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WWW Asian Studies Announcements: late November 1997

For earlier materials see the Past Issues - Archive.

27 Nov 1997
5star
Chinese and Japanese Art History News
Nixi Cura's Personal Web Page, USA
Self-description: "This site provides information on symposia, conferences, grants and other items of interest to graduate students of Chinese and Japanese art history. I first established this page in May 1996, and update it roughly twice a month. [...] I encourage the viewers of this site to contribute news of upcoming events in their area." The page also offers links to other Asian art web sites (Calendars of Events, Books, Reference Resources, Museums and Exhibitions).
[Nixi Cura works at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her informative site consists, at present, of a mammoth 132Kb (!) page and would greatly benefit from a division into a series of interlinked sections - ed.]
URL http://pages.nyu.edu/~boc7379/
Link submitted by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

27 Nov 1997
2star
Chinese Studies Website for Seminars and Conferences
Center for Chinese Studies, UCLA, USA
Online editions of selected papers presented at the following events: Origins of Historical Thought in China (Dec 97), New Trends in Qing Dynasty History (Oct 1997), The Song-Yuan-Ming Transition in Chinese History (Jun 1997), Rethinking Confucianism in Asia: Four Workshops in 1997-98, New Directions in the History of Chinese Science (May 1997).
[A promising kernel for a future digital library - ed.]
URL http://www.isop.ucla.edu/ccs/seminar.htm
Link submitted by: Benjamin A. Elman (elman@history.ucla.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

26 Nov 1997
4star
Ministry of Finance, Japan
Ministry of Finance, Japan
Site contents: What's New (Nov 26: Joint Statement by the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Bank of Japan, Nov 26: Statement by Minister of Finance on the Tokyo City Bank, Nov 17: Statement by Minister of Finance on the Hokkaido Takushoku Bank [the most recent items as of 27 Nov 97 - ed.]), Statements by Minister of Finance, Features, General Administrative Information, Reference, Council Information, Financial Review Japanese leading Economic and Financial Indicators (APEC Finance Ministers Meeting), The Prime Minister's Official Residence, The Bank of Japan, The People's Finance Corporation, The Japan Development Bank, The Export-Import Bank of Japan, Ministry of Finance in Foreign Countries, International Institutions.
[An efficient, fast-loading site with factual information. Available in Japanese and English versions - ed.]
URL http://www.mof.go.jp/english/index.htm
Link submitted by: Mizuno Mitsuaki (s9664008@post01.osaka-gaidai.ac.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

26 Nov 1997
3star
INES List of Newspapers on the Web in Asia
INES Media Concepts GmbH, Germany
Site contents: a list of 150 online newspapers from Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, International, Iran, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestine, People's Republic of China, Philippines, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam.
[The unannotated list of links was last updated on 5 Dec 1996 - ed.]
URL http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/INES/AS.html
Link submitted by: Dorothea Polonyi (Dorothea.Polonyi@library.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

25 Nov 1997
1star
LOOK4U - Global Chinese People Finder
Overseas Connections, Taiwan
Supplied note: "Find Chinese people and their e-mail addresses. Search by name, job, school and other criteria. Has English, GB and BIG5 interfaces and converts encodings on the fly. Database currently has over half a million Chinese people from around the world, and you can add yourself too."
[The database matches permutations of names with email addresses and the country of residence. Although sluggish in performance, it could be of interest to the secret services, email marketing operators and organisers of class reunions - ed.]
URL http://www.look4u.com/
Link submitted by: Steven Fox (webmaster@look4u.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

25 Nov 1997
999star
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBBS)
BIDS-IBSS Online, UK
Supplied note: "The full back set of 600,000 records collected by the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences between 1951 and 1980 has now been converted into electronic format and loaded into the BIDS-IBSS Online service. The IBSS Online service now contains over 1,500,000 references to social science publications from all over the world, with a further 90,000 records added annually in the form of weekly updates. [..] IBSS Online is free at the point of use for all members of UK higher education institutions which are funded by the HEFCs and for ESRC recognised independent research institutes. To obtain a username and password please contact your institution's library or information service. We regret that this service is not yet available outside the UK."
URL http://www.bids.ac.uk/ibss
Link submitted by: Caroline Shaw (c.s.shaw@lse.ac.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

25 Nov 1997
3star
ATJ StudyAbroad/Japan
Association of Teachers of Japanese, USA
Supplied note: "ATJ's home page offers networking and information for teachers of Japanese language and culture at the secondary and college level. A new section of the Web site is building a library of information and contacts on study abroad opportunities in Japan, from FAQs to interviews with exchange students."
Site content: About ATJ, Japan Information, Study Abroad/Japan.
URL http://www.colorado.edu/ealld/atj
Link submitted by: Susan Schmidt (susan.schmidt@colorado.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

