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Asian Studies WWW Announcements: late April 1998
Vol. 5, No. 52

30 Apr 1998

Middle East Medievalists (MEM)
Colorado State University, USA
A site dedicated to the study of the Islamic lands of the Middle East during the medieval period (defined roughly as 500-1500 C.E.).
Site contents: About MEM; MEM's Board of Directors; Membership Form and Schedule of Dues; Al-`Usur al-Wusta: The Bulletin of the Middle East Medievalists; Title Pages & Contents of Al-`Usur al-Wusta (1992 - present); Links to Other Middle East Sites (Middle East Centers and Institutions, Middle East Organizations and Associations, Miscellaneous Middle East Sites) MEM Graduate Student Prize.
[MEM is a sponsor of a recently launched scholarly mailing list H-MidEast-Medieval@h-net.msu.edu - ed.]
URL http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Hist/mem/index.html
Link submitted by: Frank Conlon (conlon@u.washington.edu) and Peter Knupfer (asociate@h-net.msu.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

29 Apr 1998

Soviet-Afghan War 1979-1989
www.afghanwar.spb.ru, Russia
Supplied note: "This site contains materials related to the Soviet - Afghan War 1979-1989. Presently, [annotations] are in Russian and English. If you read and understand Russian we will send you the fonts. The information, photos, documents and other materials is updated monthly."
[A collection of B&W and colour photographs by Soviet and Afghan combatants - ed.]
URL http://www.afghanwar.spb.ru/summary.htm
Link submitted by: Vladimir Grigoriev (vova@dux.ru)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

29 Apr 1998

Ilgynly-Depe, archaeological site in Turkmenistan
www.wplus.net, Russia ?
Self description: "Ilgynly-Depe is the monument in southern Turkmenistan. It is a 14 ha site, 240 km SE of Ashgabat and 105 km NE of Mashhad. A prosperous agricultural community of about 2000 people lived there in Chalcolithic. The site contains stratigraphically undisturbed materials of ca. 5000-3000 BC. [Since 1986] the site was investigated by the Karakum expedition of the Institute of History of Material Culture (St. Petersburg) of the Russian Academy of Sciences."
URL http://www.wplus.net/pp/kasparov/ilgynly.htm
Link submitted by: Alexey K. Kasparov (key.@mail.wplus.net) and John Schoeberlein (schoeber@fas.harvard.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

29 Apr 1998

Asian-American Health
Baylor School of Nursing, Baylor University, USA
Supplied note: "Practical information on providing health care to Southeast Asians living in the West. Focused on physicians, nurses, social workers, etc. Interested in additional materials. See section on submitting. Site also contains several reports on our work + selected links."
Site contents: Resources for Cross-Cultural Care and Prevention (Cambodian/Khmer Laotian/Lao, Vietnamese); Educational Resources; Resources in Dallas, Texas; New Dawn: [materials] of interest to Khmer, Laotian, and Vietnamese health professionals Links: Asian Health and Related Sites; Benefactors; Submitting Articles
URL http://www.baylor.edu/~Charles_Kemp/asian_health.html
Link submitted by: Charles Kemp (Charles_Kemp@baylor.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

28 Apr 1998

Eric Sautede - Personal Homepage
Centre d'Etudes Francais sur la Chine contemporaine, Taipei, Taiwan
Supplied note: "This is a personal homepage where I have put all my articles (on Taiwan politics and the Internet in China) published in China Perspectives, the magazine of the Centre d'Etudes Francais sur la Chine contemporaine (CEFC) based in Hong Kong and Taipei. I also added a brief presentation of the CEFC and useful links related to my topics of interest: Taiwan, South Korea and the Internet in China."
URL http://www.chez.com/sautede
Link submitted by: Eric Sautede (esautede@ms8.hinet.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

