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: 16 Entries rejected: 17 The email edition of this Journal has now over 9,200 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: 1994-2009. Note: specific keywords/phrases work better than general ones. 28 Nov 2010 Assoociation of Central Asian Students (ACAS) www.acasinfo.org, Seattle, WA, USA. Self-description: "The Association of Central Asian Students (ACAS), founded in spring 2009, is the first program of its kind in the United States that is directed by both Central and Inner Asian students and those committed to the region, its people, and culture. Following sixty years of Central Asian Studies at the University of Washington, our association's truly committed members continue to strive in promoting positive cultural exchanges between Central Asia and the people of Canada and the United [States]. Our long-term and more immediate goals are centered on the group's threefold objective: to promote Central and Inner Asian cultures and heritages, to help incoming and continuing students from Central Asia better adjust to both university and American life, and to work together with faculty at the University of Washington in supporting and promoting the Central and Inner Asian language and area studies research programs since 1949." Site contents: * About Us (Mission, History, Vision, Donate, Chapters, Constitution, Membership); * Events (Upcoming Events, Past Events); * News (incl.: (# Winter 2011 Course Highlight: Central Asian Country Profiles, # Central Asian Studies Seminar for the Week of December 2nd and December 3rd, 2010, # Program for CASS Nov. 4 and Nov. 5, # CASS for the week of Oct 25 - Oct 29 2010, # CASS for the week of Oct 25 - Oct 29 2010, # Central Asian Student Seminar-Chinggis Khan, # Launch of Journal of Central and Inner Asian Dialogue, # Central Asian Studies Seminar Welcome Back Program, # Ordo Sakhna, Musical Theater From Kyrgyzstan, Makes Its Seattle Debut at Town Hall, # Central Asian Studies Seminar Autumn Quarter 2010 Program); * Resources (Non-Academic Resources, Academic Resources); * Research (# Publications [incl.: ACAS Journal Some Publication [under construction since Nov 2009], # Programs [incl.: 22nd Annual Nicholas Poppe Symposium on Central/Inner Asian Studies, Central Asian Studies Seminar Spring 2010 Program, Central Asian Studies Seminar Program for Autumn 2009, Central Asian Studies Seminar Autumn Quarter 2010 Program) # Completed/published works [incl.: Oct 2010 details of Simon Wickham-Smith's published works on Mongolian Literature]); * Contact Us. URL http://www.acasinfo.org/ 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]: NGO * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting 25 Nov 2010 Denki Etcetera! [a database of late Tokugawa period Japanese intellectual biographical profiles] www.denki-etcetera.nl, The Netherlands. Self-description: "This website [est. May 2008 is] a continuation of [Anna Beerens'] PhD research project [...] entitled 'Friends, Acquaintances, Pupils and Patrons, Japanese intellectual life in the late eighteenth century: a prosopographical approach' (ISBN 9789087280017) [2006 Leiden University Press]. [...] [... The site publishes] biographical data concerning 173 individuals, who in the late 18th century were part of an extensive network of personal contacts. [...] The aim is to discover patterns and/or common characteristics. Generally, it is about setting side by side data about years of birth and death, gender, place or region of birth, social status, education, career, sources of income, choice of spouse, and personal contacts. The 173 individuals [... that Anna Beerens'] PhD thesis deals with were all intellectuals, persons involved in the scholarly, literary and/or artistic discourse of their time." Site contents: * Search the database by (# PERSON: 173 names; # STATUS: commoner, kuge, member of the imperial family, retained physician, retained scholar, ronin, samurai, samurai daimyo, shinto priest, unclear, unknown; # INCOME: administration Bakufu, administration court, administration domanial, administration kuge, administration rural, administration temple, book illustration, botany, calligraphy, Chinese studies, commerce, domestic service, haikai, Japanese studies, kanshikyoka, manufacturing, medicine, music, painting, popular fiction, pottery, priesthood buddhist, priesthood shinto, priesthood shugenja, print making, publishing, seal carving, therapy, unclear, unknown, waka, Western studies; # ACTIVITY: astronomy/calendrical sciences, book illustration, botany, Buddhist studies, calligraphy, Chinese studies, collecting culinary studies/cooking, epigraphy/kanji, etymology, gardening, haikai, Japanese studies, kanshikyoka, mathematics, medicine, military studies, music painting, political, economic and administrative studies, popular fiction, pottery, print making, publishing, seal carving, sencha, senryu, vernacular Chinese, waka, Western studies; # YEAR: 1700, 1705, 1710, 1715 ... 1860). URL http://www.denki-etcetera.nl/ 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]: Other * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful 24 Nov 2010 Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security (IFANS) Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT), Seoul, South Korea. Self-description: "In 1963 the Educational Institute of Foreign Service Officers (EIFSO) was established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the purpose of training foreign service officers. In 1965 EIFSO was expanded to include a research unit on foreign affairs and renamed the Research Institute of Foreign Affairs (RIFA). To meet the growing need for comprehensive and systematic analysis of changing regional and global environments, RIFA was reorganized as the present day IFANS in 1977, with the focus on its research function. Through several stages of expansion, IFANS has established