Teach yourself Chinese

• Teach yourself Chinese characters, 学文字
  Open the link and click on a character to get the meaning and the pronunciation.
  To view these Chinese characters you need a Simplified Chinese font.
  For more info have a look at ktmatu
  

• Learning Chinese Online (mirror site) by Dr. Xie Tianwei, California State University.
  A page that helps you to learn Chinese. No matter where you are!

• On-line Chinese Tools   provides tools to people who are already studying and using Chinese.
  Check out the DimSum Chinese Reading Assistant, a tool that can be run locally.
  By default, whenever you put the mouse over a Chinese character, the pronunciation and English definition will appear in a pop-up window.

• 中英词典 MDBG free online Chinese-English dictionary.
• Teleac: 'on-line cursus Chinees' (Dutch language, Chinese pinyin).
  
• Lookup Tool for CEDICT Chinese-English dictionary: see my Software page.

Chinese Arts

• Painting, Calligraphy, Ceramics, Bronzes, Carving: China Online Museum,
  The Palace Museum in Beijing ,
  The National Palace Museum in Taipei .
  
• Chinese contemporary art:
  CAFA ART INFO
  The top online resources for Chinese contemporary art – curator Rachel Marsden’s tips
  

Chinese Music

• The Internet Chinese Music Archive.
  
• Example of Hangzhou and Shaoxing opera music (yueju style).
  Yueju is an all-female classical opera that usually performs in Hangzhou and Shanghai.

Chinese Literature

• A Text Sampler of Chinese Language and Culture.
  
• Chinese folk lyrics: the Ballad of Mulan, celebrating the adventures of a woman soldier disguised as a man.
  　Chinese text , English translation, Calligraphy by Mi Fei

Chinese History

• Slide viewer: View 33 photographs of 19th century China made by the Scottish photographer John Thomson between 1868 and 1872.
  (Photographs from the Wellcome Library in London).
• A detailed history of China from ancient days until the late 20th century.
  
• Qiu Jin (秋瑾) (1875-1907), a Chinese female poet and revolutionary.
  
• Renminbi and the Chinese Yuan - Facts and History of the Chinese Currency by Samuel Xie, Ph.D.
• Map of China
• Myth and Reality, by Foster Stockwell, American writer and historian.
  Tibet's isolation and unique religious practices have made it the focus of many Western myths.
  See also Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth by Michael Parenti, political analyst.