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http://www.21food.com/
21Food.com has a product directory for China Food & Beverage Online.

http://chinesefood.about.com/library/blchineseing1.htm
About.com: Chinese Food indicates the possible origin of sweet and sour sauce. Has recipes. has information on the Chinese New Year; Hunan cuisine; the Ying Yang of Chinese Cooking; and Chinese recipes. The 5-spice recipe is discussed.

http://chinesefood.about.com/cs/eggfooyung1/a/eggfooyung.htm
About.com: Chinese Food has a discussion of egg foo yung. Gives some background and includes recipes.

http://www.allchinanet.com/chinese_food/northern_chinese_cuisine.shtml
allChinanet.com Chinese food has links to Cantonese Cuisine, Szechuan Chinese, Northern Chinese, and Eastern Chinese food.

http://www.asiasociety.org/style-living/food-recipes
Asia Society in food and recipes. In addition to recipes, there are a number of different articles including those on :Food in Chinese Culture, The Wonderful World of Korean Foods. One needs to look around the site a bit to find the articles.

http://asiarecipe.com/china.html
AsiaRecipe.Com has country information, culture, cooking methods, ingredients, recipes, discussion regarding China.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/news_and_events/events_chinesenewyear.shtml
bbc.co.uk has information on Chinese cuisine, foods and food habits. Includes recipes.

http://maen.huh.harvard.edu:8080/china
Biodiversity of the Hengduan Mountains Region, China has a collection of specimens.

http://chetday.com/chinesecuisine.htm
Chet Day's Health & Beyond has iinfomration and recipes of Chinese Cantonese Cuisine.

http://www.china.org.cn/english/index.htm
China Through A Lens is the China Internet Information Center in a variety of languages. Has a range of information, facts, and figures. Is truly an information network.

http://www.chinasprout.com/
China Sprout promotes learning of Chinese language and culture by providing Chinese and English books relating to Chinese language, Chinese test, Chinese food, Chinese zodiac, Chinese symbols, Chinese music, Chinese tea, Chinese calligraphy, Chinese New Year, Moon Festival, Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Chinese Arts. We also sell Chinese crafts, Chinese clothes and silk clothing.

http://www.index-china-food.com/index-china-food/tea-culture.htm
China.com has discussion and information on the China Tea Culture

http://www.chinatownconnection.com/chinese_food.htm
chinatownconnection.com has information on Chinese food, including history.

http://www.chinatravel.com/focus/mid-autumn-festival/
Chinatravel.com has information on the mid-autumn festival 2009. Has time, history and legends regarding this Chinese festival.

http://zhongwen.com/
Chinese Characters and Culture is an online Chinese dictionary.

http://www.c-c-c.org/
Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco has information Including Celebration of the Chinese New Year.
http://www.chinatownconnection.com/chinese_food.htm
chinatownconnection.com has information on Chinese food, including history.

http://www.archives.gov/pacific/education/4th-grade/chinese-exclusion.html
Chinese Exclusion Laws from the National Archives of the Pacific Region.

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art46897.asp
Chinese Food Site has Chinese Tofu 101 with information and directions.

http://www.ChineseHomeCooking.com/
chineseHomeCooking.com website has various sections from authentic Chinese recipes, to explanation and description of Chinese cooking techniques, seasonings, and spices. We are also constantly expanding the website, and take pride in putting up the highest quality content for our visitors.

http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/
Chinese Culture Core 9 is a course available at Brooklyn College.

http://www.chineseculture.net/
Chinese Culture Net has news, bookstore, music, music store, association, translation, people links regarding Chinese.

http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/kane98/kane_p3_immig/China/china.html
Chinese Immigration to the United States is an article on the topic.

http://www.archives.gov/locations/finding-aids/chinese-immigration.html
Chinese Immigration and the Chinese in the United States is a series of articles which include: Introduction, District Courts of the United States (Record Group 21), Bureau of the Census (RG 29), U.S. Customs Service (RG 36), Immigration and Naturalization Service (RG 85), Public Health Service (RG 90), United States Attorneys (RG 118), U.S. Courts of Appeals (RG 276), United States Marshals Service (RG 527)

http://www.eatingchina.com
eating china Chinese Food Culture and History - a culinary journey through the cuisine of China and Taiwan

http://www.chinesefood-recipes.com
Chinese Food-Recipes is a one-Stop Guide to Chinese Food, Cooking and Recipes with tips, glossary of ingredients and cooking terms, equipment, methods and techniques used.

http://www.china.org.cn/english/imperial/26127.htm
Chinese Imperial Cuisine has a discussion of Shandong Cuisine.

http://www.china.org.cn/english/imperial/26131.htm
Chinese Imperial Cuisines has a discussion of Fujian cuisine.

http://www.cnd.org/
Chinese News Digest has chinese and English translations on-line.

