26 Mar 2007

Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue March 26, 2007
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US

Supplied note:
"Here is the Japan Focus Newsletter with Articles Posted March 19, 2007
*Arudou Debito, Gaijin Hanzai Magazine and Hate Speech in Japan: The newfound power of Japan's international residents
*Paul Rogers, The United States, China and Africa: eyes on the prize
*Outi Luova, Mobilizing Transnational Korean Linkages for Economic Development on China's Frontier
*David McNeill, In the Shadow of Hiroshima. U.S. Marines and Japanese SDF collaborate at Iwakuni six decades after the bomb
Arudou Debito chronicles the hate-campaign carried in the magazine Hanzai Gaijin . . . and the surprisingly effective educational campaign that international residents waged to challenge the publication in the face of a press blackout and government indifference. Paul Rogers assesses the roots of the growing US-China competition for Africa in light of the creation of a new US Africom. Outi Louva introduces the growing ties and regional significance of cross border trade and networking involving China's Yanbian Korean minority and South Korea. David McNeill describes the US-Japan military ties that have emerged in the shadow of Hiroshima centered on the Iwakuni Marine Base.
Find them at http://japanfocus.org - m.selden."

Site contents:
* BROWSE ALL ARTICLES; * BROWSE BY REGION (Japan and the World, The United States, The Asia Pacific, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, Russia, Europe, The Americas, Okinawa, Africa); * BROWSE BY ISSUES (Diplomacy and Security, The Military and Security, War and Peace, History, Politics and Ideology, Economics, Social Issues, Culture, Education, The Atomic Bomb, Atomic War, Hiroshima and Nagasaki); * SEARCH BY AUTHOR/TITLE/KEYWORD/DATE OF PUBLICATION

[Japan Focus is a refereed e-journal (est. 2003, ISSN 1557-4660) and archive on the Asia Pacific. In addition to Japan Focus exclusives, it provides translations from Japanese and other languages as well as reprints of important articles. Its website with more than 800 articles provides a permanent resource for students and researchers. The coordinators of Japan Focus are Andrew DeWit, Laura Hein, Gavan McCormack, David McNeill, Mark Selden, Yuki Tanaka and William Underwood. Contact Japan Focus by email at info--at--japanfocus.org - ed.]
URL http://japanfocus.org
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://japanfocus.org
Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44--at--cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news/comments - 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]: over 3,000 [in fact 4,910]

22 Mar 2007

Economic and Ecological Restructuring of Land and Water Use in the Region Khorezm (Uzbekistan)
Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany

Supplied note:
"This project is carried out by the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, since 1992 and is now entereing its Phase III 2007-2010 on 'Pilot farm, model fine tuning, Decision Support Tool (DST)'. The Project Objectives are (1) to develop concepts for landscape restructuring in Khorezm, an intensively used agricultural region in the Aral Sea basin. The concepts are to contribute to a more effective and ecologically sustainable land and water use; (2) to develop proposals for both legal-administrative and ecological restructuring measures using sustainable natural resource management concepts. At the same time, scientific collaboration based on a close partnership between Germany and Uzbekistan in the field of development research has been established and a joint research station has been established in Khorezm. Here, special attention is given to the training of young scientists. For further details please consult the project web site - hde."

Site contents:
* Project; * Team; * Publications (Work paper Series, Workshop and Congresses [2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006], Doctoral Theses, Master Theses; * Data and Images (Meta Data Base, Maps, Images); * News, * Internal.
URL http://www.khorezm.uni-bonn.de/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.khorezm.uni-bonn.de/
Link reported by: Hans-Dieter Evers (hdevers--at--uni-bonn.de)
* Resource type [news/comments - 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 100

19 Mar 2007

Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue March 19, 2007
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US

Supplied note:
"Here is the Japan Focus Newsletter with Articles Posted March 19, 2007
*Richard Tanter, The New American-led Security Architecture in the Asia Pacific: Binding Japan and Australia, containing China
*Joshua Fogel and Yamamuro Shin'ichi, Chimera: A Portrait of Manzhouguo. Harmony and Conflict
*Takahashi Tetsuya, Koreans Under Assault From the Japanese Right
*Tessa Morris-Suzuki, The Forgotten Victims of the North Korean Crisis
*Joel S. Wit, Enhancing U.S. Engagement with North Korea
*Robert Prey and Seon Ok Lee, Tragic Fire Illuminates South Korea's Treatment of Migrant Workers
*Jeff Kingston, Convulsions of Nation-Building: Violence-ridden East Timor on the eve of elections
Find them at http://japanfocus.org - m.selden."

Site contents:
* BROWSE ALL ARTICLES; * BROWSE BY REGION (Japan and the World, The United States, The Asia Pacific, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, Russia, Europe, The Americas, Okinawa, Africa); * BROWSE BY ISSUES (Diplomacy and Security, The Military and Security, War and Peace, History, Politics and Ideology, Economics, Social Issues, Culture, Education, The Atomic Bomb, Atomic War, Hiroshima and Nagasaki); * SEARCH BY AUTHOR/TITLE/KEYWORD/DATE OF PUBLICATION

[Japan Focus is a refereed e-journal (est. 2003, ISSN 1557-4660) and archive on the Asia Pacific. In addition to Japan Focus exclusives, it provides translations from Japanese and other languages as well as reprints of important articles. Its website with more than 800 articles provides a permanent resource for students and researchers. The coordinators of Japan Focus are Andrew DeWit, Laura Hein, Gavan McCormack, David McNeill, Mark Selden, Yuki Tanaka and William Underwood. Contact Japan Focus by email at info--at--japanfocus.org - ed.]
URL http://japanfocus.org
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://japanfocus.org
Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44--at--cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news/comments - 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]: over 3,000 [in fact 4,910]

17 Mar 2007

Korean History: A Bibliography
The Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, US
Self-description: "This bibliography [compiled by Kenneth R. Robinson - ed.] covers many features of Korean history. The subjects include not only political, diplomatic, and economic history, but also historical linguistics, art history, literature, philosophy and religion, and overseas Koreans, for example. Chronologically, coverage concludes in the 1960s. For studies of South Korea's politics and economy, 1961 is the stopping point; for South Korean foreign relations, coverage continues through the 1965 treaty with Japan and the Vietnam War. Coverage of North Korea continues into the late 1960s."

Site contents; 1. General (a. Bibliographies, b. General Studies, c. Sources, d. Historiography); 2. Archaeology; 3. Ko-Choson; 4. Three Kingdoms (a. General, b. Koguryo, c. Paekche, d. Shilla/Unified Shilla); 5. Ancient Korean-Japanese Relations; 6. Parhae; 7. Koryo (a. Domestic Affairs, b. Foreign Relations, c. Shinan Shipwreck, d. Mongols and Korea); 8. Choson (a. Central Government, b. Social Structure, c. Family Structure, d. Land System, e. Economy, f. Relations with China, g. Relations with Japan, h. Relations with the Jurchen/Manchus, i. Relations with Ryukyu/Southeast Asia, j. Relations with the West and the Middle East); 9. Late Nineteenth-Century - 1945 (a. Relations with Japan and China, b. Reform Movements, c. Tonghak and Chondogyo, d. Intellectual/Nationalism, e. The March First Movement, f. Economy); 10. Relations with the United States and European Nations through 1945 (a. United States, b. Great Britain/France, c. Russia/Soviet Union and Eastern Europe); 11. Korean Communities Abroad (a. Asia, b. North America and the Pacific); 12. Post-Liberation (a. Domestic Affairs, b. International Relations, c. Military, d. Opposition Politics, e. Economy); 13. Post-Liberation Relations with Japan; 14. North Korea; 15. The Korean War; 16. Religion and Philosophy (a. General, b. Shamanism, c. Buddhism, d. Taoism, e. Confucianism, f. Shilhak, g. Christianity); 17. Law; 18. Women; 19. Demography; 20. Education; 21. Journalism; 22. Scientific Matters (a. Climate, b. Science, c. Astronomy, d. Medicine, e. Printing, f. Geography and Cartography); 23. Literature; 24. Arts (a. General and Assorted, b. Painting, c. Ceramics, d. Sculpture, e. Architecture, f. Collections); 25. Music; 26. Linguistics (a. Historical Linguistics, b. Writing Systems); 27. Martial Arts and Sports; 28. Korean Studies (a. General, b. North America, c. Europe, d. Asia); 29. Updates.

