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Asian Studies WWW Announcements: early August 1998
Vol. 5, No. 59

15 Aug 1998

KLR Classical Japanese Literature
University of Toronto, Canada
Supplied note: "Synopses of major works from Japanese Classical Literature of the Nara through mid medieval period (8th-14th centuries), links to Japanese print and other media, and pages for the fiction of Masahiko Shimada, Kimono culture, and resource bibliography."
[KLR in the site's title are the initials of it's author, Professor Kenneth L. Richard - ed.]
URL http://chass.utoronto.ca/~krichard
Link submitted by: Kenneth L. Richard (krichard@chass.utoronto.ca)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

15 Aug 1998

The Asian Studies Program at Tufts University
Tufts University, USA
Supplied note: "Introduction to Asian Studies at Tufts University."
URL http://ase.tufts.edu/asian/index.html
Link submitted by: Hosea Hirata (hhirata@tufts.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

14 Aug 1998

India Micro-subject Booklists - D.K. Agencies
D.K. Agencies, Delhi, India
Supplied note: "You are welcome to visit newly installed section called 'Micro Subject Booklists' on DKA's website. Through this section we shall offer booklists on very specific subjects to meet the requirements of scholars/librarians."
Site contents: Lokayata, Martial Arts: India, Sanskrit Poetics.
URL http://www.dkagencies.com/microlst.asp
Link submitted by: Surya P. Mittal (surya@pobox.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

14 Aug 1998

Comparative Policy Research Institute
US-Japan-China Comparative Policy Research Institute, USA
Supplied note: A "non-profit think tank [est. Dec 1997 by a group of Chinese scholars, researchers, scientists, managers, and engineers residing in Silicon Valley - ed.] focusing on comparative social, economical, political, and technological policy issues concerning the US-Japan-China axis. [...] CPRI issues [an annual] 'Comparative Policy Review (CPR).'"
URL http://members.tripod.com/~cpri
Link submitted by: Jing Zhao (stf@anasift.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

13 Aug 1998

www.ciolek.com - Asia Pacific Research Online
www.ciolek.com, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "This web server specialises in networked scholarly information related to online research, teaching and publishing about Asia and related regions and topics."
Site contents: Aboriginal Studies WWW Virtual Library; Annotated Guide to WWW Search Engines; Asia Web Watch: a Register of Statistical Data; Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library; Information Quality WWW Virtual Library; Tibetan Studies WWW Virtual Library; Zen Buddhism WWW Virtual Library; Aboriginal Online Bookstore; Tibet Online Bookstore; Zen Online Bookstore.
URL http://www.ciolek.com/
Link submitted by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

13 Aug 1998

Seven Things You Didn't Know about Tibet
University of Chicago Press, USA
Supplied note: "For several centuries Westerners have gotten Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism wrong. Fueled part by fantasy and part by misinterpretation, the myths have endured. The University of Chicago Press website now hosts a web feature 'Seven Things You Didn't Know about Tibet' by Donald S. Lopez Jr., author of _Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West_. The feature discusses seven common misconceptions of Tibet and Tibet Buddhism."
[A promotional site with a link to the online catalogue of UCP books - ed.]
URL http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/493105.html
Link submitted by: Dean Blobaum (dblobaum@press.uchicago.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

13 Aug 1998

Directory of Buddhist Organizations in the Midwestern U.S.
Midwest Buddhist Information Center, USA
Supplied note: Comprehensive "list of all Buddhist organizations in the Chicago Illinois, northern Indiana, southern Wisconsin and southwestern Michigan areas. Names, addresses, email addresses, web pages, description of activities, etc. are presented."
URL http://miso.wwa.com/~jfred/
Link submitted by: Fred Babbin (jfred@wwa.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

12 Aug 1998

The United Nations in Mongolia
The United Nations, Mongolia
Supplied note: "Contains up-to-date information about politics, economics, development, geography and travel in Mongolia, as well as information about the United Nations activities in Mongolia."
Site contents: UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, WHO, UNHCHR, UNV, FAO, UNESCO, IMF, World Bank, Info Shop Hot News, Guestbook, Blue Sky Bulletin, Information on Mongolia, Links, Search.
[This bilingual site makes a heavy use of graphic interfaces. They are, perhaps, appealing to the desk-bound UN officials. However, they are not easily downloadable by the Central Asia's residents - ed.]
URL http://www.un-mongolia.mn
Link submitted by: Bayasgalan (webmaster@undp.org.mn)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

