Additional Web Resources:

• Chinese medicine depends heavily on the use of herbs. Learn more about Chinese medicinal herbs here:
  
  www.itmonline.org/arts/herbintro.htm
  
  
• Chinese characters for words and phrases are quite different from English letters used for words. Learn some Chinese symbols at these two Web links:
  
  www.ancientscripts.com/chinese.html
  
  www.chinapage.com/word/chineseword.html
  
  
• Arnold Genthe was a German-born photographer. McClintock based her illustration on Genthe's photos of Chinatown around the turn of the century:
  
  www.californiahistoricalsociety.org/collections/photo_collection/genthe/index.html