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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: mid Sep 2000
Vol. 7, No. 122

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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 14
Entries rejected: 4

19 Sep 2000
1star
Australia Asia Internet
Australia Asia Internet, Sydney, Australia
Supplied note: "The Website for the AAI mailing list. It provides coverage of a rather hectic few years of Australia Asia Affairs, starting off with the Hanson years, followed by the Asia crisis, and now problems with Indonesia. The focus was policy, now more general interest and business."
URL http://www.AustraliaAsiaInternet.com
Link suggested by: Christopher Kennedy (Christopher@AustraliaAsiaInternet.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

17 Sep 2000
3star
Social Change
redrival.net, USA
Supplied note: "List of links to study long term large scale changes in political, economic and social systems. This site has links to useful data, history and research about change. Many of the data, history and research links are about Asia or can be useful to the study of changes in Asia."
URL http://redrival.net/evaluation/socialchange
Link suggested by: Gene Shackman (evaluation@redrival.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

13 Sep 2000
3star
1900: The Boxers, China, and the World - Jun 2001
Dept of Historical Studies, University of Bristol, UK
Supplied note: "Conference Announcement: 1900: The Boxers, China, and the World. Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, London 22-24 June 2001. The centenary of the Boxer events of 1900 provides an opportunity for a comprehensive re-examination of an episode that was a crucial turning point in modern Chinese history, and in the history of Sino-foreign relations."
[Deadlines: abstracts 1 Dec 2000, papers 1 May 2001 - ed.]
URL http://mail.bris.ac.uk/~hirab/1900.html
Link suggested by: Robert Bickers (robert.bickers@bristol.ac.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

13 Sep 2000
3star
Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (WCAAS), USA
Self-description: "WCAAS [...] is the western regional affiliate of the Association for Asian Studies [www.aasianst.org - ed.]. Established in 1963, it is a dynamic scholarly organization with a worldwide membership. Its annual conferences, which draw hundreds of participants from Europe, Asia, and the Americas, are held in cities in the western United States, Mexico, and western Canada, and constitute the largest gathering of Asianists in the region."
Site contents: Latest News; Welcome to WCAAS; President's Message; Join WCAAS; WCAAS Bylaws; WCAAS Journal; Member Information; Annual Conference; WCAAS History.
URL http://www.business.utah.edu/WCAAS/
Link suggested by: Marilyn Levine (mlevine@lcsc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

12 Sep 2000
3star
National Council on Orientalist Library Resources (NCOLR)
National Council on Orientalist Library Resources, UK
Self-description: "The Council was established in December 1991 as the direct successor to the U.K. Standing Conference of National and University Libraries Advisory Committee on Orientalist Materials (SCONUL ACOOM). Its objects are to provide a general forum for discussion of matters of concern to librarians, archivists and scholars involved in the collection of library resources for Asian and Hebraic studies [...]."
URL http://www.edlis.org/ncolr/
Link suggested by: R.C. Jamieson (rcj10@cam.ac.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

12 Sep 2000
4star
TransCaucasus: A Chronology
Armenian National Committee of America, Washington, DC, USA
Self-description: "'The TransCaucasus: A Chronology' is a chronological summary of the significant social, economic, and political events in the lower Caucasus, as reported by local and international media and selected sources in the region. [...] Compiled and written by Richard Giragosian (giragosi@email.msn.com). Edited and designed by Christopher Hekimian ISSN 1078-3113."
[Sep 2000 witnessed publication of the Vol IX, No 9 the magazine - ed.]
URL http://www.soros.org/caucasus/
Link suggested by: Richard Giragosian (giragosi@email.msn.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

12 Sep 2000
3star
New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Sep 2000
Department of History, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Supplied note: "The Conference Program for the 2000 annual meeting of the New England Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, hosted by the Department of East Asian Studies at Brown University on Saturday, Sep 30 and Sunday, Oct 1, is now available online."
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

11 Sep 2000
3star
Pan Asia Networking Program (PAN)
International Development Research Centre, Singapore
Supplied note: "An ICT program of the International Development Research Centre in Asia Pacific. PAN assists Asian development organisations build capacity in information and communication technologies through funding projects in Internet connectivity, networking solutions,ecommerce and distance education projects."
URL http://www.panasia.org.sg
Link suggested by: Vivien Chiam (vchiam@idrc.org.sg)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 Sep 2000
999star
'Tabloid Bangkit'- political tabloid from Indonesia
Tabloid Bangkit, Indonesia
Supplied note: 'Political Tabloid from Indonesia."
[A monolingual (ID) site - ed.]
URL http://www.bangkit-tabloid.com
Link suggested by: Tabloid Bangkit (tabloid_bangkit@yahoo.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

