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East Asian Center Everything you've always wanted to know about East
Asian faculty, courses, activities, and miscellany--and more links!
The Gate of Heavenly Peace This
site is ostensibly intended as a supplement to "The Gate of Heavenly
Peace", a documentary on the protest movement of 1989. In fact, it opens
doors to a host of other material on the history of Tiananmen square, the
Chinese democracy movement, and multifold aspects of modern Chinese
history.
Core Studies 9 [Chinese Culture] - Course Outline Designed to accompany a "Yao-to-Mao" course (China from its mythical origins to the pr
esent) taught at the City University of New York - Brooklyn. Lessons 11 and 12 include material on the modern period.
Condensed China: An Introduction Which came first -- the Qin or the Qing? Here is a good place to find out. Includes dynastic chronology, brief summa
ries of each period, and suggestions for further readings.
Fairbank Chinese History Library: Rob Gray Subsections on Qing, Republic, People's Republic. A rich cornucopia of brief historical summaries, source documents,
maps, visual materials, some opinionated, some written in Chinglish, much useful.
