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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: mid November 1998
Vol. 5, No. 68

19 Nov 1998

The East Asian Financial Crises: An Analytical Survey
Complutense Institute for International Studies, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Supplied note: "Keywords: Asian financial crisis, capital flight, currency crises, economic growth, financial liberalization, financial policy, foreign debt, IMF, and macroeconomic fundamentals."
Document contents: Introduction; 1. The Economic Background; 2. The Onset and Development of the Financial Crises; 3. Competing Explanations; 4. A Critical View of the IMF Remedies; 5. Theoretical Implications; 6. The Impact on the World Economy; Conclusions; References; Statistical Appendix.
[239Kb, downloadable document in PDF format - ed.]
URL http://www.ucm.es/info/icei/asia/wp98.htm
Link suggested by: Pablo Bustelo (bustelop@ccee.ucm.es)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

19 Nov 1998

China: From Isolation to a Regional Superpower Status
Institute for International Economic Relations (IIER), Athens, Greece
Supplied note: "The Institute (http://idec.gr/iier/) [...] has published the study 'China: From Isolation to a Regional Superpower Status' by Ms. Yolanda Fernandez Lommen and Mr. Plamen Tonchev. Ms. Fernandez is the Head of the Asian Studies Unit of the Royal Spanish Centre of International Relations (CERI) in Madrid. Mr. Tonchev is an associate researcher at IIER."
Document contents: 1. Introduction; 2. The Economic and Political Context of the Wider Area; 3. China from Within; 4. China's Presence in East and Southeast Asia; 5. China's Future Prospects in the Region; 6. Conclusions; References.
[147Kb, downloadable document in MS Word format - ed.]
URL http://idec.gr/iier/occaspaper.htm
Link suggested by: Plamen Tonchev (plamengo@hol.gr)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

17 Nov 1998

Southeast Regional Conference/AAS - Jan 1999
East Asia Center, University of Virginia, USA
Supplied note: "The Southeast Regional Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS) has published a website that describes the organization, its publications, and its 38th annual meeting that will be held at the University of Georgia [Athens, Georgia - ed.] the weekend of January 15-17, 1999. Information concerning the meeting can be found throughout the website, as well as how to join the Conference or order any of its publications."
URL http://www.virginia.edu/~eastasia/secaas99/secaas.html
Link suggested by: Ken Berger (kenb@duke.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

16 Nov 1998

Shikoku Trilingual Guidebook
Kagawa Junior College, Japan
Supplied note: "A trilingual guidebook to the island of Shikoku [...] aims to give deep insight into Japanese culture, and the French version is interlinked with the English-Japanese version so that people can study language and culture at the same time. The Pilgrimage of Shikoku is a well-known thousand-mile clockwise circumambulation of 88 Buddhist temples associated with Kukai. The island also has Sophoclean dramas of East Asian value conflicts, rendered into temple chronicles, Noh and bunraku puppet plays."
URL http://www.kagawa-jc.ac.jp/~steve_mc/shikoku/
Link suggested by: Steve McCarty (steve@kagawa-jc.ac.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

15 Nov 1998

Eurasia Research Center (ERC)
The Eurasia Research Center, USA?
Supplied note: "New articles about Central Asia and the Caspian will be appearing regularly on the ERC web site."
Self-description: "A research, consulting and publishing company specializing in research and analyis of geopolitical relations, economic trends, oil and gas development, privatization, democratization, human rights issues, and internal politics of the central Eurasian region encompassing the Balkans, Russia, the former Soviet Republics and neighboring Middle Eastern or Muslim countries of Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan."
Site contents: Special Report from Tajikistan by Najam Abbas; ERC Book - Central Asian Monuments; Eurasia Research Center News Forum; ERC's Turko Iranian Monographs and Papers Series; Central Asia News; EurasiaNews; Afghanistan News Page - EurasiaNews; Russian News Page; Turkish News Page; Message to Americans from Afghanistan's Ahmad Shah Mas'ud; Balkan News Page; Kosova Crisis News.
URL http://eurasianews.com/erc/homepage.htm
Link suggested by: Alan F.Fogelquist (glob21@ix.netcom.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

