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Asian Studies WWW Announcements: mid September 1998
Vol. 5, No. 62

20 Sep 1998

VietLawyers.com
The Doan Law Group, USA
Supplied note: "[A] group of multilingual Vietnamese- American attorneys in North America. [...] With offices throughout California and associated offices in Vietnam, we have served clients in business and government on both sides of the Pacific."
URL http://www.vietlawyers.com
Link submitted by: Jerry Xuyen Doan (jd@vietlawyers.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

18 Sep 1998

Turkistan Newsletter
Research Centre for Turkestan and Azerbaijan (SOTA), Harlem, Netherlands
Self-description: "An on line newsletter and Discussion List on Turkic Peoples [...] without any geographical restriction and without specific reference to Central Asia or political boundaries."
Site contents: Information for New Subscribers; How do I join/leave Turkistan-Newsletter; How can I get Old numbers of Turkistan-N; Discussion List Turkistan-L; Special projects; Editors and editorial board members
URL http://www.euronet.nl/users/sota/turkistan.htm
Link submitted by: Mehmet Tutuncu (sota@euronet.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

18 Sep 1998

Students for a Free Tibet (NZ)
SFFT, Kamo, New Zealand
Self-description: "A network of student groups and other Tibet and human right supporters across New Zealand - campaigning to put an end to the continuing human rights abuses in Chinese occupied Tibet."
Site contents: About Students For A Free Tibet; The Situation In Chinese Occupied Tibet; What You Can Do For Tibet; List Of Contacts; Internet Links On Tibet; Freedom Concerts For Tibet
URL http://www.igrin.co.nz/~sfft/
Link submitted by: Kaari Schlebach (sfft@igrin.co.nz)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

18 Sep 1998

A Tremendously Dangerous Time: Why Asia Matters - Sep 1998
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "International Symposium, Australian National University, 29 September 1998. [...] Organised by ANU Asia in association with the 12th Australian International Education Conference, Griffith University, and the University of Canberra. [...] As Asian societies reconsider the effect of modernisation on their values, and the costs and benefits of their recent prosperity, Australians are having to do the same. Should Australia still seek integration with the Asian region? How realistic are deeply rooted mutual images of Australians and Asians? What can Australia usefully contribute as a regional partner? What sort of future do we all expect and want?"
URL http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/conf.html
Link submitted by: Victor Pawley, ANU ASIA Liaison Officer (victor.pawley@anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

17 Sep 1998

Asian Weddings, Fashion & Lifestyle
Occasions Magazine, UK
Supplied note: A "magazine [...] about Asian Weddings, Fashion and Lifestyle. Published quarterly in print and distributed worldwide by subscription. The web site is updated regularly with articles featured in the magazine."
URL http://www.occasions-mag.com
Link submitted by: Nitesh Vaghadia (nvaghadi@bna.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

17 Sep 1998

Pasifik Nius (formerly Papua Niugini Nius)
Journalism, University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Supplied note: "Daily current Pacific news digest website and listserve, particularly concentrating on Fiji and Papua New Guinea."
URL http://www.usp.ac.fj/journ/nius/index.html
Link submitted by: David Robie (robie_d@usp.ac.fj)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

17 Sep 1998

Asia-Pacific Network
Asia-Pacific Network, Fiji/NZ
Supplied note: "Independent news, current affairs and media resource site. Includes South Pacific media website and email hotlinks, and political/media country [American Samoa; Belau (Palau); Cook Islands; Fiji Islands; Papua New Guinea; Samoa; Tahiti (French Polynesia); Tonga - ed.] profiles."
Site contents: Pacific Journalism Review, Pacific Media Watch, Pacific Journalism Online, search engine, and the controversial Cafe Pacific.
[An amply annotated, coherent and informative site - ed.]
URL http://www.asiapac.org.fj/
Link submitted by: David Robie (robie_d@usp.ac.fj)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

