The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early May 2004
Vol. 11, No. 9 (213)

14 May 2004

Women's Magazines from the [China's] Republican Period
Barbara Mittler, Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany
Self-description: "Women's magazines, the first of which appeared in China in 1898, were a significant side-product from the rise of a free press based on the foreign model in late 19th century treaty port China. As public fora of discussion explicitly catering to women, they were of and by themselves indicators of some of the rapid changes in Chinese society at the time: during the first decades of the twentieth century, women from all strata of society would gradually be accepted into a reading and writing community that worked within and, more importantly, also without the confines of the home. [...]. "
Site contents: (1) Women's Magazines (Funu shibao, 1911-1917; Shenzhou nubao, 1913; Funu zazhi, 1915-1931; Xin funu, 1920-1921; Xin nuxing, 1927-1929; Nuguang zhoukan, 1930; Linglong, 1932-1937; Nuxing texie, 1936; Zhongguo funu, 1939-1941); (2) Bibliography: (a)Women's Magazines in China; (b) Women's Magazines abroad; (c) Women in Republican China.
URL http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/womag/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)
* 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

12 May 2004

Sundeep Prakashan - House of Indological Publications
Sundeep Prakashan - House of Indological Publications, New Delhi, India
Supplied note: "Academic books on Alternative Medicine, Anthropology, Archaeology and Ancient Studies, Architecture, Art and Fine Arts, Astrology and Occult Sciences, Astronomy, Ayurveda, Bhagavad Gita, Buddhist Studies, Hinduism and Its Sources, History and History of Civilization, History and Philosophy of Sciences, Jainism, Languages and Linguistics, Literature, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Reference Books, Religion and Spirituality, Sanskrit, Pali and Prakrit Studies, Sikhism, Sociology, Tantra, Tibetan Studies, Women Studies, Yoga and Meditation. - sp."
Site contents: View Cart; Wish List; Custom Order; Helpdesk; About us; Mailing list; New Books; Bargain Books; Authors; Institutions; FAQ.
URL http://www.sundeepbooks.com/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.sundeepbooks.com/
Link reported by: Sundeep Singhal (info[use"@"]sundeepbooks.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

08 May 2004

The Internet in Asia
Singapore Internet Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Self-description "We post [since Oct 2003 - ed.] news items and academic research concerning the social, cultural, economic, and political impact of the Internet and other new media technologies in Asia."
"News blog [and their archive - ed.] on new media technologies in Asia - m.a."
URL http://sirc.blogspot.com/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Matthias Arnold / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* 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

08 May 2004

Alan Wood's Unicode Resources
Alan Wood, London, UK.
Self-description: "On this Web site, I have tried to gather together practical information about Unicode and the increasing number of applications and fonts that support it, intended to help people who are trying to use Unicode to produce standardised multilingual and technical documents." description)."
Contents: (1) Introduction; (2) Characters; (3) Fonts; (4) Browsers; (5) Applications and utilities; (6) Word 97, Word 2000 and Word 2002; (7) Creating multilingual Web pages; (8) Links; (9) Copyright, Terms and Conditions.
URL http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.alanwood.net/unicode/
Link reported by: Matthias Arnold / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other
* 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 1,000

08 May 2004

Bibliographien zur Taiwanforschung/Bibliographies of Taiwan Studies
Department of Chinese Language and Culture, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Self-description: "A comprehensive annotated bibliography of Chinese and Western sources on Taiwanese culture and literature."
Site contents: (1) Taiwanese Literature, Literary History and Literary Criticism; (2) Selected Bibliography: Taiwanese Literature in German Speaking Countries 1970-2000; (3) The PRC and its neighbours: Taiwan; (4) Selected Bibliography: The Southern Min Language of Taiwan and Related Dialects.
URL http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/slc/taiwan/biblio1.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/slc/taiwan/biblio1.html
Link reported by: Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)
* 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

