Links
last updated 16 February 2008
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| UK ACADEMIC RESEARCH |
Here is a short list of UK universities that offer China-related degree courses at either or both undergraduate or postgraduate level. * indicates a university that offers Single Honours undergraduate degrees in Chinese Studies. For a much more comprehensive list of Chinese Studies in the UK go to www.bacsuk.org.uk/links.html.
University of Bristol Centre of East Asian Studies www.bris.ac.uk/ceas/
*University of Cambridge www.ames.cam.ac.uk/
*University of Durham www.dur.ac.uk/EastAsianStudies
Department closed autumn 2007 but this webpage is still current.
*University of Edinburgh www.asianstudies.ed.ac.uk/chinese/
*University of Leeds www.leeds.ac.uk/east_asian
London School of Economics, Asia Centre www.lse.ac.uk/collections/asiaResearchCentre/
China in Comparative Perspective Network www.lse.ac.uk/ccpn
University of Manchester www.ccs.humanities.manchester.ac.uk
University of Nottingham, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies
www.nottingham.ac.uk/chinese-studies
University of Nottingham, China Policy Institute www.chinapolicyinstitute.org
*University of Oxford www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/html/ea/chinese/chinese.html
*University of Sheffield www.shef.ac.uk/~eas
*School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London www.soas.ac.uk/
*University of Westminster www.wmin.ac.uk/sshl/page-683
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| GOVERNMENT & SUPRANATIONAL ORGANISATIONS |
All-Party Parliamentary Group on China (APPGC) www.chinaappg.org.uk/
British Embassy in Beijing www.uk.cn
British Council in China www.britishcouncil.org.cn/en/china.htm
The British Council operates in China as the Cultural and Education Section of the British Embassy and has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong.
enquiry@britishcouncil.org.cn
bc.shanghai@britishcouncil.org.cn
bc.guangzhou@britishcouncil.org.cn
bc.chongqing@britishcouncil.org.cn
Chinese Embassy in London www.chinese-embassy.org.uk
Chinese Government Organs and Ministries The People's Daily website has links to all the major organs of state. Go to http://english.people.com.cn/91240/6288319.html . Or try the following http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/ , scroll down to "CPC and State Organs", and then choose State Council. (see below under "Economy, Development Aid..." for the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics)
Department for International Development (DFID) www.dfid.gov.uk
The Department for International Development manages the British government's international aid programme.
Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) www.uktradeinvest.gov.uk
European Union http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/china/intro/index.htm
in Beijing: www.delchn.cec.eu.int
Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) www.fco.gov.uk
for access to all the FCO foreign missions including those in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
United Nations in China www.unchina.org
World Bank in China www.worldbank.org.cn (in Chinese. This site is temperamental and often doesn't connect.)
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| ARTS |
British Museums - British Museum, London www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk.
Victoria & Albert Museum, London www.vam.ac.uk. - Percival David Foundation, now closed. Collection mostly moved to the British Museum.
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/ash/departments/eastern-art.
- Bath Museum of East Asian Art www.meaa.org.uk.
- Bristol's Museum, Galleries & Archives, Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1RL, www.discoveringbristol.org.uk.
- Durham University Oriental Museum www.dur.ac.uk/oriental.museum.
- National Museums of Scotland, Collection of Chinese Art, Edinburgh www.nms.ac.uk.
artChinese www.artchinese.co.uk is a web-based art gallery featuring contemporary chinese paintings, folk and poster art.
Asia House London enquiries@asiahouse.co.uk, www.asiahouse.org. A non-profit organisation promoting Asian art and culture in the UK. They have large premises in Marylebone with an exhibition gallery, and cafeteria.
Asian Art in London www.asianartinlondon.com
This website gives links to many of the private dealers in London who specialise in Asian art and gives details of the annual festival of Asian art.
Chinese People Promotions www.chinesemusic.co.uk
Brunei Gallery (SOAS)
www.soas.ac.uk/gallery
Chinese Arts Centre Manchester. The premier non-profit organisation promoting contemporary Chinese arts in the UK.
info@chinese-arts.centre.org , www.chinese-arts-centre.org
London Jing Kun Opera Association is a not-for-profit society that supports and promotes the learning, appreciation, and practice of Jingju (Peking Opera) and Kunju (Kun Opera), www.londonjingkunopera.co.uk
Red Mansion Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation, which promotes artistic exchange between China and Great Britain through exhibitions, exchange programmes, publications and the Red Mansion Art Prize www.redmansion.co.uk/main.html.
Oriental Ceramic Society London. www.ocs-london.com. The Oriental Ceramic Society aims are to widen the appreciation and knowledge of Asian ceramics and other arts.
Shanghai Museum www.shanghaimuseum.net.
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| ECONOMY, DEVELOPMENT AID, ENVIRONMENT & TRADE |
Asia Foundation www.asiafoundation.org
Non-profit organisation working to advance UK-Asia-Pacific relations.
Asia Monitor Resource Centre www.amrc.org.hk/home.htm
An independent non-government organisation focusing on Asian labour concerns.
