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=Background Information on China=

Some Internet Travel Sites Specific to Wuhan

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**Recommended Reading**
[|Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present] By Peter Hessler [|River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze] By Peter Hessler [|Travelers’ Tales China] Edited by Sean O'Reilly, James O'Reilly, and Larry Habegger [|Eat Shandong: From Personal Experience to a Pedagogy of a Second Culture] By Eric Todd Shepherd [|China A to Z: Everything You Need to Know to Understand Chinese Customs and Culture] By May-Lee Chai, Winberg Chai [|National Geographic May 2008]

[|Shagri-La National Geographic May 2009] [|Return to Chaging May 2008 reprint from 1971]

**Other**
Pimsleur Audio CD Conversational [|Mandarin Chinese Language Program]

**NPR**
[|On the Road to China] [|Portraits of a Changing China] : Witnesses to Transformation of World's Most Populous Country

[|China At 60: Finding Flaws In The National Character] - The first of a three part series

[|Chinese Author Sees Breakdown Of Values] -Part Two
Janet Wulsin's '[|Vanished Kingdoms]' Daughter's Book Tells of Mother's 'Extraordinary' Expedition

**Others**
Democracy Now! T[|he Three Gorges Dam] [|Think and Talk Like Chinese] by Cathy Lu [|Learn Chinese Pod] [|Learn Chinese and Culture] NPR's [|China Diary] "All Things Considered" hosts Robert Siegel and Melissa Block are in Sichuan Province covering the massive earthquake. They continue to report on the aftermath and recovery efforts. The hosts were in Chengdu with producers Andrea Hsu and Art Silverman when the quake struck. They were preparing for a special week of China coverage that had been planned for next week. Follow this blog for regular updates.

**Websites**

 * [|Bob's Site]
 * [|Travelerstales]
 * [|Official Government Site]- It introduces the history, business, culture of Wuhan which is the capital city of Hubei Province. It has both English and Chinese editions. The first one is a video, the left ones are pictures and words.
 * [|Hubei Tour]- It tells us the multiple scenes in Hubei Province in English.
 * [|Wuhan University]- It shows you the stories of my university- Wuhan University. You can see many beautiful pictures of our campus which is called the most beautiful campus in China.
 * A [|travel wiki]on Wuhan
 * A blog set up in 2008 so that students could reference and receive information about the program. []
 * NEW!!!! China to UK by bicycle. []

**Past Student's Websites**

 * [|http://photo.163.com/photos/dazaijin/#p4]

**Movies**
//Still Life// //Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress// //The Last Emperor// Zhang Yimou (director) movies - //NOT ONE LESS// [|Up the Yangtze] [|China from the Inside]- A PBS production[|Young and Restless in China]- A Frontline production