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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early May 2000
Vol. 7, No. 113
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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 23
Entries rejected: 15
10 May 2000
Institute for the International Education of Students (IES)
IES, Chicago, IL, USA
Supplied note:
"IES has been offering quality, academic study abroad programs in
China and Japan since 1950.
We currently have programs in the following locations: Tokyo, Japan;
Nagoya, Japan; and Beijing, China.
All of these programs offer a wide rande of opportunities for
students, including homestays, field experience, and language
training."
URL http://www.IESabroad.org
Link suggested by: Amy Ruhter (aruhter@IESabroad.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
09 May 2000
Asia Bulletin: Calendar of upcoming Asia-related Events
Asia Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Self-description:
"All events are open to the public and are held at Harvard University
unless otherwise noted. Send links, submissions, or corrections of
upcoming Asia-related events in the New England area to
opatrick@fas.harvard.edu."
[The site also provides: Harvard Links (Asia Center Modern Asia
Series; Bunting Institute; Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum; Harvard
Center for Literary and Cultural Studies; Harvard Center for
Population and Development Studies Calendar; Harvard Center for the
Study of World Religions; Harvard Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic
Studies Monthly Lecture Series; Harvard Forum for Central Asian
Studies Workshops; Harvard University Committee on Environment;
Harvard University Events Calendar; Harvard University Film Archive;
Harvard Information Infrastructure Project; Harvard Workshop on the
Methodological Issues in the Studies of Chinese Religions; Human
Rights Program at Harvard Law School Calendar; Korea Institute; Office
of International Education; Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Seminar
Schedule; Reischauer Institute Japan Forums; Sanskrit and Indian
Studies/Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Calendar; South Asia Seminar
Series Schedule; Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Events
Calendar) as well as several Boston Area Links. - ed]
URL http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~asiactr/EAB.html
Link suggested by: Harvard University Asia Center (asiactr@fas.harvard.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
09 May 2000
AsiaSource: AsiaEVENTS
Asia Society, New York, USA
Self-description:
"Search for Asia-related exhibitions, conferences, readings,
screenings, performances, and discussions happening around the world
by choosing the desired dates and location below or searching by
keyword."
Coverage: Events for the current and past year in 10 regions of USA, 2
regions of Canada, AustralAsian region, Europe, China, Hong Kong,
Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and
the South Asian region.
URL http://www.asiasource.org/events/
Link suggested by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
08 May 2000
Asia-Pacific Library Conferences
www.geocities.com, Canberra, Australia
Self-description:
"A Calendar of conferences, seminars and workshops. This Calendar
contains details of conferences and similar activities relating to the
Asia-Pacific region which are of interest to librarians and other
information managers."
Site contents: Events in 2000; Events in 1999; Events in 1998; Events
in 1997; Events in 1996.
[The site is an official member of the Asian Studies and
Pacific Studies WWW VL (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html, and
coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-PacificStudies.html) archipelago of online scholary resources - ed.]
URL http://www.geocities.com/asia_pages/asiaconf/APConfTop.html
Link suggested by: Susan MacDougall,
(susan.macdougall@alianet.alia.org.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
07 May 2000
Buddhist Society of Western Australia
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Supplied note:
"The website of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia has now
moved to its own domain. The new address for the website is [at the
URL below]."
Site contents: Introduction; Introduction to Meditation; Dhamma Study
Class; Executive Committee; Meditation Retreats; Regular Activities;
Road Maps to Bodhinyana Monastery and to the Nuns' Dhammasara
Monastery; This Month's News; Newsletters; Information Sheets and
Other Publications; Buddhist essays; Links to selected Buddhist sites.
[The site publishes 35 online Buddhist essays written by Ajahn
Brahmavamso, Ajahn Jagaro, Ajahn Maha Boowa, Ajahn Nyanadhammo, Ajahn
Pannavaddho, Ajahn Sumedho, and Mahathera Piyadassi - ed.]
URL http://www.dhammaloka.org.au/
Link suggested by: Binh Anson (binh_anson@yahoo.com), forwarded by
Cherry Jackson (cherry@physics.uwa.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info./Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
07 May 2000
Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), Jun 2000
Institute of Asian Cultural Studies, International Christian
University, Tokyo, Japan
Supplied note:
"All scholars of Asia are invited to participate in the fourth annual
meeting of the Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ), which will be held
at the Ichigaya campus of Sophia University on June 24-25, 2000.
ASCJ was founded in 1997 to promote interdisciplinary scholarly exchange
in an English-language format and to broaden communication among Japan-
based scholars of Asia. In Mar 1999 it was formally affiliated with the
Association for Asian Studies (www.aasianst.org) as the first regional conference of the
Association based outside North America."
URL http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~kokusai/ascj01.htm
Link suggested by: Patricia Sippel (psippel@icu.ac.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
07 May 2000
Sino-Japanese Studies Journal
History Department, U. of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Self-description:
"Sino-Japanese Studies (ISJN 1041-8830) [...] is published twice
annually by the Sino-Japanese Studies Group. Its general purpose is
broadly conceived as encouraging research and discussion in the
interdisciplinary study of China and Japan together, irrespective of
discipline or time period."
