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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early Jun 1999
Vol. 6, No. 85

09 Jun 1999

The Amnye Machen Institute (AMI) - Tibetan Renaissance Website
Amnye Machen Institute, Tibetan Centre for Advanced Studies, Dharamshala, HP, India
Self-description: "The Institute is undertaking systematic and scientific studies into Tibetan history, culture, society and politics. AMI is also initiating studies into the external cultures, ideologies and nations that have influenced the course of Tibetan history; but which have been insufficiently examined till now. These efforts are directed towards opening up and exploring new horizons in Tibetan studies and focused on important subjects such as contemporary Tibetan art, literature and women's studies that have hitherto received scant attention."
Supplied note: "A forum for the work of creative Tibetans: art exhibitions book releases, film festivals, film premieres, lectures, conferences, seminars, photographic exhibitions, graphic designs and more. [...] The latest activities of the Institute. Catalogue of all our publications. Books, journals, maps, art catalogues. Relevant information and how to order. A complete list of all contributors. The Best Links on Tibetan Studies and related topics. Sorted by categories for you convenience. [...] 'High Asia' [online] journal (http://www.amnyemachen.org/journal/index.html). Best contemporary writings on the Web on Tibet and its neighbours. Travelogues, essays, polemics, belles-lettres, short stories and translations of writing from inside Tibet. Frequently updated."
URL http://www.amnyemachen.org/
Link suggested by: J.C. Ardley (j.c.ardley@pol.keele.ac.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

09 Jun 1999

Journal for Central Asian Management and Policy Studies
The Southern Public Administration Education Foundation, Inc. (SPAEF), Harrisburg, PA, USA
Self-description: "The objectives of the journal are to elucidate and reflect on management issues in business and public management and explore related public policy matters currently being developed by the post-Soviet republics in Central Asia. The primary focus is on the Republic of Kazakhstan, but will include other countries in the region as well."
[A site of a paper publication. Currently [Jun 99] TOCs are not provided online - ed.]
URL http://www.spaef.com/JCAMPS_PUB/index.html
Link suggested by: Dennis McConnell (mac@maine.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

09 Jun 1999

Siku Quanshu Encyclopaedia Online
Huiwen Science and Technology Development Co., Jinan, China
Supplied note: "This is just to advise you that an electronic version of the greatest and rare Chinese [encyclopaedia] Siku Quanshu, Wenyuange Edition (Complete Collection in Four Treasures) has been produced and published for the first time in the world. [...] Siku Quanshu [Si-Ku-Quan-Shu] has collected some 3,400 classical works, including works written before 1773, on philosophy, history, literature and art, political systems, social studies, economics, astronomy and geography, mathematics, medical studies, etc. [...] The original Siku Quanshu includes 79,000 volumes, approx. 2.5 million pages. Now the amazing Siku Quanshu was condensed into 153 CD-ROMs. I cordially invite you to visit our new web-site at [the URL below]. Hopefully you will enjoy your reading of the 230,000 sample pages selected from the original Siku Quanshu. [...] Special offer is provided currently to promote the '99 Hong Kong Book Fair' in July."
[A site in Chinese GB and BIG5 formats - ed.]
URL http://www.hwsk.com
Link suggested by: David Miao (jisc@public.jn.sd.cn)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

09 Jun 1999

Samarkand and its architectural monuments
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Supplied note: "An introductory overview of Samarkand's history, and links to pages with a fair amount of detail on the Bibi Khanum Mosque, the Shah-i Zinde Mausoleum complex, and Ulugh Beg and his observatory. [...] There are a lot of additional photos for [Central Asian cities of] Samarkand, Khiva, and to a lesser degree Bukhara on the Cities/Buildings Archive (http://www.washington.edu/ark2/archtm/Uzbekistan.html)."
[A valuable site under construction - ed.]
URL http://faculty.washington.edu/dwaugh/CA/cities/samarkand/samark.html
Link suggested by: Dan Waugh (dwaugh@u.washington.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

09 Jun 1999

Education About Asia (EAA) journal
Association for Asian Studies, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Supplied note: "Education About Asia, edited by Lucien Ellington, is a journal published by the Association for Asian Studies (http://www.aasianst.org) in conjunction with the Freeman Foundation, and goes to nearly 10,000 subscribers throughout the United States and twenty-two countries. The exclusive focus of Education About Asia is improving classroom teaching at all levels. Our articles are for teachers and professors, from elementary school through university."
Site contents: About EAA; View EAA Contents; Subscribe to EAA; Author Guidelines; Resource Links; Factoids; Feedback.
URL http://www.aasianst.org/eaa-toc.htm
Link suggested by: Robin Kervin (robin-kervin@utc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