itself as the largest research and training institution of its kind in the nation, playing the role of think tank for foreign policy decision maker and birthplace for world-class diplomats." Site contents: * About IFANS (Chancellor Greetings, Chancellor Career, Function & History, Organization, Facilities); * Diplomatic History Museum [http://www.diplomaticarchives.go.kr/ is a link to a non-existent web site - ed.]; * Library; * IFANS Location; * Research (Research, Faculty, Diplomatic Academy); * Publications [TOCs and bibliographical details of] (Annual publications: "Prospect of International Relations Policy Study Series" (Korean only), Biannual: "IFANS Review", Monthly: "Policy Brief", Weekly: "Analysis of Current International Issues" (Korean only), Non-periodicals: "Conference report" (Korean only); * News/Events (News, Opinions); * Education; * Assesment; * Highlight; * MOFAT [http://www.mofat.go.kr/english/main/index.jsp] * Search. [A bi-lingual (KR, EN) web site - ed.] URL http://www.ifans.go.kr/index.html Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ifans.go.kr/index.html 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]: Govt. * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful 22 Nov 2010 Inventory of the South Asian Pamphlets Collection, 1920-2005 Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. Supplied note: "Announcement of a new archival Asian Studies resource at Duke University Libraries: The results of a collaborative five-year effort to provide title-level access to a collection of over 7,500 hard-to-find 20th century South Asian pamphlets is now available in the form of a detailed online finding aid at Duke University. For more details, see [the URL below] Staff of the South Asian Studies in the International Area Studies Department of Perkins Library and from the Special Collections Library at Duke created title-level descriptions for the South Asian Pamphlets Collection, which spans the years 1920-2005. Each entry includes title, author, date, and other notes. Access to the pamphlets themselves is through the Special Collections Library reading room, or through remote services such as scanning. Please contact a reference archivist for details. The bulk of the material dates from the 1950s to the 1990s, with only a few items from the 1920s-1940s. The publications were received by Duke University's Perkins Library over four decades, roughly from 1960-1990, through the Library of Congress South Asia Cooperative Acquisition Program (SACAP), formerly called the "PL-480 Program," and are arranged according to their country of publication: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The pamphlets are all published in the English language. The largest group houses publications from India (177 boxes), followed by Pakistan (58 boxes), Bangladesh (15 boxes), and Nepal (8 boxes). For the smallest groupings of Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, the pamphlets are organized alphabetically by title without any further subdivisions. For the larger country series, the pamphlets are arranged by topical headings, in alphabetical order, and within, alphabetically by title. Each country series is followed by a more detailed description of its contents; each topical division is also followed by a description which includes the number of boxes and number of items in that subdivision. While the majority of the pamphlets were published by organizations and agencies and do not list individual authors' names, there are also pamphlets with individual authors listed. Topical divisions common to the larger country series include but are not limited to Agriculture, Arts, Economic Development, Education, Industry and Commerce, International Relations, Politics and Government, Religion and Philosophy, Rural Development, Tourism, and Women. Many of the publications across the entire collection discuss ethnic and political conflict, as well as the effects of wars, poverty, and mass education, and issues regarding Islam and other religious traditions. Particular countries may have unique topical headings. In the case of India, each major Indian political party has its own subdivision under the larger Political Parties series; there is also a section for biographical works, and one for works on libraries and museums, and a division was also established to house pamphlets related to Kashmir. [...] - pm." Site contents: * Descriptive Summary (Repository, Creator, Title, Language of Material, Extent); * Administrative Information (Access Restrictions, Copyright Notice, Preferred Citation, Provenance, Processing Information); * Collection Overview; * Subject Headings ["These are searchable subject entries for each country division in this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials."]; * Detailed Description of Collection [Details of: # Afghanistan Pamphlets, 1970s-1993 (2 boxes), # Bangladesh Pamphlets, 1957-2002 (15 boxes), # India Pamphlets, 1920-2005, bulk 1960-1990 (177 boxes), # Nepal Pamphlets, 1960s-1998 (8 boxes), # Pakistan Pamphlets, 1948-2005, bulk 1960s-1990s (58 boxes), # Sri Lanka Pamphlets, 1950-1988 (1 box)]. * Search the website. URL http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/southasianpams/inv/ Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Paula Mangiafico (paula.mangiafico--at--duke.edu) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful 20 Nov 2010 China's War with Japan and its impact, memory and legacy, 1931 to the present History Faculty, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Self-description: "The Persistence of Conflict - China's War with Japan and its impact, memory and legacy, 1931 to the present. The Second World War in China was the single most wrenching event in modern Chinese history. The conflict is often termed the second Sino-Japanese War, and known in China as the War of Resistance to Japan. There are arguments that the