URL http://www.hawaii.edu/korea/bibliography/biblio.htm

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.hawaii.edu/korea/bibliography/biblio.htm
Link reported by: Geoff Wade (arigpw--at--nus.edu.sg), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news/comments - 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 resources [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1000

17 Mar 2007

Virtual Kyoto Web Site
Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
Supplied note: "Teachers in Japanese studies will be interested to learn of a new, very sophisticated web-based project, Virtual Kyoto, that has just opened to the public. It features a variety of material covering the history, culture and present of the city from its founding as Heiankyo in the eighth century. The web site has recently opened to the public and is now accessible at the [URL below]

The project presents reconstructions of ancient Kyoto, Muromachi-era Kyoto, Tokugawa Kyoto, and the nineteenth and twentieth century city as it was transformed into the city we know today. When fully opened the site will contain digital maps, reconstructions of the Shijo-Kawaramachi area over time, reconstructions of the Gion Festival, the Minamiza Theater, three-dimensional terrain models, and Kyoto ukiyoe data as well as a broad array of photographs.

A very richly illustrated, bi-lingual book - Japanese, with extensive English summaries - explains both the project's development and its content in considerable detail: Yano Keiji, Nakaya Tomoki and Isoda Yuzuru, eds., _Baacharu Kyoto: Kako, genzai, mirai e no tabi_ (_Virtual Kyoto: Exploring the Past, Present and Future of Kyoto_), Kyoto: Nakanishiya Shuppan, 2007, 2600 yen + tax (for English language orders use ISBN number 4779501008 on the English version of Amazon.co.jp and the title is listed in Japanese on Amazon.co.jp for credit card orders; please contact order--at--nakanishiya.co.jp to order directly by credit card from the publisher)

At present the site is available largely in Japanese, but it does have some English language support and it is possible to navigate many parts of the site without knowing Japanese. Even where users may not have Japanese language skills, since this is overwhelmingly a visual experience exploring the site can be very rewarding. The project is the product of the efforts of geographers, historians, archaeologists, art historians and other specialists and is the product of a multi-year Center of Excellence grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and is the collaborative effort of scholars at Ritsumeikan University. - pb."

URL http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/cg/lt/geo/coe/index.html

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/cg/lt/geo/coe/index.html
Link reported by: Philip Brown (brown.113--at--osu.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news/comments - 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 resources [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100

Dear Asia-WWW-Monitor Readers,

I will be away from my office, and indeed from Canberra, until 24 April 2007.
The MONITOR's operation will be reassumed on my return to work.

Meanwhile, do not hesitate to send me further news of various
valuable Asian Studies' web/email resources that you would like to commend to attention
of the MONITOR.

- with best regards and wishes of Happy Easter! -

T. Matthew Ciolek, 16 March 2007.

16 Mar 2007

History of Chinese science and technology - online works by Don Wagner
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), Copenhagen, Denmark
Self-description: "PUBLICATIONS BY DON WAGNER. These publications concern Chinese science, technology, history, archaeology, and language. Books, Articles, Reviews and short notices, Web publications."
Site contents: [The list below presents only these of Dr Wagner's numerous paper and electronic works which are available, either partially or fully in an online format - ed.]

BOOKS
* Union catalogue of East Asian materials in Scandinavian libraries: Preliminary Chinese and Japanese title catalogues. Zug, Switzerland: Inter Documentation Company, 1981. 98 microfiches. [publisher's blurb]
* Dabieshan: Traditional Chinese iron-production techniques practised in southern Henan in the twentieth century. (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies monograph series, no. 52). London & Malmoe: Curzon Press, 1985. 113 pp. [publisher's blurb]
* Toward the reconstruction of ancient Chinese techniques for the production of malleable cast iron (East Asian Institute occasional papers, 4). Copenhagen: East Asian Institute, University of Copenhagen, 1989. 72 pp. [web version]
* Oslo University Library: Catalogue of older Chinese books (UBO Skrifter, 22). Oslo: University Library, 1992. 78 pp. [web version]
* Iron and steel in ancient China (Handbuch der Orientalistik, IV:9). Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1993. 589 pp. [publisher's blurb]
* The traditional Chinese iron industry and its modern fate. With a preface by Peter Nolan. Copenhagen & London: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies & Curzon Press, 1997. 128 pp. [web version]
* A Classical Chinese reader: The Han shu biography of Huo Guang, with notes and glosses for students. Richmond, Sussex: Curzon Press, 1998. 208 pp. [web version]
* The state and the iron industry in Han China. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2001. 160 pp. [publisher's blurb]
* A Mencius reader: For beginning and advanced students of Classical Chinese. Copenhagen: NIAS Press (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies), 2004. 160 pp. [web version]
* Science and civilisation in China. Vol. 5: Chemistry and chemical technology. Part 11: Ferrous metallurgy. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, mid-2007. [publisher's blurb]

