|
 For extensive links to
Mao's China go to the casahistoria Mao's
China site
-
 For starters the Discovering China
"Middle Kingdom" has good overviews of the key historical periods:
-
China: Commanding heights A valuable and very detailed
chronological look at aspects of modern China from PBS. Well
engineered site makes use easy.
-
The Fairbank
Chinese History Virtual Library basic set of key links, clearly
set out
-
China Before World War Two Lecture which gives a brief, but
valuable cultural & political overview of China to 1917. By
Professor Gerhard
Rempel, Western New England College.
-
China Links for Schools Very comprehensive University of
Sheffield
links to websites about China and things Chinese which may be of
interest to school teachers and students. Please click on the titles
below to be taken to the links for that subject. §
Images
-
China Through the Stereoscope
Digital version of the text of a journey in stereo vision
through the Dragon Empire at the Time of the Boxer Rebellion. New York: Underwood & Underwood,
1901.
-
China um 1900 in den Augen der
Zeit (China around 1900 in contemporary sources) In german, but
this is essentially a visual site with different contemporary
sources. Key sections: (1) Einleitung (introduction); (2) Orte
(places); (3) Literati und Abenteurer (literati and adventurers);
(4) Leben (life); (5) Einschnitte (events); (6) Verwendete Bücher
(bibliography).
casahistoria
home visit
caféhistoria
for updates and current topic news
2. China
& the impact of the West,
1839 -
post Boxer Rebellion
-
Emergence of
Modern China
US Library of Congress Federal Research Division. Good place to
start for an overview. Key words/people/events are hyper linked for
further information:
Late Imperial China Basic but valuable college textbook
introduction to the Manchu period and its encounter with Europe
from Penn State.
The Romance of
China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 e-book by
John Rogers Haddad. 1994 book examining chronologially in a series
of chapters US maritime contacts with China. Includes the story of
the
Keying.
The Taiping
Rebellion and Second Opium War China, 1842
to 1870, still under Manchu rule. Article from fsmitha history web.
Opium wars
Early Japanese incursions
into China
Boxer Rebellion
US in China after
the Boxer rebellion
see also
the casahistoria
imperialism site for further context links to this section
casahistoria
home visit
caféhistoria
for updates and current topic news
3. Collapse & overthrow of Qing (Manchu) Dynasty
casahistoria
home visit
caféhistoria
for updates and current topic news
4. Republican
China
-
 Republican
China US Library of Congress
Federal Research Division. Good place to start for an overview. Key
words/people/events are hyper linked for further information:
- Sun Yat-sen and
China Detailed overview of the period from fsmitha history site
-
Warlords, the CCP, and the Guomindang. Useful college textbook
introduction which examines some of the major political developments
in China between 1919 and 1937. From Penn State.
Sun Yat-sen
Chiang Kai-shek
Pu Yi, the Last Emperor
-
Pu Yi Concise but useful bio from Thinkquest
-
Pu
Yi's Widow Reveals Last Emperor's Soft Side
By Li Xin, IPS, 8 April 1995. China's last emperor, shown as a
collaborator in Bertolucci's film, has been revealed by his
widow as a lonely, vulnerable man who even threatened suicide
when she spoke of divorce
casahistoria
home
visit
caféhistoria
for updates and current topic news
5. Chinese Civil War
-
 China
from Spartacus. Basic narrative , but with excellent document
support and cross linking. Main sections:
-
Chiang Kai-shek's
Anti-Communist Offensives, 1929-31 Detailed overview from fsmitha
history site
-
Edward L.
Dreyer, ‘China at War, 1901-1949’
H-Net Review by Edward A. McCord, September 1995. The reviewed book
is the first complete history, in a single work, of war and warfare
in China in the first half of the twentieth century. A useful,
detailed review of an intrinsically important book because of the
centrality of war in this period of Chinese history.
-
"The Long
March,"
From Edgar Snow, Red Star Over China (Originally published 1938)
Part of the excellent, well supported Columbia University, East
Asian Curriculum Project. Linked to document materials on Mao Zedong
and the Chinese Revolution.
-
 Sun
Shuyun on China's Long March
BBC audio report (about
10mins). Chinese historian and writer Sun Shuyun
spent a year tracing the marchers' footsteps, and meeting 40 or so of the
remaining 500 survivors. She discovered that the Long March was not quite as
Chairman Mao had painted it, and describes her findings in her new book, The
Long March.
-
Handbook for the
Chinese Civil War
Professor Wilson. designed as support for war gaming, this gives a
clear and succinct introduction to the period. Sections on
background, key players, important events.
§
-
Interactive
map of the Chinese Civil War from Historical atlas of the 20th
century. Simple but colourful!
-
In Pictures: 'Life'
in civil war China
BBC images of the photographer Jack Birns, taken around Shanghai in
1947
For extensive links to
Mao's China go to the casahistoria Mao's
China site
casahistoria
home visit
caféhistoria
for updates and current topic news
6. War with Japan
"The War of Resistance against Japan"
|
