Useful links

Government and international organisations

• Hanban : the Office of Chinese Language Council International
• All-Party Parliamentary Group on China (APPGC)
• Asian Development Bank
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
• British Embassy in Beijing
• British Council in China
  The British Council operates in China as the Cultural and Education Section of the British Embassy and has offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong.
  • enquiry@britishcouncil.org.cn
  • bc.shanghai@britishcouncil.org.cn
  • bc.guangzhou@britishcouncil.org.cn
  • bc.chongqing@britishcouncil.org.cn

• Chinese Embassy in London
  Chinese Government Organs and Ministries: The People's Daily website has links to all the major organs of state. Go to www.peopledaily.com.cn click on English, scroll down to 'CPC and State Organs' and then choose State Council. (See below under "Economy, Development Aid..." for the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics)
• Department for International Development (DFID)
  The Department for International Development manages the British government's international aid programme.
• Department of Trade & Industry (DTI)
• European Union, The EU's relations with China in Beijing: EU in China
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) for access to all the FCO foreign missions including those in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
• United Nations in China
• World Bank
• World Bank in China  [This website is in Chinese. Please note the site intermittently doesn't connect.)

Arts

British museums

• British Museum, London
• Victoria & Albert Museum, London
• Percival David Foundation, London
• Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
• Bath Museum of East Asian Art
• Bristol's Museum, see Discovering Bristol - an online history of the port and its people, Bristol's Museum Galleries & Archives, Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1RL
• Durham University Oriental Museum
• National Museums Scotland, Collection of Chinese Art, Edinburgh 
• artChinese is a web-based art gallery featuring contemporary Chinese paintings, folk and poster art.
• Asia House London enquiries@asiahouse.co.uk A non-profit organisation promoting Asian art and culture in the UK. They have large premises in Marylebone with an exhibition gallery, and cafeteria.
• Asian Art in London
  This website gives links to many of the private dealers in London who specialise in Asian art and gives details of the annual festival of Asian art.
• British Chinese Artists' Association (BCAA) post@bcaa.org.uk
• Brunei Gallery (SOAS)
• Chinese Arts Centre Manchester. The premier non-profit organisation promoting contemporary Chinese arts in the UK. info@chinese-arts.centre.org,
• Chopsticks Club is a London based social business networking group meeting once a month for anyone interested in China. They offer free opportunities to practice Mandarin Chinese in the evening every two weeks, and fee-paying courses for complete beginners.
• London Jing Kun Opera Association is a not-for-profit society that supports and promotes the learning, appreciation, and practice of Jingju (Peking Opera) and Kunju (Kun Opera)
• Red Mansion Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation, which promotes artistic exchange between China and Great Britain through exhibitions, exchange programmes, publications and the Red Mansion Art Prize
• Oriental Ceramic Society London
  The Oriental Ceramic Society aims are to widen the appreciation and knowledge of Asian ceramics and other arts.
• The Red Mansion Foundation is a new web-based art gallery featuring British-Chinese art.
• Shanghai Museum

Economy, development aid, environment and trade

• China-Britain Business Council
• Asia Foundation
  Non-profit organisation working to advance UK-Asia-Pacific relations.
• Asia Monitor Resource Centre
  An independent non-government organisation focusing on Asian labour concerns.
• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
• China Bear Rescue is a branch of the Animal Asia Foundation and is based in Chengdu.
• China-Britain Business Council Official UK trade-relations organisation.
• China Council for the Promotion of International Trade
  Official PRC trade body.
• China Development Brief
  An independent publication established in 1996 to report on aid to China, highlighting the work of international and Chinese NGOs.
• China Development Institute
  One of China's largest research centres operating under the guidance of the State Council Research Office. Chinese language.
• China Dialogue is a discussion website for environmental issues on China. Bilingual.
• China Labour Bulletin
  Promotes independent trade unionism in China and provides information about the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) as well as workers who organise activities outside of ACFTU.
• China Online
  Business information; online reports covering many industries.
• COCOA stands for care of China's orphaned and abandoned children and is a UK charity devoted to the care of babies and young children kept in China's state-run orphanages.
• Development Organisation for Sichuan
  DORS is a small UK charity implementing village-based projects such as micro-credit, water supply and forestry.
• ELDIS database
  The Electronic Development and Environmental Information System is hosted by the British Library for Development Studies at the IDS, University of Sussex. ELDIS has information on a number of development and environmental organisations working with China.
• Health Unlimited
  Medical charity working in developing countries.
• Hong Kong Trade Development Council Introduction for business visitors to this gateway to China and the South East Asian region.
• Global Links Initiative
  Based in Tokyo, this non-profit organisation aims to promote "people-to-people links and to lead and facilitate joint projects dealing with common social issues". They run projects in China, Japan and South Africa.
• Good Rock Foundation is a UK charity working for China's orphaned and abandoned children, particularly in Xinjiang province. They focus on foster care, disabled people and the training of childcare workers.
• Ken Davies Ken Davies now works for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. Formerly, he was Chief China Economist at the The Economist magazine in London. Lots of useful general information and links here.
• National Bureau of Statistics of China
  This is the official statistical office for China that publishes the China Statistical Yearbook.
• Save the Children Fund
  Save the Children Fund have an extensive China programme.
  Postal address in China: Qin Yun Jie Post Office, Kunming 650031, Yunnan, CHINA, tel: +86 871 532-7024, fax: +86 871 533-0759, email:100633.2502@compuserve.com contact: Programme Director
• TibetInfoNet has succeeded the Tibet Information Network, as an NGO distributing independent information about Tibet.
• Three Gorges The US-based NGO International Rivers Network is campaigning on the environmental and social implications of the Three Gorges Dam.
• Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) VSO has a large English teaching programme in China for which qualified volunteer teachers are frequently needed.
• United Nations in China
• Worldwide Fund for Nature Hong Kong, The Hong Kong branch of WWF has a long-standing involvement in local environmental issues.

