THE ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR    ISSN 1329-9778 http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html Edited by: Dr T. Matthew Ciolek "The Asian Studies WWW Monitor" (ISSN 1329-9778) was established 21 April 1994. The journal, a pioneering and the only publication of this kind in the world, provides virtually daily abstracts and reviews of new/updated online resources of significance to research, teaching and communications dealing with Asian Studies. This timely, reliable and impartial information is published by the Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. The periodical forms a key element of the global, cooperative project Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library. For further details see a page About the Asian Studies WWW Monitor. Daily contents" summaries and evaluations published in this web edition of the Journal are disseminated also on the network via a mailing list. SUBSCRIBE to the MONITOR ! 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THIS ISSUE Entries accepted for publication: 18 Entries rejected: 24 The email edition of this Journal has now over 8,700 subscribers. The AS WWW Monitor does not necessarily endorse contents, or policies of the Internet resources it abstracts. Mailing list admin. page. http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html#database Google Search past issues of The Asian Studies WWW Monitor Search WWW Search The Monitor Coverage: 1994-2008. Note: specific keywords/phrases work better than general ones. 23 Feb 2010 Assessment Paper Series on Muslim Asia The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), Seattle, WA, USA Supplied note: "This paper series reaches out to U.S. and international experts to provide new perspectives on issues of key relevance to U.S. relations with Muslim Asia. Drawing on NBR's global network of specialists, the paper series commissions think pieces that examine major political trends and security issues, and are focused on a high level of analysis with a strong emphasis on assessing key implications of emerging trends in Muslim Asia for the United States. Recent publications include the reports 'Who Speaks for Islam?' [http://www.nbr.org/Publications/issue.aspx?id=194], 'Counterterrorism Cooperation in South Asia' [http://www.nbr.org/publications/issue.aspx?id=193] and 'Narco-Jihad: Drug Trafficking and Security in Afghanistan and Pakistan.' [http://www.nbr.org/publications/issue.aspx?id=192] - ttg." Site contents: * Who Speaks for Islam? Muslim Grassroots Leaders and Popular Preachers in South Asia - Mumtaz Ahmad, Dietrich Reetz and Thomas H. Johnson [1. Media-Based Preachers and the Creation of New Muslim Publics in Pakistan - Mumtaz Ahmad, 2. Muslim Grassroots Leaders in India: National Issues and Local Leadership - Dietrich Reetz, 3. Religious Figures, Insurgency, and Jihad in Southern Afghanistan - Thomas H. Johnson] (Feb 10); * Counterterrorism Cooperation in South Asia: History and Prospects - Sumit Ganguly (Dec 09); * Narco-Jihad: Drug Trafficking and Security in Afghanistan and Pakistan - Ehsan Ahrari, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Louise I. Shelley and Nazia Hussain [1. The Drug Economy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Military Conflict in the Region - Vanda Felbab-Brown, 2. Narco-trafficking in Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Areas and Implications for Security - Louise I. Shelley and Nazia Hussain, 3. The Dynamics of "Narco-Jihad" in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Region - Ehsan Ahrari] (Dec 09); * Students Islamic Movement of India and the Indian Mujahideen: An Assessment - C. Christine Fair (Jan 10) * Development and Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan and Pakistan - Agnieszka Paczynska (Nov 09); * Related Publications (# Pakistani Partnerships with the United States: An Assessment, # Achieve Counter-insurgency Cooperation in Afghanistan by Resolving the Indo-Pakistani Rivalry, # Afghanistan and Pakistan: Difficult Neighbors, # Introduction: Emerging Trends and Developments in Pakistan's FATA--Implications for the United States, # Challenges Facing Development in Pakistan's FATA, # Challenges Facing a Counter-Militant Campaign in Pakistan's FATA, # Introduction: Islamism and U.S. Policy in South and Southeast Asia, # South Asia: Hotbed of Islamic Terrorism, # The Fluid Terrain of Islamism in Southeast Asia); * Related Initiatives (# Transnational Islam in South and Southeast Asia: Movements, Networks, and Conflict Dynamics, # Islamic Education in Asia, # Approaches to "Moderate" Islam in Asia--The Dynamics among Islam, Muslim Identity, Politics, and Society in Asia); * More on this topic (# Introduction: Islamism and U.S. Policy in South and Southeast Asia, # Islamic Finance: Sustainability and Challenges, # Middle East: Confronting Resentment in the Arc of Crisis, # Islam and Asian Security, # Enhancing Interlinkages and Opportunities: The Role of Islamic Finance, # Transnational Islam in South and Southeast Asia: Movements, Networks, and Conflict Dynamics, # Militant Recruitment in Pakistan: A New Look at the Militancy-Madrasah Connection, # Behind the Veil of a Public Health Crisis: HIV/AIDS in the Muslim World, # Islamic Education in Asia, # The Fluid Terrain of Islamism in Southeast Asia). URL http://www.nbr.org/research/initiative.aspx?id=4060f16e-3f57-4833-9687-2ebf78fd0ac8 Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Tracy Timmons-Gray (ttimmonsgray--at--nbr.org) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [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 22 Feb 2010 Thesaurus Literaturae Buddhicae (TLB) The Bibliotheca Polyglotta, Faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo, Norway Self-description: "The Bibliotheca Polyglotta (BP) is a multilingual corpus of historically important texts. [...] The texts will be accompanied with a number of resources such as bibliographies, introductions, comments and images of the original manuscripts from where they are edited. [...] One can search any word or phrase in the corpus or in a chosen set of texts and have the search results written out, and further access any search result in its sentence by sentence multilingual mode by clicking on the reference in the search result. Every sentence in the BP has a BP number as a unique identification. [...] The THESAURUS LITERATURAE BUDDHICAE (TLB) is a quadrilingual presentation of Buddhist literature sentence by sentence in Sanskrit, Chinese, Tibetan and English. [...] The TLB is a cumulative work in its initial stages, with its origin connected to The Norwegian Institute of Palaeography and Historical Philology. The last input was made August 15th, 2008, and the materials so far comprise Aks: first part; Akbh: first part of first chapter; Bca: complete; Kpv: complete; Rgvbh: complete; Vaj: complete; Vgv: complete; Vkn: complete. Students and scholars are cordially invited to input their favourite Buddhist texts and to contribute any material to the project. At the University of Oslo, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental languages, seminars are conducted for students and scholars to study the necessary trilingual philology of Buddhism. Those who might wish to participate in the seminars or the TLB project, and those who would like to have more information on the TLB, may contact jens.braarvig--at--ikos.uio.no. Any comments and corrections are also very much welcomed. Relevant lexical resources: Monier Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary [http://jfunderburk3.com/Cologne/monier/]; Digital Dictionary of Buddhism [DDB http://www.buddhism-dict.net/ddb/]; Thesaurus Linguae Sericae [TLS http://tls.uni-hd.de/home_en.lasso]. Textual resources: Daizokyo Database [http://21dzk.