27 Feb 2007

Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies (CSDS) e-journal
Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, RSPAS, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "'Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies' is a multi-disciplinary, annual electronic journal [est. Jan 2007, published in PDF format - ed.] devoted to research on all aspects of the Chinese southern diaspora (that is, in Southeast Asia, Australasia, and the southwest Pacific region), from the earliest times to the present. The journal's initial editors are Drs Li Tana and Nola Cooke. The journal, which incorporates the newsletter of the Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora [rspas.anu.edu.au/cscsd/] at The Australian National University, is produced with the financial support of the [Jennifer] Cushman Memorial Fund."
Site contents: [of the issue #1] Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies, Volume 1, 2007

Editors' Introduction to Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies;

* Research Articles
Denys Lombard - Another "Mediterranean" in Southeast Asia; Li Tana and Paul Van Dyke - Canton, Cancao, and Cochinchina: New Data and New Light on Eighteenth-Century Canton and the Nanyang; Nola Cooke - King Norodom's Revenue Farming System in Later Nineteenth-Century Cambodia and his Chinese Revenue Farmers (1860Ð1891); Thomas Engelbert - "Go West" in Cochinchina: Chinese and Vietnamese Illicit Activities in the Transbassac (c. 1860Ð1920s); Julia Martinez - Chinese Rice Trade and Shipping from the North Vietnamese Port of Hai Phong;

* Research Notes and Data Papers
Philip King - Chinese Enterprise and Malay Power: Nineteenth-Century Central Malaya from a Regional Perspective; Yeetuan Wong - The Big Five Hokkien Families in Penang, 1830sÐ1890s; Geoff Wade - Chinese Economic Activities in Java in the Late Eighteenth Century as Reflected in the Batavian Kong Koan Records; Vincent K. Pollard - From Southern Seas to Cyberspace: Chinese Diaspora Websites in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific;

* Research Materials
Anon - "Tran Tay phong tho'ky", c. 1838; Andrew Spooner - "Rapport sur le Cambodge. Voyage de Sai-Gon a Bat-tam-bang", 1862.; About the Contributors;

* Newsletter of the Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora
About the CSCSD; Creating the CSCSD, 1999; recent activities of the Centre; Graduate Student Directory - Details of doctoral students in Australian universities studying Chinese southern diaspora related topics;

Abstracts of the Research Articles in Chinese; Chinese Translations of works on Southeast Asia and the Chinese in Southeast Asia;

URL http://csds.anu.edu.au/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.]
Link reported by: Tana Li (tana.li--at--anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30