ARTICLES
* "Liu Hui and Tsu Keng-chih on the volume of a sphere", Chinese science, 1978, 3: 59-79. [web version]
* "Doubts concerning the attribution of Liu Hui's commentary on the Chiu-chang suan-shu", Acta Orientalia, 1978, 39: 199-212. [web version]
* "An ancient Chinese derivation of the volume of a pyramid: Liu Hui, third century A.D.", Historia mathematica, 1979, 6: 164-188. [web version]
* "A proof of the Pythagorean theorem by Liu Hui (third century A.D.)", Historia mathematica, 1985, 12: 71-73. [web version]
* "The dating of the Chu graves of Changsha: The earliest iron artifacts in China?", Acta Orientalia, 1987, 48: 111-156. [web version]
* "Stobejerns metallurgi og lidt om kinesisk stobejern", 53 pp. in Jern: Fremstilling, nedbrydning og bevaring. Fortryk af forelūsninger til Nordisk Videreuddannelse af Konservatorer, Kobenhavn, 17-28 august 1987. Kobenhavn: Nationalmuseet, Bevaringssektionen, 1987. ("The metallurgy of cast iron, with some notes on Chinese cast iron", two lectures for museum conservators). [web version]
* "Ancient carburization of iron to steel: A comment", Archeomaterials, 1990, 4.1: 111-117; erratum, 4.2: 118. [web version]
* "The language of the ancient Chinese state of Wu", East Asian Institute occasional papers (University of Copenhagen), 1990, 6: 161-176. [web version]
* "Jern og stal i oldtidens Kina", Polhem: Tidskrift for teknikhistoria, 1990, 8.1: 2-37. ("Iron and steel in ancient China"). [web version]
* "The cast iron lion of Ts'ang-chou", Needham Research Institute newsletter, no. 10, June 1991, pp. 2-3. [web version]
"China: Iron: Early", article in The dictionary of art, London: Macmillan, 1996. 1500 words. [publisher's blurb]
* "Chinese monumental iron castings", Journal of East Asian archaeology, 2000, 2.3/4: 199-224 [web version]
* "Monumentaler Eisenguss in China", pp. 123-130 in China, eine Wiege der Weltkultur: 5000 Jahre Erfindungen und Entdeckungen, hrsg. v. Arne Eggebrecht, Mainz am Rhein: von Zabern, 1994. (Exhibition catalogue.) Translation of previous. [web version]
* "The traditional Chinese iron industry and its modern fate", Chinese science, 1995, 12: 138-161. [web version]
* "Copperworks no. 2 in Kaifeng, China", Journal of the Historical Metallurgy Society, 1995, 29.2: 113-116. [Published 1997]. [web version]
* "The earliest use of iron in China", pp. 1-9 in Metals in antiquity, ed. by Suzanne M. M. Young, A. Mark Pollard, Paul Budd, and Robert A. Ixer (BAR International series, 792), Oxford: Archaeopress, 1999. [web version]
* "La tecnologia vista attraverso l'esempio della metallurgia del ferro" [Technology as seen through the case of ferrous metallurgy in Han China], tr. by Fabrizio Pregadio, forthcoming in Enciclopedia di Storia della Scienza [Encyclopedia of the History of Science], vol. III: Le scienze extraeuropee [Extra-European Sciences], part (a): Scienza in Cina [Science in China], ed. by Karine Chemla, in cooperation with Francesca Bray, Fu Daiwie, Huang Yi-Long, and Georges Metailie. Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. [web version]
* "Blast furnaces in Song-Yuan China", East Asian science, technology, and medicine, 2001, 18: 41-74. [web version]
* "The administration of the iron industry in eleventh-century China", Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient, 2001, 44.2: 175-197. [web version]
* "The state ironworks in Zunhua, Hebei, 1403-1581", Late Imperial China, 2005, 26.2: 68-88. [web version]
* "Iron production in three Ming texts: Tie ye zhi, Guangdong xinyu, and Tian gong kai wu", pp. 172-188 in Studies on ancient Chinese scientific and technical texts: Proceedings of the 3rd ISACBRST, March 31 - April 3, 2003, Tuebingen, Germany, ed. by Hans Ulrich Vogel, Christine Moll-Murata, and Gao Xuan, Zhengzhou: Elephant Press, 2006. [Third International Symposium on Ancient Chinese Books and Records of Science and Technology]. [web version]

REVIEWS AND SHORT NOTICES
* "The stone drums of Qin" (essay review of G. L. Mattos: The stone drums of Ch'in, Nettetal 1988), Acta Orientalia, 1990, 51: 241-256. [web version]
* Review of William Rostoker and Bennet Bronson: Pre-industrial iron: Its technology and ethnology, Philadelphia 1990, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (Leiden), 1993, 36: 304-308. [web version]
* "The beginning of iron in China", EAANnouncements (East Asian Archaeology Network), Autumn 1995, no. 17, p. 6. [web version]
* "The 7th International Conference on the the History of Science in China, Shenzhen, 16-20 January 1996", Bulletin of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine, 1.2: 11-12. [web version]
* "Thirteenth-century Chinese pelletising kilns? Ha Law Wan, Hong Kong", HMS news (Historical Metallurgy Society), Spring 1996, no. 36, pp. 6-8. Abridged version in EAANnouncements (East Asian Archaeology Network), 1996, no. 19, p. 17. [web version]
* Review of Peter Golas: Science and civilisation in China, vol. 5, part 13: Mining, Cambridge University Press 1999, East Asian science, technology, and medicine (Tuebingen), 2002 (publ. 2003), 19: 116-119. [web version]
* Review of Martha Lamberg-Karlovsky (ed.): The breakout: The origins of civilization, Cambridge, Mass.: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 2000, Journal of World History, 2003, 14.4: 551-553. [web version]
* Review of H. T. Huang: Science and civilisation in China, vol. 6, part 5: Fermentations and food science, Cambridge University Press 2000, British Journal for the History of Science, 2005, 38.1: 103-4. [web version]
* Review of Karine Chemla and Guo Shuchun: Les neuf chapitres: Le classique mathematique de la Chine ancienne et ses commentaires, Centaurus, 2006, 48.4: 319-322. [web version]

WEB PUBLICATIONS
* "Early iron in China, Korea, and Japan". Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Los Angeles, 25-28 March 1993. 14 pp. typescript, unpublished. [web version]
* "The casting of iron woks in Guangdong, China, in 1840". Poster presentation, Founders, smiths and platers: International Conference on metal forming and finishing from the earliest times, Oxford, 20-24 September, 1999. [web version]
* Klassisk kinesisk laesebog: Li Guangs biografi i Shi ji, med noter og gloser for studerende. 92 s. [web version]
* "Some Chinese steelmaking methods". Poster presentation, Metallurgy - a touchstone for cross-cultural interaction, British Museum, London, 28-30 April 2005. [web version]
* A Classical Chinese Reader: The 'Memoir on the Eastern Barbarians' in Hou Han shu, with notes and glosses for students of Chinese and Korean. Draft, 14 March 2007. [web version]

URL http://www.staff.hum.ku.dk/dbwagner/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.staff.hum.ku.dk/dbwagner/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news/comments - 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 resources [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100

16 Mar 2007

Multi-National Force - Iraq : YouTube Video clips channel
Multi-National Force - Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq
Self-description: "MNFIRAQ Joined: March 07 2007 [...] Multi-National Force - Iraq established this YouTube channel to give viewers around the world a 'boots on the ground' perspective of Operation Iraqi Freedom from those who are fighting it. Video clips document action as it appeared to personnel on the ground and in the air as it was shot. We will only edit video clips for time, security reasons, and/or overly disturbing or offensive images.
What you will see on this channel in the coming months: - Combat action - Interesting, eye-catching footage - Interaction between Coalition troops and the Iraqi populace. - Teamwork between Coalition and Iraqi troops in the fight against terror.
What we will NOT post on this channel: - Profanity - Sexual content - Overly graphic, disturbing or offensive material - Footage that mocks Coalition Forces, Iraqi Security Forces or the citizens of Iraq.
This YouTube channel is brought to you by www.mnf-iraq.com, the official Web site of Operation Iraqi Freedom."
URL http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=MNFIRAQ
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/Comments
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Govt.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resources [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1,000