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp/SAT/database_en.html]; CBETA [Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association http://www.cbeta.org/index.htm]; Goettingen Register of Electronic Texts [GRETIL http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/fiindolo/gretil.htm- ed.]." Site contents: * Abhidharmakosa; * Aksayamatinirdesa; * Bodhicarysvatsra; * Kasyapaparivarta; * Ratnavali; * Ratnagotravibhaga; * Vajracchedika Prajnaparamita; * Vigrahavyavartani; * Vimalakirtinirdesa; * Abbreviations; * Bibliography; * Authors, translators, editors and other contributors. URL https://www2.hf.uio.no/polyglotta/index.php?page=library&library=TLB Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Jens Braarvig (j.e.braarvig--at--ikos.uio.no) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents / Study * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [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 18 Feb 2010 Afghanistan: Images from the Harrison Forman Collection University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, Milwaukee, WI, US Self-description: "The online collection Afghanistan: Images from the Harrison Forman Collection documents the life and culture of Afghanistan in the late 1960s, several years before the civil unrest of the 1970s and 80s, the Soviet invasion, and the Taliban rule. The photographs, taken by Harrison Forman in 1969, portray the daily life of Afghanis, capture the beauty of the land, and document historic sites, including the great Buddhas of Bamiyan destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. The online collection consists of 195 images selected from a set of 733 slides of Afghanistan in the Harrison Forman Photographic Collection housed in the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries' American Geographical Society (AGS) Library." Site contents: * About (Scope and Content, Harrison Forman, The Harrison Forman Collection, Digitization, Copyright); * Browse (# Browse [thematic groups of images]: Architecture, History, Land, People, Settlements, Transportation); # Browse all 199 items, incl. Aerial view of Afghan vineyards, Aerial view of Kabul, Aerial view of Mazar-e Sharif, Aerial view of mountain village, Aerial view of valley, Aerial view of village, Afghan bakers, Afghan barber, Afghan bird seller, Afghan blacksmith, Afghan boy, Afghan boys in a gun shop, Afghan bread seller, Afghan bus, Afghan carpet merchants, Afghan children [...]); # Browse [all 109] subject terms: Aerial views, Agriculture, Airports, Animals, Archaeological sites, [...] Caravans, Caravansaries, Carriages & coaches, Cattle, Children, Cities and towns, City & town life, [...] Tailors, Taverns (Inns), Tea, Tearooms, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Transportation, [...] Wells, Wine Industry, Women, Yurts; # Browse geographic features: Amu Darya (river), Bamiyan Valley, Band-i-Amir (lake), Hindu Kush (mountain range), Kabul (river), Kabul Gorge, Koh-i-Baba (mountain range), Shaidan (valley), Shibar Pass; # Browse historic sites: Bala Hissar (Kabul), Great Buddha of Bamiyan (Bamiyan), Kabul Airport, Kabul University (Kabul), Kandahar Airport, Mausoleum of Amir Abdur Rahman (Kabul), Mausoleum of King Nadir Shah Ghazi (Kabul), Mosque of Hazrat Ali (Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan), Red City (Bamiyan), Shrine of Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa (Balkh); * Search Collection & Advanced Search; * [Interactive] Map of Afghanistan. URL http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/afghan/index.cfm 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 of the online resource [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 18 Feb 2010 AGSL Digital Photo Archive - Asia and Middle East University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, Milwaukee, WI, US Self-description: "AGSL Digital Photo Archive presents a selection of images from the extensive photographic holdings of the American Geographical Society (AGS) Library. The images were selected from several collections including the American Geographical Society Library Print Collection, Harrison Forman Collection, Robert W. McColl Collection, and Edna Schaus Sorensen and Clarence W. Sorensen Collection. The American Geographical Society Library Print Collection represents many decades of research and acquisition. The scope of the collection is worldwide. Dating from the mid nineteenth century to the present, these photographs document a wealth of geographic themes. Many of the photographs were originally donated to the American Geographical Society to illustrate its publications, such as the Bulletin and Geographical Review. The images selected for this project include historical photos of Afghanistan, Egypt, Jordan, Korea, Thailand, and Nepal. Clarence Woodrow Sorensen was an explorer, editor, and CBS staff foreign correspondent who traveled extensively capturing images of the life, work, and historical events of cultures worldwide. During Sorenson's extensive travels, Eugene V. Harris, a professional photographer, accompanied him and took many of 64,000 slides that make up the collection. The slides selected for this project include photos of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey that Sorensen and Harris took in the 1950s and 1960s." Site contents: * About (Scope and Content, Digital Project, Credits, Copyright and Permissions, Contact Information); * Browse (# Browse all 7012 items, incl. Abadan (Iran) group of men and boys at a local store, Abadan (Iran) oil refinery, Abadan (Iran) street scene, Afghan mountain village, Afghanistan aerial view, Afghanistan aerial view of oasis, Afghanistan aerial view of village, Afghanistan guest house in village, Afghanistan man with donkey