28 Apr 1998

Reischauer Institute Japanese Studies Weblinks
Harvard University, USA
Supplied note: "Set of links specially targeted to assist academic Japanese studies; includes schools, research institutes, libraries and library-type indexes, reference tools, general searches, news media and periodicals on the web, government and legal sites, history archives, teaching and language learning sites, book ordering, scholarships, and academic jobs."
[A rich, bi-lingual, well annotated, frequently updated and scholarly site - ed.]
URL http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs
Link submitted by: Galen Amstutz, Coordinator (gamstutz@fas.harvard.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

28 Apr 1998

China Business Monthly
Stonecutter Publishing Inc., Canada
Supplied note [with typos quoted verbatim - ed.]:
"To report fairly and accurately on all developments that affect busienss in China. To explore and explain China's role as am emerging international economic superpower. To offer ofreign and domerstic businesses, investors and entrepreneurs vital insight and analysis on all relevant spheres of of activity in the China market."
Site contents: Subscribe, Update, Focus, Departments, Archives, Next Issue, Editorial Vision, Stonecutter, Global Business Resources, Contact Us.
[An initial issue of a new glossy e-magazine for Western businessmen. The contents are better proofread than the supplied announcement - ed.]
URL http://www.chinanewsletter.com/cbm
Link submitted by: Bob Tytus (stonecut@ultratech.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

27 Apr 1998

The Norwegian Forum on South Asia (NoFSA)
The Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway
Self description: "NoFSA's aim is to be a network organisation connecting dispersed Norwegian South Asia resources within research, culture, business, public administration, NGOs, the media etc. [...] We also wish to improve and expand contacts between Norway and South Asia, [...] and to inform a Norwegian audience about the countries of the region."
Site contents: 1. General objective; 2. NoFSA-net@sum.uio.no electronic discussion group; 3. Resource catalogue (Norwegian resources on South Asia); 4. How to contact us.
[A site under construction. If it keeps its promise to remain a specialised Norway-centric information system, it has a chance to become a unique and sought-after resource. Otherwise, it will be one of the many thousands of general purpose sites with general information about South Asia in general - ed.]
URL http://www.nofsa.uio.no/
Link submitted by: Ram Eivind Gupta (ramg@hedda.uio.no)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

26 Apr 1998

Love Indonesia
Bisnis Indonesia-Tokyo, Japan
Supplied note: "Anything about Indonesia - Try it and you will realize the real Indonesia."
Site contents: News; Bisnis Indonesia; Japanese Media; Magazines; Journals & Electronics Media; Finance & Various Indonesian Sites; Indonesia Travel Information; Library References; Philately; Search Engines.
[A page by Indonesia Economic Newspaper, Tokyo Bureau. Cataloged links are grouped in categories, but not evaluated or annotated - ed.]
URL http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/garden/9208
Link submitted by: Richard Susilo (richard@crisscross.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

25 Apr 1998

Voice of Tibet - Internet Edition
Voice of Tibet, India
Supplied note: "Voice of Tibet, the Tibetan broadcasting station in Dharamsala, has launched a [..] web site. We can listen to the [...] Tibetan program every day on line by real-audio."
Self description "Voice of Tibet (VOT) broadcasts a daily 30 minutes service every day on short wave. The programme production is carried out by Tibetan journalists stationed in several countries, including Europe and the US. All VOT programmes are produced in Tibetan language, and focus mainly on Tibet related issues. The programmes are aired in the evening in the target area, and VOT is now in the process of raising money for starting up a morning service. If you don't have the RealAudio player [software, it is available from http://www.real.com/players/] free of charge."
URL http://www.vot.org/
Link submitted by: OSADA Yukiyasu (osada@tibet.to)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

24 Apr 1998

Cambodian-American Radio Network: Internet Edition
Cambodian-American Radio Network, USA
Supplied note: "News, commentaries, educational and culture programmings, entirely in Khmer. You need RealPlayer [software] (free from http://www.real.com/players/) to hear the programs."
Site contents: [Week of Apr 19-Apr 26, 1998] "Weekly News: Ms. Vichet is your hostess, Mr. Puthsarak and Mr. Vanna are your news announcer this week; Special Report: Interview with a CARN listener who had just got back from visiting O-Smach; Prak Rin Weekly Comment: The overwhelming reports on the efforts to capture KR leaders in Anlong Veng and bring them to try in an International Court, bother Prak Rin; Song of the week: 'Roeung Chivit' - in stereo!!!"
URL http://www.cambodianradio.net/carn/
Link submitted by: Editor (carn@cambodianradio.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

