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Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
Basics
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html
Laozi
Award-winning site edited by T. Matthew Ciolek, "by the experts, for the experts."  Links to "scholarly documents, resources, and information systems concerned with or relevant to Asian Studies."
Zhuangzi
Metaphysics
Early
Later
History of China
Yijing
www-chaos.umd.edu/history/toc.html
Fengshui
An ambitious project by Leon Poon (University of Maryland), using materials from the Army Area Handbook on China.  Includes maps, pictures, timeline, and text from the earliest times to the late 20th century.
Alchemy
Practical
Therapeutic
Political
Art
Chinese Cultural Studies: A Brief Chinese Chronology
Poetry
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/chron.html
Literature
Paul Halsell (Brooklyn College; Fordham University) draws on a number of sources to outline three ways of categorizing Chinese historical periods: by dynasty, political form, and form of economic development.
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Marjorie Chan's China Links
http://chinalinks.osu.edu/
"Annotated links to over six hundred China- and Chinese language and linguistic-related websites," compiled by Chan (Ohio State University, East Asian Languages).
China Timelines Introduction
www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum210/tml/ChinaTML/chinatmlintro.htm
This page introduces five excellent timelines covering Early to 20th- century China, and provides historical background.  Prepared by Cora Agatucci (Central Oregon Community College, Humanities).
Taoism Timeline
www.religionfacts.com/taoism/timeline.htm
A bare-bones version from the Religion Facts site.
Bibliography of Taoism in European Languages
www.vl-site.org/taoism/bwestern.html
Barry Howarth's (Australian National University, Canberra) bibliography of philosophical Daoism, last updated in 1993 (but still the best).
Essential Readings on Chinese Philosophy
http://faculty.vassar.edu/brvannor/bibliography.html
Bryan W. Van Norden (Vassar, Philosophy) recommends "essential" books, articles, and online resources about Chinese history and schools of philosophy (including Daoism), for beginners and specialists.  Provides direct links to Amazon.com for many books.
Books on Daoism (and some articles)
www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln472/daobib.htm
Joseph A. Adler's (Kenyon College, Religious Studies) bibliography, organized into useful categories.
Glossary of Confucianism and Taoism
www.bergerfoundation.ch/glossaire/chine/glossary_tao_confu.html
From the Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation website (Lausanne, France).
Daoist Studies in North America
www.daoiststudies.org/dao/?q=node/690
A comprehensive historical and contempory "who's who," focusing on scholars and practitioners in the United States, by notable Daoist scholar Livia Kohn (Boston University).  From James Miller's Daoist Studies website.
Roger Ames... Career in Chinese Studies
http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/ames-preface.htm
Ames (University of Hawaii, Chinese Philosophy) speaks of the difficulties of finding academic programs in Chinese philosophy.
"...it took me 13 years at university to complete my PhD.  Why? Because Chinese philosophy was not taught then, and for the most part, is not taught now in Western philosophy departments.  Western philosophy as a professional discipline has to this day been able to invoke geographical rather than philosophical criteria to persuade itself and the world that philosophy is an Anglo-European enterprise."
Women Scholars [in Daoist studies]
www.sinophilia.org/china/donne.htm
Diana Lavarini and Anna Del Franco (Italy) give brief accounts of Judith Magee Boltz, Isabel Robinet, Catherine Despeux, and Anna Seidel.
How Wade and Giles Did a Disservice to the English Speaking World
http://jay-chou.net/forums/showpost.php?p=180069&postcount=84
On the problem with Wade-Giles Romanization.
"Having a mixture of Wade-Giles and Pinyin within the same book is bad enough, but there's something that is even worse.  Many publishers today... do not know anything about the various systems of romanization, and so they do not know what those apostrophes are for.  So, not wanting to fool with them, they leave them out!... So the reader--even if he or she knows how to decifer the Wade-Giles code, has a snowball's chance in hell of pronouncing the words correctly."  [The author shows us how.]
Pronunciation Guide From Chuang Tzu's Genius of the Absurd
www.selfdiscoveryportal.com/cmPronunciation.htm
Pointers for pronouncing Wade-Giles romanizations, prepared by Clae Waltham from James Legge's translation.  From Art Ticknor's Self-Discovery Portal.
Some notes on the Chinese language and how to pronounce Chinese words
www.wisc.edu/arth/ah370/language.html
"Inspired by Paul Halsall's notes based on Compton's Living Encyclopedia."  Includes a chart giving pronunciations of some problematic letters.  From Julia Murray's Arts of China course (University of Wisconsin).
Hanyu Pinyin and Wade-Giles Conversion
www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~chifc/pinyinwadegiles.html
Two-way conversion tables, provided by Flemming Christiansen (University of Leeds, UK).
Alphabetical list of equivalent Chinese names and terms
www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/Chinese/AllwaterNamesandTerms.htm
Offered by A. S. Kline, translator.  Traditional and Pinyin spelling of Daoist personages, poets, geographical locations and key terms.
Chinese Character Dictionary
www.mandarintools.com/chardict.html
Eric Peterson lets us search by English, Pinyin, Cantonese, plus Character and Radical/Stroke.  See also Peterson's page of online Chinese tools here.
Zhongwen.com
http://zhongwen.com/
Rick Harbaugh's (Indiana University, Economics) site has his invaluable genealogical Chinese character dictionary (also available in book form).  Click on any character to see its definition and etymology, including the characters for all 81 chapters of the Daodejing, all 13 chapters of The Art of War, and other Chinese classics (see if you can find the poet Li Po/Li Bai).  All characters are GIF, so you don't need a Chinese program to see them. Tons of other features too, even a Pinyin chat room for beginners!
Zhendic
http://afpc.asso.fr/wengu/wg/zhendic.php
This Chinese-Pinyin-English dictionary from the Culture Chinoise (France) site includes a Zhongwen frame with additional data for each term.
Review of Chinese-English Dictionaries and Character Etymologies
www.yellowbridge.com/language/dictionaries.html
The YellowBridge Chinese-American guide surveys eight texts, with links to Amazon.
Learning Chinese Online
www.csulb.edu/~txie/online1.htm
Tianwei Xie (California State University, Long Beach, Asian and American Studies) provides great links for translations, pronunciation, grammar, dictionaries, and learning tools.
Chinese Personal Names
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/hbnames-u.html
David K. Jordan (University of California, San Diego, Anthropology) explains the intricacies of Chinese names.  Jordan has additional excellent pages on his site, including The Chinese Language(s), The Chinese Calendar, Chinese Tales, and Simple Map of China.
"A modern Chinese usually has (1) a surname ('family name') or xing and (2) a given name ('first name') or "Christian name" or ming... always in that order.  Thus Deng Xiaoping is Mr. Deng with the personal name Xiaoping the same way John Jones is Mr. Jones with the personal name John."
Daoist Discussion Forums
alt.philosophy.taoism
The longest-running forum on philosophical Daoism.  Some great discussions and laffs, though also more than a bit of spam and off-thread posts.  Through Google.
Tao Speaks
Friendly and active group, with a Zen tone (formerly known as "Zentao").
Dao is Open
Nina Correa provides space for forums on over a dozen Daoist-related topics, from Laozi and Zhuangzi, to politics and book reviews (check the latter forum for Nina's account of meeting Alan Watts!).
Tea House 2.0
"A place to discuss Tao in harmony."  Well moderated by Derek Lin and Becca James.
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