Site contents: News; TOCs for past issues of SJS; SJS Listserve: Subscribing and
Archives; CJK Computing; Web Links; About the SJS editors and
webmasters.
[A home page of a paper journal - ed.]
URL http://www.history.ucsb.edu/journals/sjs/
Link suggested by: Edward C Fields (ecfields@umail.ucsb.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
07 May 2000
Satellite night image of Korea
Duke University, N.Carolina, USA
Supplied note:
"A multi layer image taken at night by a U.S. satellite and acquired
by the Korea China Atmospheric Science Center shows North Korea
practically devoid of lights with the exception of Pyongyang and
Shinuiju. In contrast South Korea is brightly lit with a major
concentration in Seoul."
[Prof Moo-Young Han's comment: "The 'bright' pattern in the lower
right corner of the image is likely to be an optical aberration.]
URL http://www.phy.duke.edu/~myhan/powerkr.jpg
Link suggested by: William Tongil Chu (wtchu@lbl.gov), forwarded by
Moo-Young Han (myhan@phy.duke.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Marginal
07 May 2000
Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA)
Jakarta, Indonesia
Supplied note:
"The influential Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA) has a
website at [the URL below]."
[A bi-lingual (IN,EN) site. IBRA operates under the auspices of the
Indonesia's Ministry of Finance (MoF). - ed.]
URL http://www.bppn.go.id
Link suggested by: Oliver Mann (omann@indo.net.id)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
06 May 2000
Compromising on Autonomy: Mindanao in Transition
Accord, Conciliation Resources London, UK
Supplied note:
"You have probably been following the news about the recent violence
in the Mindanao region of the southern Philippines, including the
kidnappings by the Abu Sayyaf group. If you would like to learn more
about the background to this situation and about peace initiatives and
agreements in Mindanao, we invite you to visit the online edition of
our recent publication 'Compromising on Autonomy: Mindanao in
Transition', located at [the URL below]."
Self-description: "Accord: an international review of peace initiatives is published by
Conciliation Resources. Each issue provides accessible analysis and
comparative examples from a specific peace process. Past issues have
concentrated on peace processes in Liberia, Guatemala, Mozambique,
Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Philippines-Mindanao and Georgia-Abkhazia. The
series forms a valuable resource for anyone seeking to transform
armed conflict into a just and lasting peace. The entire text of each
issue is available on our website http://www.c-r.org"
URL http://www.c-r.org/acc_min/index.htm
Link suggested by: Rebecca Abraham, Accord-Distribution (accord@c-r.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study/Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
06 May 2000
New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Sep-Oct 2000
Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Supplied note:
"The 2000 annual meeting of the New England Conference of the
Association for Asian Studies will be hosted by the Department of East
Asian Studies at Brown University on Sat, Sep 30 and Sun, Oct 1. [...]
The deadline for submission of panel, individual paper and roundtable
proposals is Fri, Jun 2, 2000."
URL http://www.brown.edu/Departments/History/neaas/index.html
Link suggested by: Kerry Smith (kerry_smith@brown.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
05 May 2000
Think Centre, Singapore
Think Centre, Singapore
Supplied note:
"This website feature reports on public forums, opinion pieces and
investigative journalism (with pictures) on issues concerning civil
society in Singapore. It also hosts a website on political culture in
the Republic entitled 'Self-Censorship: Singapore's Shame'. It is
useful for monitoring civil and political development in Singapore and
the Southeast Asian region."
URL http://www.thinkcentre.org
Link suggested by: James Gomez (jamesgomez_fns@pacific.net.sg)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
04 May 2000
Australia and East Timor, May 2000
Manning Clark House, and Centre for Australian
Cultural Studies, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia.
Supplied note:
"Manning Clark House in conjunction with the Centre for Australian
Cultural Studies [...] will be holding a seminar 'Australia and Timor'
on 5 May 2000 to be held in the Main Committee Room at Parliament
House [Canberra]. Guest speakers include: Jose Xanana Gusmao,
President of the National Council of Timorese Resistance; The Hon. Tim
Fischer, former Minister for Trade in the Howard Government [...]; The
Hon. Laurie Brereton, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs [and several
other distinguished speakers]."
[The 1-day seminar was attended by 130+ academics, journalists,
politicians, diplomats, and staff of several NGOs. In a world where
universities increasingly often act like business corporations, this
initiative of Mrs Dymphna Clark and the members of her family, aimed
at the creation of a university-like public environment for the expert
thought and informed discussion, is a very refreshing and very
inspiring development - ed.]
URL http://idun.itsc.adfa.edu.au/CACS/Conferences2000/timor.html
Link suggested by: Minako Sakai (m-sakai@adfa.edu.au), forwarded by Greg Young (greg@asia.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
03 May 2000
Study Centre for Indian
Literature in English and in Translation (SCILET)
The American College, Madurai, India
Self-description:
"SCILET is basically a research library. It currently possesses more
than 5500 volumes of literature written by resident and expatriate
Indians in English medium, or translated into English from Indian
languages. SCILET subscribes to more than 70 journals related to
Indian Literature in English."
