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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Mar 2001
Vol. 8, No. 9 (141)

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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 22
Entries rejected: 7

30 Mar 2001
4star
Growing Influence of the Internet in China
USEST, U.S. Embassy Beijing, China
Supplied note: "The Internet is revolutionizing the way Chinese communicate and interact. Government and business leaders recognize the medium as a key tool for economic reform, and encourage e-commerce and information technology investment. Intellectuals, dissidents, non-governmental groups -- and the Chinese government itself -- have all embraced the Internet to spread information, ideas and opinions. Authorities have reacted to limit 'dangerous' content, and many are deterred from writing or seeking out sensitive material. Many others, however, see Beijing's efforts as speed bumps, not insurmountable barriers. Even the Chinese press is finding the Internet an important tool for circumventing otherwise tight controls. As China's market economy develops, the Internet will almost certainly become a more important, positive force in facilitating rights of Chinese users to be informed, and to be heard."
[A Mar 2001 report from U.S. Embassy Beijing. A follow up on Jan 2000 report "China's Internet 'Information Skirmish'" (www.usembassy-china.org.cn/english/sandt/webwar.htm) - ed.]
URL http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/english/sandt/netoverview.html
Link reported 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

30 Mar 2001
4star
Indonesian Internet Sites
The National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "Links to more than 200 select internet sites on Indonesia. The webpage is continually updated, and its categories include: Gateways, Business and Finance, Education, Government and Politics, Newspapers and Magazines, and Maps [as well as sections on Bali, East Timor, Irian Jaya, Kalimantan, Maluku and Sumatera - ed.]."
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/indo/indsites.html
Link reported by: Oliver Mann (oliver.mann@dfat.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

30 Mar 2001
4star
'Back Door' Newsletter on Timor Loro Sa'e [East Timor]
'Back Door', Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "A non-profit, independent, Australia based Web & email newsletter. 'Back Door' includes international news, articles and urgent actions related to East Timor along with coming events in Canberra. 'Back Door' supports: human rights accountability; return of refugees; strengthening of indigenous culture; East Timorese rights to Timor Gap oil and gas resources and revenue; self-determination for the East Timorese people; and grassroots reconstruction. [...] Email subscriptions include Weekly Summaries listing all recently added 'Back Door' Website items. To subscribe simply email [...]: wildwood@pcug.org.au and include the words 'Subscribe BACK DOOR' in the message header."
Recent themes: War Crimes; East Timorese Women's issues; Timor Oil.
URL http://www.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/
Link reported by: Dez Wildwood (wildwood@pcug.org.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

29 Mar 2001
2star
Bay of Bengal Community (BOBCOM)
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]."
[Background notes on the concept of the Bay of Bengal Community, encompassing all the littoral states - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper215.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]: Interesting

29 Mar 2001
3star
Taliban: What prompted Bamiyan?
Asia Society, USA
Supplied note: "This report on the Taliban's destruction of heritage sites in Afghanistan provides background material and analysis of what factors might have influenced their decision."
URL http://www.asiasource.org/news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=46971
Link reported by: Nermeen Shaikh (nermeens@asiasoc.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

28 Mar 2001
3star
Shri Jaswant Singh's Visit to US
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]."
[On India's foreign affairs options in Asia and the world, and relationships with the US. Shri Jaswant Singh, Minister for External Affairs, is to visit the US in April 2001, for the first high-level talks with the new Bush Administration. - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper218.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

28 Mar 2001
3star
Central and Inner Asia Seminar, May 2001
Central and Inner Asia Seminar (CIAS), University of Toronto, Canada
Supplied note: "Central and Inner Asia Seminar in association with the Joint Centre For Asia Pacific Studies. 7th Annual Conference. Friday & Saturday May 4 & 5, 2001. Munk Centre for International Studies, 1 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto."
Self-description: "CIAS is dedicated to studying the cultures and activities of ancient and modern nomadic peoples that occupy the region from the China Sea to Eastern Europe, and the relationship they have to the surrounding sedentary cultures. [Published working papers by CIAS: Nomadic Diplomacy, Destruction and Religion from the Pacific to the Adriatic (1994); Cultural Contact, History and Ethnicity in Inner Asia (1996); Historical Themes & Current Change in Central & Inner Asia (1999); Religion, Customary Law and Nomadic Technology (2000) - ed.]
URL http://www.utoronto.ca/deeds/cias/index.html
Link suggested by: Gillian Long (gillian.long@utoronto.ca)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

