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Edited by: Dr T.Matthew Ciolek

The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: mid Jan 2001
Vol. 8, No. 134

18 Jan 2001

Balinese Performing Art
balifolder.com, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia
Supplied note: "Learn about Balinese performing art. Balinese music, dance, gamelan, wayang kulit."
Site contents: Dance of the Inner Temple; The Classical Dance in the Second Courtyard; Secular Dances in the Outer Temple; Secular Dances in the Secular Spaces; Magic dances of the Street and Graveyard; Some Performances for Tourists; Wayang Kulit; Gamelan, Balinese Music.
URL http://www.balifolder.com/reference/dance/01.shtml
Link suggested by: Supardi Sutan Pondok (supardisp@telkom.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

18 Jan 2001

Post-Crisis Southeast Asia, May 2001
Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Self-description: "5th ASEAN Inter-University Seminar on Social Development, 23 May - 25 May 2001, National University of Singapore, Theme: 'Post-Crisis Southeast Asia' Call for Papers [...] Completed papers should reach the secretariat by Mar 31, 2001."
URL http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/soc/asean/asean_inter.html
Link suggested by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

18 Jan 2001

Migrating Identities and Ethnic Minorities in Chinese Diaspora, Sep 2001
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "'Migrating Identities and Ethnic Minorities in Chinese Diaspora', 20-22 Sep 2001, ANU, Canberra. [...] This multidisciplinary international conference [organised by Centre for the Study of the Chinese Southern Diaspora, RSPAS, ANU - ed.] aims to illuminate the nexus between race, culture and trans/national identities in Chinese diaspora by forging a dialogue between specialists on ethnic minorities within China and Taiwan and scholars of Han/non-Han ethnicity and remigrant identity in Chinese diaspora. [...] Deadlines: 30 Mar 2001 - Abstracts due."
URL http://rspas.anu.edu.au/cscsd/2001conf.html
Link suggested by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

18 Jan 2001

Asia Intelligence Ltd
Asia Intelligence Ltd., London, UK
Self-description: "Asia Intelligence Ltd is the [...] online source for economic, political, and strategic intelligence on Asia. [...] Our free services include: AsiaInt Daily Briefing; AsiaInt Reference Centre; AsiaInt Conflict Monitoring Centre; AsiaInt Election Watch; AsiaInt Travel Centre. Our subscription services include: Asia Intelligence Forum; AsiaInt Political and Strategic Review; AsiaInt Economic Intelligence Review; AsiaInt Special Reports; AsiaInt Special Services."
[A commercial site - ed.]
URL http://www.asiaint.com
Link submitted by: Joe de Courcy (stoneyhill@btconnect.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

18 Jan 2001

Centre for Scientific Documentation and Information - Indonesian Institute of Sciences
PDII-LIPI Jl.Gatot Subroto no.10 Jakarta 12190, Indonesia
Supplied note: "We are have a scientific collection of research reports, proceedings, indonesian scientific journals, theses, disertations, indonesian articles, etc."
[A site in Indonesian - ed. ]
URL http://www.pdii.lipi.go.id
Link submitted by: Bambang Setiarso (setiarso@pdii.lipi.go.id)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

18 Jan 2001

Communities in Southeast Asia: Challenges and Responses, Oct 2001
Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria Victoria, BC, Canada
Supplied note: "Joint Northwest Regional Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies and Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies Conference, 'Communities in Southeast Asia: Challenges and Responses', Oct 26th - 27th, 2001 -- Cadboro Commons Conference Centre University of Victoria, Victoria, BC Canada. Call for Papers [...] Submissions must be in by Mar 15, 2001."
URL http://www.capi.uvic.ca/seag/seag.htm
Link suggested by: John Mikler (john.mikler@anu.edu.au), forwarded by Greg Young (greg@orient.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

18 Jan 2001

Hong Kong Film Archive (HKFA)
Leisure and Cultural Service Department, HK Government, China
Self-description: "Besides conducting campaigns to secure and preserve films and related materials, it [the HKFA, est. 1993 - ed.] also launched a series of publications as well as presenting film programmes and exhibitions."
Site contents: Archive Functions, Public Access Facilities, Film Programmes and Seminars, Exhibitions, Archive Collections ["The Archive currently has over 3,800 films in our vaults. The titles go as far back as an 1898 Edison travelogue on Hong Kong and as recent as box-office hits of the 1990s."], Newsletters, Publications.
URL http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/HKFA/english/eindex.html
Link suggested by: Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

17 Jan 2001

Centre for Euro-Asian Studies
University of Reading, UK
Self-description: "The Centre [...] was established in 1996 as an educational and research organisation with the general aim of increasing understanding of and co-operation with the CIS countries and those of Eastern and Central Europe. The working languages of the Centre are English and Russian."
Site contents: Staff; News; Studies; Admission; Alumni Association; Publications; Research; O. Kasenov Archive; Gallery; Links; Contact us.
URL http://www.rdg.ac.uk/IEAS/
Link suggested by: Yelena Kalyuzhnova (y.kaluyzhnova@reading.ac.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

