Chinese links

Chinese script

中国文字研究与应用中心 (Center for the Study of Chinese Characters and Their Applications)
http://www.ideograms.org

A history of written Chinese
http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/visible/

Information about and articles on Chinese characters and the Chinese script
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character
http://www.chinaorbit.com/china-culture/chinese-characters.html
http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/script.html

Pinyin/Zhuyin Converter - converts Chinese characters to pinyin or zhuyin
http://www.pin1yin1.com

Pinyin Joe's Chinese Computing Help Desk - information and utilities for typing hanzi and pinyin: http://pinyinjoe.com

Free Chinese fonts

http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/edv/sinopc/chinese_fonts.htm
http://www.indeed.com.tw/download.html
http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/fonts.html
http://www.twinbridge.com

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Writing Chinese

Writing Chinese Characters - and how to count the strokes
http://www.sungwh.freeserve.co.uk/methods/bihua.htm

Animated Chinese characters - shows you how to write individual characters
http://ocrat.com/ocrat/chargif/

Videos showing you how to write Chinese characters stroke by stroke
http://www.chineselearner.com/writing/symbol/

Online Chinese radio

China Radio International - in Mandarin and many other languages
http://www.cri.com.cn

Beijing Music Radio (北京音乐台) - in Mandarin
http://fm974.tom.com

Radio Shanghai (上海人民广播电台) - in Mandarin
http://www.radioshanghai.com

Radio Taiwan International (中央廣播電台) - in Mandarin, Taiwanese, Hakka, Cantonese and various other languages): http://www.cbs.org.tw

BCC (中國廣播電台) - in Mandarin, Taiwanese and Hakka
http://www.bcc.com.tw

Voice of Taipei (台北之聲) - in Mandarin and Taiwanese
http://www.vot.com.tw

RTHK (香港電台) - in Cantonese
http://www.rthk.org.hk

BBC World Service - in Mandarin and Cantonese
http://www.bbc.co.uk/chinese/

Radio Free Asia - in Mandarin and Cantonese
http://www.rfa.org/english/

Melody Studio - Mandarin, Taiwanese and Cantonese music
http://www.melodystudio.com/

Love China - Mandarin and Cantonese music
http://www.musicradiochina.com

Online Chinese newspapers

China

People's Daily (人民日报)
http://www.peopledaily.com.cn

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Taiwan

China Times (中時電子報)
http://news.chinatimes.com

Hong Kong

Ming Pao News (明報新聞網)
http://www.mingpaonews.com

Apple Daily (蘋果日報)
http://www.appledaily.com

Singapore

Lianhe Zaobao (联合早报)
http://www.zaobao.com

Online Chinese dictionaries

http://www.chinalanguage.com/dictionaries/ccdict/
http://www.nciku.com
http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/sinotibe.html
http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php
http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict.html
http://www.pristine.com.tw/resources/lexicon.php
http://zhongwen.com
http://www.tigernt.com/dict.shtml
http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/dictionary.html
http://www.chinesedic.com
http://www.chinese-dictionary.org
http://www.kanjinetworks.com
http://www.clearchinese.com/chinese-english-dictionary.htm
http://chdw.de
http://app.chinesesavvy.com/services/dictionary/DictionarySearchPO.ot
http://www.ilearnchinesehere.com
http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Lindict/

Picture-based Chinese character/word dictionary
http://www.vertical-sun.com/hanzi

Speaking Chinese English Dictionaries
http://moosenose.com/speakingpinyin.htm
http://app.chinesesavvy.com/services/dictionary/sentence/DictionarySentencePO.ot

MandarinSpot - Chinese-English Dictionary and Annotation tool
http://mandarinspot.com

Chinese Electronic talking dictionaries
http://www.ectaco.com

Chinese language resources - information, dictionaries, etc
http://www.chinalanguage.com
http://www.easechinese.com

Online Cantonese dictionary
http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/scripts/wordsearch.php

Online Shanghainese/Wu dictionaries
http://dict.zanhe.com
http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/wudict.php
http://www.shanghaidialect.com/slangs/htm/search.aspx

Online Taiwanese dictionary
http://daiwanway.dynip.com/cgi/tdict.acgi

Photo dictionary of rare Chinese characters (with explanations in Japanese)
http://homepage2.nifty.com/Gat_Tin/kanji/kaindex.htm

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Online Chinese translation

Online translation from English into Chinese (Simplified & Traditional) of websites and text: http://www.readworld.com/tran

Online Chinese courses/lessons

Cantonese
http://www.cantonese.ca
http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk
http://www.khuang.com/chinese/cantonese.asp
http://www.chinese-lessons.com/cantonese/
http://www.learnchineseez.com/lessons/cantonese/
http://www.cantoneseclassroom.info

Mandarin
http://www.chinesepod.com
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.htm
http://www.chineseon.net
http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm
http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/
http://www.chinese-lessons.com
http://www.chinese-outpost.com/language/
http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese
http://www.zapchinese.com
http://www.sinoling.com
http://learnchinese.elanguageschool.net
http://www.clearchinese.com/learn-chinese/
http://www.effectivelanguage.com/mandarin.html
http://www.clearchinese.com
http://www.activechinese.com
http://www.china-8.com/cms/sites/china-8/section.cfm?id=12
http://parlezchinois.free.fr
http://www.loquella.com/learn-chinese
http://www.echineselearning.com
http://www.chinese-course.com
http://www.mandarintube.com
http://www.chinese-course.org
http://www.luomapinyin.com
http://www.mychineselessons.com
http://www.chineselearningcenter.com
http://woaichinese.net/index_e.html
http://www.learnchineseez.com
http://www.zhongwenred.com
http://www.learnchinesewebsite.com
http://www.mandarinclickbyclick.com/free-mandarin-lessons.php

