The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Jan 2005
Vol. 12, No. 2 (227)

30 Jan 2005

Pakistan Bibliographical Organization
University of Karachi Campus, Karachi, Pakistan.
Supplied note: "Organisation of Pakistani Librarians and Bibliographers that aims to offer bibliographic resources through the internet. Two bibliographic surveys are available on-line: i) Library and Information Science Research in Pakistani Universities, and ii) Bibliographical Heritage of Pakistan (1947-2004). - ik."
Site contents: Home; Organization; Publications; Contact Us.
URL http://www.pakbo.org/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Irfan Khan (khania[use"@"]super.net.pk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* 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

30 Jan 2005

Chinese Digital Archive 1966-1976
Scholarly Information Services/The Library at ANU, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self description: "[...] The material selected for inclusion in this database have been in the first instance from the Cultural Revolution period. However, additional materials from outside this time-frame which are relevant to the events of the Cultural Revolution are also being included. Although most of the material is held in the Library, some material is held in private collections by academic staff at the ANU, who have been willing to have their materials included in the database. As part of its on-going committment to this project, Scholarly Information Services/The Library is working towards seeking additional international contributing partners who also hold relevant material on the Cultural Revolution period."
Supplied note: "Language: Chinese (GB), English (Metadata). This interesting database currently (29 Jan 2005) contains 226 documents, comprising text documents and about 30 photographs, mostly from the Menzies Asian Special Collection. The documents are pdf scans of speeches and addresses, many hand-written. This is probably why no text is available in full-text, a major draw back of the database. Consequently, the search is limited to the metadata, which one would wish to be even more detailed. 'Title' (in pinyin), 'Subject', 'Description', and 'Creator' are the searchable fields, with each word in the Description field linked to the search-function. Users can mark single items as Favourite, lists of these Favourites are generated in html and may be mailed or put online. Note: Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing PDF files needed. - ma."
Site contents: (1) Home (with 'General information about this site'); (2) Browse; (3) Search (All fields; Title field; Subject field; Description field); (4) My Favourites; (5) Help.
URL http://images.anu.edu.au/china.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/images.anu.edu.au/china.html
Link reported by: Matthias Arnold, forwarded by Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (h.e.lecher[use"@"]let.leidenuniv.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - 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 30

27 Jan 2005

Tsunami Education Kit
AusAID, Canberra, Australia
Self-description "In order to support the desire to understand the causal factors and the long term consequences of the disaster, World Vision, the Australian Red Cross and AusAID have put together this schools kit. The kit goes beyond the immediate disaster and examines how the disaster fits with bigger picture issues of poverty, development and aid. The kit provides a background for teachers and students on these issues through information and key questions, as well as providing activity suggestions for all age groups."
[A hastily executed self-promotion drive by World Vision, the Australian Red Cross and AusAID. - ed.]
URL http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/page1637.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [Archiving of this site is blocked by the robots.txt file]
Link reported by: Mark (indtrans[use"@"]ozemail.com.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Govt.
* 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

27 Jan 2005

Explosions in Xinjiang
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: "The 'China Daily' reported on January 22, 2005, that 13 persons were killed and 18 others injured in two separate explosions in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region coinciding with the Eid-al-Adha religious festival." - 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/papers13/paper1232.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

21 Jan 2005

Tsunami: Politics of Relief in Sri Lanka
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Extract: "The Tsunami offered both GOSL and LTTE a very good opportunity to set aside their differences for the time being and get involved in relief and rehabilitation work together. [...] But unfortunately such a thought requires a political dynamism that appears to be lacking. Even now it's not too late. There are still opportunities in distress. One can only hope they get together to get the country going rather than promote narrow, sectarian agenda." - r. hariharan.
[Col R. Hariharan, an MI specialist in counter-insurgency intelligence, served with the IPKF as Head of Intelligence in Sri Lanka. - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/\papers13\paper1226.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: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek[use"@"]coombs.anu.edu.au)
* 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

20 Jan 2005

Official Document System of the United Nations
United Nations, Secretary Office: New York, NY, US
Self-description: "ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases, UN sales publications, the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information."
Supplied note: "Language: English, Chinese (UTF-8, Simplified), Arabic, French, Russian, Spanish. This database used to be available only by subscription but was now made accessible for free. Currently (Jan 2005) the database contains about 800,000 documents, some 100,000 will be added every year. Almost all documents are available in each of the UN's six official languages. The database features a simple and a very useful advanced search."
URL http://documents.un.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/images.anu.edu.au/china.html
Link reported by: Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (h.e.lecher[use"@"]let.leidenuniv.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* 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

