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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: mid Aug 2000
Vol. 7, No. 119
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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 19
Entries rejected: 5
18 Aug 2000
Foreign Policy in Focus: Asia/Pacific
Interhemispheric Resource Center and the Institute for Policy Studies, Silver City, NM, USA
Self-description: "The Foreign Policy in Focus project--through its inclusive structure,
multimedia character, comprehensive scope, and commitment to
rethinking the operative principles of U.S. foreign policy [...]. The
project's [electronic] network of advocates, activists, and scholars serves as a
think tank without walls [...]."
Site contents:
Info; In Focus; Global Affairs Agenda; Progressive Response; Special
Reports; Media Center; Join FPIF; Search.
In Focus Asia/Pacific briefs published in 2000 are: Overcoming the
Legacy of the Vietnam War (Aug 2000); Okinawa and the U.S. Military in
Northeast Asia (Jul 2000); A New Era for the Korean Peninsula (Jul
2000); U.S.-China-Taiwan Military Relations (Apr 2000); Reassessing
Tibet Policy (Apr 2000); U.S. Security Challenges & Issues in
South Asia (Mar 2000).
Asia/Pacific Special Reports include: Don't Strengthen the WTO by
Admitting China; How to Debate the China Issue Without China Bashing;
Using China as a Proxy: Risks and Errors; Nationalist Ideologies and
Misperceptions in India-US Relations.
Link suggested by: Interhemispheric Resource Center (ircalb@swcp.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
18 Aug 2000
CORMOSEA - Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia mailing list
Ohio University Libraries, Athens, OH, USA
Supplied note:
"CORMOSEA - Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia
mailing list (cormosea@ohio.edu)
To join the list, (a) send a message to:
listserv@ohio.edu (b) body of the message: subscribe cormosea your-name
Past exchanges are available from August 2000 from:
listserv@ohio.edu using a message of: send cormosea archive.txt"
Link suggested by: Kent Mulliner (mulliner@ohio.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
17 Aug 2000
Caucasus: Ethnic
Relations, Human Rights, Geopolitics - Oct 2000
IACERHRG, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia
Supplied note:
"On Oct 28-29, 2000, [our organization] in Tbilisi will hold the 2nd
Annual Conference of the International Association 'CAUCASUS: Ethnic
Relations, Human Rights, Geopolitics' (IACERHRG). The main theme of
the Conference will be: "The International Criminal Court (ICC) and
the Caucasus". [...] Deadline for abstracts [and registration] Oct 1,
2000."
URL http://members.theglobe.com/levur/iacerhrg
Link suggested by: Dr Levan Urushadze (iacerhrg98@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
17 Aug 2000
Voyages of Discovery and Exploration: a guide
www.win.tue.nl, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Self-description:
"In this project I try to gather all kinds of information [sites on
voyages of discovery, lists of explorers, primary and secondary
sources, biographies and travelogs - ed.] found on the web about
voyages of discovery and exploration."
Site contents: General information; The Romans and before (3000 BC-500
AD); The Middle Ages (800-1400); The Age of Discovery (1400-1520); The
East Indies; North and Central America; South America; Asia; Africa;
The Pacific & Australia; The Polar regions; Non-western explorers.
[The site also provides information on the specialist email list
discovery@win.tue.nl - ed.]
URL http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/
Link suggested by: Andre Engels (engels@win.tue.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
16 Aug 2000
On Fujian Rebellion
litten.de, Germany
Supplied note:
"An article ('The CCP and the Fujian
Rebellion') and a research note ('Did Chiang
Kai-shek Trigger the Fujian Rebellion?')
concerning aspects of the Fujian Rebellion,
a.k.a. Fujian Incident (1933/34), are provided
as fulltext. Both have previously been
published in scholarly journals (1988, 1996)."
[Dr Litten's site also provides a full list of
his research publications on Chinese history - ed.]
URL http://litten.de/volltext.htm
Link suggested by: F. S. Litten (f@litten.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
16 Aug 2000
EurasiaNet
Central Eurasia Project, Open Society Institute, New York, USA
Self-description: "EurasiaNet provides information and analysis about
political, economic, environmental and social developments in the
countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the
Middle East, and Southwest Asia. The web site also offers additional
features, including newsmaker interviews, book reviews and a
discussion forum. [...] The aim of EurasiaNet is to promote informed
decision making among policy makers, as well as broadening interest in
the region among the general public."