08 May 2004

Research Unit on Taiwanese Culture and Literature/Forschungsstelle fuer taiwanesische Kultur und Literatur
Department of Chinese Language and Culture, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Self-description: "Since the early 1980s, under the leadership of the late Professor Helmut Martin (died June 1999), the research activities of the Department of Chinese Languages and Literatures of the Faculty for East Asian Studies focused increasingly on Taiwan, in particular the country's cultural development. It is thanks to the commitment of Professor Martin that the Department has at its disposal one of the largest research libraries on the subject of Taiwanese culture and literature in Europe. A three-year project, funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange in Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., which got underway in September 1999, aimed to establish [13 Nov 2002 - ed.] the 'Research Unit on Taiwanese Culture and Literature' as a forum of contact and cooperation in the field of Taiwan Studies in order to counter the marginalization of Taiwan research."
Site contents: (1) Contact; (2) Introduction; (3) Studia Formosiana; (4) Taiwan Papers; (5) TCL News; (6) Research Library; (7) Bibliographies; (8) Publications; (9) Visiting Scholars; (10) Workshop 2001; (11) Links.
URL http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/slc/taiwan.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/slc/taiwan.html
Link reported by: Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)
* 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

07 May 2004

Biblioclub.com, India
NewAge Internet Services Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, India
Supplied note: "Excellent Collection of books from India on Culture & Heritage, Spirituality & Religion, Art & Architecture and many other categories available. Books are supplied both to individuals and institutions - mj."
URL http://www.biblioclub.com/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.biblioclub.com/
Link reported by: Manish Jaitly (info@biblioclub.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

05 May 2004

CEDICT: Chinese-English Dictionary
www.mandarintools.com, USA.
Self-description: "This website is a continuation of the CEDICT project started by Paul Denisowski. It aims to provide a complete Chinese to English dictionary with pronunciation in pinyin for the Chinese characters. CEDICT is merely a text file, other programs are needed to search and display it. CEDICT was inspired by the EDICT Japanese dictionary project of Jim Breen."
"Started by P. Denisowski, now maintained by volunteers at mandarintools.com. The dictionary can be used as a local add-on on your machine (desktop, laptop, PalmPilot, WAP) or on-line. [On 30th May2003] the Big5 version contained 25,807 entries with 26,404 definitions, the GB version 23,512 entries with 24,345 definitions. The project is meant as an open collaborative endeavor, submissions for new or enlarged entries are highly encouraged. - HL"
[Programs using CEDICT:
* Mike's CEDICT PalmPilot Page; * CEL Chinese-English Look-up; * DLTool: Dictionary Lookup Tool - an updated version of CEL for Windows 2000/XP, from a different author; * Searchable on-line dictionary that uses CEDICT; * Using Chinese Software for the Palm OS: KDIC and the Freeware CEDict Dictionary; * Read and Study Japanese and Chinese with pop-up hints; * WordLookup: a small utility for converting words and phrases between languages; * MobileCEDICT Chinese-English Dictionary: a searchable Chinese-English-Chinese dictionary for WAP enabled mobile phones; * Primezero English-Chinese Dictionary; * Declan's Chinese Dictionary; * Search CEDICT: Displays results using Unicode and pinyin with tone marks; * Cheng's Garden CEDICT Search Mirror - ed.]
URL http://www.mandarintools.com/cedict.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.mandarintools.com/cedict.html
Link reported by: Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Corporate Info.
* 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 100

05 May 2004

Peer-reviewed Proceedings of the Asian Studies Association of Australia 15th Biennial Conference, Jun 2004
Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Inc., Australia
Supplied note: "For the first time, delegates to the ASAA Conference [Canberra's National Convention Centre, 29 June-2 July 2004 - ed.] will have the opportunity to have their papers peer-reviewed and placed on the Web as part of refereed conference proceedings in line with the requirements of the Australian Commonwealth Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST).
Papers in PDF format can be submitted up to 2 August, one month after the end of the conference, to give presenters the opportunity to respond to suggestions and comments at the conference itself.
Because the papers will have been presented, there will be no opportunity to revise or resubmit. Referees will be asked simply to say 'Yes' or 'No' to publication, though they will be asked to provide a brief explanation in the event of a 'No'. A small editorial committee will oversee the responses of the referees and may seek further opinions in the case of ambiguous recommendations.
Access to the papers on the Web will be free of charge. - rc"
[The conference's program - 14 sessions, approx. 160 panels, and over 470 accepted papers - is now available online at http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ASAA/conference/program.html - ed.]
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ASAA/conference/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Robert Cribb (robert.cribb[use"@"]anu.edu.au)
* 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