Canadian International Devleopment Agency (CIDA)
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/CIDAWEB/webcountry.nsf/VLUDocEn/China-Overview
China Bear Rescue www.animalsasia.org/ is a branch of the Animal Asia Foundation and is based in Chengdu.
China-Britain Business Council www.cbbc.org
Official UK trade-relations organisation.
China Council for the Promotion of International Trade www.ccpit.org
Official PRC trade body.
China Development Brief www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com
An independent publication established in 1996 to report on aid to China, highlighting the work of international and Chinese NGOs.
China Development Institute www.cdi.com.cn/
One of China's largest research centres operating under the guidance of the State Council Research Office. Chinese language.
China Dialogue is a discussion website for environmental issues on China. Bilingual. www.chinadialogue.net
China Labour Bulletin www.clb.org.hk
Promotes independent trade unionism in China and provides information about the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) as well as workers who organise activities outside of ACFTU.
China Online www.chinaonline.com
Business information; online reports covering many industries.
COCOA www.cocoa.org.uk stands for care of China's orphaned and abandoned children, and is a UK charity devoted to the care of babies and young children kept in China's state-run orphanages.
Development Organisation for Sichuan www.dors.org.uk/
DORS is a small UK charity implementing village-based projects such as micro-credit, water supply and forestry.
Health Unlimited www.healthunlimited.org/China/index.htm
Medical charity working in developing countries.
Hong Kong Trade Development Council www.tdctrade.com
Introduction for business visitors to this gateway to China and the South East Asian region.
Global Links Initiative (GLI) www.glinet.org
is a non-profit organisation which aims to support positive and creative action on social inclusion and citizen empowerment worldwide and works extensively in China.
(Click on 'inspire' and choose China from the menu, or go to the Chinese language section.)
Good Rock Foundation www.goodrock.org.uk
is a UK charity working for China's orphaned & abandoned children, particularly in Xinjiang province. They focus on foster care, the disabled & training of child care workers.
Ken Davies' homepage www.members.tripod.com/~ken_davies/intntnl.html
Ken Davies now works for the OECD in Paris. Formerly, he was Chief China Economist at the The Economist magazine in London. Lots of useful general information and links here.
National Bureau of Statistics of China www.stats.gov.cn/english
This is the official statistical office for China that publishes the China Statistical Yearbook.
Save the Children Fund www.scfuk.org.uk
Save the Children Fund have an extensive China programme.
TibetInfoNet www.tibetinfonet.net
An independent NGO distributing information about Tibet.
International Rivers http://internationalrivers.org/en/china/three-gorges-dam
This US-based NGO is campaigning on the environmental and social implications of the Three Gorges Dam.
United Nations Development Programme China
www.undp.org.cn
Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) www.vso.org.uk
VSO has a large English teaching programme in China for which qualified volunteer teachers are frequently needed.
Worldwide Fund for Nature Hong Kong, www.wwf.org.hk
The Hong Kong branch of WWF has a long-standing involvement in local environmental issues .
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| LAW & HUMAN RIGHTS |
Amnesty International www.amnesty.org.uk
London-based international human rights organisation regularly publishes information about the human rights situation in China.
Asia Law & Practice www.asialaw.com
publishers of China Law & Practice magazine, based in Hong Kong. Sweet & Maxwell, www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk and www.butterworths.co.uk both based in London, also publish much material on Chinese law.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace www.ceip.org
This organisation launched their China Programme in October 2002 and seeks to expand research on political reform including work on security and the rule of law.
[The] Carter Center www.cartercenter.org
is carrying out on-going research on the village elections and good governance in China. A version of the village elections law is published on this site.
China Law Digest www.chinalawdigest.com
ChinaLaw Information Service www.law.pku.edu.cn
provided by Peking University provides online access to Chinese legislation, details of Chinese lawyersand a discussion of a range of "hot topics". In Chinese.
Chinese Human Rights Web, www.chinesehumanrightsreader.org
is maintained by Stephen Angle and Marina Svensson.
East Asia Law Centre, SOAS, www.soas.ac.uk
contact: Michael Palmer, Law Department
Ford Foundation in China www.fordfound.org
Follow the links to the Beijing office, or email: ford-beijing@fordfound.org.
Ford in China carries out its own research and gives grants in a variety of areas related to the development of civil society in China.
Human Rights Watch, Asia Section, www.hrw.org/research/china.html
is an active campaigning and research organisation.
Joint Law Society/Bar Council China Working Party ,
meets regularly to discuss legal developments in China.
International Department, Law Society
50 Chancery Lane, London WC1H 0XG, UK.
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the British Council www.britishcouncil.org/china-governance.htm
provide financial and technical assistance towards the development of the legal system in China.
Legal Daily, www.legaldaily.com.cn
lists almost all recently promulgated laws; (in Chinese)
[Chinese] Ministry of Justice www.legalinfo.gov.cn (in Chinese with link to English)
We can't find a dedicated website for the Chinese Ministry of Justice. If anyone knows its URL please let us know. Email contact[at]gbcc.org.uk.
