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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early Jul 2001
Vol. 8, No. 18 (150)

13 Jul 2001

Observatory of Tibet and Central Asia (OTAC)
Barcelona University, Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain).
Supplied note: "The Observatory of Tibet and Central Asia is a new Research Center recently established by Barcelona University to study the Civilizations of Tibet, Mongolia and Turkic Republics in Central Asia through research and teaching. We have focused on two main research lines: Nomad traditions, Tibetan Literature, and the biography and works of the XV c. Catalan traveller, Antoni de Montserrat (author of the first map of the Himalaya)."
Site contents: Objectives, Research, Activities, Links, Publications, Contact Us.
[The site, in Catalan and English, lists unannotated links to resources on: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Burma, Buryatia, China, Eastern Turkestan, India [planned page], Inner Mongolia, Kalmykia, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal [planned page], Pakistan, Russia [planned page], Tajikistan, Tibet, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uzbekistan, Yellow Uighurs. Most of other parts of the "Observatory" await substantial development - ed.]
URL http://www.otac.ub.es
Link reported by: Josep Lluis Alay (alay@giga.sct.ub.es)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

13 Jul 2001

Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies (ejcjs)
www.japanesestudies.org.uk, UK
Supplied note: "A new [free] e-journal dedicated to publishing scholarly writing on all aspects of contemporary Japanese economy, politics, and culture. [...] ejcjs [est. Dec 2000 - ed.] takes a global perspective to the study of contemporary Japan and in so doing hopes to make a positive and constructive contribution to 21st century life worldwide. Contributions from interested and concerned scholars are welcome."
Site contents: Articles [to be established]; Discussion Papers; Creative Writing, Photography, and Art [to be established]; Reviews; Web Links; Resource Information [to be established]; ejcjs News; Information for Contributors; Editorial Board.
URL http://www.japanesestudies.org.uk/
Link reported by: Peter Matanle (peter_matanle@yahoo.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

13 Jul 2001

Pakistan: Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE)
Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Islamabad, Pakistan
The site, launched 6 Jul 2001, does not provide ANY information. However it makes an unannotated link to http://www.fbise.com/index.asp page full of feral, browser-crashing ShockWave add-ons. Definitely not an information resource of use to citizens of a country which by Jan 2001 had only a slight exposure to the Internet (6,467 internet hosts in Pakistan in Jan 2001. For comparison - Japan: 4.6 mln; Taiwan: 1.1 mln; Turkey: 113,000; India: 36,000, United Arab Emirates: 34,000, Philippines: 19,000) - ed.
URL http://www.fbise.edu.pk/
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]: rating not available

13 Jul 2001

Tibetan Townships Database
Diamond Bay Research, Cambridge, MA, USA
Supplied note: "Tibetan Placenames datasets have been produced by CHGIS [the China Historical GIS Project (fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/) - ed.] for a digital gazetteer in cooperation with the Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library (U. of Virginia). CHGIS completed a dataset including Chinese Characters and has sent them to THDL for addition of Tibetan names. The Tibetan dataset is searchable at: [the URL below] The source file is available from CHGIS upon request."
[Currently it is a very rudimentary online system covering PRC prefectures of Ali, Changdu (Chamdo), Lhasa, Linzhi Naqu, Rigaze (Shigaze), and Shannan. So far the database does not provide Tibetan names, nor their long-lat coordinates. An example of the record for a town "Dasa" follows: Chinese Name: [name in BIG5 format - ed.]; Pinyin Name: Dasa; Chinese Admin Unit: [name in BIG5 format - ed.]; Admin Unit: xiang; English Equivalent of Admin Unit: rural township; County Name: Naqu; Prefecture Name: Naqu Diqu; GB 91 County ID: 542421 Ryavec Township ID: 54242154 (id internal to the project) - ed.]
URL http://www.dbr.nu/vortex/test/tibet/tbt_twns1.html
Link reported by: Merrick Lex Berman (mberman@fas.harvard.edu)
* resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Document
* scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

13 Jul 2001

International Workshop on Historical GIS, Aug 2001
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Supplied note: "International Workshop on Historical GIS sponsored by the China Historical GIS Project (CHGIS) (fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/) will be held at Fudan University in Shanghai, August 23rd-25th, 2001.
The workshop will bring together historical geographers of China, scholars building GIS projects that concern the historical political geography of other parts of the world, and scholars developing standards and methodologies that pertain to historical GIS research in general. The workshop will have three objectives. 1.To introduce the China Historical GIS project architecture and the 1820 pilot project, seeking comments from both historical geographers of China and other GIS researchers. 2.To hold panels on thematic or methodological issues related to historical GIS and present completed work or work in progress from other country or region-based projects. 3.To discuss the development of standards and architecture for an interoperable world historical GIS."
URL http://fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/meetings/shanghai.html
Link reported by: Merrick Lex Berman (mberman@fas.harvard.edu)
* resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

