The following is a starter list of some useful Web sites for teachers and students of Mandarin Chinese.

Once you start to search you will come across a great many more:

Online Dictionary

• www.dict.cn
• www.zymci.com

Search Engine

• www.baidu.com

The most popular social networks

• Online messenger http://im.qq.com/
• Social Network http://www.renren.com/
• Weibo http://www.weibo.com/

Chinese Hanban

• Chinese National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language http://english.chinese.cn/

Language Learning and General

• BBC Languages site.  A wealth of material from the BBC's mandarin Chinese language courses
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/chinese/real_chinese/
• Free courses for beginners
  http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese
• Grammar notes and exercises
  http://www.ctcfl.ox.ac.uk/
• Animated Chinese Character Stroke Order
  http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/character-stroke-order.php?searchChinese=1&zi=%E5%9C%8B
• Traditional (Complex) Chinese and Simplified Chinese Conversion
  http://www.khngai.com/chinese/tools/convert.php
• Pinyin annotation
  http://mandarinspot.com/annotate
• Online courses
  http://www.memrise.com/courses/english/mandarin-simplified

Pronunciation

• Pinyin
  http://kid.chinese.cn/pinyin/
• Tones
  http://chinesepod.com/tools/pronunciation/section/17

Essential Chinese culture

• http://english.chinese.cn/chineseculture/

TV  

• CCTV (China Central Television)
  www.cctv.com
  http://english.cntv.cn/01/index.shtml
• Phoenix TV
  http://www.phoenixtv.com/
• CCTV 4 – English (Freeview)
  http://www.dtg.org.uk/news/news.php?id=4282 

News 

• China Daily
  http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/
• BBC Chinese
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/
• Sohu
  http://www.sohu.com/

Host Universities

• Tsinghua University
  www.tsinghua.edu.cn/
• Fudan University
  http://www.fudan.edu.cn/englishnew/
• Beijing Language and Culture University
  www.blcu.edu.cn

Chinese Visa Information

http://www.chinese-embassy.org.uk/eng/visa/

If you have any comments on any of these sites or suggestions for other useful sites to include, please let me know at X.tang.1@bham.ac.uk