30 Aug 2007

Historical Photographs of China
Historical Photographs of China project, School of Humanities, University of Bristol, UK & Institut d'Asie Orientale (IAO), Lyon, France
Self-description: "This project aims to locate, archive, and disseminate photographs from the substantial holdings of images of modern China held mostly in private hands overseas. [...] An exhibition of this material is taking place in London, Bath, and Durham in 2007-2008.
For more details see ['Picturing China, 1870-1950: Photographs from British collections' An exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, London 16 October - 15 December 2007 http://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/customs/picturingchina.html - ed.]
The photographs archived here come from the collections of a Chinese diplomat, foreign businessmen, staff of the administrations in the Chinese treaty ports, missionaries, and officials of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service. They shed light on political events such as the 1925 May Thirtieth incident, on working and social life, on treaty port architecture, commercial history, the history of dress and fashion, and of course the history of photography in China. They were taken by talented amateur photographers, by foreign snap-shotters, professional studio photographers, and others. These images were taken, acquired or bought by those living or visiting China.
These digital copies of the images are made available here for educational, reference and research purposes. As well as a variety of modestly sized collections, this project has worked with a number of larger bodies of material including photographs related to the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, diplomat Foo Ping-sheung (Fu Bingchang), holdings relating to the Shanghai Municipal Police, the G. Warren Swire collection, and the J.C. Oswald collection (SOAS)."
Site contents: * Fu Bingchang - Images; * Chinese Maritime Customs - Images; * Shanghai Municipal Police - Images; * G. Warren Swire - Images; * All Images.
URL http://chp.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Robert Bickers (robert.bickers--at--bristol.ac.uk), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

28 Aug 2007

Bhutan - National Statistical Bureau
National Statistical Bureau, Thimphu, Bhutan
Supplied note: "Bhutan's National Statistical Bureau has its website at [the URL below] and offers (at present) a PDF of the Statistical Yearbook 2006 (including full tables of population breakdown from the 2005 census), a PDF (27MB!) of Result of Population and Housing census of Bhutan 2005" (now in readable/printable format), and recent Consumer price Index (CPI) reports.
It's a slow site, especially during Bhutan working hours (BST = GMT+6). Weekends may be best for relatively speedy access. - bcs."
Site contents: * Latest Publications For 2007 (CPI Report Quater 1); * Latest Publications For 2006 (CPI Reports Quater 1-4, Statistical Year Book, National Accounts Report, Bhutan At A Glance); * Downloads (Population fact Sheet, Result of Population and Housing Census of Bhutan 2005); * Population and housing Census Gewog Maps; * Population and housing Census Dzongkhag Maps.
URL http://www.nsb.gov.bt:8080/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Dr Brian C. Shaw (bcjshaw--at--hkucc.hku.hk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Government
* 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

28 Aug 2007

Kritika Kultura: E- Journal of Literary/ Cultural and Language Studies, Philippines
Dept of English, School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines
Supplied note: "As a pioneering electronic journal of language and literary/cultural studies [est. Feb 2002, ISSN 1656-152X - ed.] in the Philippines, Kritika Kultura addresses issues relevant to the 21st century within these disciplines even as addressing those same issues would have to be precisely about crossing the very borders of these disciplines: language and literature and cultural policy, cultural politics of representation, the political economy of language, literature and culture, the production of cultural texts, audience reception, systems of representation, effects of texts on concrete readers/audiences, the history and dynamics of canon formation, gender and sexuality, ethnicity, diaspora, nationalism and nationhood, national liberation movements, identity politics, feminism, women's liberation movements, etc. - ra"
Site contents: * Current Issue (Issue 8, Feb 2007) [all issues in PDF format - ed.]; * Archives (Issue 1, Feb 2007 to Issue 7, Jul 2006); * Contributors; * Editorial Staff; * Editorial Policy; * Contact.
URL http://www.ateneo.edu/kritikakultura/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ateneo.edu/kritikakultura/
Link reported by: Rafael Acuna (racuna--at--pldtdsl.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./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 100

27 Aug 2007

Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue Aug 27, 2007
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US
Supplied note: "The following articles were posted on Aug 27, 2007 at Japan Focus.
* Utsumi Aiko, Nakamura Hidemi, Gil Hyeong-sun, Lee Hak Rae, the Korean Connection and "Japanese" War Crimes on the Burma-Thai Railroad
* M K Bhadrakumar, The New 'NATO of the East' Takes Shape: The SCO and China, Russia and US Maneuvers
* Andre Vltchek, Climate Change and the Threat to Pacific Island Nations
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 7,820]

