The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Sep 2004
Vol. 11, No. 17 (221)

30 Sep 2004

Clan Homes in Fujian
www.chinadwelling.dk, Copenhagen, Denmark
Supplied note: "The tulous (clan homes in earth walled building) of the Fujian Province represent an epoch in China's history which is now closed, both technologically and socially. Today there are cheaper and faster methods of home construction. Nevertheless the interest in these very special structures has increased since the 1980's. They were built in response to a specific historical situation, with a cohesive clan structure and a weak state that could not manifest its power at the periphery. The reduced importance of the clan today is a logical result of changed social structure. The author, Jens Aaberg-Jorgensen, who is a Danish architect, focuses on three questions 1.Why do the tulou have such a closed and defensive nature? 2.Why are some tulou circular? 3.Why did the building of tulou cease? The article includes a survey of a round tulou: Zhenchenglou in Hongkeng. - jaj."
Site contents: Hongkeng - A Village in Fujian; Construction; Case of Survey; Links and [bibliographic] Sources; Acknowledgement
URL http://www.chinadwelling.dk/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Jens Aaberg-Jorgensen (jens.aaberg[use"@"]get2net.dk)
* 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]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

29 Sep 2004

The India Project
The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London, UK
Self-description "The India Project aims to promote understanding of India's economic, political and social development, and its impact on the rest of the world. [...] The India Project, run by Gareth Price, asks how key social, economic and political trends will affect India in the next decade and assess how India's regional and global role will develop. Chatham House research on India divides into five topic areas: * India's expanding global role; * Democracy and economic reform; * India's export strategy; * Regional security."
URL http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/index.php?id=271
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]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

29 Sep 2004

The China Project - China's economy: online research
The Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London, UK
Self-description "We have created a library of links for all the best academic research on China's economic reforms available on the web."
Site contents: (1) Agricultural Sector; (2) Education and Training; (3) Employment, Migration and Social Inequalities; (4) Environment; (5) Foreign Investment; (6) Growth, Fiscal and Monetary Policy; (7) Health and Healthcare; (8) Industries; (9) Intellectual Property; (10) Introduction to Economic Reform in China; (11) Politics and Military; (12) Regional Development; (13) Social Welfare and Pensions; (14) The Financial Sector; (15) The Industrial Sector; (16) The Private Sector; (17) The Rural Sector; (18) Trade.
URL http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/index.php?id=275
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: the Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/) and Thomas Kampen, Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg Univerisity, Heidelberg, Germany
* 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

29 Sep 2004

Silk Road Seattle Project
Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, US.
Supplied note: "A number of significant additions have been made to Silk Road Seattle [see the URL below] since the beginning of the [2004] summer. Silk Road Seattle is a non-profit educational project of the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington. [...] The web design and other contributions to the site are the work of Lance Jenott, an M.A. candidate in Comparative Religion at the University of Washington. Silk Road Seattle encourages submission of material. We are especially interested in short essays, translations of historical texts, and image collections which can then be incorporated into other web pages and educational publications. [...] Should you have material or suggestions about the project, please contact its director, Prof. Daniel C. Waugh (dwaugh[use"@"]u.washington.edu).
The new material includes: 1. Historical Texts - *A new, extensively annotated translation by John Hill of the section on the 'Peoples of the West' in the Weilue. [...] *Prof. Nicholas Sims-Williams' translations of Ancient Sogdian Letters nos. 1 and 3, joining letters 2 and 5, which we posted previously. *Prof. Colin Mackerras' annotated translation of the 'New T'ang History' (Hsin T'ang-shu) sections on the Uighurs. *The text of the 'Periplus of the Erythraean Sea,' [..] 2. Cities and Architecture - *Prof. Albert Dien's essay on Palmyra [..] *An illustrated essay on Constantinople [...] *An illustrated essay on Karakorum [...]. *Illustrated essays on Ephesus and on Mshatta [...]. *A number of image galleries, courtesy of Franklin and Ruth Harold. *19th-century lithographs of Petra by David Roberts. 3. A new section on Museum Collections featuring *detailed annotations of museum websites; *More than 1100 photographs taken in several major collections [...]. Highlights include images from the Turfan Collection of the Museum of Indian Art in Berlin, the Stein Collection in the National Museum in New Delhi, and the Fine Arts Museum in Ulaanbaatar. 4. Under Traditional Culture two contributions by University of Washington Ph.D. candidate Elmira Kochumkulkizi: *A description of her 'traditional' Kyrgyz wedding, including photographs and video clips; *Her draft translation of the important Kyrgyz epic 'Kojojash' [...] 5. Additions to our Silk Road Atlas, including historical maps of China by Fei Yang. - dcw."
URL http://www.uwch.org/silkroad/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.uwch.org/silkroad/
Link reported by: Daniel C. Waugh (dwaugh[use"@"]u.washington.edu)
* 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 30