conflict began with the invasion of Manchuria in 1931, but between 1937 and 1945, China and Japan were at total war. When Japan was finally defeated in 1945, China was on the winning side, but lay devastated, having suffered some 15 million deaths, massive destruction of industrial infrastructure and agricultural production, and the shattering of the tentative modernization begun by the Nationalist government. This research group is based on a concept grounded in the discipline of history, but with rich implications for our understanding of postwar and contemporary China - that China's conflict with Japan in the mid-twentieth century must be brought to the forefront of our understanding of the wider path of Chinese modernity, and that to do so will bring about significant new historical and political insights, not only for the academic world, but also for the wider public understanding of China, a major commercial and diplomatic power in the twenty-first century." Site contents: * The project; * People; * Activities (Conferences, China research seminars in Oxford, Other lectures, seminars and conferences); * Publications (# By Current Programme Members: Rana Mitter, Helen Schneider, Annie Hongping Nie, # By Affiliated Members: Matthew Johnson, Aaron William Moore, Federica Ferlanti, James Reilly); * Links; * Oxford and China; * Contacts and further Information; * Search website; * CALL FOR PAPERS: Relief and Reconstruction in Wartime and Postwar China, 1937-1949 ["Relief and Reconstruction in Wartime and Postwar China, 1937-1949. A workshop to be held at: History Faculty, The University of Oxford, UK, Date: 10-11 June, 2011, Deadline for abstract submission: 5 December, 2010."] URL http://www.history.ox.ac.uk/china/index.htm Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Helen Schneider (helenmay--at--uw.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]: Useful 19 Nov 2010 Archives of the Archdiocese of Canton (Guangzhou), China Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim, San Francisco, CA, USA. Self-description: "The Archives of the Archdiocese of Canton (Guangzhou), China The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim is very pleased to announce that the newly digitized archives of the former Catholic Archdiocese of Canton will become available to researchers beginning in summer 2011. Containing approximately 15,000 items (30 linear feet) of documents, plans, maps, correspondence, deeds, petitions, decree's and artifacts, the Archives cover the period from 1851 to 1949, which nearly exactly coincides with the 'hundred years of shame' (bainian guochi), from the 1842 Treaty of Nanjing through the establishment of the People's Republic in 1949 and the end of Catholic missionary work. Diocesan and parish records from this period and locale are extremely rare. The Canton Archives thus provide a unique resource on the Chinese Church during a turbulent period in modern Chinese history. [...] A searchable finding aid covering the entire digitized Archives will be available online in Summer 2011. For sample descriptive document listings, please visit Ricci Institute Library website [http://riccilibrary.usfca.edu/listAuthor.aspx?authorID=10414 ]. There is no plan at this time to post the Archive online. Research Visits - For an appointment to use the digital archives for research at the Ricci Institute, please write contact ricci--at--usfca.edu." Supplied note: "The Archives of the Catholic Archdiocese of Canton Will Open to Researchers in Summer 2011 [...] A searchable finding aid covering the entire digitized Archives will be available online in Summer 2011 to facilitate exploration of the holdings. The Ricci Institute welcomes interest from scholars in all fields, either online through the finding aid or through actual visits to the Institute. Further announcements about research fellowships and other related activities by the Institute will be forthcoming. - kjk." Site contents: * The Institute; * Library; * Research & Publications; * Christianity in China; * Events; * Current Projects (incl.: # Regional Development and Social Impact: Multi-faceted Encounters between China and the West in the Late Imperial and the Republic Era (1840-1950); # Body, Soul and Nature: Cultural Encounters through Medicine and Medical Service Organization Development in Modern China; # Cultural and Historical Exchanges between Multiethnic China and the West; # Sino-Western Encounters through Comparative Literature and Culture; # Christianity and Culture: Japan and China in Comparison (1543-1644); # Handbook on Christianity in China: Volume II; # Oral History in Chinese-Western Cultural Encounters; # Sino-Western Encounters as Recorded in the Late Qing and Early Republic Gazetteers; # History of the Chinese Rites Controversy (2005-2010); # The Fourth International Young Scholars' Symposium on Christianity and Chinese Society and Culture (December 5-9, 2008); # Nourishing the Spirit: Religion, Culture and Social Development); * Conference Proceedings; * Reference Works; * Other Books; * Pacific Rim Report; * Research Newsletter; * Public Lectures; * Ricci Library Catalog (Author List for Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Guangzhou (Canton) [Archidioecesis Coamceuvensis] incl.: Canton Archives 'Joseph Lasportes', Canton Archives 'Alexandre Legros', Canton Archives 'H. Louvey', Canton Archives 'H. Mathon', Canton Archives 'J. Masseron', Canton Archives 'Michotte', Canton Archives 'Mirambeau', Canton Archives: 'Plan-Terrains Banque'). URL http://www.ricci.usfca.edu/cantonarchives.htm Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Kenneth J Kopp (kopp--at--usfca.