there were over 95% of Chinese who were illiterate in 1950s, so the government then make Chinese words simplified. However, Hong Kong and Taiwan( also known as Public of China) were under the reign of UK and KMT respectively, so this policy has not been implemented in these two areas in China, but more people in HK and TW now are getting familiar with simplified words and try to use them (because they are easier to write and remember). One disadvantage is Chinese characters are hieroglyphic, the simplification to some extend damage some characters' artistry. The reason why rare traditional character resources are available is both Taiwan and Hongkong (the only two places using traditional Chinese)and democratic and capitalism society, their information are restricted to some extend. So you could use VPN or Web freer to break the restriction and search something related to HK and TW, most of them will be in traditional chinese.(like yahoo.hk, yahoo.tw, and www...hk , ..www.... .tw. Mat these help you!

1 在 正體字網站上 (如 tw.yahoo.com) 輸入 關鍵字 " 正簡 對照" 或 "繁簡 對照" 或 "繁簡 轉換" 即可查得 相對應字 之對照表 2 推薦使用 中華民國教育部之「常用國字標準字體筆順學習網」 http://stroke-order.learningweb.moe.edu.tw/characterQueryResult.do?word=%E8%87%BA 3 還有一種 "偽繁體" 僅僅作字形的轉換 但是卻非台灣人之慣用詞彙 欲知 "偽繁體" 請參閱 台灣中華文化總會 之 中華語文知識庫 http://forum.chinese-linguipedia.org/ (全民詞彙 或 論壇 項下) 4 這裡有電子書 中華民國 僑務委員會 全球華文網 http://media.huayuworld.org/interact/ebook/default/

http://xh.5156edu.com/jtof.php http://www.linkwan.com/gb/broadmeter/tools/ChineseConvert.htm http://www.fanti.com/ these sites can translate simplified characters into traditional characters.