next to tents, Afghanistan man with horse, Afghanistan men competing in tent pegging game, Afghanistan men playing and watching tent pegging game [...], # Browse by Country: Afghanistan [Images from the Harrison Forman Collection http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/afghan/index.cfm], Bangladesh, China, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, South Korea, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Browse by City: Abadan, Akkooi, Alexandria, Ankara, Araba al-Madfuna, Aranyaprathet, Aswan, Az-Zubayr, Babylon, Baghdad, Bamian, Ban Kaeng Khoi, Bang Kapi, Bang Khen, Bang Pa-in, Bangkok, Banphot Phisai, Baquba, Basra, Beirut, Beni Hasan, Bhaktapur, Burj Safita, Cairo, Chai Badan, Charikar, Chiang Dao, Chiang Kham, Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Chiang Saen, Chongdo, Chungju, Cinarcik, Cochin, Coimbatore, Coonoor, Damascus, Dan Sai, Darjiling, Det Udom, El Gazi, Esfahan, Gerasa, Giza, Hat Yai, Herat, Idfu, Inchon, Isna, Istanbul, Kabul, Kalasin, Kalimpang, Kandahar, Kanggye, Karnak, Kathmandu, Khlong Khlung, Khok Samrong, Khon Kaen, Khu Khan, Krabi, Kumphawapi, Kwangju, Kyongju, Lampang, Lap Lae, Lom Kao, Lop Buri, Luxor, Maha Sarakham, Malula, Mamallapuram, Muang Sam Sip, Mysore, Nakhon Ratchasima, Pak Thong Chai, Persepolis, Phatthalung, Phayao, Philae, Phimai, Phitsanulok, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Pokhara, Prachin Buri, Pyongyang, Rameswaram, Roi Et, Samut Prakan, Sattahip, Sawankhalok, Seoul, Seringapatam, Shiraz, Shush, Si Prachan, Srinagar, Sukhothai, Sunan, Surin, Takua Pa, Tall al-Muqayyar, Taphan Hin, Tehran, That Phanom, Thebes, Thonburi, Tiruchchirappalli, Udon Thani, Vellore, Yalova); * Search Collection & Advanced Search; * Related AGSL Collections (Afghanistan [http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/afghan/index.cfm], Cities Around the World, Georgia & Russia [1929-1933 http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/georgia/index.cfm], Tibet [http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/tibet/index.cfm], Transportation Around the World). URL http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/agsphoto/index.cfm 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 of the online resource [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 18 Feb 2010 Tibet - American Geographical Society Library University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries, Milwaukee, WI, US Self-description: "This digital collection presents a selection of historical maps and photographs of Tibet from the holdings of the American Geographical Society (AGS) Library. The collection consists of 1,090 images. It includes a unique set of 50 photographs of central Tibet and Lhasa taken by two Mongolian Buddhists, G. Ts. Tsybikoff and Ovshe Norzunoff, who visited Tibet in 1900 and 1901. The photographs represent the first photographic images of Potala Palace in Lhasa and other Tibetan monasteries. In addition, over 1,000 images of Tibet have been drawn from the extensive photographic collection of Harrison Forman. Photojournalist and explorer, Forman undertook three expeditions to remote areas of northern Tibet between 1932 and 1937. The photographic collection is supplemented by four plans of the city of Lhasa and six historical maps of Tibet selected from the map collection of the American Geographical Society Library." Site contents: * About (# Scope and Content (1900-1901 Central Tibet, 1932-1937 Northern Tibet), # The Digital Project, # Credits, # Copyright and Permissions, # Contact Information); * Browse (# Browse all 1090 items, incl. 1878 A-K's Plan of Lhasa, 1885 Map illustrating the explorations of Pundit A-- K-- in Great Tibet, 1879-1882, 1891 Rockhill's Plan of Lhasa, 1891 View of Lhasa, 1900-1901 Cutting stone at the sacred Phabongka cemetery, 1900-1901 Gadan monastery, 1900-1901 Gyantse Jong (Gyangze), general view of town, 1900-1901 Hermitage in Gechen, 1900-1901 Kichu river west of Lhasa, 1900-1901 Lhasa street during the Tsog Chod festival, 1900-1901 Lhasa, Amban's yamen (residence of Chinese official) from SE, 1900-1901 Lhasa, Bar Chorten, the Western Gate or Pargo Kaling gateway, 1900-1901 Lhasa, Chagpori (iron mountain) from SE, 1900-1901 Lhasa, Chja shi tan, fortified Chinese camp, 1900-1901 Lhasa, Depung monastery [...]; # Browse collections: 1900-1901 Central Tibet and Lhasa 1932-1937 Northern Tibet Maps & Plans # Browse cities: Chengde (Jehol), Gyangze (Gyantse Jong), Lhasa, Xiahe (Labrang), Zetang (Tsetan); # Browse provinces: Gansu, Hebei, Qinghai); # Browse [all 240] subjects: Actors, Altars, Amulets, Animals, Archaeological sites, Architectural decorations, [...] Goldwork, Grains, Guards, Guides & Scouts, Hair, Hair ornaments, [...] Votive offerings, Vultures, Warriors, Water, Wheels, Wind instruments, Women, Wood carving, Wool, Writing systems, Yokes); * Search Collection & Advanced Search * Other AGSL Collections (Afghanistan [http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/afghan/index.cfm], AGSL Digital Map Collection [http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/afghan/index.cfm], AGSL Digital Photo Archives [Asia and Middle East http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/agsphoto/index.cfm], Cities Around the World, Georgia & Russia [1929-1933 http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/georgia/index.cfm], Transportation Around the World). URL http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/tibet/index.cfm 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 of the online resource [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 16 Feb 2010 British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA) British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, Langley, UK Self-description: "BACSA, the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia, was set up in 1976 to care for, and to record European cemeteries wherever the East India Company set foot. It is estimated that some two million European men, women and children are buried in the Indian subcontinent alone. Our aim is to make positive interventions in areas where there is a strong local base of people willing to restore European cemeteries, with financial aid from BACSA. It is only by the impetus for restoration coming from the local community that there a chance that the old cemeteries will survive, and not relapse back into ruin and desolation in a few more years. On this site you will find details of the aims of the Association; examples of the preservation work which BACSA has supported; a list of cemetery monumental transcriptions published by BACSA; publications by BACSA members; and details of the BACSA archive which has been built up over the past 26 years to form a unique record of over 1,300 