17 Sep 1998

Soeharto Financial Affairs
www.detik.com, Indonesia
Supplied note: "Indonesia watchers [ - writes O.Mann - ] may like to try the following site, recently announced by a local Internet service provider:
'The door to the Swiss bank secrecy shrouding the [former president] Soeharto's family reputed ill founded wealth has finally been opened. Would the controversy about this issue be immediately out in the limelight? Follow comprehensive coverage at [the URL listed below].' "
[The site is in Bahasa Indonesia. Oliver Mann is the Regional Officer (Asia) of the National Library of Australia, and is based in Jakarta - ed.]
URL http://www.detik.com/
Link submitted by: Oliver Mann (omann@indo.net.id)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

17 Sep 1998

North America Taiwan Studies Conference - Jun 1999
North America Taiwan Studies Conference, USA
Supplied note: NATSC "Conference focuses scholarly works that are related to the field of Taiwan. The confrence is annually held in North America and aims to promote Taiwan studies in the academy."
[The next conference will take place at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Date: 4 - 7 June 1999. The deadline for abstracts is 1 Dec 1998 - ed.]
URL http://www.natsc.org
Link submitted by: Pei-Chi Chung (pechung@indiana.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

16 Sep 1998

Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context
School of Asian Studies, Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia
Supplied note: "Anne-Marie Medcalf and Carolyn Brewer advise that the 'Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context' [launched Sep 1998 - ed.] is a refereed electronic journal conceived as an interactive forum for new research and teaching in the area of Gender Studies in the Asia-Pacific region."
URL http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/hum/as/intersections/
Link submitted by: Ian J. Henderson (ianhn@wantree.com.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

16 Sep 1998

Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS)
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Self-description: "On the AEMS Web site you will find a searchable database with information about an array of educational media dealing with Asia. Media types include audio cassettes, video cassettes, films and slides, videodiscs and CD-ROMS, and curriculum units. [...] Our international panels of experts review newly-released audio-visual media items, and evaluate them for content, accuracy, appeal, ease of comprehension, and educational usefulness."
[A free public service supported by funding from The Freeman Foundation - ed.]
URL http://www.aems.uiuc.edu
Link submitted by: Rebecca Payne (rpayne@uiuc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

16 Sep 1998

Religion and Rebellion in China
National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "A revised version of an article "Religion and Rebellion in China : the London Missionary Society Collection" by Andrew Gosling published in National Library of Australia News, 8(10), July 1998, pp 3-6 [...] The article deals with the London Missionary Society collection of Chinese language sources held at the National Library of Australia. This collection includes rare items from the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864), one of the greatest upheavals in modern Chinese history. After the Taiping items, the most significant materials in the collection are the Bible translations and other Christian works in Chinese."
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/pub/aglms1.html
Link submitted by: Andrew Gosling (agosling@nla.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

16 Sep 1998

Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference - Oct 1998
Australian National University, RSPAS, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "The Australian Anthropological Society's 1998 Annual Conference will be held at the Australian National University from 1 October to 3 October [1998]."
Sessions: Anthropology and Public Policy; Art, Cultural institutions and Identity; The Limits To Citizenship?; Anthropology and Computer Mediated Communication; Anthropology and Photography; Applied Anthropology in Australasia and the Pacific; Australia and International Community Health Studies; Contemporary Practices of Identity: Art and Beyond; Embodiments, Power, Aesthetics; Fieldwork in the Corridors of Power: Public Policy and the Role of Contemporary Anthropology; Indigenous Expressions of Christianity in Asia, Australia and the Pacific; Issues of Contemporary Practice in Consulting Anthropology; Making Sense of Space: Critical and Ethnographic Reflections Postgraduate Session - Ethnography in and of the World System: Methodological and Theoretical Assessments of a Late Twentieth Century Anthtropological Model; Reproductive Health; Siting Anthropology, Locating the Field: Light from Contemporary Fieldwork on the Cherished Terrain of Anthropology; Taking Your Medicine; Tradition and Transformation: Current Research in Eastern Indonesia; Women Writing Culture in Australia.
URL http://www.anu.edu.au/nadel/aas98a.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

