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Written Resources Electronic Resources

Written Resources:

Bartke, Wolfgang. Who's Who in the People's Republic of China. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1981.

Boorman, Howard L., ed. Biographical Dictionary of Republican China. 5 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1967.

Burns, James MacGregor. Leadership. New York: Harper Colphon, 1978.

Hu Hua, ed. Zhonggong dangshi renwu zhuan. [Biographies of Chinese Communist Party officials] 25 volumes. Shaanxi: Shaanxi renmin chubanshe, 1980-89.

Klein Donald W. and Anne B. Clark. Biographic Dictionary of Chinese Communism. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971.

Lazitch, Branko and Milorad M. Drachkovitch, eds. Biographical Dictionary of the Comintern. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1973.

Levine, Marilyn. The Found Generation: Chinese Communists in Europe during the Twenties. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993.

Paige, Glenn D. The Scientific Study of Political Leadership. New York: The Free Press, 1977.

Scalapino, Robert and George T. Yü. Modern China and its Revolutionary Process. Berkeley: University of California, 1985.

Wang Jianying. "Kangri zhanzheng yiqian Zhongguo gongchandang lingdao jiegou de bianhua qingkuang" [The changing situation of the leadership structure of the CCP before the War of Resistance with Japan] Jindaishi yanjiu no. 1 (1983): 121-148.

Wei Hongyun. Zhongguo xiandaishi ziliao xuanbian. [Selections of modern Chinese history materials] 3 vols. Heilongjiang: Heilongjiang renmin chubanshe, 1981.

Zong Zhiwen and Zhu Weixian, eds. Minguo renwu zhuan. [Biographies of the Republican period] 3 vols. Beijing: Zhonghua shuju, 1981.

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II. Electronic Resources

Liu Shunguo's Web site on Read Chinese in Net Applications
This is probably the best site available for learning about how to view Chinese characters on the web.

Chinese Character Genealogy
Web-Based Etymological Dictionary for Learning Chinese Characters - Rick Harbaugh
http://www.zhongwen.com/
This site includes an extensive dictionary where viewers can examine the meaning and development of each character they see. The site also contains some interesting Chinese texts, including speeches by Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.

The Clearinghouse for Asian Studies & Social Sciences Subject-Oriented Bibliographies
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/CoombswebPages/BiblioClear.html
Maintained by T. Matthew Ciolek, this is the most comprehensive source for understanding Asia on the Web. The scope is evident both by geography and subject.

Chinese Databases Online Collection
http://www.usc.cuhk.edu.hk/
Maintained by the Universities Service Centre in Hong Kong, this site contains several social science databases that may be obtained through the USC, and are explorable on the site.

Center for Biographical Research
http://ww2.hawaii.edu/~biograph/
Home of Biography journal and several ongoing biography projects.

Barnes and Nobles Online Biographical Dictionary
http://www.s9.com/biography/
Short biographies of about 19,000 people with linkages to available books.

A & E Biography Web site
http://www.biography.com/
A multimedia focus on biography that highlights the television program and the magazine, Biography. You can access some video clips from the programs.

Educational Technology
http://tecfa.unige.ch/info-edu-comp.html

World Lecture Hall (Teaching Resources)
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/

National Council for the Social Studies
http://www.ncss.org/online/

Social Science Information Gateway
http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/Welcome.html

Social Science Methodology Resources
http://sosig.esrc.bris.ac.uk/Subjects/meth.html

National Endowment for the Humanities Online
http://www.neh.fed.us/html/online.html

 

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