27 Aug 2007

3rd International Seminar on GNH, Thailand, Nov 2007
Centre for Bhutan Studies,Thimpbu, Bhutan
Supplied note: "The Centre for Bhutan Studies is calling for abstracts of papers to be presented at the 3rd International Conference on Gross National Happiness [GNH], to be held in Thailand at two locations from 22 to 28 November 2007. The details are at: [the URL below]. - bcs"
Self-description: "[...] The conference papers will be discussed along the nine GNH domains namely psychological wellbeing, health, education, time use and balance, cultural diversity and resilience, good governance, community vitality, ecological diversity and resilience, and living standards. [...]"
URL http://www.bhutanstudies.org.bt/main/highlight_detail.php?id=25
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Brian C. Shaw (bcjshaw--at--hkucc.hku.hk)
* 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

27 Aug 2007

ANU E Press
Division of Information, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "ANU E Press collects, disseminates, brands and makes available on a global electronic basis selected scholarly research undertaken at the ANU. ANU E Press facilitates communication among scholars, especially with respect to: * publication of research results; * collection and capturing of scholarly dialogues; * creation of archival records.
[...] The ANU E Press supports the following: * open e-publication; * institution-based repositories with appropriate listings and metadata/discovery mechanisms; * a centralised repository; * a low-cost, common-good funding model; * moderation/peer review; * copyright preserved by creators; * facilities for access to and transfer of electronic information, for example, a print-on-demand facility."
Site contents: * Search and/or Browse by Titles, Authors, Subjects, and by Date; * Recent Submissions; * Subscribe to this collection to receive daily e-mail notification of new additions; * RSS Feeds.

Electronic publications include the following titles:
* Aboriginal Population Profiles for Development Planning in the Northern East Kimberley;* A Quest for True Islam; * Asian Socialism and Legal Change: The dynamics of Vietnamese and Chinese reform; * Assessing the evidence on Indigenous socioeconomic outcomes: A focus on the 2002 NATSISS; * Australian Department Heads Under Howard: Career Paths and Practice; * Australian Political Lives: Chronicling political careers and administrative histories; * Black Words White Page; * Boats to Burn; * China-Linking Markets for Growth; * Coastal Themes: An Archaeology of the Southern Curtis Coast, Queensland; * Connected Worlds: History in Transnational Perspective; * Culture and Sustainable Development in the Pacific; * Culture in Translation: The anthropological legacy of R. H. Mathews; * Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia; * Dislocating the Frontier: essaying the mystique of the outback; * From Election to Coup in Fiji; * Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands; * Health Expenditure, Income and Health Status Among Indigenous and Other Australians; * Indigenous people and the Pilbara mining boom: A baseline for regional participation; * Inside Austronesian Houses; * Islands of Turmoil: Elections and Politics in Fiji; * Lithics in the Land of the Lightning Brothers: The Archaeology of Wardaman Country, Northern Territory; * Making Sense of the Census: Observations of the 2001 Enumeration in Remote Aboriginal Australia; * Myanmar: State, Community and the Pacific; * Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society; * NGOs and Post-Conflict Recovery: The Leitana Nehan Women's Development Agency, Bougainville; * Oceanic Explorations; * Origins, Ancestry and Alliance; * Out of the Ashes: Destruction and Reconstruction of East Timor; * Pacific Islands Regional Integration and Governance; * Pacific Regional Order; * Pieces of the Vanuatu Puzzle: Archaeology of the North, South and Centre; * Power and Pork: A Japanese Political Life; * Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago; * Reformist Muslims in a Yogyakarta Village; * Rule of law, legitimate governance & development in the Pacific; * Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land; * Social Indicators for Aboriginal Governance: Insights from the Thamarrurr Region, Northern Territory; * State and Society in Papua New Guinea: The First Twenty-Five Years; * State, Communities and Forests in Contemporary Borneo; * Struggling for the Umma: Changing Leadership Roles of Kiai in Jombang, East Java; * The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia; * The Art of Narritjin Maymuru; * The Austronesians; * 'The axe had never sounded' place, people and heritage of Recherche Bay, Tasmania; * The China Boom and its Discontents; * The First Ten K R Narayanan Orations: Essays by Eminent Persons on the Rapidly Transforming Indian Economy; * The Indigenous Welfare Economy and the CDEP Scheme; * The Islamic Traditions of Cirebon: Ibadat and Adat Among Javanese Muslims; * The Journey of a Book; * The Lexicon of Proto Oceanic; * The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific; * The Nature of Northern Australia; * The Poetic Power of Place; * The Spanish Lake / * El lago espanol; * The Turning Point in China's Economic Development; * Viet Nam: a transition tiger?; * What Good Condition? Reflections on an Australian Aboriginal Treaty 1986 - 2006; * What's Changing: Population Size or Land-Use Patterns?
[Warning: a glacially slow online information/publishing system - ed.]
URL https://dspace.anu.edu.au:8443/handle/1885/42748
Internet Archive (web.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]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