12 Aug 1998

Olive Tree Chinese Literary Magazine
Olive Tree Literature Society, USA
Supplied note: "An electronic Chinese literary magazine that has been in existence for five years, originally as a poetry journal, now as a general literary magazine including fiction, essays and criticism as well. The editorial board and growing pool of contributors span the globe [...]. Olive Tree's website also serves as an up-to-date, selective guide to Chinese language resources relating to the creation, study and appreciation of literature."
[An elegant site entirely in Chinese (Big5, GB, HZ and postscript formats) - ed.]
URL http://www.wenxue.com
Link submitted by: Charles A. Laughlin (charles.laughlin@yale.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

12 Aug 1998

Laws of the NIS Transition Countries
"Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit mbH (GTZ) & University of Bremen, Germany
Supplied note: "More than 200 [...] up-to-date NIS-state legal documents [from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Moldova - ed.] can be accessed on the Internet in English, Russian or the respective national language. Objective of this service is to assist in clarifying legal uncertainties for potential investors and in promoting economic engagement in the Caucasian and Central Asian republics."
URL http://www.gtz.de/lexinfosys
Link submitted by: Karsten Weitzenegger (int@integration.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

12 Aug 1998

The Islamic and Middle Eastern Law WWW Virtual Library
The Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, SOAS, University of London, UK
Self-description: "Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Materials on the Net."
Site contents: Texts at This Site (Feminism and Islam, Islamic Law and Finance, Islamic Family Law, Commercial Law in the Middle East, Islam and Public Law, Water in the Middle East, The 1994 Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, The Arab-Israeli Accords: Legal Perspectives); Texts Elsewhere on the Net (Ancient [pre-Islamic] Middle East, Primary Sources, Commentary and Legal Rulings, Articles, Constitutional Law, International Law, Texts from Commercial and Personal Sites Texts from Government Sites); Links to academic courses, law firms, periodicals and other web sites; Index by Country.
URL http://www.soas.ac.uk/Centres/IslamicLaw/Materials.html
Link submitted by: Gene Thursby (gthursby@religion.ufl.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 Aug 1998

China, Exploring of the Interior 1903-1904: A Travelling Exhibit
www.ChinaExhibit.org, USA
Supplied note: "While serving as topographer for a Carnegie-sponsored scientific expedition in north China in 1903-1904, [R. Harvey Sargent] took a series of pictures mostly in Hebei, Shanxi, and Shaanxi provinces. With support from the Newport [RI] Public Library and the Maine Humanities Council, a selection of these pictures has been reproduced, captioned, and mounted in museum-quality frames for display. There are also explanatory panels, a map, and a few associated artifacts."
URL http://www.ChinaExhibit.org/
Link submitted by: Craig Dietrich (dietrich@maine.rr.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 Aug 1998

Paradise Possessed - the Rex Nan Kivell Collection
National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "An exhibition [6 Aug 1998 - 7 Feb 1999] from one of the world's leading collections of material relating to the European discovery, exploration and colonisation of the South Pacific open[ed] at the National Library of Australia [...].
'Paradise Possessed : the Rex Nan Kivell Collection' features drawings, landscapes, portraits and prints, manuscripts, books, rare maps and historical objects from this collection of 15,000 items, which forms part of the central core of the National Library's holdings."
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/nankivel/
Link submitted by: Andrew Gosling (agosling@nla.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 Aug 1998

North Pacific War in Summer 1945
www2.gol.com, Germany
Supplied note: "Ich möchte Euch - oder Sie - gern auf meine neu publizierte Seite zum Ende des Pazifikkrieges und zu Geschichte und Gegenwart der Region hier oben um Hokkaido, Sachalin und die Kurilen Inseln hinweisen."
Site contents: Timeline Juli-August 1945 (Hokkaido - Kurilen - nördlich Tokyo); Biographie Admiral John S. McCain (9 Aug 1884 - 6 Sep 1945) Fast Carrier Task Force 38; Stalins Plan: Die Eroberung Hokkaidos [forthcoming section]; Der 2. September 1945 Tokyo Bay [forthcoming section]; Kurilen Inseln News!; Quellen, Links; Kalter Krieg im Nordpazifik; Region Sachalin-Hokkaido.
[Site in German by an amateur historian. Crafted with the proverbial precision - ed.]
URL http://www2.gol.com/users/haenel/index.htm
Link submitted by: Michael Haenel (haenel@gol.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 Aug 1998

Women's Chinese Writing Collection
Hua Zhao Internet Publishing Co., USA
Supplied note: "HuaZhao homepage contains a large amount of Chinese modern and classical literature resources specially on chinese women's study."
[Site entirely in Chinese. The encoding scheme is unspecified - ed.]
URL http://www.huazhao.com
Link submitted by: Minghong Wu (minghong@huazhao.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