28 Sep 2004

The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA), New York
Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY, US
Self-description: "The Rubin Museum of Art (RMA) is a cultural and educational institution dedicated to the art of the Himalayas. Its mission is to establish, present, preserve and document a permanent collection that reflects the vitality, complexity and historical significance of Himalayan art and to create exhibitions and programs designed to explore connections with other world cultures.
Supplied note: "In case you haven't already heard, Manhattan is to have its first major museum dedicated to Himalayan art and culture - the Rubin Museum of Art or RMA. It opens on Oct 2nd [2004] with a spectacular program of events, [...]. The program includes a list of 26 Hollywood films featuring Himalayan themes, intended as a complement to Columbia's series of films from Tibet this autum. The RMA series include Lost Horizon (showing Oct 9th), Black Narcissus (Oct 16th), Tintin in Tibet (Jan 9th) and the extraordinary British mini-series Jewel in the Crown (Feb 19th). The RMA is one of three outstanding Tibet-related institutions supported by the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation and housed in w 17th street [New York, NY], along with the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center under the direction of Gene Smith, and the Himalayan Art Project, run by Jeff Watts. - rb."
Site contents: About RMa, Collections, Exhibitions [Inaugural: Six Gallery Floors - * 6th Floor: Methods of Transcendence; * 5th Floor: Portraits of Transmission; * 4th Floor: Demonic Divine: Himalayan Art and Beyond; * 3rd Floor: Perfected Beings, Pure Realms; * 2nd Floor: Sacred History: Portraits and Stories; * Theater Level: Kenro Izu: Sacred Passage to Himalaya - ed.], Programs, Education, Calendar, Rights and Reproductions, Building, Newsletters [since Jan 2003]
URL http://www.rmanyc.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.rmanyc.org/
Link reported by: Robbie Barnett (rb25[use"@"]mindspring.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Museum
* 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

28 Sep 2004

Glossary for the Tibetan Book of the Dead
Linguasoft, Vienna, Austria
Supplied note: "A Glossary for the Tibetan Book of the Dead (bar do thos grol) can be downloaded from http://www.popdic.com/dict_tibetan.htm (English site) or http://www.popdic.com/rdict_tibetan.htm (Russian site).
This preliminary version is an initial step towards a multilingual glossary, and its [4,728] English entries are thought as a basis for translations into several languages. Special thanks to Professor Jeffrey Hopkins and Andres Montano of Virginia University, and to Erik Pema Kunsang for their permissions to use electronic data from The Online Tibetan to English Translation/Dictionary Tool for the present glossary. For a recitation of the bar do thos grol and various text versions, please visit www.tashi-verlag.de/bardo/. (Currently still under construction.)
We are eager to add more translations of the bar do thos grol to our site, and would be grateful for help if you happen to know additional online sources or can arrange contacts with publishers or translators who hold the rights for translations. - peh."
Site contents: Site contents: A Glossary for the Tibetan Book of the Dead (bar do thos grol); Chinese-Tibetan-(English); Tibetan-English; Tibetan-Lithuanian Dictionary with Sanskrit Addenda; Glossary to the Lectures on Tibetan Religious Culture; Tibetan Font; Tibetan Keyboard Drivers; Useful Links.
URL http://www.popdic.com/dict_tibetan.htm
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.popdic.com/dict_tibetan.htm
Link reported by: Peter E. Hauer (inguasoft[use"@"]surfeu.at)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* 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

