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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Apr 2001
Vol. 8, No. 12 (144)

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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 20
Entries rejected: 9

30 Apr 2001
3star
BBC News - South Asia
BBC, London,UK
Site content [on 30 Apr 2001]: Sri Lankan army death toll rises; Fourteen killed in Kashmir; Boat disaster in Bangladesh; Big anti-Indian protests in Bangladesh; Pakistan intensifies security ahead of rally; UN refugee chief tours hotspots; Pressure for jail orphans' release; Taleban start their Spring offensive; Earthquake felt in Delhi; Pakistan condemned for arrests; India pushes Bangladesh over alleged torture; Pakistani fishermen freed; Shanghai group meeting in Moscow; Schoolboy arrested for web porn; Afghans desperate for water. Also, the site offers other news from/about the region and the South Asian countries' profiles.
URL http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/
Link reported by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

29 Apr 2001
3star
AsiaSamaj - The South Asian Portal
AsiaSamaj, Washington, DC, US
Supplied note: "Online community (Samaj) for South Asians in Metropolitan Washington D.C. and elsewhere for exchange of information, ideas, opinions and services. Serves & supports all with origin, ties or interest in the countries in the Indian Subcontinent - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka & Tibet - without bias or prejudice."
[A companion site of IndiaSamaj - The Asian Indian Portal (indiasamaj.com) - ed.]
URL http://asiasamaj.com
Link reported by: Subhash Gupta (Publisher@AsiaSamaj.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

26 Apr 2001
999star
ChinaGeography@csd.uwm.edu
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, USA
Supplied note: "Discussion list of the China Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers - open to all China researchers. The list may be joined by sending the following message to: listserv@csd.uwm.edu subscribe chinageography yourfirstname yourlastname "
Link reported by: Alan A. Lew (alan.lew@nau.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

26 Apr 2001
999star
Urban-China@mailbase.ac.uk
JISCmail, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, UK
Supplied note: "The aim of this list is to provide a forum on various topics related to urban and regional studies in China. The list may be joined by sending the following message to: jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk join urban-china yourfirstname yourlastname "
Link reported by: Alan A. Lew (alan.lew@nau.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

26 Apr 2001
999star
ISSCOcommunicy@uclink2.berkeley.edu
University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA
Supplied note: "International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas - to advance research and scholarly exchange in the study of Chinese overseas - (socrates.berkeley.edu/~ethnicst/issco/). The list [the supplied list's name is 'ISSCOcommunicy', it is posssible that it should read 'ISSCOcommunity' - ed.] may be joined by sending a message to: Prof. L. Ling-chi Wang, lcwang@uclink2.berkeley.edu "
Link reported by: Alan A. Lew (alan.lew@nau.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

26 Apr 2001
999star
Asia Tourism Research (Asia Tourism)
www.topica.com, USA
Self-description: "This list [est. Feb 2001, the list may be joined from the website at the URL below - ed.] is for the discussion and dissemination of tourism research topics and issues, in and related to [...] East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Central Asia. (Southwest Asia and the Pacific are [...] included peripherally.) The list is operated by Alan A. Lew of Northern Arizona University."
URL http://www.topica.com/lists/asiatour/
Link reported by: Alan A. Lew (alan.lew@nau.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

26 Apr 2001
3star
4th International Conference on Okinawan Studies, Sep 2001
Japanologisches Seminar der Universitat Bonn, Germany
Supplied note: "The 4th International Conference on Okinawan Studies will be held September 27/28, 2001 at the University of Bonn / Germany [...] Sections on History, Archaeology, Linguistics, Literature and Performing Arts, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnology and Folklore, Arts and Crafts, Sociology, Natural Sciences. No fees for the conference are charged. [...] deadline for abstracts is June 15th, 2001."
URL http://www.okinawa-conference.uni-bonn.de
Link reported by: Bureau of the Okinawa-Conference, Bonn (okinawa-conference@uni-bonn.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

26 Apr 2001
999star
Asia Tourism Research (Asia Tourism)
www.topica.com, USA
Self-description: "This list [est. Feb 2001, the list may be joined from the website at the URL below - ed.] is for the discussion and dissemination of tourism research topics and issues, in and related to [...] East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Central Asia. (Southwest Asia and the Pacific are [...] included peripherally.) The list is operated by Alan A. Lew of Northern Arizona University."
URL http://www.topica.com/lists/asiatour/
Link reported by: Alan A. Lew (alan.lew@nau.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

26 Apr 2001
999star
ISSCOcommunicy@uclink2.berkeley.edu
University of California at Berkeley, CA, USA
Supplied note: "International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas - to advance research and scholarly exchange in the study of Chinese overseas - (socrates.berkeley.edu/~ethnicst/issco/).
The list [the supplied list's name is 'ISSCOcommunicy', it is posssible that it should read 'ISSCOcommunity' - ed.] may be joined by sending a message to: Prof. L. Ling-chi Wang, lcwang@uclink2.berkeley.edu "
Link reported by: Alan A. Lew (alan.lew@nau.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

26 Apr 2001
999star
Urban-China@mailbase.ac.uk
JISCmail, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, UK
Supplied note: "The aim of this list is to provide a forum on various topics related to urban and regional studies in China.
The list may be joined by sending the following message to: jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk join urban-china yourfirstname yourlastname "
Link reported by: Alan A. Lew (alan.lew@nau.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

