Home and Hearth

Daily Life in Ancient China
http://members.aol.com/bkdonnclass/Chinalife.html

Art and Literature

Chinese Folktales
http://www.chinavista.com/experience/story/story.html

Chinese Myths
http://www.chinatown-online.co.uk/pages/culture/legends/

Chinese Fables
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/extra/story/blyrh.htm?once=true&

Chinese Music
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/ent/A0857317.html

Chinese Art
http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/ent/A0811910.html

Chinese Art at the Smithsonian
http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/chineseHome.htm

Geography and Important Places

Bamboo
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/china/miracle.html

The Silk Road-History of Silk
http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html

The Great Wall
http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/Forgotten/greatwall.html

The Gobi Desert
http://baatar.freeyellow.com/

Scenic Places in China
http://www.warriortours.com/silkroad/index.htm

Yellow River Homepage
http://www.cis.umassd.edu/%7Egleung/

Important Places on the World Heritage List- scroll down to China
http://whc.unesco.org/sites/cultural.htm

Religion and Ancestor Worship

Confucianism
http://www.friesian.com/confuci.htm


Taoism
http://www.thebigview.com/tao-te-ching/tao-te-ching.html
http://altreligion.about.com/library/faqs/bl_taoism.htm?terms=taoism

Buddhism
http://www.thebigview.com/buddhism/buddhism.html
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/vb/history.htm

Dynasties and Government


University of Maryland-Chinese Dynasties
http://www.chaos.umd.edu/history/ancient1.html#shang%20%00


Portraits of Chinese Emperors-- click on Emperors in the list on the left
http://www.chinapage.com/main2.html

History of China at About.com
http://www.chineseculture.about.com/od/historychina/

University of Maryland site - History of China
http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/toc.html

Portraits of Chinese Emperors
http://www.chinapage.com/emperor.html

Ancient China: the Middle Kingdom
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ANCCHINA/ANCCHINA.HTM

Timeline of Chinese History at the Metropolitan Museum
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/hi_asch.htm

Contributions and Inventions
Chinese Inventions-Papermaking, Printing, Gunpowder, Compass
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/info/current/inventions.html

Ancient Chinese Technology-a ThinkQuest site, with many topics
http://library.thinkquest.org/23062/ .

Chinese Inventions at About.com
http://chineseculture.about.com/od/inventions/?once=true&

Chinese Inventions
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/china/age.html

Amazing Chinese Accomplishments
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/CHINA-PAGE.html

Important People
Biographies of Chinese Emperors
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0775280.html

Other Sites that cover a variety of topics

Ancient China at the British Museum
http://www.ancientchina.co.uk/menu.html

China the Beautiful- covers many topics
http://www.chinapage.com/main2.html

Yahooligans results for Ancient China

Asia Society
http://www.asiasocietymuseum.com/

Ancient China
http://www.mrdowling.com/613chinesehistory.html

Takla Makan Mummies
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chinamum/

Ancient China
http://www.historylink101.com/china_history.htm

Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
http://depts.washington.edu/chinaciv/contents.htm