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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late September 1998
Vol. 5, No. 63

30 Sep 1998

Hawaii Today
Hawaii Today, U.S.A.
Supplied note: "Hawaii in photographs, up-to-the-minute news reports and live webcams."
URL http://home.hawaii.rr.com/hawaiitoday
Link submitted by: Bruce Behnke (bb@hawaii.rr.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

30 Sep 1998

Wayang Golek - Indonesian Marionettes
perso.club-internet.fr, France
Supplied note: "A French site entirely dedicated to Wayang Golek, the art of indonesian wodden puppets."
Site contents: Les Origines (L'Histoire, La geographie); Les Personnages (Leur symbolisme, Du Mahabbarata, Du Ramayana); Le Spectacle (Les marionnettes, Le Dalang, Le Gamelan, Ou voir du W. Golek?); Les Sujets (Le Mahabbarata, Le Ramayana, Les autres histoires); Les Autres Wayang Lexique, References, Liens)
[A well designed site aimed at a popular audience - ed.]
URL http://perso.club-internet.fr/jpcarel/wayang.htm
Link submitted by: J-Philippe Carel (jpcarel@club-internet.fr)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

29 Sep 1998

Bangladesh Flood 1998
Programme for Research on Poverty Alleviation, Grameen Bank, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Supplied note: "Bangladesh is emerging out of a terrible flood. Aside from the loss of human lives and livestock there has been extensive damage to housing, roads and infrastructure, and standing crops. Economic life has slowed down, adding to problems of unemployment and declining incomes. The flooding and contamination of drinking water has contributed to increases in diarrhoeal diseases and hepatitis. In this situation it is imperative that we work together and collectively confront this crisis."
Site contents: Highlights; Updates; Appeals; Health; Other Issues; Grameen Bank; Grameen Enterprises; Ngo Initiatives; Local Initiatives; Donor Initiatives; Government; Personal Experiences; Donations; Articles; Letters; Search; Related Links; Photos; Maps.
[A simple and factual site - ed.]
URL http://www.bangladeshflood98.org/
Link submitted by: Nikst (nikst@glasnet.ru)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

29 Sep 1998

Pacific Islands Report
East-West Center, University of Hawai'i, USA
A daily news service of the Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP) (http://pidp.ewc.hawaii.edu/pidp0001.htm), East-West Center and the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
[News items are compiled by the PIDP team. They include reports by PACNEWS, Samoa News, Pasifik Nius, Island Tribune (FSM), Agence France-Presse, Marshall Islands Journal, and Radio Australia - ed.]
URL http://pidp.ewc.hawaii.edu/PIReport/
Link submitted by: Albert Hulsen (hulsena@ewc.hawaii.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

28 Sep 1998

Chinese Knowledge and Culture
Broadway Motion Pictures Inc., Canada
Supplied note: "Chinese language learning by video and culture knowledge."
[A commercial site - ed.]
URL http://www.cktv.com
Link submitted by: Kent Chen (chen@home.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

26 Sep 1998

Asia Travel Tips
Koen's Travel Page, Belgium
Supplied note: "This site has plenty of practical info on Indonesia (Java, Bali, Gili, Flores, Lombok and Sulawesi). It is weekly updated with reports I get from readers. Apart from Indonesia, you'll find the same kind of info on Turkey, Syria and Jordan. Isreal and Myanmar are next."
[A well organised collection of detailed travel tips - ed.]
URL http://gallery.uunet.be/kdb/Content/koenstravelpag
Link submitted by: Koen De Boeck (kdb@village.uunet.be)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

26 Sep 1998

East Asian Library Resources Group of Australia
East Asian Library Resources Group of Australia, Australia
Supplied note: "The EALRGA is a group for all those interested in East Asian information resources and services, covering Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Manchu etc. services. The main aims of the Group are to encourage discussion and the exchange of information, to contribte towards an understanding of the problems of East Asian library services and to promote the development and effective bibliographical control of East Asian collections in Australia. The Group's Newsletter is published twice a year and superseded issues are mounted on the webpage."
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/NLA/EALRGA/AboutEALRGA.html
Link submitted by: Susan Prentice (Susan.Prentice@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