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]: Useful 18 Nov 2010 Centre for Islamic Shi'a Studies (CISS) CISS, London, UK. Self-description: "The Centre for Islamic Shi'a Studies (CISS) is a research centre that specialises in the Shi'a Muslim faith. It aims to offer a scholarly Shi'a perspective on traditional and contemporary issues that affect Muslims and humanity as a whole. By contextualising the Shi'a tradition and valuing both seminary and wider academic thinking, the CISS endeavours to offer original analysis on a wide range of fields from religious heritage and philosophy to politics and bioethics." Site contents: * About Us (Our Mission, Our Team); * CISS Press; * CISS News; * CISS Events; * Media Library (Audio Files, Video Files, Image Files) [under construction]; * [Online] Shop (Books, Selected publications); * Contact us; * Join our mailinglist; * Upcoming Events ["CISS CONFERENCE -'Pioneering works in Islamic Sciences', Free Event, Date/Time: Saturday 05 March 2011 09:30 - 17:00, Location: Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, London - SOAS, London, UK. [...] The conference aims to bring out Shi'a scholarship post 16th century -- an area generally neglected in academia. In this period, Shi'a scholars were able to flourish in less oppressive conditions producing works like Al-Asfar al-Arba'a by Mulla Sadra and Bihar al-Anwar by Allamah Majlisi. We invite abstracts from scholars and PhD students to be submitted by December 10th 2010. [...]" URL http://shiastudies.org.uk/ Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Imranali Panjwani (i.panjwani--at--shiastudies.org.uk), 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]: Other * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful 17 Nov 2010 The Central Eurasia Project www.ceasia.ru, Russia/Uzbekistan. Supplied note: "The Central Eurasia [at the URL below] project is a new initiative launched by a team of interdependent experts/researchers concentrated on Central Asia, Russia, China, and Afghanistan. For the purpose of this project "Central Eurasia" term encompasses Russia, China, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The project is launching a new website in the Russian language that covers political, economic, security, and energy issues in Central Eurasia. Country and regional level relationships within Central Eurasia are explored. The issues of integration, activities of the countries within CIS, CSTO, EurAsEz, SCO, country and regional level relationships, policy of Russia, China, and other major players in Central Asia are widely researched and discussed. Interviews and power point presentations done by the team members are also available. The director of the project is Vladimir Paramonov. He is an expert on Central Eurasia with more than 15 years of experience in working for the Government of Uzbekistan and international organizations. He is an author and co-author of more than 200 publications and is supported by a team of experts specializing in the same issues. [...] All questions about the project can be directed to Vladimir Paramonov v_paramonov--at--yahoo.com - u.h." Site contents: * Table of Contents [= sitemap]; * Central Eurasia (# Politics - incl.: The weakness of the state intelligence as a system problem in the development of post-Soviet space, China in Central Asia: Threat or Opportunity?, China in Central Asia: politics, economy, security,, Tajikistan: confident march towards destabilization? Foreign Policy in Central Asia to China: the period from 2000 to present, # Economics - incl.: Central Asia - traffic deadlock and raw material appendage of Eurasia? Part 1-8, Economic relations between Russia and Central Asia: Key issues, The economic policy of China in Uzbekistan, The economic policy of China in Turkmenistan, China's economic policy in Tajikistan, China's economic policy in Kyrgyzstan, The economic policy of China in Kazakhstan, The economic policy of China in Central Asia: trade, finance, projects and institutions', # Safety - incl.: China's policy in Central Asian security: the general direction, the main outcomes and major prospects, The main factors of China's policy in Central Asian security: strengthened U.S. presence, The main factors of China's policy in Central Asian security: a factor of instability in Afghanistan, The main factors of China's policy in Central Asian security: a factor in the collapse of the USSR, On the question of reducing its military presence in the border area of China and Central Asia: new challenges for the SCO, Border and territorial disputes in Sino-Central Asian Relations: solved once and for all? Part 1-2, Military cooperation between Russia and Central Asian countries within the CIS: the road "from nowhere and to nowhere"?, "The problem of Uighur separatism" in Sino-Central Asian relations: either the need for new problems for the SCO, Bilateral cooperation between Russia and Uzbekistan in the military sphere, Bilateral cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan in the military sphere, Unlearned Lessons of the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, Bilateral cooperation between Russia and Tajikistan in the military sphere, # Interviews - incl.: Uzbekistan - the guarantor of security and stability in Central Asia, China - is the dominant economic force in Central Asia, "In the narrow confines of national economies we can not achieve a breakthrough, Kyrgyzstan: "Client" more dead than alive ..., Lufthansa opens Uzbekistan, Problems in Afghanistan: No military solution, Puzzles for EAEC - how to divide the river, Results of the visit of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Uzbekistan, Experts: Rivalry of Russia and China threaten stability in Central Asia, # Presentations - incl.: Energy cooperation between Russia and Central Asia: problems and prospects, Economic presence in Russia and China in Central Asia); * New Materials (Incl.: Water and energy problems in Central Asia and Russia's policy. Part 1-3, Analytical frameworks of post-Soviet space: from classification to assess the main challenges to the development of national policy analysis schools); * Library (inc.: free online