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WWW Asian Studies Announcements: early November 1997

For earlier materials see the Past Issues - Archive.

15 Nov 1997
5star
Center for Korean Legal Studies
Columbia Univ. School of Law, USA
Supplied note: "Reference materials on Korean law are available at the Center. In addition, the Center sponsors many useful talks, presentations and conferences on matters involving Korean law and legal system."
Site contents: Events & Courses, Who's Who, About CKLS, Visitor's Page, Books & Abstracts of Articles on following topics: [ Administrative Law; Antitrust Law; Aviation; Banking Law; Civil Code / Contracts; Constitutional Law; Corporate Law; Criminal Law; Democracy / Politics; Dispute Resolution; Environmental Law; Executive Power - President / Government Structure; Foreign Exchange Control; Foreign Investment in Korea; Freedom of Press; Human Rights; Intellectual Property; Judicial System; Korea and International Relations; Korea and Korean Law / History, Society, Overview; Korea and Other Countries; Labor Law; Leasing Law; Legal Philosophy / Legal Education; Legal Profession in Korea; Licensing; Maritime & Admiralty; Miscellaneous; North Korea; North-South Korean Relations; Public International Law; Securities Law; Tax Law; Telecommunications Law; Trade; Women & Family Law ], CKLS in the News.
URL http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/korealaw/
Link submitted by: Jeong-Ho Roh (jroh@law.columbia.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Contents' rating [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

14 Nov 1997
4star
American Kurdish Information Network (AKIN)
AKIN, Washington DC, USA
Supplied note: "We are a non-profit organization that seeks to provide information to journalists, policy-makers, and the general public about Kurdistan."
Site contents: DAY 25: The Fast Continues; What is AKIN?; News of Kurds and Their Oppressors; Press Releases, Articles, and Speeches; Kurdish Politics in Washington, D.C.; Prisons and Kurdistan; S.O.S.; Free Leyla Zana!! - It's a Book; Movies, Pictures, and Sound.
[A simple, efficient site with articles, reports and the most recent news about Kurds in Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria - ed.]
URL http://www.kurdistan.org
Link submitted by: Jennifer Carnahan (akin@kurdish.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

14 Nov 1997
4star
Southeast Asian Calendrical Software
Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "A Macintosh program designed [by Chris Eade, ANU and Lars Gislen (larsg@thep.lu.se), Lund Univ. - ed.] to generate the calendrical and astronomical data required to verify the historical records of Mainland Southeast Asia. The program's main point of entry into the system is 638 AD, the start of Chulasakarat and of the Burmese Era; but it also reaches back to 690 BC, the start of Anchansakarat, an era that avoids the use of negative numbers when dealing with events before the Buddha Era. The technicalities and complications of the system are explained in J. C. Eade, The Calendrical Systems of Mainland Southeast Asia, in: Handbuch der Orientalistik, E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1995."
[The reference manual for SEAsian Calendar is also available (ftp://asia.anu.edu.au/pub/mannov97.sit) - ed.]
URL ftp://asia.anu.edu.au/pub/seac.sit
Link submitted by: Dr Chris Eade (c.eade@anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

14 Nov 1997
4star
Japan Documentation Center (JDC), Library of Congress
Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA
Self-description: "The Japan Documentation Center (JDC) is a project that specializes in Japanese public policy information. It provides current ['grey' literature - ed.] source materials in fields such as economics, commerce and industry, law, politics, the environment, and social conditions."
Site contents: About the JDC; The JDC Collection; How to Search the JDC Bibliographic Index Database and Request Documents; JDC Database; List of Journals Available at the JDC; JDC Newsletter; JDC Symposia and Proceedings; What's New.
URL http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/jdc
Link submitted by: Japan Documentation Center (jdc@loc.gov)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

