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Asian Film Connections

List of contemporary films made in China, India, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan from 1998 onwards. Includes synopses, interviews, educational material, and essays from Asia's leading film journals, and contains images and video clips from selected films. Available in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

http://www.asianfilms.org/

ChiMed: The History of Chinese Medicine Webpage.

Managed by an international group of scholars who study the history of medicine in China.

http://www.albion.edu/history/chimed/

Chinese Medicine Sites

A selection of quality Chinese Medicine sites available on the World Wide Web. Selected by The Journal of Chinese Medicine.

http://www.jcm.co.uk/OtherSites.phtml

Chinese Military Power

Set of resources relating to China's military situation. Published by The Project on Defence Alternatives, the Commonwealth Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

http://www.comw.org/cmp/

Chinese Movie Database

Covers Chinese movies made in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other countries/regions, from 1905 to present. Searchable by movie title and peoples names.

http://www.dianying.com/en/

Digital Buddhist Library and Museum : Comprehensive Cyberspace for Buddhist Studies

Comprehensive source of online Buddhist Resources from The Center for Buddhist Studies College of Liberal Arts National Taiwan University.

http://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/BDLM/en/index.htm

Energy and Security in the South China Sea

A research programme to explore the history and current status of conflict in the South China Sea. Hosted by The Centre for Development and the Environment University of Oslo.

http://www.sum.uio.no/pdf/publications/reports/sum-report-serie/sum-report_11.pdf

Himalayan Language project

The Himalayan Languages Project of Leiden University is a programme of ongoing linguistic research on hitherto undescribed and little known languages indigenous to the Himalayan region.

http://www.himalayanlanguages.org/?q=himalayan_languages_project

Hong Kong Movie Database

An online database for Chinese movies. Searchable by movie title and peoples names.

http://www.hkmdb.com/

Human Rights in China

An international non-governmental organisation founded by Chinese scientists and scholars in March 1989. Their mission is to promote universally recognised human rights and advance the institutional protection of these rights in China.

http://www.hrichina.org/public/index

Internet East Asian History Sourcebook

History of East Asia from its cultural origins to the present day. Mainly covers China and Japan.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html

The Flora of China

A collaborative project to publish the first modern English-language account of the approximately 30,000 species of vascular plants of China (one-eighth of the world's flora).

http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/

The Silkroad Foundation

The Silkroad Foundation is a non-profit organization, established in 1996, to promote the study and preservation of cultures and art on Inner Asia and the Silk Road.

http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html

The Tibetan Dialects Project

The Tibetan Dialects Projects is run by a group of researchers at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Berne.

http://www.isw2.unibe.ch/tibet/

Tibetan Cultural Region Directory

A comprehensive directory of Tibet-related web sites

http://www.kotan.org/tibet/directory/index.html

Update to Beyond the Border: The Chinese Legal Information System in Cyberspace

Basics of the laws of the People's Republic of China, the laws of the Hong Kong SAR, and the laws of the Macao SAR, Major online Chinese Legal Resources in English and Chinese.

http://www.lawinfochina.com/Article/Article4.html

zhongwen.com : Chinese characters and culture

Provides etymologies of Chinese characters in order to help students understand, appreciate and remember characters. Over 4000 characters with etymologies in English and genealogical charts highlighting the etymological connections between characters. Also has good links to Chinese language resources.

http://zhongwen.com/