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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early Dec 2000
Vol. 7, No. 130

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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 15
Entries rejected: 8

08 Dec 2000
3star
Walter Simon's (1893-1981) East Asian Collection
National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "An article I have written entitled 'Walter Simon : a Scholar-Librarian and his East Asian Collection' appears in the National Library of Australia News, December 2000 and is also at [the URL below] Professor Walter Simon (1893-1981) was Professor of Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London from 1947 to 1960, and an eminent scholar of Chinese and other East Asian languages. The National Library of Australia acquired his collection in stages between 1970 and 1982. There are over 2000 books in Asian and Western languages reflecting Professor Simon's academic interests, in particular the Chinese, Tibetan and Manchu languages."
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/december00/waltersimon.html
Link suggested by: Andrew Gosling (agosling@nla.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

07 Dec 2000
4star
South Asia Information Technology Mailing List
Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Supplied note: "S-Asia-IT, a mailing/discussion list for IT developments in South Asia -- Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka -- is intended to provide a forum for those interested in the development and use of information technology in the South Asian context. [...] To subscribe the S-Asia-IT mailing list send mail to the address (Majordomo@lists.apnic.net) with the following command in the body of e-mail message: subscribe s-asia-it Archives [monthly folders, since May 1998 - ed.] at [the URL below]."
URL http://www.apnic.net/wilma-bin/wilma/s-asia-it
Link suggested by: Frederick Noronha (fred@bytesforall.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

06 Dec 2000
3star
Albawaba - Arabia Portal
Middle East Resources, Princeton, NJ, US
Supplied note: "A new bi-lingual Middle Eastern portal [... with] information on the Middle Eastern economy and business sectors, along with politics, tourism, culture, legal issues, health, entertainment and sports. News items, in-depth reports and analysis on all these topics are undertaken daily. Includes a keyword search facility."
URL http://www.albawaba.com/
Link suggested by: Iyad (iyad@albawaba.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

05 Dec 2000
999star
Sanseido: Online Japanese Dictionary
Sanseido Co., Ltd., Tokyo-Kobe, Japan
Supplied note: "Sanseido in Japan has announced that they are going to start providing the biggest dictionary web site in Japan from Jan 12th 2001. It includes 1.2 million terms from 16 dictionaries including Daijirin, Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten, Konsaisu Nihon Chimei Jiten, and Eiwa Jiten, Futsuwa Jiten, Dokuwa Jiten, etc. (in Japanese, under construction)."
URL http://www.sanseido.net/
Link suggested by: Toshio Takagi (toshio.takagi@anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

03 Dec 2000
5star
China New Energy (CNE) Website
State Ministry of Science & Technology, State Economic & Trade Commission, Beijing, China
Site contents: Science & Technology News; Academic Conferences and Events; Solar; Wind; Biomass; Geothermal; Ocean; Hydrogen; Small Hydro; Policy & Plan Energy Website; CNE BBS; Enterprise Salon; Expert Service; Energy Journal; Related Links [to other Chinese and world-wide resources - ed.]; Search engine.
Supplied note [by David Cowhig]: "The New Energy website [...] is a remarkable resource. [...] www.newenergy.org.cn/chinese/energysite/index.htm [provides] Meeting proceedings, with some full text meetings. The conference on clean energy technology is at www.newenergy.org.cn/chinese/meetingpaper/index.htm Abstracts and contact information for five PRC energy periodicals including 'Solar Power' and 'New Energy Sources' is available at www.newenergy.org.cn/chinese/magazine/tyn/index.htm"
[A bi-lingual (CN,EN) site est. in Aug 1998 - ed.]
URL http://www.newenergy.org.cn/english/index.asp
Link suggested by: David Cowhig (dcowhig@public3.bta.net.cn)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

03 Dec 2000
4star
China Faces the New Industrial Revolution, Nov 1999
US National Science Foundation, Tokyo Regional Office, Tokyo, Japan
Site contents: Nov 1999, 101KB China science policy paper 'China Faces the New Industrial Revolution: Achievement and Uncertainty in the Search for Research and Innovation Strategies' by Richard P. Suttmeier, Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon, and Cong Cao, Research Associate, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Oregon. The article originally appeared in Asian Perspective, vol. 23, No. 3 (1999).
URL http://www.twics.com/~nsftokyo/rm99-13.html
Link suggested by: David Cowhig (dcowhig@public3.bta.net.cn)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

03 Dec 2000
3star
National Folklore Support Center (NFSC), India
NFSC, Chennai, India
Self-description: "NFSC is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation, [...] dedicated to the promotion of Indian folklore research, education, training, networking and publications."
Site contents: Areas of Activities; Projects; Publications; Public Events; Structure Board of Trustees; Contact Us; Indian Folklife Newsletter [several issues per month, online copies since Apr 2000 - ed.];
URL http://www.indianfolklore.org/
Link suggested by: Dr Venugopal (Venu@indianfolklore.org), forwarded by R. L. Hardgrave (rlh@uts.cc.utexas.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