cemeteries based on official sources with inscriptions and photographs." Site contents: * About BACSA; * BACSA Projects; * BACSA Search (# Quick Search, # Find a Person, # Advanced Search # Browse Records: 1. Cemetery files and registers, 2. Cemetery Book Indexes, 3. Index to Memorial Inscriptions outside Asia, 4. Cemetery and Memorial Photographs, 6. Reference materials); * Cemetery Records (# The BACSA Archives ["olders on the majority of the European cemeteries in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and some information on European cemeteries in places ranging from the Middle East to Afghanistan, Indonesia, Malaysia and China."], # [A bibliography of] Published sources) ; * Publications ["a series of paperback books about the lives of European in South Asia written by BACSA members."], including: # An American Memsahib in India: The Letters and Diaries of Irene Mott Bose: 1920-1951 - Edited by Dr Patricia Owens, 2006; # Bombay Buccaneers: Memories and Reminiscences of the Royal Indian Navy: 1927-1947 - Edited by Commander Jack Hastings, 1986; # The British Residency in Hyderabad - Omar Khalidi, 2005; # The Calcutta of Begum Johnson - Ivor Edwards-Stuart, 1990; # "Hellfire Jack!" VC: General Sir William Olpherts 1822-1902 - Peter Collister, 1989; # The Kashmir Residency -- Memories of 1939 and 1940 - Evelyn Desiree Battye, 1997; # Memoirs of an Adventurous Dane in India: 1904-1947 - August Peter Hansen, 1999; # "Missy Baba" to "Burra Mem": The Life of a Planter's Daughter in Northern India: 1913-1970 - Joan Allen, 1998; # A Railway Family in India - Patrick Hugh Stevenage, 2001; # Under Malabar Hill: Letters from India: 1928-1933 - Maisie Wright, 1988; # Who Was Dr Jackson? Two Calcutta Families: 1830-1855 - Mary Bennett, 2002]; * Order Publications; * Membership; * Links; * Contact Us. [See also the related website of The Families In British India Society (FIBIS) at http://www.fibis.org/ - ed.] URL http://www.bacsa.org.uk/ Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bacsa.org.uk/ Link reported by: Martyn Webster (martyn.webster1--at--btopenworld.com), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/ Documents/ Corporate info. * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [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 15 Feb 2010 Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, HK, China Self-description: "The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Incorporating the Centre of Asian Studies) was established in 2001 with a mission to promote innovative work in the humanities and social sciences. It believes that a broad humanist education is an essential ingredient of a modern civil society. It pays close analytical attention to social, cultural and historical processes from which knowledge and sentiments arise." Site contents: * About HKIHSS; * News; * People (Advisory Board, The Executive Committee, HKISS Staff); * Lecture Series; * Summer Workshops (Summer Training Workshops 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003; Experiencing Metropolitan Shanghai 2004); * Research Projects (# Urban Transformation in South China: Issues in Town and City Governance since the Late Qing Reforms, # Hong Kong: World City on the Move, # Bridging Minds across the Pacific: Shanghai's Role in the Sino-US Educational Exchange, # Rethinking Hong Kong's Human Resources and Competitiveness: A Pre-Policy Study, # Regional Modernity in the Pearl and Yangzi River Deltas, # Research Training Activities at Pearl River Delta: Summer 2006, # Migrant Public Health Project, # Shanxi Historical Relics: Recording and Preservation); * Outreach Programs; * Publications ["The Institute plans to mount working papers and lecture manuscripts on the Institute's website, located at http://www.hku.hk/ihss"]; * Photo Album; * Contact Us [A bilingual (CN,EN) website - ed.] URL http://www.hku.hk/ihss/ Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.hku.hk/ihss/ Link reported by: Shabana Shahabuddin (shahabuddin--at--ssrc.org), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info. * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [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 12 Feb 2010 SOAS Digital Archives and Special Collections The Library, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK Self-description: "SOAS is a leader in the study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and our library with its Archives & Special Collections is the HEFCE-designated National Research Library for these regions of the world. We are in the process of putting our collections of rare manuscripts, books, photographs, audio and film material on-line, to be freely available for everyone. The first collection to be made available is the photographic archive of Christoph von Fuerer-Haimendorf (1909-1995). This collection is widely recognised as the world's most comprehensive visual documentation of tribal cultures in South Asia and the Himalayas. [...] This Web site is under continual development, so please check back frequently for new features." Site contents: * About ["There are more than 2,500 individual manuscripts in the collections, of which around 2,000 are in the languages of Asia and Africa with significant holdings in Arabic, Persian, Swahili, South East Asian languages, Chinese and Japanese."]; Collections (# Fuerer-Haimendorf collection: Overview, Fuerer-Haimendorf interview, References, Ethnic groups, Biography of Christoph von Fuerer-Haimendorf, Search and Advanced Search within the collection, Browse the collection by ethnic group and geographical region); * Galleries of images (# Rituals and festivals of the Apatani: Murung festival (72 images), Myoko festival (57), Ropi ritual (34), War dance (37), # Rituals and festivals: Nyishi ritual (19), Hill Miri (8), Minyong Adi (20), # Rituals and festivals of the Konyak Naga: Oulingbu festival (211), Head-receiving Dance (128), # Weaving: Konyak Naga (17), Apatani (30), Nyishi (3), Adi (8), # House-building: Apatani (5), Phom Naga (37), Konyak Naga (28), # Woodcarving: Chakhesang / Angami Naga (17), Konyak Naga (41)); * Search and Advanced Search of the digital archives; * Contact. URL http://digital.info.soas.ac.uk/ 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/ Study * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Very Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100 12 Feb 2010 Centre for Digital Africa, Asia and the Middle East (CeDAAME) The Library, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK Self-description: "The Centre for Digital Africa, Asia and the Middle East - CeDAAME - has been established [from Sep 2009 until Feb 2011 - ed.] to lead digitisation activities at SOAS. Its aim is to improve access to valuable research and learning material. [...] The Centre