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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Jun 2001
Vol. 8, No. 17 (149)

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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 19
Entries rejected: 5

28 Jun 2001
3star
Sri Lankans in Sydney, Australia
www.ozlanka.com, Sydney, Australia
Supplied note: "Our web site now provides a comprehensive portal for the Sri Lankan community in Sydney, Australia."
Site contents: Latest Sri Lankan News [from BBC]; Main (Current Affairs, Editorial); Guides; Finance; White Pages; Australian Sri Lankan; Lanka Links; Projects; Notices; Newspapers (Australia, Sri Lanka, UK); Retirement; Sports; School News; Computers; Proposals; Entertainment; Sydney Events Calendar.
URL http://www.ozlanka.com/
Link reported by (webmaster@ozlanka.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

28 Jun 2001
3star
ERAS: Historical Studies E-Journal
School of Historical Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Supplied note: "Eras is a [fully-refereed] on-line journal [ISSN 1445-5218] edited and produced by postgraduate students from the School of Historical Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Papers published by Eras are accepted from the following disciplines: History, Archaeology and Ancient History, Religion and Theology and Jewish Civilisation. [...] We are seeking papers from postgraduate students working in any of the fields listed above."
URL http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/eras/
Link reported by the Eras Journal (eras@arts.monash.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

28 Jun 2001
3star
National Library of Australia: Regional Role, Indonesian Focus
National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "This month, June 2001, marks the 30th anniversary of the opening of the National Library of Australia's Regional Office in Jakarta. Oliver Mann who has been the Library's Regional Officer since December 1996 has written an article about the challenges of acquiring Indonesian publications in the current era of change and transition. It has been published in National Library of Australia News, June 2001 p.18-20. Entitled 'Regional Role, Indonesian Focus' this article is now also available at [the URL below]."
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/jun01/indonesia.html
Link reported by Andrew Gosling (agosling@nla.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

27 Jun 2001
4star
The Morrison Collection of Chinese Books
Andrew C. West, London, UK
Self-description: "Information relating to the Morrison Collection of Chinese Books at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) [London, UK]. This collection was formed by Dr. Robert Morrison (1782-1834), the first Protestant missionary to China, whilst living in Canton and Macau between 1807 and 1824. Information about the collections of William Marsden (1754-1836) and Sir George Thomas Staunton (1781-1859), inherited by SOAS from King's College London, are also included."
Site contents: (1) Introduction; (2) Morrison's Manuscript Catalogue (Edited transcription of Morrison's own manuscript catalogue of his Chinese books); (3) Index of "RM" Numbers (Index of the catalogue numbers assigned to books in Morrison's Manuscript Catalogue); (4) Index of UCL Shelfmarks (Index of the shelfmarks of the bound items in the Morrison Chinese Library as held at University College London (UCL) during the nineteenth-century); (5) The Williams Report (Extract from the 1854 Report on the Contents of the Morrison Chinese Library by John Williams); (6) The Marsden Collection (Summary of the contents of William Marsdens's collection books and manuscripts in Oriental and African languages that were transferred to SOAS from King's College London in 1920); (7) The Staunton Collection (List of Sir George Staunton's collection of Chinese printed books donated to King's College London in 1853); (8) Lost and Found (List of missing books from the Morrison Collection); (9) Addenda to the Catalogue (Catalogue records for books omitted from the 1998 printed catalogue of the Morrison Collection).
URL http://uk.geocities.com/Morrison1782/
Link reported by Andrew C. West (morrison1782@yahoo.co.uk), forwarded by Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

27 Jun 2001
4star
CNN In-Depth Specials - Tiananmen revisited
Cable News Network (CNN), USA
A CNN collection of documents, articles, and multimedia presentations on the June 4 1989 Tiananmen student protests.
Site contents: (1)Tiananmen papers [articles on the the book by Zhang Liang, incl. an analysis by CNN analyst Willy Lam]; (2) Who's who [Communist party figures]; (3) A look back [The Tiananmen revolt digitally revisited; incl. film with student in front of a tank]; (4) 12th anniversary (How people are remembering June 4]; (5) The right to protest [People who are standing up]; (6) Zhang Liang on '89 [Interview with the compiler of the Tiananmen papers].
Link reported by Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
URL http://asia.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/tiananmen/index.html
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

