The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late May 2003
Vol. 10, No. 11 (195)

27 May 2003

Iranian Information & Documentation Center (IRANDOC)
IRANDOC, Tehran, Iran
Self-description: "IRANDOC main works are research, training and information service. Research on information science, as part of IRANDOC mission is carried out by Research units. These Units work on Library & Information, Information Analysis, Information Systems Management, Terminology & Thesauri and Information Technology. These units are in direct cooperation with experts and members of scientific mission. Also, IRANDOC is the secretariat and a member of National Research Council of I.R. of Iran, and represent Iran in [UNESCO's] ASTINFO [...]. IRANDOC is also a national member of these international bodies: FID, IFLA and ASLIB.
Main Services: Establishing and maintenance of Persian scientific information database. Supplying foreign scientific information database. Database producing process implementation and consultation. Indexing training course. Training course on "utilizing union list of Latin periodicals". International Document supply. To publish press orders. Media and microform conversion. Special services."
Site contents: Strategic Plan; Databases [online access (in Persian language) to: 1. Iranian Dissertation Abstracts. 2. Dissertation Abstracts of Iranian Graduates Abroad. 3. Current Research in Iranian Universities and Research Centers. 4. Directory of Scientific Meeting Help In Iran. 5. The Abstract of Scientific Technical and Papers. 6. Iranian Government Report. 7. Index to Latin periodicals available in Iranian special libraries. 8. Iranian Scholars and Experts Database. 9. Education Information. 10. Databank of research projects and scientific documents of water. 11. Khazar Information (Caspian Sea). - ed.]; Publications; Projects; Research Units; Staff
URL http://www.irandoc.ac.ir
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.irandoc.ac.ir
Link reported by: Marzieh Dashtaki (dashtaki@asia.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Documents
* 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 300

27 May 2003

Vietnamese Professionals Society (VPS)
Vietnamese Professionals Society, Carmichael, CA, USA
Self-description: "The Vietnamese Professionals Society (VPS) is a non-profit worldwide membership organization of Vietnamese professionals. The VPS membership comprises hundreds of professionals from various fields such as education, law, medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, accounting, physical science, engineering, computer, business, ... The VPS also welcomes university students to become associate members of the Society.
Since its inception in January 1990, the VPS receives tremendous support and encouragement from Vietnamese people throughout the world. As of 2000, VPS has 25 chapters throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. As a worldwide organization, VPS is a forum for Vietnamese professionals to meet and to extend their social and professionals networks."
Supplied note: "Note: Contents are in Vietnamese with an English option [at www.vps.org/sommaire_en.php3 - ed.] for non-Vietnamese Web-browsers - lht."
Site contents: Introduction; Documents; Software; FAQ; Contact us; Links; VPS local chapters: * Asia (Japan), *Australia (ACT, New South Wales, Queensland, Southern Australia, Victoria, Western Australia) * Europe, (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland) * North America (Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Illinois, Northern California, Southern California, Toronto, Washington, Washington D.C.).
URL http://www.vps.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.vps.org/
Link reported by: Luan Ho Trieu (ht333@austarmetro.com.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./News/Documents
* 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 3000

27 May 2003

The Creation of Modern Iraq: British India Office Files, c. 1914-1921
IDC Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Self-description: "The Creation of Modern Iraq: British India Office Files, c. 1914-1921.
Editor: Dr Penelope Tuson, former Curator of Middle East Archives, British Library (Oriental and India Office Collections).
Expected release: September 2003.
The geopolitical identity of present-day Iraq can be traced back down to the British Military occupation of the First World War and the civil administration laid down at the beginning of the British Mandate, which lasted 1921 to independence in 1932. During the War, British officials of the Arab Bureau's Eastern Branch, including T.E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell, prepared detailed intelligence reports on local personalities, tribes and political affiliations. At the same time both military and civilian experts produced geographical and topographical surveys of the entire region, from the boundaries with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in the south to Kurdistan in the north.
The materials in the British Library (OIOC) consist of India Office Political & Secret Department confidential reports, memoranda, maps and handbooks (for example Handbook of Mesopotamia, Who's Who, Personalities, Gazetteers etc) as well as policy files describing the background and practicalities of the creation of a political administration and a social and economic infrastructure.
The material is organized in the following subject headings: * BII-1 Iraq: Gazetteers and Handbooks * BII-2 Iraq: Outbreak of the First World War: situation in Turkish Arabia * BII-3 Iraq: Wartime military and civil administration * BII-4 Iraq: Wartime economy: trade and communications * BII-5 Iraq: Post-war administration and constitution for the state of Iraq * BII-6 Iraq: Local government and education * BII-7 Iraq: Kurdistan * BII-8 Iraq: Iraqi boundaries * BII-9 Iraq: Post-war economic development * BII-10 Iraq: The oil industry.
Scope: approx. 43,000 exposures/frames. Number of fiche c.850.
Related projects: * British Intelligence on Afghanistan and its frontiers, c. 1888-1946; * British Statistical Blue Books; * Freya Stark Photograph Collection; * Historical Photographs of the Middle East; * Indian Political Intelligence (IPI) Files, 1912-1950; * Palestine: The British Mandate; * Palestine: The Legal Background."
[Details of a microfiche publication - ed.]
URL http://www.idc.nl/catalog/referer.php?c=408
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]: 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