16 Jan 2001

Report of the No Gun Ri Review
U.S. Army, USA.
[The Pentagon's report of investigations at the hamlet of No Gun Ri, 100 miles southeast of Seoul, where in the early stages of the Korean War American soldiers massacred a large number of civilian refugees - ed.]
Site contents: Executive Summary; Secretary of the Army Action Memorandum; Chapter 1 - Introduction; Ch. 2 - Background and History; Ch. 3 - Combat Operations in July 1950; Ch. 4 - Analysis of Interview Data; Ch. 5 - Key Issue Analysis and Findings; Appendix A - Records Research; App. B - Analysis of Forensic Evidence; App. C - Imagery Research and Analysis; App. D - Joint Coordination; App. E - Supporting Documents."
[The entire site is in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format - ed.]
URL http://www.army.mil/nogunri/
Link suggested by: Scout Project (scout@cs.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

15 Jan 2001

ESCAS Anthropological Network on Central Asia
ESCAS, Department of Oriental Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Supplied note: "Under the umbrella of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) a new sub-organization is currently being established.[...] The ESCAS anthropological network is open to all social and cultural anthropologists world wide as well as to other scholars interested in the social and cultural anthropology of Central Asia. Central Asia is here understood in a broad manner, including the Central Asian republics belonging to the C.I.S. countries, Northern Afghanistan, Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, Transcaucasia and all the Central Asian diaspora communities. [...] However, in order to start our activities we need to find out who is interested in this anthropological network on Central Asia. [...] Contact address for [the emerging Network - ed.]: Asst. Prof. Mag. Dr. Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology (Ethnology) University of Vienna Austria [...] e-mail: gabriele.rasuly@univie.ac.at"
URL http://www.let.uu.nl/~escas/home.htm
Link suggested by: Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek (gabriele.rasuly@univie.ac.at)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

15 Jan 2001

Japanese Studies Association of Australia, Jun 2001
The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Supplied note: "Japanese Studies Association of Australia Biennial Conference 2001 in Sydney, Australia [...] Call for Papers Deadline: 2001-01-31 Conference Date: 27-30 Jun 2001 Authors are invited to submit papers that demonstrate original unpublished research in all areas of Japanese Studies for the JSAA Biennial Conference, 2001. Papers may be presented in either English or Japanese, and an abstract of 500-700 English words or 1000-1500 Japanese characters is to be submitted by 1/31/01."
URL http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/Arts/departs/asia/jsaa/index.html
Link suggested by: Louise Walton (l.walton@unsw.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 Jan 2001

List of 2001 Indian Web Sites
Bytes-For-All, Goa, india
Supplied note: "We have compiled a list of 2001 Indian (and a few from the wider South Asian region) web sites. If you'd like a free copy of this, just send an email to fred@bytesforall.org with i2001LISTREQUEST as the subjectline. Also mention your name and address in the body of the message. This listing is in HTML format and is approx 300KB in size.
It lists sites from the field of academia (including asian studies, careers, colleges, education, research, social service, universities); agriculture; alternative-india; art & culture; automobiles; banks; books; business (including industry, stocks, infrastructure, trade, exports); communications (including in regional languages); consulates of India abroad; cooking and food; e-commerce; entertainment; expatriate indians; government (specific links to various departments); health (advice, aids, ayurveda, blood banks online, cancer, child development, corporates in health, disabilities, doctors, elderly, facilities, health care, homeopathy, hospitals, journals, leprosy, libraries online, medicine, pharmaceuticals, public health, resources, tibetan medicine, yoga...); infrastructure; IT-India's infotech industry; job-sites; law-related links; matrimonials; media; music; neighbours of India; news-sites; newspapers; portals (on a range of themes); regional sites; religion-based sites; sports; tourism & travel; women and youth sites. [...] We plan to also build a list of other sites from other South Asia countries, and seek partners for this venture. If you would like us to include sites which you feel should be in such a listing, please send us details of the same."
URL - not applicable -
Link suggested by: Frederick Noronha (fred@bytesforall.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

11 Jan 2001

South Asia Coins Group
virtualave.net, Bellevue, WA, US
Supplied note: "I am writing to bring to your attention a Discussion group I moderate on the internet called the 'South Asia Coin Group' [southasia-coins@egroups.com - ed]. Over the past year, it has achieved significant success in enrolling virtually all the experts involved in this area, globally. We have an associated website that we started recently [see URL below - ed]. We are adding to it regularly."
Site contents: Maps & Chronology; Bibliography; Languages, Mint Marks; Coin Cabinet; Member Sites/Other; Member Notices; Papers for Review, Past Discussions; Commercial Sources; Contact Us.
URL http://www.southasiacoins.org/
Link suggested by: Satya Bhupatiraju (satya1234@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Documents/News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 Jan 2001

