The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early Nov 2008, Vol. 15, No. 14 (288)

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12 Nov 2008

Colonial Pictorial Works Taiwan Image Collection
Special Collections & College Archives, Lafayette College Libraries, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, US
As of Nov 2008 the site was under construction and consisted of a collection of 59 sepia photographs from Taiwan from the period 1933-1938. They are digitized images from a book with the following metadata - Title.English: Taiwan, Title.Japanese: Taiwan no fuko, Format.Medium: Printed pictorial book, Creator.Maker: Yamazaki, Kinichiro, editor, Creator.Company: Publisher unknown, Wakayama Prefecture, Date.Original: circa 1939.
The first fifteen of the images are: [nf0006] The Pier of Kiirun [Jilong] Harbour; [nf0007] The Kiirun [Jilong] Station; [nf0008] The Monument at Courbet-Seashore; [nf0009] The Government Formosa; [nf0010] The Taiwan Shrine; [nf0011] Prosperous Street, Taihoku; [nf0012] Taiwan Kenko Shrine; [nf0013] The Taihoku Park; [nf0014] The Three Line Street; [nf0015] The Taihoku Bridge; [nf0016] The Meiji Bridge; [nf0017] The Chinese Temple; [nf0018] The Public Bath, The Hot Springs of Sozan; [nf0019] The Harbour of Tansui and the Golf-Rinks [sic]; [nf0020] The Hot-Springs of Hokuto, and the Hot-Water Falls.
[The Colonial Pictorial Works - Taiwan Image Collection is now listed in the online index of "Asian & Pacific Studies - Historical Photographs. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University. [coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/Asian-Historical-Photographs.html - ed.]
URL http://imago.lafayette.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=%2Fcpw
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]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* 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 Nov 2008

Michael Lewis Taiwan Image Collection
Special Collections & College Archives, Lafayette College Libraries, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, US
As of Nov 2008 the site was under construction and consisted of a collection of 530 colour postcards from the period March 1918-February 1933. The last ten of the images are: [lw0521] Taiwan's Takasago Pavilion postcard collection; [lw0522] All about the Aborigine Territories postcard collection; [lw0523] Postcards to commemorate 30 years of Japanese rule in Taiwan; [lw0524] Taiwan postcards: Aborigine edition; [lw0525] The Taiwanese male-female Japan home islands sightseeing tour; [lw0526] Scenes from Aborigine Territory; [lw0527] The Ambience of Taiwan; [lw0528] A Group of men and Women of Bunun Natives, Formosa; [lw0529] The Great Puppet of Festival, Formosa; [lw0530] Savages in Taiwan.
[The Michael Lewis Taiwan Image Collection is now listed in the online index of "Asian & Pacific Studies - Historical Photographs. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University. [coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/Asian-Historical-Photographs.html - ed.]
URL http://imago.lafayette.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/lewis
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]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* 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 Nov 2008

Bucklin China Archive - Looking at China in 1924
www.bucklinchinaarchive.com, Auburndale, MA, US
Self-description:
"In 1923, Harold Bucklin took his family on a remarkable journey from Providence, Rhode Island to Shanghai, China, where he produced an exquisite body of work of large format photographs of Pre-Revolutionary China using a Graflex camera. [...]
This is a Bucklin Family project. [...] Harold Bucklin is the man who took these photographs in 1923 and 1924. He took this year-long journey with his wife and 2-year-old son, to serve as Visiting Professor of Sociology at Shanghai College as part of a program at Brown University, where he was Assistant Professor of Sociology. Hazel Bucklin was Harold's wife. She possessed an extraordinary gift as a writer, as evidenced in her diary. [...] The son of Harold and Hazel, Don [Donald - ed.] was 2 years old when he accompanied his parents on this trip. He has been the driving force behind salvaging and preserving these images for the world to see. [...] Hope Bucklin is Donald's wife of 55 years and has been a full collaborator in this preservation project and has also done some of the more tedious tasks such as transcribing Hazel's diary, numbering close to 1000 photographs and cross-referencing the negatives."
Site contents:
* Take The Tour; * Harold's Photography; * Photo Essays (Yokohama Earthquake, Through the Porthole, Transportation, Funeral Processions, The Landmakers, The Garden Bridge, Street Scenes, Carrying Sticks, China Faces, Using the Graflex, Harold's Hat); * Exhibitions; * About Us; * Contact Us; * Order Prints.
[The Bucklin China Archive is now listed in the online index of "Asian & Pacific Studies - Historical Photographs. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University. [coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/Asian-Historical-Photographs.html - ed.]
URL http://www.bucklinchinaarchive.com/index2.php
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bucklinchinaarchive.com/index2.php
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

