China's Folk Memory Project

story reported November 2012 on Sunday, npr.org (cf. http://thisibelieve.org & www.storycorps.org )

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/11/164801546/recording-the-untold-stories-of-chinas-great-famine

online resources 2012 from PrimarySource.org

Primary Source has developed a series of resources on global education. For example, on ancient China, there is a new resource guide at
http://resources.primarysource.org/content.php?pid=78258&sid=579412 while the modern China guide is at  http://resources.primarysource.org/content.php?pid=51675&sid=385196

The main resource page lets you search for books, films and curriculum units etc.at  http://resources.primarysource.org/index.php

Additionally, Primary Source offers a one-hour webinar on Chinese Art Activities for Elementary Humanities on November 5, 2012 (free of charge). Register at http://www.primarysource.org/chineseartwebinar are listed at http://www.primarysource.org/onlinecourses

scenes from far west Xinjiang, China - xuar

The China photos (mostly around Urumqi, but also some from the silk road town of Turpan; also from up north: Altay prefecture)

are online at http://bit.ly/altay2012xuar

The photos by theme/topic are also at http://www.slideshare.net/anthroview/presentations

These include shots of Chinese language signboard and announcements.

These also include pictures of Uyghur language, since this part of China is their homeland.

old China photos

Searching for Photos of China's Past
An historian's project to locate and disseminate photographs from late 19th- and early 20th-century China is yielding uncommonly seen results, and they're freely available to the public for study. > Watch this BBC slideshow of carefully preserved images rarely seen in China; access the entire Historical Photographs of China library; and spend some time with the innovative and interactive Visualising China site.

conversion from Chinese characters to several E.Asian readings

http://www.cojak.org/ gives the Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Japanese, both onyomi and kunyumi, for nearly all characters according to today's electronic list for Korean Studies

China view (in 10 words)

translation & eBook, China in Ten Words. The "try sample" pages give a good sense of this personal account 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004SOQ0QW?ref%5F=