history

• Hakka Chinese Homepage
  --*** An overview of Hakka Chinese culture, history, and language. It also provides links to other relevant sites as well as a discussion of the World Hakka Congress in Singapore.
• Chinese Cultural Studies: Concise Political History of China
  --****... Kublai Khan (1215-94). The founder of China's Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty was a brilliant general and statesman named Kublai Khan. He was the grandson of the great ...
• Condensed China
  --****Condensed China: Chinese History for Beginners. Condensed China offers a lively, quirky, and interesting take on the events, trends, and accomplishments of China's past four thousand years.
• History of China
  --****Includes a timeline and text with pictures; created and maintained by Leon Poon.
• The Boxer Rebellion
  --****Throughout the nineteenth century, China's emperors had watched as foreigners encroached further and further upon their land. Based upon this background, the boxer rebellion took place.
• Discovering China
  --****contemporary look into China's cities, leaders, history, and contributions to mankind with pictures, videos, and other information.
• ChinaExpo
  --****Offers in depth China-related information consisting of 14 chapters. Major sections include Chinese history, culture, travel, trade, finance and investment, and laws and regulations.
• Classical Historiography for Chinese History
  --*** Exhaustive academic reference materials for the study of Chinese history. Hosted at UCLA Social Science Computing Center. Compiled by Benjamin A. Elman, at UCLA.
• History of the Educational System of China
  --***Interesting essay providing an in depth history divided into five major periods: Pre-1840 (Imperial Education), 1840-1949 (Opium War - P.R.C.), 1949-1966 (P.R.C. - Cultural Revolution), 1966-1976 (Cultural Revolution), and 1976-present (Post-Mao Reforms).
• Condensed China: An Introduction
  -- Good. Excellent overall introduction for students of Chinese history.
• Matteo Ricci, on China
  -- Selections from the journals of Matteo Ricci. 16th Century.
• Nanjing Massacre
  -- GD FTP site. Pics, articles,...
• WWW Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre
• 1997 Countdown to History
  --** On July 1, 1997, the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong becomes the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.(by South China Morning Post)
• **A visual travel to the Chinese past
  -- A selection of photos from the Opium Wars to the 1949 revolution.
• HK97
  --***HK97 special. Recording news about the return of Hong Kong. Very hot.
• Hong Kong 1997
  --***Dedicated to the 1997 Hong Kong Hand-over. Contents include Hong Kong history (with pictures), news of current events, City life, Hong Kong Encyclopaedia, etc.