The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early Oct 2002
Vol. 9, No. 19 (179)

15 Oct 2002

Asian Medicine: Nationalism, Transnationalism and the Politics of Culture, Nov 2002
Asian Studies Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Supplied note: "Bringing together fifteen leading international scholars in the fields of medical anthropology and the history of medicine this conference [November 14-16, 2002 - ed.] looks at the way in which medical knowledge and practice in Asia is constructed through the political culture of transnational communication and nationalist appropriation - jsa."
URL http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/asianmedicine
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Joseph S. Alter (jsalter@pitt.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

14 Oct 2002

Terror in Bali
Asia Intelligence Ltd., London, UK
Supplied note: "You might be interested to see this week's ASIAINT WEEKLY ALERT which includes our latest assessment of the Islamist threat to Indonesia. - jdc."
[The paper on 'Terror in Bali' suggests that "there is still no good reason to suppose that Islamic militancy is on the verge of posing a systemic threat to Indonesia." - ed.]
URL http://www.asiaint.com/top/TOP1372.asp
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Joe de Courcy (CEO@asiaint.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

14 Oct 2002

Bali Blasts: Iraq-Related?
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] - br."
[The paper suggests that further anti-Western attacks "are likely [world-wide - ed.] as the US and the UK go ahead with their preparations for an attack on Iraq for the overthrow of President Saddam Hussein." The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers6/paper533.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

11 Oct 2002

"Central Asia and Culture of Peace" - Journal
Central Asian Conflict Prevention Center, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Supplied note: "The scientific-educational journal "Central Asia and Culture of Peace" [...] focuses on socio-political issues in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia, peace studies and conflict prevention. [...] Since its inception in April 1997, thirteen numbers of the journal have been published. [...] The journal has its own [in Russian language, with English short summaries of articles - ed.] website: [see the URL below]. On this site we have two numbers [no. 1(4) and 2-3 (5-6), 1998 - ed.] of the journal and we are now working on other issues for inclusion on the website. The next number will be devoted to the following themes: * Development of ethnic cultures in Central Asia; * Problems of international terrorism; * Reform of education; * Intercultural and interreligious dialogue; * Integration and regional identity [...] - natcomunesco."
URL http://www.freenet.kg/jornal/main.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.freenet.kg/jornal/main.html
Link reported by: Kyrygz National Commission of UNESCO (natcomunesco@intranet.kg), forwarded by central-eurasia-L@fas.harvard.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Rating not available
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

11 Oct 2002

ReForming Southeast Asia: Challenges & Prospects, May 2003
ASEAN Seminar Secretariat, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Supplied note: "The School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (in collaboration with the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore and School of Social Development, Universiti Utara Malaysia) is organizing the Sixth ASEAN Inter University Seminar on Social Development to be held in Penang 20-22 May 2003. We would like to invite all those interested in coordinating panels and preparing papers to submit abstracts to the seminar secretariat by 15 January 2003. The main theme for the Sixth ASEAN Inter University Seminar is 'Re Forming Southeast Asia: Challenges & Prospects.'
URL http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/soc/asean/asean_inter.htm
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Stephen John Appold (socsja@nus.edu.sg), forwarded by (h_seasia@nus.edu.sg)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

11 Oct 2002

Hiroshima: Was It Necessary? The Atomic Bombing of Japan
www.doug-long.com, Downers Grove, IL, USA
Site contents: An article by Doug Long about whether the atomic bombing of Hiroshima was necessary; Who's Who and What'd They Do?; Some prominent Americans who questioned the atomic bombing of Japan; For Random Ramblings on Hiroshima; Gar Alperovitz and the H-Net Hiroshima Debate; A letter from historians to the Smithsonian on the Enola Gay exhibit; Expanded bibliography on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima; Recommended books for students; Diaries and Papers Relating to the Atomic Bombing of Japan: (President Truman's diary and papers, Under Sec. of the Navy Ralph Bard's Alternative to A-bombing Japan, Sec. of War Henry Stimson's diary and papers); Web Sites on Related Topics: (The A-Bomb Museum, The Leo Szilard page : The Manhattan Project and the atomic bombings, Nuclear Files Archive, The Hiroshima Archive, Chronological History of Nuclear Weapons); Organizations That Offer Info and Actions on Nuclear Activity: (20/20 Vision. Center For Defense Information)
URL http://www.doug-long.com/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.doug-long.com/
Link reported by: Marc Jason Gilbert (mgilbert@ngcsu.edu), forwarded by (h-asia@h-net.msu.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1000

