The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Mar 2003
Vol. 10, No. 7 (191)

29 Mar 2003

Islamic Law and Society
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "Islamic Law and Society, Volume 10/1 is now available and contains the following articles: Introduction, Public Debates On Family Law Reform Participants, Positions, And Styles Of Argumentation In The 1990s - Annelies Moors (Guest Editor) Articles - Stalled Reform: Family Law In Post-Unification Yemen Anna Wuerth, In The Interim: Civil Society, The Shar'i Judiciary And Palestinian Personal Status Law In The Transitional Period - Lynn Welchman, Recent Debates On Family Law Reform In Morocco: Islamic Law As Politics In An Emerging Public Sphere - Leon Buskens, Political Factions, Ideological Fictions: The Controversy Over Family Law Reform In Democratic Mali - Dorothea E. Schulz - avh."
[Unfettered online access to these and other full-text articles is available by subscription - ed.]
URL http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/brill/09289380/v10n1/contp1-1.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]: Study
* 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

29 Mar 2003

Nan Nü
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "Volume 5, Number 1 of Nan Nü, a journal from Brill Academic Publishers is now available online via the Ingenta Select service, and contains the following articles: Virtue And Talent: Women And In Early China - Zhou Yiqun, The Bourgeois Housewife As Laborer In Late Qing And Early Republican Shanghai - Constance Orliski, Visual Evidence For The Evolution Of 'Politically Correct' Dress For Women In Early Twentieth Century Shanghai - Ellen Johnston Laing, Review Articles: Man, Woman, And Body In Early And Imperial China: Recent German Scholarship, Barbara Mittler - avh."
[Unfettered online access to these and other full-text articles is available by subscription - ed.]
URL http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/brill/13876805/v5n1/contp1-1.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]: Study
* 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

29 Mar 2003

Die Welt des Islams
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "Volume 43, Number 1 of:Die Welt des Islams, a journal from Brill Academic Publishers is now available online via the Ingenta Select service, and contains the following articles: The Muslim Big Merchant-Entrepreneurs Of The Middle East, 1860-1914 Gad G. Gilbar, Der Orientalist Und Der Mufti: Kulturkontakt Im Mekka Des 19. Jahrhunderts - Ulrike Freitag, The Forgotten Salafi - Abul-Huda As-Sayyadi - Thomas Eich, Electrical Current And Nationalist Trends In Transjordan: Pinhas Rutenberg And The Electrification Of Amman - Renate Dieterich, Literatur/Book Reviews - avh."
[Unfettered online access to these and other full-text articles is available by subscription - ed.]
URL http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/brill/00432539/v43n1/contp1-1.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]: Study
* 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

29 Mar 2003

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "Volume 46, Number 1 of: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, a journal from Brill Academic Publishers is now available online via the Ingenta Select service, and contains the following articles: Reconstructing The World Of Ancient Mesopotamia: Divided Beginnings And Holistic History - Richard L. Zettler, Berenike Crossroads: The Integration Of Information - W. Z. Wendrich; R. S. Tomber; S. E. Sidebotham; J. A. Harrell; R. T. J. Cappers; R. S. Bagnall, Ji'nan In The First Millennium B. C. : Archaeology And History - L. I. Min, Reviews - avh."
[Unfettered online access to these and other full-text articles is available by subscription - ed.]
URL http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/brill/00224995/v46n1/contp1-1.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]: Study
* 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

27 Mar 2003

Ridgeback Press: Books on Meiji Restoration
Ridgeback Press, Pinole, CA, USA
Supplied note: "May we suggest you include a link to www.ridgebackpress.com? You will find a lot of interesting information about Japanese history there (particularly the Meiji Restoration), which is not otherwise readily available in English. This includes important historical personages [incl. Sakamoto Ryoma, Katsu Kaishu, Saigo Takamori, Yoshida Shoin, Takechi Hanpeita, Katsura Kogoro, Shinsengumi - ed.] and events, centers of the Restoration [Kyoto, Kochi, Kagoshima, Hagi, Nagasaki - ed.] and related Japanese terminology. - rp."
URL http://www.ridgebackpress.com/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.ridgebackpress.com/
Link reported by: Ridgeback Press (ridgebackpress@mindspring.com)
* 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