28 Sep 2004

Digital Colonial Documents (India)
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Supplied note: "The Digital Colonial Documents Project (India) is intended to promote study of the rare seminal documents which were influential in the formation of the notions of nation, state and culture during the colonial period. It includes full text versions of the Indian Census Reports for 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901, Murrays Guide to India for 1859, The Indian Education Report of 1882, Mill's History of British India and other documents. - pf."
URL http://www.chaf.lib.latrobe.edu.au/dcd/default.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Peter Friedlander (p.friedlander[use"@"]latrobe.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* 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

27 Sep 2004

Sri Lanka & LTTE: Quo Vadis
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: "A question often posed is, will there be another flare-up in Sri Lanka, if the deadlock continues? Most probably, there will be. The timing of such a flare-up will be decided by the LTTE [the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam - ed.] and not by the [Sri Lanka's] Government. A more important question is: If there is such a flare-up, how high would be the morale of the SL Army and how firm its determination to deny to the LTTE the fruits of a military victory? After having been used to peace for over two years, will the SL Army be prepared to fight with the same determination against the LTTE as it had done in the past? It is difficult to answer this question with any certainty at present. However, one can say that time and circumstances seem to be on the LTTE's side." - b.raman]
[The writer 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), Chennai Chapter - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers12/paper1123.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]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

23 Sep 2004

Central and Inner Asia Seminar, May 2005
Central and Inner Asia Seminar, U. Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Supplied note: "The Eleventh Annual Conference of the Central and Inner Asia Seminar (CIAS 2005) will be held at the University of Toronto in Canada on May 12-14, 2005. The proceedings of the conference will be published in due course in 'Toronto Studies in Central and Inner Asia'. Volume 7, the papers from CIAS 2004, should be available in time for this year's conference. The general theme of this year's gathering will be 'Traders and Trade Routes of Central and Inner Asia, Then and Now.' It is hoped that this subject will be of interest to scholars from various disciplines.
This is an invitation to submit proposals for papers. The time allowance for any presentation is 20 minutes. Please include the title, a one-page summary and a short copy of your curriculum vitae and send them, by email, to me at gillian.long[use"@"]utoronto.ca or to Professor Michael Gervers at gervers[use"@"]chass.utoronto.ca
The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2004 and those selected will be notified by email as soon as possible thereafter. [...] For further information see [the URL below] The website will be updated regularly as more information becomes available. - gl."
URL http://www.utoronto.ca/deeds/cias/cias.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.utoronto.ca/deeds/cias/cias.html
Link reported by: Gillian Long (gillian.long[use"@"]utoronto.ca), forwarded by central-eurasia-l[use"@"]lists.fas.harvard.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

23 Sep 2004

Chinese Language Program, Tianjin
College of International Education at TUT, Tianjin, China
Supplied note: "The College of International Education (CIE) of Tianjin University of Technology (TUT) is a school established especially for recruiting international students and students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan for TUT, offering courses in Chinese language study. Apart from the language courses, international students can also learn Wushu (Chinese martial arts), Chinese painting, Chinese calligraphy, Beijing opera, etc., and take rewarding tours throughout China to experience the unique Chinese culture. - jl."
URL http://www.tjut.edu.cn:82/gjjy
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Jingmin Li (jingminli5[use"@"]163.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]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

21 Sep 2004

Faces of Eurasia
IDC Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "An exciting collection of travel accounts, notes, diaries, and ethnographic descriptions [121 titles, 1,429 microfiche - ed.] dating from the seventeenth through the early twentieth century is now available for research. The majority of the works describe the Russian expansion in Asia. - wl."
URL http://www.idc.nl/catalog/referer.php?c=446
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Willemijn Lindhout (wlindhout[use"@"]idc.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

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