	China Research Guide		Provided by

Flag_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China.jpg

People's Republic of China

a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world; The Communist Party of China (CPC) has led the PRC under a one-party system since the country's establishment in 1949.

Profile

China - CIA Factbook
China - Country Study by U.S. Federal Research Division
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cntoc.html

Wikipedia and Wikis

People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_o ...
People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Republic_of_ ...

History

History of the People's Republic of China (2002–present) - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_People ...
History of the political divisions of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_politi ...
History of the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_People ...
History of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China
French post offices in China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_post_offices_i ...
History of the People's Republic of China (1989–2002) - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_People ...
History of the People's Republic of China (1976–1989) - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_People ...
History of the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_People ...

Economy

Economy of the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_People ...

Education

Education in the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_Peop ...
Education in the Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_the_Repu ...

Foreign Relations

Foreign relations of the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_ ...

Geography

List of islands of the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_th ...
Political divisions of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_divisions_o ...
Geography of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_China
List of rivers in China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rivers_in_Chi ...
List of cities in the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_the ...
Provinces of China
http://www.statoids.com/ucn.html

Language

Languages of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_China

Legal System

China Constitution
http://www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/ch00000_.html
Capital punishment in the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in ...

Military

Military of the Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_the_Repub ...

Music

Music of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_China

Parks and Recreation

List of national parks of the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_park ...

Politics and Elections

Politics of the Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_Repub ...
Elections in the Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_Repu ...
List of political parties in the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_par ...
Elections in the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_Peop ...
Politics of the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_the_Peopl ...

Postal System

List of postal codes in China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_codes_ ...

Sports

Sports History of China
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/weekly/aa0 ...
Sport in China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_in_China

Telecommunications

Communications in the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_in_the ...
Communications in the Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_in_the ...

Transportation

List of airports in the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_t ...
Transport in the People's Republic of China - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_the_Peop ...

