
Chinese Painting Including Traditional Chinese Painting ;History of Chinese Painting ;Achievements of Chinese Painting; Chinese Contemporary Watercolor Painting ; Four Treasures of the Study ; Chinese Paintings Of Qi Bai Shi International Dunhuang Project (IDP) Modern Chinese Woodcut TechArt Center, Taiwan World Art Treasures - LA CHINE

Chinese Jade and Antiques

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

Chinese Perfoming Arts & Music

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

Chinese Dynasties

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

Chinese Tea and Other Drink

The Chinese Art of Tea Drinking
Tea Quotes--14 pages worth of tea quotes
The Way of Tea
A World of Tea (Great site for Tea, Tea Fan, and Tea Quotes)
Tea Drinking and Tradition Health Claims and Is Drinking Tea Healthy?
The Chinese Art of Tea Drinking
Tea & its Category
Chinese Alcoholic Drinks
Du-zhong Leaf tea

China's Ancient Science & Inventions

Chinese Inventions - Can You Name Them?
The Invention of PaperAmerican Museum of PapermakingThe Art of and find out everything about paper-making at The Robert C. Williams Printing (Matteo Ricci)
The Origin of Chinese Books and Printing
Chinese bookmaking an ancient craft
Paper, a contribution to human progress
The History of Chinese Mathematics
Chinese Ancient Science & Technology
Chinese Ancient Agriculture
The Coins of Ancient China
Chinese Agriculture
Invented in China?
The History of Calculating (abacus)
Return of the Dragon: Hazards of Man-Made Magnetism (a discussion)

Chinese Abacus

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

Chinese Acrobatics

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

Chinese Kites

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

Flora of China

Flora of China (beautiful images of Chinese Flowers of many kinds)
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)
The Art of Classical Chinese Fower Arrangement (In English from Taiwan)
Chinese Rose, Chinese Lantern Plant, Chinese Lotus at Flowers
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. )
Flora and Fauna (in Hong Kong)

The Silk Road

Gateway to Silk Road (Japan)
The Silk Road (Oliver Wild)
China--A Trip Along the Silk Road (3 part)
International Dunhuang Project (IDP)

Chinese Ancient Relics

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

Pottery and Porcelain

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

Chinese Dragon

Dragons in Ancient China Your first stop.
Cloisonne enamel double dragon plate
Oriental Dragon Collection ( Shunguo Liu )
Dragons...why do we wear them as ornaments?
Index of /gifs/dragons
Lung (or Dragon)
alt.fan.dragons (long lists of links to dragons on the web)
In Search of Dragons (around world. " Dragons are a universal tie that binds all cultures together")

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