13 Jul 2001

The Digital Indexed Zuozhuan (DIZ) project
El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico
Supplied note: "The Digital Indexed Zuozhuan (DIZ) project [by John Page and Isabel Garcia Hidalgo - ed.] is designed to facilitate [online] reading and analysis of the Zuozhuan text [...]. The project offers two means of access to the Chinese text: 1) Insertion of the desired Chinese character(s) from Twinbridge Chinese Partner into the bar provided initiates a search throughout the entire text. 2) Under a separate heading, the text may be read and the contextual Fraser/Lockhart English equivalents of unrecognized characters made to appear at the foot of the monitor. 3) Under another heading the English index may also be consulted direct by Chinese character solicited."
URL http://mezcal.colmex.mx/zuozhuan
Link reported by: John Page (jpage@colmex.mx)
* resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

12 Jul 2001

The Economist "Country Briefing" Pages
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), The Economist, London, UK
Supplied note: "The Economist (Economist.Com) has launched a new 'Country Briefings' resource that contains, for the most part, free content. Overview: 1) Reports for 60 Countries [incl. China; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Japan; Kazakhstan; Malaysia; Pakistan; Philippines; Saudi Arabia; Singapore; South Korea; Sri Lanka; Taiwan; Thailand; Turkey; Vietnam - ed.] 2) From a news release, 'For each country we have brought together succinct forecasts, economic and political profiles, core statistics, essential recent articles and in-depth surveys from The Economist.' A Look at A Country Briefing: Australia. Content Includes: A) An article from a 6/22/01 EIU Country Forecast (Free); B) Links to 16 Article From The Economist (9 of them free to read online); C) Map; D) Currency Converter; E) Current Stock Market Index Numbers; F) Factsheet from the EIU (free); Selected Content from EIU Reports (All Free); G) Forecast; H) Political forces; I) Political structure; J) Economic structure; K) Economic data (four years)."
URL http://www.economist.com/countries/
Link reported by: Gary Price (gprice@gwu.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

12 Jul 2001

Japan's Information Communication White Paper
The Japanese Government, Tokyo, Japan
Supplied note: "The Japanese Government (Somu-cho) made available 'Joho Tsushin Hakusho'(Information Communication White paper) on 10 July 2001. It is fulltext with HTML and also PDF/Text format and downloadable. (350 pages, 38 MG [MB? - ed.], divided into 30 separate files, and graphs also downloadable with Excel format). It is worthwhile."
[A site in Japanese language - ed.]
URL http://www.home.soumu.go.jp/hakusyo/tsushin/index.html
Link reported by: Toshio Takagi (toshio.takagi@anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

12 Jul 2001

American Journal of Chinese Studies (AJCS)
American Association of Chinese Studies, United States
Supplied note: "The American Journal of Chinese Studies is the official publication of the American Association for Chinese Studies and is published twice a year, in April and October. The language of publication is English. The Journal invites the submission of original articles on Taiwan, mainland China, and locales with significant Chinese population or influence in all disciplines of the social sciences and humanities.
All manuscripts are refereed for acceptance, except for those commissioned on specific subjects within carefully prescribed parameters. [...] The AJCS is indexed and/or abstracted in America: History & Life, Historical Abstracts; Bibliography of Asian Studies; Public Affairs Information Service; and is listed in the MLA Directory of Periodicals and Ulrich's International Periodicals Dictionary."
[A page with information about the journal - ed.]
URL http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/aacs/ajcs.htm
Link reported by: Thomas J. Bellows, Editor (tbellows@utsa.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 Jul 2001

Council Study Centers in Asia
CIEE, USA
Supplied note: "CIEE has five study aboard programs in East Asia: Beijing at Peking University, Nanjing at Nanjing University, Shanghai at East China Normal University, Taipei at National Chengchi University, and Tokyo at Sophia University. CIEE offers semester, summer, and academic year programs for US students to learn East Asian languages and area studies courses focusing on the region."
URL http://www.ciee.org/study
Link reported by: Mingzheng Shi (mzshi@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

