For over twelve years now, our centerpiece Introduction
to Mandarin Chinese has been reducing the dreaded Mandarin
Learning Curve for countless students and other netizens eager to learn
about the Chinese Language.
"I've just learnt more in an hour
doing your language tutorial than I could ever expect in a year of classes."
- Christine Black,
With a conversational approach that aims
to educate and entertain, our popular tutorial explains
the basic principles of Mandarin Chinese pronunciation,
characters and grammar.
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for Chinese Language learning.
CHINAPEDIA This reference guide,
drawing on select U.S. government and other published sources, provides
a detailed and up-to-date overview of The People's Republic of China.
CHINESE-ENGLISH DICTIONARY Search by entering English, pinyin, or Chinese (GB,
Big5, or Unicode encodings all work OK). Your results will include the Chinese term or phrase, the pinyin "romanized"
spelling of the word, and the English definition.. Go >>
NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE Our monthly
newsletter, which ran from 2003-2006, is no longer published, but here
we have archived some of its stories that you might still find interesting
or informative. Go >>
HISTORY View a selection of
engravings depicting Chinese scenes from China Illustrated, printed in
four volumes between 1843 and 1847. Go >>
MUSIC Our custom Flash audio
player offers eight traditional Chinese musical arrangements, featuring
erhu and bamboo flute, for your online listening pleasure. Go
8-Minute Virtual Video Ride on a Hong Kong Bus
Video footage that puts you in the front seat on the upper level of a
double decker bus in Hong Kong. The trip takes you (with some gaps) from
North Point, on the north side of Hong Kong Island, toward Stanley Bay,
on the island's south side.