URL http://www.scilet.org/
Link suggested by: John Oliver Perry (joperry2@aol.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
03 May 2000
East Timor Resources
home14.inet.tele.dk, Denmark
Ten unnannotated links to resources on E. Timor and
Tapol - The Indonesia Human Rights Campaign.
URL http://home14.inet.tele.dk/petergt/indonesia/timor.htm
Link suggested by: Peter Gammeltoft (pgammeltoft@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Interesting
03 May 2000
Radio Canada International
Radio Canada International, Canada
Supplied note:
"Radio Canada International is the Voice of Canada in the World and
broadcast programs in French, English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese,
Russian and Ukrainian on a daily basis on shortwaves, satellites and
Real Audio."
URL http://www.rcinet.ca/pages/index.asp
Link suggested by: Maggy Larouche (maggy_larouche@radio-canada.ca)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
03 May 2000
Daoist Studies
Dept. of Religion, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Self-description:
"[...] a scholarly, non-profit, Internet resource for
Daoist Studies that aims to foster international
scholarly communication about the study of Daoism.
[...] This website aims to publish information
regarding the texts, practices, beliefs and social
history of Daoism as part of this integral (though
complex and diverse) living religious tradition."
URL http://www.daoiststudies.org/
Link suggested by: Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]: Documents/Online
Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Useful
01 May 2000
Heroinisation of Pakistan Economy
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note:
"The latest papers 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 subjects are now available at the Web site of
the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi."
URL http://www.saag.org/notes/note87.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
01 May 2000
Chinese Homestay Program
Chinese Homestay Program, China
Supplied note:
"This unique Chinese language program places students in the homes of
Chinese families in Beijing or Shanghai. It provides structured
language instruction, daily interactions with Chinese family members,
and field trips to historical and cultural sites."
URL http://www.nettaxi.com/citizens/homestay/
Link suggested by: Tina Phillips (tmpst27@pitt.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
01 May 2000
INSUDOK: former SU/CIS Documentation Center
Documentatie- & Informatiecentrum De Stelling, Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
Self-description:
"INSUDOK is an independent information- and documentation center on
the former Soviet-Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
INSUDOK is a non-profit organisation [...] est.in 1989. Our main
interests are new political parties, social movements, human rights,
organized crime, regional conflicts, politics, economy and culture in
all membership-states of the Commonwealth of Independent States
(CIS)."
Site contents: Russian Federation; Republic of Georgia; Ukraine;
Belarus; Central Asia; Armenia; Azerbaijan; Chechnya; INSUDOK
Publications
[A bilingual (NL/EN) site - ed.]
URL http://www.stelling.nl/insudok/
Link suggested by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Interesting
01 May 2000
ECAI-Routes@acl.archaeology.usyd.edu.au mailing list
Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney, Australia
Supplied note:
"This moderated electronic forum was established on 30 Apr 2000 by the
Old World Traditional Trade Routes (OWTRAD) Project. It provides
a world-wide communications vehicle for exchange of scholarly and
factual information on history, geography, anthropology and logistics
of traditional short and long-distance movement, communication and
transportation networks of the world. The mailing list has a special
focus on research and construction of ECAI (www.ecai.org) compliant
geo/chrono-referenced electronic data on the land, river and maritime
trade routes of Eurasia and Africa during the period 10,000 BCE - 1815
CE."
URL http://www.ciolek.com/owtrad.html
Link suggested by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
rating not available
01 May 2000
ChineseMedicine-L@hawaii.edu mailing list
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA
Supplied note:
"ChineseMedicine-L@hawaii.edu is a new subscriber-only e-mail
discussion list. Its purpose is to facilitate the exchange of
scholarly and professional information and to promote collaboration on
the following themes: 1) current practices in Chinese medicine; 2) the
history and sociology of Chinese medicine; 3) conferences, conference
panels and lectures on the practice and history of Chinese medicine;
4) publication opportunities; and 5) funding. [...] As a reference
tool, ChineseMedicine-L is linked to a listproc searchable database
preserving all announcements posted to our list."
URL n/a
Link suggested by: Wenjing Wang (wwang@hawaii.edu), forwarded by Vincent K Pollard (pollard@hawaii.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
rating not available
01 May 2000
Vietnam 25 Years Later: Special Report
Asia Society, New York, USA
Supplied note:
"On April 30, 2000, [falls] the 25th anniversary of the [...]
communist victory throughout [Vietnam], and the unification of North
and South. The Vietnam War, perhaps one of the worst instances of
proxy warfare during the Cold War, ended in an embarrassing defeat for
the United States [...]. This Special Report includes links to
articles and commentaries, special features and other Vietnam-related
websites."
[Over 20 annotated links to sites on the US and S.Vietnam's policies,
conduct, and atrocities during the Vietnam war. No online information is
made available, however, on the N. Vietnam's policies, conduct and
atrocities in the course and in the aftermath of that war. - ed.]
URL http://www.asiasource.org/news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=18414
Link suggested by: Nermeen Shaikh (nermeens@AsiaSoc.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Interesting
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