Law and human rights

• Amnesty International the London-based international human rights organisation regularly publishes information about the human rights situation in China.Asia Law & Practice publishers of China Law & Practice magazine, based in Hong Kong. Sweet & Maxwell, and Butterworths both based in London, also publish much material on Chinese law.
• British Chinese Law Association  The BCLA cultivates relations between legal communities in Britain and China.
• British Council provide financial and technical assistance towards the development of the legal system in China.
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  This organisation launched their China Programme in October 2002 and seeks to expand research on political reform including work on security and the rule of law
• The Carter Center is carrying out on-going research on the village elections and good governance in China. A version of the village elections law is published on this site
• Centre of East Asia Law Centre, SOAS, contact: Michael Palmer, Law Department
• China Law Digest
• ChinaLaw Information Service provided by Peking University provides online access to Chinese legislation, details of Chinese lawyers and a discussion of a range of "hot topics". In Chinese
• Chinese Human Rights Web, is maintained by Stephen Angle and Marina Svensson
• Find Law website has been operating since 1994. It provides all sorts of useful links and information. This is the link to their China-related pages
• Ford Foundation in China, email: ford-beijing@fordfound.org. Follow the links to the Beijing office. Ford in China carries out its own research and gives grants in a variety of areas related to the development of civil society in China
• Human Rights Watch, Asia Section, is another active campaigning and research organization.
• Joint Law Society/Bar Council China Working Party, meets regularly to discuss legal developments in China.
  International Department, Law Society
  50 Chancery Lane, London WC1H 0XG
  tel: +44 (0)20 7323-6333, fax: +44 (0)20 7636-5615
  contact: Helen Potts, Secretary to the China Working Party
  email: helen.potts@lawsociety.org.uk
• Legal Daily, lists almost all recently promulgated laws; (in Chinese) 
• Supreme People's Court (SPC), (in Chinese)
• Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) (in Chinese).
• Ministry of Justice (in Chinese with link to English)
  We can't find a dedicated website for the Ministry of Justice. If anyone knows its URL please let us know. Email contact@gbcc.org.uk.
• US Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor publishes an annual report on human rights practices in China.
• People's Republic of China Law contents lists almost all recently promulgated Chinese laws, including family and criminal law.

Libraries

• Bodleian Library of Oxford University which includes the UK Union catalogue of Chinese books, UK Union Catalogue of Chinese Books (Union catalogue).
• British Library
• China Library Group (CLG) contact: John Moffett at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge jm10019@cus.cam.ac.uk. The CLG comprises British China librarians. The group fosters cooperation between China collections in the UK and with China collections abroad.
• Digital Archive for Chinese Studies (DACHS)
• European Association of Sinological Librarians (EASL)
• International Dunhuang Project
• Mapping Asia Project offers information about the availability of Asian library resources in universities, public libraries and special libraries in the UK.
• School of Oriental & African Studies

