Acronyms Used by Asian / Pacific Studies' Scholars:
a Dictionary

ACRONYM	LONG NAME	CATEGORY	A PART OF	COUNTRY

D

| DA | DB | DC | DD | DE | DG | DI | DK | DL | DO | DR | DS | DU | DV | top |

DA back
DACHS	Digital Archive for Chinese Studies	resource	U. Heidelberg	Germany
DAJF	Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation	other body	---	UK
DAVO	Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient / German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation	group	---	Germany
DB back
DBLM	Digital Buddhist Library and Museum	---	---	Taiwan
DC back
DCCLT	Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts	resource	U. of California Berkeley	US
DCD	Digital Colonial Documents (India) Project	research project	La Trobe U.	Australia
DCIC	Digital China Information Center	---	U. of Pittsburgh	US
DCJ	Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan	---	Harvard U.	US
DD back
DDB	Digital Dictionary of Buddhism	---	---	Japan
DDSA	Digital Dictionaries of South Asia	---	DSAL	US
DE back
DEALL	Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures	academic body	Ohio State U.	US
DEVHAS	Development of Human Resources and Strategies for Education on the Stereotypical Images and Cultural Differences between Europe and South Asia	---	Ghent U.	Belgium
DG back
DGA	Deutschen Gesellschaft fuer Asienkunde	group	---	Germany
DH back
DHIPR	Documentation of the History of Indian Philosophies and Religions	---	Vienna U.	Austria
DHRM	Dalit Human Rights Monitoring	other body	PWTN	India
DI back
DIAL	Development of the Internet for Asian Law	---	---	Australia
DICCS	Documentation and Information Center for Chinese Studies	---	Kyoto U.	Japan
DIE	Deutsches Institut foer Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute	other body	---	Germany
DIJ	Deutsches Institut fuer Japanstudien / German Institute for Japanese Studies	---	---	Japan
DIKS	Daedong Institute for Korean Studies	---	AEAS	South Korea
DILP	Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project	resource	---	US
DK back
DKG	Deutsch-Kasachischen Gesellschaft	group	---	Germany
DL back
DL-RICH	Kalasampada Digital Library - Resources of Indian Cultural Heritage	resource	IGNCA	India
DO back
DOI	Deutsches Orient-Institut	---	---	Germany
DR back
DRC	Development Research Center of the State Council of PRC	other body	---	China
DS back
DSAL	Digital South Asia Library	resource	U. of Chicago	US
DSALCUL	Department of Languages and Cultures of South-East Asia and Oceania	academic body	Leiden U.	The Netherlands
DSIC	Duke Study in China Program	program	Duke U.	US
DSR	Digital Silk Road Project	other body	National Institute of Informatics	Japan
DSRAPA	Dipartimento di Studi e Ricerche su Africa e Paesi Arabi	---	IUO	Italy
DU back
DUEI	Deutsches Übersee-Institut	---	---	Germany
DUJAT	Dutch Japanese Trade Federation	group	---	The Netherlands
DV back
DVB	Democratic Voice of Burma	---	---	Norway

