Back to East Asia History Sourcebook | Halsall History Web Sites Page | East Asian History Sourcebook: John W. Foster: The Chinese Boycott, from The Atlantic Monthly, January 1906 THE Chinese boycott of American goods is a striking evidence of an awakening spirit of resentment in the great Empire against the injustice and aggression of foreign countries. It seems singular that its first ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Pierre Loti: When the Allies Entered Peking, 1900 HERE we are at the gates, the double triple gates, deep as tunnels, and formed of the most powerful masonry---gates surmounted by deadly dungeons, each one five stories high, with strange curved roofs---extravagant dungeons, colossal black things above a black inclosing wall. Our ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Yao Chen-Yuan: My Adventures During the Boxer War, 1900 WHEN the letters of the various ministers had been committed to my care, I returned to Su Wang Fu, saying to myself, How shall I ever be able to take these letters to Tientsin I breathed a simple prayer to God to give me some method by which I might reach my destination in ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Dean Acheson: United States Position on China, August 1949 Statement by Secretary of State Dean Acheson, August 5, 1949 The reasons for the failures of the Chinese National Government . . . do not stem from any inadequacy of American aid. Our military observers on the spot have reported that the Nationalist armies did not lose a single ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Mao Zedong (1893-1976): Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, March 1927 Mao was a a Hunanese peasant and became one of the founding members of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921. Other founders had tended to be more exposed to western ideas, and hence, as Marxists, to value the industrial working class. The ...

The International Dunhuang Project's Web Pages.

History of China As you can see, this is a very ambitious project, and I'm not sure how far I will get, but here goes nothing. I must admit I haven't thought of undertaking such an ambitious project until I came across the Army Area Handbook on China converted into electronic form and made publicly accessible at the following gopher site in the University of Missouri at St. Louis: ...

History Timeline NOTE: Clicking on the Chinese characters for each of the dynasty will bring up a list of the emperors (in Chinese) for each of the respective dynasty. However, not every dynasty will have a link. For those who has can read Chinese, I highly recommend Seke Wei's excellent Era and Timeline of Chinese History. Dates Dynasty ca. 2000-1500 B.C. Xia 1700-1027 B.C. Shang 1027-771 B.C.

Welcome to the Chinese History Research Site at UCSD The reviews and essays section provides book reviews and critical essays on fifty classics in the historiography of modern China. The sources section is a guide to English and Chinese materials relating to historical research on modern China. The archives section provides information on Chinese local archives and also serves as a site for ...

This is the official museum of the Tibetan Government in Exile, showcasing the plight of the Tibetan people ...

Main | Other Chinese Web Sites Chinese Cultural Studies: Concise Political History of China Compiled from Compton's Living Encyclopedia on America Online (August 1995) 1. HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTINUITY A significant aspect of China is its long cultural and national history. The Chinese people have shared a common culture longer than any other group on Earth. The Chinese writing system, for ...

CHINA: Fifty Years Inside the People's Republic Please enable JavaScript. (Go to your browser's Preferences or Options to do this.) ...

Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses is one of the most famous attractions in China.

Mao's Little Red Book online. Quotations of Chairman Mao. Hyperlinked to definitions of Chinese characters and to English translation.

DUNHUANG Caves of the Singing Sands Buddhist Art from the Silk Road text by Roderick Whitfield; photographs by Seigo Otsuka Textile & Art Publications, 1996 Please click on each of the illustrations on this page to view larger-scale images and extracts from the text View of the Mogao cliff face - Introduction THE CAVE TEMPLES The Mogao cave temples near the town of Dunhuang, at the edge of the ...

The Chatterbox For family and friends Visas for Life - the controversy continues - with additional thoughts by Joan Deman The Stamps from the Hongkew Era Rice - (life and death in Shanghai) You Never Gave Up The Most Difficult Time The B'nai B'rith in Shanghai Flight and Rescue A New Life. Exile Shanghai - the new book - order now! ORT's 120th Anniversary - by Ralph Harpuder Ralph Harpuder ...

Home Index By Subject By Year Biographies The Gift Shop Chinese Girl with Bound Feet Nineteenth-century photograph of a San Francisco child who wears beautifully embroidered three-inch lotus shoes. This cruel practice lasted from the tenth century to 1911, when it was banned by the new Chinese republic. In November 1997, UC San Francisco released details of the first study on the consequences of ...

The life of the last emperor of China, Henry P'u Yi or Puyi; books about the last emperor.

