The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Apr 2004
Vol. 11, No. 8 (212)

25 Apr 2004

Hank's Asian Cinema Web Resources Page
Screen Society, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Supplied note: "Duke University Screen Society maintains a website listing links to various sources on Asian cinemas and Korean films - myh."
Site contents: * Online DVD Retailers for Asian Cinema: (YesAsia, Poker Industries, HK Flix - DDDHouse, Five Star Laser, Sensasian.com, Hivizone, Sazuma, HK DVD Store, Blue Laser, AsianDB, DVD Asian, MovieTyme, Tai Seng Entertainment, RareFlix, Kung Fu Movies); * DVD Retailers for Korean films; * Information sites about Asian Cinema and Martial Arts Films [incl. technical information on many Asian DVDs, reference sites, Asian cinema discussion fora]
URL http://www.duke.edu/web/film/screensociety/AsianFilmLinks.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Moo-Young Han (myhan[use"@"]phy.duke.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: 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 30

23 Apr 2004

Errata pages for Prof. Patrick Olivelle's translations of Ancient Indian texts
College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA
Supplied note: "Dear All: I discover mistakes and blunders as soon as I open a new book for the first time; a phenomenon, I trust, you are all familiar with. There are many in the several translations I have published over the years; especially in the widely-used translation of the Upanisads published in the Oxford World's Classics Series. I have now put all the needed correction for the Upanisads and for other books on my web site. You can access them at the following URL [see below]. It was difficult to get the diacritics to work on both the PC and MAC platforms; so we have made images for the diacritics; pardon the roughness observed sometimes Thanks. Patrick Olivelle, University of Texas."
Site contents: Bibliographical details of the 16 books by Prof. Patrick Olivelle, and a list of online corrections and additions to: * Olivelle, J. Patrick. 2000. The Dharmastras of Apastamba, Gautama, Baudhyana, and Vasiha. Sanskrit editions and annotated translations. In Sources of Indian Law, ed. Patrick Olivelle. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 783 pages. * Olivelle, J. Patrick. 1999. Dharmasutras: The Law Codes of Ancient India (annotated translation of the Dharmasutras of Apastamba, Gautama, Baudhayana, and Vasistha). Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 480 pages. * Olivelle, J. Patrick. 1998. The Early Upanisads: Annotated Text and Translation. (edition with variants, translation, and notes) South Asia Research Series. New York: Oxford University Press. 700 pages. * Olivelle, J. Patrick. 1996. The Upanisads. (annotated translation of 12 early Upanisads). Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 504 pages.
The site also offers online access to several of the forty articles [in PDF format] by Prof. Olivelle [asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/olivelle/articles.htm]
URL http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/olivelle/books.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Patrick Olivelle (jpo[use"@"]uts.cc.utexas.edu), forwarded by H-ASIA[use"@"]h-net.msu.edu
* 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

23 Apr 2004

Pacific Trade and Development Conference (PAFTAD) Papers
Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "PAFTAD Conference Papers. These papers are for information only. They being revised for publication and the authors must be contacted before any citation is made. The authors can be contacted through the PAFTAD Secretariat. [...] PAFTAD promotes policy-oriented academic research and discussion of Asia Pacific economic issues, serves as the most authoritative source of economic analysis in the Pacific area, and generates high-quality publications on international economic and development issues. Almost every year since 1968 many of the Pacific's leading economists have gathered under the banner of the Pacific Trade and Development Conference (PAFTAD) to debate and discuss fundamental economic issues facing the region.
Site contents: [papers, in PDF format] * Asia Pacific countries and the Doha Development Agenda; * The Rise of East Asian Regionalism; * The Rise of Services Trade: Regional Initiatives and Challenges for the WTO; * Asia Pacific Regional Architecture and Financial Market Integration; * Truncated Globalism: The Fate of the Asia Pacific Economies?; * Multilateral Trade Cooperation After Cancun; * Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order; * Politico-Strategic Dimensions of Economic Cooperation in the Asia Pacific; * The Economics and Politics of People Movement in East Asia and the Pacific; * The Impact of East Asian Economic Integration on the Asia Pacific Region.
URL http://apseg.anu.edu.au/paftad/papers.php
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek[use"@"]coombs.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]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

