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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: Jun 2000
Vol. 7, No. 116
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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 22
Entries rejected: 3
16 Jun 2000
Dear Asian Studies WWW Monitor Readers,
Between today and 20 July 2000 I will be overseas, attending a
conference and doing some research. Therefore none of your kind
contributions to this Journal provided via http://coombs.anu.edu.au/regasia.html
will be processed during that time. However, please do not feel
discouraged. Do not hesitate to submit details of your new/improved
online resources. I will attend to the supplied information within the
first hours of my return to Canberra.
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The Editor.
T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
15 Jun 2000
Proceedings: Roadblocks on Information Highway in Japanese Education e IT Revolution
National Institute of Multimedia Education, Chiba, Japan
Supplied note:
"Proceedings from a conference focusing on 'roadblocks' created by the
social fabric of Japanese education institutions in implementing ICT
['information and communication technology' - ed.].
The volume focuses on three interrelated sets of problems [...]: (1)
resistance of Japanese institutions (whether in business or education)
to change, especially at leadership levels, including the Ministry of
Education, (2) lack of skilled technical personnel to support ICT due
to employment, training, and rotation practices developed in business
which carry over into education; and (3) lack of focus on teaching of
practical knowledge, due to the examination-oriented focus of Japanese
education and a strong tendency to use the new technologies as
substitutes for pedagogies. Site contains papers, powerpoint slides,
video streaming segments; bilingual in English/Japanese."
URL http://www.nime.ac.jp/conf99/
Link suggested by: Jane Bachnik (Prof. at NIME) (jbach@nime.ac.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
14 Jun 2000
Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, U. of Nottingham, UK
Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, University of Nottingham, UK
Supplied note:
"IAPS is a major focus of international studies at Nottingham, UK, and
aims to promote large-scale co-operation in areas such as research,
postgraduate teaching, international conferences and resource
development."
URL http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/iaps
Link suggested by: Dr Ming-Yeh Rawnsley (Ming-Yeh.Rawnsley@nottingham.ac.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
13 Jun 2000
Chinese Cinema
East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California, USA
Supplied note:
"I have recently redesigned and updated my old Webpage on Chinese
cinema. The new address for the revised site is [at the URL below]
Any suggestions, please e-mail me."
Self-description: "This site is devoted to the studies and appreciation of Chinese
cinema. Besides history, news, and visual materials about Chinese
cinema, it also contains a bibliography of selected publications in
English on Chinese cinema so as to further advance the studies of the
subject. While the list of books tends to be as complete as possible,
articles on Chinese cinema are selected to represent the following
four topics: general, pre-1949 Chinese cinema, the Fifth Generation
filmmakers, and Chinese 'urban cinema,' which are the ones the
Webauthor is currently working on. The term 'Chinese Cinema' used here
only refers to films and the film industries of mainland China and
Hong Kong. Because of historical and political differences, Taiwan
cinema is not included."
Site contents: Introduction, News; History; Books; Articles; Filmmakers; Actors; Actresses;
WebAuthor; Links
[A cooperative site under construction - ed.]
URL http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~shaoyis/
Link suggested by: Dr Shaoyi Sun (shaoyis@rcf.usc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
13 Jun 2000
Global University System Asia-Pacific Framework
Kagawa Junior College, Japan
Supplied note:
"The Global University System led by telecommunications pioneer Dr.
Takeshi Utsumi is at the workshop stage in various regions of the
world. It aims for broadband Internet access to telelearning and
telemedicine especially in developing countries. This Website is
[bi-lingual, JP/EN] and links to worldwide initiatives [In US and
Europe], while focusing on Global University plans at universities
such as in Pakistan, the Philippines and Fiji. Further long-term
collaboration is invited from Asia-Pacific institutions."
[Details of an imaginative and fascinating distributed collaborative project - ed.]
URL http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/asia-pacific/
Link suggested by: Steve McCarty (steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
12 Jun 2000
Islamic Medical Manuscripts
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA
Self-description:
"[A] brief introduction to the history of Islamic medicine and and its
role in European history [...], entries for individual manuscripts and
their illustrations [...] biographies of important Islamic
physicians, surgeons, and scholars, as well as suggestions for further
research, [a glossary of] the meaning of historical terms relating to
medieval medicine and book making [...] complete bibliographical
information about books and articles referred to in the entries."
URL http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/arabic/arabichome.html
Link suggested by: The Scout Report (scout-report@hypatia.cs.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide/Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
12 Jun 2000
Southeast Asian Studies Programme
University of Bielefeld, Germany
Supplied note:
"Research projects in the fields of Southeast Asian Studies, doctoral
theses (67 up to June 2000), list of working papers and list of
publications of staff members of the Sociology of Development Research
Centre - Southeast Asia Programme-, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
Chairman: Prof. Hans-Dieter Evers, Professor of Development Studies."
[An elegant, fast and informative site - ed.]