08 Jul 2001

Maoists' Offensive In Nepal
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]."
[Notes on the increase in the communist guerilla activities in Nepal - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper274.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]: Interesting

07 Jul 2001

Afghaniyat - Afghan Listserver
groups.yahoo.com, ?USA
Supplied note: "The goal of the Listserver [Founded in Apr 2001, 680 subscribers on 7 Jul 2001 - ed.] [....is] to unite the displaced people of Afghanistan under the concept of Afghaniyat [...] (Afghan-hood). In order to achieve these goals, we need to better understand the social, cultural and political challenges of Afghanistan and Afghans dispersed throughout. The server will serve as a medium for exchange of views, debate, and announcements about Afghanistan."
URL http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afghaniyat
Link reported by: "Mana'i Afghaniyat" (afghaniyat@yahoo.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

04 Jul 2001

"Sinar Harapan" newspaper
Sinar Harapan, Jakarta, Indonesia
Supplied note: "The Jakarta afternoon newspaper "Sinar Harapan" was relaunched on 2 July after an absence of 15 years (it was closed down in the mid 1980s for being too critical of the Soeharto government). The newspaper [in Indonesian - ed.] has a Web site at [the URL below]."
Site contents: Tajuk Rencana; Nasional; Ekonomi; Jabotabek; Nusantara; Luar Negeri; Olah Raga; Iptek; Feature; Hiburan; Opini; Foto; Karikatur; Komentar Anda; Tentang SH.
URL http://www.sinarharapan.co.id
Link reported by: Oliver Mann (oliver.mann@dfat.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

03 Jul 2001

Pastoralism Resource Centre
Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Supplied note: "Eldis ('the gateway to development information') is collaborating with the Institute of Development Studies in creating a [prototype - ed.] 'Resource Centre' dedicated to pastoralism; pastoralism and education; pastoralism and conflict. [...] The [...] Centre will: 1. Feature important articles pitched at, (and emerging from), policy-makers, grassroot organizations and NGOs, academics and researchers 2. Incorporate relevant news items, i.e. conferences, new project initiatives etc. 3. Highlight specially commissioned resources such as, for example: * a reasoned list of recent and on-going projects concerning pastoralists and pastoralism; * reference lists of electronic and paper-based literature; * a comprehensive databases of researchers, organisations, NGOs, academics working in the arena of pastoralism. 4. Allow you as an organisation to contribute research work and relevant materials to a website which has a high visibility. 5. Offer the possibility to participate in a moderated discussion forum and communicate with a large community of people involved in the issues pertaining to pastoralism. 6. Offer the possibility to receive highlights on pastoralism via e-mail. 7. Offer on-line search facilities through our database of pastoralism-related materials, using keywords."
URL http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/rc/pastoralism.htm
Link reported by: Marc Theuss (m.theuss@ids.ac.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/News/Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

02 Jul 2001

Musharraf, bin Laden & the Lashkar
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 the activities of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HUM), the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) and Osama bin Laden's International Islamic Front for Jihad Against the US and Israel. - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper266.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]: Interesting

01 Jul 2001

Globalization and Malaysia's Place in the Region, Nov 2001
University of New England (UNE), Armidale, NSW, Australia
Self-description: "12th Biennial Colloquium [of the Malaysia Society (www.une.edu.au/asiacenter/MalSoc.html) - ed.] 'Globalization and Malaysia's Place in the Region', Dates: 8-9 (Thursday/Friday) November 2001, Venue: School of Economics and Political Science, University of Sydney
[...] In addition to the conventionally varied disciplinary papers on Malaysia, we welcome the participation of academics, postgraduate students and others engaged in research related to Singapore, Brunei and Malaysia’s multi-faceted links with the region. Additionally, comparative studies of the Malaysian experience and relations with neighboring countries are encouraged."
URL http://www.une.edu.au/asiacenter/12Colloc.html
Link reported by: Ian Metcalfe (imetcalf@metz.une.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

01 Jul 2001

Malaysia Society
University of New England (UNE), Armidale, NSW, Australia
Self-description: "The Malaysia Society is a scholarly group involved in research on Malaysia, and Malaysia-related topics and is a chapter of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (coombs.anu.edu.au/ASAA/). Its main activities comprise a biennial Colloquium, and the James C. Jackson Memorial Lecture, which also appears in printed form."
Site contents: About the Society; Executive Officers; Forthcoming events; Publications; Links; UNE Asia Centre Home Page.
URL http://www.une.edu.au/asiacenter/MalSoc.html
Link reported by: Ian Metcalfe (imetcalf@metz.une.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

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