will develop a strategy, in consultation with Library users, that will guide SOAS activities in this emerging field, where knowledge and technology are more intertwined than ever before. The Centre has set up a network of partners with universities and museums in the UK and other European countries that hold complementary collections. Through this network we hope to enable researchers to access related resources using a single search tool." Site contents: * Staff; * Digitisation events at SOAS (Previous year, Previous events for this year); * Projects (PROJECTS IN PROGRESS: # Furer-Haimendorf Collection of images from India and Nepal. [See http://digital.info.soas.ac.uk/cgi/c/Furer-Haimendorf/Furer-Haimendorf_collection_homepage] # Islamic Manuscripts Gallery. [http://www.soas.ac.uk/ysimg] # Korean Ambassadors' Scroll. Due to finish December 2009. PROJECTS IN PROPOSAL FORM: # Stencl Collection of Yiddish poetry from London's East End # Light Letters: documents in the Malay language and written in Arabic script collected by William Marsden (1754-1836)). URL http://www.soas.ac.uk/cedaame/ 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 - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [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 11 Feb 2010 Daniel Winkler [medicinal plants & mushrooms of] Tibet www.danielwinkler.com, Kirkland, WA, US Self-description: "Daniel Winkler's Web Site - Welcome to Eco-montane Consulting: Environmental Consulting for the Tibetan Plateau, Southwest China and the Himalayas Environment, forests, medicinal plants & mushrooms and rural development in High Asia." Site contents: * Photo Essays (Sersha - Floccularia luteovirens, Yartsa Gunbu Cordyceps, Matsutake, Morels, Other Tibetan Fungi, Medicinal Plants, Wildflowers, Mountain Forests, Mushrooming [in general], Forestry, Nomads, People, Stupas, Temples, Villages, Plateau Wildlife, Reforestation Nurseries, Hot Springs, Jiuzhaigou Dzitsa Degu, Modernization [in Tibet]) * Publications ([Papers for downloading, HTML format]: Himalayan Gypsy - 2009, Cordyceps Nyamnyi Dorje Morels in Tibet - 2007, Infested by Caterpillar Fungus - 2006, Medicinal Mushroom Journal - 2005, Cordyceps East Tibet - 2005, Matsutake Conservation - 2004, Litang Forest Use & NTFPs - 2003, Participation in Forestry - 2002, Jiuzhaigou Vegetation Study - 1998, Major Threats to Tibetan Forest Ecosystems - 2001, Forest Distribution & Impact of Fire and Pastoralism - 2000, Sustainable Development in the Tibetan Areas - 2000, Forestry, Floods and Hydroelectricity - 1999, Deforestation in Eastern Tibet - Past and Present - 1998, Riwoqe Paper - 1997, CFR Paper - 1996, Jiuzhaigou Thesis Summary - 1994, Jiuzhaigou Erdkunde Studie - 1998, Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen - 1997) * Translation of 15th Century Tibetan text on Cordyceps (revised Nov. 2008) ['An Ocean of Aphrodisiacal Qualities', an essay on Yartsa Gunbu mushrooms by Nyamnyi Dorje Palden Zurkhar (1439-1475)] * Presentations [a list of seminar and presentation's topics] * Consulting ["Eco-Montane Consulting offers research and consulting services on issues related to the environment, conservation and development of the Tibetan Plateau, Southwest China, and the Himalayas."] * Links (NGOs / INGOs, References, Botany / Vegetation, Tibetan Medicine, Research Projects, Expedition Travel Service). URL http://www.danielwinkler.com/ Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.danielwinkler.com/ Link reported by: Daniel Winkler (me-at--danielwinkler.com) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/ Documents * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [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 08 Feb 2010 Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust (KVPT) Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust, Lalitpur, Nepal & New York, NY, US. Self-description: "Our purpose is to safeguard the extraordinary and threatened architectural heritage of the Kathmandu Valley. With seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites in its relatively tiny domain, the Kathmandu Valley boasts a concentration and quality of architectural monuments and townscapes of significance to all humanity. [...] Over the last thirteen years, the Trust has rescued over two dozen significant monuments. Repair and restoration operations have initiated key training and research programs for our Nepalese team. The Trust headquarters on Patan Darbar Square has become a training centre and clearinghouse for information about historic preservation in Nepal. Most notably, the Trust has rallied a significant donor base among Nepalese businesses and individuals-matching funding is thus the norm for most of our restoration projects. The Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust is the only international non-government agency registered in the field of cultural heritage in Nepal. The Trust is based in the U.S. with full U.S. tax-deductible status." Site contents: * Mission (Patan Campaign, Heritage at Risk, Living Monuments, Tradition, Conservation Challenges, KVPT's Nepalese Team, Global Dialogue); * Projects (COMPLETED PROJECTS: # Ayuguthi Sattal (18th c.), Patan Darbar World Heritage Site (1999-2001), # Balkumari Temple (17th c.), Stone Lions, Patan (2002), # Chobar Ganesh (17th c.), Kathmandu (1998), # Documentation of Architectural Heritage of Kathmandu Valley (1993-97), # Garden of Dreams (20th c.), Keshar Mahal, Kathmandu (2001), # Gokarna Parvati Temple (16th c.), Gokarna, Kathmanu (1990), # Indrapur Temple (17th c.), Kathmandu Darbar World Heritage Site, (2001-02), # Jyababahi Pati (19th c.), Patan (2002), # Kulima Narayan Temple (17th c.), Patan (1997-1998), # KVPT Headquarter (20th c.), Patan Darbar World Heritage Site (1999-2000), # Kva Baha (Golden Temple) 15th c., Patan World Heritage Site (1994), # Kwalkhu Ganesh Temple (19th c.), Patan World Heritage Site (1992), # Kwalkhu Pati (19th c.), Patan World Heritage Site (1992), # Lakhe Shrestha Tower (17th c.), Patan Darbar World Heritage Site (1995), # Mani Gupha Temple (18th c.), Patan Darbar World Heritage Site (1993), # Narayan Temple (17th c.), Kathmandu Darbar World Heritage Site, (2003), # Patukva Agamche (17th c.), Patan World Heritage Site (1994-1997), # Prototype House for Monument Areas (1993), # Radha Krishna Temple (17th c.), Patan World Heritage Site (1991-1994), # Shakya House (1993), # Sulima Temple (14th c.), Patan (1997-1998), # Survey of Kathmandu Sattals and Patis (1994), # Technical Support to Chhusya Bahal (17th c.), Kathmandu (1999), # Technical Support to Lampati (17th c.), Patan Darbar World Heritage Site (1997), # Technical Support to Music School (19th c.), Chupin Ghat, Bhaktapur (1996), # Tumbaha Narayan Temple (16th c.), Patan World Heritage Site (1998-2000), # Uma