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Edited by: Dr T.Matthew Ciolek

The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: mid May 2001
Vol. 8, No. 14 (146)

17 May 2001

Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa NZ (PCANZ) Archives
Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa NZ Archives, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Supplied note: "We have just launched our Foreign Mission Archives site [at the URL below] [...] Our holdings include the NZ Presbyterian Church's work in Vanuatu from the 1860s until today. In Asia, the work was in South China (Canton) [, and India]. [...] In due course we will have included other fields of work in Indonesia and Papua/New Guinea. That is some time down the track."
Site content: INFORMATION PAGES (The Mission Organization, An Overview of the Material, The Importance of this Material, Arrangement of the Material, Researching the Original Material); SUBJECT CATEGORIES (Synod of Otago & Southland Mission Committee Papers 1867-1901, Northern Presbyterian Church Missions Committee Papers 1888-1901, Foreign Missions Committee Papers 1901-1935, Missions Committee Papers 1936-1948, Overseas Missions Committee Papers 1949-1975, Canton Villages & South China Mission Papers, Kwantung Synod Papers, Madras Indian Mission Papers, Punjab Indian Mission Papers, Kwantung Synod Papers, New Hebrides Mission Papers, NZ Chinese Mission Papers); MISSION HISTORIES (Canton Villages & South China Mission History, Madras Indian Mission History, Punjab Indian Mission History, New Hebrides Mission History, NZ Chinese Mission History); MISSION PHOTOS (Madras Indian Mission photos, NZ Chinese Mission photos, Canton Villages Mission photos, Punjab Indian Mission photos, New Hebrides Mission photos, Ts'ung Fa Hills Itineration Tour [China], A Trip to Paonta [India]); MISSION SOUND ARCHIVES [excerpts from historic Missionary addresses recorded in 1939]; IN MEMORIAM [short biographical tributes with photos: Dr Joseph Ings M.B.,Ch.B.(Edin) 18??-1906), Dr Owen L. Eaton M.B.,Ch.B. (1909-1939), Dr Alfred. T. Howie M.B.,Ch.B. (1902-1936), Mrs Flora Murray (18??-1886), Mrs Agnes Watt (1846-1894), Rev William V Milne (1877-1937), Rev Thomas Smaill (1857-1902), Dr Robert Lamb MB.,Ch.M. (1862-1907) - ed.]; SEARCH.
[The ISP who hosts the site are clumsy people who relentlessly push their e-adverts. However, if these are ignored, the reader will be greatly rewarded by the wealth of high quality materials published by the PCANZ Archives - ed.]
URL http://nzfmc.freeyellow.com
Link reported by: Yvonne Wilkie (archive@clear.net.nz)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

16 May 2001

Mediating Human Rights and Democracy: Indonesia, Australia and the Netherlands, Feb 2002
Australian Public Intellectual Network (API), Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia.
Supplied note: "4-5 February, 2002. Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. [...] This conference aims to address [...] the roles that might be played by Australia and the Netherlands, in conjunction with Indonesians at the national and regional level. [...T]he central theme of this conference will be to explore the complex relationship between the media, democracy and human rights."
URL http://www.api-network.com/mediating/
Link reported by: Denise Woods (woodsdg@ses.curtin.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

16 May 2001

Alternative Geographies of Asia in the New Millennium, Dec 2001
Economic Geography, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
Supplied note: "First Call for Papers For an International Conference On Alternative Geographies of Asia in the New Millennium (The Second EARCAG -- Hong Kong 2001) [...] Its objective is to provide a forum for scholars from all parts of the world to discuss critically geographical issues of East Asia. Themes: economic crisis and industrial restructuring; spatialities of power; geography and difference; theorising the spatial configurations and built environment; The rubric of New International Division of Labour (NIDL) and Asian countries; the 'cultural turns' of economic geography; any other relevant geographical topics. [...] Date: 5th - 9th December, 2001 [...] Venue: Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University [...] [Abstracts deadline] 31st May, 2001."
URL http://econgeog.misc.hit-u.ac.jp/icgg/
Link reported by: Wing-Shing Tang (wstang@hkbu.edu.hk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

15 May 2001

William & Nina Matheson Books, Inc.
William & Nina Matheson Books, Inc., Washington, DC, USA
Supplied note "An online and offline bookship with a specialty in Asian-American literature, history, Asian mythology, and general Asian studies."
[A commercial site - ed.]
URL http://www.mathesonbooks.com/
Link reported by: Nina Matheson (matheson@boo.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