16 Mar 2007

Arab Media & Society e-journal
Adham Center for Electronic Journalism, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Supplied note: "The Center for Electronic Journalism at the American University in Cairo and the Centre for Middle East Studies, St. Antony's College, Oxford, are pleased to announce the launch of their new electronic journal Arab Media & Society at [the URL below] The online publication is the successor to the highly-regarded Transnational Broadcasting Studies (www.tbsjournal.com), which has been covering satellite broadcasting in the Middle East and broader Muslim world for the past decade. The move is recognition of the changing nature of the Arab media and social landscape. 'When TBS Journal was founded two years after the launch of Al Jazeera, satellite TV was the story. Newspapers were moribund. Internet penetration was negligible. Media deregulation was an alien concept,' publisher and co-editor Lawrence Pintak writes in the first issue. 'The impact of the pan-Arab satellite revolution is today felt at every level of Arab society - and in every form of media.' The journal will publish quarterly with frequent updates of timely articles from scholars, researchers and journalists. 'The Arab media scene and Arab society as a whole are changing rapidly. The shift from a combination of print and online to a pure online approach means we are able to offer thoughtful insights into developments as they occur, produce more frequent thematic issues, and include a mix of interactive features,' Pintak says in his column.
For example, the first issue includes: * A package of six stories on blogging in the Arab world, led by an article from Marc Lynch of Williams College, accompanied by an interview with two Egyptian bloggers in a streaming audio format. * A set of articles on last summer's Lebanon war, including a piece on women war correspondents by Magda Abu-Fadil and an article by Paul Cochrane on how Hizbullah's al-Manar managed to stay on the air * Print interviews with the head of the BBC's new Arabic news channel and a Tunisian online magazine editor, along with an audio interview with Daoud Kuttab, who is pioneering community radio in the Arab world * A piece on the fate of US government broadcasting by former official of VOA Alan Heil, Jr. * Interactive book reviews that invite reader comment and debate * And much more - lp."
Site contents: BY TOPIC: * Arab Journalism; * Blogging; * Book Reviews; * Censorship & the State; * Comedy; * Conference Reports; * Consumption Studies; * History of Media; * Interviews; * Journalism Education; * Media & Conflict; * Media & IT Economics; * Media & Politics; * Media & Religion; * Media Ethnography; * Musalsals; * Muslim World Media; * Online Journalism; * Public Diplomacy; * Reality TV; * Video Clips; * Visual Culture; * Women in Media; * Youth Culture; BY COUNTRY: * Arab World; * Egypt; * Iraq; * Jordan; * Lebanon; * Muslim World; * North Africa; * Palestine/Israel; * Saudi Arabia; * Syria; * The Gulf; * World Affairs; THE JOURNAL: * About the Journal; * Call for Papers; * Write for us; * Send an Image; * Contact us
URL http://www.arabmediasociety.org
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.]
Link reported by: Lawrence Pintak (lpintak--at--aucegypt.edu)
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/News/Comments
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resources [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

15 Mar 2007

Asia Pacific MediaEducator (APME) e-journal
University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia.
Self-description: "AsiaPacific MediaEducator (APME) is a refereed journal published annually by the School of Journalism and Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. The first issue was published in [Sep.] 1996. APME aims to generate dialogue among media educators, researchers and practitioners by publishing their informed analysis of media production and texts, and innovations in media education and training. It will consider for publication original articles based on applied research which generates critical questions and examines research issues through comparative frameworks. Papers should aim to challenge the conventions in journalism education and training, and provide practical ideas on improving the standard and currency of media reportage and media training. APME welcomes articles on academic and non-academic topics. APME is cited in the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts www.csa.com; APAIS; ERIC database; and The Iowa Guide: Scholarly Journals in Mass Communication and Related Fields."
Supplied note: "Back issues until Issue No.15 (Dec.2004) can be downloaded from: [the journal's URL]. Subscriber issues are now available from the electronic library gateway Informit at: www.informit.com.au - el."
URL http://www.uow.edu.au/crearts/sjcw/APME/APME.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.uow.edu.au/crearts/sjcw/APME/APME.html
Link reported by: Eric Loo (eloo--at--uow.edu.au)
* Resource type [news/comments - 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 resources [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300

15 Mar 2007

Three Classical Chinese Readers - edited and annotated by Don Wagner
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS), Copenhagen, Denmark
Site contents:
(1) A Classical Chinese reader: The Han shu biography of Huo Guang, with notes and glosses for students. Richmond, Sussex: Curzon Press, 1998. 208 pp. Web sampler.
http://www.staff.hum.ku.dk/dbwagner/TB/TB.html

(2) A Mencius reader: For beginning and advanced students of Classical Chinese. Copenhagen: NIAS Press (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies), 2004. 160 pp. [This textbook contains material for students of Classical Chinese at three different levels: * The first chapter of Mencius, reproduced from a modern punctuated edition, with very detailed notes and glosses intended for students in their second semester of Classical Chinese. * The same chapter, reproduced from a Song wood-block edition, which beginning students who are more ambitious may wish to use instead of the punctuated edition. * Notes and glosses on the Eastern Han commentary of Zhao Qi (included in the Song edition), intended for more advanced students. E-book version.
http://www.niaspress.dk/press_news/Dons_book/Menciusdwnld.html

(3) A Classical Chinese Reader: The 'Memoir on the Eastern Barbarians' in Hou Han shu, with notes and glosses for students of Chinese and Korean. Draft, 14 March 2007. (7.3 Mbytes)
http://www.staff.hum.ku.dk/dbwagner/HHS/HHS.pdf

URL [The three web addresses are listed above]
Link reported by: Donald B. Wagner (dwag--at--alum.mit.edu)
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resources [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

13 Mar 2007

Ateneo Center for Asian Studies (ACAS)
Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Supplied note: "The Ateneo Center for Asian Studies invites scholars, academicians, and Ph.D. students to submit paper proposals on the theme 'Religion, Regionalism and Globalization in Asia,' to be held February 1, 2008. The registration fee will be waived for paper presenters. Early bird fee, payable until 7 January 2008 is 800 pesos. Regular fee of 1,000 pesos applies from 1 January 2008. Selected papers will be published. - h-asia."
Self-description: "Established in April 2001, the Ateneo Center for Asian Studies is a research center that promotes Asian Studies in the Ateneo de Manila University through multidisciplinary research and other related activities."
Site contents: * History; * Vision/Mission; * Board Members; * Publications [Books from Ateneo de Manila University Press] (Before and After September 11 (2004). Asian Cooperation: Problems and Challenges in the New Century (2005). Negotiating Globalization (2006); * Conferences and Seminars (1st ACAS Conference (2002) on Terrorism, Peace and Development in Asia After September 11, 2001; 2nd ACAS Conference (2004) on Asian Cooperation: Problems and Challenges in the New Century; 3rd ACAS Conference (2005) on Nationalism and Globalization in the Asian Context; 4th ACAS Conference (2006) on Democracy in Asia: Political Processes, Memories, Rights and Traditions; FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE: 5th ACAS Conference (1 February, 2008) on Religions In Asia: How They Interact With Regionalism and Globalization; Summer Seminar (2005) on Emerging Paradigms in Comparative Southeast Asian History; Summer Seminar (2006) on Memories, Identities, and Tragedies in Contemporary Southeast Asian History.) * Symposium Roundtable; * Fellows; * Fellowship Guide; * Contact Us; * Related Links.
URL http://www.ateneo.edu/offices/acas
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

