Chinese Language and Culture Links

Links to the blogs from the students who are in China :

http://www.nathaninchina.com/about.html http://www.cabbageconfessions.blogspot.com/

http://www.akbecker.blogspot.com/
http://www.shelbyinxian.blogspot.com/

Links to Chinese language, news and culture websites: http://chinesepod.com/ http://www.chinesetool.com/ http://www.yellowbridge.com/language/flashcards.html http://www.chinatoday.com/ http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107411.html http://www.china.org.cn/english/index.htm http://chineseculture.about.com/ http://library.thinkquest.org/20443/culture.html  

 

 

Good books about China :  

" China Road : A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power" by Rob Gifford

"The Last Chinese Chef" by Nicole Mones " River Town "

"Oracal Bones" by Peter Hessler "Spring Moon" by Bette Bao Lord

"Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China " by Jung Chang

"Waiting" by Ha Jing "Good Earth" by Pearl Buck

"Joy Luck Club", "The Opposite of Fate", "The Bonesetter's Daughter", "The Kitchen God's Wife" and "The Hundred Secret Senses" by Amy Tan.

"The Woman Warrior" and " China Man" by Maxine Hong Kingston.

"Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See