16 Sep 1998

Griffith Asia Pacific Council homepage
Griffith University, Australia
Supplied note: "A window to the Asia Pacific work of the University. The site provides a searchable data base of Asia Pacific expertise at Griffith University, reports on conferences and other activities, listings of Griffith University's agreements with Universities in the Asia Pacific, and a collection of useful links to other Asia Pacific-related sites. Data on Griffith's Asia Pacific research centres and Asia Pacific course information will be added presently."
[The site has problems with Netscape 2, it works OK with Netscape 3 (Mac) browser - ed.]
URL http://www.gu.edu.au/gwis/vc/gapc
Link submitted by: Prof. R.E. Elson (R.Elson@mailbox.gu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

16 Sep 1998

Rajah Brooke and Nineteenth Century Sarawak
Ohio University Libraries, Athens, Ohio, USA
Supplied note: "Information on the history of (and research regarding) Sarawak and the Brooke Family in North Borneo (modern day Malaysia). Detailed bibliographies of pertinent books and journal articles are included. A related websites page provides links to other electronic resources. Interested individuals can join a discussion group."
URL http://www.library.ohiou.edu/libinfo/depts/sea/sarawak/news.html
Link submitted by: Jeffrey Ferrier (jferrier1@ohiou.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

16 Sep 1998

Southeast Asia Collection at Ohio University
Ohio University Libraries, Athens, Ohio, USA
Supplied note: "A general description of the Southeast Asia Collection, the Malaysian Resource Center, the Tun Abdul Razak Chair and the Dr. You Bao Shao Overseas Chinese Documentation and Research Center. Also included is a [Kent Mulliner's May 1998 excellent - ed.] bibliography of reference works in the Southeast Asia Collection and a list of [annotated] internet links to additional resources regarding Asian Studies arranged by nation. Links to selected online newspapers and periodicals are also included."
URL http://www.library.ohiou.edu/libinfo/depts/SEA/SEA.htm
Link submitted by: Jeffrey Ferrier (jferrier1@ohiou.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

15 Sep 1998

The Chinese VIP Reference
The Chinese VIP Reference, USA
Supplied note: "Xiaocankao, or mini reference, provides daily news update in the mail, with focus on news and opinions about Chinese politics, economy, foreign policy and intellectual criticism. Dacankao is sent out on weekly basis. [Both] are published in Chinese GB [format]."
URL http://come.to/dck
Link submitted by: Richard Long (reference@pathfindermail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

15 Sep 1998

Japanese Studies Network Forum (JS-Net)
The Japan Foundation, Japan
Supplied note: "Homepage address of Japanese Studies Network Forum (JS-Net) of The Japan Foundation has moved [to an URL listed below]. JS-Net contains various information for those conducting research in Japanese Studies."
Site contents: News; Japan Studies Specialists' Groups/Associations; Useful Information Sources; Information about Japanese-Language Software; From The Japan Foundation (Japanese Studies Division, The Japan Foundation Library).
[Offers a series of valuable, alas, scarcely annotated links - ed.]
URL http://www.jsnet.org/
Link submitted by: (jsnet@acejapan.or.jp) and Frank Conlon (conlon@u.washington.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

15 Sep 1998

BuddhaNet: Buddhist Information Network
BuddhaNet, Sydney, Australia
Supplied note: "BuddhaNet has moved [to an URL listed below]. We have been operating for as a non-sectarian Buddhist information service for nearly four years. And we are keen to expand this service to the world-wide Buddhist community. You are welcome to contribute your information to our What's On section or send any other Dharma material for publishing on the web (send as email or file attachment: .doc, .rtf, .txt)."
[The site resides on a slow link - ed.]
URL http://www.buddhanet.net
Link submitted by: Venerable Pannyavaro (buddhanet@pobox.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

