Fun and Interesting

China-related Readings and Chinese Literatures resources

• Chinese Novel Online
• Articles Collections for WANG Shuo, TU Ya, Ping-Er, Lily, BaiFan, and ...
• Novel Collection is the largest archive for Chinese novels I have ever seen on Internet. Here with You can find Liang Xiaosheng's A Veteran Red Guard's Accounts, Zhang Zhenglong's Snow is White, Blood is Red, Zhang Ailing's Red Rose, White Rose, as well as the most recent novel Thousand Days of Studying in Japan. Besides, traditional Chinese novel such as "Hong Luo Meng" (Red Mansion Dreem), and "Three Kingdom War" as well as Jing Yong's Kufu novel can also be found here.
• The Complete List of the Chinese Literature on the Net (Chinese GB and Big-5).
• SUNRISE Chinese Information Collection (in HZ format) maintained by Montreal Chinese Computer Users Club in Canada. It now has setup the Sunrise Chinese Library which is the same content with the Gopher server.
• Chinese Literature by CHINANET-JS (JingSu Data Communication Bureau) has a lot of Chinese novels -- modern or classic. (Chinese GB).
• Modern Chinese Literature Home Page is supported by International Institute for Asian Studies. Its mirror site is in America.
• Chinese Literature Classics.
• Chinese Collection maintianed by Liu Shunguo
• China Publications is the official homepage of China International Book Trading Corp. (CIBTC). It contains information about books, newspapers, periodicals, electronic publications, audio, vedio, and others in Chinase as well as in other languages. This site is in China, it's very slow. Try its mirror site in USA
• Chinese Traditional Classic Literatures . This gopher server is in Taiwan, and it is in Chinese (Big-5).
• Poems By Mao Zedong
  • Chairman Mao's poem
  • Mao Zedong's Poem (***)
  • Poems by Mao Zedong (****) in Chinese (GB) and the The English Translation of Poems by Mao Zedong
• Revolutionary Literature and Art Collection (****) by China and World Magazine.
• JIN Yong's Kong Fu Stuffs and A collection of Chinese readings made by Qiang Bai.
• Chinese Literatue Page (GB)
• The LAO SHE Center (***) at Baylor University.
• Literature Page of SinoLogic has information regarding to Poet BEI Dao and Modern Chinese Poetry.
• Classic Novels, Biography, Poetry, and other classical literatures collected by CND.
• The Rise and Fall of Great Chinese Empire (***) in English with drawings.
• The Joy of Computing (***) a hyperbook written in Chinese (Big-5) by Shi-Kuo Chang, a professor of the University of Pittsburgh.
• Will Campbell's China Terror (***) is Novel and will be a movie --
  • Deng Xiao-Ping's death results in a saga of the Second Culture Revolution, breathless military action in Hong Kong and Taiwan, international political crisis, diabolical treachery, and naked ambition by the People's Repulic of China...
• Riddles, the Intellectual Cahllenge (****) by the Network Chiense Riddle Club provides the knowledge about Chinese riddles (in Chinese GB format), and other riddles-related topics, and mailing list. If you are a Chiense riddles lover, you definitely need go here.
• Net Kid (***) is a net novel. It is in Chinese (Big-5).
• Kong Yu Bar (Hong Kong Entertainment Bar) (****) is a web site containing a lot of novels and essaies in Chinese (Big-5).

Chinese Classic Novels

• A Dream of Red Mansion has all the 120 chapters. (Chinese GB).
• A Dream of Red Mansion hosted in National Culture University in Taiwan. (Chinese Big-5).
• Lin Dai-yu -- the greatest female character in the Chinese classical novel "Hong Luo Meng" (A Dream of Red Mansion)

Chinese Classic Erotica Novels

• Xing Hua Tian (Chinese GB and Big-5).
• Chinese Classical Erotica is a collection of many Chinese classical erotica novels by Xin Yu Si (New Threads) Magazine
• Rou Pu Tuan is one of the most erotic classical Chinese novel. (Chinese GB and Big-5).
• Deng Cao Monk

Jin Ping Mei -- the most famous Chinese forbidden erotic novel (Chinese Language GB and Big-5).

Chinese Classic chess - Weiqi, namely "Go"

Chinese WeiQi Web (Chinese GB and English) Go Game. 

China Photography and Pictures

• Virtual China has a lot of scenic pictures of Beijing, Shanghai, West, Northeast, and Southewest, and South China. This site is in English and Japanese.
• Photos from East China by Herbet Simon.
• Images of China -- Photography by Akiyama Satoru
• Pictrues taken in China by Truls Bärg Hedström.
• Hong Kong Picture Archive (HKPA) contains comic, popstars, scenic, and miscellaneous pictures.
• Flora of China is the online publication of scientific descriptions of the plant species in China.
• Instructions and Forms on Extending F-1/J-1 Passport or Geting a New Passport from Chinese Consulate in New York at CSSA at John Hopkins Medical Institutions
• Beijing Yuan Ming Yuan (Garden of Centred Wisdom) was burned down in 1860.
• Cassidy Asian Gaming Industry Report -- information about Asian gaming industry include Macau, Hong Kong, China, Golden Triangle, and other Asian/Pacific regions.

TAIWAN HAM BV1AL (in Big5 Chinese and English) -- a page of Taiwan radio amateur and Taiwan Independency

China the Beautiful collects Classical Chinese Art, Calligraphy, Poetry, History, Literature, Painting and Philosophy.

China Fashion Net (English and Chinese GB) . This site is good.

Fashion@Net (Chinese Big-5)

China Fine Arts Gallery (****) displays a lot of very beautiful Chinese paintings. (Chinese GB).

The Hefiner Collection of Comtemporary Chinese Oil Painting (****)

China Net Art Gallery (****) by China Business Net Pages offers Chinese Landscape Painting Exhibition by Huang Zhengxiang, Chinese Country Art Exhibition by Feng Shanyan, and Chinese Papercut Art Exhibition by Gao Fenglian.

Artist William Shih-Chieh Huang (***) is a masterful painter.

The National Palace Museum of Taiwan

Beijing Opera page by ChinaPages is as beautiful as the Beijing Opera itself. This site is in both English and Chinese (GB and Big5)