Maheswar Temple (17th c.), Patan World Heritage Site (1991-1992), # Yetkha Bahal (12th c.), Kathmandu (2002), ONGOING PROJECTS: # Patan Palace Complex: 1. Sundari Chowk, 2. Mul Chowk, 3. Bhandarkhal Archaeological Garden, Patan Darbar World Heritage Site; # Itum Baha monastery; FUTURE PROJECTS: # Patan Darbar Square: 1. Court Builiding (19th c.), 2. Court Pati (19th c.), 3. Patan Palace Complex North Wing (18th c.), 4. Bhaideval Temple (17th c.), 5. Narasimha Temple (16th c.), 6. Visvanath Temple (17th c.); # Kathmandu Darbar Square: 1. Bansagopal Temple (17th c.), 2. Saraswati Pati (18th c.), 3. Drum House (18th c.), 4. Gorakhkali Shrine (17th c.)); * Programs (Trust Headquarters, Training, Old Glory, Internship, Research (Incl. The history of painting in Nepal and scientific analysis of paints and pigments), Unexpected Discovery [discovery of an ancient mural in the Yetkha Bahal shrine house]; * Archive [Documentation, publication, and information access projects undertaken in conjunction with Harvard University's Frances Loeb Library]; * Newsletter (# KVPT Field Report, Jan. 2009 (PDF, 1.08 MB), # KVPT Field Report, Nov. 2007 (PDF, 1.74 KB), # KVPT Newsletter, Dec. 2006 (PDF, 1.6 MB), # KVPT Newsletter, Winter 2005 (PDF, 1.6 MB), # Several MB strong folio of historic images); * Publications (# 2007 Folio of Historic Image of Patan Darbar Square (PDF, 1.4 MB); * Articles (# 2008-08 The Once and Future Kathmandu - Vanity Fair Internet Edition (PDF, 333 KB); # 2008-09 The Once and Future Kathmandu - Vanity Fair (PDF, 1.77 MB); # 2005-04 Articles From Orientations (PDF, 161 KB); # 1992 Timber Conservation Problems of the Nepalese Pagoda Temple by Erich Theophile and Rohit Ranjitkar (PDF, 5 MB); # 1979 Monumentum by Dr. E. F. Sekler (PDF, 2.3 MB)); * Contact Us. URL http://www.kvptnepal.org/ Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.kvptnepal.org/ Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./ Study/ Documents * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300 07 Feb 2010 Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Self-description: "The Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) was established at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg towards the end of 2007. The Centre is the first in Africa to focus on India. CISA promotes teaching, research and public activities concerning the Indian sub-continent, its links to Africa and the Indian Ocean, and builds on the multi-faceted networks developed with Indian universities, research institutions and public agencies. The Centre's public activities are part of its mandate to contribute to the consolidation of economic, political and cultural relations between India and South Africa, and between India and other African countries." Site contents: * About Us ; * People; * Projects (# The construction of subject English in secondary schools in London, Delhi, and Johannesburg, # The Indian Ocean as visionary area: post-multicultural approaches to culture and globalisation; # Urban governance, participation and the voice of the poor in South African and Indian cities); * News & Events (Words on Water: South Africa and India in Conversation - A [2009] Literary Festival, Sept 12 and 13; Oct 2009; Sep 2009; Jul 2009; Aug 2009; Past Events); * Publications ([About paper-base journals:] # Historia, Special Issue: South Africa & India Towards Closer Scholarly Ties, # Africa/India: Culture and Circulation in the Indian Ocean, Special Issue: scrutiny2 # South African Historical Journal, Special Issue: Re-imagining The Disciplines # Journal of Asian and African Studies, Special Issue: South Africa - India: Connections & Comparisons, * Forthcoming publication: Eyes Across The Water: Navigating the Indian Ocean, Edited by Pamila Gupta, Isabel Hofmeyr & Michael Person, (Pretoria/Delhi: UNISA Press, Penguin)); * Contact. URL http://www.cisa-wits.org.za/ Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Dilip Menon (dil1962--at--yahoo.com), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./News * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [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 05 Feb 2010 CrossAsia: Die Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Ost- und Suedostasien / The Virtual Library East and Southeast Asia East Asia Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Germany Self-description: "The Virtual Library East and Southeast Asia [Die Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Ost- und Suedostasien] -- CrossAsia -- offers access to research information for East and Southeast Asian studies. Cross Asia is a cooperatively organized and modular structured portal. This virtual library has been developed by the http://ead.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/index.html East Asia Department of the http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/index_en.html Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and its project partners. It is financially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The project partners [... are:] GIGA German Institute of Global and Regional Studies and Institute for Asian Affairs [http://www.giga-hamburg.de], Institute for Chinese Studies of the Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg [http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/e-index.html], Institute of Japanese Studies of the Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen [http://www.japanologie.uni-tuebingen.de/], Institute of Chinese and Korean Studies of the Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen [http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/ans/], State und University Library of Lower Saxony, Goettingen, GBV Head Office of the Common Union Network (GBV), China World Wide Web Virtual Library (Internet Guide for Chinese Studies) [http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/]. The project [... has been also assisted] by the Asian Studies World Wide Web Virtual Library [http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLAsian/VLAbout.html], and by the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies [http://www.nias.ku.dk]." Site contents: * About CrossAsia; * Special collection East/South-East Asia [About the collection "of more than 650,000 volumes in East Asian languages (annual increase about 20,000 volumes) and a large number of relevant books about East Asia in western languages" and more than 4,000 current periodicals]; * Special Collection Altaic Languages [About the materials in Turkic, Mongolian, Tungusic, Korean, Manchurian languages as well as materials in languages of Ainu in Japan and the Eskimo people in Siberia]; * Special Collection Non-Conventional Material [About the collection of "statistics, publications of official or semi-official