11 Oct 2002

24th Annual Alberta Buddhist Conference, Nov 2002
Lethbridge Honpa Temple, The Buddhist Federation of Alberta, Alberta, Canada
Supplied note: "Announcing: The Alberta Buddhist Conference, November 1-3, 2002, 'Finding Serenity in the Chaos'. Sensei Grant Ikuta, 'Finding Serenity in the Chaos'; Dr. Charles Willemens, Numata Chair, 'The Beginnings of Zen Buddhism'; Dr. Hillary Rodriguez, 'Religion and Science'; Dr. Leslie Kawamura, 'Buddhism and Science'; Andrew Ichikawa, 'Music Therapy'; Dennis Shigematsu, 'Journey to Cambodia' - dj."
URL http://www.telusplanet.net/public/honpa/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.telusplanet.net/public/honpa/
Link reported by: Dan Johnson (dan-johnson@shaw.ca)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

11 Oct 2002

4th Annual Vietnam Study Tour, Jun 2003
The Sage Colleges/Suny, Albany, NY, USA
Self-description: "Vietnam: A Journey of Learning and Reconciliation with the Sage Colleges June 1-17 or the 21st, 2003. Fourth Annual Study Tour. A program of academic travel led by Steven A. Leibo Ph.D. A professor of Modern International History & Politics -- especially Asian Western Relations and Song Dinh Tran an educator and veteran of the Vietnam War."
URL http://www.sage.edu/RSC/programs/globcomm/division/activities/viettrip.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.sage.edu/RSC/programs/globcomm/division/activities/viettrip.html
Link reported by: Steven Leibo (sleibo@sage.edu), forwarded by h-asia@h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

11 Oct 2002

New Book: 'Zhou Mi's Record of Clouds and Mist Passing Before One's Eyes' (2002)
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "'Zhou Mi's Record of Clouds and Mist Passing Before One's Eyes' by Ankeney Weitz (2002), Sinica Leidensia, 54, An Annotated Translation.
[...T]he social and cultural history of Chinese art collecting during the early years of Mongol rule in China (the Yuan dynasty, 1276-1368). At the core of Weitz's book is a complete translation of the Record of Clouds and Mist Passing Before One's Eyes (Yunyan guoyan lu), an art catalog written by the Song dynasty loyalist Zhou Mi (1232-1298). This text contains detailed records of more than forty private art collections that the author saw in Hangzhou between 1275 and 1296. - avh."
URL http://www.brill.nl/product_id10448.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Anja van Hoek (hoek@brill.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Document
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

11 Oct 2002

New Book: 'Carnival in China A reading of the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan' (2002)
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "'Carnival in China' China Studies, 1, 'A Reading of the Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan' by Daria Berg (2002).
[A]n anonymous traditional Chinese novel, portrays local society and provincial life in seventeenth-century China in comic and grotesque close-up. A dystopian satire, the novel provides fascinating insights into the popular culture and wild imagination of men and women in late imperial China. Using an array of sources fiction, poetry, texts on medical ethics, religious thought, political and philosophical treatises, morality books and local gazetteers Carnival in China develops a style of reading that explores how seventeenth-century Chinese citizens perceived their world. - avh."
URL http://www.brill.nl/product_id10291.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Anja van Hoek (hoek@brill.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Document
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

11 Oct 2002

New Book: 'Passionate Women Female Suicide in Late Imperial China' (2001)
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "'Passionate Women Female Suicide in Late Imperial China' Edited by Paul Ropp, Paola Zamperini and Harr (2001).
[T]he first attempt in English-language scholarship to revise earlier views of female self-destruction that had been shaped by the August Fourth Movement and anti-Confucian critiques of Chinese culture, and to consider the matter of female suicide in the wider context of more recent scholarship on women and gender relations in late imperial China. [...] The volume closes with an extensive bibliography of relevant and important Chinese, Japanese, and Western publications [...]. - avh."
URL http://www.brill.nl/product_id9785.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Anja van Hoek (hoek@brill.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Document
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