24 Aug 2007

H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive: an online inventory
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, US
Supplied note: "The inventory to the Smith Poster Archive online at [the URL below] [...] This collection contains more than 3000 posters, representing more than 100 years of Indian calendar art. The library can help scholars with questions about obtaining viewing rights. The inventory is highly descriptive, but no visual, due to copyright concerns. Artist, publisher, year of publication or collection, image, etc. are represented. - ssw."
Self-description:
"Abstract: Collection of 3500+ mass-produced color prints depicting Hindu gods, goddesses, saints and sacred sites. Also includes color slides, comprehensive card file inventory, books, articles, and Smith's own field notes, photographs and other material. Collected by H. Daniel Smith, scholar and Professor Emeritus of Religion at Syracuse University where he taught for 35 years. [...]
The full gamut of subjects depicted in chromolithographs (also known as oleographs, calendar art, popular bazaar prints, etc) so widely disseminated in 20th century Indian homes, shrines, schools, public halls and workplaces: where they usually function as pinups, framing pictures, and calendar illustrations: includes animals, babies, cine stars, flowers and fruits, political personalities, scenics (landscapes, cityscapes, thoroughfares), sports figures, and religious images attractive to India's Hindu, Muslim, Sikh, Jain, Parsi, and Christian populations. [...]
There are in the West only two collections accessible to the public that are comparable to the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive: one, a somewhat smaller collection of Indian Calendar Art, at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) [www.moa.ubc.ca - ed.] ; the other, the more extensive collection housed in the Museum fuer Volkerkunde (Hamburg, Germany) [www.voelkerkundemuseum.com - ed.]. [...] As of this writing, no extensive collection of consequence are confirmed to be currently under conservation in India."
URL http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/s/smith_poster.htm
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Susan S Wadley (sswadley--at--syr.edu), 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]: Library
* 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

24 Aug 2007

Caucasus Research Resource Centers (CRRC)
Eurasia Foundation, Tbilisi, Georgia
Self-description: "The Caucasus Research Resource Centers program (CRRC) is a network of resource and training centers established [in 2003 - ed] in the capital cities of Armenia [www.crrc.am - ed.], Azerbaijan [www.crrc.az - ed.] and Georgia [www.crrc.ge - ed.] with the goal of strengthening social science research and public policy analysis in the South Caucasus.
A partnership between the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Eurasia Foundation (EF), the program's outcomes are to increase the accessibility of high-quality research resources, to strengthen capacity and, to increase the dialogue and collaboration between social science researchers and policy practitioners."
Site contents: * About CRRC; * Data Initiative Project (Data Sets [South Caucasus household data on demographics, household economic behavior, migration trends, and social attitudes - ed.], Documentation, Web Interface, Research Team, Papers); * CRRC Blog and Moodle; * Contact Us; * Publications.
[The Caucasus Research Resource Centers is a program of the Eurasia Foundation [www.eurasia.or] funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. - ed.]
URL http://www.crrccenters.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.crrccenters.org/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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 1000

23 Aug 2007

Asia Policy E-journal - National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR)
The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), Seattle, WA, US
Self-description: "Asia Policy [est. Jan 2006 - ed.] is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to bridging the gap between academic research and policymaking on issues related to the Asia-Pacific. Asia Policy publishes, in descending order of emphasis, three types of peer-reviewed essays: (1) social scientific research articles that both use social science theories, concepts, and approaches and draw clear and concise policy implications on issues of import to the region (2) research notes [...] (3) policy analyses [...]."
Site contents:
NUMBER 4 (July 2007)
Roundtables
* China in the Year 2020 - Mercy Kuo & Andrew D. Marble, David M. Lampton, Cheng Li, Pieter Bottelier, and Fenggang Yang * Sizing the Chinese Military - Andrew Scobell & Roy Kamphausen, Ellis Joffe, Michael R. Chambers, David M. Finkelstein, Cortez A. Cooper III, Dennis J. Blasko, Bernard D. Cole, Michael McDevitt, Phillip C. Saunders & Erik Quam, and Larry Wortzel
Article
* Militant Recruitment in Pakistan: A New Look at the Militancy-Madrasah Connection - C. Christine Fair
Research Note
* China's Fifteen-Year Plan for Science and Technology: An Assessment - Sylvia Schwaag Serger & Magnus Breidne
Policy Analysis
* Managing the U.S.-China Foreign Economic Dialogue: Building Greater Coordination and New Habits of Consultation - Jean A. Garrison
Book Review Roundtable
* Kenneth B. Pyle's Japan Rising * Richard J. Samuels' Securing Japan - T.J. Pempel, Mike M. Mochizuki, Ming Wan, Christopher W. Hughes, Richard J. Samuels, and Kenneth B. Pyle

