16 Dec 2003

Chinese Culture Abroad Directory
Asian Studies Program, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, USA.
Self-description: "Aloha, and welcome to the Chinese Cultures Abroad Directory. Over fifty (50) websites and other dedicated web pages are listed and annotated here. Those websites describe, evaluate and even initiate diverse experiences of the Chinese diaspora - transnational Chinese whose ancestors or who themselves migrated across the planet.[...] This online Directory documents the Web presence of Chinese immigrant communities and their activities in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, the Americas, Europe, Africa and elsewhere."
Site contents: * Annotated weblinks - Chinese diaspora (Transregional, Asia Pacific region, South East Asia - including Taiwan, Japan [Zainichi Chugokujin], Pacific Islands - including Hawai'i, Canada, the United States - but not Hawai'i, West Indies, Central America, South America, Europe, Russia, other post-Soviet Union states, Africa, South Asia, South West Asia); * Syllabi - Overseas Chinese [page under construction in mid-Dec 2003 - ed.]; * Invitation to participate!; * Acknowledgements; * Advisory board; * Newsworthiness; * Focus; * Histories; * Definitions; * Criteria; * Intended audience; * Advice to users; * Editor.
[This newly launched [Dec 2003] site forms an official sub-section of the China WWW Virtual Library (sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/) and of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) - ed.]
URL http://www2.hawaii.edu/~pollard/chculture.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Vincent Kelly Pollard (pollard[use"@"]hawaii.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: Under 30