28 Mar 2001
3star
SE Asia Select Books Online
Select Books, Singapore
Supplied note: "A bookseller, distributor, publisher, and library supplier in Singapore specializing in books on Southeast Asia. At this website, you can browse and search for many of the titles in our stock, and can place orders online."
[A commercial site - ed.]
URL http://www.selectbooks.com.sg/
Link reported by: A. L. Chua (chuaal@bigfoot.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

27 Mar 2001
3star
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery Website and Cham Tour
Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, Mysore, India and Dolma Tulotsang, Toronto, Canada
Self-description: "Tashi Lhunpo was founded by H.H. the 1st Dalai Lama, Gyalwa Gendun Drup, in 1447. It is one of the four great monasteries of Central Tibet which was supervised and looked after by the Dalai Lamas and Panchen Lamas and has the glory of producing thousands of renowned scholars in the field of Mahayana Buddhist Philosophy. After the Communist Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959, Tashi Lhunpo Monastery was re-established at Bylakuppe in South India in 1972 [...]. The monastery has monks coming from Tibet and Himalayan regions like Spithi, Khunu, Ladakh, Ghashar and Sangkhar. At present there are over 250 monks including many Tulkus (reincarnate lamas) [...] Tashi Lhunpo Monastery is a nonprofit charitable organization imparting various aspects of the Buddhist religion while also maintaining a school of modern education."
Site contents: Dalai Lama; Tashi Lhunpo Monastery; Cham Tour [about forthcoming major religious event in N. America, 2001-2002]; Support; Panchen Lama; Free Tibet; Contact.
URL http://tashilhunpo.org/
Link reported by: Glenn Freeman (glennf@grfn.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

27 Mar 2001
5star
Korean Legal Research Resources on the Internet
School of Law Library, Southern Illinois University, IL, USA
Self-description: "This Internet guide is to help legal researchers find Korean legal resources available both in print and on the Internet [...]. It includes a basic Introduction to the Korean Legal System, and a Bibliography of Selected Korean Legal Resources. The main section on the Internet resources is organized as follows: Government; Legal Databases; Laws, Regulations and Cases; Law Firms; Law Schools; Legal Organizations; Libraries and Library Catalogs; Economy; and News and General Information. Most of the Korean legal web sites provide web pages in both Korean and English versions; the English page contents, however, differ significantly from the Korean ones. English sites generally contain basic introductory information only and Korean law texts are mostly included in Korean pages."
URL http://www.siu.edu/offices/lawlib/koreanlaw/
Link reported by: Dr. Heija B. Ryoo (hryoo@siu.edu), forwarded by Dr. Moo-Young Han (myhan@phy.duke.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

25 Mar 2001
3star
Europhil - IV European Philippine Studies Conference
Asociacion Espanola de Estudios del Pacifico (AEEP), Madrid, Spain
Supplied note: "IV European Philippine Studies Conference, to be held in Alcala de Henares, Spain, 9-12 September, 2001. Official Website, containing information about how to participate, registration conditions, panels and contributors, accommodation, and contact address."
URL http://www.aeep.es/europhil
Link reported by: Carlos Asenjo (europhil@aeep.es)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

22 Mar 2001
2star
AsianInfo.org
AsianInfo.org, Ridgeland, MS, US
Supplied note: "AsianInfo.org is devoted to informing the world about Asia - it's people, economy, government, transportation, geography, culture, traditions, history, art, literature and more..."
[A late entrant to the crowded scene of Asia-related portals. It appears to be aimed at the K-12 audience. It covers Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, N Korea, Philippines, Singapore, S Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam but cheerfully ignores the existence of Bangladesh, Brunei, E. Timor, Laos, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka - ed.]
URL http://www.asianinfo.org
Link reported by: Kyoung T. Lee (asianinfo@asianinfo.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

