The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early Dec 2002
Vol. 9, No. 23 (183)

12 Dec 2002

Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA
'Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China' by Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman.
Self-description (abstract): "The authors are collecting data on the methods, scope, and depth of selective barriers to Internet access through Chinese networks. Tests from May 2002 through November 2002 indicate at least four distinct and independently operable methods of Internet filtering, with a documentable leap in filtering sophistication beginning in September 2002. The authors document thousands of sites rendered inaccessible using the most common and longstanding filtering practice. These sites were found through connections to the Internet by telephone dial-up link and through proxy servers in China. Once so connected, the authors attempted to access approximately two hundred thousand web sites. The authors tracked 19,032 web sites that were inaccessible from China on multiple occasions while remaining accessible from the United States. Such sites contained information about news, politics, health, commerce, and entertainment. See highlights of blocked pages. The authors conclude (1) that the Chinese government maintains an active interest in preventing users from viewing certain web content, both sexually explicit and non-sexually explicit; (2) that it has managed to configure overlapping nationwide systems to effectively -- if at times irregularly -- block such content from users who do not regularly seek to circumvent such blocking; and (3) that such blocking systems are becoming more refined even as they are likely more labor- and technology-intensive to maintain than cruder predecessors."
Site contents: 1. Overview; 2. Testing Methodology & Technical Notes on Chinese Filtering Systems; 3. Specific Sites Found to be Blocked; 4. Filtering of Sexually Explicit Content; 5. Filtering of Other Content; (Specific web sites blocked in China, Highlights of blocked sites, Complete list of 18,931 blocked sites, Content Not Filtered); 6. Analysis & Summary Statistics; 7. Conclusions; 8.Technical Appendix; 9. Analysis by Google Keyword. Related Projects - * Real-Time Testing of Internet Filtering in China; * Replacement of Google with Alternative Search Systems in China; * Documentation of Internet Filtering in Saudi Arabia; * Documentation of Internet Filtering Worldwide; * Other Resources on Internet Filtering in China.
URL http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this note.]
Link reported by: Benjamin Edelman (edelman@law.harvard.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - NGO - other]: Academic
* 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

12 Dec 2002

Japan Statistical Year Book (Nihon Tokei Nenkan) 2002
Statistics Bureau & Statistics Center, Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Communications, Tokyo, Japan.
Self-description: "The Japan Statistical Yearbook is the comprehensive and systematic summary of basic statistical information of Japan covering wide-ranging fields such as Land, Population, Economy, Society, Culture, and so on. This [2002] yearbook covers all fields of statistics published by government and private organizations. This volume contains 25 fields and about 649 tables, includes explanation about data sources and survey method of each statistics."
Site contents: Explanatory Notes; 1 Land and Climate; 2 Population and Households; 3 Labour and Wages; 4 National Accounts; 5 Business Activities; 6 Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries; 7 Mining and Manufacturing; 8 Construction; 9 Energy and Water; 10 Transport and Communications; 11 Domestic Trade and Services; 12 Foreign Trade, Balance of Payments and International Cooperation; 13 Finance and Insurance; 14 Public Finance; 15 Prices and Land Values; 16 Family Income and Expenditure; 17 Housing and Estate; 18 Social Security; 19 Health and Sanitation; 20 Education; 21 Science, Technology and Culture; 22 Government Employees and Elections; 23 Justice and Police; 24 Disasters and Accidents; 25 Comparative International Statistics.
[The tr-lingual site (JP,KR,EN), Statistics Bureau & Statistics Center (www.stat.go.jp), also publishes:
Population Census; Establishment and Enterprise Census; Current Population Estimates; Labour Force Survey; Family Income and Expenditure Survey; Consumer Price Index; Monthly Statistics of Japan; Statistical Handbook of Japan; Economic and Financial Data for Japan;
and the latest statistics, including: Family Income and Expenditure Survey (Two-or-more-persons Households) (Oct 2002, All Households); Labour Force Survey (Oct 2002); Consumer Price Index (Nov 2002, Ku-area of Tokyo (preliminary) / Oct 2002, Japan); Population Estimates (Nov 2002). The data files are available online in PDF and/or Excel formats. - ed.]
URL http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/nenkan/index.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the English section of the site was not archived at the time of this abstract; the Japanese section is available from http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.stat.go.jp/]
Link reported by: Toshio Takagi (Toshio.Takagi@anu.edu.au), forwarded by asialib@mailman.anu.edu.au
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Government
* 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]: over 3000