Mandarin phrases (some with audio)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/
http://www.wku.edu/~yuanh/AudioChinese/
http://www.chinaadviser.com/useful_chinese_phrases.html
http://www.languageguide.org/mandarin/
http://www.slanguage.com/fun_chinese_mand.html
http://chinese.travel-way.net

Chinese Learners - online dictionary, flashcards, translation and other tools for learners
http://www.chineselearners.co.uk

Popup Chinese - lessons, tools and other resources for learners
http://popupchinese.com

Character Mine - program for learning Chinese vocab
http://www.charactermine.com

Information about China, including language lessons
http://www.travelchineseonline.com

http://internationalperson.com/Study_Chinese_in_Beijing.asp

Shanghainese
http://www.linguasinica.com/Shanghai/
http://www.zanhe.com
http://www.shanghai.or.jp/zw/shanghai/

Taiwanese
http://www.glossika.com/en/dict/
http://www.tacpa.org/wdcts/mtl/intro.html
http://edu.ocac.gov.tw/lang/taiwanese/

Basic lessons in Mandarin, Taiwanese, Shanghainese and Hakka
http://www.hqpin.com/eindex.html

China Online - includes articles, phrases and information about Chinese languages
http://www.chinaonline.cn.com/chinese_language.html

ChineseBug - flashcard program for learning Mandarin
http://chinesebug.com

Online resources for learning Mandarin
http://www.chinesetools.eu

Chinese Writing Master - software that helps you learn how to write Chinese characters
http://www.cchar.com

Chinese Cards - online flashcards for learning Chinese words (include speech recognition)
http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/chinesecards/

Chinese character magnets
http://www.ideolingo.com/

Chinese Language Resources - web-based tools plus a text and audio library
http://www.clavisinica.com/resources.html

Early Learning - Chinese: Free printable bilingual (English- Mandarin Chinese) materials and tips for parents, homeschoolers, caregivers, daycare/child-care providers, babysitters, or anyone who works with young children who are learning chinese/english
http://www.earlylearning-chinese.com

Test your Chinese
http://www.globalchineseedu.com/testchinese.aspx

Chinese names

Your name in Chinese
http://www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html
http://www.qualitylanguage.com/name_translator.htm
http://www.transname.com
http://www.chinese-tools.com/names
http://www.chinesenames.org
http://www.chine-informations.com/prenom/prenom.php
http://definingcharacters.com
http://www.cnx-translation.com/your-name-in-chinese.php

Chinese Seals

A guide to the hundred most common Chinese surnames
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3919/hundred.html

An introduction to Chinese names and other interesting facts about Chinese language and culture: http://www.wlu.edu/~hhill/btl.html

Chinese calligraphy, translation and design - get your name in beautiful Chinese calligraphy: http://www.transname.com

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Chinese calligraphy

http://www.chinapage.com/callig1.html
http://www.asiawind.com/art/callig/calligal.htm
http://www.tongram.com/gallery/default.asp
http://home.flash.net/~cameron/calligraphy/collection.htm
http://www.rice-paper.com/uses/calligraphy.html
http://web.tvnetwork.hu/~aguti/ (in Hungarian)

Chinese computing

The Complete Guide to Chinese Computing
http://www.chinesecomputing.com/

An introduction to Chinese Input Methods http://zsigri.tripod.com/fontboard/cjk/input.html#chinese
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Chinese-input-methods-for-computer

The Cangjie Input Method
http://www.sungwh.freeserve.co.uk/methods/cangjie.htm

InputKing - a program for inputting Chinese text online
http://www.inputking.com

Guide to reading Chinese on the internet
http://www.cathay.net/help/read-chn.shtml

Beautiful Chinese wallpaper for your computer
http://www.desktopchina.com/desktopchina/

SIMO - enables you to input Chinese through browsers
http://www.simo.us

Online Chinese literature

文学城 (Wenxue City) online novels in Chinese (simplified characters)
http://www.xiaoshuo.be

中国现代文学馆 (Online museum of contemporary Chinese literature)
http://www.wxg.org.cn

Chinese philosophy

The Daodejing (Tao-te-ching) by Laozi (Lao-tzu) in Chinese and English
http://www.chinapage.com/laotze.html

Chinese Text Project - texts of ancient Chinese philosophy online
http://chinese.dsturgeon.net

Chinese forums

http://www.chinese-forums.com
http://www.omnitalk.com
http://www.chinesesavvy.com/savvy/

Miscellaneous

Chinese Tools - online tools to learn chinese or build chinese websites. Includes annotation tools, dictionaries, and converters for pinyin, unicode, traditional and simplified chinese: http://www.chinese-tools.com

Chinesesavvy - a variety of resources for students of Chinese, including an online dictionary, articles on Chinese culture and history, forums, etc/
http://www.chinesesavvy.com/savvy/

Interesting Chinese - information about Chinese language, history and culture
http://www.interestingchinese.com

Free Chinese New Year E-cards
http://www.chinesenewyearecards.com
http://www.123greetings.com/events/chinese_new_year/

Mysterious China - information about Chinese history, culture, food, etc.
http://www.mysteriouschina.com

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Information about written and spoken Chinese on this site

Recommended books

Books about Chinese characters and calligraphy
Language learning materials for: Classical Chinese, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Hokkien, Taiwanese and Cantonese

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