03 May 2004

Birth of the Constitution of Japan
National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan
Supplied note: "The National Diet Library's online exhibition, 'Birth of the Constitution of Japan' presents the major events and important documents involved in the framing and enactment of Japan's Constitution. The exhibition was updated on May 3, 2004 with the addiction of 81 new documents and a new section of main issues.
This Web's exhibition includes not only the basic documents such as Imperial Rescript on the Signing of the Instrument of Surrender, September 2, 1945, but also main issues such as Popular Sovereignty and the Emperor System. - mm."
[A bi-lingual (JP, EN) site - ed.]
Site contents: * Birth of the Constitution; * Outline; * Documents with Commentaries; * Part 1: Military Defeat and Efforts to Reform the Constitution; * Part 2: Creation of Various Proposals to Reform the Constitution; * Part 3: Formulation of the GHQ Draft and Response of the Japanese Government; * Part 4: Deliberations in the Imperial Diet; * Part 5: Enactment of the Constitution of Japan; * Main Issues; * Archives; * Historical Figures; * Glossary and Abbreviations; * List of Documents; * Chronological Table; * The Constitution and Other Documents ; * Links; * Bibliography; * About This Site.
URL http://www.ndl.go.jp/constitution/e/index.html
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Mizuno Mitsuaki (mizuno-m[use"@"]sa.starcat.ne.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library/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]: under 30

02 May 2004

State Control of the Internet in China - 2004 update
International Secretariat, Amnesty International, London, UK
Self-description: "This document updates Amnesty International's first major reports on the Internet in China, People's Republic of China: State Control of the Internet in China, ASA 17/007/2002 and People's Republic of China: State Control of the Internet in China: Appeal Cases, ASA 17/046/2002, both published in November 2002."
Supplied note: "This is the current (2004) Amnesty report on the Internet in China. (Single page document, AI INDEX: ASA 17/001/2004, 28 January 2004) - ma."
Site contents: (1) Introduction; (2) Increased detentions of Internet activists - the cost to the individual; (3) Detention of Internet users in connection with SARS; (4) Increased controls and surveillance of Internet users; (5) Corporate responsibility and Internet freedoms; (6) Appeal cases; (7) APPENDIX 1: Amnesty International recorded a total of 54 people believed to be in detention for Internet-related offences as of 7 January 2004; (8) APPENDIX 2: List of those who have been detained for Internet-related offences and died in custody; (9) Related documents.
URL http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA170012004?open&of=ENG-2S2
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Matthias Arnold / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/), forwarded by Hanno Lecher.
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - 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

02 May 2004

Maritime Asia
maritimeasia.ws, ?Malaysia
Supplied note: "A website devoted to trade-ships that came from China to Malaysia. One part contains the online exhibition of 7 wrecks, 'Discovering Asia's ceramic development over half a millennium - through shipwrecks of the 14th to 19th centuries' (part of the exhibition 'Maritime archaeology Malaysia' which opened in November 2001 at Muzium Negara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). The website also includes all the content of an article by Sten Sjostrand and Claire Barnes, 'Turiang: a fourteenth century Chinese shipwreck, upsetting Southeast Asian ceramic history,' that has been published in: Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol LXXIV part 1 (no. 280), 2001, p. 71-109. Topic pages are supplementary to the principal sections of the site: the Chronology provides an overview of Asian maritime trade up to 1700, drawing on historical sources from many countries and new archaeological evidence. 'Malaysia at the crossroads' explains the wealth of historic shipwrecks around the country. - ma."
"The site provides links also to a sister site Maritime Lanka (cf.hum.uva.nl/galle/) which at present deals mostly with stone anchors and a wreck of 'Avondster ' (1659), a Dutch East Indiaman, in the port of Galle. - tmciolek."
Site contents: (1) Exhibition: Seven shipwrecks; (2) Specific ships - Tg.Simpang (C10-12), Turiang (c.1370), Desaru (c.1845); (3) Topic pages (Chronology; Malaysia; Ship types; Iron; Compass; Soundings; Tioman); (4) What's new; (5) People/contacts.
URL http://maritimeasia.ws/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/maritimeasia.ws/
Link reported by: Matthias Arnold / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/), forwarded by Hanno Lecher.
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Documents/News
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - 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

