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last updated 20 March 2008
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. London School of Economics, Asia Centre www.lse.ac.uk/collections/asiaResearchCentre/ *School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London www.soas.ac.uk University of Bath School of Modern Languages, www.bath.ac.uk/esml/madiploma.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.ed.ac.uk/east_asia or www.sino-cs.ac.uk. University of Central Lancashire www.uclanlanguages.org / www.uclan.ac.uk/facs/class *University of Leeds www.leeds.ac.uk/east_asian University of Manchester www.ccs.humanities.manchester.ac.uk University of Newcastle www.ncl.ac.uk University of Nottingham, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies University of Nottingham, China Policy Institute, www.chinapolicyinstitute.org*University of Oxford www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/ea/index.shtml *University of Sheffield www.shef.ac.uk/~eas University of Sussex Institute of Development Studies www.ids.ac.uk/ids/. University of Warwick Department of Politics & International Relations, www.warwick.ac.uk/PAIS/. *University of Westminster, www.wmin.ac.uk
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 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. 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 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.)
British Museums
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. British Chinese Artists' Association (BCAA) post@bcaa.org.uk, www.bcaa.org.uk Brunei Gallery (SOAS) Chinese Arts Centre Manchester. The premier non-profit organisation promoting contemporary Chinese arts in the UK. 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. www.redmansion.co.uk is a new web-based art gallery featuring British-Chinese art Shanghai Museum www.shanghaimuseum.net
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 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 China Dialogue is a discussion website for environmental issues on China. Bilingual. www.chinadialogue.net China Labour Bulletin www.clb.org.hk China Online www.chinaonline.com 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 Health Unlimited www.healthunlimited.org/China/index.htm Hong Kong Trade Development Council www.tdctrade.com Introduction for business visitors to this gateway to China and the South East Asian region. 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/ Save the Children Fund www.scfuk.org.uk TibetInfoNet www.tibetinfonet.net has succeeded the Tibet Information Network, as an NGO distributing independent information about Tibet. Three Gorges www.irn.org/programs/threeg The US-based NGO International Rivers Network is campaigning on the environmental and social implications of the Three Gorges Dam. United Nations Development Programme China 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.
Amnesty International www.amnesty.org.uk the 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. British Chinese Law Association www.bclalaw.org - try this but was not working as of 2006.03. British Council www.britishcouncil.org/china-governance.htm, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace www.ceip.org The Carter Center www.cartercenter.org China Law Digest www.chinalawdigest.com ChinaLaw Information Service www.law.pku.edu.cn 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, email: ford-beijing@fordfound.org, www.fordfound.org. Follow the links to the Beijing office. Human Rights Watch, Asia Section, www.hrw.org/research/china.html Joint Law Society/Bar Council China Working Party, No contact name at present [3/08]. Legal Daily, www.legaldaily.com.cn lists almost all recently promulgated laws; (in Chinese) Supreme People's Court (SPC), www.court.gov.cn (in Chinese) Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) www.spp.gov.cn (in Chinese) Ministry of Justice www.legalinfo.gov.cn (in Chinese with link to English) We can't find a dedicated website for the Ministry of Justice. If anyone knows its URL please let us know. Email contact[at]gbcc.org.uk. U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor http://www.novexcn.com/china_law_contents.html lists almost all recently promulgated Chinese laws, including family and criminal law.
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 offers information about the availability of Asian library resources in universities, public libraries and special libraries in the UK, www.asiamap.ac.uk School of Oriental & African Studies www.lib.soas.ac.uk
British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS), www.bacsuk.org.uk 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 Kent?). EU-China Academic Network (ECAN) www.soas.ac.uk/Centres/China/ECAN/HOME.HTM This website hasn't been updated for several years. SOAS is currently seeking funds to revive the network [March 2004]. European Association for Chinese Studies www.soas.ac.uk/EACS European Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development in China (ECARDC) www.ecardc.org Foreign Policy Centre http://fpc.org.uk/ Suite 14, 2nd Floor, 23-28 Penn Street, Hoxton, London N1 5DL Royal Institute for International Affairs www.chathamhouse.org.uk The Scottish Information Network Online for Chinese Studies www.sino-cs.ac.uk is the project web site for the Scottish Consortium for Chinese Studies.
SCHOOLS 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. Specialist Schools Trust - Chinese Network (for school teachers and pupils of Mandarin) www.schoolsnetwork.org.uk/specialismsandvocational/specialisms/ languages/chinese/default.aspa 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)
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. China Radio International www.wrn.org/ondemand/china.html Mandarin service, BBC World Service, www.bbc.co.uk/mandarin. Phoenix Chinese News & Entertainment Ltd is a cable television network available in the UK. www.phoenixCNE.com The People's Daily (Renmin Ribao), www.peopledaily.com.cn The China Daily, www.chinadaily.com.cn www.chinaleadershipmonitor.org tracks the changes in Chinese leadership. China News Digest, www.cnd.org 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
The Chinese Community Centre, www.ccc.org.uk is the main community centre for Chinatown in central London. Chopsticks Club is a London based social business networking group, meeting once a month for anyone interested in China. They offer free opportunities to practice mandarin Chinese in the evening every two weeks and fee paying courses for complete beginners. www.chopsticksclub.com SACU - Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding was established in the early 1960s and publishes a newsletter cum magazine for its members www.sacu.org. The Scotland-China Association, www.scotchina.org organises events and publishes a newsletter of Scottish related China happenings. Information about Chinatown, London, www.chinatown-online.co.uk Chinatown Magazine [London] www.chinatownthemagazine.com www.chinesewhoswho.co.uk is a UK-based searchable skills database that promotes Chinese professionals in the media, the arts, sports, the public and private sectors. Agents for Chinese artists and performers, Chinese People Promotions www.chinesemusic.co.uk, or British Born Chinese Association www.britishbornchinese.org.uk Cultural info, and a Chinese name choosing section, www.tom.com Good map and general info, www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.html A food and culture website www.chopstix.co.uk
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