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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: mid Apr 2000
Vol. 7, No. 111
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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 13
Entries rejected: 1
18 Apr 2000
The Sennin Foundation Center for Japanese Cultural Arts
The Sennin Foundation, Albany, CA, USA
Supplied note:
The site "contains information about our classes in traditional
Japanese systems of yoga, healing arts, martial arts, and fine arts
(calligraphy/painting and flower arrangement). [...] [There also is]
Michi Online: Journal of Japanese Cultural Arts
(http://www.michionline.org/), our sister website."
[The Sennin Foundation, Inc. (est. 1981) is a federally tax-exempt,
nonprofit corporation devoted to the promotion of classical Japanese
arts and Ways. - ed.]
URL http://www.michionline.org/sennin-center/
Link suggested by: H. E. Davey (hedavey@aol.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
18 Apr 2000
Japan/World statistical data
Statistics Bureau and Statistics Center, Government of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Supplied note:
"A following site covers world statistical data (Japanese, excel) in
economics, culture, population, etc. (17 fields) comparing Japan with
other major countries."
[An English language portion of the SBSC site resides at
http://www.stat.go.jp/english/1.htm - ed.]
URL http://www.stat.go.jp/data/sekai/index.htm
Link suggested by: Toshio Takagi (toshio.takagi@anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
18 Apr 2000
Mongolia Today online magazine
Vicom agency, Mongolia
Supplied note:
"A bimonthly online magazine [in English] devoted to the
promotion of Mongolia history, culture and
traditions to foreign [general - ed.] audiences."
URL http://www.mongoliatoday.com
Link suggested by: Lutaa Badamkhand (lut@magicnet.mn)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
16 Apr 2000
The Thirty-Six Strategies of Ancient China
Stefan Verstappen, www.chinastrategies.com, Canada
Supplied note:
"'The Thirty-Six Strategies of Ancient China' [...], is an English
language transcription and compilation of a Ming [or early Ching]
Dynasty manuscript originally titled 'The Secret Art of War', listing
thirty-six ancient Chinese proverbs on military strategy. [The book by
an anonymous author was first re-published in Beijing in 1979. It is
not to be confused with Sun Tzu's influential book 'The Art of War' -
ed.] Site
offers: list and description of all 36 strategies, sample chapters,
introduction, history, and notes on text."
[A book-promotion site - ed.]
URL http://www.chinastrategies.com
Link suggested by: Stefan Verstappen (stefanv@netcom.ca)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
16 Apr 2000
Pakistan: After Clinton's Visit
South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, India
Supplied note:
"The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi
Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, (Tele.Fax.No.
44-4895235) on the above subject is now available at [the URL below]."
[The author of the paper is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat,
Govt. of India, and presently, Director, Institute For Topical
Studies, Chennai - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers2/paper116.html
Link suggested by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
15 Apr 2000
W2P: Wade-Giles to Pinyin Romanisation software
Australian National CJK Service, National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note:
"Called 'W2P', the [menu-driven] program will convert records that have Chinese words in
Wade-Giles Romanisation into Pinyin Romanisation. It is designed to convert
Chinese bibliographic records, as well as records in other languages such as
Japanese, Korean or English which include words in Wade-Giles, from
Wade-Giles to Pinyin. [...]
The National Library of Australia successfully used W2P to convert its
[Wade-Giles] Chinese, Japanese, and Korean database of a million
records [...] to establish its Pinyin database. [...]
The W2P program is now available to the wider East Asian library community.
For more detailed information about the conversion program, conditions of
use and downloading instructions, visit the W2P web page at [the URL below]"
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/ncjk/w2p_conversion_2.html
Link suggested by: C P Tang (ctang@nla.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info./Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
14 Apr 2000
Pacific Studies WWW Monitor: e-journal
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note:
"'The Pacific Studies WWW Monitor' (ISSN 1443-8976) was established 12
April 2000. This specialist public access journal is modelled on its
sister publication 'Asian Studies WWW Monitor'
(http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html). The new periodical
forms a key element of the global, cooperative project Pacific
Studies WWW Virtual Library
(http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-PacificStudies.html). The journal
warmly welcomes electronic input of data on new/improved online
resources about the Pacific region and its countries."
