The study of ancient Chinese culture history, archaeological sites, Chinese archaeologists, books on Chinese culture, and other information related to the China and archaeology.
China Archaeology - the Archaeology of China in Pictures
A tour de force by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, with lots of great photos and discussions of Chinese culture and its various elements, funded by the American and Chinese governments.
From China.org, a great repository of English language information about Chinese culture and archaeology.
A Chinese culture group which is precursor to Dawenkou Culture, the Beixin Culture has recently re-dated between 4300-4100 BC.
An article briefly describing the ancient monasteries of Tibet, in the Athena Review.
A collaborative research project studying socio-political change in Chinese culture in the Chifeng region of northeast China from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology, Beijing; The Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Inner Mongolia Institute of Archaeology, Hohhot; Jilin University, Changchun; and Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh.
China 10K has a disarmingly simple display with many articles on Chinese culture history in English, including poems, a glossary, maps and a bit of prehistory.
From Northpark University, what looks to be the start of an excellent source of historical information about Asian culture, with special emphasis on Chinese cultures.
The book China before China describes the history of the archaeological investigations of Swedish geologist Johan Gunnar Andersson and Ding Wenjiang, intellectual and scholar of the newly established Chinese republic between 1914 and 1925. An intriguing look into the way Swedish and Chinese cultures can work together, sometimes.
Everything you wanted to know about Chinese culture, from Jun Shan at About.
Chinese culture, politics, and geography from the US Library of Congress.
From Nemy Gill, a succinct timeline of Chinese culture history.
A paper by Cao Bingwu on the history of archaeology in China, from the Ancient East Asia website.
Chinese cultural, topographic, and political maps from Matt Rosenberg.
Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC) uses archaeological data to provide depth and context to the establishment of Chinese culture that is invisible to the ethnologist and the historian.
Daoism is a belief system and essential part of Chinese culture that arose in China during the Han dynasty, developing from the primitive shamanism of the Ba culture into a formal Daoist religion during the second century BC.
The exquisite terracotta army of the first Qin Dynasty ruler Shihuangdi represents the birth of Chinese imperial culture, with the emperor’s ability to control the resources of the newly unified China, and his attempt to recreate and maintain that empire in the afterlife.
For the 11th year, archaeologist Anne Underhill of Chicago's Field Museum and colleagues return to Shandong China to continue their regional survey of the Chinese province. Part of the Field's Live from the Field program, the Shandong Project allows subscribers a day-to-day description of how the work is continuing.
The Hongshan Intracommunity Archeological Research Project at the Uniersity of Pittsburgh is investigating the emergence of social hierarchy in Chinese culture during the Hongshan period (ca. 4500-3000 BCE) in northeastern China, run by Christian Peterson.
From Leon Poon at the University of Maryland, a vast and amazing resource on the history of China and Chinese culture.
Dennis Etler's "Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution in China," including ancient paleoanthropological finds such as Peking Man.
Most modern archaeological research completed in China is overseen by the Institute of Archaeology at CASS, and their website contains substantial information in English about recent work.
Chinese paleontologist Jia Lanpo was one of the founders of scientific archaeology in China and was instrumental in the founding of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Academia Sinica.
Chinese archaeologist Li Chi is considered the father of modern Chinese archaeology.
Liangzhu is the name of a culture of the Late Neolithic Age in China (3200-2200 BC), found at more than 100 sites throughout Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces
Website in support of a new Public Broadcasting special on the restoration of some ancient Buddhist murals in Tibet.
This enormous, stunningly beautiful two-volume set on Chinese culture as discovered by archaeology was edited by Xiaoneng Yang and published by Yale University Press in 2004. It is a book I've sorely needed for years and well worth the price.
W.C. Pei (in Chinese, Pei Wenzhong) was the founding father of Chinese Paleolithic archaeology, who excavated at Zhoukoudian in the mid 1930s.
The 11th century Chinese scholar, engineer, mathematician, astonomer, cartographer, politician, writer, and Go player Shen Kua was a phenomenal character.
Teaching materials on Chinese culture gathered in conjunction with the American National Gallery of Art, this site includes information from the late prehistoric through early imperial periods.
A timeline and brief history of the history of Chinese sailing, from Non-Han Nan Ban on the Chinese History forum.
From LaTrobe University, a webpage on recent archaeological survey of the Yi-Luo River valley in western Henan province, with special emphasis on the Neolithic period of Chinese culture.