URL http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/sdrc
Link suggested by: Prof. Hans-Dieter Evers (hdevers@uni-bielefeld.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
11 Jun 2000
Comparative Study of
Hydroelectric Projects in India and Canada
Roy's Home Page at hotbot.com, US
Supplied note:
"Study of human and environmental impact of hydroelectric projects in
India and Canada with special reference to Idukki project in Kerala
and similar projects in Canada. Appendices on Intergrated Resource
Planning, the Great Whale Project, Papers on dam safety (with
reference to Mullapperiyar, Idukki, Kerala, India) etc."
[A slow-loading site - ed.]
URL http://pages.hotbot.com/photo/roymathew/canada.html
Link suggested by: Roy Mathew (roymathew@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
11 Jun 2000
Anima: Japanese Mobile News Community
Andrea Hoffmann , Japan
Supplied note:
Anima: Japanese Mobile News Community is
a daily updated English speaking community
site for everybody who is interested in
Japanese mobile phones (and other wireless
devices).
URL http://anima.editthispage.com/
Link suggested by: Andrea Hoffmann (ah@anima.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Interesting
10 Jun 2000
Sino-Pak Nuclear Co-operation
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 Web site [at the URL below]"
[The author of the analysis, B. Raman, is Additional Secretary
(retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director,
Institute For Topical Studies - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/notes2/note101.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
10 Jun 2000
Prime Minister Rao's Dilemma: Terrorism and Human Rights in India
Teaching Human Rights Online, University of Cincinnati, USA
Supplied note:
"'Prime Minister Rao's Dilemma: Terrorism and Human Rights in India'
is an interactive website which presents P. V. Narasimha Rao's 1995
dilemma involving terrorism in the Indian states of Punjab and
Kashmir. Competing demands for justice and security pose moral, legal,
and political dilemmas that demand informed leadership. A.Should
Indian security laws be revised to comply with international human
rights standards or would submission to the U.N. compromise national
sovereignty? B.Should the government prosecute security officials for
gross human rights violations or grant amnesty to those who risked
their lives defending national unity? C.Should the government allow
more international monitors to visit Kashmir and Punjab or exclude
organizations that criticized tough security measures?
A second problem 'Women's Rights and Community Rights in India: The Shah Bano Case' will
be added by August 2000 to THRO: Teaching Human Rights Online (oz.uc.edu/thro)
URL http://oz.uc.edu/thro/dilemma/index.html
Link suggested by: Howard Tolley (Howard.Tolley@uc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
10 Jun 2000
Networked information flows in East Asia
Asia Pacific Research Online, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note:
"'Networked information flows in East Asia:
a pilot study on research uses of the Altavista search engine.'
Electronic information residing on web servers is neither uniformly
distributed across the countries of the world, nor is it uniformily
linked to. This methodological note uncovers a series of clear-cut
patterns of geographic preference/avoidance amongst the hypertext
connections in web resources located in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea
and Taiwan. It also shows how the Altavista search engine can be
productively used to reveal hitherto hidden patterns in networked
information flows."
URL http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/easian-info-flows.html
Link suggested by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
09 Jun 2000
Chinese Law Net Home Page
University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, WA, USA
Supplied note:
"Home page of the Chinese Law Net [CLNet@u.washington.edu], an
Internet discussion group devoted to issues of Chinese law (primarily
PRC law). Contains information on subscribing, link to archives, and
other information and links of interest to members."
URL http://www.law.washington.edu/clnet
Link suggested by: Donald Clarke (dclarke@u.washington.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
09 Jun 2000
Lives Across Cultures: Cross-Cultural Human Development
Allyn & Bacon, USA
Supplied note:
"This easy to read book brings a cross-cultural dimension to the study
of human development across the lifespan. It focuses on major
developmental topics and provides a global and multicultural
perspective by introducing the reader to contemporary and classical
research. Topics include: cultural aspects of socialization,
cognition, self and personality, sex and gender, social behavior,
family, and health. Strong emphasis on Asian cultures."
[A book promotion site - ed.]
URL http://vig.abacon.com/catalog/abbooks/0,2371,0205191827,00.html
Link suggested by: Dr. Harry W. Gardiner (gardiner@vax2.winona.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
08 Jun 2000
Asia EdNet
Curriculum Corporation, Australia
Supplied note:
"Update May 2000. Asia EdNet (formerly known as Asia Online), is an
Australian government-funded project which provides online services
and professional development to teachers who are including studies of
Asia across the curriculum in schools. Services include a discussion
group, a noticeboard of events, an online directory of Internet
resources and an extensive online professional development tutorial on
using the Internet to support the studies of Asia in schools. To
subscribe to the discussion group, use the online form available at:
http://www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/network/online/join.htm The
self-paced online tutorial has been completely updated and
substantially re-organised. It is available at:
http://www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/network/tutorial/ "
URL http://www.curriculum.edu.au/accessasia/network/
Link suggested by: Lan Wang (lan@curriculum.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info./Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
08 Jun 2000
Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP)
Carleton University, CA
Supplied note:
"The CIFP project, initiated by the Department of Foreign Affairs and
International Trade and Norman Paterson School of International
Affairs, represents an on-going effort to identify and assemble
statistical information conveying the key features of the economic,
political, social and cultural environments of countries around the
world. The CIFP database can be queried in four ways: By Region - View
regional snapshots, compare regions on key indicators, obtain
time-series for regional data, and more; By Issue Area - View top 10
and bottom 10 lists for key indicators; By Regional and Global
Organization - Collect data grouped by dozens of inter-governmental
organizations; Through the Quick Query page - Advanced users can
choose the data they need using drop-down list boxes. To learn about
these features, visit the Getting Started section. To get a user name
and password, visit the Register section."