Other academic and schools information

• British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS)
  BACS is a professional membership organisation promoting Chinese studies in Britain. Go here for information about China in British schools, amongst other interests.
• Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) (in Chinese).
• East Asian Policy Research Network (EASP)
  EASP consists of academics and research students whose research interests are East Asian social policies, aiming to enhance research quality and increase research activities by communicating and sharing ideas, works, and information. Based in the UK.
• EU-China Academic Network (ECAN)
• European Association for Chinese Studies is a professional membership organisation promoting Chinese studies in Europe.
• European Conference on Chinese Agriculture and Rural Development
  Contact Claude Aubert at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
  63-65 boulevard de Brandebourg, 94205 Ivry cedex, FRANCE
  tel: 33 1 49-59-69-00, fax: 33 1 46-70-41-13, aubert@ivry.inra.fr
• Goran Aijmer Network of European Anthropologists of China
  Contact Stuart Thompson in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS (tel: +44 (0)20 7323 6317 (direct) or 7637 2388 (secretary), fax: +44 (0)20 7255 0697 email: st5@soas.ac.uk [9/2001]
• Royal Institute for International Affairs is a think-tank dedicated to foreign relations.
• The Scottish Information Network Online for Chinese Studies is the project web site for the Scottish Consortium for Chinese Studies.

Below is shortlist of UK universities that offer China-related degree courses at either or both undergraduate or postgraduate level. A star [*] indicates a university that offers single honours undergraduate degrees in chinese studies. For a much more comprehensive list of chinese studies in the UK go to British Association for Chinese Studies.

• London School of Economics and Political Science, Asia Research Centre.
• * School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
• University of Bath School of Modern Languages for the MA/Diploma course in Chinese interpreting.
• University of Bristol Centre for East Asian Studies
• * University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
• * University of Durham Department of East Asian Studies
• * University of Edinburgh Asian Studies
• University of Central Lancashire Department of Languages and International Studies
• University of Central Lancashire Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
• * University of Leeds Department of East Asian Studies
• University of Newcastle
• University of Nottingham, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies
• China Policy Institute
• * University of Oxford East Asian Studies
• * University of Sheffield School of East Asian Studies
• University of Sussex Institute of Development Studies
• University of Warwick Department of Politics & International Relations
• University of Warwick Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
• * University of Westminster
• Centre for the Study of Democracy

Schools

• EasyMandarinUK An independent organistion providing Mandarin courses to primary schools in central London. They also run weekend classes for children of 3-13 years old every Saturday
• Specialist Schools Trust - Chinese Network (for school teachers and pupils of Mandarin).
• Windows on the World This is a free resource for schools and colleges seeking international links.
• The British Chinese Language Teaching Seminar (BCLTS)

News and practical information

• Innovation and Joint R&D in China Toolkit, an IP guide relevant for UK businesses, universities and start-ups exploring the development and commercialisation of research or technology in China.  
• China Now
• Baidu
• CHINA findouter a search engine and directory for China.
• Sohu.com a Chinese search engine. 
• Zhaodaola.com a Chinese search engine.
• China Radio International
• Mandarin service, BBC World Service.
• PhoenixCNE.com Phoenix Chinese News & Entertainment Ltd is a cable television network available in the UK
• The People's Daily (Renmin Ribao)
  China's leading official newspaper has a Chinese language online version.
• The Chinese Community Centre, is the main community centre for Chinatown in central London.
• The China Daily
  China's official English language newspaper.
• China Leadership Monitor tracks the changes in Chinese leadership.
• China News Digest, www.cnd.org is a non-profit US-based organisation aiming to provide independent news coverage of China and Chinese affairs.
• China online is a China news service in English.
• Sina.com is another China news service available in Chinese as well as English.
• Events and Happenings in China
• The Ultimate Shanghai Resource for Professionals, Expats and Executives online magazine.
• ExpatsInChina for the foreign community in China.

Chinese community in UK, societies, clubs and miscellaneous

• SACU - Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding was established in the early 1960s and publishes a newsletter / magazine for its members.
• The Scotland-China Association, organises events and publishes a newsletter of Scottish related China happenings.
• Chinatown online - information about Chinatown, London.
• Chinatown the magazine [London].
• China guide is a UK-based searchable skills database that promotes Chinese professionals in the media, the arts, sports, the public and private sectors.
• Agents for Chinese artists and performers, Chinese People Promotions, or British-Born Chinese britishbornchinese.org.uk.
• tom.com Cultural info, and a Chinese name choosing section.
• Good map and general info at the CIA World Factbook [China].
• A food and culture website www.chopstix.co.uk.
• Window of the world
• Canadian International Development Agency
• Save the Children Fund