11 Oct 2002

New Book: 'Education in Ancient India' (2002)
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "'Education in Ancient India' by Hartmut Scharfe (2002), Handbook of Oriental Studies. Part 2 South Asia, 16.
This is the first comprehensive survey of all aspects of education in India, both in the oral and written traditions. Chronologically it covers everything from the Vedic period upto the Hindu kingdoms before the establishment of Muslim rule. [...] The full documentation facilitates quick access to the original sources scholarly literature on Indian education. A true reference work. - avh."
URL http://www.brill.nl/product_id10424.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Anja van Hoek (hoek@brill.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Document
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

11 Oct 2002

New Book: 'Tibet, Self, and the Tibetan Diaspora' (2002)
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "'Tibet, Self, and the Tibetan Diaspora' Edited by P. Christiaan Klieger (2002), Brill's Tibetan Studies Library, 2.
The ten papers presented in this eight volume of the Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the IATS, 2000, provide examples of the colourful and lively range of Tibetan self-expressions that exist within the modern homeland and in exile. The scholars here represent the fields of anthropology, sociology, literary studies, history, and political science. Four papers are based in studies in the modern Tibet Autonomous Region, five are grounded in the Tibetan diaspora, and one deals with both classical Tibetan history and current affairs. [...]. - avh."
URL http://www.brill.nl/product_id10406.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Anja van Hoek (hoek@brill.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Document
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

08 Oct 2002

Nepal: People's War Or Terrorism?
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] - br."
[Notes on "dangers of painting all anti-Government armed movements as 'terrorist movements', [and] suppressing them ruthlessly without attempting to understand the ideological motivation of the movements." The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers6/paper530.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

07 Oct 2002

Pakistan: Elections & After
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] - br."
[Notes on Gen. Pervez Musharraf's attempts "to influence the forthcoming elections to the National Assembly on October 10, 2002." The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers6/paper527.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

06 Oct 2002

Islamic Terrorism in India
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] - br."
["Since the late 1980s, Islamic terrorism has grown into a hydra-headed monster, with innumerable tentacles which include: * The indigenous Kashmiri organisations ... * The pan-Islamic Pakistani organisations ... * The SIMI (The Students' Islamic Movement of India - ed.) ... * Al Ummah of Tamil Nadu ... * New groups ... in the North East .... (which take - ed.) advantage of the presence of a large number of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. * Dawood Ibrahim's gang and other trans-national crime groups working for the ISI (Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence - ed.)." The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers6/paper526.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

04 Oct 2002

Clavis Sinica: Chinese reading and reference software
Clavis Sinica, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Supplied note: "Clavis Sinica is a Chinese reading and reference tool designed for intermediate and advanced students of Chinese language and literature. The program combines a versatile Chinese text reader with a richly cross-referenced analytical dictionary designed to help students learn to recognize the connections among related words and characters - dp."
Self-description: "The Clavis Sinica software was developed by [Associate Professor David Porter - ed.] a faculty member at the University of Michigan as a supplementary learning tool for English-speaking students of the Chinese language. It is currently used in second- and third-year Chinese courses at the University of Michigan."
Site contents: Product Information (Chinese Version, Introduction, Program Features, Textbook Compatibility, System Requirements); Ordering; Screen Views; About Clavis Sinica; Contact Us.
URL http://www.clavisinica.com
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: David Porter (dporter@umich.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

02 Oct 2002

The Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative (ATON)
SWC/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
Supplied note: "2,200 stories, in 73 volumes, full-text - hbp." [Annotated English translations of these tales are contained in large typescript volumes. Also, the majority of ATON holdings were recorded on magnetic tape and are on record with the National Referral Services of the U.S. Library of Congress - ed.].
Self-description: "The Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative (ATON) [...] was founded in 1971 by Ahmet E. Uysal, Warren S. Walker and Barbara K. Walker. The Founders donated their holdings to Texas Tech University in 1980. The late Ahmet E. Uysal was Professor of Literature at Ankara University; Warren Walker is Horn Professor Emeritus of English at the University and founding editor of Twentieth-Century Short Story Explication. His wife, Barbara Walker, has edited several tales published throughout the years. The Walkers are currently serving as unpaid volunteers."
Site contents: Search the archive of narratives; About the Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative (ATON); Ahmet Edip Uysal (1922-1997); Divisions and subdivisions of the 3000 tales in ATON (I.The Supernatural, II. Perplexities and Ingenious Deductions, III. Humor, IV. Moralizing, V. Romance - Heroic and/or Amatory, VI. Anticlerical Satire, VII. Anecdotal Wit and Wisdom: Stereotyped Characters - Ethnic/Professional/Regional, Individual Characters, Proverb-Based/Proverb-Making Narrative, Folk Etiology, VIII. Miscellaneous); A Pocketful of Turkish Proverbs; ATON Subject Index; Turkish Games for Health and Recreation; Tales Behind Tales; Alpamis destani Part I [PDF, 365Kb]; Alpamis destani Part II [PDF, 302Kb]; Alpamysh-A Kazak rendition Part I [MP3, 23:58]; Alpamysh-A Kazak rendition Part II [MP3, 26:06].
URL http://swco.ttu.edu/aton_html/index.htm
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: H B Paksoy (hb.paksoy@ttu.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