12 Nov 2008

Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection
Special Collections & College Archives, Lafayette College Libraries, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, US
Self-description:
"[A] photographic record of a US consul's impressions of urban and rural life in Taiwan under Japanese colonial rule. Totaling 340 photographs and postcards gathered by Warner between August 26, 1937 and March 8, 1941, these images provide a snapshot of Taiwan's hybrid culture of Chinese, Taiwanese, Austronesian, and Japanese influences. The subjects represented are wide-ranging, including clothing, arboriculture, urban structures, agriculture, religious rituals, topography, highways, parks, and more. These digitized images have been researched and annotated to serve as a web-based encyclopedia of colonial Taiwan's material culture. [...]
The digititized collection can be searched, browsed by image or by subject [using 114 thematic categories - ed.], and sorted in various ways. The interface allows users to select images and create temporary personal collections that can be saved locally. Users can also zoom, pan, crop, compare images, and create slideshows as detailed in the help pages. This site uses Chinese and Japanese fonts, so please make sure that your browser and operating system can display East Asian characters.
[...] Gerald Warner was born in Boothwyn, Pennsylvania on August 12, 1907. He commenced his East Asia foreign service as US vice consul at Tianjin (1931) and at Mukden (1934). Warner worked as language officer in Tokyo from 1935 and as consul at Taipei in 1937. After three and a half years in Taiwan, he was appointed consul at Tokyo in February 1941."
Site contents:
* Collection Guide; * Subject Headings; * Supporting Material (Related Image Collections, Documents, Links); * Sources (Contributors, Bibliography); * About the Project (Project Leaders, Lafayette Collaborators, Acknowledgements, Technical Details: scanners, resolution, image format, servers, metadata).
[The Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection is now listed in the online index of "Asian & Pacific Studies - Historical Photographs. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University. [coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/Asian-Historical-Photographs.html - ed.]
URL http://warner.lafayette.edu/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://warner.lafayette.edu/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

12 Nov 2008

Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images - Images from the Cultural Revolution
Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images, Ithaca, NY, US
Supplied note:
"For those colleagues with an interest in the campaigns and mechanics of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, I would like to advertise the creation of a new on-line collection of Xinhua News Agency photographs from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s.
Much has been written about this traumatic segment of China's recent past, but - with the exception of the legacies of Li Zhensheng and Weng Naiqiang - the subject (for very complex and difficult reasons) is not well covered visually, at least not in any comprehensive fashion. For example, in 'An Anthology of Chinese Photography 1957-2000' (Beijing 2002), the ten years between 1964 and 1974 are not represented at all, and the years 1974 to 1979 display mostly Mao and Model Operas (yangbanxi).
With the exception of Chang Song's striking images, the galleries offered here reflect parts of my own holdings on the subject. There are at present nine galleries, with the following content: 1. The anti-Kong anti-Lin campaign in Qufu (27 photographs, April 1974) 2. Sports and physical education (15 photographs, November 1971) 3. The nation-wide educational campaign in the mechanical and life sciences (21 photographs, April 1974) 4. China's navy and archaeology on the Xisha (Spratley) Islands (20 photographs, approx. early 1974) 5. China's heavy industry in the early 1970s (18 photographs, no annotations available) 6. Drills and practices of the Peoples Liberation Army PLA in the early 1970s (14 photographs, no annotations available) 7. Ping Pong Politics. i.e., Chinese Foreign Relations marked by invitations to international Ping Pong tournaments (30 photographs) 8. Land reclamation and development measures (20 photographs, 1969 - 1972) 9. A small selection of Chang Song's work covering the campaigns of the late 1960s.
These photographs deserve further study and renewed attention I believe. While their didactic-propagandistic character is undeniable, the images create a base layer of an era which has come and gone but whose influence will be felt for many generations to come.
The collection can be accessed at http://hahn.zenfolio.com/f320124069
I am at present actively searching for photographs of China from the 1950s. Thank you. Thomas H. Hahn, Ph.D. Cornell University College of Architecture, Art and Planning."
[This latest addition to Dr Hahn's folio of documentary photographs from China is now listed in the online index of "Asian & Pacific Studies - Historical Photographs. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University. [coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/Asian-Historical-Photographs.html - ed.]
URL http://hahn.zenfolio.com/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://hahn.zenfolio.com/
Link reported by: Thomas H. Hahn (th.hahn--at--gmail.com), 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 300

