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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early Feb 2000
Vol. 7, No. 105
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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 16
Entries rejected: 4
15 Feb 2000
Books on Asian Studies
Biblioindica, India
Supplied note:
"We are one of the leading Indian booksellers and
publishers. We extensively deal in highly scholarly/academic
books and journals and supply them to our numerous clients
throughout the world. Besides our own publications we
stock books published by other Indian and International
publishers and can serve all your book requirements through
our world-wide search network."
Site contents:
Applied Statistics, Human Genetics & Quality Control;
Buddhist Studies;
Economics/Developmental Studies;
Sanskrit & Pali;
Tibetan Studies;
Women Studies.
[A commercial site - ed.]
URL http://sites.netscape.net/biblioindica/homepage
Link suggested by: Suman Ghosh (biblioindica@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
15 Feb 2000
Annotated
bibliography on shamanism in Chinese culture
Barend ter Haar, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Description:
"The first problem that one encounters in studying shamanism is one of
definition and terminology, since this largely determines
the inclusion or exclusion of literature and topics. I prefer to take a
broad approach, that includes the self-flagellating tang-ki of
Southern China, possession cults (in which a being descends into a person,
speaking through his or her mouth or by means of a
writing apparatus) and spirit travel cults." (self description).
Site contents:
(1) General works (Bibliographies; General theoretical studies; General
studies on shamanism in China); (2) Fieldwork studies (Fujianese cultural
regions; Guangdong cultural regions; Northern China; Non-Han cultures); (3)
Spirit writing (fieldwork and history); (4) History (Until the Song; Song
and after); (5) Daoism and its shamanic roots.
URL http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/staff/bth/shamanism.htm
Link suggested by: Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: V.Useful
15 Feb 2000
Annotated
bibliography on violence in Chinese culture
Barend ter Haar, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Site contents:
(0) Prefatory remarks; (1) Useful bibliographies and introductions; (2)
Violence as an intrinsic part of Chinese culture; (3) Warfare, military
technology; (4) Collective violence, riots, rebellions (traditional China);
(5) Metadiscussions on violence in China; (more extended discussions on
wen and wu); (traditional attitudes towards violence); (6) Crime,
punishment (including death penalty) and torture; (7) Sacrifice; (8)
Cannibalism; 9) Suicide; (10) Exorcist violence; (11) Language for/of
violence; (12) Folktales / fairy tales; (13) Violence in post-1949 China;
(14) Games and sports; (15) Violent subgroups/ subcultures; (16) The state
monopoly on violence; (17) Festivals, carnival and
conflict/ resistance/ conflict etc.; (18) Buddhism and violence/war; (19)
Abuse (within the family, of children); (20) Theory.
URL http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/staff/bth/violence.htm
Link suggested by: Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: V.Useful
15 Feb 2000
Sources
and studies on protest and dissent in pre-modern China
Barend ter Haar, Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany
Supplied note: "Compiled in
Aug. 1993, this annotated bibliography
(6 pages) is an excellent starting point for
students and scholars exploring the topic of
protest in dissent in China."
[A link to a file in the MSWord proprietary format. It would be more
interoperable if it were published as an RTF (rich text format) file - ed.]
URL http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/staff/bth/protest.doc
Link suggested by: Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: V.Useful
14 Feb 2000
Revue
Bibliographique de Sinologie = The Review of Bibliography in Sinology
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
Supplied Note:
"The [RBS] has two
objectives. The first is to help scholars to keep in
touch with fields less familiar to them and the
second is to provide research students with a broad
view of works offering useful leads in the
preparation of a thesis. Our main concern is to
introduce the latest works in the fields of History,
Fine Arts and Archaeology, Music, Linguistics,
Literature, Philosophy, Religions and History of
Sciences, works written in Chinese, Japanese, as
well as in the major languages of the scientific
community, either in book form or as articles. A
significant part of each issue is also devoted to
bibliographical surveys exploring new topics in a
longer perspective of time."
[About the paper publication - ed.]
URL http://www.ehess.fr/editions/revues/rbs.html
Link suggested by: Jacqueline Nivard (RBS@ehess.fr)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Interesting
14 Feb 2000
Chechnya.co.uk
chechnya.co.uk, United Kingdom
Supplied note:
"We're a nonprofit, non-governmental project. [... and we provide the]
web's most comprehensive independent resource
for Chechnya-related news, analysis, culture, chat, business, events,
meetings and much more. Now with the web's biggest links section!"
URL http://chechnya.co.uk/index.htm
Link suggested by: Viv Jones (editor@chechnya.co.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V. Useful
05 Feb 2000
Thai Golden Jubilee (Kanachanapisek) Network
Office of National Cultural Commission in Thailand (ONCC), Bangkok, Thailand
Site contents:
H.M.'s Biography;
Golden Jubilee Rites;
Royal Activities;
Royal Projects;
Royal Speeches;
Royal Talents;
Royal Music; H.R.H. Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn;
Paticipating Organizations (Royal Chitralada Projects [demonstrated agriculture projects in Chitralada Palace, central BKK, Thailand];
Chaipattana Foundation [flood problems in BKK and its environs];
The Office of the Royal Development Projects Board;
Sai Jai Thai Foundation;
Royal Irrigation Department [irrigation, dams, water resources];
Thai Junior Encyclopaedia Project;
The Thai Red Cross Society;
The Office of National Cultural Commission;
Information Technology Projects Under the Initiative of HRH Princess Maha Chakri
Sirindhorn [about the use of IT for the improvement of quality of Life of
Thai people];
Royal Project [natural resources conservation and highland agricultural development in Nth Thailand];
Prince Mahidol Award Foundation;
Anandamahidol Foundation;
Other Participating Organizations;
About the Golden Jubilee Network;
Knowledge for Thai peoples.
