China Travel Sites

Foreign and Commonwealth Office - updated travel advisories/warnings and general travel info, put out by the FCO.

Lonely Planet Thorntree (Yunnan, Sichuan, Qinghai, Tibet) - database of travellers' questions and answers.

General China Sites

White Lotus Press - Bangkok-based publishing house solely for books about Asian areas and subjects (Himalayas, flora & fauna, textiles, religion, linguistics, etc.). Also has out-of-print books, old maps and prints (16c-19c).

Mandarin Books - specialist bookstore (branches in Kunming, Dali & Lijiang). Can order books online.

Flora of China - collaborative project to publish first modern English account of vascular plants o China. With manuscripts, data, images and editorial centres.

China Daily or Xinhua News Agency - China's only English newspaper and Xinhua News Agency's English web site. Read what the Chinese are reading.

Welcome to Taiqi - put out by Douglas Eisenstark, a licensed herbalist and Acupuncturist. Some informative sections on Taiqi, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Chinese Medicine and Art.

Kham-Aid Foundation - founded in 1997 by Pamela Logan, it is engaged in a wide range of programs, covering education, preservation and restoration of architecture, economic development, etc.

Foundation for Chinese Orphanages - founded in 1996 and run solely by volunteers, it donates ALL proceeds to orphanages in China's more rural, less travelled areas.

www.shanghai.asiaxpat.com - expat Shanghai, the definitive guide for people living or working in, or coming to visit, China's largest and fastest growing city.

China Cultural Sites

The Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library - an excellent and technologically innovative site serving as a general clearing house on all scholarly aspects of Tibetan/Himalayan region.

China the Beautiful - for lovers of classical Chinese - this is a primary source for the Chinese classics - art, calligraphy, poetry, history, literature, Chinese novels, ...