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History

General

• H-Asia historians' discussion network
• Chinese Imperial Reign tables
• China Biographical Database Project (Harvard U.)
• China Historical GIS (222 BCE to 1911 CE) (Harvard U.)
• Antique Maps Database (HKUST)
• China Heritage Newsletter (ANU)
• China - a country study (US Library of Congress)
  A comprehensive study of China, completed in July 1987, covering history, environment, society,culture, economics, science & technology, government, legal matters.

Early History

• The Early Medieval China Group (Stanford University)
• International Dunhuang Project (British Library)
• John Fairbank Memorial Chinese History Virtual Library
• Ming Ch'ing Studies (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
• The Palace Museum, Beijing [故宫博物院]
  [the buildings and treasures of the Palace Museum.]
• Society for the Study of Early China
• Silk Road Narratives : a collection of historical texts (University of Washington)

Qing dynasty (1644-1911) and Republican period (1911-1949)

• Classical Historiography for Chinese History 中國經典文獻工具書錄 ( Benjamin A. Elman)
• Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946) (Harvard Yenching Library site)
• Chinese Heritage of Australian Federation (Latrobe U.)
  
  

20th Century and beyond

• Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China
• The Cultural Revolution 1966-1976
  Picturing power: Posters of the Cultural Revolution
  [Supplied note: "Online exhibition features [PRC's] Cultural Revolution posters from the University of Westminster Centre for the Study of Democracy, U.K. - approximately 10% of collection. This traveling exhibition was organized by the Indiana University School of Fine Arts Gallery and East Asian Studies Center in collaboration with the University of Westminster and was shown at The Ohio State University from Oct 6 - Oct 22. 1999. Contains 74 images with didactic text. Includes Chinese characters."]
  Morning Sun (Long Bow Group)
  Images from the Cultural Revolution Thomas Hahn
  

• Chinese Democracy Movement, 1989
  • The Gate of Heavenly Peace (Long Bow Group)
  • The Historical Records of the Democracy Movement of 1989 in China
  • Human rights in China 中国人权
  • Tiananmen Square, 1989 : The Declassified History(Jeffrey.T. Richelson & Michael L. Evans)
    [Self-description: "Among the highlights of this collection are the detailed (and previously classified) U.S. government accounts of the infamous military assault by the Chinese government on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square in Beijing in June 1989..."]
  • Tiananmen, April-June 1989 - A Pictorial History
  • Virtual Museum of China '89
  • june4.org