14 Nov 1997
2star
Chechen Republic
Amina Network, Chechen Republic
Supplied note: "Chechen Republic: history, geography, people, maps, pictures, reference. The most updated Web site about Chechnya."
[An elegant site with several, not always annotated links, and with little of its own high-grade information. The most recent news item is from 28 January 1997 - ed.]
URL http://www.amina.com/chechens/
Link submitted by: Albert Digaev (cobra@amina.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

13 Nov 1997
3star
Yuen Ren Society Conference, Feb 1998
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, USA
Supplied note: "The Annual Conference of the The Yuen Ren Society will be held at the Univ. of Washington in Seattle on 7-8 February, 1998. [...] The loose theme this year is features defined comparatively across various Chinese dialects. Abstracts will be posted before the end of January, 1998. The Yuen Ren Society for the Promotion of Chinese Dialect Fieldwork is dedicated to the study of diverse varieties of spoken Han Chinese, with strong emphasis on descriptive fieldwork."
URL http://weber.u.washington.edu/~yuenren/Conferences98.html
Link submitted by: David Prager Branner (yuen.ren.society@bigfoot.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

13 Nov 1997
1star
EurAsian Orientalist Server (EAOS)
Institute of Oriental Studies, The Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Self-description: "The Server was launched in 1997. EAOS is a powerful tool for using the virtual Internet space for co-operation of large ans small research groups working in the different Centres of Oriental Studies both in Russia and abroad. The electronic publications of these research groups, the main international activities and the oriental historical sources kept in the archives, libraries, museums, etc., are to be accumulated on the Server."
[Right now, an empty site with a potential for a fascinating digital future. To be maintained in both Russian and English - ed.]
URL http://www.orient.ru
Link submitted by: Eugene I. Golovanov (ugo@glas.apc.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

11 Nov 1997
3star
Symposium on 'China After Deng', Nov 1997
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Supplied note: "This Thursday and Friday (Nov.13 and 14) the Univ. of Colorado at Boulder and the Univ. of Colorado at Denver will host a national symposium on contemporary China ['China after Deng: Considerations on Politics, Society, and Culture' - ed.]. At present the site offers only the program and some graphics; all papers and critical remarks on them will be uploaded next week."
URL http://www.colorado.edu/history/dengcon.htm
Link submitted by: Lionel Jensen (ljensen@carbon.cudenver.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 Nov 1997
5star
Journal of Asian Studies - Online Edition
JSTOR, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, USA
Supplied note: "The Journal of Asian Studies, and the earlier Far Eastern Quarterly back to 1941 plus issues of the Bibliography of Asian Studies prior to 1970 (when the electronic compilation will start), are now available on JSTOR. That means full-text retrival and a good searching facility. We have a 'moving wall' of five years; currently the volumes available are up to 1991.
You can reach JSTOR on the web at http://www.jstor.org/. If your university has subscribed, the JAS is available now. If not, you can see a demonstration, and of course information on subscribing and so forth. The website also allows you to ask questions."
[Volumes currently available for browsing: The Far Eastern Quarterly, Vol. 1-15 (1941-1956), continued as Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 16-50 (1956-1991) - ed.]
URL http://www.jstor.org/cgi-bin/jstor/listjournal
Link submitted by: John Campbell (jccamp@umich.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