26 Mar 2003

Asian Studies in an Internet Connected World, Jun 2003
Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI, USA
Supplied note: "Final ASPAC Call for Papers. Asian Studies in an Internet Connected World: Building an Asia-Pacific Community? Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast [2003 Annual Meeting - ed.] June 19-22, 2003 East-West Center, Honolulu
Our initial call for papers on the conference theme proved extremely successful. [... W]e are extending the application deadline and invite paper and panel proposals on all topics within Asian studies. Without being restrictive, particularly welcome topics (often because they will round out panels) include: * Religion (politics, evangelism, fundamentalism); * Globalization and culture; * Asian diasporas and cultural integration; * Cinema and theater; * Technology and education; * NGO activity in regional development; * Problems in contemporary - West Asia (Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan), Central Asia (especially Mongolia), Northeast Asia (particularly the Koreas), South Asia (India, Bangladesh), Southeast Asia.
The John and Mae Esterline Prize for outstanding student papers will be awarded at the ASPAC 2003 conference. Application Deadline is April 15, 2003. All conference papers will be considered for inclusion in the ASPAC electronic journal. The paper/panel proposal form is located on the paper proposal page. The revised application deadline is March 31, 2003. Applicants will be notified concerning status within one week of receipt. - bv."
[ASPAC is the Pacific Coast regional conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). (www.aasianst.org/) - ed.]
URL http://www.aspac.org/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Bill Vanderbok (vanderbok@socal.rr.com), 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

26 Mar 2003

Historical Chinese Language Materials in British Columbia, Canada
Asian Library and the Centre for Chinese Research, University of British Columbia, and David Lam Centre, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Supplied note: "This project is built on a vision of access and preservation of historical Chinese language materials. [...] On the basis of the history of major waves of Chinese settlements across the province, the project identified a total of 29 resource centres along the Gold Rush Trail, the Canadian Pacific Railway, cities and towns on the east coast of Vancouver Island, as well as the Fraser Valley. To date, over 11,000 records from 11 archives, museums and libraries have been either exported or created from scratch and incorporated in the database. All fields in the catalogue of the database are Unicode compatible and searcheable in Chinese characters, English and Pinyin. Full text, whenever available, are captured in the 'Scope and Content' field. Initial evaluation suggests that the software used might also provide a suitable platform for databases in Japanese, Korean or even some of the South Asian vernaculars. Materials added to the database on [the URl below] includes Chinese language manuscripts, newspapers, correspondence, genealogical and family records, business transaction records, association records, certificates, receipts, textbooks, photographs with captions in Chinese, catalogues, books and journals on Chinese-Canadian history and other documents. - ey."
URL http://www.hclmbc.org
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Eleanor Yuen (elyuen@interchange.ubc.ca)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Online Guide
* 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

26 Mar 2003

Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
Kagawa Junior College, Utazu, Japan
Supplied note: "[A] Website introducing the annual print journal has grown to include bilingual abstracts of all feature articles from 1995-2002. Topics include Japanese-English and English-Japanese bilingualism, other languages in combination with Japanese, biculturalism, bilingual and biliterate child-raising in Japan, and societal issues. - smcc."
URL http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/jaltbsig/journal.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/jaltbsig/journal.html
Link reported by: Steve McCarty (steve_mc@kagawa-jc.ac.jp)
* 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]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