12 Mar 2007

Tasveerghar: A Digital Network of South Asian Popular Visual Culture
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US.
Self-description: "Tasveer Ghar is a trans-national virtual 'home' for collecting, digitizing, and documenting various materials produced by South Asia's exciting popular visual sphere including posters, calendar art, pilgrimage maps and paraphernalia, cinema hoardings, advertisements, and other forms of street and bazaar art. Some of the key fields of exploration within the network are: (a) the social and performative life of images; (b) the histories and everyday lives and voices of producers, disseminators and 'consumers'; (c) various techniques of visuality/media of visualisation (for instance, ritual or theatrical performance, or political spectacle). [...] Tasveer Ghar is located in three institutional nodes: * University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A. * South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany * Sarai, at the Center for Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India. The principals at these institutions will be Sumathi Ramaswamy, Christiane Brosius, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta respectively."
Site contents: * What Is Tasveer Ghar; * Who Is Building It; * Where We Started From; * House Of Pictures; * Links [i.e. other Websites and Online Resources on South Asian Popular Culture and Arts - ed.]; * Call For Proposals ["... We are pleased to invite proposals for short-term fellowships involving the collection and documentation of unique forms of popular visual arts of India with a focus on 'Gender, Nation and Spaces for the Everyday', resulting in the digitization of the collected specimens and their virtual exhibition on the website of Tasveer Ghar at the end of the fellowship. The estimated duration of the fellowship is 6 months. ... Last date of submission of proposals: April 30, 2007."]; * Contact.
URL http://www.ektaramusic.com/tg/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Sumathi Ramaswamy (sumathi--at--umich.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

12 Mar 2007

Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue March 12, 2007
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US

Supplied note:
"The following articles were posted on March 12, 2007 at Japan Focus.
* Wada Haruki, The North Korean Nuclear Problem, Japan, and the Peace of Northeast Asia
* Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Japan's 'Comfort Women': It's time for the truth (in the ordinary, everyday sense of the word)
* Rowena Ward, Left Behind: Japan's Wartime Defeat and the Stranded Women of Manchukuo
* Tony McNicol and David McNeill, Is Press Freedom Being Eroded in Japan?
* David Fullbrook, China's Strategic Southeast Asian Overture
Find them at http://japanfocus.org - m.selden."

Site contents:
* BROWSE ALL ARTICLES; * BROWSE BY REGION (Japan and the World, The United States, The Asia Pacific, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, Russia, Europe, The Americas, Okinawa, Africa); * BROWSE BY ISSUES (Diplomacy and Security, The Military and Security, War and Peace, History, Politics and Ideology, Economics, Social Issues, Culture, Education, The Atomic Bomb, Atomic War, Hiroshima and Nagasaki); * SEARCH BY AUTHOR/TITLE/KEYWORD/DATE OF PUBLICATION

[Japan Focus is a refereed e-journal (est. 2003, ISSN 1557-4660) and archive on the Asia Pacific. In addition to Japan Focus exclusives, it provides translations from Japanese and other languages as well as reprints of important articles. Its website with more than 800 articles provides a permanent resource for students and researchers. The coordinators of Japan Focus are Andrew DeWit, Laura Hein, Gavan McCormack, David McNeill, Mark Selden, Yuki Tanaka and William Underwood. Contact Japan Focus by email at info--at--japanfocus.org - ed.]
URL http://japanfocus.org
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://japanfocus.org
Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44--at--cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news/comments - 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]: over 3,000 [in fact 4,910]

10 Mar 2007

The Icelandic Centre for Asian Studies /Asiuver Islands (ASIS)
The University of Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland
Self-description: "The Icelandic Centre for Asian Studies was formally founded on 16 December 2005 by the University of Akureyri and the University of Iceland. As the name of the Centre suggests, its role is to initiate and coordinate research and education concerning the Asian region. Until the foundation of ASIS, there has been no particular venue to conduct Asian research and studies in Iceland, which has had the unfortunate consequence that the region has gained scarce attention by Iceland-based scholars. A seminal task of ASIS is to change this fact. [...] In June 2007, the Centre will organize a conference on Asia-related gender issues in collaboration with Gendering Asia, a Scandinavian based organization ["Gendering Asia Network Conference, Iceland, 1-3 June 2007", details at http://www.genderingasia2007.niasconferences.dk/ - ed.] Anticipated is also a workshop with the Icelandic business community on the unexplored opportunities in Asia for Icelanders as well as Asian opportunities in Iceland. [...] The contact person at the Icelandic Centre for Asian Studies is Geir Sigurdsson, Director. E-mail: geirs--at--unak.is"
Supplied note: "The two Icelandic state universities, University of Iceland and University of Akureyri, have only recently launched degree programmes in Asian studies. Japanese studies has been taught as a minor at the University of Iceland for 3 years, and a joint programme in Chinese studies will start at both universities in the coming [i.e. 2007 - ed.] fall. Launching entirely new degree programmes obviously involves a lot of complex problems. However, one of the most pressing ones is to satisfy the demand for an appropriate and adequate selection of literary sources. Until very recently, very little material belonging to the field of Asian studies was purchased at the libraries, which therefore suffer from a rather embarrassing scarcity of basic sources in Asian studies. If there are libraries out there eager to get rid of room-taking duplicate books in the field, the Icelandic libraries would be happy to provide them with a permanent home. While the focus is presently on East-Asia, material on other parts of Asia, especially SE-Asia and S-Asia would be most appreciated. I would also be grateful for any other tips or suggestions as to how to effectively furnish our libraries. - Geir Sigurdsson, PhD, Director, Icelandic Centre of Asian Studies, University of Akureyri, Iceland."
[A site largely in Islandic, with occasional glosses in English - ed.]
URL http://vefir.unak.is/kinverska/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.]
Link reported by: Geir Sigurdsson (geirsi13--at--hotmail.com), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news/comments - 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

09 Mar 2007

The Sunni A-bomb vs. the Shia A-bomb
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, 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: "There is an intriguing silence of Al Qaeda and pro-Al Qaeda organisations on reports of a possible American or Israeli air strike on Iran's uranium enrichment capability. The only conclusion possible from an analysis of this silence so far is that the wahabised Sunnis of Pakistan and Afghanistan are as much worried over the dangers of Iran acquiring a military nuclear capability as the US and Israel are. They look upon it not as an Islamic bomb, but as a Shia bomb. Pakistan's is an Islamic bomb, but not Iran's." - b.raman
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai. He is also associated with the Chennai Centre for China Studies. - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers22/paper2161.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 - ed.
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde--at--vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* 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

07 Mar 2007

Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue March 5, 2007
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US

Supplied note:
"The following articles were posted on March 5, 2007 at Japan Focus.
* Alexis Dudden and Kozo MIZOGUCHI, Abe's Violent Denial: Japan's Prime Minister and the 'Comfort Women'
* William Underwood and Kang Jiang, Japan's Top Court Poised to Kill Lawsuits by Chinese War Victims
* Christian Caryl and Akiko KASHIWAGI, The Good Son Falters: Japan's Abe Regime in Decline
* Hisane MASAKI, The Great Japan-Mongolia Love Affair: What price the UN Security Council Seat?
* Denys Lombard, Another "Mediterranean" in Southeast Asia
* Christopher P. Hood, Bullets and Trains: Exporting Japan's Shinkansen to China and Taiwan
* Brenda Peterson, The Whale and the Cherry Blossom Festival
* Susan Orlean, Robert Lang and the Global Reach of Origami
Find them at http://japanfocus.org - m.selden."