03 Dec 2000
3star
Dawn in Jammu & Kashmir?
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/paper164.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

02 Dec 2000
3star
Chandana Art Foundation International (CAFI)
CAFI, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Supplied note: "CAFI aims at reaching out to the marginalised, socially deprived sections of the society, economically disadvantaged but talented persons, particularly women, children and people with disability."
Self-description: "The primary objective of this foundation [a registered charity - ed.] is to provide adequate arrangements to afford all possible facilities and conveniences for due promotion of various forms of Creative, Applied Art, Visual Art, Folk, Tribal, Architectural, Art History, Tradition of Indian Sculptures, Mural, Miniature painting, Puppetry, Research and Documentation."
URL http://www.indev.nic.in/chandanaartfoundation
Link suggested by: K.Venkatesh (cafivenkatesh@yahoo.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

02 Dec 2000
3star
InfoTimor
Asian Studies Unit, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestao (ISEG), Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa (UTL), Lisbon, Portugal
Supplied note: "A website (in Portuguese) with informations and links to sites and documents (in English and Portuguese) about the economic and social situation of East Timor."
URL http://pascal.iseg.utl.pt/~cesa/infotimor.html
Link suggested by: Antonio Serra (aserra@iseg.utl.pt)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

02 Dec 2000
3star
The Bodhicaryavatara of Shantideva
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "The complete text of the Tibetan translation [in pdf, Adobe Acrobat format - ed.] of Shantideva's great masterpiece, the Bodhicaryavatara, or 'Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life' [7th c. AD]. This is an edited version of the one found on the Asian Classics Input Project's excellent website (www.asianclassics.org, ACIP Catalog Number TD3871)]. I have divided the text into chapters, numbered the verses and deleted the yi-go page headers and other scribal devices. "
URL http://cres.anu.edu.au/~mccomas/shantideva/index.html
Link suggested by: McComas Taylor (mccomas@cres.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

01 Dec 2000
999star
China's IT White Paper since 1997
Searchina Co., Ltd., Japan
Supplied note: "[About] Internet or IT developments in China. [...] a fulltext Japanese translated version of China's IT White paper archived since 1997 originally produced in Chinese language by CNNIC (Chinese Network Information Center)."
URL http://it.searchina.ne.jp/
Link suggested by: Toshio Takagi (toshio.takagi@anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

01 Dec 2000
3star
Religion in South India, Jun 2001
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Supplied note: "The 2001 workshop of the Conference on Religion in South India (CRSI) will be a felicitation of the career of John Braisted Carman of Harvard University. The theme of the workshop will be 'Comparative Theologies in South India.' [...] The workshop will be held from the afternoon of Thursday, Jun 14, through midday on Sunday, Jun 17, 2001, on the campus of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. [...] paper proposals by 20 Jan 2001."
URL http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/RELIGION/crsi
Link suggested by: John Cort (cort@denison.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

01 Dec 2000
3star
Performance, Ethnicity and Cultural Processes in China, Apr 2001
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Supplied note: "In collaboration with the Mershon Center and the Office of Research, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University (OSU) wishes to announce an upcoming interdisciplinary symposium entitled 'Beyond Peony Pavilion: Performance, Ethnicity and Cultural Processes in China' to be held Apr 27-28, 2001 at the Holiday Inn near campus in Columbus, Ohio. [...] abstract submissions [by] Jan 2, 2001."
URL http://deall.ohio-state.edu/sieber.6/ppec/
Link suggested by: Yu, Li (yu.124@osu.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

01 Dec 2000
2star
Caucasus and Karachay-Balkar people
caucasus.8k.com, USA?
Site content: CV of Dr.Ufuk Tavkul; List of Articles of Dr.Ufuk Tavkul; List of Research Projects; [Notes on a variety of topics:] The Ethnic and the Social Structure of the Caucasus, The Attitude of the Ottoman State to the Slavery Institution of the Caucasian Emigrants Which Takes Place in Their Social Structure, Loan Words From Caucasian Languages in Karachay-Balkar Language, The Influence of Islam on the Social Structures of the Caucasian Peoples in the 19th Century, The Nart Epos of Karachay-Balkar People, The Ethnic Structure of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic in The Caucasus, Karachay-Balkar Loan Words in Adige (Circassian) Language, The Ethnic and Cultural Unity of the Caucasian Peoples, The Reasons of the Ethnic Tension Between Karachay-Balkar and Adige Peoples, The Influence of the Economic Structure on the Social Structure of Karachay-Balkar People at the End of the 19th Century, The Customary Law of the Caucasian Peoples, The Sociological Analysis of the Caucasian Culture.
[A bi-lingual site (TR, EN). Unfortunately, the published notes do not provide references to data or research literature - ed.]
URL http://caucasus.8k.com
Link suggested by: Ufuk Tavkul (u.tavkul@usa.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

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