China Politics Links

China's Political System
Political Leaders, Past & Present
International Relations
Law & Legal System
Human Rights
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Education & Health
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Political History
General Sources
Pre-1949 History
China & the Cold War
Sino-Soviet Relations
Great Leap Forward
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Tiananmen 1989
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80th Anniversry of CCP (2001)

Hong Kong & Macau
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Films about & from China

Academic Centers for the Study of Modern China

Academic Journals, Working Papers, and Other Periodicals

  • Bill Joseph: wjoseph@wellesley.edu
  • Department of Political Science, Wellesley College
  • Date Created: October 5, 1996
  • Last Modified: March 2008
  • Expires: June 30, 2008

General Sources on Modern Chinese History

John King Fairbank Memorial Chinese History Virtual Library (China News Digest)

Chinese History Research Site (University of California, San Diego)

A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization (University of Washington)

The Chinese Century
(French photo exhibit based on the book by Jonathan D. Spence & Annping Chi)

Hampstead Heath to Tian An Men - The autobiography of David Crook

Change & Continuity in Contemporary China
(Slide Database for Historical Study A-74, Harvard University)

China's Bloody Century (R. J. Rummel, University of Hawaii)

Modern China Historical and Political Documents (Center for East Asian Studies, UCLA)

Modern China (Washington State University)

Chinese Torture ( IAO database Project)