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This category includes sites that reflect the make up of China's community: its people, its history, and resources and institutions that serve its people.

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Chinese History and Culture A pro-Chinese summary of the country's cultural history. www.index-china.com/index-english/people-s.html

Mandarintools: Western-Chinese Calendar Converter Converts between the traditional Chinese lunar calendar and the Western calendar. www.mandarintools.com/calconv.html

About.com: Chinese Culture Guide to arts, literature, history, games, food and traditions. Includes chat, forum, news and weekly articles. chineseculture.about.com

Ron Gluckman Articles on various aspects of the country by a Hong Kong-based reporter. www.gluckman.com/ChinaList.htm

Asianinfo.org: Chinese People Summary of the government's policies on family planning, family life and the status of ethnic minorities in the country. www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/china/people.htm

Chinese Lunar Calendar Conversion using either time zone or city longitude. www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/CLunarCal1.htm

Essence of Chinese Calendar Explains the rules of Chinese lunar leap month and the Stem-Branch system. chinesefortunecalendar.com/lunarcalendar.htm

The Theory of Chinese Lunar Calendar Includes leap lunar month and the difference between astronomical calendar and civil calendar. www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/faq.htm

Chinese Farmer's Calendar Includes dates of festivals and information on baby gender selection and lucky name selection. chinesefortunecalendar.com/almanac.htm

Lunarcal Perpetual Chinese Lunar calendar program for 1900-2060. Calculates Chinese New Years and major festival dates. Exact moon phases shown. www.geocities.com/lunarcal

China Development Briefing Journal for the China aid community, including articles, searchable database of NGOs and job and event noticeboards. Recent issues by subscription only. www.chinadevelopmentbrief.com

LunarCal Charityware program which calculates the dates of major Chinese festivals for the years 1900-2060. lunarcal.tripod.com

East West Dialogue Essays on aspects of Chinese and Western history and philosophy, focusing on their shared features. By Robert Trout. east_west_dialogue.tripod.com

Voice of China Information about various aspects of the country, with pro-government political material. www.chinavoc.com

The Chinanet Project Furthering understanding between China and the U.S. Includes Quicktime videos of life in each country, music broadcasts, discussion board and voice chat. manray.csuhayward.edu/chinanet

ChinaSprout Aiming to make it possible for the adopted children to grow up learning about their Chinese heritage. Offers services and products such as cards, clothing and Chinese children's books and music. www.chinasprout.com

Ling Lung Women's Magazine 1931 to 1937 Digitized images of nearly all issues of this magazine which was published (in Chinese) in Shanghai in the 1930s. Featured articles on fashion, interior decoration, pop psychology, and new careers; and also advice columns on love, sex, and marriage, as we www.columbia.edu/dlc/linglung

Chinks' Kinks Humorous guide to the country and its culture, with related Chinese and Western quotations. www.chinese-poems.com/ck

Chinese Lunar Calendar - Astronomical Programming Discussion of the relationship between the Chinese and Western calendars, with related data. www.chineseastrologyonline.com/clc/default.htm

Chinese Wedding Customs Information on traditional and contemporary practices in China and Hong Kong. www.chinese-poems.com/wedcus.html

British Council Includes information on learning English, British culture and Anglo-Chinese relationships. www2.britishcouncil.org/china.htm