Other

Adam Carr's Election Archive
http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/t/taiwan/
Profile of Democratic Parties
http://www.china.org.cn/english/archiveen/27750.ht ...
Chinese Communist Party 16th Party Congress
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/asia_pac/02/ ...
Divisions of Administrative Areas and Natural Resources
http://www.allcountries.org/china_statistics/admin ...
People's Daily: China at a Glance
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/china/home.html
Largest Cities Through History
http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201 ...
China's Official Gateway for News & Information
http://www.china.org.cn/
China Chronology World History Database
http://www.badley.info/history/China.country.year. ...
Political divisions down to town-level
http://www.xzqh.org/index.htm
China’s Institutional and Structural fault lines
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1686/ ...
Statistics
http://www.china.org.cn/english/eng-shuzi2003/gq/b ...
World Aero Data
http://www.worldaerodata.com/countries/China.php
Asia Times: Airlines & Airports in China
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Others/airlines-airpo ...
Shanghai Transrapid
http://www.maglev.de/
Review of _Tibetan Buddhist Rites from the Monasteries of Bhutan_ Lyrichord
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ETC/ReadingRoom/Newsletters ...
Subway construction official site
http://www.nj-dt.com/
Olympic Watch (Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games in a Free and Democratic Country) on death penalty in China
http://www.olympicwatch.org/topics.php?id=9
People's Daily: Simultaneous interpretation in seven minorities' languages provided at NPC and CPPCC
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200403/03/eng200 ...
web.amnesty.org
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/deathpenalty-sentence ...
China's Average Economic Growth in 90s Ranked 1st in World
http://english.people.com.cn/english/200003/01/eng ...
editorial
http://www.people.com.cn/GB/channel1/10/20000701/1 ...
"Expressways being built at frenetic pace"
http://english.sina.com/china/1/2006/0404/71800.ht ...
China Seeks to Allay U.S. Fears as Summit Nears
http://www.iiss.org/whats-new/iiss-in-the-press/pr ...
China's urbanization encounters "urban disease"
http://www.chinanews.cn/news/2005/2005-11-18/14441 ...
Source List and Detailed Death Tolls for the Twentieth Century Hemoclysm
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm
History of The People's Republic of China
http://newton.uor.edu/departments&programs/AsianSt ...
Future Hegemonic Rivalry between China and the West?
http://jwsr.ucr.edu/archive/vol1/v1_ne.php
"Chinese People"
http://travelblog.org/World/ch-ppl.html
a government white paper
http://www.china.org.cn/e-white/20050301/index.htm
Detailed History of Rock in China
http://www.rockinchina.com/cms/index.php?option=co ...
China Defends Military Budget
http://www.voanews.com/khmer/2006-03-16-voa2.cfm
"China on the Rise"
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/china/
jyb.com.cn
http://www.jyb.com.cn/gb/2001/06/14/zy/jryw/4.htm
China Luring Scholars to Make Universities Great
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/28/international/as ...
A list of National Forest Parks (unofficial)
http://www.linktrip.com/forestparks/
Teachers In China
http://www.JourneyEast.Org/
Nation bucks trend of global poverty
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-07/11/con ...
New York Times article of September 5, 2002 on Succession of Rule in China
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/05/international/as ...
People's Daily
http://english.people.com.cn/
Map
http://www.world-gazetteer.com/s/p_cn.htm
The Dragon's Dawn: China as a Rising Imperial Power
http://www.globalpolitician.com/articles.asp?ID=34 ...
anu.edu.au
http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/decrespigny/mil ...
ROC Central Election Commission
http://210.69.23.140/cec/cechead.asp
Descriptions of the levels
http://big5.xinhuanet.com/gate/big5/news.xinhuanet ...
A-Z World Airports
http://www.azworldairports.com/airports/p1360.htm
Schematic Representation of the Provinces of China
http://www.sungwh.freeserve.co.uk/chinese/chinasch ...
Aircraft Charter World
http://www.aircraft-charter-world.com/airports/asi ...
Inside China's Ruling Party (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/asia_pac/02/ ...
railway map of China
http://www.nordling.nu/schaefer/chinamap.gif
Executed “according to law”? The death penalty in China
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/chn-220304-feature-en ...
Project 921-2
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/prot9212.htm
bek-transplant.com
http://www.bek-transplant.com/en/index.htm
ChinaOrbit.com
http://www.chinaorbit.com
Origins of the Great Game
http://athleticscholarships.net/history-of-soccer. ...
"The Socialist Modernization of China" by Alan Noble
http://www.allannoble.net/the_socialist_modernizat ...
Are Things Getting Better in China? - 1949 to 1985
http://www.paulnoll.com/China/History/history-impr ...
fao.org
http://www.fao.org/faostat/foodsecurity/Files/Numb ...
Adam Carr's Election Archive
http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/c/china/
Education
http://www.asia-planet.net/china/education.htm
"Beijing hit by eighth sandstorm"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4915 ...
shortage 'may hinder Chinese economy.'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ft/20051006/bs_ft/fto10062 ...
Electionworld
http://www.electionworld.org/china.htm
Table of rivers in China
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/asx/placename/river_no ...
Yahoo! News- Full Coverage: China
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/World/China
Summary of terms
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dkjordan/chin/hbgovernment- ...
SinoDefence: Aircraft carrier programme
http://sinodefence.com/navy/aircarrier/default.asp
"Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping"
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/dengxp/
China widens yuan, non-dollar trading range to 3%
http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/gyzg/t213645.htm
The Central People's Government of People's Republic of China
http://www.gov.cn/
Ministry of Land and Resource
http://www.mlr.gov.cn/english/english.htm
Ancient Civilizations - Ancient China
http://www.projectshum.org/Ancient/china.html
List of Democratic Parties
http://english.people.com.cn/data/China_in_brief/P ...
hyedu.com
http://www.hyedu.com/Article/ShowArticle.asp?Artic ...
China Historical Geographic Information System (and Placename Search Engine)
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis
Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-03/21/cont ...
Ministry of Education website
http://140.111.1.22/english/home_statistics.htm
Cities and urban areas in China with population over 100,000
http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/China.htm
(English)
http://www.mnd.gov.tw/eng/index.aspx
all-in-one-page version
http://202.130.245.40/ch-zhengzhi/zhengzhi6.htm
FallingRain.com
http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CH/airports.html
Literal Meaning and Brief History of the Provinces
http://www.asiawind.com/pub/forum/fhakka/mhonarc/m ...
The Airport Guide
http://www.the-airport-guide.com/search.php?by=cou ...
taiwandc.org
http://www.taiwandc.org/arms-embargo.htm
railway lines in China
http://china.muzi.com/travel/railway/
The Chinese Human Rights Web
http://www.chinesehumanrightsreader.org/topics/dp. ...
(A site that monitors the death penalty situation in China)
http://www.chinamonitor.org
CNN.com Specials - Eye on China
http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/eyeonchina/
Ministry Of Transportation And Communications
http://www.motc.gov.tw/
depts.washington.edu
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/we ...
Journal of Political Ecology: Case Studies in History and Society
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/volume_6/g ...
"China's reform and opening-up promotes human rights, says premier"
http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/zt/first%20beginn ...
China sounds alarm over fast-growing gap between rich and poor
http://www.mindfully.org/WTO/China-Wealth-Gap11may ...
The Internet Chinese Music Archive
http://www.ibiblio.org/chinese-music/
A Simplified History of China
http://www.benbest.com/history/China.html
"Smoking 'will kill one third of young Chinese men'"
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/~pine/Phil110/chinasmoki ...
NBS China
http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/index.htm
Public Health and Safety
http://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/publich ...
Map showing the provincial boundaries of the PRC in 1971
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asi ...
2004 National Defense Report
http://report.mnd.gov.tw/eng/pdf/all-1-360.pdf
China's First Man-made Satellite
http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_aboutchina/2003- ...
China Human Rights Fact Sheet
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/sdc/hr_facts.html
Interactive Map of China
http://www.cinaoggi.com/china-map/
Ministry of Water Resources
http://www.mwr.gov.cn/english1/index.asp

Keywords and Synonyms

People's Republic of China, The Peoples Republic of China, Chinese People's Republic, China PRC, China, PR of China, PRC, PROC, Red China, ISO 3166-1:CN, communist China, mainland China, mainland China, Communist China, Red China