26 Jun 2001
3star
Transoxiana
Escuela de Estudios Orientales, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Supplied note: "[A recently established] On-line publication on Asian Studies, dealing with history, arts, religion, culture and science in a region stretching from Egypt to Japan. In Spanish."
Issue no 2.: Editorial La Bi-unidad de Radha y Krishna: inconcebiblemente uno y diferentes a la vez - Fabian Ezequiel Lopez; La Enfermedad y la Farmacopea en Mesopotamia - Lic. Noemi Sierra; Los Kurdos - Monica Cello; Simbolismo del Jade en la Funeraria China - Lic. Maiza Pinoche Capraro; Soles y Origenes: El mito armenio de la Creacion - Vartan Matiossian; La Teologia Menfita: Mito de Creacion - Susana Romero; El Asana: su importancia en el camino de realizacion del hombre - Lic. Leda Pilello.
URL http://www.salvador.edu.ar/transox/index.html
Link reported by: Paola Raffetta (paola_raffetta@sinectis.com.ar)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

23 Jun 2001
3star
Books & Periodicals Agency, India
Books & Periodicals Agency, New Delhi, India
[An online bookshop with books in English, Hindi and Sanskrit - ed.]
Selected site contents: Agriculture; Archaeology; Art; Biographies; Commerce; Communication; Country/Region; Demography/Population; Epics; Geography; Himalayas; History; Indian States; Journalism; Languages; Law; Library Science; Linguistics; Literature; Military Science/Defence Studies; National Leaders; Numismatics; Performing Art; Philosophy; Politics; References; Religions; Sociology/Anthropology; Tantric Studies; Textiles; Travel/Tourism; Yoga.
URL http://www.bpagency.com/
Link reported by: Books & Periodicals Agency (bpage@del2.vsnl.net.in)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

22 Jun 2001
3star
SARA - Scholarly Articles Research Alerting
Taylor & Francis Limited, London, UK
Supplied note: "[A] special email service designed to deliver tables of contents, for any Taylor & Francis, Carfax, Routledge, Spon Press, Martin Dunitz or Psychology Press journal, to anyone who has requested the information. This service is completely free of charge. [...] You can request contents pages either for any number of individual titles, or for one or more of our sub-categories or a main category, and you may unsubscribe at any time. For each of your choices, you will receive the relevant bibliographic information: journal title, volume/issue number and the ISSN. You will also receive full contents details, names of authors and the appropriate page numbers from the printed version. [...] To register for this complimentary service, please visit: [the URL below] and click on the SARA button."
Selected site contents: Arts & Humanities (Anthropology, Classics, History, Literature, Language & Linguistics); Geography, Planning & Environment; GIS/Remote Sensing; Social Sciences (Area Studies/Asia, Area Studies/Asia Pacific, Area Studies/Central Asia, Area Studies/Middle East, Area Studies/Russia & E Europe, Ethnic & Migration Studies, Gender Studies, Politics & International Relations, Race & Ethnicity, Religion, Sociology).
URL http://www.tandf.co.uk/sara
Link reported by: Jane Dawson (janed@tandf.co.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Jun 2001
3star
Hindustan Publishing Corporation, India
Hindustan Publishing Corp., New Delhi, India
Self-description:"International Publishers of scholarly books [on] Sciences, Humanities, Management. HPCPD - our international division is a global distributor of publications & journals of Gov. of India and United Nations. We stock various South Asian editions, back volumes and out of print materials of multinational publishers."
[A commercial site - ed.]
URL http://www.hpc.cc
Link reported by: Subodh Jain (ups@hpc.cc)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

20 Jun 2001
3star
European Association for Southeast Asia Studies (EUROSEAS)
EUROSEAS, KITVL, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Self-description: "EUROSEAS [est. 1992] is an association of European scholars who want to integrate their work, directed at Southeast Asia, with that of other European Southeast Asia specialists. They wish to achieve this, for example, by meeting each other regularly and making use of each other's expertise, publications and libraries. [...] EUROSEAS issues the 'European Newsletter of Southeast Asian Studies (ENSEAS)' in collaboration with the Dutch Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology (KITLV) twice a year."
URL http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/institutes/kitlv/euroseas.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

20 Jun 2001
3star
European Society for Central Asia Studies (ESCAS)
Department of Oriental Studies, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Self-description: "ESCAS [was established in 1985] to give Central Asian Studies the status of a separate research field in its own right, independent of Soviet and Eastern European studies, to establish research links with disciplines working within the same historical and cultural continuum in adjacent areas, and to create opportunities for direct cooperation between scholars of the former Soviet Central Asia and scholars in adjacent areas. [Past conferences:] ESCAS I, Utrecht (1985); ESCAS II, London (1987); ESCAS III, Paris (1989); ESCAS IV, Bamberg (1991); ESCAS V, Copenhagen (1995); ESCAS VI, Venice (1998)."
Site contents: About ESCAS; Reports on ESCAS Activities; ESCAS Publications; ESCAS Anthropological Network; Future Conferences and Workshops; Names of ESCAS Board Members; Names of ESCAS Members; ESCAS Newsletter.
URL http://www.let.uu.nl/~escas/
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

