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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early October 1998
Vol. 5, No. 64

10 Oct 1998

Inside Out: New Chinese Art
Asia Society, USA
Supplied note: "A resource-rich companion to our current groundbreaking exhibition on contemporary Chinese art. The expanded site area includes: more than 20 images; Information on two specially commissioned pieces; a video file of a work in progress by the artist Xu Bing; a chronology of the development of contemporary Chinese art; biographies of the artists; a selected bibliography citing more than 150 articles, books and catalogues; details on ordering the catalogue and more; and Chinese text description of the show."
[The all graphics interface + problematic Java scripts could make the site a difficult one to use - ed.]
URL http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/insideout/
Link suggested by: Hylton Jolliffe (hyltonj@asiasoc.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

09 Oct 1998

Tamil Haiku Poetry and Tamil Literature
www.userworld.com, India
Supplied note: A site by Dr Nirmala Suresh, "a leading lady poet with a penchant for politics [and haiku - ed.]"
The site includes links to: India: A Jewel in The Crown; The Art of Poetry; Things About Buddhism, Haiku and Oriental Poetry; International Institute of Tamil Studies; Sixth International Conference on Tamil Culture; India 2000.
URL http://www.userworld.com/users/pjsuresh1/nirmala.html
Link suggested by: Philbert Suresh (trans748@emirates.net.ae)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

09 Oct 1998

D.K. Publishers Distributors, India
D.K. Publishers Distributors (P) Ltd., India
Supplied note: "On-line store for Indian books over 40,000 titles from over 1,000 Indian publishers on variety of subjects."
URL http://www.dkpdindia.com
Link suggested by: Parmil Mittal (dkpd@del3.vsnl.net.in)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

07 Oct 1998

Sparks of Creativity: Women in the Korean Humanities, Oct 1998
George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA
Supplied note: "A two-day symposium on Women in the Korean Humanities, October 24-25, 1998. This conference, sponsored by the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, the Korean Embassy, and various institutes of GWU and the D.C. Consortium of Universities, will examine the lives and contributions of women in the Choson period (1392-1910). The conference is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please contact Dr. Young-Key Kim-Renaud to reserve space for yourself and your party at 202-994-7107 / Fax: 202-994-1512."
URL http://www.gwu.edu/~eall/special/hahnprogram.html
Link suggested by: John Goulde (goulde@sbc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

07 Oct 1998

Parabaas - The Complete Bengali Webzine
Parabaas, USA
Supplied note: "A Bengali webzine that regularly publishes original articles - poems, stories, novels, plays, art work, essays, criticisms, etc. from people all over the world, including West Bengal and Bangladesh. Parabaas has also published translations from English. One of its major goals [...] is to promote [on the Internet - ed.] Bengali language, literature, and the general culture."
[The site uses gif files to represent texts in Bengali. So far, the magazine had seven issues - ed.]
URL http://www.parabaas.com
Link suggested by: Dr. Samir Bhattacharya (editors@parabaas.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

07 Oct 1998

Khazana: Book Shop
Khazana, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Supplied note: "The most comprehensive catalogue, including books on Indian, Arts, Music and Performing Arts, Literature, Religion, Philosophy and History. We offer secure online ordering services. We also have a large Indian Classical Music CD collection offered online.'
[An online bookstore - ed.]
URL http://www.khazana.com/books/
Link suggested by: Ashu Kataria (ashu@khazana.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

06 Oct 1998

1991 Census of India
Ministry of Home Affairs, Delhi, India
Selected statistics from "1991 Census Handbook. Delhi, 1998. Census of India 1991. The 1991 Census was not held in Jammu & Kashmir due to disturbed conditions."
Site contents: State Publications; District Census Handbooks; Special Studies; India at a Glance; Key Population Statistics; Vital Statistics; State Census Directorates
URL http://www.censusindia.net/
Link suggested by: Philip McEldowney (pm9k@unix.mail.virginia.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

06 Oct 1998

Lanting Purworejo, Indonesia
www.geocities.com, Indonesia
Supplied note: "An unofficial homepage of Purworejo, a little town located in central Java. The site provides information about history of the town, places of interest, unique food, and other things. [] Links [...] to [...] companies, organizations, network, education, government sites in Indonesia."
[A site in Indonesian with navigation structure in English - ed.]
URL http://www.geocities.com/Augusta/9591
Link suggested by: Akhmad Syariful Huda (akhmad@adb.ks.co.id)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

05 Oct 1998

Bali Today - an Insiders' Guide
PVL, Hong Kong
Supplied note: "Continually updated information on what to see and do, food and restaurants, night life, hotel bargains and vacation villas, weather, currencies, and potential hazards for travellers."
[A well organised and factual site - ed.]
URL http://www.balivillas.com/guide.html
Link suggested by: Peter Rieger (rieger@villanet.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

