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This category includes sites that reflect the make up of China's community: its people, its history, and resources and institutions that serve its people.

Subcategories

• Activism
• Adoption
• Chats and Forums
• Ethnicity
• Expatriate Life
• Festivals
• Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual
• Genealogy
• History
• Hong Kong
• Issues
• Language
• Macau
• Organizations
• Personal Pages
• Personals
• Politics
• Religion
• Shanghai
• Tibet
• Xinjiang

Resources in This Category

• Chinese Lunar Calendar - Astronomical Programming

  http://www.chineseastrologyonline.com/clc/default.htm
  Discussion of the relationship between the Chinese and Western calendars, with related data.

• Chinese Wedding Customs

  http://www.chinese-poems.com/wedcus.html
  Information on traditional and contemporary practices in China and Hong Kong.

• East West Dialogue

  http://east_west_dialogue.tripod.com/
  Essays on aspects of Chinese and Western history and philosophy, focusing on their shared features. By Robert Trout.

• Ling Lung Women's Magazine 1931 to 1937

  http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/linglong/
  Digitized images of nearly all issues of this magazine which was published (in Chinese) in Shanghai in the 1930s. Featured articles on fashion, interior decoration, pop psychology, and new careers; and also advice columns on love, sex, and marriage, as well as lavish illustrations of local and Hollywood celebrities.

• LunarCal

  http://lunarcal.tripod.com/
  Charityware program which calculates the dates of major Chinese festivals for the years 1900-2060.

• Mandarintools: Western-Chinese Calendar Converter

  http://www.mandarintools.com/calconv.html
  Converts between the traditional Chinese lunar calendar and the Western calendar.

• Ron Gluckman

  http://www.gluckman.com/ChinaList.htm
  Articles on various aspects of the country by a Hong Kong-based reporter.

• The Theory of Chinese Lunar Calendar

  http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/faq.htm
  Includes leap lunar month and the difference between astronomical calendar and civil calendar.

• United Nations Development Programme: China

  http://www.cn.undp.org/
  UN mission to assist China in developing solutions to the country's development challenges and improving society by reducing poverty, strengthening rule of law, promoting environmental sustainability, and fighting HIV/AIDS.

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