The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early Feb 2005
Vol. 12, No. 3 (228)

09 Feb 2005

Alleba Filipino Directory - WWW Virtual Library of the Philippines
www.alleba.com, New York, NY, USA
Site contents:
* Search; * Arts and Humanities (Performing Arts, Literature, Visual Arts ... ); * Business and Economy (B2B, Shopping, Jobs ... ); * Computers and Internet (Internet, Graphics, Software ... ); * Education (Universities, Colleges ... ); * Entertainment (Actors & Actresses, Music, Movies ... ); * Government (Departments, Military ... ); * Health (Specialties, Nursing ... ); * News and Media (Newspapers, Magazines ... ); * Recreation and Sports (Sports, Travel ... ); * Science and Technology (Animals, Astronomy ... ); * Society and Culture (About the Philippines, Personal Homepages ... ); * New Additions
[A site est. Jul 2001. Since 8 Feb 2005 'Alleba Filipino Directory' forms a subsection of the Asian Studies WWW VL (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) - ed.]
URL http://www.alleba.com/dir.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.alleba.com/dir.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 - 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 1,000

09 Feb 2005

Access Indonesia
School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, US
Supplied note: "Dear all: I am pleased to inform you about our official launching [8 Feb 2005 - ed.] of Access Indonesia website. The website is the principal output of a project jointly undertaken by University of Southern California (Los Angeles, United States) and Bandung Institute of Technology (Bandung, Indonesia). [...] The main purpose of the project is to foster a fuller interdisciplinary understanding of Indonesia through a 'one-stop website' (available both in English and in Bahasa Indonesia), which is designed for scholars, students, international development practitioners, policymakers, and the business community interested in Indonesia. [...]
The website is organized around six main sections:
(a) THEMES: [...] [Culture, Economy, Geography, History, and Politics] related to Indonesia. Each theme page contains full-text documents (including documents that are only accessible through our website), book and journal citations, and web-links. [...] (b) NEWS INDO SECTION: [...] news briefs of current news from Indonesia (updated weekly on Mondays). (c) STAT INDO SECTION: [...] statistical data on Indonesia both in excel and in html format (gathered from Indonesian and international organizations). (d) MAP INDO SECTION: [...] Web-GIS based thematic maps of Indonesia. (e) SLIDE INDO SECTION: [...] photographs from selected Indonesian cities (e.g. Jakarta, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Banjarmasin) and a private collection by a professional photographer from Indonesia. (f) LEARNING TOOLKITS SECTION: It has one multiple choice quiz on different aspects of Indonesia and two map exercises to locate Indonesian islands and cities.
We also have a SPECIAL TSUNAMI SECTION that focuses on the disaster recovery and rebuilding processes in Aceh and North Sumatra, which were gravely affected by the recent Tsunami. We would be expanding this section during the coming months. We will soon be adding a BUSINESS MANUAL SECTION that may be of interest to those who would like to conduct business activities in or with Indonesia.
If you like to be informed about our activities and receive our weekly news summaries on Indonesia, please subscribe to our DIALOGUE INDO email list from the website. - km."
URL http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~indo/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Dr. Koichi Mera, Access Indonesia Project (indo[use"@"]usc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/News/Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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 Feb 2005

Pinyin.info - a guide to the writing of Mandarin Chinese in romanization
Mark Swofford, Banqiao, Taiwan
Self description: "This website is aimed at contributing to a better understanding of the Chinese languages and how romanization can be used to write languages traditionally associated with Chinese characters (such as Japanese, Korean, and especially Mandarin Chinese). [...], this site offers an extensive selection of readings related to how Chinese characters do (and don't!) work, how romanization has been regarded, how the Chinese languages differ, how regarding Chinese characters as "ideograms" or "ideographs" is incorrect, and related topics."
Site contents: (1) Home; (2) Readings; (3) Rules (for using Pinyin); (4) Tools (Romanization tools; Pinyin and Unicode); (5) Systems (Romanization systems; Non-romanization systems); (6) News (searchable); (7) Links (Taiwan's romanization situation; Pinyin-related professional software; Language-related sites; Taiwan-related sites; Computer and Internet-related links; Other; Book-related links); (8) Contact.
URL http://pinyin.info/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/pinyin.info/
Link reported by: Deike Zimmann, Hamburg University, Germany, forwarded by Hanno E. Lecher / Internet Guide for ChinaStudies (h.e.lecher[use"@"]let.leidenuniv.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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 100