20 Jan 2005

Kidnapping of Chinese in Iraq
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: "Eight Chinese workers from Fujian, who were travelling to Jordan from Najaf in Iraq by a car after having worked in a Chinese-aided power project there for catching a flight to China, were detained by an Iraqi resistance group on January 18, 2005, to protest against the Chinese involvement in the project. [...] 5.While a Chinese Government spokesman claimed that the men had gone to Iraq individually in search of work and, having failed, were travelling by car to Jordan in order to return home, the official Xinhua news agency quoted sources as saying that the men had been working in a Chinese project to rebuild a factory in Najaf - a project which Xinhua said had nothing to do with the US-led multinational forces. [...] 8.China had pledged US$25 million of humanitarian assistance to Iraq in October, 2003, in addition to reportedly promising that the Chinese enterprises would play an active role in the reconstruction of Iraq." - 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/papers13/paper1225.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

19 Jan 2005

Danwei: Media and Advertising in China
Jeremy Goldkorn, Standards Group International, Hong Kong, China
Self description: "A frequently updated website about media, advertising and urban life in China."
Supplied note: "A well informed Web blog in English, very useful to keep up-to-date on ongoing currents in Chinese society - hl."
Site contents: (1) Top Stories; (2) Advertising and Marketing; (3) Books; (4) Danwei Review; (5) Events; (6) Film; (7) Intellectual Property; (8) Internet; (9) Jobs available; (10) Magazines; (11) Media business; (12) Newspapers; (13) Other; (14) People; (15) Sports; (16) TV; (17) Archive by date; (18) Search Danwei archives; (19) What is Danwei.
URL http://www.danwei.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.danwei.org/
Link reported by: Michel Hockx, SOAS, London, UK; forwarded by Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (h.e.lecher@let.leidenuniv.nl)
* 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]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000

19 Jan 2005

China Digital News (CDN)
Qiao Xiang, Berkeley China Internet Project, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Self-description: "[...] a collaborative news weblog about emerging information and communication technologies and their impact on Chinese society. Our mission is to advance the understanding of the ongoing information revolution in China by serving as a news aggregator, public forum and on-line resource center.' [Mission statement 2.0, Sep 2003]."
Supplied note: "A very up-to-date blog run by human rights activist Qiao Xiang. Formerly called 'China NetXing' (China Net Crossing) the latest news are mentioned or discussed in very short notes and the link to the original source is given. A simple 'Search' and a 'Browse by Category' function are available, as well as a subscription for daily email news. All postings are archived (starting in September 2003), however, the original documents cited are not archived. A Chinese version is in Beta mode (http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/chinadn/cn/). - hl."
Site contents: (1) [News]; (2) Editor's Pick; (3) Search Contents; (4) Browse by Category; (5) Subscription; (6) Recent Comments; (7) About China Digital News; (8) Blog Roll; (9) Resources; (10) Archives; (11) Recent TrackBacks.
URL http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/chinadn/en/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/chinadn/en/
Link reported by: Nico Volland, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany and by Michel Hockx, SOAS, London, UK; forwarded by Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (h.e.lecher[use"@"]let.leidenuniv.nl)
* 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]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000

18 Jan 2005

Yangtze Patrol: American Naval Forces in China - A Bibliography
Mike Hanson, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA
Self-description: "Yangtze Patrol: American Naval Forces in China. A Selected, Partially-Annotated Bibliography [...] For nearly a hundred years, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, the United States Navy patrolled the river, protecting American citizens and interests. [...] Now, the Yangtze River Patrol Memorial Foundation has honored the Naval Postgraduate School's Knox Library by selecting it as a repository for their book collection, records, and memorabilia. [...] An attempt was made to select cogent snippets from the comments and works of others that would, when taken together, provide a sort of broad overview of the times, the issues, and the events."
Site contents: (1) Introduction; (2) Books / Monographs; (3) Magazines / Journals; (4) Private Papers / Manuscripts; (5) Internet / WWW Sites; (6) Oral Histories / Interviews; (7) Maps / Atlases; (8) Photographs / Iconographs; (9) Newspaper Articles; (10) Film / Video; (11) Newsletters; (12) Government Reports / Documents.
URL http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/bibs/yangtzetoc.htm
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/library.nps.navy.mil/home/bibs/yangtzetoc.htm
Link reported by: Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (h.e.lecher[use"@"]let.leidenuniv.nl)
* 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

