The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early Feb 2004
Vol. 11, No. 3 (207)

13 Feb 2004

Asia Pacific Library Conferences
www.geocities.com, Australia
Self-description: "A calendar of conferences, seminars and workshops. This Calendar contains details of conferences and similar activities relating to the Asia-Pacific region which are of interest to librarians and other information managers."
Site contents: Calendar: Events in 2004, Events in 2003, Events in 2002, Events in 2001, Events in 2000, Events in 1999, Events in 1998, Events in 1997, Events in 1996.
[An informative and up-to-date site maintained since 1996 by Susan MacDougall of The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA). The site forms a subsection of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) - ed.]
URL http://www.geocities.com/asia_pages/asiaconf/APConfTop.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.geocities.com/asia_pages/asiaconf/APConfTop.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other
* 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

12 Feb 2004

Bibliography of Japanese History up to 1912
Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, UK
Self-description: "Bibliography of Japanese History up to 1912. This is a completely revised edition of a bibliography of Japanese history up to the end of the Meiji period which I compiled in 1996 and which was made available to interested parties in a softcover for a nominal fee. There is no copyright attached to it, and you may print it out or use it however you wish. [...] Peter Kornicki, University of Cambridge."
Site contents: About CSIS * Preface; * Abbreviations; * Bibliographies and General works; * Pre-Heian; * Heian; * Medieval; * Foreign relations: 1200-1800; * Tokugawa political history; * Tokugawa social history; * Tokugawa economic history; * Tokugawa intellectual history; * Meiji Restoration; * Foreign relations 1800-1900; * Meiji political history; * Meiji social history; * Meiji economic history; * Meiji political history; * Meiji intellectual history; * Meiji military history and colonialism;
URL http://www.oriental.cam.ac.uk/jbib/bibtitle.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.oriental.cam.ac.uk/jbib/bibtitle.html
Link reported by: Peter Kornicki (pk104@cam.ac.uk)
* 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

12 Feb 2004

Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta
Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta, Indonesia
Self-description: "The Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta [est. 1971.] is an independent non-profit organization focusing on policy-oriented studies and dialogue on domestic and international issues."
Site contents: * About CSIS * Seminars & Events; * Publications; * Research (Economics, * Politics & Social Change, International Relations); * Scholars; * Regional Partnerships; * Links & Networks; * Library; * Working papers, * Journals, * Features.
URL http://www.csis.or.id/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.csis.or.id/
Link reported by: Christine Susanna Tjhin (xtine@csis.or.id), forwarded by H-SEASIA@h-net.msu.edu
* 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 100

11 Feb 2004

Iraq: Terrorism & Resistance
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, 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: "[There is] the inability of the Iraqi security forces to come up to their tasks, a certain lack of dedication in their ranks in carrying out the instructions of American counter-resistance and counter-terrorism officers and the inability of the US intelligence agencies to penetrate either the Iraqi resistance cells operating essentially against US soldiers or the foreign jihadi cells operating against the Iraqi security forces, foreigners and innocent civilians. [...]. It is evident that the US intelligence continues to be clueless regarding the identity of the leading brains behind the Iraqi resistance movement or the foreign jihadi terrorist groups despite the recent arrests of Hassan Ghul, a Pakistani, and some other foreigners. There is so far no satisfactory corroboration of US claims that Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian operative of Al Qaeda, is the leading brain behind the major suicide operations. ." - 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/papers10/paper919.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - 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 Feb 2004

Early Imperial China - a collection of online publications
Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "Online publications on the history of Later Han and the third century AD China by Professor Rafe de Crespigny - ig."
Site contents: * 'Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling' - The complete text of Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling: being the Chronicle of Later Han for the years 157 to 189 AD as recorded in Chapters 54 to 59 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang.
* 'To Establish Peace', volumes 1 & 2 - The complete text of To Establish Peace: being the Chronicle of the Later Han dynasty for the years 189 to 220 AD as recorded in Chapters 59 to 69 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang.
* 'Later Han Civil Administration' - Based on the Introduction to Emperor Huan and Emperor Ling: being the Chronicle of Later Han for the years 157 to 189 AD as recorded in Chapters 54 to 59 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang.
* 'Later Han Military Organisation' - Extract from the Introduction to To Establish Peace: being the Chronicle of Later Han for the years 189 to 220 AD as recorded in Chapters 59 to 69 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang.
* 'The Three Kindoms and Western Jin: a history of China in the Third Century AD.'
* 'South China under the Later Han Dynasty' - Chapter One from Generals of the South: the foundation and early history of the Three Kingdoms state of Wu.
* 'Some Poems and Rhapsodies of the Later Han and Three Kingdoms.'
* 'Collection of biographies of Ladies of the Court of Emperor Huan of Han.'
URL http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/decrespigny/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Irena Goltz (irena.goltz@anu.edu.au)
* 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