10 Nov 2008

Discovering histories of foreign communities in Japan, Dec 2008
Division of Pacific & Asian History (PAH), Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Supplied note:
"[A] workshop, 'Discovering histories of foreign communities in Japan'
This is to announce a two-day international workshop sponsored by both the National Library of Australia and The Australian National University. For those interested in the workshop, the details are below.
Discovering histories of foreign communities in Japan: Research, archives and special collections
Date: 1-2 December 2008 Venue: National Library of Australia, Canberra.
Workshop convenors: Dr Keiko Tamura (The Australian National University), Professor Timothy Tsu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Further details (including a detailed programme, biodata of the speakers, and abstracts of the talks) are available on this website: [see the URL below]
This two-day workshop brings together an international group of researchers and archivists to discuss the study of the history of foreign communities in Japan. Building on the National Library's unique Harold Williams Collection [see 'Westerners in Japan: the Harold S. Williams collection' at www.nla.gov.au/asian/form/williams.html - ed.], the participants will examine the state of the field with a view to reappraising the potential of archival resources and special collections in Japan for supporting new research agendas. Special attention will be given to identifying newly discovered sources, and to establishing new research questions, which will help break down barriers that have tended to compartmentalize researchers and their work by period, site, ethnicity and discipline. In addition to specialized panel presentations, there will be two public lectures aimed at a wider audience. - yhk"
Site contents:
* Registration; * Program; * Workshop Speakers; * Flyer.
URL http://rspas.anu.edu.au/pah/kobe_canberra/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi (yasuko.kobayashi--at--anu.edu.au), forwarded by asia_news--at--anu.edu.au
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

10 Nov 2008

Chinese Commercial Code (CCC) / Chinese Telegraph Code (CTC)
NJStar Software Corp, Sydney, Australia.
Self-description:
"CCC - Chinese Commercial Code also called Chinese Telegraph Code (CTC). CCC was used in the old days for transmitting Chinese text over Electronic Telegraph/Cable. With the advance in computer communications, there is little need to use CCC/CTC for communicating in Chinese. But for non-Chinese speeking countries, there is still a need to identify a Chinese person's name without using Chinese Characters. CCC has been used by those countries in visa and immigration applications. We provided this lookup utility here for your convenience. The data for the lookup are sourced from unihan.txt of www.unicode.org. For more information on the history of CTC, please read Jim Reeds' CTC page [www.njstar.com/tools/telecode/jim-reeds-ctc.htm]."
Site contents:
* Chinese Text - Lookup; * CCC [numbers] - Lookup.
[The Wikipedia's article "Chinese telegraph code" at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_telegraph_code offers a valuable list of publications on the CCC/CTS history and technology - ed.]
URL http://www.njstar.com/tools/telecode/index.php
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.njstar.com/tools/telecode/index.php
Link reported by: Geoffrey Wade (geoffrey.wade--at--anu.edu.au), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