E

| EA | EB | EC | EE | EF | EH | EI | EJ | EK | EL | EM | EN | EP | ER | ES | ET | EU | EV | EW | EX | top |

EA back
E-ASPAC	Electronic Journal of ASPAC (Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast)	periodical	ASPAC	US
E-FLT	Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching	periodical	National U. of Singapore	Singapore
EAA	Education About Asia	---	U. of Tennessee at Chattanooga	US
EAAS	European Alliance for Asian Studies	group	---	Europe
EABER	East Asian Bureau of Economic Research	---	---	Australia
EAC	East Asia Center	---	U. of California, Santa Barbara	US
EAC	Euro-Asia Centre	---	INSEAD	France
EAC	East Asia Council (aka Canadian Asian Studies Association's East Asia Council, CASA-EAC)	group	CASA	Canada
EACL	European Association of Chinese Linguistics	group	---	France
EACS	European Association of Chinese Studies	group	---	---
EAEA	East Asian Economic Association	group	---	Japan
EafTerm	East Asia Forum on Terminology	---	---	China
EAH	International Journal of East Asian History	periodical	RSPAS	Australia
EAI	East Asia Institute	---	---	South Korea
EAI	East Asia Institute	---	Cambridge U.	UK
EAI	East Asian Institute	---	Columbia U.	US
EAI	East Asian Institute	---	National U. of Singapore	Singapore
EAJ	Asian Economic Journal	periodical	EAEA	Japan
EAJRS	European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists	group	---	Belgium
EAJS	European Association for Japanese Studies	group	---	---
EAJS	European Association for Jewish Studies	group	---	UK
EAL	East Asian Library	---	U. of Pittsburgh	US
EALA	East Asian Libraries and Archives	---	---	US
EALC	East Asian Languages and Civilizations	---	Harvard U.	US
EALC	East Asian Languages and Civilizations	---	U. of Chicago	US
EALC	East Asian Languages and Civilizations	---	U. of Colorado at Boulder	US
EALCS	East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies	---	U. of of California, Santa Barbara	US
EALL	East Asian Languages and Literatures	---	U. of Pittsburgh	US
EALR	East Asia Law Review	periodical	U. of Pennsylvania	US
EALRGA	East Asian Library Resources Group of Australia	group	---	Australia
EAMSA	Euro-Asia Management Studies Association	group	DIJ	Japan
EAP	Eurasia Academic Publishers	---	---	Bulgaria
EAPS	Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies	---	U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	US
EAPSI	East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes	---	---	US
EAR	East Asian Review	periodical	IEAS	South Korea
EARC	East Asia Resource Center	resource	U. of Washington	US
EARS	East Asian Research Society	group	---	US
EAS	East Asian Studies	---	Harvard U.	US
EAS	East Asian Studies	---	Washington U. in St. Louis	US
EASAS	European Association for South Asian Studies	group	---	---
EASC	East Asian Studies Center	other body	CFAU	China
EASC	East Asian Studies Center	Indiana U.	US
EASC	East Asian Studies Center	---	U. of South California	US
EASCI	History of East Asian Science Discussion Group	group	---	US
EASGSC	East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference	meeting	U. of Toronto	Canada
EASL	European Association of Sinological Librarians	group	---	---
EASP	East Asian Social Policy Research Network	group	U. of Bristol	UK
EASSA	European Association of South Asian Archaeologists	group	---	---
EASTM	East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine	periodical	Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet Tuebingen	Germany
EAU	Economic Analytical Unit	---	Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade	Australia
EB back
EBHR	European Bulletin of Himalayan Research	periodical	SAI	Germany
EBMP	Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project	research project	British Library/U. Washington	UK/US
EBTI	Electronic Buddhist Texts Initiative	research project	---	Japan
EC back
ECAI	Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative	group	---	US
ECAF	European Consortium for Asian Field Study	group	---	France
ECAN	EU-China Academic Network	group	SOAS	UK
ECARDC	European Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development in China	meeting	U. of Groningen	The Netherlands
ECMSAS	European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies	meeting	European Association of South Asian Studies	---
ECREA	Ecumenical Centre for Research, Education & Advocacy	other body	---	Fiji