10 Feb 2004

13th JAMCO Online International symposium
Japan Media Communication Center, Tokyo, Japan
Supplied note: "The JAMCO Online International Symposium is now under way on its website on "Japanese TV Dramas that Go Beyond 'Japan': Their Transnational Significance and Influence." How have those Japanese dramas been received overseas? What influence have they exerted in Asia and Pacific? What cultural interaction have they given rise to between Japan and the local societies? Four researchers present their papers and three experts will give their comments. We welcome your participation in the discussions. - yo."
Self-description: "The Japan Media Communication Center (JAMCO) is a non-profit organization established in April 1991 for the purposes of promoting international mutual understanding and contributing to the development of broadcast in the world. It was originally created with funds from Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK; the Japan Broadcasting Corporation) and the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan (NAB-J), and has been financially supported by The Japan Foundation and the Japanese government. Its main activity is to expand and maintain the library of video programs that can be provided free of charge to foreign TV stations for broadcasting purposes. JAMCO has stored 1,069 superb Japanese TV programs, including documentaries, educational programs, programs for children, dramas and animated films for the past 12 years."
URL http://www.jamco.or.jp/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.jamco.or.jp
Link reported by: Yukio Oshida (yojamco@theia.ocn.ne.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./Study
* 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 100

09 Jan 2004

The Personal History of a Bukharan Intellectual, The Diary of Muhammad Sharif-i Sadr-i Ziya
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "The Diary translated from the Original Manuscript by Rustam Shukurov, with an Introductory Study and Commentaries by Muhammad-jon-i Shakuri (Shukurov), Project Director Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh and Editor, English Language Edition Edward A. Allworth is available. This title publised in the series Brillís Inner Asian Library offers priceless documentation and guidance for an understanding of the rigidity that characterized the Bukharan Amirate throughout its tumultuous final decades of existence, ca. 1880-1920. - avh."
URL http://www.brill.nl/m_catalogue_sub6_id11552.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]: Documents
* 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 Feb 2004

East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, USA
Supplied note: "Annotated directory of resources for the political units of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and Mongolia) and Southeast Asia (Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam), Asian Americans, and current hot topics such as the North Korean nuclear crisis and the Avian Flu epidemic. Grouped by country and by political, social, cultural and economic categories. Lists of educational and research resources for Asia, China, Japan, Korea, and Asian American Studies. Completely updated and redesigned. - rye."
[A superb meta-resource - ed.]
URL http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/
Link reported by: Robert Y. 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 3,000

02 Feb 2004

Old World Traditional Trade Routes (OWTRAD) Project
Asia Pacific Research Online, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "This site [est 7 Jul 1999 - ed.] supports online research in the field of dromography [= the study of history, geography and logistics of communication and trade routes - ed.] and provides a public-access electronic archive of geo/chrono-referenced data on land, river and maritime trade routes of Eurasia and Africa during the period 10,000 BCE - circa 1820 CE."
Site contents: * Introduction; * Reference Tools [In early Feb 2004 there were 30 GIS-ready datasets including] * Africa trade and pilgrimage routes data sets [...] * Asia & the Middle East data sets (# Karakoram and Pamir,1900 CE, major travel routes [17 data points; Src: Walker 1995; georeferenced], # NW China, 100 CE-1400 CE, 'Silk Road' trade routes [45 data points; Src: Anonymous-4 1991; georeferenced], # NW China,1920 CE, major roads and caravan routes [111 data points; Src: Cable and French 1947; georeferenced], # Hellenistic countries, 350 BCE, trade routes [52 data points; Src: Scarre (ed.) 1988; georeferenced], # Middle East, 600-500 BCE, trade routes [13 data points; Src: Cohen and Yisrael 1995; georeferenced], # India,1550-1710 CE, major roads [88 data points; Src: Farooque 1977; georeferenced], # Persia, 50 BCE-300 CE, trade routes [92 data points; Src: Davies 1959; georeferenced], # Cambodia [Khmer], 1200 CE, major roads [35 data points; Src: Hatano 2002; georeferenced], # Iran and China, 200 BCE-500 CE, 'Silk Road' routes [27 data points; Src: Klimkeit 1988; georeferenced], # The Mediterranean, Iran and China, 200 BCE-1400 CE, 'Silk Road' routes [55 data points; Src: Klimkeit 1988; georeferenced], # Central Asia, 700-1000 CE, 'Silk Road' routes [59 data points; Src: Whitfield 1999; georeferenced], # Central Asia, 1 CE-1400 CE, 'Silk Road' routes [45 data points; Src: Foltz 1999; georeferenced], # Central Asia, 1 CE-1400 CE, 'Silk Road' routes [40 data points; Src: Anonymous-4 1991; georeferenced]); * Europe trade and pilgrimage routes data sets [...]); *The OWTRAD Gazetteer (The OWTRAD Gazetteer: Introduction [Includes a list of online Lat/Long Gazetteers], The OWTRAD Gazetteer: Georeferenced Nodes)' * Trade-Routes@mm.isu.edu scholarly forum [Historical Transport/Communication/Pilgrimage Networks forum] * The OWTRAD Notation System (Introduction, Details of the formal language); * Useful Bibliographies.
URL http://www.ciolek.com/owtrad.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.ciolek.com/owtrad.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* 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 30

