Damon McParland - Resources

Confucianism and Taoism

Analects of Confucius

One of the most famous books about Confucius—a collection of his sayings and ideas.

Taoist stories

Some poems/stories from Chuang Tzu, one of the greatest Taoist philosophers

Tao te ching

Online translation of Lao-zi's most famous work

Safe Search

Natural Wonders of China

Natural Wonders from an actual Tour Group

Good info. It has both natural wonders and man-made. Be sure to only use the natural wonders.

More Natural Wonders

Nice overview of various great locations

Dynasties of China

History Channel Info on Dynasties

Great! More detailed info on the dynasties. Follow the links to other dynasties.

Miscellaneous

Beijing Opera (wikipedia info)

Chinese Performing Arts

Speech

China: The Country

Language/Travel videos

A good site for finding information about China

China Geography

A good overview about some facts about China.

China Photographs

Some beautiful photographs covering all areas of China. If you can't travel to China, these pictures will get you as close as you can.

Pictures of Beijing from National Geographic

Some great pictures of modern Beijing taken from the pages of National Geographic magazine.

Pictures of China from National Geographic magazine

National Geographic magazine does it again with some wonderful pictures covering China.

Chinese Culture

Chinese Children Songs

Some fun songs! The animation is really neat.

The Palace Museum Taiwan

This museum has wonderful examples of Chinese art and artifacts. One of the world's great museums!

The National Art Museum of China

One of China's best art museums. Located in Beijing. Great collection!

Chinese Arts and Crafts

Some fun crafts you can do at home on a rainy day!

Chinese Zodiac

A kid friendly explanation of the Chinese zodiac signs. Are you a horse, snake, or maybe a dragon!

Folk Tales of China

A nice online collection of some Chinese folk tales in English. Enjoy reading!

Chinese Art from the Smithsonian

Online exhibit of Chinese art from the Smithsonian (the Freer and Sackler Galleries)

Chinese Music

If you like music, this is the site for you. A wonderful collection of Chinese music. It has traditional, children, pop music and more all ready for you to listen to online.

This is a fun site that can translate your English name into a Chinese name. Surname is your last name, and given name is your first name. For example, my name is Damon McParland. For the surname, I would enter "McParland" and for the given name I would enter "Damon."

Chinese Games

Cool Game! (Gobang)

Fun game! Kind of like Connect Four but tougher!

More Chinese Games/sites

Good place for some good sites

Chinese Concentration (with characters)

How good is your memory? Test it by playing concentration with real Chinese characters!

Games to improve your vocab!

These games will help you increase your Chinese vocabulary! Go ahead and play and learn more words than your classmates!

Games from Ancient China

A nice variety of games, from playing musical lanterns to identifying Chinese characters to trying your hand at tangrams. Enjoy!

Chinese Flashcards

Use these online flashcards to quiz yourself! Learn new words!

Vocabulary games

Good site for working on terms such as numbers, colors, parts of the body, etc.

Chinese Language

Chinese/English Dictionary

This is a useful site for either translating Chinese to English to English to Chinese.

Chinese Vocab Games

Fun games to work on both pinyin and character knowledge.

Pronunciation of all possible sounds in Chinese/Mandarin!

This is a great site to help with pronunciation! The chart lists all the possible sounds in the Chinese language! Wow! They also give you the chance to hear the sounds in all four tones. It doesn't have combinations for words (for example, you won't find mingzi) but you will find the pronunciation for ming and zi listed separately.

What a great site!

Pronunciation Assistance

This site has some helpful hints for pronouncing pinyin. The best part is all the information that's in the chart (scroll down past the beginning until you hit the chart.) This chart offers good examples in English that correspond to the correct pronunciation in Chinese.

Another Great Pronunciation Guide

This site also helps with your pronunciation of all the possible sounds in Chinese. It also comes with a handy visual to help you see how the different tones sound.