11 Dec 2002

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA)
Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Supplied note: "TAPJA is unique as it reflects the vigour and diversity of anthropology studied at The Australian National University (ANU). Formerly 'Canberra Anthropology', TAPJA now continues a 25 year tradition by publishing noteworthy research into social and cultural anthropology as it has for past contributors including George Marcus, Deborah Bird Rose, Nicholas Thomas, Marilyn Strathern, James Fox and Michael Jackson. Editors, Kathy Robinson and Patrick Guinness, invite prospective contributors to publish in their reinvigorated TAPJA. Besides ANU-focused research, they also accept papers for peer review on diverse theoretical issues and disciplinary questions from regions other than the Asia Pacific - lh."
Site contents: TOCs (in html format) of the 'TAPJA' - Vol 3(1) Apr 2002; Vol 2(2) Oct 2001; Vol 2(1) Apr 2001; Vol 1(2) Oct 2000; Vol 1(1) Apr 2000; and 'Canberra Anthropology' - Vol 22(2) Oct 1999; Vol 22(1) Apr 1999; Vol 21(2) Oct 1998; Vol 21(1) Apr 1998; Vol 20(1&2) Apr 1997; Vols 16(1)-19(2) 1993-96 (pdf); Vols 1(1)-15(2) 1977-92 (pdf).
[Details of a paper publication - ed.]
URL http://rspas.anu.edu.au/anthropology/tapja
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/rspas.anu.edu.au/anthropology/tapja
Link reported by: Luke Hambly (tapja@coombs.anu.edu.au), forwarded by h-asia@h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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

10 Dec 2002

Journal of Central Asian Studies (JCAS)
Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
Self-description: "The Journal of Central Asian Studies is the publication of the Association for the Advancement of Central Asian Research. It is the only scholarly, peer-reviewed journal published in North America devoted exclusively to the region of Central Asia. JCAS considers Central Asia to consist of the emerging states of Azerbaijan, Kazakstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, as well as the surrounding states and regions that share a long historical linkage with these states: Afghanistan, Iran, Mongolia, southern Russia (particularly those areas having a large Muslim or Turkic population). Turkey, and Xinjiang.  Articles focused on issues in the social sciences and humanities of Central Asia are welcome, and books dealing with the region will be reviewed by specialists in the field."
Site contents: TOCs of Vol. I, No. 1 (Fall/Winter, 1996); Vol. I, No. 2 (Spring/Summer, 1997); Vol. II, No. 1 (Fall/Winter, 1997); Vol. II, No. 2 (Spring/Summer, 1998); Vol. III, No. 1 (Fall/Winter, 1998); Vol. III, No. 2 (Spring/Summer, 1999); Vol. IV, No. 1 (Fall/Winter, 1999); Vol. IV, No. 2 (Spring/Summer, 2000); Vol. V, No. 1 (Fall/Winter, 2000)
[Details of a paper publication - ed.]
URL http://www.geog.okstate.edu/journals/jcas/jcas.htm
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.geog.okstate.edu/journals/jcas/jcas.htm
Link reported by: Reuel Hanks (hreuel@okstate.edu), forwarded by central-eurasia-l@fas.harvard.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

10 Dec 2002

Uzbekistan - Travel Info, Pictures, History
Advantour Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Supplied note: "[A] good collection of information on Uzbekistan and its cities including good quality pictures. - mn."
Site contents: * Uzbekistan Guide (History, Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva); * Travel Information (Uzbekistan visa, Embassy locations, Uzbekistan Airways, Uzbekistan travel, Maps - Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, FAQ); * Recommended Reading; * Travel Services (Scheduled Tours, Custom Tours, Hotel Reservations, Flight bookings, Visa support).
[An elegant, informative and quick loading site - ed.]
URL http://www.advantour.com/uzbekistan/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.advantour.com
Link reported by: Murod Nazarov (webmaster@advantour.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - 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

