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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Dec 2000
Vol. 7, No. 132

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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 9
Entries rejected: 0

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22 Dec 2000
5star
Glossary of Chinese Islamic Terms
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), Copenhagen, Denmark
Supplied note: "NIAS is on the point of sending to press a long-awaited 'Glossary of Chinese Islam' by Jianping Wang. This deals primarily but not exclusively with the Hui and readers will find a wealth of information on not only the religion but also the social life and organization of Muslims in China. More information on the Glossary can be found at [the URL below] as well as links to other books on Chinese Islam (e.g. more recent material by Dru Gladney and Michael Dillon) [...] An electronic copy of the glossary itself [1 MB, in .pdf, Adobe Acrobat format - ed.] can be downloaded for browsing."
Self-description: "This work focusses on Islamic terms of Middle Eastern origin and is the most comprehensive glossary of its kind to date, taking terms from a wide variety of local gazetteers and archives, newspapers, books and periodicals. It is also the first to fully match the Chinese term (stated in Chinese script and pinyin) to its Arabic or Persian counterpart (stated in Arabic script with Latin transcription)."
URL http://130.225.203.37/Titles/stories/storyReader$72
Link suggested by: Gerald Jackson (gerald@nias.ku.dk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

22 Dec 2000
2star
Southeast Asia News Port
Primavera Design, San Francisco, CA, USA
Supplied note: "It scans both Western and some Asian papers and provides links to full articles."
Site contents: SE Asia; Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines; Taiwan; Exchange Rates; Web Search [using www.goto.com - ed.]
URL http://primaveradesign.com/seregion.html
Link suggested by: Kent Mulliner (mulliner@ohio.edu), forwarded by James A. H. Hafner (jah36@cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

22 Dec 2000
2star
Mongolia Travel
Nomadic Expeditions, Jamesburg, NJ, USA
Supplied note: "About Mongolian people, culture, regions, and travel to the country."
[A nice, quick-loading commercial site with a small collection of annotated 'Mongolia' links - ed.]
URL http://www.mongoliatravel.com/
Link suggested by: Tom Asaro (tasaro@nomadicexpeditions.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

21 Dec 2000
3star
Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914-1999)
8M.com, Orem, UT, USA
Self-description "Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan was the founder of the Orangi Pilot Project [OPP] in Pakistan and also the Comilla Rural Academy in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). He was born into a cultured family in 1914 and died on Oct 09, 1999. Dr. Khan [...] devoted his life to the uplifting of poor Pakistanis. [...] Dr. Khan was a recipient of the Nishan-i-Imtiaz, Hilal-e-Pakistan, Sitra-i-Pakistan, and Magsaysay Awards. [...] He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Michigan State University in the USA and an Honorary DLtt degree by Karachi University in Pakistan."
Site content: Photographs and Biographical data; Links (Dr. Khan's books, articles, speeches, etc. Orangi Pilot Project (OPP), Comilla Rural Academy, numerous sites with information about Dr. Khan.)
[The site offers a valuable 'Mediawatch' section - ed.]
URL http://akhtar-hameed-khan.8m.com
Link suggested by: Allen W Thrasher (athr@loc.gov)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Dec 2000
3star
Northeast Vigil: NE India e-journal
ALLWRITE Editorial and Media Consultants, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Supplied note: "The only comprehensive website on Northeast India with news, views and features from the seven states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. Also the only place on the Web which acts as a cyber news library on the region."
Site content: Forum; News; Articles; Books; Links; Mediawatch; Feedback; Policy.
[The site offers a valuable 'Mediawatch' section - ed.]
URL http://www.northeastvigil.com
Link suggested by: Subir Ghosh (editor@northeastvigil.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Dec 2000
5star
Archive of Indological Resources
University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA
Site content: Sanskrit Studies; Associations; Home-Study; Texts & Language Links; Dictionaries & Glossaries; Transliteration Fonts; Art & Iconography; Buddhist Traditions; Hindu Traditions; Tantrism; Yoga; Indian Religions (other); Groups & Libraries; Journals, Papers, Magazines; Publishers & Booksellers.
[A simple and quick-loading, frequently updated and amply annotated site by Gudrun Buhnemann, Professor at the Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia, the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison - ed.]
URL http://imp.lss.wisc.edu/~gbuhnema
Link suggested by: Gudrun Buhnemann (gbuhnema@facstaff.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

21 Dec 2000
3star
China Historical Geographic Information System (CHGIS)
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Supplied note: "The CHGIS project has been established under the aegis of the Harvard-Yenching Institute and Harvard University with a three-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. The CHGIS will establish a standardized coding system to identify historical administrative units and settlements for different periods in Chinese History. It will provide a base GIS platform for spatial analysis, temporal statistical modeling, and representation of selected historical units as digital maps. The project [which builds on the work of the late Robert M. Hartwell - ed.] intends to make the multi-lingual base GIS available to the scholarly community at no charge through download sites throughout the world.
The participating institutions are: Center for Historical Geography, Fudan University (Shanghai) Computing Sciences Center, Academia Sinica (Taipei) Australian Centre for Asian Spatial Data and Information Analysis Network, Griffith University (Brisbane), Harvard University (Cambridge)."
Site contents: Introduction; Web maps [under construction]; Data sets [under construction]; Members.
[Site est. 20 Dec 2000. Close involvement of Peter K. Bol, Lawrence Crissman, C.C. Hsieh, and Merrick Lex Berman augurs well for the success of the Project. Definitely a site to be watched - ed.]
URL http://fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/
Link suggested by: Merrick Berman (lex@rpcp.mit.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Dec 2000
3star
Hoa Hao Buddhism and its practical philosophy
Hoa Hao Buddhist Congregation Australia, Australia
Supplied note: "An introduction to Hoa Hao Buddhism as a renewed version of Buddhism which had lost some of its originality over time in Vietnam during the French and Communist domination. Its philosophical and moral principles are tinged with Confucianism and Taoism which also have a great influence on Vietnam's thought and practice."
URL http://www.hoahao-aus.org
Link suggested by: Nha (pghoahao@hoahao-aus.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Dec 2000
2star
Islam & the World Wide Web
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, at [the URL below]."
[An analysis of political uses of the Web, published in Feb 2000 - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers/paper105.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]: Interesting

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