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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early Sep 1999
Vol. 6, No. 93

09 Sep 1999

North American Taiwan Studies Conference, Jun 2000
North American Taiwan Studies Association, USA
Supplied note: "The 2000 North American Taiwan Studies Conference [...] Date: Jun 16 - Jun 19, 2000 Location: Harvard University, Massachusetts. The North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) promotes the study of Taiwan and the understanding of the changes in all aspects that are being experienced in Taiwanese polity, society, cultural heritage and natural environment."
URL http://www.natsc.org/
Link suggested by: Chau-Yi Lin (jywang@tpts4.seed.net.tw)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

09 Sep 1999

Kazakh Language Learning Module On Line
Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center,Indiana University, USA
Supplied note: "Language learning modules in Azeri, Kazakh, Turkmen, and Uzbek for delivery through a world-wide web-based language site: the Central Asian Language Network, CenAsiaNet. The first Kazakh module is now available. [...] Because this module is based around lengthy segments of high-quality video, it is recommended that you [...use] at least a 56k modem."
[A joint project of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (www.indiana.edu/~iaunrc), the American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS, Satellite Communications for Learning (SCOLA) and the National Foreign Language Center - ed.]
URL http://www.cenasianet.org
Link suggested by: Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (iaunrc@indiana.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

09 Sep 1999

Second Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA), Jul 2000
Durham University, UK
Second Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA), 6-9 Jul 2000, Durham, England.
URL http://www.dur.ac.uk/SEAA/news/seaaconf.htm
Link suggested by: Simon Holledge (simon.holledge@typhoon.co.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

09 Sep 1999

Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA)
Durham University, UK
Supplied note: "An international association of professional archaeologists, academics and members of the general public interested in the archaeology of China, Japan and Korea. Current membership amounts to more than 300 people in 20 countries."
Site contents: Introduction for Visitors; Introduction for Members; The Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA) How to join the Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA); The Journal of East Asian Archaeology (JEAA); News and Reports; What was the East Asian Archaeology Network (EAANetwork)?; What were the EAANnouncements?; EAANnouncements Archives [26 issues, Summer 1990 - Autumn 1998]; Members' pages; Related Internet sites and resources (News services, Email Lists, Associations, Museums and galleries, Universities and other institutions, Field and site reports, Conservation and heritage, Scientific archaeology, Publications, Booksellers, Resource directories, Archives, databases and other miscellaneous resources) Second Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA), Jul 2000.
[A very worthwhile site of a very worthwhile SIN (special interest network), with (currently) 4 Mb of factual information - ed.]
URL http://www.dur.ac.uk/SEAA/
Link suggested by: Simon Holledge (simon.holledge@typhoon.co.jp), forwarded by Frank Conlon (conlon@u.washington.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

08 Sep 1999

Taiwanese Collegian
Taiwanese Collegian, Taipei, Taiwan
Self-description: "An organization of overseas students from Taiwan. We are here to cultivate friendship and wisdom in order to fulfill the potential of the peoples, heritages, and landscape of our homeland. As a member of this global village, Taiwan can contribute by advancing the progressive values of human rights, self-determination, environmental conservation, labor justice, cultural diversity, etc. [...] We work with TSA (Taiwanese Student Association) or similar organizations in many schools on a peer-to-peer basis."
Site contents: News, About Taiwanese Collegian; Projects; TSA; Outreach; Publications [incl. 'Taiwanese Voices,' an online English magazine - ed.]; Speechtour; Camp; TC BBS; Info.
URL http://tc.formosa.org/
Link suggested by: Chau-Yi Lin (jywang@tpts4.seed.net.tw)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

08 Sep 1999

The Vietnam Travel Specialists
Global Spectrum, USA
Supplied note: "Packages and tours to Vietnam specializing in adventure and veteran travel."
[A commercial site - ed.]
URL http://www.vietnamspecialists.com
Link suggested by: Hung Nguyen (hung@gspectrum.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

07 Sep 1999

Asia Times Online
Asia Times Online, Bangkok, Thailand
Supplied note: "A daily publication covering the Asia-Pacific region with an emphasis on politics, economics and business. Articles include exclusive editorials and columns, as well as links to a wide range of other publications."
Site contents: Front; China; Southeast Asia; Japan; Koreas; India/Pakistan; Central Asia/Russia; Oceania Business Briefs; Global Economy; Asian Crisis; Media/IT; Editorials; Letters; Search/Archive.
[A rare online news resource: simple, coherent, informative and fast-loading - ed.]
URL http://atimes.com
Link suggested by: Allen Quicke (allen@atimes.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