24 Mar 2003

The Tibet Journal [an unofficial page]
University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, VA , USA
Supplied note: "The Tibet Journal is a quarterly publication of the Library of Tibetan Works & Archives (LTWA) [in Dharamsala, India], devoted to the presentation of scholarly and general interest articles on Tibetan culture and civilization by Tibetans and non-Tibetans. Founded in 1975, its editorial board comprises of Achok Rinpoche, Gyatsho Tshering, Tashi Tsering, Nathan Katz, Bhikkhu Pasadika, Anne-Marie Blondeau, Per Kvaerne, and Toni Huber. The Journal welcomes articles and research paper in English, adequately substantiated or otherwise documented, with the Wylie romanisation system. - Sonam Tsering (tibjournal@gov.tibet.net)."
Site contents: Submission and Subscription information, TOCs (Articles, Book Reviews, Contributors) for the years 1995-2000.
[An unofficial site with information about contents of a printed publication from Dharamsala, India]
URL http://www.lib.virginia.edu/area-studies/Tibet/Tserials/TibetJour/tibJour.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract. The Internet Archive indexing software is being blocked by the site owner via robots.txt file.]
Link reported by: Per Kolmodin (vistet@mac.com), forwarded by tibetan-studies-l@coombs.anu.edu.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

23 Mar 2003

Magar Studies Center
Magar Studies Center, Kathmandu, Nepal
Supplied note: "Magar is one of the many ancient indigenous nationalities of Nepal. [...] Magar Studies Center [...] aims to provide a much required forum to Magar professionals, academicians, social workers, practitioners, politicians and businessmen to sit together and exchange their views and experiences on over-all socio-economic, political and cultural development of Magar community. - gpt."
Site contents: About Us; Document; What's New; Donation; Membership; Web Forum; Feedback.
URL http://www.magarstudiescenter.org
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Dr. Govind Prasad Thapa (magarstudiescenter@yahoo.com)
* 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

22 Mar 2003

INDIANA (Exporters of Indian Books & Journals)
INDIANA, New Delhi, India
Supplied note: "Established Exporters [since 1974] of Indian Books (Current, Rare, Out-of-Print), Govt. Publications as well as Journals (Back-volumes / issues, Complete Sets and Subscriptions) on all subjects, published anywhere from India. - ac."
Site contents: Books (Current, Rare, Out-of-Print); Journals (Subscriptions, Complete Sets, Back-Volumes, Loose issues, Desiderate List); Shopping Cart; Terms; Our Newsletters.
URL http://www.indianajournals.com
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Adish Chander (indiana@nda.vsnl.net.in)
* 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

21 Mar 2003

Asian Studies Search Engines
Asia-Pacific Research Online, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "This document keeps track of leading information retrieval facilities of value/significance to researchers in the field of Asian Studies and Social Sciences. It is a part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html)."
Site contents: * Asian Studies WWW VL Search Engines: Asian Studies WWW Monitor (coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html), Pacific Studies WWW Monitor (coombs.anu.edu.au/pacific-www-monitor.html), Inbox Robot for latest news about Asia (www.inboxrobot.com), OAIster database of e-prints (oaister.umdl.umich.edu), H-Asia logs of discussions (www2.h-net.msu.edu/~asia/), H-SEAsia logs (www2.h-net.msu.edu/~seasia/), H-Japan logs (www2.h-net.msu.edu/~japan/), H-US-Japan logs (www2.h-net.msu.edu/~usjp/), H-ANZAU logs (www2.h-net.msu.edu/~anzau/), Encyclopedia Britannica (www.britannica.com); * Simple engines: The Top Eight Databases - Google database [2 bln WWW pages, 425 mln images, 4,500 news sources and 700 mln Usenet messages] (www.google.com), Altavista (www.altavista.com), Asia Research Organization Engine (AROSE) (www.nbr.org), Excite database (www.excite.com), Fast database (www.alltheweb.com), HotBot-Lycos database (hotbot.lycos.com), The Wayback Machine (www.archive.org), WiseNut (www.wisenut.com); * Simple engines: Asia Databases - Afghanistan, Arabic, Armenia, Asia Hotels, Asia, Australia, Bangladesh, Burma, China, Hong Kong W, India, Indonesia, Islam Japan, Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Middle East, Nepal Web, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Thailand, Taiwan, Turkey, UAE, Vietnam) * Multi-threaded Engines; * Simple: Other Databases; * Using the Search Engines: Practical Knowledge; * Search Engines Registers; * Online Guides & Query Systems.
URL http://www.ciolek.com/SearchEngines.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.ciolek.com/SearchEngines.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other
* 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 3000