ECRFF	EU-China Research Fellowship Fund	---	SOAS	UK
ECRSN	Ethnic Conflict Resolution Studies Network of North Sumatra	group	---	---
ECSIEP	European Centre on Pacific Issues	---	---	The Netherlands
ECSSR	Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research	other body	---	UAE
EE back
EEAU	East Asia Analytical Unit	---	Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade	Australia
EEO USAL	Escuela de Estudios Orientales	---	Universidad del Salvador	Argentina
EEPSEA	Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia	program	---	Singapore
EF back
EFCA	Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia	other body	---	Kazakhstan
EFEO	Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Orient / French School of Asian Studies	---	---	France
EH back
EHGAZ	East Himalayan Gazetteer	---	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh	UK
EHKCSS	E-Journal on Hong Kong Cultural and Social Studies	periodical	HK University	China
EHSEA	Economic History of Southeast Asia E-Group	---	---	UK
EI back
EIAS	European Institute for Asian Studies	---	---	Belgium
EIASIME	Edinburgh Institute for the Advanced Study of Islam and the Middle East	---	U. of Edinburgh	UK
EIC	Economic Institute of Cambodia	---	---	Cambodia
EIC	EastAsia International College	---	Yonsei U.	South Korea
EIJS	European Institute of Japanese Studies	---	---	Sweden
EISAWI	Edinburgh Institute for the Study of the Arab World and Islam	---	U. of Edinburgh	UK
EJ back
EJCJS	Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies	periodical	---	UK
EJEAS	European Journal of East Asian Studies	periodical	Institut d'Asie Orientale, Lyon	France
EJOS	Electronic Journal of Oriental Studies	periodical	U. Utrecht	The Netherlands
EJVS	Electronic Journal of Vedic Studies	periodical	---	US
EK back
EKP	Early Korea Project	research project	Harvard U.	US
EL back
ELNWS	European League for Non-Western Studies	other body	---	The Netherlands
EM back
EMC	Early Medieval China	periodical	EMCH	US
EMCG	Early Medieval China Group	group	---	US
EMJNet	Early Modern Japan Network	group	Ohio State U.	US
EN back
ENCARI	European Network on Contemporary Academic Research on India	group	---	Belgium
EP back
EPCReN	Eurasia Political Culture Research Network	group	NIAS	Denmark
EPIC	English Programme in Korea	program	---	South Korea
ePSD	Electronic Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project	research project	U. of Pennsylvania	US
EPW	Economic and Political Weekly	---	---	India
ER back
ERC	Eurasia Research Center	other body	---	Switzerland
ERINA	Economic Research Institute for Northeast Asia	---	---	Japan
ES back
ESCA	Harvard Roundtable on the Ethnogenesis of South and Central Asia	---	---	---
ESCAP	Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific	---	United Nations	Thailand
ESCAS	European Society for Central Asia Studies	group	---	The Netherlands
ESfO	European Society for Oceanists	group	---	Finland
ESiA	European Studies in Asia	other body	ASEF	Singapore
ESIND	European Studies on India Database	resource	Research Centre Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap, Ghent U.	Belgium
ESSEAN	European Students' Southeast Asia Network	group	Humbolt U. of Berlin / Passau U. / SOAS London	Germany/UK
ET back
ETANA	Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archive	resource	Oriental Institute	US
ETCSL	Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature	resource	U. of Oxford	UK
ETDS	Electronic Theses and Dissertations System	resource	National Central Library (NCL), Taipei	Taiwan
ETLI	Eastern Tibetan Training and Language Institute	---	---	Yunnan, China
EU back
EUPS	Edinburgh University Persian Society	group	U. of Edinburgh	UK
EurASEAA	European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists	group	---	---
EURO-JERC	Europe-Japan Economic Research Center	other body	---	Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
EUROSEAS	European Association for South East Asian Studies	group	---	Italy
EV back
EVOCS	European Virtual OPAC for Chinese Studies	---	U. Heidelberg	Germany
EW back
EWC	East-West Center	other body	---	US
EWI	East West Institute of International Studies	---	Gordon College	US
EWIC	Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures	---	U. of California, Davis	US
EX back
ExEAS	Expanding East Asian Studies	---	Columbia U.	US