Educational Videos from India
Education International (EI), New Delhi, India
Supplied note: A governmental initiative to disseminate "educational material [incl. videos - ed.] produced by four apex Indian organisations: [...] National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), National Open School (NOS), Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and the Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC)."
Site contents: a reference to catalogues of videos which are "available in printed form, on floppies and CDs" [sic! - ed.] for a variety of disciplines, incl. Language & Literature; Art & Culture; Applied Social Sciences; and Social Sciences. All queries are handled via the web site [URL below] or email to response@ei-india.org
[The site is clueless about proper uses of the Net: it talks about the video lists it has, but does not place them (so far) online - ed.]
URL http://www.ei-india.org/
Link suggested by: Akhilesh Saurikhia (response@ei-india.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

11 Jan 2001

Islamic-world.net
Al-Hilal Publishing, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Supplied note: "We think that the links, information and resources offered by our site [est. Jun 2000 - ed.] could (Insyaallah) be of some assistance to Islamic education."
Site contents: Our Plan; Our Papers [online publications - ed.]; Parenting; Dakwah; Aphorisms; Muslim Youth; Islamic Multimedia; Ask Scholar; Links Index (Alphabetical Sites List, Arabic Language Sites, Da'wah Sites, General Islamic Sites, Hadith, Sharia & Sunnah Sites, Hajj Sites, Islamic Calligraphy, Art & Graphics Sites, Islamic Character Sites, Islamic Educational Institution Sites, Islamic History Sites, Islamic Literature Sites, Islamic Media Sites, Islamic Organization Sites, Islamic Parenting & Children Sites, Islamic Resources Sites, Islamic Scholar Sites, Islamic Science & Medicine Sites, Islamic Software & Computer Sites, Islamic Student Sites, Jihad Sites, Masjid Sites, Middle East and Arab Sites, Muslim Sister's Sites, Prophet Muhammad, Qur'an Sites, Ramadan Sites, Sahaba Sites, Salat Sites, Sufi Sites, Zakat Sites); Islamic Search Engines.
[A remarkable and spendidly managed site - ed.]
URL http://islamic-world.net/
Link suggested by: Mohd Adha (adha@islamic-world.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

11 Jan 2001

Academic Quality at a Chinese University
www.paganvillages.com, Carlsbad, CA, USA
Supplied note: "This book, which is out-of-print, has been placed on the Internet for public access: 'Educational Disengagement: Undermining Academic Quality at a Chinese University'
[...T]he most comprehensive study written to date about education at a Chinese university [Shenzhen U. - ed.] [...] The study is the culmination of ten years of participant-observation research and relies on the analysis of hundreds of internal documents. It provides insight into the university's pedagogy and knowledge structure and the foreign influences that have shaped the institution."
[An online publication in PDF format - ed.]
URL http://www.paganvillages.com/Goddess/agelasto/disengagement/
Link suggested by: Michael Agelasto (agelasto@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

11 Jan 2001

The Political Economy of Shenzhen University
www.paganvillages.com, Carlsbad, CA, USA
Supplied note: "This book, which is out-of-print, has been placed on the Internet for public access: 'University in Turmoil: The Political Economy of Shenzhen University (1998, 358pp)'
[...T]he most comprehensive study written to date about a Chinese work-unit. Through considerably rich detail, it portrays the life and times of Shenzhen U., an institution built in the first years of China's economic reforms under Deng Xiaoping. Focusing on administration and finances at the university, it [...] provides a look into the day-to-day operation of a work-unit."
[An online publication in PDF format. The study is based on the author's six-year employment at Shenzhen U. - ed.]
URL http://www.paganvillages.com/Goddess/agelasto/turmoil
Link suggested by: Michael Agelasto (agelasto@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

11 Jan 2001

China's Space Programme
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 China's Space Programme White Paper of Nov 2000 - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers2/paper182.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

11 Jan 2001

World Through Chinese Glasses
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 China's National Defence White Papers of Jul 1998 and Oct 2000 - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers2/paper180.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

11 Jan 2001

Index to Chinese Periodicals of Hong Kong (HKInChiP)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HKSAR, China
Supplied note: "An index to Chinese/bilingual periodicals published in Hong Kong. Searchable fields include: author, title, journal name, abstract and keywords. More than 150 journals, including academic journals, are cited. The site is in traditional Chinese characters (Big 5)."
URL http://hkinchip.lib.cuhk.edu.hk
Link suggested by: C.K. Lam (cklam@cuhk.edu.hk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

11 Jan 2001

Bangla2000: a portal to Bangladesh
M. S. Raunak, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Supplied note: "[T]he only site where you can subscribe daily news to receive in email about Bangladesh. It provides daily news in both English and Bangla. Other portal services include Classifieds, Chat, E-cards, Web Directory, Yellow Pages, Matrimonial, Dhaka-today and many more. The portal also publishes monthly magazines: 'Women's World' and 'Business World.'"
[A comprehensive, fast and elegant system - ed.]
URL http://www.bangla2000.com
Link suggested by: M. S. Raunak (raunak@dhaka.agni.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

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