02 Oct 2002

The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-1946
Harvard-Yenching Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Self-description: "The Harvard-Yenching Library holds some 5,000 photographs and 10,000 negatives taken by Hedda Hammer Morrison (1908-1991) while resident in Beijing from 1933 to 1946. [.... They] document lifestyles, trades, handicrafts, landscapes, religious practices, and architectural structures that in many cases have changed or have been destroyed."
Site contents: Introduction; VIA [a union catalog of visual resources at Harvard - ed.] search strategies; Search VIA; Hedda Morrison Chronology; Publications About Hedda Morrison; Selected Bibliography of Hedda Morrison's Published Photographs; Contents of the Albums (Buddhist nuns ca. 1933-1946; Chung Hai ca. 1933-1946; Fa-hai ssu ca. 1933-1946; Forbidden City, temples, walls, Ming 1933-1946; Funerals, weddings, Miao-feng Mountain 1933-1946; Handicrafts 1933-1946; Hua Shan 1935; Jehol 1934-1935; Lost Tribe 1936; Nan-hai ca. 1933; Pai-yun kuan ca. 1933-1946; Pao-ting Fu 1940; Pei-hai ca. 1933-1946; Portraits ca. 1933-1946; Shantung 1942; Shop signs, calls, houses, fields 1933-1946; Street life 1933-1946; Summer Palace, Jade Fountain, hills temples 1933-1946; Tai miao ca. 1933-1946; Temple of Heaven ca. 1933-1946; untitled ca. 1933-1946; Wei Hai Wei 1937; Yün-kang 1933).
URL http://hcl.harvard.edu/harvard-yenching/morrison/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Raymond Lum (rlum@fas.harvard.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

01 Oct 2002

The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
Truman Presidential Museum & Library, Independence, MO, USA
Self-description: "Explore The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb - Study Collection and Teaching Materials."
Site contents: * During the War (Online Book Abstract: Truman and the Bomb - A Documentary History [by Robert H. Ferrell], Minutes of Meeting at the White House, June 18, 1945, Background Information, Groves Project [Manhattan Project], [Henry Stimson's] Interim Committee, Chronology, Testing the Bomb, Official Releases, Truman Diary Entries, Strategic Bombing, Opinions and Responses); * After the War (Soviet Union and the Bomb, Post War Use of Atomic Energy); * Teaching Units, Lesson Plans, and classroom activities.
URL http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/bomb.htm
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Nelson Wong (nelsonwong@time.net.my)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

01 Oct 2002

Chinese Space Program
Internet Scout Project, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, USA
Self-description: "China will soon make history by sending the first Chinese man to space. Scheduled for sometime in 2003, it will be the first step toward China's highly ambitious plans for space exploration. [Chinese Space Program, in: Internet Scout Project, NSDL Scout Reports, Math, Engineering, & Technology, September 27, 2002, Vol 1(17)]."
Site contents: 1. China National Space Administration; 2. China [Chinese rocketry and satellite technology - ed.]; 3. China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology; 4. Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO); 5. Molecular Clouds and Star Formation (STARFM); 6. The Next Great Leap Forward - China Readies Shenzhou 4; 7. Space Race is on. Again; 8. Dragon Space: Your Portal to China [China's goals for moon bases and Mars missions - ed.];
URL http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/nsdl-reports/met/2002/met-020927-topicindepth.html#1
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Internet Scout Project (scout@cs.wisc.edu), forwarded by scout-report@hypatia.cs.wisc.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

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