F

| FA | FD | FE | FF | FH | FI | FL | FO | FP | top |

FA back
FAFI	Federation of Indian Associations in France	group	France
FANHS	Filipino American National Historical Society	group	US
FAPC	Fondation Asie Pacifique du Canada	---	---	Canada
FAS	Faculty of Asian Studies	---	ANU	Australia
FASID	Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development	other body	---	Japan
FD back
FDRI	Foundation for Democratic Reforms in India	other body	---	US
FE back
FECCA	Federation of Ethnic Communities' Councils of Australia	group	---	Australia
FEEGI	Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction	group	---	US
FENU	Far Eastern National University.	academic body	---	Russia
FES	Far Eastern Studies	periodical	C-FES	Japan
FF back
FFA	Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency	---	---	Solomon Islands
FFCEAS	Five College Center for East Asian Studies	academic body	Smith College	US
FH back
FHAC	First Historical Archives of China	---	State Archives Bureau	China
FI back
FIBIS	Families In British India Society	group	NACIRA	UK
FIS	Foundation for Iranian Studies	other body	---	US
FISPRI	Fiscal Policy Research Institute	---	Ministry of Finance	Thailand
FL back
FLA/LAF	Forum Luso-Asiatico / Luso Asian Forum	---	---	Macau/China
FLAS	Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships for Graduate Students	---	---	US
FO back
FOCAS	Forskarnätverket Forum for Central Asian Studies	---	---	Sweden
FORUMSEC	Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat	---	---	Fiji
FP back
FPI	Foreign Policy Institute	other body	---	Turkey
FPRC	Foreign Policy Research Centre	other body	---	India

G

| GA | GB | GE | GF | GI | GJ | GL | GN | GO | GP | GR | GS | GU | top |

GA back
GAP	Greater Angkor Project	research project	U. of Sydney	Australia
GASS	Great Asian Streets Symposium	meeting	National U. of Singapore	Singapore
GB back
GBCC	Great Britain China Centre	academic body	---	UK
GE back
GEAN	Goteborg East Asian Network	group	GESEAS	Sweden
GEAP-PUC/SP	Grupo de Estudos da Asia-Pacifico	---	Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo	Brasil
GEEA	Grupo de Estudios del Este Asiatico / East Asian Studies Group	group	Universidad de Buenos Aires	Argentina
GEHN	Global Economic History Network	group	London School of Economics	UK
GESEAS	Centre for (East and Southeast) Asian Studies, Goeteborg University	academic body	Goeteborg U.	Sweden
GF back
GFCPS	Global Forum of Chinese Political Scientists	group	American U.	US
GI back
GIARI	Global Institute for Asian Regional Integration	academic body	Waseda U.	Japan
GICAS	Grammatological Informatics based on Corpora of Asian Scripts	research project	Tokyo U. of Foreign Studies	Japan
GIGA	German Institute of Global and Area Studies	---	---	Germany
GILRS	Goethals Indian Library and Research Society	group	St. Xavier's College, Kolkata	India
GIN	Global Islands Network	group	---	UK
GIRU	Griffith Islamic Research Unit	---	Griffith U.	Australia
GJ back
GJAPS	Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies	periodical	U. of Auckland	New Zealand
GJF	Gesellschaft fuer Japanforschung	group	---	Germany
GL back
GLOCOM	Center for Global Communications	---	International U. Japan	Japan
GLORIA	Global Research in International Affairs	---	IDC Herzliya	Israel
GN back
GN-SAN	Gijodai-Nihongo-San	---	CSAS	Japan
GO back
GOSECA	Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia	---	Pittsburgh U.	US
GP back
GPIH	Global Price and Income History Group	group	U. California, Davis	US
GR back
GRASP	Group for Research in the Anthropology, Sociology and Politics of Pakistan - graspakistan--at--gmail.com	group	---	Pakistan/France
GRC	Gender Research Centre	academic body	HKIAPS	Hong Kong
GRC	Gulf Research Center	other body	---	United Arab Emirates
GRETIL	Goettingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages	resource	U. of Goettingen	Germany
GREZ	Groupe de Recherches et d'Etudes sur le Zen	group	---	France
GRN	Goa Research Net (web site)	resource	---	India
GRN	Goa Research Net (mailing list)	resource	---	India
GS back
GSAA	Graduate School Asia and Africa in World Reference Systems	academic body	Martin Luther U. Halle-Wittenberg	Germany
GSAPS	Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies	academic body	Waseda U.	Japan
GSAS	Graduate School of Contemporary Asian Studies	academic body	U. of Turku	Finland
GSID	Graduate School of International Development	academic body	Nagoya U.	Japan
GSIS	Graduate School of International Studies	academic body	Yonsei U.	South Korea
GSP	Genocide Studies Program	research project	Yale U.	US
GU back
GUAVA	Group of Universities for the Advancement of Vietnamese Abroad	group	---	US

