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HI 207: Chinese Civilization and Society

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Try these websites to search for primary sources. You will find historical writings, photographs, art, etc.

Silk Road Narratives: A Collection of Historical Texts
A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization Chinese material culture from the neolithic to 2000 CE. Images, maps, bibliographies, and study questions set into essays
Primary Sources, 4000 B.C.E. - 21st Century
World Digital Library (results limited to Geography:China and Language:English)
CIA: The China Collection 70+ documents from Chinese Civil War through the Cultural Revolution
Cultural Revolution Campaigns (posters with contextual remarks)
"Late Imperial China," Children and Youth in History small collection of primary sources related to children's lives from the Han Dynasty (ca 200 BCE) to the end of the Qing (1911)
China's Cultural Revolution in Progress. The CR/10 Project. Video interviews with "people who experienced China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution."
National Security Archive: China Documentation Project Declassified materials from various US intelligence agencies, ca. 1960 to the present.
The Internet East Asian Sourcebook
Wason Pamphlet Collection - Missionary work
East Asian Scroll Paintings
The Rev. Claude L. Pickens, Jr. Collection on Muslims in China Images of Muslims and Christian missionaries working among them in Western China in the 1920s and 1930s
Google Arts and Culture
China Digital Times
Sidney D. Gamble Photographs Collection Over 5000 photographs, primary of China, 1908-1932

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Subjects: History

Tags: Asia, Asian history, China, Chinese, Chinese civilization, Chinese history, history