NUMBER 3 (January 2007)
Special Essay
* Reading the New Era in Asia: The Use of History and Culture in the Making of Foreign Policy - Kenneth B. Pyle
Special Roundtable
* Pursuing Security in a Dynamic Northeast Asia - Aaron L. Friedberg, Michael J. Green, Robert A. Scalapino, Kenneth B. Pyle, Francis Fukuyama, Dwight H. Perkins, Nicholas Eberstadt, Richard J. Samuels, Kenneth Lieberthal, and Chae-Jin Lee
Article
* North Korea's Nuclear Weapons: Implications for the Nuclear Ambitions of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan - Christopher W. Hughes
Policy Analyses
* North Korea's Nuclear Weapons Program to 2015: Three Scenarios - Jonathan D. Pollack * The Democratic-Led 110th Congress: Implications for Asia - Robert Sutter
Research Note
* China and WTO Liberalization of the Securities Industry: Le choc des mondes or L'empire immobile? - Nicholas Calcina Howson
Book Review Roundtable
* Navnita Chadha Behera's Demystifying Kashmir - Robert Wirsing, Teresita C. Schaffer, Sumit Ganguly, Shalendra Sharma, and Navnita Chadha Behera

NUMBER 2 (July 2006)
Special Roundtable: Economic Implications of a Fundamental Shift in North Korean Security Policy
* Introduction - Nicholas Eberstadt & Richard J. Ellings * Visualizing a North Korean "Bold Switchover": International Financial Institutions and Economic Development in the DPRK - Bradley O. Babson * The Economic Implications of a North Korean Nuclear Test - Marcus Noland
Article
* The Political Economy of Standards Coalitions: Explaining China's Involvement in High-Tech Standards Wars - Scott Kennedy
Research Notes
* The PRC's Evolving Standards System: Institutions and Strategy - Chaoyi Zhao & John M. Graham * International Jihad and Muslim Radicalism in Thailand? Toward an Alternative Interpretation - Joseph Chinyong Liow
Book Review Roundtable Richard C. Bush's Untying the Knot: Making Peace in the Taiwan Strait
* (K)not Yet Untied: Comments on Richard Bush's Untying the Knot - Allen Carlson * Tied Up Across the Taiwan Strait - Derek Mitchell * A Rapidly Changing Military Balance: A National Security Perspective on Richard Bush's Untying the Knot - Lyle Goldstein * Gordius in the Strait: A New Taiwan and an Impatient China - Dan Blumenthal * Reflections on the Legal Aspects of Untying the Knot - Mark Williams * Did Beijing Really Misunderstand Lee Teng-Hui and Chen Shui-Bian? Steven M. Goldstein * Author's Response - Richard C. Bush

NUMBER 1 (January 2006)
Special Roundtable: Bridging the Gap Between the Academic and Policy Worlds
* Bridging the Gap with Market-driven Knowledge: The Launching of Asia Policy - Andrew D. Marble * Initiatives to Bridge the Gap - Kenneth Lieberthal * Closing the Gap: Networking the Policy and Academic Communities - Emily O. Goldman * Bridging The Gap Between Academia and Policy on Asia: Some Examples from Personal Experience - Robert Sutter * Some Reflections on Policy and Academics - Ezra F. Vogel * Borderlands and the Value of Academic Research for Policy: A Case Study - Celeste A. Wallander
Articles
* Pensions, Public Opinion, and the Graying of China - Mark W. Frazier * Taiwan: The Tail That Wags Dogs - Michael McDevitt
Research Notes
* The Natural Death of North Korean Stalinism - Andrei Lankov * Islamic Leaders in Uzbekistan - Eric M. McGlinchey.