06 Feb 2005

Confucius2000
Confucius2000, ?China.
Supplied note: "Language: Chinese (GB). 'The most highly trafficked Chinese site on Confucianism. Hundreds of articles by contemporary Chinese scholars on a wide variety of topics, updated daily' [cited from ConfuciusStudies.com, accessed 5 Feb 2005].
The site also includes a very powerful search facility able to search either the complete site or only certain parts. An extra search facility with predefined search terms (mostly names of scholars such as Qian Mu etc.) is also available. - hl."
Site contents: (1) ��ײ Confucius; (2) �º� Confucianism; (3) ���� Taoism; (4) �ϲ��Ɗ� Voices from East and West; (5) �� ��� Scholarship; (6) �� ��' �; (7) ����� �� Sources; (8) ���êج�Ä Discussion board; (9) �߻����� Articles by scholars; (10) �� ����� Journals; (11) ��è�έ��� State of the field; (12) ���ʿ� News; (13) �ª��ۋߺھ؋��� Tsinghua University research on ancient bamboo and silk documents; (14) �г׋��� Research on the Yijing; (15) 悵��ò��ۺ�ý Discussion forum on education on the Classics; (16) �������� Research on Shao Yong; (17) ���ߑƒ�� Classical Chinese Studies FAQ; (18) ��ײ�������� Research on the philosophical schools of the Zhou Dynasty; (19) '�'��ٲΆ��� �'� The shrine of Zhang Zai and his academy; (20) �Ƚ���'��� - �׿̲΅��� Emotion and Righteousness - Ethics and Law; (21) �‹߲�׎�Ñ Ò'��� Confucianism and Religion; (22) ���ߋ��� Buddhism; (23) �'��‹� Confucianism in Japan; (24) �� � ����������� Trends of thought in 20th Century China; (25) ���ۊ������΋ߪ� Society of East Asian Philosophy (Korea); (26) ��'�'��ε����ߊ� Duan Zhengyuan and the Society of Ethics; (27) é���߉� School of Taizhou; (28) ��'��Ρ����� Park and shrine of Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi; (29) Site search.
URL http://www.confucius2000.com/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.confucius2000.com/
Link reported by: Rudolf Wagner, Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany, forwarded by Hanno E. Lecher / Internet Guide for ChinaStudies (h.e.lecher[use"@"]let.leidenuniv.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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 1,000

04 Feb 2005

Unrest in Gilgit & Baltistan
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 Economy [of the Gilgit-Baltistan area - ed.]: * The literacy rate is 14 per cent for men and 3.5 per cent for women. * There is just one doctor for 6,000 people. * Piped water supply is non-existent. So is electricity for more than two thirds of the population of the area. * Except for some brick kilns there is no 'industry' in the area. * There are only two colleges in the area. There is not a single polytechnic." - 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/paper1241.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

02 Feb 2005

The King & The Maoists
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."
[Extracts: "The result: The coup of February 1 [2005 - ed]. The Maoists will be the ultimate beneficiaries of the coup and not the King, the political leadership or the people. [...] Beijing would be the happiest were the Maoists to capture power in Nepal. That would give China a strategic thrust into the sub-continent [...]. It is, therefore, not in India's interests to let the Maoists succeed in capturing power through an armed struggle in Nepal." - 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/paper1239.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

01 Feb 2005

600 Years of Urban Planning and Development in and Around Tianjin, 1404-2004
Wason Collection on East Asia, Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, US
Self description: "[...] With the largest body of foreign architecture preserved on Chinese soil today, Tianjin represents a text book case regarding the political dimensions of colonial architecture, urban planning and the socio-economic relations between the East and the West. It was home to important historical figures, such as the last emperor of China (Pu Yi), or former President Herbert Hoover, who was stationed in Tianjin (together with the future First Lady) as an army engineer in 1899/1900; or the famous scholar Liang Qichao. [...] The exhibit aims to show how Tianjin developed as a colonial, urban 'collage city' of very diverse style and orientation; how the various parts and pieces (nine tenth of them of foreign extraction) defined themselves architecturally and socially; and how the parts constituted a functioning whole which dominated most of the economic and cultural landscape of Northern China for almost 100 years."
Site contents: (1) Chinese Architecture; (2) Foreign Architecture; (3) Historical Background; (4) City Maps; (5) Commerce, Industries, and Finance; (6) Noteworthy People (Liang Qichao; Zhou Enlai; Pu Yi; Lord Elgin; Li Hongzhang; Eric Henry Liddell; John Hersey; Ma Sanli; Hongyi fashi (Li Shutong); Ni Ren Zhang (i.e. Zhang Mingshan); Yuan Shikai; Li Yuanhong; Cao Yu; Zhang Xueliang; Zhang Xiangwen; Herbert Hoover); (7) Expatriates.
URL http://wason.library.cornell.edu/Tianjin/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Hanno E. Lecher / Internet Guide for ChinaStudies (h.e.lecher[use"@"]let.leidenuniv.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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 2005