copy [PDF, in Russian] of Paramonov VV, Strokov AV, and Stolpovsky OA. 2008. Russia and China in Central Asia: politics, economics, security. ISBN: 978-9967-24-911-0); * Shop (Books, Reports); * Partnership [an invitation to media, experts, institutions]; * About Me; * Contact; * Search. [A site with multilingual (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, and Spanish) navigation and contents - ed.] URL http://www.ceasia.ru/ Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Umida Hashimova (umida.uz--at--googlemail.com), forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful 15 Nov 2010 One Free Korea [Blog] www.kpajournal.com, USA. Self-description: "Why blog about North Korea? North Korea's nuclear program and the diplomacy that has attempted to end it for decades are widely covered in the media, but the media has done a poor job reporting the wider North Korea story: its people and their suffering, the society in which they live, and what these things say about the failure of the international community to respond to a grave humanitarian crisis. Those missing pieces of the story are the pieces that put the nuclear issue and every other part of the North Korean tragedy in context." Site contents: * FAQ; * About [the Blog's editors]; * News [Korea/Asia News Headlines]; * Blogs (Best of the Korea Blogs, incl.: "DPRK Studies", "ROK Drop", "The Marmot's Hole", "Are You NK?"); * Plan B ["Plan B: How to Disarm Kim Jong Il Without Bombing Him"]; * The Camps ["North Koreas' Largest Concentration Camps on Google Earth - The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea estimates that North Korea holds approximately 200,000 people in its system of concentration and detention camps"; * Interviews (incl. interviews with: # Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Scholar on Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute; # Prof. Jae Ku, then-North Korea Program Director, Freedom House; # Mr. Chuck Downs, private consultant, former senior Pentagon official, and former Chair of the North Korea Working Group; # Han Ki Hong, President, The Daily NK, An online news site focusing on North Korea; # L. Gordon Flake, Executive Director, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation; # Dr. Norbert Vollertsen, human rights activist; # Dr. Marcus Noland and Dr. Stephan Haggard, co-authors, "Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform"; # Prof. Andrei Lankov, author of "North of the DMZ."); * Google Earth (North Korea's Secrets, Revealed by Google Earth: # The Camps, # New Discovery: Camp 12, # Camp 16: Mass Escape, # Camp 22: Holocaust Now, # The North Korean Air Force, # Pyongyang Airport, # Wonsan, # Ghost Cities, # Kim Jong Il's Largest Palace, # North Korea's Nuclear Sites, # Camps 14 & 18, # More of Kim Jong Il's Palaces). * Search; * Recent Comments; * Advocacy Sites; * Clandestine Reporting from North Korea; * Favorite Columnists; * Iraq Blogs; * Korea Blogs; * Non-Korea Blogs; * U.N. Documents; * U.S. Statutes, Regulations, and Executive Orders; * Categories [blog tags incl.; Human Trafficking, Russia, "United" Nations, Drugs & N Korea, Proliferation, Islam, Axis of Evil, History, The Fifth Column, Religion, Reconstruction, Money Laundering, Deprogramming, U.S. Politics, Anju Links] * Recently Posted (incl: Is Kim Jong Eun Already the Most Hated Man in North Korea?, U.N. Shocker! China Helps North Korea Cheat on Sanctions, China the Predator, Obama: Bush Wimped Out on Kim Jong Il, Get Your Goose Step P??n Here, The Reaper Comes for Cho Myong Rok, Rimjingang Takes Covert Journalism to the Next Level, NKDB Seminar in DC Nov. 11, NKnet DC Conference Wrap-up, Congressional Research Service: China Ignoring U.N. Sanctions, Open News on North Korea's Drug Problem, Plan B Watch); * Blog Monthly Archives (since Jan 2000); * Korean Newsfeeds. [The editor of the "One Free Korea" blog, Joshua Stanton is an attorney practicing in Washington, DC. and a former U.S. Army Judge Advocate in Korea, 1998-2002. - ed.] URL http://freekorea.us/ Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [access to http://freekorea.us/ 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]: Study / Documents / News / Online Guide * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V. Useful 14 Nov 2010 KPA [North Korean Army] Journal www.kpajournal.com, USA. Self-description: "[W]elcome to KPA Journal. The goals of this modest publication are to allow myself and others to freely share new, interesting or updated information concerning: all aspects of the Korean People's Army (KPA, more commonly known as the North Korean Army) from its birth until present; ballistic missile development; intelligence operations (e.g., seaborne infiltration operations, etc.); and other defense and intelligence related issues concerning the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, more commonly known as North Korea)." Site contents: * About KPA Journal; * Mailing List; * Previous Issues ((# Vol. 1, No. 9 - Sep 2010 (Mi-2 HOPLITE in KPAF Service; KPA Lessons Learned from Foreign Conflicts, Part I; Biography: Vice Marshal Jo Myong Rok; Biography: Vice Marshal Yi Tu-ik), # Vol. 1, No. 8 - Aug 2010 (KPA Engineer River Crossing Forces, A Look Inside a DPRK 'Mother Ship', Correction: BTR-60 in KPA Service, Additional Material - Editor's Notes and detailed Endnotes), # Vol. 1, No. 7 - Jul 2010 (The KPA Mechanized Infantry Battalion, BTR-60 in KPA Service, Addendum: Han-gang Bridges, Addendum: P'okpoong Main Battle Tank, Additional Material - Editor's Notes and detailed Endnotes), # Vol. 1, No. 6 - Jun 2010 (DPRK Intelligence Agencies, 1967-1971, Part 3; Addendum: P'okpoong Main Battle Tank; Additional Material - Editor's Notes and detailed Endnotes), # Vol. 1, No. 5 - May 2010, # Vol. 1, No. 4 - Apr 2010, # Vol. 1, No. 3 - Mar 2010, # Vol. 1, No. 2 - Feb 2010, # Vol. 1, No. 1 - Jan 2010); * Declassified Documents (# Leaflet Dropping