institutions, including materials in Chinese, Japanese and Korean, from the countries of East- and Southeast Asia."; * Project Partners [about GIGA and the Goettingen State and University Library (SUB)]; * Metasearch ([Simultaneous simple/advanced searches, aided by Search History and Bookshelf pages, in # CATALOGUES AND DATABASES OF THE STAATSBIBLIOTHEK ZU BERLIN: Online Catalogue - East Asia Department of Berlin State Library (EAD Catalogue), Online Catalogue of the Berlin State Library (StaBiKat), Online Contents East and Southeast Asia, Online Contents Asia and North Africa, OGEA - Online Guide East Asia, ZeitschriftenDatenBank (ZDB), Wanfang China Online Journals; # MORE ASIA RELATED CATALOGUES: Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg (Monographs), The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library Catalogue, National Institute of Informatics Catalog (NACSIS-CAT), Chinabase; # MORE CATALOGUES AND DATABASES: World Affairs Online Consortium of University Research Libraries OPAC (COPAC), Library of Congress, Common Library Network Catalogue (GVK), South-West German Union Catalogue, Berlin-Brandenburg Cooperative Union Catalogue, North Rhine Westphalian Union Catalogue, Hessian Union Catalogue, Bavarian Union Catalogue); * Catalogues (Online-Catalogue - East Asia Department of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - PK, StaBiKat [Main catalogue of Berlin State Library], OLC-SSG East and Southeast Asia, OLC-SSG Asia and Northafrica); * Access Databases (Register, Licensed databases, All Databases, Technical Requirements); outheast Asian Studies; Search within individual categories - General, Teaching & Research, Philosophy & Religion, History, Archaeology, People, Geography, Economy & Business, Society, Politics, Law, Education, Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Literature, Movie & Film, Language & Linguistics, Science & Technolgy, Medicine, Search Engines & Web Guides, Computer Science, Books & Libraries, Mass Media); * eGovernment Archive [A full text search over archived webpages from government institutions in Japan, the Republic of Korea, the People's Republic of China (including Hongkong and Macao), Taiwan and Singapore]; * Address; * Impressum. [A quick, highly sophisticated, bilingual (DE, EN) site, which has been developed and superbly managed by Matthias Kaun (kaun--at--sbb.spk-berlin.de) of the original Online Guide East Asia (OGEA) fame - ed.] URL http://crossasia.org/en/home/ Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://crossasia.org/en/home/ Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/ Corporate Info * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300 04 Feb 2010 Strategic Initiatives for Korean Studies (SIKS) The Academy of Korean Studies, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea Supplied note: "Strategic Initiative for Korean Studies was established by the Academy of Korean Studies [http://www.aks.ac.kr/eng_home/main/main.asp - ed.] in May 2007 to promote and globalize Korean studies. - iyj" Site contents: * Program Overview; * Fellowship Applications; * Submit Reports; * Links [approx. 50 links to Korean Studies sites worldwide]; * Community (News, Announcement, Column, Issues, Suggestion Board, Q&A); * Webzine [bi-lingual (KR, EN) periodical) (from Newsletter, Korean Studies, 01 [Feb, 2008] till Newsletter, Korean Studies, 12 [Nov, 2009]; * [Short descriptions of the] SIKS projects in Progress (# Korean Classics Library, # Korean Royal Court Culture, # Studies in Modern Korea, # Asia and the 'Korean Wave', # A Dictionary and Sourcebook of the 'Annals of the Joseon Dynasty', # Updated and Enlarged 'Encyclopedia of Korean Culture', # Compilation of Specialized Dictionaries of Korean Studies, # Enlarging the Collection of Korean Oral Literature, # Oral History on Contemporary Korea, # Curriculum and Teaching Materials Development for Global Korean Studies, # Basic Materials for Pre-Modern Korean Studies, # Korean Studies Institution Grant [http://www.aks.ac.kr/ksig/en/]); * Search; * Direction; * Contact us [A bi-lingual (KR, EN) website - ed.] URL http://siks.aks.ac.kr/html_eng/index.html Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://siks.aks.ac.kr Link reported by: InYoung Jung (iyjung--at--aks.ac.kr), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./News * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [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 1,000 04 Feb 2010 Adibasi Sanskruti Gabesana Parishad (ASGP) [research organization] Adibasi Sanskruti Gabesana Parishad, Orissa, India Self-description: "Adibasi Sanskruti Gabesana Parishad (ASGP) is a non-government, non-profit research organization to facilitate and promote the indigenous tribal culture and education of the natives. Founded in 1985 by a group of indigenous leaders and academicians on folklore research in Sinapali, located in Nuapada district (erstwhile Kalahandi), it has grown up to a rich depository of indigenous resources. It grows with the traditional collective memory and the creative expressions of multicultural societies." Site contents: * The Organization [the personnel]; * Activities [seminars and workshops]; * Projects (1. Documentation of tribal oral epics (Gond, Kondh, Bhunjia, Paharia, Paraja, Bhumia, Banjara and Binjhal tribes of western Orissa), 2. Study on Gond culture and folk literature, 3. Study on Choktia-Bhunjia society, culture and folklore, 4. Documentation of tribal & folk art and craft of Kalahandi, 5. Audio recordings of oral epics in Kalahandi); * Publications [details of four books by the AGSP]; * Objective [mission statement]; * Domain [the foci of research]; * Research Group [the personnel]; * [In-house] Resources (1. The archives of # Palm leaf manuscripts. "These manuscripts include epics, myths, Ayurveda (traditional medicine), tantra (magic and esoteric knowledge), mantra - worship songs, chants and the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, Brahmanda Purana (Creation myth of the Universe)", # Caste genealogies of the Gond tribe of Orissa. # Gova - the Kondh myth recited during buffalo sacrifice, # Lakshmi Janam: by poet Paramananda, a Devguru for goddess Lakshmi, # Dandanata: epic drama on Shiva and Parvati, # Notes and documents on tribal oral tradition and material culture, # Manuscripts of Desia Naat and folk drama, music and dance 2. About 300 audiocassettes with: # Folk tales, # Folk songs [&] Oral epics, # Biographies of oral epic singers & story tellers, # Narratives and songs performed by tribal women, # Folk music, # Musical instruments, 3. About 10 Video CDs on: # Saora tribe, # Dongria Kondh tribe, # Oral epics singers, # Ghumra dance, # Mandal dance, # Rare pictures of Kalahandi, 4. About 500 books on tribal songs and tales, 5. More than 5000 photographs on various aspects of tribal culture in Orissa, * About Us [under construction]; * FAQs [under construction]; * Contact Us. URL http://www.asgporissa.org/ Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.asgporissa.