URL http://kanchanapisek.or.th/index.en.html
Link suggested by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info. /Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Useful
05 Feb 2000
Thai National Cultural Digital Archive (NCDA)
Office of National Cultural Commission in Thailand (ONCC), Bangkok, Thailand
Supplied note:
"The largest online public collection of Thailand's cultural information. The site, est. 1999, serves
articles and data on 50 topics (grouped into 7 major categories: basic province information,
important people and philosophers, places, indigenous knowledge, life-styles, local goods, literature and manuscripts) for all 76 provinces of Thailand. The information is served from a multimedia (text, images, video, sound, vrlm) relational database. At present (Feb 2000) the information is available only in Thai. An English language version, prepared by a team from Chulalongkorn Univ., is expected to be ready
by the end of 2000. The NCDA project was personally initiated in 1995 by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn."
URL http://kanchanapisek.or.th/oncc/
Link suggested by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Essential
03 Feb 2000
German Chamber of Commerce in China
German Chamber of Commerce in China, China
Supplied note:
"Useful business information of the Chinese market,
German-Chinese economic relations, online-databases,
market research..."
[A site in German, sprinkled with English words. The Search tool does not work.
Access to business information requires a password - ed.]
URL http://www.ahkbj.org.cn
Link suggested by: Matthias Mueller (mueller@ahkbj.org.cn)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Documents?
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Interesting
02 Feb 2000
Lexicon Turcico-Arabico-Persicum (1680)
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan
About the forthcoming reprint of
Franciszek (Francois) a Mesgnien Meninski's (1620-1698) dictionary
'Thesaurus linguarum Orientalium'
(Lexicon Turcico-Arabico-Persicum),
and
'Grammatica Turcica', which which were first published in 1680.
URL http://vanilla.fs.tufs.ac.jp/~mehmetol/meninskii.html
Link suggested by: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Olmez (mehmetol@fs.tufs.ac.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]: Corporate Info
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Interesting
02 Feb 2000
Chinese Military Power
Project on Defense Alternatives, The Commonwealth Institute, Cambridge, MA,
USA
Self-description:
"A compendium of online resources about Chinese
military policy & capabilities: (1) a gateway to
full-text online analyses and research tools
essential to understanding China's military policy,
capabilities and potential; (2) access to the
spectrum of U.S. opinion regarding China's strategic
development; (3) regularly updated links to online
articles, reports and government documents assessing
China's military modernization, relevant political
and economic factors, the military balance in East
Asia and U.S. policy toward China; (4) a
bibliography of essential reading, links to online
databases, leading area specialists and research
sites."
URL http://www.comw.org/cmp
Link suggested by: Aaron Katz (Director of Communications, Project on
Defence Alternatives, Cambridge, MA, USA, pda@comw.org) forwarded by Hano Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]: Study/Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Essential
01 Feb 2000
The Revival of Buddhism in Mongolia
The University of Derby, UK
Supplied note:
"Photographic exhibition of the revival of Buddhism in Mongolia conveying various
aspects of contemporary Mongolian Buddhism that remains largely unknown outside
the region."
[A beautifully published collection of 36 annotated colour slides
(in thumbnail and postcard formats) from Mar-Apr 1998. The author, Barbara Hind, is a visiting lecturer at the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the
National University of Mongolia and the Press Institute of
Mongolia, both in Ulaanbaatar and at Creighton University,
Omaha, USA. - ed.]
URL http://www.multifaithnet.org/mfnopenaccess/exhibits/mongolia/front.htm
Link suggested by: Barbara Hind (barbara_hind@Hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Useful
01 Feb 2000
South East Asia, Study Abroad: Indonesia
Wisma Bahasa, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Supplied note:
"Indonesia's most reputable Indonesian [and Javanese] course[s]."
[An informative, crisp and well run web site - ed.]
URL http://www.wisma-bahasa.or.id
Link suggested by: Cynthia (pemad@indo.net.id)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Useful
01 Feb 2000
TourNepal, a branch of Totality Nepal
Totality Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal
Supplied note:
"A website [...] about present day
Nepal as well as serving as a tour guide and informational site for virtual travellers who are far away from the Himalayan kingdom.
TourNepal contains information on businesses, hotels and other important facets
of Nepal such as poetry, culture and art."
URL http://www.tournepal.com
Link suggested by: Janardan Joshi (nerudo@nepyo.mos.com.np)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Interesting
01 Feb 2000
Swami Krishnananda - The Divine Life
Society
The Divine Life Society, India
Supplied note:
"This website contains 27 online books, plus discourses and poetry on yoga and meditation, Eastern and Western philosophy, mysticism, metaphysics, Hindu texts such as Bhagavadgita, Upanishads, Vedanta, history of religious thought in India."
URL http://www.swami-krishnananda.org
Link suggested by: Swami Narayanananda (narayani@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Interesting
01 Feb 2000
Malaysia's Muddling
Private site, Malaysia,
Supplied note:
"A look at Malaysia's 'Flip-Flopping' Economic and Political policies."
URL http://members.tripod.co.uk/Malaysia_Muddling/index.html
Link suggested by: Bob Zimmermen (bob_zimmermen@consultant.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Useful
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