10 Aug 1998

Chinese and Japanese Art History WWW Virtual Library
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, USA
Self-description: "This site provides information on symposia, conferences, grants and other items of interest to graduate students of Chinese and Japanese art history. I first established this page in May 1996, and update it roughly twice a month."
Site contents: Positions Available; Calls for Papers; Conferences, Symposia, Seminars, Lectures; Graduate Student Directory; Fellowships and Grants; Links to other websites related to Asian art.
[The site forms an official section of the Asian Studies WWW VL (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) - ed.]
URL http://pages.nyu.edu/~boc7379/
Link submitted by: Nixi Cura (boc7379@is.nyu.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

08 Aug 1998

Mary Ursula Bethell (1874-1945) Homepage
crash.ihug.co.nz, New Zealand
Supplied note: "Biographical information and bibliographical references relating to the New Zealand poet Mary Ursula Bethell (1874-1945)."
Site contents: Mary Ursula Bethell: Brief biography; Bibliography; Background material; Story of a biography.
URL http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~vallaura/mub.htm
Link submitted by: Valerie Laura Marshall (vallaura@ihug.co.nz)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

08 Aug 1998

Xin Yu Si (New Threads) magazine
New Threads Chinese Cultural Society, USA
Self-description: "New Threads Chinese Cultural Society is a non-profit organization, formally incorporated in New York State in February, 1997. However, as an informal group, New Threads Society has been active since February, 1994. The purpose [of the] Society is to promote Chinese culture to the general public. [..] Currently, New Threads Society publishes an electronic and multimedia magazine, 'New Threads magazine', and maintains a [...] 'New Threads Electronic Library' (http://www.xys.org/library.html), and a mailing list 'XYS-Friends'."
[Since this entry was published it has been brought to our attention that not all of the magazine's e-texts have been proofread, and the specific edition from which they were transcribed is rarely if ever mentioned. Therefore the site's rating is downgraded on from 'v.useful to 'useful' - ed.]
URL http://www.xys.org
Link submitted by: Shi-min Fang (fang@xys.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

08 Aug 1998

Lu Xun (1881-1936) Homepage
New Threads Chinese Cultural Society, USA
Supplied note: "Collections of the great writer Lu Xun's [1881-1936 - ed.] works, photos, criticism, biography and reports."
[Site in Chinese (GB format). Navigation links in Chinese and English. Since this entry was published it has been brought to our attention that not all of the magazine's e-texts, in which Lu Xun's writings appear, have been proofread, and the specific edition from which they were transcribed is rarely if ever mentioned. Therefore the site's rating is downgraded on from 'v.useful to 'useful' - ed.].
URL http://www.xys.org/pages/luxun.html
Link submitted by: Shi-min Fang (fang@xys.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

07 Aug 1998

John Smith's Home Page
Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, U.K.
Supplied note: The site entitled 'John Smith's Home Page' "contains [links to] an FTP site presenting a variety of recently created "CSX+" fonts for PC, Mac, etc. These are romanised indic fonts but can be used for Japanese, Korean, etc."
The site also provides information on research in progress into the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, and the Rajasthani oral epic of Pabuji; as well as links to Cambridge's Centre of South Asian Studies, and the Faculty of Oriental Studies.
URL http://bombay.oriental.cam.ac.uk/index.html
Link submitted by: Mark Funke (mfunke@mail.usyd.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

07 Aug 1998

Monitoring and Mapping of Asian Cyberspace
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Australia
Supplied note: "A paper by T.M. Ciolek, entitled 'Exploring the Digital Annapurna: On the Monitoring and Mapping of Asian Cyberspace' describes uses of the Altavista WWW search engine for gathering statistical data about online resources related to Asia. It also offers an analysis of the size, geographical differences and growth rates of Asian cyberspace between February 1997 and June 1998."
URL http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/leiden-98.html
Link submitted by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

07 Aug 1998

AccessAsia Review E-Journal
The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), Seattle, USA
Supplied note: "The complete text of the following essays is available at no charge [from AccessAsia 1(2), Jul 1998 - ed.]:
'Democratization in the Greater China Region' by Minxin Pei; 'State of the Field Report: Energy and Politics in Central Asia and the Caucasus' by Laurent Ruseckas. [...]
The AccessAsia Review is a state-of-the-field journal that reviews and assesses current research in the field of contemporary Asian affairs. The journal draws upon AccessAsia, a project of The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) that tracks the expertise and current research of 3,000 leading Asia specialists worldwide. More information about NBR and the AccessAsia project can be found on our website (http://www.nbr.org)."
URL http://www.accessasia.org
Link submitted by: Karolos Karnikis (karnikis@nbr.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