07 Sep 1999

Can China feed itself? A System for Evaluation of Policy Options
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Supplied note: "Results from a 3-year research project on China's food security. [The site provides] tables, charts and maps on topics like Age Groups; Business Skills; Diet Change; Disaster; Floods; Infrastructure; Land; Pollution; Population; Urbanization; Water and many others (currently some 150 topics listed). All are used [to answer] the question whether China will be able to feed itself from its own resources of arable land and water in 2025 or 2050."
Site contents: IASA; Title Page; Foreword; Introduction; Arguments; Data; FAQ; In-depth; Summary; Conclusion; Bibliography; Web Links; Index; Help; Thanks; About; Presentation; Order Form; Feedback; What others say.
[The study (also available as Heilig, G.K. 1999. ChinaFood. Can China Feed Itself? IIASA, Laxenburg, CD-ROM Vers. 1.1.) concludes (unlike investigations by Lester R. Brown) that "China has enough arable land and water to feed its projected population of 1.48 billion in 2025 - even at currently available levels of agricultural technology." An Alladin's Cave of numeric and map data - ed.]
URL http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/ChinaFood/
Link suggested by: Gerhard K. Heilig (heilig@iiasa.ac.at), forwarded by Hanno Lecher (lecher@gw.sino.uni-heidelberg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

06 Sep 1999

The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
IIIT, Herndon, VA, USA
Self-description: "IIIT is a private, non-profit and academic and cultural institution, concerned with general issues of Islamic thought. [...] It is independent of local politics, party orientations and ideological biases. [...] The Institute [est. 1981 (1401 AH)] is an intellectual forum working from an Islamic perspective to promote and support research projects, organize intellectual and cultural meetings and publish scholarly works. It has established a distinct intellectual trend in Islamic thought which relates to the vivid legacy of the Ummah, and its continuous efforts of intellectual and methodological reform."
Site contents: Introduction; Achievements; Offices; Publications; The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS); Conferences; Upcoming; Useful Links; Contact Us.
URL http://www.iiit.org/
Link suggested by: IIIT Info (info@iiit.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

06 Sep 1999

International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) Congress, Aug 2000
Centre for Religious Studies, University of Durban-Westivlle, South Africa
Details of the XVIII Quinquennial IAHR Congress: Durban, 5-12 Aug 2000.
URL http://www.udw.ac.za/iahr
Link suggested by: Prof. Pratap Kumar (kumar@pixie.udw.ac.za)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

06 Sep 1999

PusanWeb Places: Guide to Life in Pusan
pusanweb.com, Korea?
Site contents: Chat Room; Classifieds; Exchange Rates; The Exit; Features; Food; Graffiti Wall; Guestbook; Info Center; Konglish Corner; Language Guide; Links; Movie Listings; News; Photo Gallery; Places; Profiles; Pusan Time; Pusan Weather; Q & A; What's Going On; Writings.
URL http://pusanweb.com/places/
Link suggested by: Bob Pyke Jr (repyke@akron.infi.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

05 Sep 1999

Gamma Digital News: Indonesian Information Resources
Gamma Magazine, indonesia
Supplied note: "Indonesian weekly magazine for general information (politics, economics, etc.)."
URL http://www.gamma.co.id/
[Largely a monlingual (ID) site, with occasional EN passges of text - ed.]
Link suggested by: Abeng (gamma@gamma.co.id)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

04 Sep 1999

UCLA Asian Studies Resources
UCLA Center for East Asian Studies, USA
Supplied note: "[Site contents]: 1. Education Resources (Asia via the Internet; Educational Films on Asia [General Asia, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam, Sources: video libraries & stores - ed.]; Today in Asian History; Asian Studies Documents Index [China, Europe-Asia, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Laos, Mongolia, United Nations, US-Asia, Vietnam - ed.]; Asian Studies Statistics Index [Demographics, Economy and Trade, Education, Politics - ed.]); 2. Fellowships Index (Information on support for Asian Studies research and training); 3. Southern California East Asia-Related Events Calendar; 4. Summer Seminar for Educators (program, requirements, recommended resources, discussion board); 5. A link to the main CEAS website which provides detailed information about East Asian Studies faculty and programs at UCLA."
[A source of excellent and original online information - ed.]
URL http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/web/site-resources.htm
Link suggested by: Clayton Dube (cdube@isop.ucla.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