02 May 2004

Database of Early Chinese Manuscripts
Society for the Study of Early China, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Self-description: "This is the full and most updated version [last update: Jan 2000 - HL] of [...] database [by Enno Giele, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan - ed.] that in an abbreviated format accompanies [...his] review article 'Early Chinese Manuscripts: Including Addenda and Corrigenda to New Sources of Early Chinese History: An Introduction to the Reading of Inscriptions and Manuscripts'; Early China 23-24 (1998-99), 247-337. It tries to assemble basic information on all known manuscripts - fully published or not - written in Chinese on bamboo, wood, and silk from the pre-imperial to the early imperial period, i.e. roughly from the -3rd to the 3rd c. However, a few other manuscripts written on or inscriptions engraved in stone, bone, or paper from adjacent periods have also been included."
Supplied note: "An annotated bibliographic database in two parts. The first part,'Sites', is a list of 158 sites where manuscript materials have been found. Entries in this part contain the following information: Serial Number; Site; Report; Discovery date; Period; Whereabouts; Distribution; Total pieces; Total graphs. The second part, 'Manuscripts', give more details about the 287 objects themselves: Serial Number; Site contents; Material; Pieces; Size; Graphs; Script; Reproductions/Transcriptions; Remarks. - ma."
URL http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/earlychina/res/databases/decm/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.lib.uchicago.edu/earlychina/res/databases/decm/
Link reported by: Matthias Arnold / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/), forwarded by Hanno Lecher.
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic/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

02 May 2004

Society for the Study of Early China (SSEC)
SSEC, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Self-description: "The Society for the Study of Early China (SSEC) is a scholarly, non-political, and non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in the culture and civilization of China from earliest times down to and including the period of the Han dynasty [AD 220 (CE)]. Established in 1975, the goals of the Society are to further the progress of studies within the field by providing for the cooperative exchange and communication of knowledge and ideas and by encouraging projects critical to the growth of the field. The Society publishes the annual journal Early China as well as the Early China Special Monograph Series and maintains the Early China Website (http://www.earlychina.org)."
Site contents: (1) Research and Resources (Databases, research notes, abstracts, conference reports and bibliographies); (2) News and Events (Upcoming conferences, calls for papers, announcements, and recent news in the field of Early China); (3) SSEC; (4) Publications; (5) Links.
URL http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/earlychina/ssec/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.lib.uchicago.edu/earlychina/ssec/
Link reported by: Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic/Library
* 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 May 2004

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
The Art Bin, Nisus Foerlagskonsult, Stockholm, Sweden
Supplied note: "The complete English text of Mao Zedong's Yulu, based on the first English edition by the Foreign Language Press, Peking. This seems to be based on the 2nd Chinese edition of the Yulu, with a foreword by Lin Biao, dated December 16, 1966. - ma"
[The Art Bin's online edition of 'Quotations' provides a scholarly apparatus which is markedly less ample than that offered by the superb 'Mao Tse-tung (Zedong) Internet Library' (http://www.marx2mao.org/Mao/Index.html) by David Romagnolo, Watsonville, CA, USA - ed.]
URL http://art-bin.com/art/omaotoc.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/art-bin.com/art/omaotoc.html
Link reported by: Matthias Arnold / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/), forwarded by Hanno Lecher.
* 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]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300

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