09 Dec 2002

Yin Yu Tang, a late Qing dynasty house
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA
Supplied note: "Yin Yu Tang, a late Qing dynasty (1644-1911) house, Yin Yu Tang, is being re-erected as part of the expansion of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Although the house itself will be open to the public in June 2003, we are happy to announce that the website was launched today [9 Dec 2002] .
The sections of the site - Orientation, Construction, Ornamentation, Belongings, and Preservation - all provide lenses through which to learn about the house and the project. [...] Some of the highlights of the site include the following:
* An animation (a fly-through) that allows you to "move through" the interior of the house. * Quicktime movies that present footage from the village, the house, the dismantling, as well as of cultural events. * Filters you can drag with your mouse to see the interior structure of the house or see close-ups of images of select belongings from the Huang family house. * Audio interviews with transcripts. * Writings (a story written in poetic form and a poem written for a family member's wedding). * Quotations from family members.
Technical Requirements: This Site requires the Flash Player 5 (PC) & Flash Player 6 (Macintosh) Plug-In's and Quicktime 6 for video access. Accessing this Site through a T1 or Broadband connection is advisable but not necessary. - bml."
URL http://pem.org/yinyutang/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Bruce MacLaren (bruce_maclaren@pem.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Museum
* 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

09 Dec 2002

China Inside Out. Contemporary Chinese Nationalism and Transnationalism
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Supplied note: "Graduate-level learning text that explores the multiplicity of approaches to China, addresses the area studies debate and reflects on latest developments in anthropological method. Contributions by Frank Dikötter, Prasenjit Duara, Penny Edwards, Dru Gladney, Alexandre Lomanov, Aihwa Ong, Louisa Schein, Zha Daojiong, and myself are framed by a commentary by George Marcus. The site is designed as a self-contained learning tool, including a glossary, a list of literature, guiding questions, supplementary texts on theoretical approaches and methods of research, and selected links. Each part is quickly downloadable and printable. - pn."
URL http://cio.ceu.hu
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Pal Nyiri (nyirip@axelero.hu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* 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

09 Dec 2002

Musharraf: As Seen By Moscow
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."
["... Moscow does not as yet doubt Musharraf's sincerity about his commitment to act effectively against terrorists posing a threat to Russian interests, but it does have misgivings about his ability to carry out his commitment. [...] Despite Mr. Putin's pleasant statements, it is apparent that Russia does not fully share India's distrust of Musharraf. ..."
The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers6/paper561.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

09 Dec 2002

Explosions In Bangladesh
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."
["... explosions might have been the handiwork of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) [...] of Bangladesh, [... which ] has a strong Wahabi and Taliban influence and has been carrying on a campaign against music, dancing, films, TV etc as anti-Islam and against the Indian cultural influence in Bangladesh, which it projects as the Hindu cultural influence. ..."
The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers6/paper562.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

07 Dec 2002

How Repressive Is the Chinese Government in Tibet?
UCLA Asia Institute, University of California at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Self-description: "Barry Sautman, Associate Professor of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, spoke at UCLA December 2 [2002 - ed.] to defend the thesis that claims of cultural repression against Tibetans by the Han Chinese are greatly exaggerated by Tibetan exiles in India and by the liberal Western press. His talk was met with some skepticism from discussant Nancy Levine (Anthropology, UCLA) and by some members of the audience, but he presented a wide range of data [such as those from the Xinhua news agency - ed.] to support his view."
[A summary of a discussion held between Professors Sautman and Levine - ed.]
URL http://international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=2732
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* 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 Dec 2002