Site contents:
* BROWSE ALL ARTICLES; * BROWSE BY REGION (Japan and the World, The United States, The Asia Pacific, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, Russia, Europe, The Americas, Okinawa, Africa); * BROWSE BY ISSUES (Diplomacy and Security, The Military and Security, War and Peace, History, Politics and Ideology, Economics, Social Issues, Culture, Education, The Atomic Bomb, Atomic War, Hiroshima and Nagasaki); * SEARCH BY AUTHOR/TITLE/KEYWORD/DATE OF PUBLICATION

[Japan Focus is a refereed e-journal (est. 2003, ISSN 1557-4660) and archive on the Asia Pacific. In addition to Japan Focus exclusives, it provides translations from Japanese and other languages as well as reprints of important articles. Its website with more than 800 articles provides a permanent resource for students and researchers. The coordinators of Japan Focus are Andrew DeWit, Laura Hein, Gavan McCormack, David McNeill, Mark Selden, Yuki Tanaka and William Underwood. Contact Japan Focus by email at info--at--japanfocus.org - ed.]
URL http://japanfocus.org
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://japanfocus.org
Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44--at--cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news/comments - 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]: over 3,000 [in fact 4,910]

07 Mar 2007

"Chinese Science" Journal - Online
Seminar fuer Sinologie und Koreanistik, Abteilung Sinologie, Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
Supplied note: "Issues 1 to 11 of the 'Chinese Science' [ISSN #0361-9001 - ed.] are now available for free download at [the URL below] - vk."
Site contents: "Issues 1-10 were edited by Nathan Sivin at the University of Pennsylvania. Beginning with issue 11 Chinese Science has been published at UCLA under the editorship of Benjamin Elman. Number 1 (1975) [download pdf]; Number 2 (1977) [download pdf]; Number 3 (1978) [download pdf]; Number 4 (1980) [download pdf]; Number 5 (1982) [download pdf]; Number 6 (1983) [download pdf]; Number 7 (1986) [download pdf]; Number 8 (1987) [download pdf]; Number 9 (1989) [download pdf]; Number 10 (1991) [download pdf]; Number 11 (1993-94) [download pdf]; Number 12 (1995) [toc]; Number 13 (1996) [toc]; Number 14 (1997) [toc]; Number 15 (1998) [toc]."
URL http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/sinologie/eastm/index.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/sinologie/eastm/index.html
Link reported by: Valerie Keppel (eastm--at--uni-tuebingen.de), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* 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]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100

07 Mar 2007

Gwadar, Hambantota & Sitwe: China's Strategic [Indian Ocean] Triangle
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, 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: "Very few would have heard of Gwadar in Pakistan, Hambantota in Sri Lanka and Sitwe (Akyab) in Myanmar before 2002. These were essentially fishing harbours used by the fishermen of these countries. Sometimes, there used to be references to these places in articles on fishing rights, but rarely in articles on possible threats to India's national security. Since 2002, studies on maritime security have started making references to these places. Initially, the focus was on Gwadar. Now, it is also on Hambantota. In the months to come, it will be on Sitwe too. 2. What made these sleepy fishing harbours suddenly become areas of strategic concern to India's maritime security experts? The growing Chinese interest in these places and China's generous offer of assistance to these countries for converting these sleepy fishing harbours into maritime ports of international standards. What explains the Chinese interest in these places?. 3. China's economic and strategic interest in Gwadar and Sitwe is obvious. It is worried over the possibility of disruptions in the movement of oil and gas tankers to China from the Gulf and Africa through the Malacca Straits due to attacks by pirates and/or terrorists. It wants to reduce its dependence on the Malacca Straits for the movement of its oil and gas supplies. [...] The Chinese Government is trying to give its Navy a greater visibility, operability and rapid action capability in the Indian Ocean region than it enjoys now. Gwadar, Hambantota and Sitwe form important components of its maritime security strategy. At the conclusion of his recent visit to Africa, Hu Jintao also visited Seychelles. It is important to monitor the growing Chinese interest there too in any study of China's maritime security strategy." - b.raman
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai. He is also associated with the Chennai Centre for China Studies. - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers22/paper2158.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 - ed.
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde--at--vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - 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

06 Mar 2007

CLIWOC: A climatological database for the world's oceans 1750-1854
KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute), De Bilt, Netherlands
A public-access database of georeferenced positions and meteorological data collected from over 280,000 historical observations in the logbooks of Spanish, Dutch and English sailing ships engaged in trade, war, and exploration voyages across the Pacific, Atlantic, and the Indian Ocean from 1750 till 1854.
Site contents: * CLIWOC project history; * Metadata - CLIWOC Dutch individual ships position plots (Pre-1750 Ships: Africa (1677), Freden (1748-1749), Maarseveen (1662-1663), Wesel (1699), [...] 1750-1799 Ships: Admiraal de Ruyter, Africaensche Galey, Agatha, Akerendam, [...] 1800-1854 Ships: Abel Tasman, Adder, Admiraal Evertsen, Admiraal Jan Evertsen, [...]); * Metadata - CLIWOC English individual ships position plots (Ships: Acasta Active(1), Active(2), Active(3), Adamant, Admiral Pocock, [...] Worcester, Yarmouth, York, Yorke); * Metadata - CLIWOC Spanish individual ships position plots (Ships: Activo, El, Aguila, El, Aigle, Le, Aimable Marie Anne, L', Ambition, L', Amphitrite, L', Ana, Santa, [...], Vicente, San, Vicomte de Choiseuil, Le, Viviana, Zephir, Le) * Metadata - CLIWOC ship positions maps and graphs (1750-1759, 1760-1769, 1770-1779, 1780-1789, 1790-1799, 1800-1809, 1810-1819, 1820-1829, 1830-1839, 1840-1850, 1750-1850 (b/w), 1750-1850 (colour)); * CLIWOC Meteorological data 1662-1855 (Wind observations - [for all 12 month of the year], Air Temperature (C) per 5x5 degrees [for all 12 month of the year & for the whole period]; * CLIWOC database: Release 1.1 (23 January 2004) and Release 1.5 (15 April 2004) [freely downloadable zipped file CLIWOC15.zip, 12.7 MB, Complete version in IMMA-format, period covers 1662-1855; contains 280,280 records, compatible with MS-DOS environment (each record ends with the combination CR/LF). Also available: Complete Database in Microsoft Access 2000 and Complete Database in Microsoft Access 97. - ed.]; * CLIWOC Publications/Literature/Media; * Links (CLIWOC related links, VOC and EIC links: VOC Kennis Centrum, VOC-links, VOC-Glossarium, Bataviawerf (Batavia Yard), Tanap, VOC Site, De VOC. Scheepvaart tussen Nederland en Azie (1595-1795), Other links);
URL http://www.knmi.nl/cliwoc/index.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.knmi.nl/cliwoc/index.htm
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* 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]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1000