15 May 2001

Asian Studies in Asia Network
Division of Pacific & Asian History, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description "This project, an initiative of Professor Anthony Reid during his tenure as President of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (coombs.anu.edu.au/ASAA/), arose out of the developing understanding that, in an important sense and for important reasons, the core region for the study of Asia must be the Asian region itself. [...] The network seeks to support and complement the activities of Asian Studies scholars throughout Asia in developing networks for the exchange of ideas and information. Please feel free to contact us if you would like further information or have initiatives you would like to share with members of the network. The activities of the network are assisted by the generous support of the Ford Foundation."
Site contents: About; Directory (The Directory of Asian Studies in Asia [the systematic study by Asian scholars of one or more Asian societies other than their own] - under construction); Current Projects; Participation Scheme ("This grant aims to provide assistance to scholars [within the region] working on humanities/social sciences topics related to Asia who wish to attend humanities/social sciences conferences on Asian topics that are held within the region."); Noticeboard; Relevant Links; Contact Us.
URL http://asianet.anu.edu.au
Link reported by: Jude Shanahan (shanahan@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

15 May 2001

e-Japanese
The Ohio State Univ., USA
Supplied note: "'e-Japanese' [..] site is maintained by a young future scholar research group, Research-J. As young future scholar group, we want to provide a commercial free pure academic portal site for Foreign Language Learning. We are currently providing 4 articles. Moreover, it is available in English and Japanese."
Site contents: Japanese Computing; Power Tool Series for Japanese Learning; Learning Japanese Through The Internet; How to use Japanese with English Windows.
URL http://e-japanese-online.org
Link reported by: Young Joon Moon (moon.43@osu.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

14 May 2001

Sino-US Relations: The Economic Aspect
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]."
URL http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper241.html
Link reported 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

13 May 2001

Trade Routes of Eurasia: Georeferenced Datasets
OWTRAD, Asia-Pacific Research Online, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "Old World Traditional Trade Routes (OWTRAD) Project provides a public-access electronic archive of geo/chrono-referenced data on land, river and maritime trade routes of Eurasia and Africa during the period 10,000 BCE - circa 1820 CE. In early May 2001 there were 16 GIS-ready datasets including those on: Middle East, 600 BCE-500 BCE, trade routes (13 records); Persia, 50 BCE-300 CE, trade routes (92 records); Central Asia, 700-1000 CE, 'Silk Road' routes (58 records); Central Asia, 1 CE-1400 CE, 'Silk Road' routes (81 records); India, 1550-1710 CE, major roads (88 records); Karakoram and Pamir,1900 CE, major travel routes (17 records). All OWTRAD data are stored in plain text (low ASCII) format. Records are published on separate lines, one record per line. Fields within records are separated by a comma. All records are designed to be copied from the screen and used as an input for subsequent word-processing, email, database, spreadsheet, or GIS operations. In addition to the datasets the site offers 'The OWTRAD Gazetteer' version 6.0 Apr 2001, with geographical coordinates for 4358 variant names of 1000 places (current as well as historical settlements, oases, river and mountain crossings, etc.) in Asia, Europe and Africa."
URL http://www.ciolek.com/owtrad.html
Link reported by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

12 May 2001

Kirti Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies
Kirti Institute for Higher Tibetan Studies, Dharamsala, India
Self-description: "The Institute was founded [in 1990 by Rongchen Choekyi Gyalpo Rinpoche, Minister of the Department of Religion and Culture of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile (www.tibet.com) - ed.] with the aim of preserving Tibet's unique cultural and religious heritage. To ensure that this heritage is not lost, Kirti Institute offers young monks from Tibet [over 200 monks from 48 different monasteries from 17 districts of Tibet - ed.] an opportunity to study Tibetan culture and religion in an environment free from persecution. Once their studies are complete, many of our students return to Tibet to teach in the monasteries and provinces from which they came, thereby uplifting the cultural and religious literacy of the people of Tibet."
Site content: The Aims of the Institute; Our Progress; Our Students; Our Curriculum; The Institute's Founder; Our Difficulties; Our Appeal; We Need Your Help; Our Address.
[A bi-lingual (TIB, EN) site - ed.]
URL http://www.kirtiinstitute.com/
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

12 May 2001

IndDiaspora: Indian Diaspora mailing list
groups.yahoo.com, India
Supplied note: "The purpose of the list is to encourage Indians [across the world - ed.] to interact and learn about each other and share information about successful models of assimilation & advancement that can be replicated elsewhere."
Self-description: "Group Info: Members: 15; Founded: May 9, 2001; Language: English; [...] Unmoderated."
URL http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IndDiaspora
Link reported by: Harsh Verma (harshver@yahoo.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