17 Jan 2005

Sejarah Indonesia History
www.londoh.com, Beverwijk,the Netherlands
Supplied note: "The site consists of links to websites written in Indonesian and/or English, and articles written by the owner, Lionel Sluyter - pw."
Site contents: General History; Kerajaan Kingdoms; The Time Until 500 A.D.; Muslim History In Indonesia; Middle Ages Till 1500 A.D.; Modern Times Till 1942; Freedom & Revolution; Black Page (1945-1949); Communist Coup Sept 30th-1965; Atjeh; Sumatra; Java; Bali; Lombok & The Lesser Sunda Islands; West-Papua (Nieuw-Guinea); Kalimantan (Borneo); Sulawesi (Celebes); The Moluccas; East Timor (Timor Loro Sae); Jakarta; Cities in Indonesia; Voc - Dutch East Indies Company; Netherlands East Indies; National Heroes; Sukarno; KNIL - Netherlands Colonial Army; The Pacific War and Japan; Archives; Organizations and Companies; Natural Disasters.
URL http://www.londoh.com/index-intro.htm
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.londoh.com/index-intro.htm
Link reported by: Patrick Wens (p.wens[use"@"]buntu.info)
* 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 300

17 Jan 2005

Global Price and Income Project: Prices and Wages
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Site contents: * Index to datafiles - ASIA General level of wages in Asia; INDIA Monthly cost of living product prices and index in Bombay, 1921-1940; KOREA Labour cost, land prices, land rent, and interest rates in the southern region of Korea (1690-1909); SINGAPORE Commodity Price Data Singapore; EUROPE General level of wages in Europe; BELGIUM Prices of the Sint-Donatiaanskapittel in Brugge, 1348-1800; ITALY Wheat prices in Tuscany, 1260-1860 (annual averages), Grain prices and prices of olive oil in Pisa, 1548-1818 (monthly averages); THE NETHERLANDS Wages and prices from the convent Leeuwenhorst, 1410-1570; OTTOMAN EMPIRE Prices and wages in Istanbul, 1469-1914; SPAIN Spanish consumer prices indices 1815-1936, Monthly Spanish wheat prices 1814-1883, Civil / Agricultural year Spanish wheat prices 1814-1883, Exchange rate 1821-1883; SWEDEN Prices in Stockholm 1539-1620; UNITED KINGDOM Wages and the cost of living in Southern England (London) 1450-1700.
* Index to websites [with statistical data] - WORLD; AFRICA (Egypt); ASIA (General, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam); EUROPE (General, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Ottoman Empire, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Vatican City); NORTH AMERICA (General, Canada, United States); SOUTH AMERICA (General, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru)
URL http://www.iisg.nl/hpw/data.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.iisg.nl/hpw/data.html
Link reported by: S.H Jun (phill9[use"@"]chollian.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/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 300