[The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution dedicated to informing and strengthening US policy in the Asia-Pacific. - ed.]
URL http://asiapolicy.nbr.org/current.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://asiapolicy.nbr.org/current.html
Link reported by: Michael T Jones (mjones--at--nbr.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100

22 Aug 2007

India & Japan: Impact of Relationship on China
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: "There is an economic and a strategic angle to India's expectations from the current visit of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, who arrived in Delhi on August 21 [2007 - ed.], to reciprocate the visit paid by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh to Japan from December 13 to 16 last year. 2. The economic angle relates to India's expectations of a major role by Japanese investors in developing the infrastructure in India and by the Japanese Government in facilitating the Indian quest for nuclear energy [...] 8. While China does not view with concern the developing economic relations between India and Japan, it has been viewing with increasing concern the growing strategic relations between the two countries in the form of joint exercises by the Coast Guards of the two countries, exchanges of visits by military officials etc. If these relations were growing purely in a bilateral framework, the Chinese concerns might not have been that high. The heightened Chinese concerns are due to the fact that the increasing strategic ties between India and Japan have been taking place in a larger framework involving India, Japan, the US and Australia. " - b.raman
[The author, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India. - ed. ]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers24/paper2342.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 - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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

22 Aug 2007

Korean Unification Studies Blog
koreanunification.net,
Supplied note: "I have started a new website on Korean Unification Studies. The website [actually, a blog - ed.] seeks to inspire debate and discussion as well as inform readers on issues related to the unification of North and South Korea. Key topics include North and South Korean policies on unification, divided states theory, inter-Korean dialogue and the leaders' summit, North Korean diplomatic normalization, South Korean public opinion on unification, and third country interests in Korean peninsula unification. The website is at the moment very young, only running for two weeks [est. in Jul 2007 - ed.]. I seek to expand it to include a discussion forum and document resource on Korean unification. - gd."
Site contents:
* Recent Posts (Postponed Leaders Summit an election ploy?, North Korean refugees..., Political change in the North..., Flood aid pours in..., A future Korean Leaders Summit?);
* Categories (Civic Society, Divided States Theory, DPRK Unification Policy, Economic Cooperation, Inter-Korean Summit, North-South Dialogue, ROK Aid, ROK Economy and Politics, ROK Public Opinion, ROK Unification Policy, Third Country Interests);
* Archives;
* Korean Unification Related Blogs (DPRK Studies, Marmot's Hole, North Korean Economy, North Korean Human Rights Live, One Free Korea, Tongil Korea, Two Koreas);
* Links (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Korea Cooperation Office, Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Institute for Korean Unification Studies (Yonsei), Institute for National Security Strategy, Institute for Peace Affairs, Institute for Unification Studies (SNU), Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, Institute of Unification Studies (Ehwa), Korea Focus, Korea Institute of National Unification, Korea National Strategy Institute, National Assembly Committee on Unification, National Unification Advisory Council, ROK Ministry of Unification, uriminzokkiri);
* Other Korea Blogs (21st Century Seonbi, Anna in Korea, Beloved Leader, Budaechigae II, Chusun Bimbo, Corporati, Dram Man, Final Cut, Flying Yangban, Frog in a Well, Gangwon Notes, Gusts of Popular Feeling, Gypsy Scholar, Hayes' Korean Law Blog, Iceberg Korea, Juche Girl, Korea Law Blog, Koreabloggen (Swedish), Lost Nomad, Manouvre in East Asia, MongDori, Occidentalism, Oranckay, ROK Drop, Seoul Man, Songun Blog, US in Korea Zen Kimchi).
URL http://koreanunification.net/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Gunther Dilworth (koreanunification--at--gmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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