[The] Rights Practice, www.rights-practice.org/about.html
Works with partners to realise international human rights standards and strengthen accountability. They work primarily in China, but also other Asian countries.
Supreme People's Court (SPC), www.court.gov.cn (in Chinese)
Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) www.spp.gov.cn (in Chinese)
US Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/
publishes an annual report on human rights practices in China.
www.novexcn.com/china_law_contents.html
lists almost all recently promulgated Chinese laws, including family and criminal law.
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| LIBRARIES |
Bodleian Library of Oxford University which includes the UK Union catalogue of Chinese books www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/oriental , www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/rslpchin/ (Union catalogue)
British Library www.bl.uk
China Library Group (CLG) contact: John Moffett at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge jm10019@cus.cam.ac.uk The CLG comprises British China-librarians. The group fosters cooperation between China collections in the UK and with China-collections abroad.
Digital Archive for Chinese Studies (DACHS) www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/
European Association of Sinological Librarians (EASL) www.easl.org
International Dunhuang Project http://idp.bl.uk
Mapping Asia Project www.asiamap.ac.uk
offers information about the availability of Asian library resources in universities, public libraries and special libraries in the UK,
School of Oriental & African Studies http://lib.soas.ac.uk
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| OTHER ACADEMIC & SCHOOLS INFORMATION |
British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) , www.bacsuk.org.uk
BACS is a professional membership organisation promoting Chinese studies in Britain. Go here for information about China in British schools, amongst other interests.
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)www.cass.net.cn (in Chinese)
East Asian Policy Research Network (EASP) www.welfareasia.org
EASP consists of academics and research students whose research interests are East Asian social policies, aiming to enhance research quality and increase research activities by communicating and sharing ideas, works, and information. Based in the UK (University of Bath).
European Association for Chinese Studies www.soas.ac.uk/EACS
is the professional membership organisation promoting Chinese studies in Europe.
European Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development in China (ECARDC) www.ecardc.org
is an academic network of specialists on China's rural development ECARDC Secretariat: Centre for Development Studies, Uni of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
tel. 00-31-(0)50-363-7224, fax. 00-31-(0)50-363-3720
info[at]ecardc.org, www.rug.nl/cds
Foreign Policy Centre, London http://fpc.org.uk
Royal Institute for International Affairs www.chathamhouse.org.uk
Think tank dedicated to foreign relations.
SCHOOLS
Specialist Schools Trust - Chinese Network (for school teachers and pupils of Mandarin) www.schoolsnetwork.org.uk/specialismsandvocational/
specialisms/languages/chinese/default.aspa
EasyMandarinUK, www.easymandarinuk.com
An independent organistion providing Mandarin courses to primary schools in central London. They also run weekend classes for children of 3-13 years old every Saturday.
Windows on the World www.globalgateway.org.uk
This is a free resource for schools and colleges seeking international links .
The British Chinese Language Teaching Seminar (BCLTS)
www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/clts/aboutus.htm
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| NEWS & PRACTICAL INFORMATION |
www.baidu.com.cn
a Chinese search engine.
www.findouter.com /China /
a search engine and directory for China and doesn't have all the on-screen advertising from which Sohu suffers.
www.sohu.com
a Chinese search engine.
www.zhaodaola.com
a Chinese search engine.
London Chinese Radio www.londonhuayu.co.uk/
China Radio International www.wrn.org/ondemand/china.html
Mandarin service, BBC World Service www.bbc.co.uk/mandarin
Phoenix Chinese News & Entertainment Ltd www.phoenixcne.com
is a cable television network available in the UK.
The People's Daily (Renmin Ribao) www.peopledaily.com.cn
China's leading official newspaper has a Chinese language online version.
The China Daily www.chinadaily.com.cn
China's official English language newspaper.
www.chinaleadershipmonitor.org
tracks the changes in Chinese leadership.
China News Digest www.cnd.org
is a non-profit US-based organisation aiming to provide independent news coverage of China and Chinese affairs.
www.chinaonline.com
is a China news service in English .
www.sina.com
is another China news service available in Chinese as well as English.
Events and Happenings in China www.xianzai.com
thatsShanghai www.thatsshanghai.com
online magazine.
www.expatsinchina.com
for the foreign community in China
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| CHINESE COMMUNITY IN UK, SOCIETIES, CLUBS & MISCELLANEOUS |
Chinese Community Centre (London) www.ccc.org.uk
Chinatown London www.chinatownlondon.org/
Agents for Chinese artists and performers:
Chinese People Promotions www.chinesemusic.co.uk
British Born Chinese Association www.britishbornchinesedb.org.uk/
Chopsticks Club www.chopsticksclub.com
is a London based social business networking group for Mandarin speakers (native and non-native speakers).
SACU www.sacu.org
Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding was established in the early 1960s and publishes a newsletter cum magazine for its members and offers events and activities on a regional basis.
The Scotland-China Association www.scotchina.org
organises events and publishes a newsletter of Scottish related China happenings.
Cultural info and a Chinese name choosing section www.tom.com
CIA World Factbook - China www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ch.html
Good map and general information on china. Don't be put off by CIA url.
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