URL http://www.eurasianet.org/
Link suggested by: The Scout Report (scout-report@hypatia.cs.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
16 Aug 2000
Asian Library, University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia, Canada
Supplied note:
"Since its inception in 1960 when the library started with the
acquisition of the Pu-pan collection, it has now become the biggest
research collection of Asian language materials in Canada. In 2000, its
holdings in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, South Asian and Indonesian
exceeds 500,000 volumes. While the collection is comprehensive in its
range of subjects, it is especially strong in the humanities and
social sciences. Our special materials include the valuable Pu-pan
collection, Swann collection, research materials on Pearl Delta Area
and a collection of photographs on Chinese illegal immigrants."
URL http://www.library.ubc.ca/asian/
Link suggested by: Eleanor Yuen (elyuen@interchange.ubc.ca)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
15 Aug 2000
Gen. Pervez Musharraf & the Islamic Parties
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 of the
South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below].
It is a slightly revised version
of an earlier paper titled 'An Army Within the Army?' with a collated
database."
[The writer. Mr. B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet
Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute for
Topical Studies, Chennai. - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/notes2/note105.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]:
V.Useful
14 Aug 2000
Asia Pacific Press
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description:
"A specialist publisher based at the Australian National University in
the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management. Asia Pacific
Press publishes on economics, development, governance and management,
particularly on the Asia Pacific Region. Asia Pacific Press also
publishes with organisations and publishers in the region."
Supplied note: "This site has a searchable database, and people can
look up other works which may have been published as working papers."
URL http://www.asiapacificpress.com
Link suggested by: Debra Grogan (debra.grogan@anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]: Corporate Info
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Useful
13 Aug 2000
The Pakistani Economy: National Security vs. Human Security
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 of the
South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below]."
[The writer. Mr. B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet
Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute for
Topical Studies, Chennai. - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers2/paper135.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]:
V.Useful
12 Aug 2000
The Nanking Atrocities (Online Documentary)
University of Missouri-Columbia, USA
Supplied note:
"[C]omprehensive accounts of the Nanking Atrocities that took place
1937-38 Nanking, China during the early stage of the Second
Sino-Japanese War. It includes interviews with leading historians in
this field as well as historical photographs and a number of other
documented materials such as newspaper articles, diaries of former
Japanese soldiers and American missionaries who were in Nanking when
the incident took place, and the judgment of the Tokyo War Crimes
Trial."
Site contents:
Introduction: I.From Marco Polo Bridge to Nanking, II.Focal Points of
the Nanking Atrocities Today, III.(Video) China Invaded;
The Fall of Nanking: I.What Foreign Journalists Witnessed
II.(Reference) The New York Times Articles III.(Video) The Battle of
China;
The Reign of Terror: I.What Japanese Journalists Witnessed, II.The
Safety Zone and American Missionaries, III.(Reference) What Westerners
Witnessed, IV.(Video) China Invaded
Confessions of Former Soldiers: I.Killing Prisoners of War, II.The
Yamada Detachment, III.Rape and Pillage , IV.(Video) The Battle of
China;
Psychological Warfare: I.Chinese Propaganda, II.Japanese Propaganda,
III.(Video) Nanking
The Postwar Judgment: I.International Military Tribunal for the Far
East, II.Nanking War Crimes Tribunal, III.(Reference) The Judgment of
the IMTFE, IV.(Photo Gallery) The Tokyo Trial;
The Nanking Atrocities in the 1990s: I.The Death Toll - Early
Estimates, II.The Death Toll - Current Estimates, III.The Controversy
in Japan, IV.(Photo Gallery) Nanking City;
Works Cited: Selected bibliography of books, journals, newspapers, and
films / List of interviewees / Other references / Military Postcards.
[An August 2000 thesis, by Masato Kajimoto, submitted in
partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of
Journalism in the Graduate School of Journalism of the University of
Missouri-Columbia - ed.]