[Access via a password - ed.]
URL http://www.carleton.ca/cifp
Link suggested by: David Carment (dcarment@ccs.carleton.ca)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
rating not available
07 Jun 2000
Publishers
and Bookstores in Middle East Studies
Columbia University, USA
Supplied note:
The most comprehensive listing of Publishers and bookstores dealing with the Middle East to be found. If you are looking for information on a particular company, this is the best source. It lists only companies with Web Pages, most of which have online catalogs and books can be ordered directly. It has been greatly expanded over the last year and is frequently updated.
URL http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/MiddleEast/Pubs.html
Link suggested by: Frank H. Unlnadherm (unlandhe@columbia.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
07 Jun 2000
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center
The Ohio State University, USA
Supplied note:
Associated with the journal Modern Chinese
Literature and Culture and the MCLC LIST
(an email discussion list),
the MCLC Resource Center is the most
comprehensive bibliographic site devoted to
the culture of twentieth-century China.
The Resource Center contains:
(1) lists of translations of modern Chinese
literature; (2) bibliographies of literary
studies, media studies, visual arts, education,
and music; (3) lists of important journals in
the field (with links to their websites); (4)
announcements, lists of relevant associations
and institutions; (5) an image archive; (6) links
to Chinese e-text; (7) relevant internet resources;
(8) links to websites of university course;
and (9) information on how to join the MCLC LIST.
URL http://deall.ohio-state.edu/denton.2/biblio.htm
Link suggested by: Kirk A. Denton (denton.2@osu.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online guide/Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
07 Jun 2000
Geopium : Geography and Opium
Geopium, France
Supplied note:
"A site dedicated to academic research (geographic) on the geopolitics
of opium in Asia and especially in the Golden Triangle and the Golden
Crescent. The drug trade reveals itself as a consequence of, as well
as a cause to the problem of territory and identity, which relates to
the traffic upgrowth, as both Burma and Afghanistan demonstrate in
their trends of production."
[A nasty (because overdesigned!) interface makes access to the information
slow and hard - ed.]
URL http://www.geocities.com/pachouvy/
Link suggested by: Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy (pachouvy@yahoo.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
rating not available
07 Jun 2000
Opera Japonica
private, Japan
Supplied note:
"Comprehensive site devoted to opera in Japan:
contains performance calendar, reviews, interviews,
performance histories and international reports.
Currently all in English though some of the pages
will shortly be in Japanese."
[The site loads fast and is searchable - ed.]
URL http://www.Operajaponica.org
Link suggested by: Simon Holledge (Simon.Holledge@typhoon.co.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
07 Jun 2000
The Ricksha Arts of Bangladesh
Private, USA
Supplied note:
"Images, texts and song on website devoted to celebrating the popular
arts of the three wheel cycle ricksha in Bangladesh. Based on more
than twenty intermittent years of research, writing, photography and
interviews by a cultural anthropologist and specialist on south Asia
studies. The site is updated frequently with the addition of more
images and information."
URL http://netnow.micron.net/~ricksha
Link suggested by: Joanna Kirkpatrick (jkirk@micron.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study/Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
07 Jun 2000
Antique Chinese Porcelain Collector's Page
N/A, Sweden
Supplied note:
"A free information page aimed at giving students and collectors of
Antique Chinese Pottery and Porcelain access to historical, technical
and artistic information, as well being a platform for exchange of
ideas, research, facts and information about scientific research being
done. Area of interest: Asian art, East-West history, trade and
cultural exchange. The page is privately run. No fees are charged.
Updated weekly. For the moment 290+ pages."
[A treasure-trove of well organized information - ed.]
URL http://www.gotheborg.com/
Link suggested by: Jan-Erik Nilsson (je.nilsson@gotheborg.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
07 Jun 2000
Conflict and Displacement in Karenni, Burma
Burma Ethnic Research Group (BERG), Bangkok,Thailand
Self-description:
"'Conflict and Displacement in Karenni: The Need for Considered
Responses.' This report was written to follow the earlier report of
the Burma Ethnic Research Group, Forgotten Victims of a Hidden War:
Internally Displaced Karen in Burma, BERG/ Friedrich Naumann
Foundation, April 1998. It seeks to raise the level of awareness in
the international community concerning the context of internal
displacement of populations in Burma focussing in this instance on
Karenni."
[A May 2000 report by Vicky Bamforth, Steven Lanjouw, and Graham
Mortimer is available online in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format, and its
summary in HTML format - ed.]
URL http://www.burmaresearch.org/index.htm
Link suggested by: Vicky Bamforth (burmaresearch@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
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