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- About.com: Chinese Culture - Guide to arts, literature, history, games, food and traditions. Includes chat, forum, news and weekly articles.
chineseculture.about.com
- Asianinfo.org: Chinese People - Summary of the government's policies on family planning, family life and the status of ethnic minorities in the country.
www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/china/people.htm
- China Development Briefing - Journal for the China aid community, including articles, searchable database of NGOs and job and event noticeboards. Recent issues by subscription only.
www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com
- China's One-Child Policy - Presents basic information on the policy and outlines views for and against its continuance. By Jesse Zink.
axe.acadiau.ca/~043638z/one-child
- ChinaSprout - Aiming to make it possible for the adopted children to grow up learning about their Chinese heritage. Offers services and products such as cards, clothing and Chinese children's books and music.
www.chinasprout.com
- Chinese Farmer's Calendar - Includes dates of festivals and information on baby gender selection and lucky name selection.
chinesefortunecalendar.com/almanac.htm
- Chinese History and Culture - A pro-Chinese summary of the country's cultural history.
www.index-china.com/index-english/people-s.html
- Chinese Lunar Calendar - Conversion using either time zone or city longitude.
www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/CLunarCal1.htm
- East West Dialogue - Essays on aspects of Chinese and Western history and philosophy, focusing on their shared features. By Robert Trout.
east_west_dialogue.tripod.com
- Essence of Chinese Calendar - Explains the rules of Chinese lunar leap month and the Stem-Branch system.
chinesefortunecalendar.com/lunarcalendar.htm
- Ling Lung Women's Magazine 1931 to 1937 - Digitized images of nearly all issues of this magazine which was published (in Chinese) in Shanghai in the 1930s. Featured articles on fashion, interior decoration, pop psychology, and new careers; and also advice columns on love, sex, and marriage, as well as lavish illustrations of local and Hollywood celebrities.
www.columbia.edu/dlc/linglung
- Lunarcal - Perpetual Chinese Lunar calendar program for 1900-2060. Calculates Chinese New Years and major festival dates. Exact moon phases shown.
www.geocities.com/lunarcal
- LunarCal - Charityware program which calculates the dates of major Chinese festivals for the years 1900-2060.
lunarcal.tripod.com
- Mandarintools: Western-Chinese Calendar Converter - Converts between the traditional Chinese lunar calendar and the Western calendar.
www.mandarintools.com/calconv.html
- Ron Gluckman - Articles on various aspects of the country by a Hong Kong-based reporter.
www.gluckman.com/ChinaList.htm
- The Chinanet Project - Furthering understanding between China and the U.S. Includes Quicktime videos of life in each country, music broadcasts, discussion board and voice chat.
manray.csuhayward.edu/chinanet
- The Theory of Chinese Lunar Calendar - Includes leap lunar month and the difference between astronomical calendar and civil calendar.
www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/faq.htm
- United Chinese Alliance - Pro-Chinese site with information and views on the country's culture, politics and military.
www.ucalliance.org
- Voice of China - Information about various aspects of the country, with pro-government political material.
www.chinavoc.com
- Wedding Customs in China - Describes in detail traditional and modern wedding customs and rituals in the country.
24.1.238.207/jelly/wedcus.html
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