21 Aug 2007

National Security Archive - Pakistan: "The Taliban's Godfather"?
National Security Archive at George Washington University, Washington, DC, US
Self-description: "Pakistan: "The Taliban's Godfather"? Documents Detail Years of Pakistani Support for Taliban, Extremists Covert Policy Linked Taliban, Kashmiri Militants, Pakistan's Pashtun Troops Aid Encouraged Pro-Taliban Sympathies in Troubled Border Region National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 227 Edited by Barbara Elias Posted - August 14, 2007. [...] Obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the National Security Archive at George Washington University, the documents reflect U.S. apprehension about Islamabad's longstanding provision of direct aid and military support to the Taliban, including the use of Pakistani troops to train and fight alongside the Taliban inside Afghanistan."
Site contents: (the following documents from 1994-2001 are in PDF format)
* Document 1 - [Excised] to Ron McMullen (Afghanistan Desk), "Developments in Afghanistan," December 5, 1994, Unknown Classification, 1 p. [Excised];
* Document 2 - Islama 00975 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, "Northern Afghan Strongman General Dostam Meets Taliban Representatives" January 29, 1995, Confidential, 2 pp. [Excised];
* Document 3 - State 243042 U.S. Department of State, Cable, "A/S Raphel's October 4 Meeting with Assef All on Afghanistan," October 13, 1995, Confidential, 7 pp. [Excised];
* Document 4 - Islama 09675 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, "Pakistan Afghan Policy: Anyone but Rabbani/Massoud - Even the Taliban," October 18, 1995, Confidential, 6 pp. [Excised];
* Document 5 - USUN N 004283 USMission USUN (New York), Cable, "Letter of GOP Permrep to SYG on Afghanistan," November 1, 1995, Unclassified, 3 pp.;
* Document 6 - Islama 11049 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, "Afghanistan: Russian Embassy Official Claims Iran Interfering more than Pakistan," November 30, 1995, Confidential, 3 pp.;
* Document 7 - State 291940 U.S. Department of State, Cable, "Discussing Afghan Policy with the Pakistanis," December 22, 1995, Confidential, 11 pp. [Excised];
* Document 8 - [Date and Title Unknown] Mori DocID: 800277 Secret, Noforn [Excised - Released by U.S. Central Command];
* Document 9 - Islama 01403 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, "Afghanistan: Taliban Official Says Divisions Within Movement Growing; Predicts "Fight with Iran," February 19, 1996, Confidential, 8 pp. [Excised];
* Document 10 - DI TR 96-008 Central Intelligence Agency, "Harakat ul-Ansar: Increasing Threat to Western and Pakistani Interests," August 1996, Secret, 4 pp. [Excised];
* Document 11 - NID 96-0229CX National Intelligence Daily, Central Intelligence Agency, Monday, September 30, 1996, Top Secret, 5 pp. [Excised];
* Document 12 - Peshaw 00916 U.S. Consulate (Peshawar), Cable, "Afghan-Pak Border Relations at Torkham Tense" October 2, 1996, Confidential, 6 pp. [Excised];
* Document 13 - Islama 08637 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, "Afghanistan: Foreign Secretary Mulls over Afghanistan," October 10, 1996, Confidential, 2 pp.;
* Document 14 Privy Council Office (PCO) [Ottawa, Canada] [Released by the U.S. National Security Agency], "IAC Intelligence Assessment - IA 7/96," "Afghanistan: Taliban's Challenges, Regional Concerns, October 18, 1996," Top Secret - SI, Umbra, 12pp. [Excised];
* Document 15 From [Excised] to DIA Washington D.C. [Excised], Cable "[Excised]/Pakistan Interservice Intelligence/ Pakistan (PK) Directorate Supplying the Taliban Forces," October 22, 1996, Secret, 1 p. [Excised];
* Document 16 - Islama 001054 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, "Pakistan Counterterrorism: Ambassador's Meeting with [Excised] on State Sponsor Designation," February 6, 1997, Secret, 1 p. [Excised];
* Document 17 From [Excised] to DIA Washington D.C., "IIR [Excised] Pakistan Involvement in Afghanistan," November 7, 1996, Confidential, 2 pp. [Excised];
* Document 18 - Islama 09517 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad) Cable, "Afghanistan: Taliban Deny They Are Sheltering HUA Militants, Usama bin Laden," November 12, 1996, Confidential, 7pp.;