24 Apr 1998

Confluences: Postwar Japan and France, May 1998
Japan Studies Program, University of Kentucky, USA
Supplied note: "The Japan Studies Program at the University of Kentucky is hosting a Working Papers Symposium that is free and open to the public.
Confluences: Postwar Japan and France, Saturday 2 May, 1998, 359 Student Center, University of Kentucky"
Self description: "This symposium is the first step towards a collection of essays to survey the confluence of ideas between Japan and France in the postwar years. [..] Of particular interest are essays that address bi-directional exchange, that is, movements to Japan from France and also to France from Japan, in any arena of intellectual endeavor."
URL http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/RAE/Japan/enrich.html
Link submitted by: Doug Slaymaker (dslaym@pop.uky.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

24 Apr 1998

Dharam Hinduja Indic Research Center
Columbia University, New York, USA
Self description: "The aim of the Center [est.1994] is to study Indian traditions of knowledge from the Vedas up to modern times and to promote research of academic excellence relevant to contemporary issues."
Site contents: Advisory Council & Governing Committee; Calendar; Course Offerings; Newsletter; Post-doctoral Fellowship; Publications; University Seminar on Indology; Women and Traditional Healthcare in India; Working Groups; Authority and Interpretation in Indic Traditions; Ayurveda and Indic Traditions of Healthcare; Gender and Authority in Indic Traditions; The Exact Sciences in Indic Traditions; Indic Traditions of Conflict Management; On-Line Manuscript Project; Related Links.
URL http://www.columbia.edu/cu/dhirc/
Link submitted by: David Magier (magier@columbia.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

23 Apr 1998

Chinese Ecosystem Research Network (CERN)
Commission for Integrated Survey of Natural Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Self description: A "research network [which consists] of 29 field stations of CAS which cover the fields of [...] agriculture, forest, grassland, lake and marine ecosystems, 5 disciplinary subcenters of hydrology, soil, atmosphere, biology and aquatic, and 1 synthesis center. CERN began to be constructed from 1988. Up to now, more than 1000 scientists and technicians from 21 institutes of CAS have involved in the activities of the project."
Site contents: Initiation of the project; Major goal and objective; Organizations and management Research progress and achievements; International cooperation; 98' International Symposium on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.
URL http://www.cern.ac.cn
Link submitted by: Liu Wei Ph.D. (wl@cisnar.ac.cn)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

23 Apr 1998

The Hong Kong Social Welfare Information Kit (CD-ROM)
The Hong Kong Council of Social Service, HK, China
Supplied note: "The Social Welfare Information Kit (SWIK) 1.0 CD-ROM is the first of its kind ever produced in Hong Kong [...] This kit contains information such as the Directory of Social Services, Hong Kong Welfare History in the past five decades, a full Social Research Index, Social Statistics, Welfare Glossary and the full text of most of the Hong Kong and mainland China welfare policy papers. Furthermore, tailor-made functions such as printing, printing mailing label, bookmark, searching and editing are also provided to help researchers with their research work."
[Details of a commercial product - ed.]
URL http://www.hkcss.org.hk/swik/1_main.html
Link submitted by: John Fung (rd@hkcss.org.hk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

22 Apr 1998

Japanese Studies Association of Australia
Melbourne University, Australia
Self description: "The JSAA is the professional association for those in Australia who teach, research or study Japan. The Association was established in 1978, and membership is open to Japanese Studies practitioners in Australia or overseas."
Site contents: About the JSAA; Membership Information; Japanese Studies; Conference Information; Postgraduate and Scholarship Information; Educational Links; Other Japanese Studies Related Links; Other Asian Studies Related Links.
URL http://www.arts.unimelb.edu.au/Dept/J_and_C/jsaa.html
Link submitted by: Mackie Vera (mackie@spectrum.curtin.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Apr 1998