11 May 2001

Ganesha Bookshop
Ganesha Bookshop, Jalan Raya, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia
Supplied note: "Ganesha Bookshop is a [...] resource for books on Bali and on Indonesia. We have an extensive on-line catalogue including Indonesian Culture, the Arts, Indonesian Music, Religion, Indonesian Fiction, Poetry and Prose, Travel guides, Language Resources and much more."
[A commercial site - ed.]
URL http://www.ganeshabooksbali.com
Link reported by: Anita Scheeres (ganeshabks@denpasar.wasantara.net.id)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 May 2001

Yellowpages Vietnam on Internet
Yellowpages Vietnam Company, Vietnam
Supplied note: "The official yellowpages vietnam on the internet."
[A bi-lingual (VN and EN) site - ed.]
URL http://www.yellowpages.com.vn
Link reported by: Le Tan Hung (info@ypvn.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 May 2001

Caves Artnet
Caves Artnet, Taipei, Taiwan
Self-description: "[A] commercial website [with...] information on Chinese art and artists. [...:]: art gallery on line, artists, information on galleries, art column, art news, e-commerce, art bookshop, art gifts, art downloads, BBS and art links. Since its inception in 1997, [...] cooperated with big fine arts institutions such as the National Museum of History to set up original websites. Works include 'Special Exhibition on Arman', 'The World of Li Keran' and 'Taipei Art Fair 2000 International'."
[A very rich and professional site (in Chinese, with EN navigation links - T.M.Ciolek.) with a good database on lifes and works of Chinese artists and other useful material - H.Lecher].
URL http://www.gallery.com.tw/
Link reported by: Chris Van Peteghem, Caves Art Center, Taiwan; forwarded by: Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de) by
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

11 May 2001

Indonesian Acquisition List (IAL)
National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "The Indonesian Acquisition List (IAL) provides basic bibliographic details for monographs and new serial titles published in Indonesia and recently acquired by the National Library of Australia's Regional Office in Jakarta. IAL no. 1, March 2001 is now available at [the URL below] and contains entries for items acquired between December 2000 and February 2001. All issues of IAL from no.1, March 1996 are now available [online in HTML, PDF, Word formats - ed.]."
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

11 May 2001

Alikhan Tore [President of Eastern Turkistan Republic (1944-46)]
alikhantore.homestead.com, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Self-description: "This website is devoted to life and memory of Alikhan Tore. [...] (1885-1976) [...] the first President of Eastern Turkistan Republic [...] a 'white spot' in historical analysis of National Liberation Movement of Eastern Turkistan in the 40s years of XX century."
[A handful of notes written Feb 2001 by Dr Kutlukkhan Shakirov of Uzbekistan, a part of a forthcoming site - ed.]
URL http://alikhantore.homestead.com
Link reported by: Sattarkhan Shakirov (sattarkhans@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

11 May 2001

Maharashtra: Looking Inward, Looking Outward, Jun 2001
Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, USA
Supplied note: "The Ninth International Conference on Maharashtra will meet June 6-10 at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. Approximately 25 scholars from around the world will present papers addressing the general theme 'Maharashtra: Looking Inward, Looking Outward.' [...] Ten volumes of papers from previous conferences have been published with several more to come."
URL http://www.macalester.edu/~icm9/
Link reported by: Lee Schlesinger (schlesin@umich.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 May 2001

The Institute of Vietnamese Studies
The Institute of Vietnamese Studies, USA
Supplied note: "[A] private, non-profit interdisciplinary research institution. The Institute is established to exchange information on, and to promote public awareness of Vietnamese culture, history and literature among historians, scholars, students and the public. The Institute of Vietnamese Studies offers high quality education programs, as well as correspondence courses. Besides these programs and courses, which respond to learners' needs, the Institute also sponsors many projects related to Vietnamese studies."
Site contents: Announcements; Activities; Programs & Curriculum; Organization; Faculty; Classes; Student Corner; Newsletter [in PDF format]; Admin.
[A bi-lingual (VN,EN) site - ed.]
URL http://www.viethoc.org
Link reported by: Lan Nguyen (nguyenphuonglan@viethoc.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 May 2001

Second Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Oct 2001
Dept of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
Supplied note: "'Asia Interacts.' October 19-20, 2001. The purpose of our conference is to provide a forum for graduate students to meet, interact and present their research in any discipline in the Humanities and Social Sciences pertaining to East Asia. [...] All presentations of papers should be no longer than 15 minutes. Participants are encouraged to form panels of three if possible. Please submit abstracts no longer than 200 words by June 1, 2001."
URL http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/easgsc/
Link reported by: Jessey J.C. Choo (jessey@mindspring.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

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