[Demographic] Impact of Tsunami 2004 on Sri Lanka
Department of Census and Statistics, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Site contents:
TABLES
1. Impact of Tsunami 9.0/2004 - Sri Lanka as at 25th Jan. 2005 2. Population of Divisional Secretary Divisions along the coastal boundaries by sex and age group: 2001 3. Age distribution of population by district: 2001 4. Population and housing units of GN divisions along the coastal boundaries of Sri Lanka: 2001. 5. Population by sex, age group and number of occupied housing units as at 17th June 2001 of GN divisions affected by the Tsunami - 2004.
MAPS:
1. Map on DS divisions of Sri Lanka, affected by the Tsunami; 2. Map on number of reported deaths due to Tsunami: by district as at 25th Jan.2005; 3. Map on number of reported displaced persons due to the Tsunami: by district as at 25th Jan. 2005; 4. GN Division along the costal boundaries of the Western Province affected by the Tsunami; 5. GN Division along the costal boundaries of the Southern Province affected by the Tsunami; 6. GN Division along the costal boundaries of the Eastern Province affected by the Tsunami.
[Other studies, analyses and commentaries are available from:
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/AsiaPages/Tsunami-Analyses.html - ed.]
URL http://www.statistics.gov.lk/Tsunami/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the document 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.statistics.gov.lk/]
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]: 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

01 Feb 2005

Morning Sun. A Film and Website about Cultural Revolution
Long Bow Group, Brookline, MA, USA
Self description: "A range of techniques and perspectives are used in the Morning Sun website to reflect on the origins and history of the Cultural Revolution (c.1964-1976)."
Supplied note: "The site makes extensive use of sound and film excerpts to evoke a very lively picture of the time. The quoted texts can be read in both Chinese and English, while the film or song plays. There is also a 'Search Site' function (Google) available under 'Site Map' - hl."
Site contents: (1) About the Site; (2) Living Revolution (Listen to period music, watch excerpts from feature films, and read items such as the Little Red Book, personal diaries, and magazine articles); (3) Smash the Old World! (Read about the Four Olds, view photographs and posters); (4) Reddest Red Sun (Explore aspects of the Mao cult from buttons to medical miracles); (5) Stages of History (State-orchestrated history unfolds through dramatic events, from parades on Tiananmen Square to revolutionary model operas); (6) The East is Red (Read about The East is Red, its history and transformation from a simple folk tune to a stage epic on China's revolutionary history); (7) The Film; (8) Multimedia; (9) Images; (10) Library; (11) Sitemap.
URL http://www.morningsun.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.morningsun.org/
Link reported by: Hanno E. Lecher / Internet Guide for ChinaStudies (h.e.lecher[use"@"]let.leidenuniv.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* 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 3,000

01 Feb 2005

Weiji baike: ziyou de baike quanshu (Chinese Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Florida, USA
Supplied note: "This is the Chinese version of the well known free content encyclopedia project Wikipedia. Wiki means that anyone can add new or edit existing articles. Begun in January 2001, by the end of 2004 the English version contained some 460,000 entries; the Chinese version had about 19,000 entries. The wealth of information is staggering, although this resources should be used with caution. - hl."
Site contents: Next to the general encyclopedia there are also a few sister projects listed at the bottom of the home page: (1) �S��'~�� (Wiktionary: Dictionary and thesaurus); (2) �S������� (Wikibooks: Free textbooks and manuals); (3) �S��'Z�� (Wikiquote: Collection of quotations); (4) �S������ (Wikisource: Free source documents); (5) �S���ԅN (Wikispecies: Directory of species); (6) �S������ (English only: Wikinews: Free content news source); (7) �S�����̍Y'� (Commons: Shared media repository); (8) '��S�� (Meta-Wiki: Wikimedia project coordination).
URL http://zh.wikipedia.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/zh.wikipedia.org/
Link reported by: Hanno E. Lecher / Internet Guide for ChinaStudies (h.e.lecher[use"@"]let.leidenuniv.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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]: over 12,000

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