What do Asians think? - an extract from 2002 Pew Center survey
UCLA Asia Institute, University of California at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Supplied note: "The new Pew Global Attitudes report merits discussion. 38,000 people in 44 nations were surveyed between July and October of this year. Nearly 12,000 of these people were in 9 Asian nations (Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Pakistan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Vietnam). The complete report is available at: http://people-press.org. To aid teachers and students, we've extracted much of the information about Asia and assembled it into a series of pages [with descriptive statistics - ed.] showing what those surveyed think about * their lives; * their nations; * world dangers; * the United States - cd."
Related resource: "Additional evidence of Asian attitudes toward the U.S. can be had at a series of pages the Asia Institute compiled after the 9/11 attacks and the first anniversary of those attacks. You can access those pages via: http://international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=2274"
URL http://international.ucla.edu/asia/article.asp?parentid=2748
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Clayton Dube (cdube@international.ucla.edu), forwarded by h-asia@h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* 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

06 Dec 2002

Pakistan Lets Loose pro-Osama Terrorists
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."
["... Before the elections to the National and provincial Assemblies on October 10, 2002, Musharraf ordered the withdrawal of all pending cases in the anti-terrorism courts against the candidates of the six fundamentalist parties, which contested the elections as a coalition, in order to enable them to contest the elections. Similar withdrawal of pending cases under the common law (not for acts of terrorism) against the leaders of Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) and Nawaz Sharif's faction of the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) was, however, not ordered. This enabled the religious fundamentalist parties, which support the Taliban and bin Laden, to win an absolute majority of seats in the NWFP Assembly and score impressive gains in the Pashtun areas of Balochistan. Consequently, the religious coalition has formed the Government in the NWFP and a coalition of the religious fundamentalist parties and the pro-Musharraf PML (Qaide Azam) has taken over power in Balochistan. One of the first acts of this Government in Balochistan (Dec. 3, 2002) was to order the release of all the remaining cadres of the organisations banned on January 15, 2002, who had not been released by the military regime before...."
The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers6/paper560.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

06 Dec 2002

Arabic Literature of Africa, 3 The Writings of the Muslim Peoples of Northeastern Africa
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "Compiled by R.S. O'Fahey with the assistance of Hussein Ahmed, Lidwien Kapteijns, Mohamed M. Kassim, Jonathan Miran, Scott S. Reese and Ewald Wagner The present volume is fascicle A of volume III of Arabic Literature of Africa, edited by J.O. Hunwick and R.S. O'Fahey. The fascicle, compiled by O'Fahey and several collaborators, covers the Islamic writings of Northeastern Africa in Arabic and in several local languages, including Amharic, Tigrinya, Harari and Somali. Geographically, the fascicle covers the modern states of Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia. Although the Islamic literature of the region is limited, it includes an important poetic tradition in Somali and Harari and the writings of a major scholar of the colonial period in Eritrea. The volume is divided into four chapters and follows the usual ALA format. It will be followed by fascicle B, which will cover East Africa, especially Kenya and Tanzania. - avh."
URL http://www.brill.nl/m_catalogue.asp?sub=6&ID=730
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

06 Dec 2002

Local Court, Provincial Society and Justice in the Ottoman Empire - Bogac A. Ergene
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "This book studies the functions of Islamic courts within the framework of the late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Ottoman provincial administration, and explores the processes of adjudication and dispute resolution through a detailed juxtaposition of court records from two Anatolian towns, Cankiri and Kastamonu. In particular, it identifies the socio-economic backgrounds of the court clients, the kinds of issues that they brought to the courts, their strategies of litigation, and how disputes were resolved in the courts. This book also sheds light on the costs of court usage and reveals alternative sites for dispute resolution that existed independently of the courts. This study is particularly useful for the students of legal anthropology as it pays a special attention to the practice of law and the process of dispute resolution. * March 2003 * ISBN 90 04 12609 0 * Cloth with dustjacket (256 pp.) * Studies in Islamic Law and Society, 17 - avh."
URL http://www.brill.nl/m_catalogue.asp?sub=6&ID=10576
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