AsiaNetwork Consortium
St.Olaf College, Northfield, MN, USA
Self description: "A consortium [est. 1992] of over a hundred North American colleges striving to strengthen the role of Asian Studies within the framework of liberal arts education to help prepare a new generation of undergraduates for a world in which Asian societies will play more and more prominent roles."
Site contents: Current Events and Announcements (incl. ASIANetwork 1998 Conference); About ASIANetwork; ASIANetwork Resources - ASIANetwork Exchange (ASIANetwork Newsletter); Freeman Foundation Collaborative Research and On-site Study in Asia (General Information about the Freeman Foundation Grants, Student-Faculty Fellows Program, College in Asia Summer Institutes); United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia; Asian Studies Curricular Resources (Asian Studies Course Syllabi, Asian Studies Links, Asian Studies-Related Mailing Lists).
[Site launched 20 Apr 1998 with some sections under construction. It is a promising new initiative which might - hopefully - complement and collaborate with (i.e. not replicate) online activities and resources of H-Asia Web (http://h-net.msu.edu/~asia/), AsianDoc (http://asiandoc.lib.ohio-state.edu/) and Asian Studies WWW VL (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) projects. Certainly, the AS WWW VL is ready for global cooperation and resource sharing - ed.]
URL http://www.asianetwork.org
Link submitted by: Pin Wan (wan@stolaf.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Apr 1998

Bishop Museum Press
Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Supplied note: "Founded in 1892, Bishop Museum Press was one of the first scholarly publishers in the Western Hemisphere and is now a leader in publishing both popular and scholarly natural history, cultural history, literature, and current affairs of Hawai'i and the Pacific."
Site contents: Ordering Information, Order Form, Search Titles/Authors, Browse the Catalog, Bishop Museum Home page.
URL http://www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/press/
Link submitted by: Arthur Buto (ajbuto@bishop.bishop.hawaii.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Apr 1998

The Early Medieval China Group
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Supplied note: "We have the beginnings of a website for the Early Medieval China Group. Not everything is yet in place [...] but there is enough there now for you to take a look and offer comments."
Site contents: email link to: emedch-l@calvin.usc.edu; EMCG Members; Early Medieval China (journal); Bibliography; Biographical Dictionary; Thesaurus; Chinese Characters Dictionary Web.
[The birth of a very valuable resource - ed.]
URL http://www-lib.usc.edu/Info/EastAsian/wjnbc.htm
Link submitted by: Ken Klein (kklein@calvin.usc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Apr 1998

Global Plant Protection Information System (GPPIS)
FAO, Rome, Italy
Self decription: "The current Global Plant Protection Information System (GPPIS), is an Internet/WWW based version of FAO's earlier [1987] work. GPPIS is a global implementation and extension of the Pacific Plant Protection Information System (PPPIS) developed by FAO and the South Pacific Commission (SPC). GPPIS replaces PPPIS and fulfills FAO's constitutional mandate in the area of nutrition, food and agriculture. [...] GPPIS is a [...] a dynamic framework for collective knowledge processing."
Supplied note: "Although the name is 'Global', 99% of the information contained at this site refers to crop pests of the Pacific".
URL http://pppis.fao.org
Link submitted by: Bob Macfarlane (bmacfarlane@hort.cri.nz)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

21 Apr 1998

The Buddhist Discussion Centre, Upwey, Australia
BDC, Upwey, Victoria, Australia
"The Buddhist Discussion Centre (Upwey) Ltd [est. 1955] is a charitable self-help organisation. It cultivates "Friendliness, Practicality, Professionalism, Cultural Adaptability and Scholarship." The centre houses The John D. Hughes Collection (a multilingual reference library) of "the complete Buddhist Canon; Buddhist Journals and Newsletters; commentaries by renowned Buddhist Teachers; video recordings of Buddhist Monks and Nuns; and other Buddha Dhamma reference materials."
URL http://www.bdcu.org.au
Link submitted by: Frank T. Carter (ftcarter@eisa.net.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

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