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| Alphabetical | By Popularity | | - American Experience, The: Nixon's China Game
 - The story behind President Richard Nixon's trip to Beijing for an historic encounter with Chairman Mao Tse-tung in February 1972. - American Views on the Situation In China, 1947
- From the Modern History Sourcebook.
- Ancient China Index
- Includes artifacts, philosophy, inventions, and script.
- BBC News: Tiananmen Square Remembered
- Special report on the 10th anniversary of the massacre.
- Body Art - Footbinding
- Contains a brief history and first-hand accounts.
- Boxer Rebellion, The
- About the rebllion in China in 1899 protesting against foreign influrences. Includes background on the Ch'ing (Qing) Dynasty.
- Ch'ing China: The Boxer Rebellion
- Includes a biography of The Boxers, or "The Righteous and Harmonious Fists."
- Chen Duxiu and the Trotskyists
- Article by Zheng Chaolin describing the competing influences within Chinese communist cadres.
- Chiang, Kai-shek (1887-1975)@
- China 1977: End of the Revolutionary Mao Era [Sam Marcy]
- China Heritage Quarterly
- Covers recent developments and scholarship in areas related to China's heritage. From the Australian National University.
- China History Forum
- Online discussions of Chinese history from prehistoric to modern times featuring article posting and research by members.
- ChinaGenWeb
- Provides national genealogy resources from the People's Republic of China and links to its provinces. Part of the AsiaGenWeb Project.
- Chinese Coins and Dynasties
- Timeline of dynasties.
- Chinese Cultural Studies: A Brief Chinese Chronology
- Considers the traditional periodization of Chinese history.
- Chinese Dynasties
- Timetable of Chinese dynasties written in Chinese characters; fast dictionary look-up provided on-site.
- Chinese Foot Binding
- Page from the Museum of the City of San Francisco. Contains photo and information from a UCSF study.
- Chinese Genealogy Resources
- Provides Chinese genealogy queries, general and genealogy resources, province and city genealogy pages, the ancient dynasties, and history.
- Chinese History Timeline
- With hypertext links to information from the Xia dynasty to the Modern People's Republic.
- Chinese Surname Queries
- Provides a Chinese surname bulletin board as well as the ability to search through users' queries and responses.
- CNN: Visions of China
- Exploration of five decades of Communist rule of China.
- Concise Political History
- Covering the early pre-dynastic period to present.
- Concise Political History of China
- From beginnings and early history to Jiang Zemin.
- Cultural Revolution Campaigns
- Stefan Landsberger's collection of Chinese Propaganda posters from the era of the Cultural Revolution.
- Daily Life in Ancient China
- Explores daily life in four different Chinese dynasties.
- Dean Acheson: United States Position On China, August 1949
- From the Modern History Sourcebook.
- Demton Khang
- Aims to collect, preserve, and present material relating to modern Tibetan history, to commemorate the loss of Tibetan culture and lives, and to project the hopes and aspirations of the Tibetan people.
- Deng Xiaoping June 9, 1989 Speech
- Translation of the Chinese leader's speech to military commanders praising their handling
- Deng, Xiaoping (1905-1997)@
- DungHuang Grottoes - Silk Road
- Images of the caves and the frescos within.
- Dunhuang Grottoes@
- Dunhuang: Caves of the Singing Sands - Buddhist Art from the Silk Road
- Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908)@
- Learn more about the Empress Dowager Cixi or Tzu-Hsi who ruled China from 1861 to her death in 1908. Sites includes biographiy and historical facts about her rule.
- Flying Tigers@
- Foreign Affairs: The Tiananmen Papers
- Transcripts of reports and minutes that reveal the decision-making of Chinese leaders including Deng Xiaoping, Li Peng, and Zhao Ziyang at the time of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations.
- Golden Lilies
- Article on foot binding. Contains photos.
- Golden Lotus
- Discusses the craft of making bound-foot slippers.
- History of China
- Includes a timeline and text with pictures.
- History of the Cultural Revolution
- Chronological overview of the Cultural Revolution in China from 1964 when Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing began criticizing intellectualism to the death of Mao and arrest of the Gang of Four in 1976.
- Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China
- To support patriotic democratic activities and press for democratic reforms in China.
- Hong Kong Handover Special Supplement
- Designed by Chinese Commercial News of Manila.
- Hong Kong Museum of Art
- Features news, collections of Chinese arts, exhibitions, and activities of the museum.
- Hong Kong Museum of History
- Preserving the cultural heritage of Hong Kong through acquisition, conservation, and research of cultural objects.