Silk Road DunHuang Grottoes Thousand Buddha Cave - DunHuang is the name of the city. It is located between Urumgi and Yumen. It was an oasis irrigated by the Tang River and began to serve as an important way staion on the main trade route between China and Central Asia since the first century B.C. when Emporor Han Wu-ti started to expand the empire westwards. This was an area where many races ...

In Defence of Marxism ...

BECK index China 30 BC To 1300 Wang Mang's Revolution Later Han Empire China Divided and Reunited 220-618 Sui Dynasty 581-617 Tang Dynasty Empire 618-907 Song Dynasty Renaissance 960-1279 Neo-Confucian Ethics Mongol Empire Literature of Medieval China Economic expansion during the Earlier Han dynasty led to prosperity for some but a concentration of land ownership employing convicts and debtors, ...

Back to Chinese Culture | Back to Women's History Sourcebook | Marie Vento: One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and Demise Term Paper/Core 9: Chinese Culture/ March 7, 1998 In addressing the subject of footbinding, one primary difficulty becomes apparent - that much remains within the realm of the unknowable. Any factual knowledge about the practice may only be ...

Mogao Caves China Inscribed :1987 Criteria: C (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (v) (vi) Justification for Inscription: Report of the 11th Session of the Committee Brief description: Situated at a strategic point along the Silk Route, at the crossroads of trade as well as religious, cultural and intellectual influences, the 492 cells and cave sanctuaries in Mogao are famous for their statues and wall ...

Morning in Hong Kong By Taran Provost ...

Chinese dynasties timeline. Hyperlinked to definitions of Chinese characters and to English translation.

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Fei Ch'i-hao: The Boxer Rebellion, 1900 Fei Ch'i-hao was a Chinese Christian. Here he recounts the activities of the millenialist Boxers in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. IV THE GATHERING OF THE STORM The people of Shansi are naturally timid and gentle, not given to making disturbances, being the most peaceable people in China. So our ...

JUNE 9 SPEECH TO MARTIAL LAW UNITS Deng Xiaoping Source: Beijing Domestic Television Service, June 27, 1989; FBIS, June 27, pp. 8-10. level on June 9 -- read by announcer; from the News program.] Comrades, you have been working very hard. First, I express my profound condolences to the commanders and fighters of the People's Liberation Army , commanders and fighters of the armed police force, ...

Chinese folklore attributes the origins of footbinding to a fox who tried to conceal its paws while assuming the human guise of the Shang Empress.

This a discussion of Asia from a person from Singapore who says democracy and 'freedom' are not appropriate for Asia.

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: American Views on the Situation In China, 1947 Statement by General Marshall, January 7, 1947 In this intricate and confused situation, I shall merely endeavor here to touch on some of the more important considerations-as they appeared to me -during my connection with the negotiations to bring about peace in China and a stable ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Statement of The Central Committee of The Chinese Communist Party, February 1, 1947 The Political Consultative Conference, comprising all major political parties, groups and prominent social figures, convened on January 10, 1946 in accordance with stipulations of the summary of Kuomintang-Communist talks in Chungking on October 10, ...

Tuesday, March 10, 1998 By Beverley Jackson Although foot-binding is no longer practiced, many women with bound feet are still alive. Author Beverley Jackson photographed this woman in Yunan Province in 1997. The tradition of foot-binding is tied up in issues of beauty, marriageability and sex By Nadine Kam Assistant Features Editor Chinese foot-binding, according to author Beverley Jackson, is ...

Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: The Common Program of The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, 1949 Adopted by the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's PCC on September 29th, 1949 in Peking PREAMBLE The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, representing the will of the people of the whole country, proclaims the establishment of ...

CHINESE FOOT BINDING Foot binding. These two words bring up images of twisted deformed feet, pain and torture. It seems that everyone has heard of foot binding. The words are self-explanatory. However, what do we really know about it What was actually done Why was it done and how could such a thing have been tolerated When and where did this take place and is this custom still practiced ...

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China 1977: End of the Revolutionary Mao Era Introduction The suppression of the Left in China (Part I) The Suppression of the Left in China (Part II) The suppression of the Left in China (Part III) The Shanghai Commune and the Rightist reaction The Shanghai Commune and the Lin Piao affair Chang Chun-chiao and the oil controversy China and Albania The Vance Mission to China In Defense of the ...

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Facing Uncertainty At midnight on June 30, 1997, Britain turns over Hong Kong, its last major colonial possession, to its original owner, China. The transfer derives from an agreement signed on Dec. 19, 1984, by the leaders of Britain and China. China pledged that Hong Kong would be governed by local residents for the next 50 years as a Special Administrative Region, based on the one country, ...