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 of the online resource [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 03 Feb 2010 Asia Graduate School of Theology (AGST) Asia Graduate School of Theology, Quezon City, Philippines Self-description: "Asia Graduate School of Theology (AGST) is a consortium of evangelical seminaries in the Philippines established by Asia Theological Association (ATA) [http://www.ataasia.com/ - ed.] in 1984. ATA is an accrediting body of theological institutions in Asia. AGST-Philippines is a consortium of the following seminaries: Alliance Graduate School (AGS) 'Rooted in the Word, Ministry to the World', Asia Pacific Theological Seminary (APTS) 'Zeal with Knowledge', Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary (APNTS) 'Bridging Cultures for Christ', Asian Theological Seminary (ATS) 'Equipping leaders to reach the world', AGST Philippines 'Preparing Leaders and Scholars for the Church in Asia and Beyond', Biblical Seminary of the Philippines (BSOP) Equipping God's Worker with God's Word for God's Work', Presbyterian Theological Seminary (PTS) 'God Centered, Bible Centered and Church Centered', Asian Seminary for Christian Ministries (ASCM) 'Equiping God's People for God's Service', International Graduate School of Leadership (IGSL) 'Building Biblical Thinkers for Dynamic Spiritual Leadership'." Site contents: * About Us (AGST Mission Statement, AGST and Contextualization, AGST Educational Philosophy, AGST Core Competencies, AGST Philippines: 25 Years of Working Together to Equip Leaders in Asia); * Programs (Doctor of Education, Doctor of Education in Christian Counseling, Master & Doctor of Biblical Studies, Master & Doctor of Theological Studies & Church History, Doctor of Philosophy in Holistic Child Development, Doctor of Missiology, Doctor of Ministry in Biblical Peacemaking); * Contact Us (Further Inquiries, Download Application Form); * News & Update; * The Journal of Asian Mission (JAM) ["JAM is the official journal of AGST. It seeks to provide a forum to assess theories and encourage reflective thinking among Christian leaders training Asians for missionary tasks and those working towards the evangelization of Asia. The Journal of Asian Mission wishes to be a chat room (in the high tech world) or sarang-bang (in the old Korean tradition) where everyone is welcomed and no one is a stranger."] (Archives [Freely downloadable PDF files]: JAM 1999 1-1, JAM 1999 1-2, JAM 2000 2-1, JAM 2000 2-2, JAM 2001 3-1, JAM 2001 3-2, JAM 2002 4-1, JAM 2002 4-2, JAM 2003 5-1, JAM 2003 5-2, JAM 2004 6-1, JAM 2004 6-2, JAM 2005 7-1). URL http://www.agstphil.org/ Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [at the time of this abstract there was no information regarding archival copies of the agstphil.org site] Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./Study * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [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 03 Feb 2010 Confucius Institute at Rutgers University (CIRU) School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, US Self-description: "Confucius Institute at Rutgers University CIRU [est. Nov 2007 - ed.] serves as a resource center for China study and promote quality Chinese language and culture education throughout New Jersey area. CIRU activities and resources include [...]: # Lecture series, workshops, conferences, and research on Chinese culture and contemporary China, # Regular Chinese language and cultural instruction, # Customized evening and weekend Chinese language and cultural courses, # Curriculum development in Chinese language and culture, # Design and further development of Chinese e-learning, # Training and support for K-12 Chinese teachers, # Chinese enrichment programs in New Jersey schools, # Summer camps in China for US High School Students, # Chinese immersion summer camps on the Rutgers Campus, # Sponsorship of cultural activities, competitions, and expansion of library services." Site contents: * CIRU News; * About CIRU; * Board Members; * CIRU Faculty; * CIRU Staff; * Int Conferences; * Chinese Classes; * Lecture Series; * Chinese for K-12; * Teachers' Training; * Scholarship & Fellowship; * Online Chinese; * Community Events; * CIRU Calendar; * Support for CIRU; * Contact CIRU; * Subscribe to CIRU Email List; * Search; * Support For CIRU; * Useful Links; * Campus Links. URL http://www.ciru.rutgers.edu/ Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Vicky Chu (vickychu--at--rci.rutgers.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info. * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [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 02 Feb 2010 South Asia Monitor - The regular newsletter of the South Asia Program South Asia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington DC, US Self-description: "At a time of new global opportunities and challenges, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) [http://www.csis.org - ed.] provides strategic insights and policy solutions to decisionmakers in government, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society. A bipartisan, nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, DC, CSIS conducts research and analysis and develops policy initiatives that look into the future and anticipate change." Site contents: * South Asia Monitor: The Future, On Sale: The Indian Retail Market - Jan 6, 2010; * South Asia Monitor: India-Japan Relations: A Partnership for Peace and Prosperity - Oct 1, 2009; * South Asia Monitor: Permanently on the Brink?: Nepal Strives for Stability - Sep 1, 2009; * South Asia Monitor: India's Energy Options: Coal and Beyond - Aug 24, 2009; * South Asia Monitor: "A Calculated Risk": India's New Budget - Aug 03, 2009; * South Asia Monitor: Triumphalism and Uncertainty in Post-Prabhakaran Sri Lanka - Ju 01, 2009; * South Asia Monitor: The Congress Comeback: Unexpected Results of the Indian Election - Jun 01, 2009; * South Asia Monitor: Pakistan: Struggling Through the Perfect Storm - Apr 30, 2009; * South Asia Monitor: The Strategic Implications of India's Internal Security - Looking Back at Mumbai - Apr 8, 2009; * South Asia Monitor: The Refugee Problem: Looking Toward Afghanistan's Long-Term Stability - Dec 10, 2008. * RSSS Feeds URL http://csis.org/node/13645/publication 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 - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [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 Copyright (c) 2010 by T. Matthew Ciolek 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