11 Nov 1997
3star
Central and Inner Asia Seminar, May 1998
Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Supplied note: "The Central and Inner Asia Seminar (CIAS) is dedicated to studying the cultures and activities of ancient and modern nomadic peoples that occupy the region from the China Sea to Eastern Europe, and the relationship they have to the surrounding sedentary cultures. [...] The next CIAS seminar is scheduled to take place at the University of Toronto on Friday and Saturday, 1-2 May 1998. The subject of discussion is 'The Social and Cultural Context of Nomadic Technology, Ancient and Modern'. The organizers would welcome proposals for presentations on this subject, which may be interpreted broadly."
URL http://www.utoronto.ca/deeds/cias/
Link submitted by: Professor Michael Gervers (102063.2152@compuserve.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 Nov 1997
3star
Bahrain Tribune
Alayam Publishing, Bahrain
Supplied note: "The leading English daily newspaper of Bahrain is now acessible on-line."
Site contents: Local News, Middle East News, World News, Columns, Business, Sports, Dish of the Day, Cartoons, Weather, Alayam, Interesting Links.
[Access to the site only via a clumsy and slow-loading (118Kb !) image file. Otherwise, the navigation and access to the news is swift - ed. ]
URL http://www.bahraintribune.com
Link submitted by: Nabeel Alhamer (alayam@batelco.com.bh)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 Nov 1997
rating not available
Jaringan Kerja Budaya (JKB), Indonesia
Jaringan Kerja Budaya, Indonesia
Supplied note: "Homepage kebudayaan dan masyarakat Indonesia kontemporer".
[Site exclusively in Indonesian - ed.]
URL http://www.geocities.com/athens/forum/7991
Link submitted by: Andi Achdian (jkb@indo.net.id)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

11 Nov 1997
4star
North Korea WWW Virtual Library
Duke Univ., USA
Supplied note: "Annotated and selective guide to the quality online resources covering North Korea's Economy; History; Information Networking; Korean Studies; Media; Politics and Public Policies; Science, Technology and Environment. The VL is a subsection of Asian Studies WWW VL (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) and is linked to South Korea WWW Virtual Library (http://www.duke.edu/~myhan/b_SK.html)."
URL http://www.duke.edu/~myhan/b_NK.html
Link submitted by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

11 Nov 1997
4star
South Korea WWW Virtual Library
Duke Univ., USA
Supplied note: "Annotated and selective guide to the quality online resources covering South Korea's Art and Culture; Education; Environment; History; Information Networking; Intercultural Relations; Korean Studies; Media; Politics and Public Policies; Religion; Science, Technology and Environment; Societies. The VL is a subsection of Asian Studies WWW VL (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) and is linked to North Korea WWW Virtual Library (http://www.duke.edu/~myhan/b_NK.html)."
URL http://www.duke.edu/~myhan/b_SK.html
Link submitted by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

10 Nov 1997
2star
Malaysia Post Homepage
Pos Malaysia Berhad (PMB), Malaysia
A web site of Malaysia Postal Services. Contents: Corporate [Board of Directors, Management Team, Corporate Objectives, Department Contacts, State GPO Contacts, State Managers); Products & Services; Galleria (History of Philately, PMB's Philately Service, Malaysian Philately Collection, International Philately Collection), News [news of local and international postal scene - ed.]
[A high-tech, slow-loading site overhwelmed by decorative graphics and java animations - ed.]
URL http://www.pos.com.my
Link submitted by: Muhammad Khairul Izad (lukegaru@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

10 Nov 1997
3star
Internet and the Southeast Asian Scholarly Networks
www.ciolek.com, Australia
Supplied note: "Online copy of a paper entitled 'Taming the Internet Wilderness: Collaborative Strategies for the Southeast Asian Scholarly Networks' and presented at the Colloquium on Academic Library Information Resources for Southeast Asian Scholarship, 3-5 November 1997, University of Malaya Library, Kuala Lumpur."
[A 60Kb strong document, 9 tables with data - ed.]
URL http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/SEAsianCyberspace-97.html
Link submitted by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@ciolek.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

08 Nov 1997
1star
EESA Foundation Vietnam
Ecological & Environmental Sustainable Agriculture (EESA) Foundation, USA
Site contents: California Certified Organic Farmers Inc., Vietnam Business Contacts
URL http://dcregistry.com/homepages/cafe.html
Link submitted by: William R. White (eesaf@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