08 Jun 1999

Druknet - Bhutan's National Internet Service Provider
Druknet, Division of Telecom, Thimphu, Bhutan
Self-description: "Welcome to the Druknet home page - Bhutan's [first ever] gateway to the Internet. The establishment of Druknet [01 Jun 1999 - ed.] is a tribute to the 25 glorious years of the Reign of His Majesty the King under whose visionary leadership, unprecedented progress has been witnessed in communications."
Site contents: Network Information Centre for Bhutan (BTNIC); Foreword by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers Welcome to Bhutan.
[Druknet is a collaborative project of Bhutan, the UN Development Program and the [Canadian] International Development Research Center - ed.]
URL http://www.druknet.net.bt
Link suggested by: Partha Pratim Sarker (partha@drik.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

08 Jun 1999

Indonesia National Election Commission (KPU)
KPU, Jakarta, Indonesia
Supplied note: "The National Election Commission (KPU) intends to provide [07 June 1999] voting figures as they become available. Its web site is offered in Indonesian, English and Japanese at [the URL below]."
URL http://www.kpu.go.id
Link suggested by: Oliver Mann (oliver.mann@dfat.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

08 Jun 1999

Chinese Studies Association of Australia (CSAA)
School of Arts & Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Everton Park, QLD, Australia
Self-description: "Corporate information related to the CSAA, the professional organisation for research and teaching about China in Australia."
Site contents: Council; CSAA Conference; Constitution; Council Contact Details; Discussion & Policy; Membership; Minutes; Newsletters; Aims; Related web-sites.
[The CSAA is affiliated with the Asian Studies Association of Australia (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ASAA) - ed.]
URL http://www.mcauley.acu.edu.au/csaa
Link suggested by: Louise Edwards (l.edwards@mcauley.acu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

07 Jun 1999

Digitized Index to the 'Bukkyogo daijiten'
Toyogakuen University, Japan
Self-description: "Index to the 'Bukkyogo daijiten', by Nakamura Hajime [Tokyo shoseki,1975, pages 1-235]. The file has been saved in various formats, including: (1) Japanese-optimized Unicode text; (2) Chinese(Big5)-optimized MS-Word 98; (3) MacWord 5.0; (4) JIS plain text. The first two formats contain full information, while the final two contain a certain amount of data loss, as their encoding systems do not support enough characters."
URL http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller/mullertext.htm
Link suggested by: Charles Muller (acmuller@human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

07 Jun 1999

Fourth Annual Workshop on Central Asian Studies, Oct 1999
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Supplied note: "The Central Asian Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in conjunction with the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia is pleased to announce the convening of the fourth annual 'Workshop on Central Asian Studies' on Oct 21-24, 1999. The goal of this annual workshop is to offer an opportunity for scholars, institutions, and organizations interested in the Central Asian field to meet annually to discuss how we research, teach, and coordinate efforts in the field."
URL http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/creeca/pages/workshop.html
Link suggested by: Jennifer Ryan (creeca3@macc.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

07 Jun 1999

The Chinese-American Committee of 100
Committee of 100, New York, USA
Supplied note: "A national non-partisan organization [est. 1990] composed of American citizens of Chinese descent. Each member has achieved positions of leadership in the United States in a broad range of professions. With these diverse backgrounds, members collectively pool their strengths and experience to address important issues concerning the Chinese-American community, as well as issues affecting U.S.-China relations. [...] The key functions of the Committee are to serve as bridge between the cultures and systems of Asia and America and also, to provide a forum for those issues that Americans of Chinese and Asian descent face in bettering their lives in the United States."
URL http://www.committee100.org/
Link suggested by: Dr Moo-Young Han (myhan@phy.duke.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

07 Jun 1999

The Singapore History Site
Knowledge Net Singapore, Singapore
Supplied note: "A multimedia [...] web site on Singapore history generated in association with National Archives Singapore and with support from the National Computer Board. This website contains [...] databases of historical and geographical information, indexed in a variety of ways. Its pages include digitized archives of Singapore historical documents and audio-visual material. It also incorporates an electronic journal that is built in association with the Singapore Heritage Society and the South Seas Society, whilst their Discussion Forum is co-hosted with the Singapore Heritage Society."
[This site uses CSS, DHTML and QuickTime and requires browsers version 4 and above, with JavaScript and Cookies support enabled. If it were a book there is no doubt that in order to be legible it would demand the use of photochromatic glasses in titanium, cadmium-coated frames. In short, a web site which cares more about technical tricks than accessibility - ed.]
URL http://www.knowledgenet.com.sg
Link suggested by: Belinda Ng (bellang@knowledgenet.com.sg)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