10 Nov 2008

Tibet Environmental Watch (TEW)
Tibet Environmental Watch, Berkeley, CA, US.
Self-description:
"Welcome to the Tibet Environmental Watch (TEW) site [est. 1998 - ed.]. This site will be used to update important Tibetan environmental information as new data becomes available and to build upon the concept of a "Zone of Peace" as presented by His Holiness the Dalai Lama."
Site contents:
* What's New (Environment: The Real Story Behind the 'Roof of the World' August 21, 2008, Yulong Copper Mine in Tibet to be operational August 22, 2008, China to Relocate over 73,700 Nomadic Tibetans in Kanlho intopermanent homes: state media August 18, 2008, Nomadic Tibetans in NW China's Gansu to settle into permanent homes August 16, 2008, Environment China: The third pole. Climate change is coming fast and furious to the Tibetan plateau. Jane Qiu reports on the changes atop the roof of the world. July 23, 2008, Development China: Temblor Throws Shadow on Big Dam Ambitions. China Dams List Wed, June 25, 2008);
* Reports (Archived Reports on Tibet's Environment, Development Reports on Tibet, TIBET: Outside the TAR - by Steven D. Marshall and Susette Ternent Cooke, Racial Discrimination in Chinese-Occupied Tibet, Background on Tibet's Environment, TIBET 2003: State of the Environment, TIBET 2000: Environment and Development Issues, Photographic Essay: Rangelands and Pastoral Production on the Tibetan Plateau in Western China, Options For Tibet's Future Political Status: Self-Governance Through An Autonomous Arrangement, Photographic Essay: Tibet: Environmental Destruction, Tibet: Human Rights and the Rule of Law - International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Interviews, Visitors' Observations);
* Wildlife (Biodiversity of the Tibetan Plateau - by Tsultrim Palden Dekhang);
* Geography (# Maps of Tibet (Physical Map of Tibet), # Maps of Lhasa (Introduction: Travel Ethics in Tibet, Lhasa: Key to Lhasa Map, Lhasa: West Area, Lhasa: Central Area, Lhasa: East Area, Lhasa: Barkhor Area), # Tibet: Environment and Development Issues Maps (About Environment and Development Issues Maps, Tibet: Under PR China 1949-1999, Tibet: Hydrographic System, Tibet: Agricultural Regions, Tibet: Forest & Vegetation Types, Tibet: Distribution of Principal Minerals, Tibet: Location of Nuclear Arsenals), # Satellite Maps Series (About The Satellite Maps Series, Tibet and Asia, Satellite Map of Tibet, Tibet: Northwest Quadrant, Tibet: Northeast Quadrant, Tibet: Southwest Quadrant, Tibet: Southeast Quadrant), # Historical Maps Series (About The Historical Maps Series, Historical Map of Tibet I: Yarlung Dynasty, c. 7th-9th centuries., Historical Map of Tibet II: From the Late Yarlung Period to the Beginnings of Chinese Expansion into Eastern Tibet., Historical Map of Tibet III: The Western Extent of the Manchu Empire, c. 1800., Historical Map of Tibet IV: The End of Isolation, 1940-49, Historical Map of Tibet V: Chinese Administrative Control of Eastern Tibet, c. 1995));
* Development (Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Appropriate Technologies, Communications, Dams and Waterways, Economic Aid, Economy, Enviromental Damage, Energy (solar etc), Mining, Miscellaneous Issues, Mutiple Issues, Nature Preservation, Power, Population Transfer, Rural Development, Tourism, Transportation, United Nations Development Role, Wildlife);
* Zone of Peace (Introduction, Five Point Peace Plan Statement, 1989 Nobel Statement, Nobel Lecture, Norway, Future Polity, 1994, Tibet Dossier, Tibet As A Zone of Peace, NewsHour Interview: Zone of Peace);
* Dalai Lama; * Publications (incl. Environment and Development In Tibet - A Crucial Issue, 2008, Environment and Development Desk, DIIR, Central Tibetan Administration);
* Announcements; * Links; * Editorials & Op Ed Articles; * Site map; * Search.
URL http://www.tew.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.tew.org/
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 - govt. - 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 300