in Korea by the Far Eastern Air Force (3 January 1951); * Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. (About, Published Works, Forthcoming Works); * Support (Search, Contact); * Contributors. ["Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. is an internationally recognized analyst, award winning author and lecturer on North Korean defense and intelligence affairs and ballistic missile development in the Third World. He is currently a senior analyst and author for IHS Jane's (formerly the Jane's Information Group)."] URL http://www.kpajournal.com/ 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]: Other * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V. Useful 12 Nov 2010 International Institute for Okinawan Studies (IIOS) University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan. Self-description: "A hub research institution in the Asia-Pacific region beyond boundaries: Looking at the global from Okinawa's local perspectives. IIOS is an interdisciplinary institution that integrated research centers at UR, aiming to develop multifaceted and international research projects on Okinawa and related areas." Site contents: * Ryukyu-Okinawan Studies; * Contemporary Okinawan Studies [incl. contents of the launched in 2010 Japanese language 'International Journal of Okinawan Studies' (IJOS), http://www.iios.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/IJOS_pub/]; * Asia Studies; * Migration Studies; * Pacific Islands Studies; * American Studies; * What's New; * About IIOS; * Contact Us. [A bi-lingual (JP,EN) site. In Nov 2010 the English language section of the site was under construction - ed.] URL http://www.iios.u-ryukyu.ac.jp/en/ 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. / Study * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful 11 Nov 2010 Hosei University - Research Institutes Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan. Self-description: "Hosei University was born in the year 1880 as 'Tokyo Hogakusha (Tokyo School of Law)'. The university was founded as individual freedom movements aimed at increasing personal freedom and the advancement of society continued to grow taking advantage of the 'progressive atmosphere' to take part in the application of law and with the purpose of cultivating high level law professionals who would help to 'open up' society. 130 years later it has grown into a comprehensive university with 15 undergraduate faculties, 14 graduate schools and 3 professional schools." Site contents: * Ohara Institute for Social Research (Only in Japanese, http://oohara.mt.tama.hosei.ac.jp/english/index.html)["The Ohara Institute for Social Research, founded in 1919, is one of the oldest research institutes in the fields of social science in Japan."]; * Institute of Okinawan Studies (Only in Japanese, http://www.hosei.ac.jp/fujimi/okiken/index.html) ["This Institute was established in 1972 to do comparative research on the culture, history and linguistics of not only the Ryukyu islands, centered on Okinawa, but also of surrounding areas such as China, Southeast Asia and Korea. Now that the Institute of Okinawan studies has expanded into a world-wide concern, the Institute is playing a central role in proving and exchanging information among the researchers within and outside Japan." * Boissonade Institute of Modern Law and Politics (Only in Japanese, http://www.hosei.ac.jp/gendai_hou/index_eng.htm) ["This Institute was established in 1977 in memory of Dr. Gustave Boissonade, who is known as the father of modern law in Japan and who contributed much to Hosei University during its formative period. The Institute has two principal objects. One is to collect and research materials concerning Boissonade that would otherwise be scattered and forgotten. The other is to make an interdisciplinary approach to several complicated legal phenomena in modern society that could no longer be analyzed with conventional legal approaches."]; * The Nogami Memorial Noh Theater Research Institute (Only in Japanese, http://www9.i.hosei.ac.jp/~nohken/)["The Institute puts much efforts into researching and collecting materials related to Noh theater, mainly in the form of old documents found all over Japan. Since the Institute was established, it has collected over 40,000 items, including rare and extremely valuable manuscripts dating from the Muromachi and the Edo eras."; * Institute of Comparative Economic Studies (Only in Japanese, http://www.hosei.ac.jp/hikaku2/indexice.htm) ["The main survey fields of the Institute are international economic relations, especially between Japan and east/south-east Asian countries, as well as between Japan and other industrialized nations."]; * Center for Regional Research (Only in Japanese, http://www.hosei-hurin.net/index.html) ["The Center hopes to contribute to the revitalization, revival, and development of local communities by building networks with various leaders of municipalities, NPOs, NGOs, and local businesses who are engaged in the development of the regions."]; * Center for International Japan Studies (http://aterui.i.hosei.ac.jp/Default.aspx?tabid=331) ["The Center works cooperatively with the four research and educational institutions that are the nucleus of this project (the Research Center for International Japanese Studies, the Nogami Memorial Institute of Nohgaku Studies, the Institute of Okinawan Studies, and the International Japan-Studies Institute) to bring overall unity to the 21st [Century Centers of Excellence] COE Program."]; * Research Center of International Japan Studies (http://aterui.i.hosei.ac.jp/default.aspx?tabid=340) ["[T]he [earlier and now superseded] Japan-related research in Japan was based on the methodologies of Japanese literature and history, and [...] had isolationist tendencies. 