25 Sep 1998

Atrocities Against Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia
World Huaren Organisation, USA?
Site contents: Summary of Protest Events Around the World: July 24-Aug 31 1998; Basic Human Rights Violation by the Indonesian Government; Pictures and eyewitness accounts of atrocities against Huarens in Indonesia.
URL http://www.huaren.org/body.shtml
Link submitted by: [name witheld at the sender's request - ed.] (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

25 Sep 1998

Peking University Library
Peking University, Beijing, China
Self-description: "Among all university libraries in China the library collection [est. 1902 - ed.] ranks the first, [with] about 4,500,000 items. It includes 2,700,000 items in Chinese and 900,000 items in different foreign languages. There are also 650,000 volumes of [...] periodicals and other documents [and] 160,000 [...] rare books."
Site contents: Opening hours; About the library; Online search [of the Library catalogues - ed.]; Beyond the library; Web class; FTP Service; Announcements;
[The crisply designed, fast-loading site offers a choice between the Chinese version (http://www.lib.pku.edu.cn/chtml/) and the equivalent English translation - ed.]
URL http://www.lib.pku.edu.cn
Link submitted by: Philip Calvert (philip.calvert@vuw.ac.nz) and Susan MacDougall (smacdoug@alianet.alia.org.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

25 Sep 1998

East Asia WWW Virtual Library
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvward University, USA
Supplied note: "East Asia WWW Virtual Library, until recently at Universita' di Venezia, Italy, has moved to a new site at Harvard. The East Asia WWW VL is a regional component of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library - the famous online research tool (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) - edited and maintained by some volunteer 40 editors across five continents.
The site catalogues online resources common to the whole of the EA region as well as provides the main gateway to detailed Virtual Libraries for China, Eastern Turkistan, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, Russian Far East & Siberia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Tibet."
URL http://www.icg.fas.harvard.edu/~wwwvl-ea/index.html
Link submitted by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

24 Sep 1998

Asian Studies at Murdoch University
Murdoch University, WA, Australia
Supplied note: "An introduction to Asian Studies at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia: current research; publications; undergraduate and postgraduate programmes; and opportunities for in-country study in China, Indonesia and Japan."
[The site links to an essential guide to 'Resources for Advanced Research in Asian Studies and Development Studies' - ed.]
URL http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/asianstudies/
Link submitted by: Catherine Pacey (cpacey@central.murdoch.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

24 Sep 1998

Kelang Port, Malaysia
Kelang Port Management Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
Supplied note: "This site provides [...] information on vessel arrivals and departure as well as history and facilities of the port. [Port] contact [details] are published as well".
URL http://www.kpmport.com.my
Link submitted by: Chiang Ek Suan (chiang@kpmport.com.my)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

24 Sep 1998

Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management (APSEM), ANU
APSEM, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description: "Within APSEM [est Aug 1998] research is undertaken on international economics, policy, management and development in the Asia Pacific region, and on its major sub-regions, including Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and the South Pacific. These are the specialist centres working on sub-regions within the Asia Pacific region."
Site contents: Australia Asia Management Centre; Australia-Japan Research Centre; Australia South Asia Research Centre; Economics Division; Graduate Program in Public Policy; National Centre for Development Studies; Graduate Degrees (Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, Master, PhD); Publications: (Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Survey of Recent Developments, Pacific Economic Bulletin, Asia Pacific Press, NCDS Online Publications).
URL http://apsem.anu.edu.au/
Link submitted by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

24 Sep 1998

World Affairs Council of Western Michigan
World Affairs Council, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Self-description: "An organization [founded in Grand Rapids in 1949] dedicated to international topics and American foreign policy issues [and to the combat of] the isolationism in this area following World War II."
Site contents: Membership, Newsletter, Chatam House, Travel Programs, Lecture Series, Upcoming Speaker, Links, Articles.
[The Links section offers an extensive (alas, not annotated) register of home pages of world affairs/policy councils, fora, institutes and think-tanks in the USA - ed.]
URL http://www.iserv.net/~world/
Link submitted by: Daniel Estrada (webpagepublisher@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