10 Nov 2008

East Asia Forum Blog
East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER), Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Self-description:
"East Asia Forum [est. 2003] provides a platform for the best in East Asian analysis, research and policy comment on the Asia-Pacific region and world affairs. The blog is run out of the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) [www.eaber.org/intranet/main/eaber_home.php] housed in the Crawford School of Economics and Government. Contributors are from the Crawford School, across the Australian National University and other regional institutions in EABER. Content includes Australian, East Asian and Asia Pacific region perspectives, with guest bloggers from right around the region. The East Asia Forum blog is a blog for EAF [www.crawford.anu.edu.au/research_units/ear/] and EABER and is edited by Shiro Armstrong and Peter Drysdale who are economists at the Australian National University. [...] East Asia Forum welcomes comments, both for adding depth to analysis and for bringing up important new issues. Original comments adding insight and contributing to analysis are especially encouraged."
Site contents:
* Editors & Contributors;
* Posts By Issue (Asia Pacific Community, Asia and the US financial crisis, Climate Change, WTO);
* Posts By Country (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, PNG, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam);
* Recent Comments;
* Recent Posts (The ASEAN Charter and remodeling regional architecture, Semi-presidential democracy in East Asia, Indonesian anti-corruption efforts enter minefields, New Zealand and the Financial Crisis, Obama and Asia, What Obama means for Asia, Vietnam's crisis within the crisis, India: Turning Crisis into Opportunity?);
* Top Posts (What Obama means for Asia, Chinese Growth and the Financial Crisis, Obama and Asia, Vietnam's crisis within the crisis, New Zealand and the Financial Crisis, Semi-presidential democracy in East Asia, Financial crisis and PNG, Consequences of melamine-laced milk for China, NZ, Japan and beyond, China not immune from the US financial crisis);
* Blogroll; * Links; * Search; * RSS Feed.
URL http://eastasiaforum.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://eastasiaforum.org/
Link reported by: Gregore Lopez (gregore.lopez--at--anu.edu.au), forwarded by east_asia_forum--at--anu.edu.au
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: over 3,000 [in fact: 3,760]

07 Nov 2008

The Tibet Album: British Photography in Central Tibet 1920-1950
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK.
Self-description:
"The Tibet Album presents more than 6000 photographs spanning 30 years of Tibet's history. These extraordinary photographs are a unique record of people long gone and places changed beyond all recognition. They also document the ways that British visitors encountered Tibet and Tibetans. Featuring photographs taken by Charles Bell, Arthur Hopkinson, Evan Nepean, Hugh Richardson, Frederick Spencer Chapman, Harry Staunton and the previously unidentified photographs of Rabden Lepcha. Our specially designed functions (maps, zoom, album) enable you to browse this site in many different ways."
Site contents:
* Photographers and Photography;
* Collections: # Pitt Rivers Museum Collections - (The Charles Bell Collection, The Spencer Chapman Collection, The Harry Staunton Collection, The Hugh Richardson Collection, The Evan Nepean Collection), # British Museum Collections - (The Hopkinson Collection, Richardson Colour Transparencies) # Albums - (by Richardson, Staunton, Nepean), # Lantern Slide Lectures - (by Bell), # Expeditions - (A. J. Hopkinson's Tour of Duty as British Trade Agent, Gyantse 1927-28, A. J. Hopkinson's Tour of Duty as Indian Political Officer 1947-48, Richardson's 1948 tour of the East Kyichu Valley, Richardson's 1949 tour of the Yarlung and Chyongye valleys, Richardson's 1950 Lhodrag tour, Richardson's visit to Talung 1939);
* Places (Maps of Tibet, Index of Tibetan Places [by region, alphabetically], Maps of Tibet photographed by Bell);
* Dates;
* People (Biographies of key Tibetans Biographies of British photographers, Who Was Who in Tibet?, Individuals in these photographs);
* Search;
* Maps (interactive maps of: Central Tibet, Lhasa);
* Diaries and Documents (1936 Lhasa Mission Diary, The personal accounts of: Bell, Chapman, Richardson);
* Find People (British photographers, Portraits of named Tibetan people, Biographies and photographs).
URL http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/index.php
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/index.php
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 - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Museum
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1,000

07 Nov 2008

Association of Chinese Political Studies (ACPS)
ACPS, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, US.
Self-description:
"[The ACPS], formerly Chinese Scholars of Political Science and International Studies, is a non-profit, non-political organization for scholarly and professional activities. ACPS was founded in 1986 in the United States to promote academic exchange among Chinese scholars and American scholars of China studies. In 1995, the organization changed its name to Association of Chinese Political Studies, and since then the organization is for all who study Chinese politics. Currently the organization has over 800 members from various parts of the world. Eighty percent of them are male and 20% of them are female. ACPS is a related organization of American Political Science Association and International Studies Association."
Site contents:
* President's Message; * Board of Directors; * [about the] Journal of Chinese Political Science (JCPS); * Newsletters (Vol. 1(1) 2003 to Vol. 6(1) 2008); * Bylaws; * Conferences (incl. 2009 ACPS-RUC Conference and ACPS Annual Meeting, Beijing); * Calls for Papers 2009; * Institutional Membership; * Membership (how to join); * Useful Links ([China academic links:] Organizations, Journals, Research Centers and Institutes, Portals and Pointers); * Contact.
URL http://acps.sfsu.edu/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://acps.sfsu.edu/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Online Guide
* 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 300