06 Dec 2002

A Critical Reading of Fi Zilal al- Qur'an by Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) - Olivier Carre.
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "Translated from the French by Carol Artigues and revised by W. Shepard This first critical study and selected translation from Arabic of an influential book provides precise information about current radical Islamic thought (in line with extreme unorthodox minor traditions) and also about current official Islamic orthodoxy, both compared to the spiritual, social and political main tradition. * March 2003 * ISBN 90 04 12590 6 * Cloth with dustjacket (376 pp.) - avh."
URL http://www.brill.nl/m_catalogue.asp?sub=6&ID=10571
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

06 Dec 2002

Crucial Images in the Presentation of a Kurdish National Identity
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "Heroes and Patriots, Traitors and Foes Martin Strohmeier This book deals with the discourse on Kurdishness and the development of the Kurdish national movement from its inception at the end of the 19th century to the late 1930's by using as source the Kurdish press, open letters, propaganda brochures and a novel. * March 2003 * ISBN 90 04 12584 1 * Cloth with dustjacket (264 pp.) * Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia, 86 - avh."
URL http://www.brill.nl/m_catalogue.asp?sub=6&ID=10566
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

06 Dec 2002

Women and Demons - Cultic Healing in Islamic Egypt
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "This rich ethnographic study describes the nearly impossible challenge of the daily existence of women in the poor neighbourhoods of Cairo. When these women fall ill they often put the blame on beings from an invisible world that invaded their body (possession), and they seek the help of traditional healers in the Zar ceremony or Koran healing. This book examines in detail the links between cosmology, power and gender. It tackles questions such as ëwhat is possession, what is being said with it, and what does society have to do with it?í. The author, who lived a long time in various poor areas of Cairo, attended many sessions of Koran healing and participated in the Zar ceremony. She observed and interviewed many possessed women, as well as healers and other 'demon specialists'. - avh."
URL http://brill.bymysite.nl/product.asp?id=11082
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

05 Dec 2002

Digital Archive for Chinese Studies (DACHS)
Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Supplied note: "[... A] project aiming at capturing and archiving Internet resources reflecting public discourse in or about China that otherwise would be lost for future research. In contrast to the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org), DACHS should be able to more flexibly respond to events and issues relevant to the Chinese society. Although the organisational framework of DACHS (based on the OAIS model) is still under development, download activities started in August 2001. So far [Dec 2002 - hl] we have collected about 375,000 files roughly corresponding to 5.1 GB, and created some 600 metadata entries for access and administrative purposes. The collection includes Web sites, e-journals, films, snapshots of discussion boards, as well as hundreds of single documents. Topics covered are the 16th Party Congress of the CCP, China's and Taiwan's accession to the WTO, the September 11 terror attack, Falun gong, and many others. The digital archive is part of ChinaResource.org, a project of the Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, financed by the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Foundation.- hl."
Self-description: "Access to the digital archive is restricted to computers of the Institute of Chinese Studies [at the U. of Heidelberg]. If you want to view any files from outside the institute, please contact the DACHS staff."
Site contents: (1) About DACHS (Introduction, Collection Policy, Legal Issues, Working Routines, Technical Infrastructure, Current Status); (2) Access (Metadata Search; Fulltext Search [under development - HL]; Table of Contents); (3) Publications; (4) Links; (5) Contact; (6) Management.
URL http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* 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

05 Dec 2002

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Self-description: "Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. Journal d'Histoire Economique et Sociale de l'Orient. Edited by Norman Yoffee (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). [The journal is also available online to members of subscribing institutions - ed.]. The Journal [...] contains studies furthering our knowledge of the economic and social history of the Ancient Near East, the World of Islam, and South, Southeast, and East Asia by economic and social historians, historians of law and administration, philologists, ethnographers, anthropologists, archaeologists, theoretical sociologists, and other social scientists. Chronologically, the journal extends over the period from ancient times until the beginning of the nineteenth century. Published since 1958, the Journal [...] has established itself as the principal journal in its field."
[Details of a paper/online publication - ed.]
URL http://brill.bymysite.nl/product.asp?ID=7324
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]: 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

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