20 Jun 2001
3star
European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
The office of the EAJS, Japan Centre, Munich University, Munich, Germany
Self-description: "EAJS [est. Apr 1973] has developed into an association with members in 42 countries (not all of them Europe). Presently the association has about 650 personal members and 35 institutional members. It is open to the full range of the profession from established scholars through junior scholars to post-graduate students. Its activities tend to be grouped under the following disciplines: linguistics and language teaching; literature; religion and the history of ideas; history, politics and international relations; economics, economic and social history; anthropology and sociology; urban and environmental studies; visual and performing arts."
Site contents: What is EAJS; Activities; Links; Organisation; Joining; Database, Contact.
URL http://www.eajs.org/
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

20 Jun 2001
3star
European Association of Chinese Studies (EACS)
www.soas.ac.uk, London, UK
Self-description: "The purpose of the Association is to promote and foster, by every possible means, all scholarly activities related to Chinese studies in Europe. The Association shall not engage in any political activity."
Site contents: Addresses; Conferences; Discussion; Institutions; Jobs; Libraries; Membership; Museums; Newsletter; Other Associations; Publications.
URL http://www.soas.ac.uk/eacs/
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

20 Jun 2001
3star
Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE)
Universitaet Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Self-description: "The Association for Korean Studies in Europe (AKSE) is the main scholarly society for Korean studies in greater Europe. Its objectives are to stimulate and co-ordinate academic Korean studies in all countries of Europe, and to contribute to the spread of knowledge of Korea among a wider public. Founded in 1977, AKSE holds regular scholarly conferences and publishes an annual Newsletter."
Site contents: AKSE Newsletter Online; Council Members; Constitution of AKSE; Past AKSE Conferences; Next AKSE Conference, London 2001; Panels and Papers to be Presented at the Next AKSE Conference; AKSE Newsletter; Union Catalogue of Korean Periodicals in Europe; Links of interest to Korean studies."
URL http://www.akse.uni-kiel.de/
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

20 Jun 2001
3star
Maritime Empires, Jul 2001
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK
Self-description: "'Maritime Empires: The operation and impact of nineteenth-century British imperial trade.' A two-day international conference. National Maritime Museum, London. Monday and Tuesday 2-3 July, 2001. This two-day international conference will explore Britain's imperial maritime trade during the long nineteenth century. [...] Maritime Empires will highlight the significance of the relationship between Britain, imperial enterprise and the sea through an interdisciplinary focus on issues of control, technology, commerce, culture and communication."
URL http://www.nmm.ac.uk/cmr/open_museum_conferences/conferences_maritime.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

19 Jun 2001
3star
Manusya: Journal of Humanities
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Self-description: "'Manusya: Journal of Humanities' (ISSN 0859-9920) [...] began its biannual publication at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand in 1998. [...The associated web site provides] the contents of published issues of the journal and links from each title to an abstract of the article it names. The journal publishes [in English - ed.] papers on various issues in the humanities, including those related to the disciplines of history, philosophy, language, information studies, literature, music, dance, dramatic art, visual art, creative art, architecture, environmental design and applied art."
URL http://www.media.academic.chula.ac.th/manusya/
Link suggested by: Soraj Hongladarom (hsoraj@chula.ac.th)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

18 Jun 2001
3star
Report on Nepal's Royal Palace shootings
Nepal Telecommunications Corporation, Kathmandu, Nepal
Supplied note: "[A] synopsis of the Royal Palace Incident High Level Probe Commission Report, with versions in English and Nepali; a press release, a detailed report (Nepali only) and Scanned Annex Documents."
Self-description: "Facts about the incident that transpired at Narayanhity Royal Palace the night of June l, 200l."
URL http://www.ntc.net.np/
Link suggested by: Raymond Lum (rlum@fas.harvard.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

18 Jun 2001
3star
Count-Down To Indo-Pak Summit--III
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]."
[A note on Pakistan's economy during 2000-01. The Mr. A.B.Vajpayee - Gen. Pervez Musharraf meeting is scheduled for Jul 2001 - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper260.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

18 Jun 2001
3star
Chinese Activities In Balochistan
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 Chinese plans to mine gold and explore for gas/oil in Pakistan - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper259.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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