06 Nov 2008

Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA)
VAALA, Westminster, CA, US.
Self-description:
"Founded in 1991 by a group of Vietnamese American journalists, artists and friends, Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) is a community-based, [...] non-profit organization. VAALA has organized numerous cultural events such as art exhibitions, book fairs, book signings, recitals, plays, lectures, the biennial Vietnamese International Film Festival (ViFF), the biennial Cinema Symposium, the annual Children's Moon Festival Art Contest and year-long art and music classes. [...] VAALA is the center of Vietnamese arts, research, and archives."
Site contents:
* About; * Programs; * Events; * Support; * Artist Resources [profiles of 26 artists - ed.]; * Gallery; * Media; * Links (Art & Cultural Organizations/Institutions, Art Galleries, Film Festivals, Art & Literature Websites, Theaters); * ViFF; * Calendar of Events; * Featured Event; * Featured Interview.
URL http://www.vaala.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.vaala.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 - 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 300

05 Nov 2008

China Internships Program at Peking University (Beida)
China Studies Institute, Peking University, Beijing, China
Self-description:
"Established by American University in Washington, D.C., the Beijing Program has been in China since 1985. Still maintaining a strong institutional affiliation with AU, the program began to operate independently accepting students from other universities in the fall of 2004."
Supplied note:
"China Internships Program, in Beijing and Shanghai. Description: The China Internships Program offers a structured semester or summer program for undergraduates or graduates in Beijing or Shanghai which includes an internships and one or two courses. The Program is offered with the collaboration of the Peking University (Beida) and the Shanghai University. Complete the online application at http://www.usartstraining.org/app.php - as."
Site contents:
* Academics; * Internships (Full Time Internship - Beijing & Shanghai, Shanghai Courses, Part Time Internship); * Study Trips; * Peking University; * Housing; * Student Comments; * Photo Gallery; * Fees and Application; * About Us; * [Calendar] (Fall, Spring, Summer); * Contact Us; * Links.
URL http://www.china-studies.net/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.
Link reported by: Anna Smith (annas--at--artsandartists.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - 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 3,000

05 Nov 2008

Real Instituto Elcano - [Recent] Asia-Pacific Working Papers & Analyses
Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estrategicos/ Elcano Royal Institute, Madrid, Spain
Self-description: "[T]he Elcano Royal Institute [...] produces Working Papers of an academic analytical nature and Analyses of the Elcano Royal Institute, known in abbreviation as ARIs. By this means the Institute studies and analyses international developments on all fronts to see to what extent they are likely to affect Spain. [...]."
Site contents:
"* In Spain's interest: A Committed Foreign Policy - (Transl. from Spanish) - 2/7/2008 - Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero [a Jun 16th 2008 address by the Spanish Prime Minister - ed.]; * Energy Security with a High External Dependence: The Strategies of Japan and South Korea (WP) - WP 16/2008 (Transl. from Spanish) - 14/4/2008 - Pablo Bustelo; * Elections in Taiwan: Towards a New Relationship with Beijing? (ARI) - ARI 15/2008 (Transl. from Spanish) - 4/3/2008 - Mario Esteban Rodriguez; * China and India: Energy and Climate Change (ARI) - ARI 136/2007 (Transl. from Spanish) - 14/1/2008 - Pablo Bustelo; * Central Asia in the EU's Ever-changing Geo-strategic Horizon (WP) - WP 29/2007 (Transl. from Spanish) - 3/10/2007 - Augusto Soto; * China's Economic Boom and its International Impact (ARI) - ARI 100/2007 (Transl. from Spanish) - 2/10/2007 - Pablo Bustelo; * The Economic Rise of China and India and its Implications for Spain (WP) - WP 31/2007 (Transl. from Spanish) - 8/8/2007 - Pablo Bustelo; * China and Climate Change: Responsible Action? (ARI) - ARI 68/2007 (Transl. from Spanish) - 31/7/2007 - Pablo Bustelo; * China's Road to Peaceful Development and the United States (ARI) - ARI 90/2007 - 27/7/2007 - Wang Jisi; * China's Rise and the Durability of US Leadership in Asia (ARI) - ARI 89/2007 - 27/7/2007 - Robert G. Sutter; * Spain in the Face of China's Technological Ambition (ARI) - ARI 57/2007 (Transl. from Spanish) - 9/7/2007 - Eugenio Bregolat; * China Discovers Public Diplomacy (WP) - WP 24/2007 - 1/6/2007 - Jaime Otero Roth; * The East-Asia Summit and Energy Security (ARI) - ARI 10/2007 (Transl. from Spanish) - 23/2/2007 - Pablo Bustelo; * A Model for Peace in Nepal? (ARI) - ARI 19/2007 - 13/2/2007 - Kirsty Hughes."
URL http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_eng/Pub_ElcanoWorkingPapers
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 - 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