02 Feb 2004

Chinese Maritime Customs Project
Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
Self-description: "This project is a collaborative venture between historians at Bristol and Cambridge Universities and archivists and researchers at the Second Historical Archives of China in Nanjing (SHAC). It is designed to further understanding of the modern Chinese state, British imperial history, and the history of modern globalization in China, focusing on the role the Chinese Maritime Customs Service played in these historical processes. Our first step was to produce a catalogue of the 55,000 files that make up the archives of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service held at the SHAC. In collaboration with Thomson Gale [www.gale.com - ed.], we are compiling 350 reels of microfilms of archival sources relating to the history of the Customs Service. Handbook to the Customs Service and three other printed volumes of primary sources are also in hand. We are further creating datasets on arms trade, Customs revenue, climate and meteorology, and trade. Research students and research fellows associated with the project are researching the life of foreigners employed by the Customs Service, patterns of consumption and its effects on the Chinese state.
The Chinese Maritime Customs Service (until 1912: the Imperial Maritime Customs Service) [...] was an international, although predominantly British-staffed bureaucracy under the control of successive Chinese central governments from its founding, i.e. in 1854, until 1950 when the last foreign Inspector-General resigned. The present-day Customs General Administration [www.customs.gov.cn] of the PRC, and the ROC Directorate General of Customs [wwweng.dgoc.gov.tw/english.asp] on Taiwan both incorporate the CMCS into their histories. The CMCS was the only bureaucratic organ that continued to operate as an integrated institution throughout the period 1842-1950."
Site contents: Contact us; CMCS bibliographies (Statistical Series, Special Series, Miscellaneous Series, Service Series, Office Series, Inspectorate Series, Other CMCS publications listed in the 1940 bibliography); China Coast family history; Do you have an ancestor in the Customs?; Discussion board; CMCS Links (Researchers, Research Materials or Papers, Personal and family histories, Miscellaneous)
URL http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/History/Customs/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Robert Bickers (robert.bickers@bristol.ac.uk)
* 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 30

01 Feb 2004

Asian Analysis Newsletter
Asean Focus Group Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Self-description: "Welcome to the Asian Analysis Newsletter - Short and tightly focused, but authoritative commentaries - written by top country specialists from the Australian National University and other institutions concerned with Asian studies as well as by other independent specialists and experts. Now in its sixth year of publication [first issue Apr 1998, free subscription - ed. ], Asian Analysis produces a number of short commentaries each month on different Asian countries that present opinions; not only on economic issues in the ASEAN region and beyond, but also on some of the deeper underlying social and political issues that shape the economic development of the Asian region. Our aim is to give readers a unique perspective on what is happening in the Asian markets. Many of the topics covered would not be found in traditional media sources. [...] Asian Analysis is edited by the Asean Focus Group in co-operation with the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra (anu.asia@anu.edu.au)."
[A slow-loading site - ed.]
URL http://www.aseanfocus.com/asiananalysis/about.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.aseanfocus.com/asiananalysis/about.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* 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

01 Feb 2004

Asean Focus Group
Asean Focus Group Pty Ltd, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Self-description: "The Asean Focus Group: Summary - We work on behalf of local, regional, and global clients to identify and realise successful business opportunities throughout Australia, South East Asia, India and China by utilising our unique network of contacts and expertise. Our services fall into three main categories: Corporate Advisory, Regional Representation, Direct Investment."
Site contents: Who We Are (Team Profiles, Our Record, Offices); What We Do (Corporate Advisory, Representation, Investment); Latest News (News Archive); Asian Analysis Newsletter [www.aseanfocus.com/asiananalysis/about.html - ed.]; Publications (History of Southeast Asia); Search
[A slow-loading site - ed.]
URL http://www.aseanfocus.com/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.aseanfocus.com/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* 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 1,000

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