16 Jan 2005

TheZensite [Zen essays, teachings and book reviews]
www.thezensite.com, Sydney, Australia
Self-description "This is thezensite home page. Here you will find links to various materials about Zen. There are also some links and writings about non-Zen topics which may be of interest to Zennists.
The Zen essays page is heavily into academic essays about Zen. If you would like to read some non-academic texts, try the link to Zen teachings. I make no claim as to the worth of these Zen teachings."
Site contents:
ZEN ESSAYS (* Critical Zen [Essays by:] William Bodiford, John H. Crook, James Ishmael Ford, Nelson Foster, Sueki Fumihiko, Ralf Halfmann, Steven Heine, Namlin Hur, Christopher Ives, Ken W. Jones, Kirita Kiyohide, Ken Knabb, Stuart Lachs, Dan Lusthaus, Mike Port & Kyogen CarlsonSensei, Hirata Seko, Jiun Kubota, Robert H. Sharf, Yamada Shoji; * Miscellaneous Writings [Essays by:] Robert Aitken, Mark S. Ferrara, Jack Kornfeld, Andrew Rawlinson, Amy Samy, Matsumoto Shiro; *Historical Zen [Essays by:] Carl Bielefeldt, T. P. Kasulis, Douglas K. Mikkelson, Gudo Nishijima, Shohaku Okumura, David Putney, Kevin Schilbrack, Martin Baumann, Henry Cruise, Heinrich Dumoulin, Victor Soren Hori, Whalen Lai, Charles Luk (Upasaka Lu K' uan), John McRae, Eshin Nishimura, Kangnam Oh, Ven. Shengyen, Paul Swanson, Albert Weller, Robert B. Zeuschner; *Nagarjuna and Madhyamika [Essays by:] Anthony Birch, HsuehLi Cheng, William Edelglass, Alan Fox, Vladimir Keremidschieff, MingWood Liu, Frederivk J. Streng, C. W. Huntington Jr; * Dogen Studies [Essays by:] Carl Bielefeldt, Griffith Foulk, Zenkei Blanche Hartman, John Daido Loori, Yasuaki Nara, Shohaku Okumura, Otani Tetsuo, Hozan Alan Senauke, Sojun Mel Weitsman; * Philosophical Zen [Essays by:] ChungYing Cheng, Sungtaeik Cho, Edward Conze, Robert Ellis, Toby Avard Foshay, Philip Goodchild, Peter D. Hershock, Yunhun Jan, T. P. Kasulis, Stephen W. Laycock, Shiro Matsumoto, Stephen McCarthy, Fabio Rambelli, James D Sellman, Robert H. Sharf, Koun Yamada Roshi)
ZEN TEACHINGS
([several religious texts organised in the following categories:] Translations & Sutras; Commentaries & Teishos; Miscellaneous; Koan Collections)
ZEN BOOK REVIEWS [by Vladimir Keremidschieff and others]
* Cave Of Tigers: Modern Zen Encounters - John Daido Loori, * Land of No Buddha: reflections of a sceptical Buddhist - Richard P. Hayes, * How the Swans Came to the Lake - Rick Fields, * Seeing Through Zen - John R. McRae, * Zen Pivots - Sokei-An, * Not Always So: practicing the true spirit of Zen - Shunryo Suzuki, * Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record: Zen Comments by Hakuin and Tenkei - Thomas Cleary, * Master Dogen' s Shinji Shobogenzo:301 Koan Stories - Gudo Nishijima, * Zen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice - Victor Sogen Hori, * The Art of Just Sitting - John Daido Loori (ed), * The Eminent Monk: Buddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography - John Kieschnick, * Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism - Dale S. Wright, * The Zen Poetry of Dogen: verses from the mountain of eternal peace - Steven Heine, * Dogen' s Manuals of Zen Meditation - Carl Bielefeldt, * Instructions to the Cook - Bernard Glassman & Rick Fields, * Re-inventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age - Peter D. Hershock, * The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott - Stephen Prothero, * The Book of Enlightened Masters: Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions - Andrew Rawlinson, * Buddhism in a Foreign Land - Robert Mann * Buddhism Without Beliefs: a contempory guide to awakening - Stephen Batchelor, * Nagarjuna' s Twelve Gate Treatise. Translated by Hsueh-Li Cheng, * The Emptiness of Emptiness: An introduction to Early Indian Madhyamika - C. W. Huntington, Jr, * The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna' s Mulamadhyamakakarika - Jay L. Garfield, * Emptiness Appraised: a critical study of Nagarjuna' s philosophy - David F. Burton, * Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation. Edited by Carole Tonkinson, * American Buddhism. Edited by D.R. Williams and C.S.Queen; * Healing Deconstruction: Postmodern Thought in Buddhism and Christianity. Edited by David Loy, * Zen at War - Brian (Daizen) A. Victoria, * Zen War Stories - Brian (Daizen) A. Victoria, * Pruning the Bodhi Tree: The Storm Over Critical Buddhism - Jamie Hubbard & Paul L. Swanson, * Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center - Michael Downing, * Buddhism Without Beliefs - Steve Batchelor, * Miscellaneous (recommended reading lists).
ZEN LINKS; NON-ZEN TOPICS; SITE CHANGES;
[The www.thezensite.com is a sub-section of Zen Buddhism WWW Virtual Library (www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Zen.html) - ed.]
URL http://www.thezensite.com/
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/Online Guide/Documents
* 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

15 Jan 2005

Chinese, Japanese and Western Research in Chinese Historical Metrology: A Classified Bibliography
Ulrich Theobald and Hans Ulrich Vogel, Institute for Sinology and Korean Studies, Univ. Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
Self-description: "The historical subjects covered by this bibliography span from the origin of the Chinese civilisation until the Qing period (1644-1911), with the inclusion of some entries referring to the Republican Period and the PRC as well as to music, as far as it focuses on metrological problems. We have tried to be as inclusive as possible in the collection of materials and the compilation of the entries, but given the output of publications nowadays and the often very marginal character of publications dealing with historical metrology this can only be a first attempt at providing historians, especially those investigating economic and institutional history, with a reference tool that may prove helpful for their research. We have not only included articles and books written in Chinese and English, but also such in Japanese, French, German, Russian, and even Korean."
Supplied note: "This is an impressive list of both monographs and articles on the topic, although annotations to the works listed (or at least to the more important ones) are dearly missing, as are introductory remarks on each chapter. - hl."
Site contents: (1) General Surveys on the History of Weighing and Measuring in China; (2) The Pre-Zhou Period; (3) Histories of Length Measuring from the Zhou to the Qing Period; (4) History on Capacity Measuring from the Zhou to the Qing Period; (5) History of Weighing from the Zhou to the Qing Period; (6) History of Area Measuring from the Zhou to the Qing Period; (7) Chinese Music (selected bibliography concerning measuring in music); (8) Varia Concerning Weights and Measures.
[Note: Large file (640 KB) in Adobe PDF format. - hl.]
URL http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/sinologie/sino/personal/vogel/bibliography_metrology.pdf
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 (h_e_lecher(at)let.leidenuniv.nl)
* 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

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