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Badges of Chairman Mao
By Bill Bishop
The Chairman Smiles
Posters from the former Soviet Union, Cuba and China
"This presentation is built around digitized images of 145 posters: 33 from the Soviet Union, 33 from Cuba and 79 from China."
International Institute of Social History Exhibit
Chi Med
The History of Chinese Medicine Web page
"...managed by an international group of scholars who study the history of medicine in China. We hope it will serve as an electronic clearinghouse where people with similar interests can meet to exchange information and ideas."
Chinese Holocaust Memorial (Chinese or English)
Detailed accounts, including a list of victims, of violence against teachers during the Cultural Revolution.
By Youquin Wang
Classical Historiography for Chinese History
Compiled by Benjamin A. Elman, Chinese History, UCLA
Cornell University - Southeast Asia Program
- Peddlers, Pirates and Prostitutes: - (dead link)
Subaltern Histories of Southeast Asia 1800-1900
"This exhibit grew out of Dr. Eric Tagliacozzo's history course on subaltern histories of Southeast Asia. Subaltern history studies the 'voiceless,' or people who are traditionally outside the structures of power in society."
Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution in China
By Dennis A. Etler
The Glory of Chinese Printing (Chinese or English)
" This item shows the history of Chinese printing form its origin to its later development including many glorious pictures... The Exhibition was presented in 1998 jointly by the Printing Museum of China and the Preparatory Committee of 'the Glory of Chinese Printing Exhibition'."
A Joint Study of the Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1945
"This multi-year project seeks to expand research into Sino-Japanese conflict between 1931 and 1945 by promoting cooperation among scholars and institutions in China, Japan, the United States, and other nations."
Includes materials in Chinese, English, Japanese, and other languages.
Qin Dynasty On-line Source Book
Plenty of useful resources although from a busy Geocities site
By General Meng Tian
The Thirty-Six Strategies of Ancient China
Timeless Proverbs on the Art of Being Cunning
"...which is also the name of my book published by China Books & Periodicals in SF, and is based on a collection of proverbs on the art of war published in a Ming or Ching Dynasty manuscript. The web site offers Introduction, notes and history of text, Bibliography, a listing of all 36 strategies with anecdotes, plus sample chapters."
By Stefan Verstappen
Treaty Ports & Extraterritoriality in 1920s China
By Phil Abbey
Yi-Luo River Collaborative Archaeological Survey
"This project aims to articulate processes underlying the evolution of ancient societies in the Yi-Luo River valley, western Henan province, where the earliest Chinese states emerged ... The primary investigation uses regional archaeological survey to investigate changing settlement patterns. This survey is integrated with geo-archaeological, ethnobotanical and ethnozoological studies."
A Sino-Australian-American collaboration.
Dept. of Archaeology, LaTrobe University, Australia
Nanjing Massacre
Japanese Army's Atrocities - Nanjing Massacre
"This is an archive for the historical documents and still photography related to the the Nanjing Massacre, and other atrocities committed by Japanese army in China during WW II."
Museum of the Nanjing Massacre
One-man exhibition by Guo Peiyu
The Nanking Atrocities - Online Documentary
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Arts in the Graduate School of Journalism of the University of Missouri-Columbia
By Masato Kajimoto
Tiananmen Square, 1989
Tiananmen, April-June 1989
"A pictorial history"
Gate of Heavenly Peace
Web site for the documentary about the 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square. "In addition to information about the film, this website includes articles, essays, and book excerpts, containing analysis and interpretation of the 1989 protests. Original source documents, video and audio clips, posters, photographs, and artwork are also available."
Tiananmen Square, 1989 : The Declassified History
"Includes Selected Documents from the Microfiche Collection: China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998."
Prepared by Jeffrey T. Richelson and Michael L. Evans.
"This Electronic Briefing Book represents the first publication in any media of these documents, which include remarkable SITREPs from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing as well as many of the Secretary of Stateís "Morning Summaries" from June 1989. In addition to the crackdown itself, the documents also cover the student demonstrations in late 1985 and 1974 that, in hindsight, were signs of the events to come, the period leading up the PLA's use of force, and post-crackdown assessments of the events and their significance."
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 16
The U.S. "Tiananmen Papers"
New Documents Reveal U.S. Perceptions of 1989 Chinese Political Crisis
"...including CIA reports on the potential for political crisis in China as well as candid cables from the U.S. ambassadors in Beijing both before and after the crackdown describing their frustrations with the U.S. response to the crisis."
A National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book.
Edited by Michael L. Evans, June 2001
Maintained by Mike Madin.
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