08 Nov 1997
4star
Nanking 1937: Nanking Conference, Nov 1997
Princeton Univ., USA
Supplied note: "A series of events will be held at Princeton University from 17 - 22 November [1997 - ed.] to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre. Included are: 1. Witness: An exhibition of photographs and missionary documents, held in collaboration with Yale Divinity School; Library 2. The Nanking Conference (21 - 22 Nov). The conference will cover: Nanking 1937: An Introduction; Viewing Nanking: Perspectives from Japan; Creating the Past: Multiple Histories of Nanking 1937; Healing Past Wounds: From Conflict to Cooperation. Please visit our award-winning website for the full conference schedule, venues and speaker biographies."
URL http://www.princeton.edu/~nanking
Link submitted by: Zhang Shilin (cst8@columbia.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

08 Nov 1997
2star
L'Associazione Oxus per gli studi Orientalistici
Istituto per L'Oriente, Rome; Laboratorio di Studi Ottomani, Bucarest
Supplied note: "Various no-academic but serious news and articles about Muslim and Turkish world."
Site contents: I pilastri dell'Islam; Il Corano; Il calendario musulmano; Califfi, sultani, visir ed emiri; Integralismo, fondamentalismo ecc.; Islam e immagini; l'islam e la trasmissione del sapere antico; l'Islam come "norma"; Millet; La shari'a e lo yasak ed i popoli turco-islamici; Razziatori, difensori, mercenari e giannizzeri; I tatari; Cimiteri islamici in Italia; Musulmani autoctoni d'Europa; La nuova via della seta.
[A site in Italian, produced by L'Associazione Oxus, est. 1995. - ed.]
URL http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/5583/
Link submitted by: Dr. Giuseppe Cossuto (pierluigi@officine.it)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

08 Nov 1997
3star
Asian Languages Kits (Mac OS)
XenoType Technologies, USA
Supplied note: "Macintosh language kits that allow more natural input and text processing methods in Burmese, Shan, Mon, Pali (in Burmese script), Georgian, Cambodian (Khmer) and Laotian."
[Forthcoming upgrades (Mac OS): Tibetan and Mongolian language kits - ed.]
URL http://www.nwlink.com/~bokai/index.html
Link submitted by: Daniel Kai (bokai@nwlink.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

05 Nov 1997
1star
EurAsia Travel & Trade
EurAsia / Vietnam Travel & Trade, Netherlands
Supplied note: "We provide tourist / business information in the Benelux and are the main source of information to the Benelux public."
[South East Asia travel and culture consultants. The site uses a mixture of English and Dutch - ed.]
URL http://www.eurasia.nl
Link submitted by: Arnaud van der Veere (arnaud@eurasia.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

04 Nov 1997
3star
Researchlink Information Centre - Malaysia
Researchlink Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
Supplied note: "Market Research, Industrial Research, Virtual Research, Corporate Information."
[Commercial information brokers with data on Malaysian companies and industries - ed.]
URL http://members.tripod.com/~researchlink
Link submitted by: Jim Lau (rschlink@tm.net.my)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

03 Nov 1997
2star
INTAS Social Sciences & Humanities Grants
International Association for the Promotion of Cooperation with Scientists from the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (INTAS), Belgium
Supplied note: "As of November 3 [1997 - ed.], proposals will be accepted for research projects and networks in support of the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union. The research subjects to be supported include among other sciences: Economics, Social Sciences, Humanities, Environment, Engineering, Energy, Information Technologies and Mathematics. A total of 21.8 Million ECU is made available through these programmes. Since its creation in 1993 and up to the end of 1996, INTAS has provided direct funding to help support more than 1,200 research projects involving some 15,000 scientists in Armenia, Azerbaidjan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan."
URL http://www.cordis.lu/intas/home.html
Link submitted by: INTAS (call97@intas.be)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

02 Nov 1997
5star
Kanji Web site
Humanities Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan
Supplied note: "Probably the most extensive CJK character (kanji) information sites on the internet [...] a wide range of information related to kanji, including extensive fonts, code information, variants information and links to valuable kanji-related sites at universities around Japan."
[A site entirely in Japanese, created by Prof. Tetsuya Katsumura and Masayuki Niwa - ed.]
URL http://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ekanji/
Link submitted by: Charles Muller (acmuller@gol.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
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