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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Nov 2000
Vol. 7, No. 129

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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 11
Entries rejected: 7

28 Nov 2000
4star
Xinjiang, China's Restive Northwest
Human Rights Watch, New York, NY, USA
Supplied note: "Increasing separatist activity over the last five years in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in China's northwest is fueling ongoing repression in the region, with Chinese authorities carrying out large scale arrests, trials, and executions. The region is home to eight million Uighurs, who have much closer religious, ethnic, and cultural ties with their independent neighbors than with the rest of China and who see in the new republics a model for their own independence."
Site contents: Press Backgrounder; Roots of a Nationalist Movement; China's Strategy for Curbing Separatism: Document No. 7; The 'Strike Hard' Campaign in Xinjiang; Related 1999 Material.
URL http://www.hrw.org/press/2000/11/xinjiang1113-bck.htm
Link suggested by: Web Admin (webadmin@hrw.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

28 Nov 2000
4star
China Statistical Information Network
National Bureau of Statistics, Beijing, China
Supplied note: "The Chinese government's statistical yearbook. I think many scholars will find it useful."
Site contents: Communique; Yearbook; Indicators; Database [under construction]; Statistics Law; Census; About NBS; Reports; Monthly Data for 2000; Data View (1% Sampling Data of First Agricultural Census in China); Chinese Version.
[A site in English - ed.]
URL http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/index.html
Link suggested by: David Cowhig (dcowhig@public3.bta.net.cn)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

28 Nov 2000
4star
Support for Decentralisation Measures (SfDM), Indonesia
Gesellschaft fuer Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ, German Technical Cooperation), Jakarta, Indonesia
Supplied note: "The website of the GTZ-supported SfDM project [1992-2002 - ed.] provides information on the decentralisation policy of the Indonesian Government. It contains the relevant laws and regulations (both in English language and Bahasa Indonesia), and numerous reports dealing with capacity building issues. Its content is still being expanded."
URL http://www.gtzsfdm.or.id
Link suggested by: Rainer Rohdewohld (rainer.rohdewohld@ciptanet.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

28 Nov 2000
3star
International Islamism
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, 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."
URL http://www.saag.org/papers2/paper163.htm
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

27 Nov 2000
5star
Mao Tse-tung (Zedong) Internet Library
David Romagnolo, Watsonville, CA, USA
Site contents: "Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung Vol. I (1926-37); Vol. II (1937-41); Vol. III (1941-45); Vol. IV (1945-48); Vol. V (1949-57); Other texts (1958-66) by Mao Tse-tung, incl 'Quotations from Chairman Mao'; Search engine."
[A rich and exemplary collection of e-texts. A subsection of a larger site populated with works by Marx and Engels, Lenin, and Stalin (albeit - regrettably - not with works by Pol Pot, Menghistu, the Caucescus, Goebbels, Mussolini, Papa Doc, Idi Amin and other seminal philosophers of the 20th c. state and society) - ed.]
URL http://www.marx2mao.org/Mao/Index.html
Link suggested by: Geoff Wade (gwade@hkucc.hku.hk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

27 Nov 2000
1star
Mongolia: people and places
lawebcamisole.free.fr, France
Supplied note: "Some pictures of our trip to Mongolia, summer 1999: Uulan-Bataar, Bayankhongor, Arvaiheer, Tsetserleg, Ohron, Kharkorin.
Accompanying text is in French."
[A well-organized collection of unannotated holiday photographs - ed.]
URL http://lawebcamisole.free.fr/mongolie/mongolie.html
Link suggested by: JP Moins (jp.moins@bigfoot.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

26 Nov 2000
3star
Qiulai - Guqin yinyue wang/Qiulai - Guqin Music
Cheng Gongliang, Nanjing Music Conservatory, China
Supplied note: "This page by the well-known guqin player Cheng Gongliang contains his experiences with this instrument, his articles on dapu (reconstruction/realization of guqin tabulature) etc."
Site contents: About Guqin; About Cheng Gongliang; Articles on Guqin; Articles on Guzheng; News- and TV-Reports; Essays; Publications on CD
URL http://go3.163.com/~gqmusic/
Link suggested by Hanno Lecher (Lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

24 Nov 2000
3star
UzNews: Your Gateway to Uzbekistan
Canetco Inc., Long Island City, NY, USA
Supplied note: "The latest news from Uzbekistan updated weekly. Visit [the URL below] and get the scoop on what's going on in Uzbekistan and in Central Asia directly from the source."
URL http://www.uznews.com/
Link suggested by: UzNews (webmaster@uznews.com), forwarded by CentralAsia-L@fas.harvard.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Nov 2000
3star
Gyan Books (P) Ltd., India
Gyan Books (P) Ltd., India
Supplied note: "An Indian book Publisher Distributor and Exporter deals in Humanities and social sciences including vedic, women, and dalit studies."
[A well-designed, commercial site - ed.]
URL http://www.gyanbooks.com
Link suggested by: Amit Garg (gyanbook@del2.vsnl.net.in)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Nov 2000
2star
IndochinaNet Vietnam Ltd.
IndochinaNet Vietnam Ltd., Vietnam
Supplied note: "A high-end IT Technology Solution Provider in Vietnam. Contact us for more."
URL http://www.indochinanet.com
Link suggested by: Luu Van Hau (hau.lv@indochinanet.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

21 Nov 2000
5star
Taiwan Studies Institute (TSI)
Taiwan Studies Institute, Taipei, Taiwan
Supplied note: "Timely and informative news about the latest developments in Taiwan, cross-Strait relations and U.S. foreign policy. Site includes comprehensive and user-friendly collection of policy resources on Taiwan, such as the latest news and commentary; collection of U.S. legislative documents on Taiwan; updates about President Chen Shui-bian, the U.S. Congress and national security issues."
Site contents: News and Commentary; Issues; President Chen; On The Record TSI Publications; Taiwan Background; About TSI.
[The TSI is a privately funded (by the Makoto Foundation, est. 1995), nonpartisan research organization based in Taipei. - ed.]
URL http://www.taiwanstudies.org
Link suggested by: Kate Kolstad (kkolstad@shandwick.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents/News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

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