23 Nov 1997
2star
Arabised Internet Index
Alladin.net, USA
Supplied note: "The First Fully Arabised Internet Index!, English & Arabic Interface, Search by Country, Search by Language, Add Your URL, by categories."
[A Yahoo-style general purpose catalogue (yet another one !) of annotated Web links. Covers most diverse topics ranging from Palestinian sculptors to Japanese karate to German cuckoo clocks, with an emphasis, however, on Arabic resources - ed.]
URL http://www.konouz.com/
Link submitted by: A. Jaial (321@mx2.redestb.es)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

23 Nov 1997
3star
FALCON--Intensive Languages at Cornell
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Supplied note: "The Full-year Asian Language CONcentration program (FALCON) is an intensive Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin), and Indonesian language program. Full-time, full or partial year options earn Cornell credit. Scholarships are available."
URL http://dml.cornell.edu/falcon/
Information supplied by: Ruth Roland (falcon@cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

23 Nov 1997
4star
Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA)
MESA, USA
Self-description: "a private nonprofit, non-political organization [est. 1966 - ed.] of scholars and other persons interested in the study of the Middle East, North Africa and the Islamic world. MESA is dedicated to promoting high standards of scholarship and instruction, to facilitating communication among scholars through annual meetings and publications, and to promoting cooperation among those who study the Middle East."
Site contents: Affiliated Organizations, Annual Meetings, Awards, Bylaws, 1998 Call for Papers, Committees, Employment, Institutional Membership, Links, Membership, MESA BUlletin, MESA Publications, Staff.
['Links' section offers hypertext access to 39, mainly US, societies and institutions specialising in the Middle East studies. The site provides details of the forthcoming MESA conference, Chicago, Dec. 3-6, 1998 - ed.]
URL http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/
Link submitted by: Middle East Studies Assoc (mesa@ccit.arizona.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

22 Nov 1997
3star
Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan
Center for South Asia Studies, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA
Self-description: "Intensive and specialized Urdu language training to American students, scholars, and teachers who have research and professional interests in Pakistan, Islam, the Muslim communities of South Asia, and Urdu language and literature. It is the only educational program run by an American institution in Pakistan."
URL http://ias.berkeley.edu/southasia/bulpip.html
Link submitted by: Frank Conlon (conlon@u.washington.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

21 Nov 1997
3star
Pat Gunning's Taiwan Home Page
www.showtower.com.tw, Taipei, Taiwan
Self-description: "This page contains (a) facts about the Taiwan Government, (b) two recently completed relatively long essays ['What Should We Do About Taiwan?' & 'Central Planning vs. The Market Economy: The Chinese on Taiwan' - ed.], and (c) a variety of [16] short essays that I have written about Taiwan, and (d) links to some related cites. About half of the short essays were published in one of the local English language newspapers."
[J. Patrick Gunning is a Professor of Economics at the Institute of Public Finance, Taipei, Taiwan - ed.]
URL http://www.showtower.com.tw/~gunning/welctaiw.htm
Link submitted by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

20 Nov 1997
3star
TechnoFIND
TechnoBiz Ventures, Singapore
Supplied note: "Largest resource and search engine on Singaporean Websites (non-personal). Updated daily."
[Very fast database with an elegant, user-friendly interface - ed.]
URL http://www.technofind.com.sg
Link submitted by: Amos Goh (gohys4@technobiz.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

19 Nov 1997
5star
Center for Political and Strategic Studies (CPSS)
CPSS, Chevy Chase, MD, USA
Self-description: The former Center for Post-Soviet Studies is "a [...] non-profit organization dedicated to broadening Western knowledge and understanding of complex international and domestic events [and] issues of vital long-term importance to the United States. The Center provides an organizational vehicle for scholars, but does not itself advocate specific policies or attempt to influence legislation."
[CPSS' major research projects: Central Asia - Conflict and Resolution, Promoting Debate on NATO Expansion, Health and Environment in Russia. CPSS publishes online the following journals and occasional papers series: Focus (http://www.cpss.org/focus.htm), Perspectives on Central Asia (http://www.cpss.org/casianw/canews.htm), Central Asia and Caucasus Update (http://www.cpss.org/updates/cacupd.htm), Perspectives on Change (http://www.cpss.org/per.htm). Also, the site provides yet another general guide (yawn...), incomplete one too, to Central Asia-related web resources - ed.]
URL http://www.cpss.org/
Link submitted by: Dennis McConnell (mac@maine.maine.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