06 Jun 1999

Samoan Telephone Directory
Samoan Sensation, UK
Supplied note: "We have received permission from the Samoa Post and Telecommunications Department to reproduce the 1998/1999 telephone directory as a non-profit making service on our Samoan Sensation website."
Site contents: News; Samoa/ns in the News; Fale Tusi (Bookshop); Samoan Phone Directory.
URL http://www.samoa.co.uk/phone.html
Link suggested by: Tim Sansom (tim@samoa.co.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

04 Jun 1999

Southeast Asian Serials Index (SASI)
Asia Pacific Cluster, Library, Australian National University (ANU), Australia and
Library, Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology (KITLV), Leiden, The Netherlands
Supplied note: "The Southeast Asian Serials Index provides free access to information on Southeast Asia through the indexing of 95 major academic and current affairs journals published in a range of countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Australia, and The Netherlands.
Originally pioneered as an Indonesian Serials Database at the [...] ANU Library in 1995, the SASI is now a joint initiative between [the libraries at the ANU and KITLV].
Hard copy of journal articles indexed on the database can be ordered through inter-library loans systems of individual libraries. The holding library can be checked in Current Titles and articles then ordered from : ANU Document Supply Service (http://anulib.anu.edu.au/libserv/docdel/docdel.html) or KITLV Library (http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/institutes/kitlv/docdel.html)."
URL http://database.anu.edu.au/asia/indo/
Link suggested by: Dorothea Polonyi (Dorothea.Polonyi@anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

03 Jun 1999

Special Report on Indonesian Elections
Asia Society, USA
Supplied note: "The Special Report on the Indonesian Elections includes sections on: Elections, Separatist Movements and Other Forms of Social Conflict, East Timor, Background Articles and the Economic Crisis."
URL http://www.asiasociety.org/special-reports/indonesia.html
Link suggested by: Nermeen Shaikh (nermeens@asiasoc.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Very Useful

02 Jun 1999

National Depository of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Joint-Stock Companies National Depository 'VAKT', Uzbekistan
Supplied note: The National Depository 'VAKT' [...] provid[es] single information area for the Republic of Uzbekistan securities market. Depository coordinates the activities of other depositories, determines single rules of registration and keeping in circulation of securities on the stock market."
Site contents: Welcome; About us; News; Information; Documentation; Laws of the Republic of Uzbekistan; The newsletter.
[A bilingual (RU,EN) site - ed.]
URL http://vakt.deponet.uz/
Link suggested by: Nikst (nikst@orc.ru)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

02 Jun 1999

Economic Crisis and Transformation in Southeast Asia, Jun 1999
German Institute for Japanese Studies(DIJ), Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Supplied note: "'Economic Crisis and Transformation in Southeast Asia: Strategic Responses by Japanese and European Firms' to be held in Tokyo, 17-18 June 1999. Attendance is free but registration is required by 8 June."
URL http://dijtokyo.twics.com/DIJ-e/Ankundigung/Veranstaltung/asienjune.html
Link suggested by: Jochen Legewie (legewie@dijtokyo.twics.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

01 Jun 1999

Conference Calendar on International Relations and Security
International Relations and Security Network (ISN), Switzerland, and the Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO), USA
Supplied note: "A database of scholarly and other outstanding conferences [...] in the fields of foreign affairs and security policy. The calendar is being updated on a regular basis. The [...] interface allows free search by keywords as well as queries with defined parameters like the conferences topic, the period when it takes place, the organizing institution(s), or the venue's country. Each conference record includes information about how to contact the conference organizers, the URL of the conferences home page (where applicable), and about the participation conditions."
[This powerful and user-friendly database provides a very good coverage for all Asia's regions. Readers can easily input details of their own forthcoming events - ed.]
URL http://www.isn.ethz.ch/conferences/
Link suggested by: Conference DB manager (isn-conferences@sipo.reok.ethz.ch)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

01 Jun 1999

Tales from Tibet
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada
Supplied note: "Reports from CBC Correspondent Raymond St. Pierre after a recent visit to Tibet."
Site contents: The Dalai Lama in Tibet; The role of Monks in Tibet; Tibet - a Land of Opportunity for China; Raymond St. Pierre on his visit to Tibet; Tibet links.
[A well meaning but dumbed down information for well meaning but dumbed down audience - ed.]
URL http://tv.cbc.ca/national/pgminfo/tibet/index.html
Link suggested by: Robin Rowland (rowlandr@toronto.cbc.ca)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

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