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China has been a focus for a number of World View programs in 2006. We produced a seminar on East Asia, took a group of 43 educators to China to study its education and culture, and hosted a China trip follow-up workshop. These have been enriching experiences, and we would like to share some of the resources we prepared for these programs.
Hsi-chu Bolick, East Asian Bibliographer, and Lisa Norberg, Coordinator of Instructional Services, both at the UNC University Library, put together a website with English-language resources on China. We have reproduced this website in the main body of this issue. In the right column you will find selected resources and readings on China.
Web Resources on China
General Information
China - A Country Study
China - Wikipedia
China.org.cn
Web Portal
AsiaSource
From the Asia Society, this site is designed as a pan-Asian information resource "to meet the need for timely, reliable, unbiased information and assistance regarding the cultural, economic, social, historical, and political dimensions of Asia."
Online Dictionaries
The King of Phrases
Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese
Chinese-English Dictionary
Lin Yutang Chinese English Dictionary of Modern Usage (select Big5 for display)
English-Chinese
English-Chinese Dictionary
Calendar Converters
Western year - Chinese year
Japanese - Western year
Statistics
AsiaStats
Newspapers (Available through onlinenewspapers.com)
China Newspapers
Hong Kong Newspapers
Taiwan Newspapers
Japan Newspapers
Asia Times Online
China, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Japan, Korea, Middle East, Central Asia.
Other News Sources
AsiaMedia
Keep up with developments in Asian media with this daily-updated resource. AsiaMedia provides commentary on Asia-related issues from scholars and others.
Asia Pacific Arts
This biweekly web magazine covers the Asian and Asian American arts and entertainment world. Profiles, streaming video interviews, reviews of films, books, music, and performance are among the magazine's regular features.
CNN - Asia
Research Resources at UNC-Chapel Hill
Subject Specialist
Hsi-chu Bolick, East Asian Bibliographer
Collection Development, Global Resources and Area Studies Department
Davis Library, CB#3918
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
bolick@email.unc.edu
UNC's East Asian Collections website
UNC Department of Asian Studies | Faculty
Films
UNC's Collection of Chinese Films via the FilmFinder
UNC Research Databases (only accessible on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus)
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Contains records on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
China Academic Journals Database (Social Sciences and Humanities)
Contains 1,700 journals indexed, mostly Chinese language, beginning with 1994.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences.
Project Muse
Project Muse provides access to the full text of more than 40 journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most complete source for theory and research in international affairs.
Classroom Resources
Websites for Teachers
Asia for Educators
This site contains a multitude of information and primary sources for educators and students about Chinese and Japanese history and culture from pre-history to present. There are also materials on Korea and Southeast Asia.
AskAsia.org
Includes lesson plans, essays, maps, images, and professional development opportunities for teachers.
Online Resources to Support K-14 East Asian Studies
Developed by the Five College Center for East Asian Studies
MLA Language Map
Created from census records. Shows linguistic and cultural composition of the U.S.
China Mirror Curricular Initiative
The China Mirror Project was launched by the Center for Chinese Studies in 2002 to meet the widespread need for authoritative, balanced, and up-to-date resources on China, its history, culture, people and institutions.
Resources via NCLive 
and NCWise Owl 
Academic Search Premiere (NCLive)
The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.
CAMIO (NCLive)
Provides rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources.
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia (NC WiseOwl)
Part of the e-Book Center of NC WiseOwl, this resources also includes the Encyclopedia of Foods and Recipes, Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Encyclopedia of Multicultural America and other resources that can be used for Asia-related assignments.
ERIC (NC Live)
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
Lands and Peoples (NC WiseOwl)
Lands and Peoples is a multifaceted Internet site designed to serve as a principal resource on countries, cultures, and current events for the classroom and for the library.
A Few Good Books on China
Wild Grass by Ann Johnson
Farmers/land grab, Urban renewal/displacement, Fa Lun Gong
China Candid by Sang Ye
Through intimate conversations conducted over many years, China Candid provides an alternative history of the nation
China : A New History by Fairbank and Goldman
A Concise History of China by J.A.G. Roberts
Do you have information to share?
Do you have information that you would like to share with other educators across the state? If so, please submit interesting global education programs that are going on in your schools, announcements about global education seminars, new resources that others might find interesting, etc. Please email Neil at nebolick@unc.edu with your "update-worthy" items!
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