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Edited by: Dr T.Matthew Ciolek

The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early Feb 2001
Vol. 8, No. 4 (136)

09 Feb 2001

National Library of Australia: Chinese Collection
National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "The National Library's Chinese Collection page at [the URL below] has been expanded to include Chinese Internet Sites, with a particular emphasis on resources about Australian Chinese and Chinese Studies in Australia."
Site contents: Our Chinese Collection: (Description of the Chinese Collection, Chinese Library Resources in Australia : Role of NLA); Formed Collections: (Australian Buddhist Library, London Missionary Society, Sang Ye, Simon); 'Collecting China' - an article by Diana Giese (National Library of Australia News, X(1), October 1999, pp.14-17); ANU - NLA Collection Cooperation Agreement on Chinese Provincial and Provincial Capital City Statistical Yearbooks; Accessing the Chinese Collection/Who to Contact; Chinese Internet Sites; Our Asian Collections.
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/lang/chin1.html
Link reported by: Andrew Gosling (agosling@nla.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

08 Feb 2001

China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission
CIETAC, China
Supplied note: "The China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) Domain Name Dispute Resolution Center has issued a set of 'Domain Name Dispute Resolution Process Guidelines' (http://168.160.100.159/kjyw/kjzc/1-21-1391.htm) [a page in CN] that went into effect on Jan 1 [2001]. The Center was authorized by the China National Network Information Center (CNNIC) to resolve Chinese Internet domain name disputes. An expert or a committee of three experts designated by the Center can resolve disputes. More information on submitting complaints and the dispute resolution process is available in Chinese on the CIETAC website."
CIETAC's site content: Introduction; News; Organization; Guide; Rules; Model Clause; Fee Schedules' Arbitrators; Model Contracts; Laws; Awards; Case Analysis Report; Questions; Commentary; Convention; Links; Contact Us.
[Note: links to several of these sub-areas are either dead or never completed in the first place - ed.]
URL http://www.cietac.org.cn/ENGLISH/E_index.htm
Link reported by: David Cowhig (dcowhig@public3.bta.net.cn)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

08 Feb 2001

Kerala [India] at a glance
Spectrum, India
Supplied note: "Informative site on Kerala. People, arts, culture, tourism, hotels, hospitals, job opportunities, govt. welfare programmes, financial aid, education and lot more."
URL http://www.kol.to
Link reported by: (shaji@spectrum.net.in)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

08 Feb 2001

1900: The Boxers, China and the World, Jun 2001
University of Bristol, UK
Supplied note: "1900: The Boxers, China and the World. 22-24 June 2001, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London. This conference will bring together historians of Asia, Europe and imperialism for three days of debates about the origins, events and impacts of the Boxer rising and war which will be explored in their local, regional, national and global contexts. Conference and registration details can now be found at [the URL below]."
URL http://mail.bris.ac.uk/~hirab/1900.html
Link reported 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

08 Feb 2001

The Indonesian Acquisitions List (IAL)
National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "The Indonesian Acquisitions List (IAL) is a quarterly publication which provides bibliographical details of books and serials published in Indonesia and which have been newly acquired by the National Library of Australia through its Regional Office in Jakarta. The online version of IAL no.4, December 2000 is now available at [the URL below]. It lists new serials and monographs acquired between Sep and Nov 2000. All issues of IAL for 1996 to 2000 are now included in IAL online."
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/pub/ial/
Link reported by: Andrew Gosling (agosling@nla.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

07 Feb 2001

ICAS 2 - Second International Convention of Asia Scholars, Aug 2001
Free University, Berlin, Germany
Supplied note: "The Second International Convention of Asia Scholars, taking place Aug 9-12, 2001 in Berlin, will offer you a unique opportunity to interchange academically with colleagues from all over the world. The open structure of ICAS 2 allows interchange across all continents, disciplines, regional specializations and conceptual approaches beyond any institutional restriction. [...] Submission of proposals [...] until Feb 15th."
URL http://www.fu-berlin.de/icas2
Link reported by: Michael Paschal (mpaschal@aasianst.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