'International Japanese Studies' brings interdisciplinary and international dimensions to this Japan-based research. By opening up the field in this way, 'International Japanese Studies' beckons us to re-evaluate and re-discover the unique and universal elements of Japanese culture in a rapidly globalizing world." URL http://www.hosei.ac.jp/english/institute/ 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]: Academic * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful 07 Nov 2010 Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia (Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China) (AMCE) [a network] AMCE, European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), UK. Self-description: "The recent long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and increasing political, religious, and ethnic clashes in the different regions of the Middle East and Central Eurasia, signal that more geopolitical changes in these regions are forthcoming. Under such present conditions of conflict and transformation, anthropologists have plenty of work to do, and may yet contribute to a better understanding of complex problems and their resolution. [...] Our networking [est. Aug 2010] is open to all of likeminded and interested anthropologists, students and researchers of social science working on a diversity of aspects of modern and contemporary societies in the Middle East and Central Eurasia, including those who work on minority groups, or on religious themes. We invite you to join our networking and participate in our academic debates. To join the mailing list visit: http://lists.easaonline.org/listinfo.cgi/amce-easaonline.org " Site contents: * About EASA ["a professional association [est. 1989] open to all social anthropologists either qualified in, or else working in, Europe."]; * Membership; * Directory of Members; * Journal (SA/AS) [details of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale (ISSN 0964-0282)]; * Book Series; * Conferences; * [Other] Networks Africanist, Anthropology and Mobility network, Anthropology of Law and Rights, Anthropology of Religion, Biosocial Becomings network, Ethics, Europeanist, Mainstream American Culture Network (MACNet), Media Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Mediterraneanist (MEdNeT), Peace and conflict studies in anthropology (PACSA), Sacral Healing and Communication network, Teaching Anthropology, Visual Anthropology (VANEASA); * Institutional Partners * Calendar; * Job Announcements; * PhD Database (SELECT: # University [Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Munich, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity / Univ. of Sussex,Roehampton Univ., Univ. of Surrey, London, UK,Univ. Wien/Univ. of Vienna, Univ. College London, Univ. of Graz, Univ. of Oxford, Univ. of Vienna], # Department [Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Volkskunde and Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Music (Ethnomusicology), Social and Cultural Anthropology, Social and Cultural Diversity / Sussex Centre for Migration Research, Social Anthropology], # Supervisor, # Keyword title, # Keyword abstract, # Year of approval); * Study Programmes; * Contact; * Links (Organisations, Funding, Search engines, Journals); * Login. URL http://www.easaonline.org/networks/amce/index.htm Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Pedram Khosronejad (pedram.khosronejad--at--st-andrews.ac.uk), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info. / Online Guide * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful 05 Nov 2010 Recent Bibliography of East Asian Regionalism and Integration (2007-2010) East Asia Integration Studies, Hanns-Seidel Stiftung, South Korea. Supplied note: "Dear list members, we are proud to announce the publication of the second, considerably enlarged edition of the 'Recent Bibliography of East Asian Regionalism and Integration (2007-2010)'. You can download the bibliography for free at: http://www.asianintegration.org/images/documents/bibliography%20of%20east%20asian%20integration%202-1%209-2010.pdf [...] Bernhard Seliger, Founding Editor East Asian Integration Studies Website, Resident Representative, Hanns-Seidel-Foundation Korea." Self-description: "This bibliography is part of the East Asian Integration Studies Website www.asianintegration.org. With this website and bibliography we hope to stimulate research into East Asian integration. There is no claim for this list to be complete and we welcome amendments. Please send them to seliger--at--hss.or.kr. There will be regular updates of the bibliography in the future." Site contents: PDF format. Version: 2.1.1. Eighteen pages of references listed in alphabetic order for each of the years: 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007. Release date: 15 Sep 15, 2010. URL http://www.asianintegration.org/ Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.asianintegration.org/ Link reported by: Bernhard Seliger (seliger--at--hss.or.kr), 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]: NGO / Academic * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful 03 Nov 2010 South Asian Legal History Resources UW Law School, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA. Supplied note: "I have started a South Asian Legal History Resources website: [at the URL below] It includes a number of research tools on the history of law in South Asia, particularly for the colonial period. Among these are: * a research guide to using case law from colonial South Asia (written for non-lawyers), * a list of abbreviations used in South Asian case law citation, * a list of published primary sources (including legislation, case digests, law reports and law journals), * a list of titles held in the library of a colonial solicitors' firm in Bombay, c.1911, * a list of titles of articles in seven leading colonial law journals, 1891-1947 (none of these journals is available electronically), * admission register entries of South Asian law students at the Inns of Court in London, 1863-1947 (including demographic information) - Mitra Sharifi." Self-description: "The aim of this website is to share tools and resources for the historical study of law in South Asia." Site contents: * Citation Abbreviations; * Colonial Law Journals (incl.: PDF copies of Allahabad Law Journal, vol.1 (1904)-45 (1947), Bombay Law Journal, vol.1 (1923-4)-24 (1946), Bombay Law Reporter (journal section), vol.2 (1900)-49 (1947), Calcutta Law Journal, vol.1 (1905)-82 (1947), Criminal Law Journal of India, vol.1 (1904)-45 (1944), Madras Law Journal, vol.1 (1891)-93 (1947), Travancore Law Journal, vol.1 (1911)-34 (1944)); * Colonial Law Library [a list of books owned by Bombay Solicitors' Firm, Wadia Ghandy & Co., circa 1911]; * Images (incl.: Bombay High Court, Calcutta High Court (Kolkata), Formerly Rangoon' s Chief Court of Lower Burma (Yangon), Lincoln' s Inn (London), Lincoln' s Inn Great Hall (London)); * Mitra Sharafi' s Publications (Links to online articles and papers on: South Asian Legal History, History of the Legal Profession, Zoroastrian Legal Studies, Legal Pluralism, Slavery); * Published Primary Sources ["This list identifies a set of materials that, while often rare, are more accessible than unpublished, archival sources. It covers legislation, case digests, law reports and journals."]; * Research Guide to Case Law ("The purpose of this guide is to help historians develop productive research strategies for the study of law in colonial South Asia. Its main focus is one particular type of legal source: case law." 1. Background: The Role of Precedent; 2. Published Sources: Law Reports, Case Digests, Newspapers & Legislation; 3. Unpublished Sources: Case Papers, Judges' Notebooks, Private Papers & Oral History; 4. Format: Organizing and Citing Cases); * South Asians [Asian law students 1861-1947 learning to become barristers] at the Inns [of Court]]; * Links to useful [online] materials & catalogues: (incl.: A2A (UK), British Library: Asia, Pacific & Africa, British Library Integrated Catalogue, Cambr. Oral History Collection, Cooperative Hindu Law Bibliography, Digital South Asia Library, Heinonline, India: A Legal Research Guide, Indlaw, Inner Temple Database (UK), Inst. for Adv. Legal Studies Library (UK), JUSTIS (UK), LawNet (Sri Lanka), Making Britain, Making of Modern Law, Manupatra, National Archives (UK), Ox. Int'l Encyc. of Legal History, Parliamentary Papers, Scott MS: Indians at Inns, 1859-1927, SOAS Library (UK), Times Dig. Archive (UK), Wharton' s Law Lexicon (1892), Worldcat); * Links to useful organizations, networks & opportunities (incl.: American Institute for Indian Studies, American Society for Legal History, Bombay High Court, Calcutta High Court, K.R. Cama Institute (India), LASSNet (India), National Archives of India, National Library of India). URL http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/sharafi/ Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Mitra Sharifi (sharafi--at--wisc.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study / Online Guide * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential 01 Nov 2010 Asia Deposit Rates - Top Bank Deposit Accounts in Asia International Deposit Rates Exchange (IDRE), Australia / UK / USA. Supplied note: "Dear Asia Studies WWW Virtual Library, My name is Peter Fiasco and I would like to suggest the following free international financial information web resource http://www.deposits.org & http://asia.deposits.org It provides international bank deposit comparison information highlighting best return yields around the world, including country and political risk factors to consider including Asia. It also includes a glossary/dictionary for banking and deposit terms. - pf." Self-description: "The International Deposit Rates Exchange (IDRE) was formed in 2009. Our website showcases and compares the leading banking and financial institutions deposit and savings rates. We provide data on various types of deposits by country including but limited to term deposits, fixed deposits, time deposits and certificate of deposit. [ ...] All rates and associated information is provided by our providers and companies from publicly available data on their websites and at local regional branches. We use this data to provide country market, regional and worldwide comparisons to be the one-stop comprehensive reference for deposit rates. [...]." Site contents: * Top Bank Deposit Accounts in Asia (Bank, Type of Deposit, Account Details, Currency, Rate p.a./APR); * Rates By Deposit Type (Time Deposits, Term Deposits, Certificates of Deposits, Fixed Deposits); * By Asian Country (Brunei, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand); * By Asian Companies (Axis Bank, Baiduri Bank, Bangkok Bank, Bank Mandiri, Bank of China, Bank of India, BPI, Citibank Japan, Habib Bank, Hong Leong Bank, HSBC Hong Kong, IDBI Bank, Industrial Bank, Maybank, OCBC); * World Deposit Rates - Top Deposit Rates by Country (# Country, # Country Risk Rank [calculated from the Euromoney Bi-Annual Country Risk survey], # Political Risk Score [calculated from a weighted score of 30 across six categories - government stability, regulation/regulatory environment, non-pyament of loans/dividedends/trade-related finance.non-repatriation of capital, corruption perception, information access/transparency and judicial system], # GDP PPP [purchasing power parity] Per Capita [using 2009 IMF figures], # Currency, # Current Max Rate P.A./APR, # Change from last month); * Regional Deposit Rates (Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, Australia/Oceania, South America). URL http://asia.deposits.org Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] Link reported by: Peter Fiasco (peterfiasco--at--financialadvisory.com) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business * Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential 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