26 Apr 2001
999star
ChinaGeography@csd.uwm.edu
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, USA
Supplied note: "Discussion list of the China Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers - open to all China researchers.
The list may be joined by sending the following message to: listserv@csd.uwm.edu subscribe chinageography yourfirstname yourlastname "
Link reported by: Alan A. Lew (alan.lew@nau.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

26 Apr 2001
2star
The Practice of [Tibetan] Chanting
c-level.com, USA
Supplied note: "Multimedia exploration of the practice of chanting in Tibetan Buddhism. This site uses a new method for displaying Tibetan text over the web using vectored text."
URL http://c-level.com/dubois/4/index.htm
Link reported by: David DuBois (jamyangdorje@home.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

26 Apr 2001
3star
CommodityIndia.com
Foretell Capital Trust Private Limited, India
Supplied note: "First portal on research-based statistics on commodities, advisory updates on domestic & international price trends, export & import watch, analysis on price formation, with a future base for online trading."
[A commercial site, access by subscription - ed.]
URL http://www.commodityindia.com
Link reported by: Foretell (foretell@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

25 Apr 2001
3star
Colonialism and Nationalism in Korea 1931-1950, May 2001
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Self-description: "Conference: "Between Colonialism and Nationalism: Power and Subjectivity in Korea, 1931-1950. Dates: May 4th through May 6th, 2001. International Institute, 1080 S. University, Ann Arbor, Michigan. [...] [The conference explores] the parallels and interaction between Japanese colonialism and Korean nationalism in the 1930s, between Japanese colonialism and post-1945 intervention by Soviet and American forces in Korea, and between colonial modernity and nation-state building efforts in post-1945 Korea [...]. This conference is open to the public, but seating is limited. [...] For the conference schedule, list of participants, and abstracts of the papers to be presented, go to [URL below]."
URL http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/ksp/2001-conference/about.html
Link reported by: Henry H. Em (henryem@umich.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

25 Apr 2001
4star
Iranian Oral History Project (IOHP)
Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Self-description: "[Since its launch in 1981] the project has recorded the memoirs of 134 individuals [...], comprising approximately 900 hours of tape and 18,000 pages of transcript [...] The collection embodies the most comprehensive chronicle of eye-witness reports of modern Iran by some of the key figures who defined her history. [...] Select transcripts of interviews [...] are available online."
Site contents: About (Director [Dr. Habib Ladjevardi], History and Interview Process, Transcript Availability); Narrators: A complete list of interview participants; Publications: Iranian Oral History Series and Guide; Transcripts: Online Excerpts in both English and Persian.
URL http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mideast/iohp/
Link reported by: Nikst (nikst@online.ru)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

23 Apr 2001
3star
Bangladesh: A Bengali Abbasi Lurking Somewhere?
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 religious extremism and extremists in Bangladesh - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper232.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]: Useful

23 Apr 2001
3star
Bulletin of the Asia Institute (BAI)
Bulletin of the Asia Institute, Bloomfield Hills, MI USA
Supplied note: "A scholarly journal [ISSN 0890-4460] that often publishes material on ancient Central Asia, including current excavations. Our volume 8 was devoted to Central Asian material, in fact, and our upcoming volume 12 carries a number of articles on French-Uzbek work."
Coverage: Iranian Studies; Central Asia; China and the West; Gandhara Buddhist Art; Islamic Art; Near East; Asia Minor; Archaeology; Metalwork; Ceramics; Glassware; Textiles; MSS; Wall Painting; Coins; Seals; Inscriptions; Literature; Language; Manichaeism; Zoroastrianism; Sculpture.
[A site with TOCs of the 11 volumes of the paper journal - ed.]
URL http://www.bulletinasiainstitute.org
Link reported by: Carol Bromberg (BAI34@aol.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

23 Apr 2001
2star
Sinophilia
www.sinophilia.org, Venice, Italy
Supplied note: "A site on Chinese culture divided into an inner part (guides and article archive on art, history, religions, language, etc.) and an outer part (a web directory to sites on China in many languages)."
[A guide est. 1998 and still largely under construction - ed.]
URL http://www.sinophilia.org
Link reported by: Diana Lavarini (info@sinophilia.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

23 Apr 2001
1star
Feinman in China
The Field Museum, Chicago, USA
Self-description: "You can virtually join 'Feinman in China,' an archaeological field expedition in Shandong, China. In his sixth year of fieldwork, Dr. Gary Feinman, chair of The Field Museum's anthropology department, will send electronic updates about a Chinese and American archaeological team's work to investigate the origins of early civilization more than 4,000 years ago."
Site contents: Meet Dr. Gary Feinman; The Expedition; Archived Field Updates; Featured Expedition Photos.
[A promotional e-leaflet; weak on archaeology, strong on the leader of the expedition - ed.]
URL http://www.fmnh.org/education/feinman/feinman_letters.htm
Link reported 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]: Marginal

22 Apr 2001
3star
Afghanistan: Pakistan's Black Hole
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 Taliban's relationship with Pakistan's military-intelligence establishment. - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper228.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]: Useful

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