23 Sep 1998

Transnational Contemporary Chinese Culture Resources
Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
Supplied note: "The Transnational China Project seeks to expand the study of the influence of the transnational circulation of people, technologies, commodities and ideas in Chinese societies by sponsoring original commentary and analysis, developing curriculum materials and fostering networks of scholars. This unique web-based project is sponsored by the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy and the faculty of Rice University in Houston, Texas, USA."
URL http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~tnchina/
Link submitted by: Steven W. Lewis, Ph.D. (swlewis@rice.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

22 Sep 1998

Pre-Confucian I Ching Hexagrams Index
History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Supplied note: "Shaughnessy Edward L. 1996. 'I Ching. The Classic of Changes.' Classics of Ancient China. New York: Ballantine Books. Shaughnessy has an unequalled command of inscriptions and other writing from ca. 1450 B.C. to the Han. He applies it here to translate the variant MS of the _I_ excavated at Mawangdui, Hunan, in 1973, and translates the familiar text alongside it. He also translates the late commentaries found with it, including the familiar 'Appended Comments' (Hsi tz'u of the Ten Wings) and five previously unknown similar commentaries. This is the *first* integral translation of the Changes to reconstruct the pre-Confucian meaning."
[The web page provides an index to hexagram texts by name - ed.]
URL http://www.ciolek.com/SPEC/sivin-hexagrams.html
Link submitted by: Nathan Sivin (nsivin@sas.upenn.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

22 Sep 1998

German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), Nov 1998
DAVO, Mainz University, Germany
Self-description: "From 19 - 21 November 1998 the German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO) is organizing its fifth annual conference at the congress centre of Banz Monastery. We welcome papers on contemporary Middle East studies and the impact of this region on the development of other parts of the world. Middle East studies are understood to include disciplines relevant to the study of an area comprising all Arab states and territories, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Israel and the Muslim states of the former USSR."
Site contents: Tagungen und Kongresse; Institute und Organisationen; Stipendien; Stellenangebote; Lehrangebote; Zeitschriften; Informationen im Internet; Aktuelle Aenderungen.
[A site in German - ed.]
URL http://lambada.geo.Uni-Mainz.DE/davo/
Link submitted by: DAVO (davo@geo.uni-mainz.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Sep 1998

Philosophy and the History of Science Journal
Institute of History, Tsing-Hua University Hsinchu, Taiwan
Self-description: "An international forum for debates on various topics in history and philosophy of science. The history of Chinese science and Chinese mathematics is one main focus of this journal. The journal is published twice annually."
Site contents: Editorial page; Tables of Content in past issues.
[No online access to published articles - ed.]
URL http://rpgs1.isa.nthu.edu.tw/faculty/dwfu/taiwan/
Link submitted by: Daiwie Fu (dwfu@hist.nthu.edu.tw)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

21 Sep 1998

Harvard China Review Interactive Edition
Harvard University, USA
Supplied note: "'Harvard China Review', a new magazine [launched northern Summer 1998 - ed.], is dedicated to objective coverage and in-depth analysis of social and economic change in China. An accessible forum for broad discussion, informed debate, and creative solutions to the challenges facing China today, [HRC] incorporates contributions from a wide range of professional and academic perspectives."
Site contents: Search; About HCR; Contact Us; Magazine; Conference; Special Events.
[A site under construction - ed.]
URL http://www.harvardchina.org
Link submitted by: Lee Zhang (leezhang@fas.harvard.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Sep 1998

Uzbek Language Website
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Supplied note: "[The site] supplements the instruction of Intermediate Uzbek at the University of Washington [and is] fully-accessible on the Internet."
Site contents: Listening Activities; Audio Library; Transcripts; Translations.
[Files require RealPlayer and QuickTime software. The site uses dreaded frames technology - ed.]
URL http://gaudi.llc.washington.edu/uzbek/uzb200/
Link submitted by: Ken Petersen (kpeter@actr.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

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