19 Nov 1997
3star
SaralSoft - Software about India
SaralSoft, Santa Clara, CA, USA
Self-description: "SaralSoft specializes in software about India. We have TrueType fonts in Bengali, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi and Tamil. Our multimedia software will allows you to learn Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Panjabi and Tamil. And we have Indian CD-ROM products such as Gyana-Multimedia Introduction to India, India Mystica and Wisdom of the Panchatantra. We carry quality products from independent developers."
[A commercial site. Most, if not all, of the software is for OS Windows 3.1 or higher - ed.]
URL http://www.saralsoft.com/
Link submitted by: SaralSoft (saralsof@best.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

19 Nov 1997
1star
Vietnam Photography
Denise Rocco Photography, Sausalito, CA, USA
Supplied note: "A series of photographs over three visits to Vietnam."
[Nine annotated photographs taken since 1994. The site also offers access to six photographs taken in 1997 in Cambodia - ed.]
URL http://home.earthlink.net/~drocco/worldvn.html
Link submitted by: Denise Rocco (drocco@earthlink.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

18 Nov 1997
5star
Japan Policy Research Institute (JPRI)
New Mexico US-Japan Center and the Japan Policy Research Institute, USA
Self-description: "As of November 1997, JPRI has now released all publications prior to 1997. Members have access to the most recent and timely reports, but older materials are now open to the public. Both protected and non-protected materials can be found in the Publications section."
[The great usability of the site is further enhanced by a search engine which ranks the retrieved JPRI documents according to their (i) keyword-relevance and (ii) subject-matter - ed.]
URL http://www.nmjc.org/jpri
Link submitted by: Jesse Casman (jcasman@nmjc.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

17 Nov 1997
2star
China InfoBase
Western Kentucky Univ., USA
Supplied note: "It offers a library of information about China, its culture, basic facts, language, economy, art and more."
[Yet another all-purpose guide (deep yawn...) to China-related resources. A bonsai-format, beautifully designed system which in the 12 links strong section on 'Studies' sports 3 obsolete URLs - ed.]
URL http://www.wku.edu/~yuanh/chindex.htm
Link submitted by: Haiwang Yuan (haiwang.yuan@wku.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

17 Nov 1997
4star
International Tamils' Archives Home Page
www.tamilweb.com, Norway
Self-description: "An organisation founded in 1956 to collect and preserve historical documents pertaining to Tamils living in Sri Lanka and world wide, for posterity."
Site contents: Introduction: (Our targets and methods, Saving the past of Tamils to Enrich Their Future, Contact-information); Current Projects: (Preserving the documents on CD-ROM, Microfilming Project, Classifying and cataloging our collections, Collecting publications from the exile community) News: Mr. Era Knagaratnam honoured with the title "Avana Gnani"; Publications by Mr. Era Kanagaratnam; Net-sources (Links related to document preservation, Tamil Links).
URL http://www.tamilweb.com/ita/
Link submitted by: Jeyachandran Kopinath (kopinath@a.sol.no)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

17 Nov 1997
4star
Electronic Buddhist Text Initiative (EBTI) Home Page
Resources for East Asian Language and Thought, Japan
Supplied note: "This site contains information regarding the wide range of ongoing projects which aim at the digital utilization of Buddhist texts, images and other cultural artifacts. Included are records of previous EBTI meetings, as well as a comprehensive annotated list of projects and other related URLs."
URL http://www2.gol.com/users/acmuller/ebti.htm
Link submitted by: Charles Muller (acmuller@gol.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

16 Nov 1997
4star
Linguistics and Language-Related Web Sites in Japan
Dept of Linguistics, Tohoku Univ., Japan
Site contents: Link Pages [online guides - ed.] and Search Engines; Academic Societies and Journals; Institutes, Universities and Departments; Projects, Groups and Individuals.
[A catagorised collection of 109 links. Links in the Japanese version (http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/~gothit/kanren.html) of the guide are given annotations - ed.]
URL http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/~gothit/kanren-en.html
Link submitted by: Prof. GOTOO Hitosi (gothit@sal.tohoku.ac.jp) and Charles Muller (acmuller@gol.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

16 Nov 1997
4star
Humanities Web Sites in Japan
Dept of Linguistics, Tohoku Univ., Japan
Site contents: Link Pages [online guides - ed.]; Academic Societies and Journals; Institutes, Universities and Departments; Projects, Groups and Individuals .
[A catagorised collection of 163 links. Links in the Japanese version (http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/~gothit/zinbun.html) of the guide are given annotations. The site also provides links to Social Sciences online resources in Japan - ed.]
URL http://www.sal.tohoku.ac.jp/~gothit/zinbun-en.html
Link submitted by: Prof. GOTOO Hitosi (gothit@sal.tohoku.ac.jp) and Charles Muller (acmuller@gol.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Research usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
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