Others
 

RichTalk Forum	of  Stone Rich Sight.
East West South North Forum (Chinese GB Only)	all kind of people with all kind of noize.
Current Affairs Discussion	on Walton InforNet.
9Star Talk Forum
San Jiao Di (Bulletin Board) of Beida (Chinese GB Only).
eTabLOid -- the Mother of All Rumors (Chinese GB Only).	Dummy Personal BBS (Chinese GB Only)
Long Distance Phone Codes for Chinese Cities	by Yidao Cai. It is in both English and Chinese (GB and Big-5).
China-America Technology Corp. (CTC)	is supposed to provide Chinese new technology list, but at this point, it has not much.
China Hope Project	is a public welfare undertaking founded by the China Youth Development Foundation in October 1989. It is designed to raise funds from the people to help school dropouts in the poverty-stricken areas in China so as to enable all children to enjoy their right to education. (here is another site).

• China's Embassy and Consulate
  • Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States of America (****) is very informative. You can find information about China, Chinese Economy and Commerce, Diplomacy, news, of cause and, visa.
  • The Education Division of the Consulate General of the People's Republic of China in New York has a Guide to Careers in China, Overseas Student Handbook, Visa and Passport Information from/to China, and Chinese Scholars Abroad.
  • Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Canada (***)
• Other Country's Embassy and Consulate in China
  • US Embassy in China (***) is still under construction. If you want to find some information about visa application in Beijing, here you go ...
    • If you want to know more information about US visa, please visit U.S. Department of State, the Bureau of Consular Affairs Home Page
  • Royal Danish Embassy in Beijing China (***)
  • Embassies in Beijing, China (****) provided by Asian Sources On-line (****) -- you might be interested to know the telephone and FAX numbers of US Embassy in Bejing. You can find here.

• China Study
  • Databank For China Studies (DCS) at the University Service Center of the Chinese University of Hong Kong provides data for China studies. The datasets includes "the 1982 Population Census of the PRC (1% Sample)", "Urban Household Survey in China", "One-hundred County Survey (The second period)", "The Economic Geography of Fujian" and "Survey on Privately-owned Enterprises in China 1991".
  • China and Marxism Home Page (***) is designed to provide an analysis of Chinese history and current affairs from a Marxist perspective. It includes news services, updated several times a week and rare historical reference material for students of both China and of Marxism.
  • Modern Chinese Problem Research Forum (***)
  • Washington Center for China Studies

• China's Development:
  • China's Agenda 21 Summary
  • China's Sustainable Development Networking Programme and its news release (see the picture of Deng Nan, daughter of China's former Deputy Premier Deng Xiaoping here)

Chinese Language Learning, Study, and Promotion

• Chinese Language Related Information Page
• The Center for the Advancement of Language Learning (CALL) was established to improve quality and cost effectiveness in Intelligence Community foreign language teaching and testing, and is administratively supported by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). CALL contains information about:
  • Chinese Cantonese Language Learning Resources
  • Chinese Mandarin Language Learning Resources
  • Chinese Minnan Language Learning Resources
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• HyperChina Interactive Chinese (****) is a complete course software for learning Mandarin Chinese on your own. It provides the learner with an interactive and interesting environment for learning this difficult language. They also provide you
  • Chinese Learner's Alternative Page (***) that is a place providing the latest development and updates on the HyperChina courseware, as well a lot of additional learning material and some latest observations on the Chinese language and culture.
  • Language Page presents some cool and useful words that are being used everyday in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Click on these words. You can hear their pronunciation. And a lot of other tips.
• Department of Chinese and Japanses, UC Davis
• Multi-media Project for the Teaching and Learning of Chinese (in English or Chinese Big5) (****), sponsored by the Language Fund and the Research Grants Council, aims at designing and developing computer-assisted-learning software for learning Chinese language. A free shareware can be downloaded from this site. This site is in Hong Kong.
• Mandarin Language (****) has articles covering the language weekly.
• Chinese Teaching and Learning (***)
• Zhongwen Zipu -- Chinese Character Genealogy (****) is an etymological Chinese-English Dictionary complete with "family trees" showing the evolution of the dictionary's 4000-some characters from about 200 simple pictographs and ideographs. Its Chinese is in Big-5 format.
• Chinese Character Pronunciations (****) of Worldwide Philogiston Cartel helps you find out the Chinese (in GB or Big-5 format) pronunciations (Mandarin and Cantonese).
• Study Mandarin Chinese Using VOA (****) -- you need a RealAudio Player and a browser that can display Chinese (GB) text.
• Learn Chinese (**) in PDF format.
• The Yuen Ren Society for the Promotion of Chinese Dialect Fieldwork (***) at the University of Washington. This society's name is after Yuen Ren CHAO (1892-1982).