06 Mar 2007

CLIWOC Multilingual Meteorological Dictionary 1750-1850
KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute), De Bilt, Netherlands
Self-description: "CLIWOC Multilingual Meteorological Dictionary An English- Spanish- Dutch- French dictionary of wind force terms used by mariners from 1750-1850.
This dictionary [in PDF format, file size 684KB, compiled in 2003 by the CLIWOC (CLIWOC: A climatological database for the world's oceans 1750-1854 http://www.knmi.nl/cliwoc/index.htm) team, namely Ricardo Garc’a-Herrera, Luis Prieto, David Gallego, Emiliano Hernandez and Luis Gimeno Gunther Koennen and Frits Koek Dennis Wheeler and Clive Wilkinson Maria Del Rosario Prieto and Carlos Baez, and Scott Woodruff - ed.].] is the first attempt to express the wealth of archaic logbook wind force terms in a form that is comprehensible to the modern-day reader. [...] The key objective was to translate the archaic vocabulary of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century mariner into expressions directly comparable with the Beaufort Scale (see Appendix I). [... The dictionary] is based on over 15,000 logbook entries for wind force. [...]"
Site contents: Introduction, Acknowledgements, The Beaufort wind force and weather scales, An introduction to naval logbooks, The derivation of equivalence scales, Introduction to English terms, Dictionary of English terms, Introduction to Spanish terms, Dictionary of Spanish terms, Introduction to Dutch terms, Dictionary of Dutch terms, Introduction to French terms, Dictionary of French terms, Sea state descriptors in logbooks, Summary of wind force terms in Beaufort Scale order, References, List of general nautical dictionaries, Appendix I The Beaufort wind force and weather scales, Appendix II Alexander Dalrymple's wind force scale, Appendix III Translations of present day Beaufort wind force terms (in Dutch, French and Spanish), Appendix IV Sail plan and sail names of a typical ocean-going vessel of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Extract: "KEY TO DICTIONARY ABBREVIATIONS BF: Beaufort Force [...] IU: infrequently used NDA: no definition available. This may be because the term refers to wind direction, .e.g. 'fair wind', rather than force, or because of uncertainty or imprecision regarding its point on the Beaufort wind force scale, e.g. 'baffling winds'. [....]
DICTIONARY OF SPANISH TERMS abonanzado:IU, BF 4 abonanzando:IU, BF 4 abonanzo: IU, BF 4 abrisado: IU, BF 2 afugado: IU, NDA. ahuracanado: IU, BF 12 alterados:IU, BF > 8 altivo:IU, BF 7 [....] vacilante:IU, BF 2 variable: NDA variando:IU, NDA variedad:IU, NDA ventolinas: BF 1 ventoso: NDA vivito:IU, BF 6 vivo:IU, BF 7 [...]"
URL http://www.knmi.nl/cliwoc/publications/hisklim5.pdf
The dictionary is also available from the web site of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK http://www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/pdf/CLIWOC-dictionary.pdf
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* 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]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

06 Mar 2007

Photos of Tibet in the early 1940's
Art History, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, US
Self-description: "These photos were taken in Tibet by members of the Tolstoy expedition of 1942-43. Two U.S. Army officers, Lt. Col. Ilya Tolstoy and Capt. Brooke Dolan were sent to Tibet from India to explore the possibility of getting military supplies to Chiang Kai-shek's Republican Chinese government, via Tibet. [...] A number of [... these photographs] were featured in a book by Rosemary Jones Tung, A Portrait of Lost Tibet: Photographs by Ilya Tolstoy and Brook Dolan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), a few were reproduced in Tibet: The Sacred Realm: Photographs 1880 - 1950 (Aperture Books, 1983), in a National Geographic [August, 1946 - ed.] magazine article and a few other places here and there. Many of them are still unidentified. [... Alltogether there ... ] are some [230] amazingly beautiful photographs [... that have been scanned] so far. Some have considerable historical interest, particularly in the light of the transformation of Tibet over the past 50 years."
Site contents: B&W PHOTOGRAPHS: * The Americans (The Expedition Scenes of Travel, Camping, Tolstoy and Dolan); * Tibetan Art (Painters and Carvers, Mural paintings, Sculpture, Chortens (stupas), Temples and other architecture, The Potala, Gyantse, Yemar, Textiles: Carpets and Cloth); * Tibetan Religion (The Ch'am/Masked Dance Festival, Monks and Monastic Life, The Regents Procession, The Potala, Gyantse, Other monastic sites, Pilgrims and Prostration); * Tibetan Society (Nomadic Pasturalists, Ordinary Tibetans, Pilgrims and Prostration, The Tibetan "Army", Urban Scenes, The Wealthy and Aristocrats); * The Chinese (The Chinese Army, On the Road to Gansu, Scenes of Western China); * Miscellany (A Postcard from Heinrich Harrer); THE TOLSTOY-DOLAN EXPEDITION (Bibliography, Background Notes).
[A 1999 web site by Dr Rob Linrothe, Associate Professor and Director of Art History at Skidmore College. In addition to the Tibet Photographs site he also published the following web pages: * Karsha's Chuchikjyal Temple, Zangskar, 1996 (http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/asianstudies/new2/linrothe/Karsha/Chuchikjyal.html) * Tibetan Art at Skidmore, 1998 (http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/asianstudies/new2/linrothe/TibetArtDisplay/Display.html) * Monks and monasteries in Amdo, 1998 (http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/asianstudies/new2/linrothe/Qinghai/TongrenSi.html) * Petroglyphs near Karsha, in Zangskar, 1998 (http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/asianstudies/new2/linrothe/Petroglyphs/RockArt.html) * QuickTime video of Ladakh and Mangyu chorten, 1994. (http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/asianstudies/new2/linrothe/Mangyu/Webpage.html) - ed.]
URL http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/asianstudies/TibetanPhotos/Snaps.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/asianstudies/TibetanPhotos/Snaps.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/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 300

05 Mar 2007

GlobalIncidentMap.com: A Global Display of Terrorism and Other Suspicious Events
www.globalincidentmap.com, Scottsdale, AZ, US
Self-description: "This page automatically reloads every 420 seconds. [...] About GlobalIncidentMap.com This free public service website was created [in Oct 2006] to give the public, law enforcement, military, and government individuals a new way to visualize, and become instantly aware of terrorism and security incidents across the world. While this website employs much automation, the news gathering itself is not automated - news items are located, reviewed, and manually entered into the database. [...] The map was designed and concieved [sic- ed.] by the publisher of www.TerroristWarning.com , Morgan Clements - with inspiration garnered from the RSOE Havaria Information Service AlertMap, the federal map systems used by FEMA, and other types of incident maps. [...] GlobalIncidentMap.com and its publishers do NOT receive any funding from any foreign or domestic government entities, nor any special interest, religious, or political groups.

Frequently Asked Questions: [...] [Q:] How Accurate is the Map Data? [A:] We make no guarantees as to the accuracy or validity of any news items we link to [...]
[Q:] Is the information on this map open source? [A:] We consider every incident and event on this map to be OSINT ( open source ), consequently this map is open to the public as well as all law enforcement, government, and military users. As a general rule we will not post non-osint material at this location.
[Q"] Is every incident on this map connected to terrorism? [A:] We don't know - we include any incident or event that we think may have a connection to terrorism, which includes things like bomb or anthrax hoaxes - because we feel that not only can we learn from hoaxes but because we believe a small number of them may be 'dry runs'. We may also include links to items which are of significant concern, such as a major disease outbreak, even if we feel it has no connection to terrorism. We include known terrorist acts, suspected terrorist acts, other events which we deem suspicious or otherwise potentially threatening to the public, including non-terror incidents such as accidental chemical plant explosions. We include items WE think are suspicious, you may feel differently, we suggest reviewing each item individually and arriving at your own conclusion."