* Document 19 - Islama 009994 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad) Cable, "Afghanistan: British Journalist Visits Site of Training Camps; HUA Activity Alleged," November 26, 1996, Confidential, 4pp.;
* Document 20 - Islama 00436 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad) Cable, "Scenesetter for Your Visit to Islamabad: Afghan Angle," January 16, 1997, Confidential, 12pp. [Excised];
* Document 21 - Islama 01873 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad) Cable, "Official Informal for SA Assistant Secretary Robin Raphel and SA/PAB," March 10, 1997, Confidential, 13pp. [Excised];
* Document 22 - Islama 02001 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, "Afghanistan and Sectarian Violence Contribute to a Souring of Pakistan's Relations with Iran," March 13, 1997, Confidential, 16 pp. [Excised];
* Document 23 - Islama 06882 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, "Afghanistan: Pakistanis to Regulate Wheat and Fuel Trade to Gain Leverage Over Taliban," August 13, 1997, Confidential, 9 pp. [Excised];
* Document 24 - Islama 007343 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, "Afghanistan: [Excised] Briefs Ambassador on his Activities. Pleads for Greater Activism by U.N." August 27, 1997, Confidential, 5 pp. [Excised];
* Document 25 - United Nations Outgoing Code Cable - Special Mission U.N.SMA (U.N. Special Mission to Afghanistan), "Present Pakistani Initiatives in Afghanistan" October 30, 1997, [Classification Unknown], 3 pp.;
* Document 26 - Islama 01805 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, "Afghanistan: [Excised] Describes Pakistan's Current Thinking" March 9, 1998, Confidential, 9 pp. [Excised];
* Document 27 - Islama 004546 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad) Cable, "Afghanistan: [Excised] Criticizes GOP's Afghan Policy; Says It Is Letting Policy Drift," June 16, 1998, Confidential, 2 pp;
* Document 28 - Islama 05010 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, "Bad News on Pak Afghan Policy: GOP Support for the Taliban Appears to be Getting Stronger" July 1, 1998, Confidential, 2 pp. [Excised];
* Document 29 - Islama 05535 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, "In Bilateral Focussed (sic) on Afghanistan, GOP Reviews Pak/Iran Effort; A/S Inderfurth Expresses U.S. Concerns About the Taliban" July 23, 1998, Confidential, 16 pp. [Excised];
* Document 30 - Islama 005964 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, "Afghanistan: Evidence Not There to Prove Assertions that Pak Troops Have Been Deployed to Assist Taliban in the North," August 6, 1998, Confidential, 5 pp. [Excised];
* Document 31 - Islama 07242 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, "Afghanistan: Tensions Reportedly Mount Within Taliban as Ties With Saudi Arabia Deteriorate Over Bin Ladin," September 28, 1998, Secret, 8 pp. [Excised];
* Document 32 - Islama 01320 U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, "Afghanistan: Taliban Seem to Have Less Funds and Supplies This Year, But the Problem Does Not Appear to be that Acute," February 17, 1999, Confidential, 2 pp. [Excised];
* Document 33 Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs Karl F. Inderfurth to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, "Pushing for Peace in Afghanistan," March 25, 1999 [approx], Secret, 6pp.;
* Document 34 - State 185645 U.S. Department of State, Cable, "Pakistan Support for Taliban," Sept. 26, 2000, Secret, 4pp. [Excised];
* Document 35 Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research Carl W. Ford, Jr. to Secretary of State Colin Powell, "Pakistan - Poll Shows Strong and Growing Public Support for Taleban," November 7, 2001, Unclassified, 3pp [Excised].
URL http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB227/index.htm
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: National Security Archive (archive--at--gwu.edu), forwarded by H-Net list for Asian History and Culture (h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: 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

