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Chinese

Language Programs

Mandarin Tools
http://www.mandarintools.com/
For Chinese language learners to advanced programmers, this comprehensive site includes links to flashcard exercises, Chinese text annotator, Pinyin convertors, Chinese-English dictionaries and much more.

Chinese Tutorial
http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/Humanities/.C-tut/C-tut.html Basic Chinese phrases with pronounciation guides.

Reading Novels in Two Languages
http://www.ocrat.com/biling/pridprej/ Read Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice in English and in Chinese. Texts are placed side by side for easy comparison. GB2312 appears to be the best encoding format (Simplified Chinese). This reading is appropriate for intermediate and advanced level Chinese learners.

Chinese Character Pronunciations
http://www.ocrat.com/ocrat/reaf/ Input (copy-and-paste) any Chinese text and obtain the transliterated pronunciation of each Chinese character. Follow links to online Chinese magazines and use this application to lookup pronunciations of unfamiliar words.

Chinese Character Pronunciations
http://www.ocrat.com/voa/Are you learning intermediate-level Mandarin? Listen to sound clips from recent VOA newscasts while viewing the corresponding Chinese characters, pinyin pronunciations, and vocabulary lists with word definitions. Updated weekly.

Chinese links
http://www.colby.edu/lrc/chinese.html If you didn't find what you're looking for on this page, try the CBB Mellon Chinese page. It includes more exercises from other Mellon projects, as well as links to other learning sites.

More Chinese links
http://www.ocrat.com/Lastly, ocrat.com has some excellent learning resources.

Literature

Dr. Ming Pei's collection of Chinese literature is an impressive site with links to many literature sites; short stories, poetry, novels, sometimes accompanied with English (German ) translations, or English prefaces.

Chinese Classics
http://www.chinapage.com/classic1.html
Chinese Calligraphy
http://www.chinapage.com/callig1.html
Chinese Poetry

http://www.chinapage.com/poetry9.html

Chinese Novels
http://www.chinapage.com/novels.html
Other Lit Links from Dr. Ming Pei
http://www.chinapage.com/chinese.html

Wei-Chang Shann's Big-5 Chinese literature archive
gopher://dongpo.math.ncu.edu.tw/
Chinese poems and literature can be read on this gopher site using BIG 5 encoding.

Remy Guo's Classic Chinese Literature
http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/agenmc/china/classlit.html
Works from Confucius, Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu, The Art of War - Sun Tzu, Da Xue, etc. Texts are in English.

Wenze Hu's Chinese Literature Page
http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/China/page10.html
Collections of Chinese poetry, classics, poems from the Tang dynasty, Yuan lyrics; texts can be read using Big 5 and GB encoding.

World Literature in Chinese
http://www.chinapage.com/world.html Works by Shakespeare, Longfellow, Goethe, and more..., translated into Chinese.

Culture

Art of China
http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~agenhtml/agenmc/china/china.html
Purdue's page on Chinese art, music, language, scenery and taste.

Buddhism
http://www.chinapage.com/zen.html
Topics include Zen Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, Diamond Sutra, Silk Road, etc.

Arts of the Scholars
http://www.chinapage.com/4arts.html
The importance of music, chess, calligraphy and painting in Chinese culture.

Dragons in Ancient China
http://www.chinapage.com/dragon1.html
Dragon occupies a very important postion in Chinese mythology. It shows up in arts, literature, poetry, architecture, songs, and many aspects of the Chinese conscience. The origin of Chinese dragons is unknown, but certainly pre-dates the written history.

The following include more links to Chinese culture: Chinese News Digest and China the Beautiful Links Page

Radio

BCC
http://www.bcc.com.tw/
Broadcasting Corporation of China - Taiwan ~ News

EBS
http://www.tvradioworld.com/region2/twn/Radio_TV_on_Internet.asp
Educational Broadcast System - Taiwan ~ Information/Educational

ICRT
http://www.icrt.com.tw/
100 fm - Taipei Tiawan ~ Hot AC/CHR-Dance/Talk

Super FM
http://www.superfm99-1.com.tw/
99.1 fm - Taipei Taiwan ~ Hits-CHR

Newspapers & Magazines

Chinese News Digest: Chinese Magazine
http://www.cnd.org/
"The CyberSpace Info Center for Chinese and Friends Worldwide"

Chinese News Digest Lists
http://www.cnd.org:80/CNDhelp.html
Chinese news in the US, China, Canada, Europe/Pacific...

Dictionaries

English to Chinese
http://www.chinapage.com/dictionary/dictionary.html
English to Chinese dictionary, in both Big5 and GB encoding.

Word Dictionary
http://www.mandarintools.com/worddict.html
English to Chinese dictionary using Pinyin, based off the CEDICT website.

Dictionary Links
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/eastasian/china.htm
More dictionaries, plus word lists...

Software

ChinaSite's Superware Site
http://Chinasite.com/Technology/Chinacomp.html
Links to high-tech events and conferences, high tech news, general Chinese computing information, computing researchinese software, high-tech companies, hackers, how to use Chinese on the internet, Java and Chinese computing, Chinese computing users and fans.

Travel & Geography

Chinese Travel Links
http://Chinasite.com/Lifestyle/Travel.html
Links to the travel network, Shen Zhou travel, ABC China business, C-Span's "Scenes from China," The Forbidden City" virtual tour, travel tales, airlines, travel agencies, etc.

Tourist Info Taiwan
http://www.gio.gov.tw/
General travel information for tourists going to Taiwan.

Maps of Provinces and Cities
http://www.maps-of-china.com/
Covers many regions, but it is only available in Big5.

China Scenic Pictures
http://www.cnd.org/Scenery/index.html
Beautiful photos of Chinese landscape.

Weather in China
http://www.cma.gov.cn/
From the National Meteorological Administration, find anything you'd want to about Chinese weather and climate. In English and Big5 Chinese.

Television

Taiwan TV Global Information Net
http://www.ttv.com.tw/

The Chinese Channel
http://www.chinese-channel.co.uk/english/e_aboutus_2.htm

CETV Family Channel
http://www.cetv.com/

Hong Kong ATV
http://www.hkatv.com/

NBC Asia
http://www.cnbcasia.com.sg/

KTSF
http://www.ktsf.com/

Radio Television Hong Kong
http://www.rthk.org.hk/

Broadcast Corporation of China
http://www.bcc.com.tw/

General Links

Yamada Center Chinese guide
http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/guides/chinese.html
Links to Chinese fonts, mailing lists, news groups, audio tutorials, Mac info, university language center pages, Chinese languages and dialects page, interactive learning, Chinese learning CD.

Chinese Language Related Information Page
http://www.chinasona.com/bamboo/chinese.html
Links to Chinese language radio broadcasts, Chinese text files, East Asiatic libraries, Chinese educational resources, language learning...

Chinese.Yahoo
http://chinese.yahoo.com/
Links to media, shopping, politics, literature, education and more. Not in English.

Yahoo Search Categories
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=chinese&s=a&w=s&n=25
Search in English, leads to science, board games, philosophy, performing arts, economy, companies, food, religion, organizations, etc.

Taiwan WWW Master index
http://inic.utexas.edu/asnic/countries/taiwan/
Search Taiwan servers by geographical order, government, education and organizations, commerce, +.

WWW Servers in Hong Kong
http://www.cuhk.hk/hkwww.htm
Search other WWW servers, business, computers and the internet, culture and society, government and public services, information and reference, online shopping services, etc.

A more complete listing of sources
http://www.webcom.com/~bamboo/chinese/text.html
Headline news, online magazines, discussions held in Chinese!

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