H

| H- | HA | HC | HE | HH | HI | HJ | HK | HM | HN | HO | HP | HR | HS | HU | HW | HV | top |

H- back
H-ASIA	H-Net List for Asian History and Culture	resource	---	US
H-MEM	H-Mideast-Medieval	resource	US
H-NEASIA	H-Net Network on Northeast Asian History and Culture	resource	---	US
H-SEASIA	H-Net Discussion List on History and Study of Southeast Asia	resource	---	US
HA back
HAG	Historical Archives of Goa	---	---	India
HAIL	Hmong American Institute for Learning	---	---	US
HAPIN	Stichting Hulp Aan Papua's In Nood	---	---	The Netherlands
HAPR	Harvard Asia Pacific Review	periodical	Harvard U.	US
HAR	Himalayan Art Resources	---	Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation	US
HARP	Harappa Archaeological Project	research project	U. of Wisconsin	US
HC back
HCAC	Hindu-Christian Studies Academic Discussion List	resource	U. of Calgary	Canada
HCER	Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research	academic body	U. of Hong Kong	China
HCLMBC	Historical Chinese Language Materials in British Columbia	---	U. British Columbia	Canada
HE back
HEAL	History and East Asian Languages	---	Harvard U.	US
HEAS	Harvard East Asia Society	group	Harvard U.	US
HECAP	Humanities Education - Central Asian Partnership (Taalim-Forum Public Foundation)	other body	---	Kyrgyzstan
HEW	Hindu Kush Environmental Watch	---	---	Canada
HH back
HHS	Hawaiian Historical Society	group	---	US
HI back
HID	Himalayan Institute of Development	---	---	Nepal
HIFIP	Harvard Islamic Finance Information Program	program	Harvard U.	US
HIRIJW	Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women	---	Brandeis U.	US
HJ back
HJAS	Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies	periodical	Harvard U.	US
HJDD	Himalayan Journal of Development and Democracy	periodical	NSC	US
HK back
HKABA	Hong Kong-Australia Business Association	group	---	Australia
HKABASA	Hong Kong Australian Business Association	group	---	Australia
HKCER	Hong Kong Centre for Economic Research	academic body	U. of Hong Kong	China
HKIAPS	Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies	---	The Chinese U. of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
HKInChiP	Index to Chinese Periodicals in Hong Kong	---	The Chinese U. of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
HKPRD	Hong Kong-Macau-Pearl River Delta Development Information Net	---	U. of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
HKUST	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	---	---	Hong Kong
HM back
HMONGIHRW	Hmong International Human Rights Watch	---	---	US
HN back
HNG	Database of the Normative Glyphs in Hanzi Script	resource	GICAS	Japan
HO back
HOMSEA	History of Medicine in Southeast Asia	---	U. Sains Malaysia	Malaysia
HP back
HPAIR	Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations	---	Harvard U.	US
HPRC	Himalayan Policy Research Conference	meeting	NSC	US
HPSACP	Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics	---	U. Heidelberg	Germany
HR back
HRB	Himalayan Research Bulletin	periodical	Portland State U.	US
HRCBM	Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities	meeting	---	Bangladesh
HRIC	Human Rights in China	---	---	US
HRW	Human Rights Watch	---	---	US
HS back
HSTCC	Historical Society for 20th Century China	group	AAS	US
HSSTUDYC	Holy Spirit Study Centre	other body	---	HK, China
HU back
HURIGHTS Osaka	Asia Pacific Human Rights Information Center in Osaka	other body	---	Japan
HW back
HWRD	Hawaii War Records Depository	other body	---	US
HV back
HVK	Hindu Vivek Kendra - A Resource Center for the Promotion of Hindutva	other body	---	India

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