21 Mar 2001
3star
First World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, Sep 2002
University of Mainz, Germany
Supplied note: "First World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) U. of Mainz, Germany, Sep 8-13, 2002 [...] The World Congress aims to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the -art in Middle Eastern studies in its broadest sense. [...] The World Congress was initiated by the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and will be held as joint congress of the European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES), the Association Francaise pour l'Etude du Monde Arabe et Musulman (AFEMAM), the British Society for Middle East Studies (BRISMES), the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) and the Italian Societa por gli Studi sul Medio Oriente (SeSaMO). [...] Registration of interest - Jun 1, 2001."
URL http://www.wocmes.de
Link reported by: DAVO (g.meyer@geo.uni-mainz.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Mar 2001
3star
Regional identity and human rights in Asia
Institute of Asian Affairs, Hamburg, Germany
Supplied note: "Research project on regional identity and the human rights politics of Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines; pages in English, German and (partly) Bahasa Indonesia. Links are focussed on documents and the three countries' actvities in the frame of the UN world conferences of Vienna 1993, Beijing 1995, Copenhague 1995 and Stockholm 1996, the regional prepratory conferences and the +5-follow-ups between 1998-2001."
URL http://www.human-rights-politics-and-east-asia.de
Link reported by: Dr. Martina Timmermann (ifahh.timmermann@uni-hamburg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Mar 2001
3star
Manushi: A Journal About Women and Society
Manushi, New Delhi, India
Self-description: "Manushi, founded in 1978, is a serious journal which aims to bridge the gap between academic/scholarly writing and popular literature. The magazine analyses political, economic and social issues from a people-oriented perspective. One of the main goals of Manushi is to build an information-gathering process about the life situations of the people of different communities within India. This is done through articles on women's lives and work, civil liberties and human rights issues, interviews, historical pieces, film and book reviews, fiction, poetry, and responses from readers."
Site contents: Issues No. 94 (May-Jun 1996) to No. 121 (Nov-Dec 2000); Write for Manushi; Some interesting links
URL http://www.freespeech.org/manushi/
Link reported by: Yvette C. Rosser (y.r.rani@mail.utexas.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Mar 2001
3star
China After WTO Entry: Opportunities and Challenges
Harvard China Review, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Self-description: "The [4th annual] conference will evaluate the implication of WTO entry to various key industries in China and explore the strategic options that Chinese government, industries and companies can take to adjust to the new competitive landscape and ensure their success after the entry. It will also evaluate the many challenges for China to enforce WTO rules, identify potential actions that China can take and suggest collaborative efforts that can be taken between China and US in order to enforce the rules [...] Date: Sunday, May 6, 2001 Venue: Harvard University Science Center."
URL http://www.harvardchina.org/conference/conf2001
Link reported by: Ann Chang (acwmai01@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Mar 2001
3star
Japan in the World
Iwanami Shoten - Publishers, Japan
Self-description: "Independent critical views on Japanese Politics, Economy, Society and Culture. This site is run by SEKAI (The World), a Japanese monthly journal [est. 1946], and ICU [International Christian University] Peace Research Institute (ICUPRI). The contents [...] are translations of the selected articles, originally published in SEKAI."
Site Contents [on 21 Mar 2001]: "Envisioning a Peace in Korea: Can Japan Do It?" SAKAMOTO Yoshikazu, Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo, SEKAI vol. 678 (Aug 2000); "Junior High School History Textbooks: Whither 'Comfort Women' and the 'Nanking Massacre'? " TAWARA Yoshifumi, Secretary General, The National Network of Concerned Citizens on Textbooks and Children, SEKAI vol. 681 (Nov 2000); "Revival of Pork-Barrel Politics" YAKUSHIJI Katsuyuki, Assistant editor, Political News Department, Asahi Shimbun, SEKAI vol. 678 (Aug 2000); "Structured Corruption involving Local Interests and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries: What's 'Public' about Public Works?" YOKOTA Hajime, Freelance writer, SEKAI vol. 672 (Mar 2000).
URL http://www.iwanami.co.jp/jpworld/top.html
[Site created 1 Mar 2001 - ed.]
Link reported by: Yoshikazu Sakamoto (ysakamoto@tokyo.email.ne.jp), forwarded by Mark Selden (ms44@cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Mar 2001
999star
Burma: Grace Under Pressure
www.hillerphoto.com, USA
Self-description: "Flash Player Required. [...] To view the entire site, you will need 15 minutes on a Pentium or faster computer. Optimized for viewing at 1024 x 768."
[A multimedia project by Geoffrey Hiller - ed.]
URL http://www.hillerphoto.com/burma
Link reported by: Irfan Khan (khania@super.net.pk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