Site contents: * [a scalable satellite] Map of the world; * Announcements, Alerts, Breaking News; * 25 Newest Events; * Show Current Event Types (Last 24 Hours, Last 7 Days, Last 30 Days, Last 60 Days, Last 12 Months, ALL); * Search (Select a Type [Airport/Aviation Incidents, Arson/Fire Incident, Assassination/ Assassination Attempt, Biological Incidents/ Threats/ Anthrax Hoaxes etc, Bomb Incidents/Explosives/ Hoax Devices, Bridge / Tunnel Incidents and Security, Bus Stations/ Bus Security/ Bus Related Incidents, Chemical Attack, Chemical Incident, Dam Incident, General Non-Specific Terrorism News, Other Suspicious Activity, Radiation Incidents/ Smuggling/ Proliferation, Railways/Train Stations, Shipping/Maritime/Ports/Cargo/Waterways Security, Shootings / Sniper Incidents/ Etc, Terrorist Arrests/Captured/Killed Locations] Select Date/Time, Select the Country, Select the City); * Instructions; * About Us; * FAQ; * Contact Us; * Links of Interest; * Announcements;

Excerpts:
CHINA Incidents (Oct 2006-early Mar 2007):
TYPE - DATE/TIME - COUNTRY - CITY [WHERE THE NEWS WERE PUBLISHED] - DETAILS & MAP OF THE PLACE OF THE INCIDENT.
* Bomb Incidents/Explosives/ Hoax Devices 2006-10-30 00:00:00 CN Beijing CHINA - Man arrested for throwing explosives at police
* Chemical Incident 2006-11-01 00:00:00 CN Beijing CHINA - One dead, 20,000 evacuated in China after ammonia leak
* Bomb Incidents/Explosives/ Hoax Devices 2006-12-15 00:00:00 CN Beijing CHINA - Bomb explodes in hospital in Xinjiang
* Bomb Incidents/Explosives/ Hoax Devices 2007-01-04 00:00:00 CN Beijing CHINA - Roadside explosion kills two boys in southern China
* Terrorist Arrests/Captured/Killed Locations 2007-01-08 00:00:00 CN Beijing CHINA - China anti-terror raid kills 18
* Airport/Aviation Incidents 2007-01-14 00:00:00 CN Chengdu CHINA - Man carrying gun detained before going aboard plane in SW China

BANGLADESH Incidents (Oct 2006-early Mar 2007):
TYPE - DATE/TIME - COUNTRY - CITY [WHERE THE NEWS WERE PUBLISHED] - DETAILS & MAP OF THE PLACE OF THE INCIDENT.
* Bomb Incidents/Explosives/ Hoax Devices 2006-10-27 00:00:00 BD Dhaka BANGLADESH - Six dead in Bangladesh protests [Bombs - shots]
* General Non-Specific Terrorism News 2006-11-11 00:00:00 BD Dhaka BANGLADESH - Bangladesh on alert as opposition deadline nears
* Shipping/Maritime/Ports/Cargo/Waterways Security 2006-11-11 00:00:00 BD Burma BURMA / BANGLADESH - Burmese Ferry Hijacked at Burma-Bangladesh Border
* Railways/Train Stations 2006-11-12 00:00:00 BD Dhaka BANGLADESH - Protesters in Dhaka Set Train on Fire
* Bomb Incidents/Explosives/ Hoax Devices 2006-11-14 00:00:00 BD Dhaka BANGLADESH - Crude bomb attack on mosque wounds 10 in Bangladesh village, news report says
* General Non-Specific Terrorism News 2006-11-24 00:00:00 BD Dhaka BANGLADESH - Koreans in Bangladesh Advised to Be Alert for Terror
* Bomb Incidents/Explosives/ Hoax Devices 2006-11-24 00:00:00 BD Dhaka BANGLADESH - Two outlaws held with explosives
* Airport/Aviation Incidents 2006-12-04 00:00:00 BD Dhaka BANGLADESH - 2 Rab members hurt as criminals hurl bombs
* Airport/Aviation Incidents 2006-12-11 00:00:00 BD Dhaka INDIA / BANGLADESH - Bangladesh and India on alert over jet hijack warnings
* Bomb Incidents/Explosives/ Hoax Devices 2006-12-30 00:00:00 BD Dhaka BANGLADESH - Explosives, Rab garb found at militant den
* Bomb Incidents/Explosives/ Hoax Devices 2007-01-02 00:00:00 BD Dhaka BANGLADESH - Bangladesh Security Forces Seize Bomb-Making Material
* Bomb Incidents/Explosives/ Hoax Devices 2007-01-08 00:00:00 BD Dhaka BANGLADESH - Six Islamists with explosives held in Bangladesh
* Bomb Incidents/Explosives/ Hoax Devices 2007-01-14 00:00:00 BD Dhaka BANGLADESH - Bomb kills 4 of family [4 bombs, 1 accidental]
* Bomb Incidents/Explosives/ Hoax Devices 2007-01-18 00:00:00 BD Dhaka BANGLADESH - Huge explosives seized in Savar [And other interesting stuff]
* Bomb Incidents/Explosives/ Hoax Devices 2007-01-28 00:00:00 BD Dhaka BANGLADESH - 3 hurt in bomb attack in Kushtia
* Bomb Incidents/Explosives/ Hoax Devices 2007-01-31 00:00:00 BD Dhaka BANGLADESH - Policeman killed in Bangladesh bomb blast
* Bomb Incidents/Explosives/ Hoax Devices 2007-01-31 00:00:00 BD Dhaka BANGLADESH - Militants kill Bangladesh policeman
* Terrorist Arrests/Captured/Killed Locations 2007-03-03 00:00:00 BD Dhaka BANGLADESH - Dhaka arrests 10 Islamist militants
* Terrorist Arrests/Captured/Killed Locations
URL http://www.globalincidentmap.com/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/News
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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]: under 1,000

01 Mar 2007

China in the World: Postgraduate Research Summer School, Jul 2007
Institute for Research on Contemporary China, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Leeds, UK.
Self-description: "Applications are invited for the 2007 Postgraduate Research Summer School 24-27 July 2007, University of Leeds, UK [...]
Funded by the European Union and in collaboration with the Worldwide University Network (WUN), China in the World: Postgraduate Research Summer School provides research training in Chinese studies for PhD students and junior researchers from EU member and associated states, China and the USA.
The focus of the Research Summer School is on Modern and Contemporary Chinese history and the analysis of Chinese Society and Politics, the most dynamic areas of academic interest of our age. It is aimed to enhance the European research capacity on Chinese society, Chinese politics and modern and contemporary Chinese history through training in research approaches, academic judgement, scholarly interaction and critique of postgraduate research students and, based on all of which, to facilitate future global collaboration and exchange in social science and modern and contemporary history of China. The Postgraduate Research Summer School runs as a series of annual sessions in July 2006-2009. Each of the four Summer Schools covers a different theme: * July 2006 (Nanjing, China): China and Globalisation in Historical Perspective; * July 2007 (Leeds, UK): China, Globalisation and Social Stratification; * July 2008 (Bristol, UK): China, Europe and the World; * July 2009 (Oslo, Norway): China Global: Nation State and Ethnicity. [...] The 2007 Postgraduate Research Summer School will be held in the University of Leeds from 24th to 27th July 2007. Please consult the programme and entry requirements for details."
Site contents: * Themes; * 2007 Summer School; * Organisers; * Application Form; * Contact us.
URL http://www.leeds.ac.uk/chinaintheworld
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.
Link reported by: Dr. Xiyi Huang (chinaintheworld--at--leeds.ac.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
International students: ANU CRICOS Provider Number is 00120C