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/pacific-www-monitor.html
Link suggested by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News/Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
rating not available
13 Apr 2000
Project Central Asia
Russia Group, Stockholm School of Economics, Stockholm, Sweden
Supplied note:
"The Russia Group is a committee of students at Stockholm School of Economics
in Sweden, interested in the CIS-region. We are currently running an
academic project, called Project Central Asia. The aim of the project is to
collect enough high-quality information to be able to produce an ambitious
guide with an economic and social focus, for foreign companies and
organizations, eager to get to know more about the countries in Central
Asia."
Site contents:
Our Partners and Sponsors; Facts about the Region (Overview map,
Detailed map, Fact pages: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan); Participants; Links).
URL http://www.hhss.se/rg
Link suggested by: Rysslandsgruppen (rg@hhss.se)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
12 Apr 2000
Translations of texts by Eihei Dogen
White Wind Zen Community, Ottawa, Canada
Supplied note:
"A number of translations of [the 13th c. Zen master] Dogen zenji's
texts can be found online at [the URL below]. These include Kuge,
Fukanazazengi, Zazengi, Zanmai O-Zanmai, Gabyo, and Genjokoan."
URL http://www.wwzc.org/onlinepub.htm
Link suggested by: Ven. Anzan Hoshin (sensei@sympatico.ca)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
11 Apr 2000
News On Japan
News On Japan, Mito City, Japan
Supplied note:
"Our main focus is quality daily news, although we have many resources for
business, education and research."
Site contents: News desk; Archives; Trading News; Shopping; Resources; Events Calendar.
URL http://www.newsonjapan.com
Link suggested by: Peyton Collie (pcollie@lore.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
11 Apr 2000
Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion
The Huntington Archive, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Supplied note:
"Online exhibition features the extraordinary photography of Stephen P.
Huyler and documents ritual and devotional practices throughout India. The
original exhibition was held at the Houston Museum of Natural History from
Sep 28, 1999 - Jan 2, 2000 and will travel to the American Museum
of Natural History, New York in 2001. Contains 79 images of rituals,
devotional practices, and wooden shrines. Includes accompanying text and
links to a biography on the Huyler and his book on the same topic.
Postcards and calendars are also available."
URL http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/meetgod/hp.htm
Link suggested by: Janice Glowski (glowski.1@osu.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
11 Apr 2000
Jamini Roy: Bengali Artist of Modern India
The Huntington Archive, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Supplied note:
"Online exhibition features artwork of the famous modern Indian painter
Jamini Roy. The original exhibition was held at the Samuel P. Harn Museum
of Art, University of Florida, from Dec 14, 1997 - May 17, 1998 and
was curated by historian of contemporary Indian art Marcella Sirhindi.
Contains 45 images with text and artist biography."
URL http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/exhib/roy/hp.htm
Link suggested by: Janice Glowski (glowski.1@osu.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
11 Apr 2000
From Sideshow to Genocide:
Stories of the Cambodian Holocaust
EdWeb, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Washington DC, USA
Supplied note:
"In honor of next week's 25th anniversary of the fall of
Phnom Penh and the beginning of the Khmer Rouge holocaust, I wanted to
post a message about my website, 'From Sideshow to Genocide'. I'd like to
invite all of you to visit the website in memory of the two million
Cambodians who died during the Khmer Rouge regime.... - ac."
Site contents: Introduction to the Website; What is Genocide? Cambodia
Before the Holocaust; The Khmer Rouge Years; Survivor Stories;
Suggested Resources (The Cambodia Auto-Genocide Page; The Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness
Project, Inc.; The Yale Cambodian Genocide Program; The Cambodian
Artists Assistance Project; Power, Democide and War: statistics; A
Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust; The CIA World Factbook on Cambodia;
Cambodia Ban Land Mines Association; Peacebuilding in Cambodia; The
Friends of Pol Pot; The Sam Rainsy Party; Proleung Khmer; Adoption
from Cambodia; Laos and Hmong Pages; WWW Hmong Homepage; Hmong
Electronic Resources Project; The Vietnam War Internet Project; Losing
Ground to the Khmer Rouge; Post-Coup Cambodia: Relaxation or Further
Repression?); The Wall of Remembrance; About the Author.
URL http://edweb.gsn.org/sideshow
Link suggested by: Andy Carvin (acarvin@gsn.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study/Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
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