26 May 2003

British Intelligence on Afghanistan and its Frontiers, c. 1888-1946
IDC Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "British Intelligence on Afghanistan and its Frontiers, c. 1888-1946. Secret and confidential print from the British Government of India.
IDC Publishers is pleased to announce the publication of British Intelligence on Afghanistan and its Frontiers, c. 1888-1946 [...] The Intelligence files concentrate on Afghanistan' s internal and external affairs and trans-frontier tribes and personalities. The collection, from the India Office Records in the British Library, is unique in its breadth and accessibility.
* Military Intelligence. The Intelligence Branch issued a stream of practical handbooks, route books, military reports, tribal monographs, ' who' s who' compilations, and summaries of events. Sources were officers in the field and their contacts, together with local tribesmen who had been clandestinely employed.
* Political Intelligence. The Government of India Foreign & Political Department had a parallel intelligence interest, concentrating on Afghanistan' s internal and external affairs and trans-frontier tribes and personalities. It issued its own compilations, mainly sourced by political officers.
* Finding Aid. In addition to this primary source IDC offers a printed and online finding aid with an introduction and by A.J. Farrington, Former Deputy Director, Oriental and India Office Collections (OIOC), British Library.
* Approx. 17,000 frames * 410 microfiches * Including printed and online guide [...] - wl."
[Details of a microfiche publication - ed.]
[Related IDC Projects include: * British Intelligence on China in Tibet, 1903-1950; * Comintern Archive; * Comintern Archive: Electronic Inventory; * India Legislative Series; * Indian Political Intelligence (IPI) Files, 1912-1950; * Palestine: The British Mandate; * Palestine: The Legal Background - ed.]
URL http://www.idc.nl/catalog/referer.php?c=396
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Willemijn Lindhout (wlindhout@idc.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

26 May 2003

The SARS Epidemic
University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, USA
Supplied note: "An annotated list of SARS-related resources, both general and those specific to affected Asian regions including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Vietnam. - re."
[The site is a part of the exquisite "East and South East Asia: an annotated directory of Internet resources" (newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/index.html) - ed.]
URL http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/sars.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Robert Eng (robert_eng@redlands.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]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

25 May 2003

Booklovers India
Booklovers India, New Delhi, India
Supplied note: "Leading Booksellers of Academic books from India. Buy books on Indian and South Asian Art, Architecture, Ancient / Modern Indian History, Literature, Religion, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Indian Philosophy, Women Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Tribal Studies, Indian Plants from India. - jg."
URL http://www.geocities.com/bookloversindia/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.geocities.com/bookloversindia/
Link reported by: J Gupta (booklovers@rediffmail.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

23 May 2003

Viet Nam - Vietnam - Vietnamese Cultural and Literature Resource
VietShare, San Jose, USA
Supplied note: "All contents about Viet Nam's cultural, literature and other popular topics are in Vietnamese because its intended audience are the people from Vietnam. - ht."
URL http://www.vietshare.com
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.vietshare.com
Link reported by: Hanh Truong (webmaster@vietshare.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/News
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other
* 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 300

23 May 2003

Ancient Near Eastern Seals from the Kist Collection Three Millennia of Miniature Reliefs
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: Contributions by Dominique Collon, Frans Wiggermann and Geoffrey Turner. Not only their in function Ancient Near Eastern daily life makes stamp and cylinder seals an important subject of study, but also their outstanding aesthetic beauty. The examples of stamp and cylinder seals catalogued and described in the present volume are part of the collection of Ancient Near Eastern glyptic art acquired by the Kist family during the last century. The majority of the artifacts are published here for the first time, making the volume into a unique and essential resource for Ancient Near Eastern scholars and art historians.
URL http://www.brill.nl/m_catalogue_sub6_id11408.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