21 Mar 2001
3star
Bangladesh Friendship Education Society (BFES)
BFES, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Self-description: "Bangladesh Friendship Education Society (BFES) is a non-government development organization based in Bangladesh. It has been established in 1993 with a view to support education projects in rural areas. The Founders are basically educationists and development practitioners. Its principal partner Japan Friendship Education Fund (JFEF) based in Mito City of Japan supports the BFES. The other partners are so far - Government of Japan, AusAid, and the Royal Netherlands Government."
URL http://www.bfes.org/
Link reported by: Nikst (nikst@online.ru)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Mar 2001
3star
Workshops in South Asian Islam
The North Carolina Center for South Asia Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Self-description: "The faculty of the Triangle South Asia Consortium announce a three-year series of workshops to examine alternatives to the persistent stereotypes of Islam in South Asia as a monolithic entity and the many ways that expectation shapes larger narratives. [...] 13-15 Apr 2001 - The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Topic: South Asian Islamic Aesthetics: Music and Literary Production [... Abstracts of papers to be presented]; 12-14 Apr 2002 - North Carolina State University. Topic: The Islamic 'Imaginaire' in South Asia [...]; 18-20 Apr 2003 - Duke University. Topic: Public Postures and Ideological Structures through Local Practice [...]."
URL http://www2.ncsu.edu:8010/tsac/islam.html
Link reported by: Afroz Taj (taj@server.sasw.ncsu.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Mar 2001
3star
Cross-Cultural Solutions
Cross-Cultural Solutions, New Rochelle, New York, USA
Supplied note: "Cross-Cultural Solutions: International Volunteer Programs offer the exciting opportunity to travel overseas to Asia [China, India - ed.], Africa and Latin America to volunteer with local non-profit organizations. Short and long-term assignments are available."
[A non-profit organization est. 1995 - ed.]
URL http://www.crossculturalsolutions.org
Link reported by: Kristin Hegazy (kristin@crossculturalsolutions.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

20 Mar 2001
999star
World Hongming Philosophical Quarterly
World Hongming Philosophical Quarterly, ?France
Supplied note: "An electronic journal established mainly to promote the study of religion and philosophy in China. The journal functions as a scholarly avenue for the publication of research findings and informed opinions. Submissions should be on any aspect of religion or philosophy in China (past or present) with the emphasis on the four teachings: Buddhism, Daojia, Daoism and Confucianism. Short translations of texts accompanied with analysis, research findings, book reviews, doctrinal inquires, historic studies, etc., will all be acceptable."
Site contents: Volumes - Mar 2001, Dec 2000, Sep 2000, Jun 2000, Mar 2000, Dec 1999, Sep 1999, Jun 1999 [Archived and compressed files in ?'zip' format. All links to these materials were dead on the day of this review - ed.]; Sponsorship Opportunities; Call for English Papers; World Hongming Philosophy Forum; Academic Activities in 2001; Data on World Philosophies, Religions and Cultures; An Outline of Buddhist Cultures: Seeking Writers in Chinese.
[The site in CN (GBK scheme) and EN. The compressed files with both past and current issues and a bias towards specific software ("This electronic journal requests your PC: 1) Windows Me/2000/98; 2) MS Office 2000; and 3) Internet Explorer 5.0/4.0.") signal that a swift and universal access to the online publication is actively discouraged by its editors - ed.]
URL http://www.whpq.com/English.htm
Link reported by: Prof. Dr. Hengyucius (hy@whpq.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

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