Tools
Pleco: free app of Chinese dictionary
zdic: this is where you can look up the older forms of a character
Articles
Why Are Hundreds of Harvard Students Studying Ancient Chinese Philosophy?
Spring’s Article on Chinese Characters and Philosophy
Books
Books on Chinese women’s life by Xinran
An incredible story about how a Chinese woman’s life intertwined with Tibetans when her husband died from a mysterious cause as a Chinese army doctor fighting a war with Tibetans. This story showed the Chinese and Tibetan culture in a beautiful way.
Movies
The Farewell, a movie about exploring the tension between the differences between American I-Culture and Chinese We-Culture when facing life and death.
Arrival, a sci-movie adapted from a story written by Ted Chiang, a Chinese American writer. The philosophy behind this movie very much resonates with the cosmological views of ancient Chinese culture such as non-linear time, synchronicities and how language shapes reality.