URL http://web.missouri.edu/~jschool/nanking
Link suggested by: Masato Kajimoto (mka8a@mizzou.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
11 Aug 2000
Web links for teachers and students of Japanese
Saboten Web Design, USA
Supplied note:
Keiko Schneider's Bookmarks' "is a site for teachers and students of
Japanese. It has links to language learning resources, teacher
resources, bookstores, newspapers and meass media, culture links,
relevant organizations, study abroad programs, computing in Japanese
to name just a few."
URL http://www.sabotenweb.com/bookmarks/
Link suggested by: Keiko Schneider (kschnei@sabotenweb.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
11 Aug 2000
China and the
United States. From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998
National Security Archive, The George
Washington University, Washington DC, USA
Self-description:
"[C]ritical documentation on key aspects of the U.S.-Chinese
relationship, with a focus on the years 1969 to the present. Through
Freedom of Information Act requests, collection of relevant
publications, and archival research, the Archive has amassed a
collection of more than 15,000 pages of previously classified
documentation on U.S.-China interaction on foreign policy issues, the
U.S.-PRC military relationship, the growing economic relationship
between the two countries, as well as documents related to the several
issues that divide the countries to this day."
URL http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB19/
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]: Essential
11 Aug 2000
Thai and Local Culture Study Program
ECEP-CMU, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Self-description:
"A one month integrated study program of Thai and local culture
offered by Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs, Chiang Mai
University, Thailand."
URL http://www.chiangmaihandicrafts.com/thaiculture
Link suggested by: Chris Belt (chrisbelt@cmnet.co.th)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Useful
10 Aug 2000
Asian Film
Connection: China
Asia Pacific Media Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Information about Chinese films and directors since 1988.
[A sub-section of the Asian Film Connections
(www.asianfilms.org/netpac/) with information on the cinemas of China,
India, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan - ed.]
URL http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/asianfilm/china/
Link suggested by: Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Essential
10 Aug 2000
Asian Film
Connection: Taiwan
Asia Pacific Media Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Information about Taiwanese films and directors since 1988.
[A sub-section of the Asian Film Connections
(www.asianfilms.org/netpac/) with information on the cinemas of China,
India, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan - ed.]
URL http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/asianfilm/taiwan/
Link suggested by: Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Essential
10 Aug 2000
Subject Resources for Asian Studies (non-Asian languages)
University of British Columbia, Canada
Supplied note:
"Asian studies reference resources held at the University, including
books, journals, article indexes (some are on-line and/or full-text),
electronic journals, links to other institutions. [...] Covers a
whole range of subject fields including gender issues [and asian
statistics]."
URL http://toby.library.ubc.ca/subjects/subjpage1.cfm?id=154
Link suggested by: Tomoko Goto (therms@interchange.ubc.ca)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
10 Aug 2000
Buddhism: translations and photographs
www.narod.ru, Russia
Supplied note:
"Russian translations [by M.Elinski] on Buddhism from English. Photos
from Eastern India. There is only Russian version of the site."
[A site in Russian. It offers an interesting collection of annotated
photographs, and links to other Russian resources dealing with
Buddhism - ed.]
URL http://elinski.narod.ru
Link suggested by: Mikhail Elinski (melinski@mail.ru)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
10 Aug 2000
Kyrgyz Heroes - Songs of Sanzhyra and Tales of Batyrlar
webdocumentary.net, Netherlands
Supplied note:
"Anthropological study of genres in Kyrgyz oral
histories/traditions: Sanzhyra (the history
of lineages), the epos Manas, toi/ash
(commemorative events), and biography.
Online Master thesis - originally published on
cd-rom, 1999 - University of Amsterdam, the
Netherlands. Author: Thomas Voorter.
Fieldwork data: Osh, Fergana Valley
(Kyrgyzstan/Uzbekistan); June-December 1996.
Keywords: social and historical anthropology,
Kyrgyzstan, Central-Asia, genres, oral history,
memory and power, interactive storytellers,
games, ethnicity.
Chapters included: 1) Introduction; 2) The Genealogy
of Kyrgyz Identities; 3) Sanzhyra Bagysh; 4) Manas,
the Kyrgyz Hero-Song; 5) 20th Century Batyr;
6) Sanzhyra Manas; 7) The Memorial Feast for
Tsheibyl-Bolosh; 8) Conclusion."
URL http://www.webdocumentary.net
Link suggested by: Thomas Voorter (t.voorter@cable.a2000.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
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