20 Aug 2007

Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue Aug 20, 2007
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US
Supplied note: "The following articles were posted on Aug 20, 2007 at Japan Focus.
* Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, The Atomic Bombs and the Soviet Invasion: What Drove Japan's Decision to Surrender?
* Tim Beal, The Road to Peace in Northeast Asia - Prospects and Pitfalls
* Franziska Seraphim, People's Diplomacy: The Japan-China Friendship Association and Critical War Memory in the 1950s
* Paul Rogers, Washington's double vision: al-Qaida, Iran and Global Islamo-fascism
* Fujimoto Kazuisa, Nicolas Sarkozy's Conservative Revolution: The Price for France
* Ishihashi Katsuhiko, Why Worry? Japan's Nuclear Plants at Grave Risk From Quake Damage
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 7,820]

20 Aug 2007

Repositories of Primary Sources: Asia and the Pacific
University of Idaho - Moscow, ID, US
Self-description: "A listing of over [200 Asia-Pacific] websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness. Links added or revised within the last thirty days or so are marked {New}. [...] Those who have recently submitted new and revised entries are acknowledged. Guidelines for the inclusion of sites on this list are available. Compiled [1995-2007] by Terry Abraham."
Site contents: * Australia [links to 101 Australian archives]; * Bangladesh (National Archives and the National Library, Bangladesh); * Cambodia (National Archives of Cambodia); * China (China. State Archives Administration, Gongyi City Archives Bureau, National Library of China, Shanghai Film Archive, Shenyang Archives Bureau, Tsinghua U., Wuhan U.); * Cook Islands (National Archives of the Cook Islands); * Fiji (U. of the South Pacific, Suva); * Guam (U. of Guam. Micronesian Area Research Center, War in the Pacific National Historical Park); * Hong Kong (Chinese U. of Hong Kong, City U. of Hong Kong, Government Records Service of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong Baptist U., Hong Kong Catholic Diocesan Archives, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong U. of Science and Technology, Po Leung Kuk, U. of Hong Kong); * India (American Institute of Indian Studies, Archives of Indian Labour, Gujarat State Archives, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Karnataka State Archives Department, Kerala State Archives Department, Krishnamurti Foundation India, Manipur State Archives, National Archives of India, National Library of India, Parliamentary Museum and Archives, St. Xavier's College. Goethals Indian Library and Research Centre); * Indonesia (Badan Arsip Propinsi Jawa Timur, National Archives of The Republic of Indonesia); * Japan (Aichi U. of Education, Chiba U., Diplomatic Record Office of Japan, Hitotsubashi U.Center for Historical Social Science Literature, Hokkaido U.Slavic Research Center, International Christian U., Kobe U., Koizumi Fumio Memorial Archives, National Archives of Japan, National Diet Library, Niigata U., Okinawa Prefectural Archives, Tokyo Institute of Technology Library. Tomash Collection of the History of Electricity and Magnetism, U. of Tsukuba, Waseda U. Archives, Waseda U. Library, Yamaguchi Prefectural Archives); * Korea (Dept. of Education Archives Korean Education Library, Ewha Womans U.Archives, Ewha Womans U.Rare Books, Hongik U., Korea. National Archives and Records Services, Kyujanggak Archives); * Macau (Macao Historical Archives); * Malaysia (National Archives of Malaysia, National Library of Malaysia. Centre for Malay Manuscripts, National Library of Malaysia. Malaysiana Collection, U. Kebangsaan Malaysia. Archives Collection, U. Kebangsaan Malaysia. Special Collections, U. Putra Malaysia, U. Sains Malaysia, U. of Malaya. Za'ba Memorial Library); * Marshall Islands (Marshall Islands National Archives); * Micronesia (Micronesian Seminar); * New Caledonia (Service des Archives de Nouvelle-Caledonie); * New Zealand [links to 23 NZ archives]; * Pakistan (National Archives of Pakistan); * Philippines (Asia Pacific Research Center, Ateneo de Manila U. American Historical Collection, Ateneo de Manila U. Pardo de Tavera Room, De La Salle U.U. Archives, Filipinas Heritage Library); * Singapore (National Archives of Singapore, National Institute of Education); * Taiwan (National Archives Administration, National Taiwan U.); * Thailand (Khon Kaen U., Mahidol U., Rajabhat Institute Phetchaburi. Local Information Center, Rajabhat Institute Phetchaburi. Rarebooks, Thammasat U.); * Vanuatu (U. of the South Pacific, Vanuatu).
[A part of a larger site covering archives and special collections in Western United States, Eastern United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and the Pacific, and Africa and the Near East. - ed.]
URL http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/asia.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/asia.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* 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

20 Aug 2007

The National Archives of India (NAI)
NAI, Government of India, New Delhi, India
Self-description: "The National Archives of India is the repository of the non-current records of the Government of India and is holding them in trust for the use of administrators and scholars. It is an Attached Office of the Department of Culture under Ministry of Tourism & Culture. It was set up in March 1891 in Calcutta (Kolkata) as the Imperial Record Department and subsequent to the transfer of the National Capital from Calcutta to New Delhi in 1911 it was shifted to its present building in 1926."
Site contents: * About Us (History, Vision and Mission, Organisation, Archives and the People, Activities, Holding, Working Hours); * Record Management (Role in Records Management, Public Records Act, 1993, Public Records Rules, 1997, Role of Director General of Archives Under Act); * Preservation and Reprography; * Services; * Museum; * Computerisation; * Co-ordination; * Photo gallery; * What's New; * How to reach; * Sitemap; * FQQs; * Contact us; * Search.
URL http://nationalarchives.nic.in/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://nationalarchives.nic.in/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Government
* 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 1000

17 Aug 2007

Aceh Research Training Institute (ARTI)
Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia
Self-description: "The Aceh Research Training Institute (ARTI) was established [in Mar 2007 - ed.] in response to the devastation caused to institutions training young Acehnese by the tsunami of 26 December 2004. The project is a three-year commitment between Indonesian and Australian universities as part of the AusAID Aceh Rehabilitation Program (ARP). [...] One of the objectives of the Aceh Research Training Institute is to train individual researchers to undertake high-quality relevant research. The expanded research training is three-tiered and brings together academics from throughout Australia and Indonesia to work in partnership with academics in Aceh."
Site contents: * About Us (Project Background, Project Governance, Project Team); * Activities (Research Capacity Building, Partnerships) * Kegiatan (Pelatihan Penelitian, Kemitraan); * Contact Us (Melbourne, Banda Aceh); * Useful Links (incl. Asia Institute, Universitas Syiah Kuala (Unsyiah), Aceh Institute, Asia Research Institute, Aceh.Net, USINDO, Universitas Malikussaleh (UniMal)).
URL http://www.arti.unimelb.edu.au/
Internet Archive (web.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]: 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