22 Apr 2004

Teach in China - Alliance Abroad Group
Alliance Abroad Group, Austin, TX, USA.
Supplied note: "We offer a Teach in China program that would be suitable for students, graduates, or teachers. We have summer, semester, or year long positions. This is a great way to get to experience the asian culture - cp."
URL http://www.allianceabroad.com
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.allianceabroad.com
Link reported by: Christina Prieto (cprieto[use"@"]allianceabroad.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]: 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

22 Apr 2004

China: Exploring the Interior,1903-1904
www.chinaexhibit.org, Sargentville, ME, USA
Sel-description: "CHINA: Exploring the Interior,1903-1904 is a travelling exhibit produced in association with the Chinese Room of the Newport (R.I.) Public Library and the Maine Humanities Council. In 1903, R. Harvey Sargent, a topographer with the U.S. Geological Survey, joined a Carnegie Institution research mission that took him 1,800 miles across the vast interior of China. Along the way, Sargent documented his observations with photographs of the land and the peasants from which the Chinese Revolution was to come. The core of this exhibit consists of 75 of these original photographs, which have been enlarged and reproduced to museum standards. Also included in the exhibit are the published findings of the geological mission, Sargent's journal, a map of the expedition, and other memorabilia."
Supplied note: "The curator of the exhibit [Robert M. Sargent] is the grandson of the photographer, who snapped the photos while on a Carnegie Institution expedition for which he served as topographer - cr."
Site contents: Contact; About the Exhibit; [eleven B&W] Photographs; Exhibit Itinerary [1994 - present]; Guest Book.
URL http://www.chinaexhibit.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.chinaexhibit.org
Link reported by: Cynthia Reilly for Robert M. Sargent (sargent[use"@"]prexar.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./ Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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 100

21 Apr 2004

Vietnamese Online Dictionary (VDict)
VDict, Hanoi, Vietnam
Supplied note: "VDict is a powerful Vietnamese online dictionary. It indexes many Vietnamese dictionaries, including Vietnamese-English, Vietnamese-French and Vietnamese-Vietnamese dictionaries - ccn."
Site contents [all resources in VN, navigation in EN - ed. ]: About; VDict on your site; Browse; Help
URL http://vdict.com
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.
Link reported by: Cong Chinh Nguyen (kamejoko[use"@"]kamejoko.net)
* 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]: 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

21 Apr 2004

Asian Studies WWW Monitor - 10th Anniversary
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "The Asian Studies WWW Monitor (ISSN 1329-9778) was first published on the 21st April 1994, originally under a title 'What's New in WWW Asian Studies Online Newsletter.' The electronic journal forms a key part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (AS WWW VL) Project (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) which itself was established only one month earlier. The Monitor - conceived, designed and edited by Dr T.M. Ciolek - is published by the Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS, ANU. The Journal tracks the current developments in the Asian Studies' cyberspace and provides timely and impartial summaries and evaluations of the latest web sites and other online information resources relevant to research of Asia and the Pacific region.
During the 10 years of operations (currently 11 volumes, 212 issues) the journal has published details (i.e. TOCs and short summaries of the content, resource's general type/category, details of its publisher, evaluation of its scholarly usefulness, and the count of external hyperlinks leading to it) of 3,285 web, gopher, ftp and email resources (= approx. 27.4 abstracts/month). All past issues of the Monitor are freely accessible online in the form of archived web pages as well as database records, and provide a rich record of the key developments in online Asian Studies from the early 1994 till today. (See also 'Asian Studies Online - a Timeline of Major Developments', http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asian-studies-timeline.html).
On the day of its tenth anniversary, the e-mail edition of the journal (asia-www-monitor@coombs.anu.edu.au) had 3,834 subscribers. Selected portions of the Monitor are frequently republished by other scholarly mailing lists, including the prestigious H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu. On the 21st April 2004 the Monitor's web site had the Google (www.google.com) rank #2 among about 3,900,000 online documents dealing with 'asian studies.' The rank #1 is held by the Monitor's parent, namely the AS WWW VL web site. According to Altavista (www.altavista.com) the Monitor is linked to from over 306 external web pages - tmc."
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek[use"@"]coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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 1000