05 Oct 1998

Hakuho Women's College, Nara, Japan
Hakuho Women's College, Nara, Japan
Supplied note: "Hakuho Women's College is located in beautiful and historic Nara, in Western Japan. We are the college with the most foreign exchange students in Western Japan."
URL http://www.hakuho.ac.jp/
Link suggested by: Shigeto Kitatani (www.usinter.net/nishiyamato)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

05 Oct 1998

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
CSIS, Washington D.C., USA
Supplied note: "A public policy research institution dedicated to analysis and policy impact. CSIS is the only institution of its kind to maintain resident experts on all the world's major geographic regions, in addition to key functional areas, such as international finance and economics, international relations and foreign policy, energy and the environment, and military and security issues. [...] Our site includes expert analysis of international current events; full text of our journal, 'The Washington' quarterly; and a wide range of reports and other publications."
[CSIS projects on Asia and the Pacific include: Congressional Working Group on Vietnam and Southeast Asia; East Asia Working Group; Global Dimensions of U.S.-Japan Relations; Hong Kong Update; India Economic Watch; Japan Chair Forum; Japan: Congressional Staff Working Group; Korean Peninsula Initiatives; Leadership in the 21st Century; Political Almanac on India; PRC, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Seminars; South Asia: Congressional Working Group; South Asian Meeting Series; South Asia Monitor; Taipei Roundtable; Trilateral Consultative Group; U.S.-Japan 21st Century Committee - ed.]
URL http://www.csis.org/
Link suggested by: Brian Eddy (books@csis.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

02 Oct 1998

The Legal Forum
The Legal Forum, UK / China
Supplied note: "The Legal Forum is a [Web site - ed.] aimed at lawyers in both Europe and China who are seeking to understand the legal environment in which they work. It is supported by an independent association of Chinese and British organisations - from Beijing University to The College of Law - whose aim is to increase mutual understanding and trust."
URL http://www.enstar.net/china/law/
Link submitted by: Paul Cheng (law@antaeus.demon.co.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

01 Oct 1998

Books on Mohenjo-daro, Harappa, Indus Valley
Vedams Books International, India
Supplied note: "Detailed descriptions of books on Mohenjo-daro, Harappa and Indus Valley is now available. We have provided complete table of contents and excerpts from the preface of books."
URL http://www.vedamsbooks.com/mohenjo.htm
Link suggested by: Achal Madhavan (vedams@vedamsbooks.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

01 Oct 1998

Pali Canon Public Domain E-Text
Sri Lanka Tipitaka Project, Colombo, Sri Lanka & The Journal of Buddhist Ethics (JBE) London, UK / Philadelphia, USA
Self-description: "The input of the entirety of the words of the Buddha and his immediate disciples, as preserved in the Sri Lankan version of the Pali 'Tripitaka', was completed at the 'Siri Vajiranaana Dharmaayatanaya', Bhikkhu Training Center, Maharagama, Sri Lanka in 1994. The texts, consisting of an estimated 35 million characters, were keyed in over a period of three years, commencing in 1991. The edition used as the basis for this was the Buddha Jayanti Tripitaka Series in fifty-eight volumes, published [...] during the 1960s and 1970s. The project was carried out under the auspices of Venerable Madihe Pannaasiiha Mahaa Naayaka Thera, Head of the Amarapura branch of the Buddhist Sangha in Sri Lanka, with financial sponsorship from the Chandraratne family. [...] The semi-proof-read data has been placed on the JBE websites (http://www.gold.ac.uk/jbe/ibric.html & http://jbe.la.psu.edu/palicanon.html) in text format, for downloading to both Macintosh and Windows computers. It is freely available for non-commercial purposes as public domain material under the terms of a GNU license."
[Texts, in a diacritic font for Pali, are updated on the servers once or twice a year - ed.]
URL http://jbe.la.psu.edu/palicanon.html
Link suggested by: Bhikkhu Mettavihari (sltp@sri.lanka.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

01 Oct 1998

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen: His Hawaii Roots
Sun Yat-sen Hawaii Foundation; and Kapiolani Community College Library, Hawaii, USA
Supplied note: A site by "The Dr. Sun Yat-sen Hawai'i Foundation, a registered nonprofit organization with no political affiliation. The [site] collects and presents materials on Dr. Sun's links to Hawai'i and its people. Documentary materials, photographs, and research sources focus on his family, friends and supporters in Hawaii; his six visits and activities in Hawai'i; and scenes of Hawai'i in his era."
URL http://library.kcc.hawaii.edu/sun/
Link suggested by: Bin Zhang (bzhang@hawaii.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

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