14 Nov 1998

Japanese Text Initiative
Electronic Text Center, Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Supplied note: "The Japanese Text Initiative [... added] 11 new texts on the Web: Manyoshu; Sarashina Nikki; Tsurezuregusa; Saikaku, Koshoku Gonin Onna; Saikaku, Koshoku Ichidai Onna; Basho, Oku no Hosomichi; Chikamatsu, Sonezaki Shinju; Chikamatsu, Shinju Ten no Amijima; Akinari, Ugetsu; Issa, Oraga Haru; Mori Ogai, Gan;
These texts join the previously available Kokinshu, Ise monogatari, Hojoki, Hyakunin isshu, Noh plays, and Akiko's Midaregami. An interactive search interface lets users search online in Japanese or English for any characters or words in individual texts or in all the texts together. The immediate goal of the Japanese Text Initiative is to put online all texts in Thomas Rimer's Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature, as well as other important titles from classical Japanese literature. Texts now in process include Sei Shonagon's Makura no soshi; poetry of Saigyo, Ryokan, and Buson; Heike monogatari; Chushingura; and Akinari's Harusame.
The Japanese Text Initiative is part of the online library of the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library. The E-Text Center has on the Web 40,000+ texts in English, French, German, Latin, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and other languages. All of the texts are tagged in SGML according to Text Encoding Initiative guidelines. For Web display, PERL filters convert the SGML tags to HTML."
URL http://etext.virginia.edu/japanese/
Link suggested by: Kendon L. Stubbs (kstubbs@virginia.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

13 Nov 1998

Turkic Languages Conference, Apr 1999
Research Group on Central Asia and the Caucasus (RGCAC), University of Manchester, UK
Supplied note: "The First Manchester Conference on Turkic Languages, 6-7 April 1999, University of Manchester. The North-West Centre for Linguistics and the Research Group on Central Asia and the Caucasus are pleased to announce their first joint conference on Turkic languages. Papers are invited on all areas of linguistics from researchers who work on Turkic languages."
URL http://www.art.man.ac.uk/mes/Asia.htm
Link suggested by: Cigdem Balim (cb@nessie.mcc.ac.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

13 Nov 1998

Indonesian Music Shop
Indonesian Music Shop, Potomac, MD, USA
Supplied note: "The only Indonesian Music shop on the Internet."
[A commercial site. It has a useful online database of recordings of Indonesian music - ed.]
URL http://www.indonesianmusic.com
Link suggested by: Henk (manager@indonesianmusic.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

12 Nov 1998

Beijing Language Center
WorldLink Education in China, China
Supplied note: "WorldLink Education (WLE) based in Beijing, China offers a wide range of comprehensive services to meet the needs of foreigners wishing to study in China. Long term and short term programs in Chinese Language, China Business (taught in English) and Martial Arts. The cooperating Universities are Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU), The University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) and Beijing University of Physical Education."
[Foreign student liaison organization. A commercial service - ed.]
URL http://www.worldlinkedu.com
Link suggested by: Anders Johnson (a.johnson@worldlinkedu.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

12 Nov 1998

Central Eurasia Project
Open Society Institute, USA
Supplied note: "Geographic scope: the site embraces Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Mongolia and often deals with trends and events of a regional and transregional nature. Features: The site is the internet's largest site on the region and features the latest daily news (we have exclusive agreements with BBC Monitoring, Interfax, and other news agencies); Opinion and Analysis; Human Rights; Environment; Public Health; Media; US and International Involvement and several other features."
URL http://www.soros.org/central_eurasia.html
Link suggested by: Anthony Richter (arichter@sorosny.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

11 Nov 1998

PRC Internet: Cheaper, More Popular And More Chinese
U.S. Embassy Beijing, China
Supplied note: "Chinese efforts to popularize and boost the Chinese language presence on the Internet through a low-cost domestic-only service, a convenient non-registration Internet service added to the telephone bill, and increased Chinese language content will likely push the total number of Chinese users to over 5 million by the year 2000. [...] The PRC government strives to assure China's place it what it sees as the coming global 'information-based economy' [... and] to restrict the vast majority of China's Internet users to domestic websites and so eliminate the need to rely on ineffectual blocking techniques."
[The 40 Kb strong document also provides: (a) a list Chinese Search Engines and Official Web Sites; (b) summary results of June 1998 Internet Survey by the China Internet Information Center - ed.]
URL http://www.usembassy-china.gov/english/sandt/Inetcawb.htm
Link suggested by: David Cowhig (dcowhig@public3.bta.net.cn)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

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