http://www.elca.org/countrypackets/china/desc.html
Country Packets has information about the country, people, government, economy, and other informaiton on China.

http://www.echinafood.com/

eChinaFood has information and products related to Chinese food culture. Has products, information, and market information.

http://chinesefood.about.com/od/chinesedishfaqs/f/lomeinchowmein.htm
Difference Between Lo Mein and Chow Mein?

http://www.ethnicfoodsco.com/China/dimsum.htm
Ethnic foods Co. discusses the Chinese culinary tradiation of Dim Sum.

http://www.flavorandfortune.com/dataaccess/articlelist.cfm
Flavor & Fortune is a site with many articles that pertain to the Science of Chinese Cuisine.

http://teaching.ucdavis.edu/nut120a/0029.htm
FOOD, HISTORY, CHINA (PART 1) by Louis Grivetti

http://teaching.ucdavis.edu/nut120a/0030.htm
FOOD, HISTORY, CHINA (PART 2) by Louis Grivetti.

http://teaching.ucdavis.edu/nut120a/0031.htm
FOOD, HISTORY, CHINA (PART 3) by Louis Grivetti.

http://www.askasia.org/frclasrm/readings/r000044.htm
Food in Chinese Culture is an article adapted from K.C. Chang, Food in Chinese Culture: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1977. Reprinted with permission from Yale University Press.

http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodasian.html#friedrice
Food Time Line has a discussion of the history of fried rice in China and other locations.

http://fulltummies.blogspot.com/2009/03/gyoza-chinese-dumplings-aka-pot.html
full tummies discusses the Chinese dumplings, the "pot stickers".

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/chinesenewyear1.html
Infoplease has information on the Chinese New Year is The Year of the Ox discussion.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.html
Internet East Asian History Sourcebook has documents and web links.

http://www.america.gov/st/diversity-english/2009/February/20090212085747mlenuhret0.7881586.html
Lee, Jennifer. 2009February. The American Fortune Cookie discusses the real origin of the "Chinese" fortune cookie.

http://www.nicemeal.com/foodculture/
Nice Chinese Food has information on Chinese foods and food habits.

http://www.scmp.com/
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's English language newspaper, bringing you daily news and business updates covering Hong Kong, Greater China and Asia.

http://www.quanskitchen-boston.com/cuisine/eightregional.htm
Quan's Kitchen has eight regional variations of Chinese cuisine.

http://www.nicemeal.com/foodculture/
Quick View to Civilization of Chinese Foods is a discussion of the some 56 folks inside mainland China that have differing food habits among the many districts.

http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/traditional_foods.html
Uvic CA has a discussion of traditional New Years Chinese foods. The discussion is from student pages by students in a class. There are also links to a discussion of the HARVEST There is also information on the Chinese New Year

http://www.yamasausa.com/Yamasa_soy.htm
Yamasa Corporation USA has the history of soysauce in both China and Japan. Includes recipes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_cuisine
Wikipedia has information on Chinese cuisine. They indicate eight main regional cuisines.

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http://asiarecipe.com/china.html
AsiaRecipe.Com has country information, culture, cooking methods, ingredients, recipes, discussion regarding China.

http://chinesefooddiy.com/
Authentic Chinese Recipes Chinese Foodiy has recipes, cooking tips, photo albumin, chinese cookbook and other information. Has real and healthy Chinese food - 500+ recipes, 60+ colorful Chinese dish photos, 100+ cooking tips and serving advices. Get FREE recipes emailed to you in 5 minutes.

http://www.chinesefood-recipes.com
Chinese Food-Recipes is your One-Stop Guide to Chinese Food, Cooking and Recipes with tips, glossary of ingredients and cooking terms, equipment, methods and techniques used.

http://www.west-meet-east.com/fdsich.htm
Feng-Sui is the Chinese page for this. Includes information regarding Sichuan Foods.

http://www.recipesource.com/ethnic/asia/chinese/
SOAR Chinese recipes.

http://www.chinesefooddiy.com/links_foodcooking.htm
Chinese Fooddiy has Chinese recipes, cookbooks, programs and other information.

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http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/facts_fs.html?fips=CH&dynMapId=362&mainURL=http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
China, National Geographic Map Machine

http://www.economywatch.com/world_economy/china/
Economy Watch has information and analysis of the Chinese economy.

http://www.prb.org/TemplateTop.cfm?Section=PRB_Country_Profiles&template=/customsource/countryprofile/countryprofiledisplay.cfm&Country=419
Population Reference Bureau has information on China's population with information, articles and concerns.

http://www.prb.org/
Population Reference Bureau covers environment, HIV/AIDS, population trends, reproductive health, education, employment, health, gender, income poverty, ethnicity, 2000 census for Asia/Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America and the Sub-Saharan Africa.

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