20 Apr 2004

Subject Area Bibliographies and Selected RAND Abstracts
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Self-description: "Subject Area Bibliographies: Available for a diverse collection of subjects, each Subject Area Bibliography is used to easily find RAND research documents grouped by topic in one place, complete with abstracts. They are updated regularly, and contain most publicly available research documents released by RAND. [...] [RAND subject area bibliographies, freely available online in PDF format, include such topics as Asia (Pre-1980); Asia (1980-2003); China (Pre-1980); China (1980-2003); Environment (1980-2003); International Trade (1985-2003); Middle East (1980-2003); Population (1985-2003); Terrorism (1980-2003) - ed.]
Selected RAND Abstracts: These comprehensive bibliographies [for the years (1963-present) - ed.] include abstracts for every publicly available RAND document in a given year."
URL http://www.rand.org/publications/bib/index.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.rand.org/publications/bib/index.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek[use"@"]coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* 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

19 Apr 2004

Indonesian Internet Sites
The National Library of Australia (NLA), Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "The Library's 'Indonesian Internet Sites' web page provides links to more than 250 web sites on Indonesia. - om."
Site contents: * Arts and Culture; * Business and Finance; * Education; * Gateways; * General; * Government and Politics; * Law; * Libraries and Resources; * Maps; * News and Media; * Bali, East Timor, Java, Kalimantan, Maluku, Papua and Sumatera; * Search.
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/indo/indsites.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.nla.gov.au/asian/indo/indsites.html
Link reported by: Oliver Mann (oliver.mann[use"@"]dfat.gov.au), forwarded by asialib[use"@"]info.anu.edu.au
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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 100

19 Apr 2004

The Indonesian Acquisitions List (IAL), March 2004
The National Library of Australia (NLA), Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "The Indonesian Acquisitions List (IAL) details new books and serials which have recently been acquired by the National Library of Australia through its Regional Office in Jakarta. The March 2004 edition of the IAL is now accessible at at [the URL below]. - om."
Self-description: "The Indonesian Acquisitions List (IAL) details books and serials published in Indonesia which have been recently acquired by the National Library of Australia through its Regional Office in Jakarta, Indonesia. The IAL was produced quarterly in hard copy until September 2001. It has also been accessible on the Web since 1996. There was a break in production from September 2001 to December 2002. The quarterly IAL resumed on the Web only from March 2003."
Site contents: * IAL Online Editions [1996 - present. Available in HTML, MS Word and PDF formats - ed.] * Indonesian Acquistions Program; * Arrangement and Content of Entries; * Use of the Library's Indonesian Collection; * Enquiries.
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/pub/ial/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.nla.gov.au/asian/pub/ial/
Link reported by: Oliver Mann (oliver.mann[use"@"]dfat.gov.au), forwarded by asialib[use"@"]info.anu.edu.au
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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 100

19 Apr 2004

Terrorism in S.E.Asia: India's Concerns
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."
[This is the expanded version of a presentation on the subject made by the writer during a seminar on 'Changing Trends in S.E.Asia' held by the Indian Council for World Affairs (ICWA), New Delhi, on March 10, 2004) ]
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Distinguished Fellow and Convenor, Observer Research Foundation (ORF) (www.observerindia.com), Chennai Chapter. - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers10/paper980.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[use"@"]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]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

16 Apr 2004

Asia Pacific Newsletter, ANU
National Institute for Asia and the Pacific (NIAP), The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "The latest issue of the Asia Pacific newsletter is now available online as a pdf via the front page of the NIAP website at [the URL below] - rt."
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2004/apr04/article4.html
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Richard Thomson (richard.thomson[use"@"]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]: 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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