03 Nov 2008

HKUST Antique Maps [of China] Database
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) Library, Hong Kong, China.
Self-description:
"The Antique Maps of China collection includes more than 230 maps, charts, pictures, books and atlases. It represents almost all samples of China maps produced by European cartographers from the 16th to 19th centuries. This cartographic archive vividly records the long history of cross-cultural exchanges between China and the West."
Site contents:
* Search and Browse functions;
* Geographic Regions: World, Pacific Ocean, South Asia, Southeast Asia, (Burma, Philippines, Vietnam), East Asia (China, Anhui, Beijing, Dongbei Diqu, Fujian (Fuzhou, Xiamen), Gansu, Guangdong (Guangzhou, Shangchuan Dao, Zhujiang Kou), Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hong Kong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jilin, Liaoning, Macau, Nei Mongol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan (Chin-men hsien, P'eng-hu hsien, Zeelandia), Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang (Hangzhou, Zhoushan Qundao), Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Siberia, Middle East, Russia (Baikal, Lake, Region, Russian Far East, Sakhalin);
* Map Makers, Engravers, etc: Aa - Pieter van der, Allard - Carel, Anville - Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', Barbuda - Luis Jorge de, Belcher - Edward, Bellin - Jacques Nicolas, Berghaus - Heinrich Karl Wilhelm, Blaeu - Joan, Blaeu - Willem Janszoon, Bolton - Solomon, Bonne - Rigobert, Botero - Giovanni, Bowen - Emanuel, Bry - Theodor de, Cantelli - Giacomo, Castner - Gaspar, Commelin - Isaac, Condet - Claas, Condet - Gerardus, Cook - James, Coronelli - Vincenzo, Dalrymple - Alexander, Dudley - Robert, DuVal - P., Elia - Pasquale M. d', Fries - Lorenz, Gastaldi - Giacomo, Goos - Pieter, Guignes - Chretien-Louis-Joseph De, Harris - John, Heath - Leopold George, Hebert - Lewis, Herbert - William, Herrera y Tordesillas - Antonio de, Hondius - Hendrik, Hondius - Jodocus, Houdan - Francois d', Huddart - Joseph, Huggins - W. J, Jansson - Jan, Jode - Cornelis de, Keulen - Gerard van, Keulen - Johannes van, Klaproth - Julius von, La Perouse - Jean-Francois de Galaup, Linschoten - Jan Huygen van, Loon - J. van, Martini - Martino, Meares - John, Mercator - Gerhard, Mercator - Rumold, Moll - Herman, Muenster - Sebastian, Mortier - Pierre, Ortelius - Abraham, Petrini - Paolo, Ptolemy, Purchas - Samuel, Quad - Matthias, Ramusio - Giovanni Battista, Rapkin - J, Ricci - Matteo, Robert de Vaugondy - Gilles, Ross - Daniel, Sanson - Guillaume, Sanson - Nicolas, Schedel - Hartmann, Schenk - Peter, Seller - John, Seutter - Matthaeus, Stoecklein - Joseph, Speed - John, Sprent - James, Teixeira - Joao, Thornton - John, Valck - G., Valentijn - Francois, Vandermaelen - Philippe, Visscher - Nicolaes, Waldseemueller - Martin, Weller - Edward, Wit - Frederik de, Wyld - James, Zhan - Zhilian, Zhu - Xilin;
* Quick Links; Collections; Services and Information; Guides to Resources.
URL http://lbxml.ust.hk/mp/main.html
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract. Access to it has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V. Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300

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