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A Chinese Language-Learning Guide to resources

eBooks

Chinese Classical Literature 
Small collection of online Chinese texts. This site contains Chinese classics with each character hyperlinked to its definition and etymology. No Chinese software is necessary - characters are displayed as images. Links to English translations are included for most works.

Modern Sketch 
This rare Chinese periodical, Modern Sketch (Shi Dai Man Hua) for 1934 to 1937 contains caricatures, cartoons, and humorous writing that defined the golden era of Shanghai’s comic art during the mid-1930’s. MIT also has an online exhibition of this material with additional pages.

Project Gutenberg: Chinese ebooks 
Public domain electronic texts available in Chinese.


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