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China Gateway

Reviewed:

Mar 31, 2014 by History
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Ratings

Overall Rating: 3.8 stars
Content Quality: 4.2 stars
Effectiveness: 3.5 stars
Ease of Use: 3.5 stars
Overview:

This resource provides links to websites, libraries, and resources about Chinese history & culture. Each section contains annotated lists of internet resources and print items re: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Chinese in the Diaspora; Chinese related materials at Boston college and Chinese in Boston. The resources are in both English and Chinese. The content focuses on 19th and 20th century Chinese society & history as portrayed through web resources, stand alone tools, study units, and a very few documents. There are links to websites for those students who want to study Chinese or take as study abroad program. The copyright on the website is 2004; last updated 2009.
Type of Material:

Online repository
Recommended Uses:

• Reference resource
Technical Requirements:

Browser; quicktime is needed for the Historian’s toolkit.
Identify Major Learning Goals:

• Provide links to materials about China and Chinese culture. • To provide links to cultural repositories that hold Chinese arts and resources
Target Student Population:

• College students and scholars researching Chinese culture. • Librarians and archivists putting together resources pages for their institutions
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

none

Content Quality

Rating:
Strengths:

This source provides a wealth of useful material. The content is of high quality.
Concerns:

• Users must determine for themselves the value of the materials. About 1/3 of the links are no longer viable

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

Rating:
Strengths:

If the student or researcher is self-directed and persistent, the user could locate materials about China and Chinese culture. Other than the scanty resources on the Historian’s Toolkit, there is nothing substantive in this resource.
Concerns:

The spacing of the material on the web-page is too dense in some areas. Greater spacing is required.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

Rating:
Strengths:

China Gateway may be easy to use for high school and college students.
Concerns:

Many of the links no longer function.
Other Issues and Comments:

• This site does aggregate resources about China and Chinese culture. This resource should be replaced with a LibGuide with current information and links to serve today’s more sophisticated library / archives user.
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