23 May 2003

T'oung Pao journal
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: Volume 88, Number 4 of T'oung Pao is now available. The content of this issue is: Robert Ashmore, The Banquet's Aftermath: Yan Jidao's Ci Poetics and the High Tradition; Lai Chi-tim, The Demon Statutes of N¸qing and the Problem of the Bureaucratization of the Netherworld in Early Heavenly Master Daoism; Robert H. Sharf, On Pure Land Buddhism and Ch'an/Pure Land Syncretism in Medieval China; Chen Jinhua, An Alternative View of the Meditation Tradition in China: Meditation in the Life and Works of Daoxuan (596-667); Ann Heirman, Can we trace the early Dharmaguptakas?
URL http://www.brill.nl/m_catalogue_sub6_id7547.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

23 May 2003

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Volume 46, Number 2 is available now. The Table of Contents is Articles ASPECTS OF WARFARE IN PREMODERN SOUTHEAST ASIA - Barbara Watson Andaya, JUAN DE SALCEDO JOINS THE NATIVE FORM OF WARFARE Felice Noelle Rodriguez, HEADHUNTING, CARNAGE AND ARMED PEACE IN AMBOINA, 1500-1700 Gerrit Knaap A REASSESSMENT OF HYPERBOLIC MILITARY STATISTICS IN SOME EARLY MODERN BURMESE TEXTS Michael W. Charney, SOME COMPARATIVE THOUGHTS ON PREMODERN SOUTHEAST ASIAN WARFARE Victor Lieberman, REVIEWS. - avh."
URL http://www.brill.nl/m_catalogue_sub6_id7324.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

22 May 2003

Indonesian singer Broery Pesulima (1948-2000)
www.gigengack.nl, The Netherlands
Self-description: "I'm happy to announce that the new Broery website is online [...]. The site is about the famous Indonesian Moluccan singer the late Broery Pesulima also known as Broery Marantika. It contains information such as biography, discography, gallery and lyrics, all in English. - eg."
URL http://broery.pesulimahistory.com
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Erik Gigengack (erik@gigengack.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

20 May 2003

Law and Governance: Socialist Transforming Vietnam, Jun 2003
Asian Law Centre (ALC), University of Melbourne, Australia
Self-description: "'Law and Governance: Socialist Transforming Vietnam,' The University of Melbourne, 12-13 June, 2003. The Asian Law Centre at the University of Melbourne, together with the School of Law at Deakin University, will convene a two-day international conference at the University of Melbourne on 12 and 13 June 2003. Bringing together experts and international commentators, the conference aims to explore how socialism affects the shape and form of legal change in transitional Vietnam. To date, there has not been an explicit focus on the impact of socialism on Vietnam's legal reforms and its investigation is timely."
Site contents: Conference; Forms; Papers; Social Activities; Useful Information.
URL http://www.law.unimelb.edu.au/alc/conferences/conf_2003/index.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Kathryn Taylor (k.taylor@unimelb.edu.au)
* 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

19 May 2003

Task Force on Indo-Pak Relations
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."
Extract: "[The recent] initiatives to break the log jam in Indo-Pakistan relations [...] made possible a second look at the entire gamut of bilateral relations, without either side having to fear a possible loss of face. - b.raman."
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers7/paper688.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

16 May 2003

China Elections and Governance
China Village Elections Project, The Carter Center, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Self-description: "'The 'China Elections and Governance' [...] was launched in September 2002 jointly by The Carter Center and the Research Center on Chinese Local Governance at Beijing University, available in both Chinese and English. It provides Chinese officials at all levels a resource center for governance and election affairs and gives scholars worldwide the opportunity to study Chinese politics and offer reform measures. Users can access news, articles, academic papers, laws and regulations, and data on Chinese elections and governance on all levels. The site also features exclusive reports on election and governance matters commissioned by the China Elections Project at The Carter Center.
The Carter Center is a not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization founded in 1982 in Atlanta by former U.S. President Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter in partnership with Emory University."
Supplied note: "The [...] site now contains about 20,000 articles on various aspects of the Chinese government and changes in Chinese politics. - yl."
Site contents: Elections and Governance; Laws & Regs; Election Archives; News; Library; About Us; Updates; Links (Chinese Government, Foreign Governments, Chinese Media Outlets, Foreign Media Outlets, Chinese Academic Institutions, Foreign Academic Institutions, Chinese NGOs and Research Web Sites, Foreign NGOs and Research Web Sites); Site Map; Contact Us; Hot Topics (Battling with SARS, 10th NPC & CPPCC, Editorials & Op-Eds, Rural Issues, Notable Speeches); Project Specials; Essay Contest; News Bulletin; Features; Keyword Search.
URL http://www.chinaelections.org/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Yawei Liu (yliu@gpc.edu), forwarded by h-asia@h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/Documents/Study/Online Guide.
* 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

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