- Hong Kong Transition Project@
- Hong Kong: Dynamo In Transition
- Breaking news, photo essay, and Quicktime movie, from Time magazine.
- International Dunhuang Project
- To promote the study and preservation of manuscripts and printed documents from Dunhuang and other Central Asian sites through international co-operation.
- Jim's Chinese Foot Binding Page
- Essay on foot binding.
- John W. Foster: The Chinese Boycott, from The Atlantic Monthly, January 1906;
- From the East Asian History Sourcebook.
- Kowloon Walled City
- An historical, personal, architectural, and political perspective.
- Last Emperor of China
- How P'u Yi, the last emperor of China, became the Japanese's puppet emperor of Manchukuo during WWII.
- Li Zhensheng: A Chinese Photographer's Odyssey Through the Cultural Revolution
- Online exhibition of photographs from China's turbulent Cultural Revolution, covering the years 1964-1976, by photographer Li Zhensheng.
- Macau: A Selection of Cartographic Images
- Library of Congress exhibit offering maps and views of Macau from 1655 to 1991. Also in Chinese and Portuguese.
- Mao Zedong (1893-1976): Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, March 1927
- From the Modern History Sourcebook.
- Mao, Zedong (1893-1976)@
- Modern Chinese History Research Center
- Includes links, reviews, a bibliography, and a list of current research projects in the field.
- Modern History Sourcebook: Fei Ch'i-hao: The Boxer Rebellion, 1900
- Chinese Christian recounts the activities of the millenialist "Boxers" in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900.
- Morning Sun
- Explores the Cultural Revolution through individual histories, narratives, and events that reveal the complex contradictory forces that led to an era of unrivalled revolutionary fervor and political turmoil.
- Museum of Macau
- Historical and cultural museum offering temporary exhibitions as well as permanent collection.
- National Museum of Chinese History
- Collects, preserves, and exhibits historic treasures, fine art, and antiquities that present the history of civilization in China.
- One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and Demise
- Written by Marie Vento. Includes photos and bibliography.
- Patten, Christopher Francis@
- Pierre Loti: When the Allies Entered Peking, 1900
- From the Modern History Sourcebook.
- Polo, Marco (1254-1324)@
- Portraits of Emperors
- From the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties.
- Public Records Office: Poster Collection
- Hong Kong public safety posters from the 1950s to the 1980s.
- Remembering Suzhou: Urbanism in Late Imperial China
- By Jerlian Tsao of UC Berkeley.
- Rickshaw Express
- Features personal accounts by Jews who fled World War II and the Holocaust to settle in Shanghai.
- San Tsun Gin Lian
- Discusses the symbolization and origins of the practice.
- Sayings of Chairman Mao
- Quotations from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book, in English and Chinese.
- Shih Huang Ti's Tomb@
- Silk Road: Dunhuang
- Introduces ancient Hexi corridor, Mogao Grottoes, and the Yangguan pass.
- Splendid Slippers: A Thousand Years of an Erotic Tradition
- History of footbinding: the tradition of Chinese women binding their feet to 3 or 4 inches toe to heel.
- Statement of The Central Committee of The Chinese Communist Party, February 1, 1947
- From the Modern History Sourcebook.
- Sui, T'ang, and Song (Sung) Dynasties
- Offers excerpts and images from a Washington State University lecture on the three dynasties.
- Sun, Yat-sen (1866-1925)@
- Takla Makan Mummies@
- Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses Museum
- Showcases the 2,200-year old coloured terra-cotta army of more than 8,000 soldiers and horses.
- The Common Program of The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
- Adopted by the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's PCC on September 29th, 1949 in Peking.
- Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History
- Collection of National Security Archive documents concerning the Chinese army crackdown on democracy protesters on June 4th, 1989.
- Tiananmen, April-June 1989
- A pictorial history.
- Tracing the Development of Yau Ma Tei Through Archives (18702-1930s)
- The history of the Hong Kong neighbourhood, from the Government Records Service.
- UNESCO: Mogao Caves
- From the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.
- Wikipedia: Boxer Rebellion
- The Boxer Rebellion, or the Boxer Uprising, was a rebellion in China in November 1899 against foreign influences such as trade, religion, and politics.
- Wikipedia: Gang of four
- Article describing The Gang of Four, a group of Communist Party leaders in the People's Republic of China who were arrested and removed from their positions in 1976, following the death of Mao Zedong, and were blamed for the events of the Cultural Revolution
- Yao Chen-Yuan: My Adventures During the Boxer War, 1900
- From the East Asian History Sourcebook.
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