07 Feb 2001

Bilingualism and Japanology Intersection
Kagawa Junior College, Japan
Supplied note: "Renewed English and Japanese annotated lists of publications available online, Websites and other sources on Japan, East Asia, bilingualism, intercultural communication, and education through the Internet. Since 1997 the multilingual and multidisciplinary items have grown to about 175, but prioritized into four Web pages with many anchors for smooth navigation. Further links are welcome to this life work online by Professor Steve McCarty in Japan."
Site contents: Book Editor/Contributor; Originally Print Publications; Selected Research Presentations; Selected Online Articles; Online Column Installments; Websites by the same Author.
URL http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/epublist.html
Link reported by: Steve McCarty (steve_mc@kagawa-jc.ac.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

07 Feb 2001

Nepal Winterim Program at the U. of Colorado-Denver
Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado at Denver, CO, USA
Supplied note: "A short, intensive travel-study course oriented around a three-four week experience in Nepal. The 'winterim' falls between the typical Fall and Spring semester terms at US Universities and Colleges. [...] the course begins the third week of December and returns the third week of January. The course involves a 6-day long stay in a small village 1 hour (35 km) east of Kathmandu, home-stays with Nepalese families in Kathmandu, and a 5-day trek in the Annapurna region."
URL http://www.cudenver.edu/public/anthro/winterim
Link reported by: Craig R. Janes (craig.janes@cudenver.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

07 Feb 2001

Service Learning in Hanoi
State University of New York at Buffalo, Vietnam
Supplied note: "The University at Buffalo, State University of New York, is offering a unique program from May 23-June 25, 2001 in Hanoi, Vietnam that features internships, a lecture series, field trips, and a weekend visit to Ha Long Bay."
URL http://wings.buffalo.edu/studyabroad/main.cgi?program=hanoi
Link reported by: Mark A. Ashwill (ashwill@acsu.buffalo.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

06 Feb 2001

Chinese in Tianjin - Summer 2001
University of Minnesota, MN, USA
Supplied note: "The department of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota is offering Chinese in Tianjin, Nankai-Minnesota Program from Jun 16 to Aug 18, 2001 at Nankai University."
URL http://www.all.umn.edu/tianjin/index.html
Link reported by: Tomoko Hoogenboom (hara0002@umn.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

06 Feb 2001

Roy's Home Page: Dams, Resource Planning, Information Technology
Expert-Eyes.Org, India
Supplied note: "Site shifted and updated. Hydro potential of India, Energy Profile of Kerala, Study of Human and Environmental Impact of Hydroelectric Projects in India and Canada, Intergrated Resources Planning, Critique of Kerala's Information Technology policy."
URL http://www.expert-eyes.org
Link reported by: Roy Mathew (roymathew@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

01 Feb 2001

Indus Script Decipherment
www.indusscript.net, Delhi, India
Self-description: "The Author has taken all care to convince the critical world of the Indus studies about his view point by reconstructing the dead and forgotten Indus Language. He has also tried to show the missing link between Indus and Sanskrit and, by the way has also challenged the reconstruction of the parent IE."
Site contents: About The Author; Introduction to the Indus Script; The Clues to Decipherment; An Indus Dictionary; Historical Indus Grammar; Deciphered Texts Books on Decipherment; Review of Other Attempts of Decipherment; The Society Reflecting in the Indus Scripts; The Concept of Sarasvati; The Basis of the Vedic Mythology; A History Rewritten.
URL http://www.indusscript.net/index.html
Link reported by: Madhusudan Mishra (madhusudan_mishra@hotmail.com)
[A Thu, 8 Feb 2001 comment by Dr David Magier (magier@columbia.edu), South Asia Librarian, Columbia University: "Readers of the entry [...] entitled 'Indus Script Decipherment' need to note the following. There is a very widespread, politically motivated hoax being propagated [...] in India, through self-publishing in print and on the web [...] Much of [... that] work has been explicitly debunked and refuted by the scholarly world, but it still pops up here and there. This author's claim to have deciphered the Indus Valley script, like the others that form part of this [...hoax], is not accepted by established academic consensus. [...] For a [..] detailed analysis of another, similar claim of decipherment, see http://www.the-hindu.com/fline/fl1720/17200040.htm For a good general scholarly look at the field, see http://www.harappa.com/script/index.html"]
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

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