02 Sep 1999

The Throat Singers of Tuva
Scientific American, USA
Supplied note: "The September '99 issue of Scientific American will have an article on overtone/throat singing, and the Scientific American web site has a terrific page with extensions of that article including audio samples and numerous links."
[An article by Theodore C. Levin and Michael E. Edgerton on 'a remarkable singing technique in which a single vocalist produces two distinct tones simultaneously.' - ed.]
URL http://www.sciam.com/1999/0999issue/0999levin.html
Link suggested by: Charles E. Schulz (cschulz@knox.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

01 Sep 1999

Classical Historiography for Chinese History
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Site contents: 1. Introduction to Classical Chinese Historiography; 2. Relevant Electronic Resources for Chinese Studies; 3. Dictionaries; 4. Selected List of Bibliographical & Geographical Aids; 5. Biographical Aids 6. Some Aids For Translating Chinese Official Titles & Institutions; 7. Reference Guide to Classical Book Titles; 8. The Four Parts (Classics - Histories - Writers, Thinkers, & Philosophers - Belles-lettres); 9. Bibliography of Chinese Classics & Literature in Translation with Recent Related Histories; 10. Selected English Bibliography for Chinese Civilization: A Brief Historical Survey; 11. Sources for The Ming Dynasty; 12. Sources for The Ch'ing Dynasty; 13. Civil and Military Examination Bibliographies.
[A site originally established at the Wesleyan Univ., USA - ed.]
URL http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib/
Link suggested by: Benjamin A. Elman (elman@history.ucla.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

01 Sep 1999

Tuva Overtone/Throatsinging Bibliography
University of Minnesota, USA
Supplied note: "The bibliography by Tran Quang Hai on Tuva throatsinging given at [the URL below]. The only European-educated musician of the type, [Prof.] Tran Quang Hai [of NCSR Paris, France] occasionally teaches throatsinging in many countries of the world."
[The TQH's bibliography forms a part of the 'Khoomei/Overtone Singing' (www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/g057/sklar001/khoomei.html) site by Steve Sklar - ed.]
URL http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/g057/sklar001/bib.html
Link suggested by: John Schoeberlein (schoeber@fas.harvard.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

01 Sep 1999

Online Sino-Tibetan Dictionaries
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
Site contents: BURMESE: Burm.-Eng.-Burm. On-line Dictionary. CHINESE: Chin. Character Dictionary Web; A Chin. Syllabary Pronounced According to the Dialect of Canton by S. L. Wong; Chin.-Eng.-Chin. Character Dictionary; Chin.-Eng.; Chin.-Japanese-Korean Dictionary of Buddhist Terms; Chinlex Chin.-German Socio-Economics Dictionary; Eng.-Chin. (gopher); Eng.-Chin. (PC-DOS download); Eng.-Chin.-Eng. Dictionary of Commerce and Trade; Eng.-Chin.-Eng. Dictionary of Medical Terms; Eng.-Chin. Dictionary; Guoyu Cidian Chin. Dictionary; Marjorie Chan's Index of Chin. Online Glossaries & Dictionaries; World Wide Web CJK-Eng. Dictionary/Database; Zhongwen Zipu Chin. Character Genealogy; Kingsoft Chin.-Eng.-Chin. On-line Dictionary; Dictionary of Chin. Characters; Hakka Dictionary romanized (Dylan's Sa Tdiu Gok Hak Ga Su Dien); Hakka Pronouncing Dictionary; I Ching Lexicon; Kanji Base Query form (50,000 chars). TAIWANESE: Daiwan Way Taiwanese On-lineDictionary; Modern Literal Taiwanese Dictionary. TIBETAN: Rangjung Yeshe Tibetan-Eng. Dictionary (85,000 chars); Tibetan-Eng. Dictionary of Buddhist Teaching & Practice; Jim Valby's Tibetan-Eng. DOS dictionary (FTP download); Zhang-Zhung/Tibetan/Eng. Dictionary.
URL http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction3.html#sino
Link suggested by: David Pattinson (d.pattinson@auckland.ac.nz)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

01 Sep 1999

Fifteen Centuries of Chinese Environmental History
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
A 1994 paper 'Fifteen Centuries of Chinese Environmental History: Creating A Retroactive Decision-Support System' by the late Robert M. Hartwell of CITAS and the University of Pennsylvania. This work is now continued as a part of the China In Time And Space (CITAS) (citas.csde.washington.edu) project and within the framework of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (ECAI) (www.ecai.org).
URL http://weber.u.washington.edu/~citas/documents/report_c
Link suggested by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

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