07 Aug 1998

Asia's Economic Crisis - Special Report from the Asia Society
Asia Society, USA
Supplied note: "A compilation of our resources on Asia's continuing economic crisis with the text of speeches given at Asia Society events by the likes of Anson Chan, William Daley, Merton Miller, Moeen Qureshi and William Clark, a number of our publications and links to the best sites for continuing coverage."
URL http://www.asiasociety.org/special-reports/
Link submitted by: Hylton Jolliffe (hyltonj@asiasoc.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

06 Aug 1998

Finnish Network for East and Southeast Asian Studies
Finnish National Network of Universities and Polytechnics for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Finland
Supplied note: "[The Network] was established in May 1996 in order to further Asia-related education and research, as well as student and staff exchange at Finnish institutes of higher education."
URL http://www.asianet.fi/eng/index.htm
Link submitted by: Pia Nasman-Hao (nasman@hkkk.fi)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

06 Aug 1998

Asian Historical Statistics Project
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan
Self-description: "Economic statistics on modern Asia [from 1850 onwards - ed.] [..]. This is a collaborative project [...] the initial phase of [which] will last five years from mid-1995. We intend to cover the whole of Asia, excluding Japan, on the most comprehensive scale possible. [The project is modelled on] 'The Long-term Economic Statistics of Japan', compiled by Kazushi Okawa, Miyohei Shinohara, and Mataji Umemura, all formerly of the Institute of Economic Research, and published by Oriental Express Publishing Co. between 1965 and 1988."
Site contents: Purpose; Progress Report, Activites, Workshops, and Symposia; Participating Researchers; Newsletter; Discussion Papers; Reprinted Papers; Asian Historical Statistics Data.
URL http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/COE/index.html
Link submitted by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

06 Aug 1998

Singapore University Press
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Supplied note: "Singapore University Press is the publishing house of the National University of Singapore. Established in 1971, it aims to disseminate the research work in all fields of the University's academic staff as well as publish scholarly books of local and regional importance in the English language by authors worldwide."
Site contents: The Arts and Social Sciences (Multi-disciplinary, Economics/Business/Management, Geography, History/Politics, Language/Linguistics, Philosophy, Sociology/Anthropology); The Sciences Architecture/Building Science; Law; Medicine; Series; Special Publications; Journals (incl. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies).
URL http://www.nus.edu.sg/SUP
Link submitted by: Patricia Tay (suptayp@nus.edu.sg)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

03 Aug 1998

The Balikpapan Orangutan Society
The Balikpapan Orangutan Society, Indonesia
Supplied note: "The Balikpapan Orangutan Society (BOS) helps sponsor a reintroduction program for confiscated orangutans at the Wanariset Station on the island of Borneo. BOS is a non-profit organization. Its mission is to give financial support to the Wanariset Orangutan Reintroduction Center, to support outreach education locally and in remote areas where wild orangutans still survive, and to increase world wide recognition of the problem."
Site contents: What is BOS?; What We Do; Orangutans at Risk; Meet the Orangutans; The Research; The Rain Forest; Newsflash; Reports from confiscations; The Gallery; How to Help; Sponsorship Information; Related Web Sites; Guest Book; Mail us
URL http://www.redcube.nl/bos
Link submitted by: Paul Link (link@redcube.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

03 Aug 1998

East Timor Website
East Timor Relief Association (ETRA), Australia
Supplied note: "The ETRA website provides extensive coverage of all aspects of the East Timorese people's struggle for self determination, peace and democracy. Background and up to date information, including the latest from inside East Timor, United Nations and other international initiatives and intereviews and speeches from East Timorese leaders. Also links to all East Timor related sites, and an extensive network of organisations working on East Timor. ETRA is an East Timorese NGO, and brings particular focus to developments within the Asia-Pacific region."
URL http://www.pactok.net.au/docs/et/
Link submitted by: Kieran Dwyer (kierand@zip.com.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

01 Aug 1998

B.C. Asian Review E-Journal
University of British Columbia, Canada
Supplied note: "The B.C. Asian Review is a refereed journal featuring graduate research including textual studies and other forms of critical analysis, as well as translations and reviews on the research of China, India, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. We welcome feedback concerning our articles and hope to cultivate dialog among graduate students working in all areas of Asian Studies with discussion pages linked to each article."
[Articles are in PDF format and need Adobe Acrobat reader - ed.]
URL http://www.arts.ubc.ca/bcar
Link submitted by: Maiko R. Behr, editor (mrbehr@collegeclub.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

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