20 Mar 2003

Asia's reactions to the war in Iraq
Asia Society Online, Asia Society, New York, NY, USA
Supplied note: "AsiaSource has a special report compiling news about Asia's reactions to the war in Iraq. You can access this at [the URL below] - cy."
Site contents [on 20 Mar 2003]: General; East Asia; South Asia; Southeast Asia; Austral Asia; Central Asia; Web Special Reports on war in Iraq: (CNN: War on Iraq, Time: War on Iraq, BBC: War in Iraq, Newsweek: War on Iraq, Guardian: War with Iraq, New York Times: War in the Gulf, Washington Post: Confronting Iraq, MSNBC: Iraq: Latest Developments, Christian Science Monitor: Daily Update: War Edition)
URL http://www.asiasource.org/news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=94064
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Cindy Yoon (email address not supplied), forwarded by h-asia@h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/Online Guide
* 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 30

20 Mar 2003

Indonesia Council, ASAA
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "The Indonesia Council is an area-based sub-division of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) [http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ASAA/] open to all persons with an interest in the study of Indonesia. On 29-30 September 2003 the Indonesia Council will hold its second Open Conference [ICOC 2003]. This multi-disciplinary conference provides a forum for the presentation of new and innovative work on Indonesia, with particular emphasis on the involvement of newer Indonesianists and postgraduate students. The 2003 conference will be hosted by the Australian National University with the support of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS) and the Indonesia Project, Division of Economics, RSPAS. - ej."
Site contents: [the links below do not seem to work for Explorer 5 for Mac - ed.] Contact; Conferences; (ICOC 2001, ICOC 2003); Indonesian Studies Newsletter; Other activities; Links.
URL http://indonesiacouncil.anu.edu.au
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Elisabeth Jackson (jacksonlis@hotmail.com)
* 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

19 Mar 2003

Journal Antropologi Indonesia (JAI)
Department of Anthropology, University of Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia
Supplied note: "Journal Antropologi Indonesia [aka Jurnal Antropologi Indonesia - ed.], a scientific bilingual journal published by the Department of Anthropology of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Indonesia, aims to contribute to the development of Social and Cultural Anthropology in Indonesia and abroad. - rm."
Site contents: Sign Up; About Us; Current Issue, Previous Issues [TOCs for the years 1969-1973; 1974; 1975; 1976; 1977; 1978; 1980; 1985-1986; 1989; 1991; 1992; 1995; 1997; 1998; 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002; 2003]; Events [incl. details of a Regional Workshop: 'Multicultural Education in Southeast Asian Nations: Sharing Experiences' Depok, U. of Indonesia, 17-19 June 2003]; Printed Edition; Links.
[Details of a paper publication - ed.]
URL http://www.jai.or.id
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Raymond Michael (retang@centrin.net.id)
* 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

15 Mar 2003

Association of South-East Asian Studies (UK)
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, London, UK.
Supplied note: "The Association of South-East Asian Studies (UK) ASEASUK is the only national organisation of Southeast Asianists in the UK - and the only such national organisation in Europe. Most members are academics specialising in the region from more than 30 universities and covering a range of disciplines. But there are also postgraduate members of the association as well as members from the business and diplomatic communities. A third of members are based outside the UK. ASEASUK publishes a newsletter, ASEASUK News, twice a year. Aseasuk News contains information on regional research, conferences, seminars, exhibitions, recent publications of members and an annual directory of postgraduates."
Site contents: Committee; Membership; News; Fellowships; Conferences [incl. details of the 21st Aseasuk Conference, U. of Leeds, 17-19 October 2003 - ed.]; Conference Reviews; Book Reviews; Recent Publications; Postgraduate Directory; Web Resources.
URL http://web.soas.ac.uk/aseasuk/index.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Pauline Khng (p.khng@hull.ac.uk), 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

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