14 Sep 1998

Orchid Press
Orchid Press, Bangkok, Thailand
Self-description: "A small publishing house [est. in Thailand in 1981] devoted mainly to the publication of scholarly texts and some fiction and poetry related to Asia."
Site contents: New Releases; White Orchid Books; Asian Portraits; Orchid Guides; Itineraria Asiatica; Bibliotheca Orientalis; The Elephant Library [books on elephants - ed.]; The Colonial Library of Dignified Irreverence; Tea Leaves [books on tea - ed.]; Central Asian Studies; Individual Titles; Links; Search.
URL http://redfrog.norconnect.no/~wop
Link submitted by: Hallvard Kare Kuloy (kuloy@online.no)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

13 Sep 1998

Tracing Saraswati River, Rajasthan, India
Sarasvati Web, India
Self-description: "An ambitious project to trace Saraswati,the mythological river believed to be flowing underground and forming the Sangam in confluence with the Ganga and the Jamuna."
URL http://sarasvati.simplenet.com/html/cgwbproject.htm
Link submitted by: S. Kalyanaraman (kalyan97@yahoo.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

13 Sep 1998

The Economic History of Eastern Asia Site
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Supplied note: "A[n] introduction to the study of the economic history of Eastern Asia. It contains references to statistical and documentary sources as well as to relevant institutions. Eastern Asia comprises both East Asia (Japan, China with Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan) and Southeast Asia. In the latter case the focus is on the major member states of ASEAN (= Association of South East Asian Nations) i.e. Indonesia, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Special attention is given to Japan and Indonesia. There is a rather strong concentration to the post-war period, especially the most recent years."
URL http://wwwlet.leidenuniv.nl/history/res/lindblad/index.htm
Link submitted by: J.Th.Lindblad (lindblad@rullet.leidenuniv.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

12 Sep 1998

Publications of Heritage Buddhist Charitable Trust
Heritage Buddhist Charitable Trust, Scotland, UK
Supplied note: A list of "Tibetan Buddhist text translations and transcriptions of oral teachings [most of which are made available only to those enrolled in 3-year retreats - ed.]."
URL http://members.aol.com/YeshiUK/index.html
Link submitted by: Yeshi (YeshiUK@aol.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

12 Sep 1998

Centre Culturel Tjibaou and Agence de Developpement de la Culture Kanak (Noumea-New Caledonia)
ADCK, New Caledonia
Supplied note: "Official site of the new cultural center Tjibaou and Kanak's culture cultural agency in Noumea."
[A bi-lingual (Fr/En) site rendered useless by feral Java applets. The site is not legible with Netscape 2, and it crashes Netscape 3 (Mac) browser. It probably looks cute on a bureaucrat's desktop in Noumea, but is inaccessible to the natives of either New Caledonia or the Internet - ed.]
URL http://adck.nc
Link submitted by: Eric Wittersheim (wittersh@ehess.fr)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

12 Sep 1998

Chinese Software Superstore
Chinese Software Superstore, USA
Supplied note: "A [commercial] website with over a thousand Asian (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) software. From language learning CD-ROM's to cultural programs and Microsoft products, this site offers programs every Asian needs."
URL http://www.chinesesoftware.com
Link submitted by: Karen Huie (khuie@chinesesoftware.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 Sep 1998

Harvard Asia Pacific Review
Harvard Asia Pacific Review, USA
Supplied note: "A new semi-annual academic journal devoted to issues pertinent to the Asia Pacific, bringing together students of the region - from world leaders, renowned scholars and leading professionals to Harvard graduates and undergraduates. Past contributors include Chris Patten, I.M.Pei, Jacky Chan as well as Harvard Professors Ezra Vogel, Tu Weiming, Stephen Owen, Leo Ou-Fan Lee and others."
[Online access to selected articles from Winter 1996-97, Summer 1997, Winter 1997-1998 issues. Some of the articles contain scanning/typing errors - ed.]
URL http://hcs.harvard.edu/~hapr
Link submitted by: Stephan Bosshart, Executive Editor (hapr@hcs.harvard.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

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