11 Sep 2000
4star
The Vietnam Conflict
De Anza College, Cupertino, California, USA
Supplied note: "An academic information portal for education and research. The Web site contains many written materials contributed by Vietnam Veterans."
Site contents: African Americans; Agent Orange; Allies (U.S.); Amnesty; Books; C.I.A.; Coming Home; Essays; Films; Glossary; History; Interviews; Major Vietnam Conflict Web Sites; Maps; Media; Memorials; M.I.A.; Native Americans; North Vietnamese Army (NVA); Poems; P.O.W.s; Presidents & Wanna-bes; Protestors; PTSD; School Web Sites; South Vietnamese Army (ARVN); Soviets In Vietnam; Special Forces; Statistics; Timelines & Dates; Tunnels; Widows/Widowers; Women; Veterans Web Pages; The DeCillis Collection; Introduction to Tour 365; Book List By Topics; Video Collection List;
URL http://saturn.fhda.edu/instructor/swensson/ewrt2vn.html
Link suggested by: Pamela Sharp (cpgssc@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

11 Sep 2000
4star
PL480 Microfiche Edition of Tibetan Literature
The Toyo Bunko, Tokyo, Japan
Supplied note: "We are glad to announce that we open the online search page of PL480 Microfiche Edition of Tibetan Literature preserved in United States Library of Congress. The data is based on the database in progress at the Toyo Bunko. Please visit the online search page of PL480 Microfiche Tibetan Literature.
In English [at the URL below] In Japanese -- http://www.toyo-bunko.or.jp/Tibetan/PL480Query.html
If you have found any mistake, I will very much appreciate hearing it from you."
Self-description: "Since its inception [in 1917 - ed.], the Toyo Bunko has greatly contributed to the development of Oriental Studies both at home and abroad through the acquisition of books and other source materials, the publication of research by Japanese scholars, the dissemination of knowledge about Oriental Studies and international exchange. [...] With the setting up of the Centre for East Asian Cultural Studies for Unesco as an affiliated organisation in 1961, at the request of Unesco, the Toyo Bunko, in co-operation with other Asian countries, has come to participate in the task of introducing Asian cultures to the world."
URL http://www.toyo-bunko.or.jp/Tibetan/PL480QueryE.html
Link suggested by: Yoichi Fukuda (yfukuda@toyo-bunko.or.jp) forwarded by Philippe Lepleux (phil.lepleux@wanadoo.fr)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

11 Sep 2000
2star
'Spiritual Traditions of China' Internet Resources Site
San Francisco State University, USA
Supplied note: "This website has been developed primarily for the use of students in Dr Ron Epstein's class at San Francisco State University entitled 'Spiritual Traditions of China.' In addition to links to important Internet resources on the subject,it contains some translations that are not readily available elsewhere."
[A collection of unannotated links, and a small local collection of incompletely referenced translations from Chinese religious documents - ed.]
URL http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Phil%20510CPR.htm
Link suggested by: Dr Ron Epstein (namofo@jps.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

11 Sep 2000
3star
Resources for the Study of Buddhism
San Francisco State University, USA
Supplied note: "This website contains information that should be of particular use and interest both to university students and to Buddhist practitioners, including 1) a selection of links to Buddhist resources, 2) Buddhist materials that are not easily acessible elsewhere."
URL http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/Buddhism.htm
Link suggested by: Dr Ron Epstein (namofo@jps.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 Sep 2000
3star
KUNCI Cultural Studies Center
KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Supplied note: "Indonesian cultural studies: links, articles, working papers etc."
Self-description: "KUNCI Cultural Studies Center bersifat non-profit dan independen, bekerja untuk mempopulerkan cultural studies di Indonesia dan menawarkan pendekatan-pendekatan cultural studies (sebagai bidang interdisipliner/pascadisipliner) dalam studi sosial dan kebudayaan di Indonesia. Program yang sekarang sedang dijalankan adalah menerbitkan newsletter KUNCI (cetak dan online) dan membangun jaringan peminat cultural studies di Indonesia. Editor Newsletter KUNCI adalah Nuraini Juliastuti dan editor edisi online adalah Antariksa."
[A monolingual (ID) site - ed.]
URL http://kunci.org
Link suggested by: Antariksa (antariksa@kunci.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

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