THE ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR    ISSN 1329-9778 URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html Edited by: Dr T. Matthew Ciolek "The Asian Studies WWW Monitor" (ISSN 1329-9778) was established 21 April 1994. The journal, a pioneering and the only publication of this kind in the world, provides virtually daily abstracts and reviews of new/updated online resources of significance to research, teaching and communications dealing with Asian Studies. This timely, reliable and impartial information is published by the Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. The periodical forms a key element of the global, cooperative project Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library. For further details see a page About the Asian Studies WWW Monitor. Daily contents" summaries and evaluations published in this web edition of the Journal are disseminated also on the network via a mailing list. SUBSCRIBE to the MONITOR ! 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THIS ISSUE Entries accepted for publication: 6 Entries rejected: 6 The email edition of this Journal has now over 8,260 subscribers. The AS WWW Monitor does not necessarily endorse contents, or policies of the Internet resources it abstracts. Mailing list admin. page. http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html#database Google Search past issues of The Asian Studies WWW Monitor Search WWW Search The Monitor Coverage: 2000-2008. Note: specific keywords/phrases work better than general ones. 03 Jul 2009 [Asia materials in] Smithsonian Institution Collection Search Center Smitsonian Institution, Washington, DC, US Self-description: "[T]he Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum complex and research organization composed of 19 museums, 9 research centers, and the National Zoo. [...] The Collections Search Center allows you to search descriptive records from dozens of Smithsonian museums, archives and libraries. Search over 2 million records with 210,500 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from all across the Smithsonian." Site contents: [The following are results of 4 illustrative keyword searches - ed.] 1,137 records matching keyword: "Tibet": ONLINE MEDIA Images (51) Finding aids (11) Electronic resource (8) Video clips (1) TYPE Books (570) Archival materials (353) Photographs (338) Exhibitions (events) (96) Catalogs (47) Pictorial works (26) Collection descriptions (22) Biographies (14) Conferences (8) Manuscripts (8) TOPIC Art, Tibetan (116) Buddhism (110) Description and travel (108) Art, Buddhist (86) History (84) Buddhist art and symbolism (53) Art (40) Civilization (35) Religion (34) Antiquities (32) NAME NMNH (56) Tsybikoff, G. T (50) Rockhill, William Woodville (42) Elwin, Verrier (36) Hrdli?ka, Ale? (33) Graham, David Crockett (26) Rockhill Expedition (26) Isham, Charles S.? (21) Rock, Joseph F (13) Zhongguo ke xue yuan (13) CULTURE Tibet (190) Tibetans (67) Tibet ? (25) Chinese ? (17) Akha ? (10) Buddhism (6) Abor (5) Mishmi (4) Mongols (4) Newar (Nepalese people) (4) LANGUAGE English (548) Chinese (209) Tibetan (73) German (65) French (64) Japanese (15) Italian (14) Latin (9) Dutch (7) Sanskrit (7) PLACE China (508) Tibet (483) Tibet (China) (268) India (39) Asia (29) Nepal (22) Asia, Central (18) Mongolia (17) Himalaya Mountains (16) Himalaya Mountains Region (11) DATE 1990s (193) 2000s (180) 1980s (161) 1960s (114) 1900s (107) 1950s (92) 1920s (81) 1970s (61) 1910s (56) 1890s (49) 11,387 records matching keyword: "India": ONLINE MEDIA Images (2508) Electronic resource (124) Finding aids (40) Transcripts (7) Video clips (4) Online publications (1) Sound recordings (1) TYPE Books (5506) Archival materials (3176) Photographs (3013) Drawings (484) Albumen prints (479) Exhibition catalogs (339) Exhibitions (events) (329) Transparencies (265) Periodicals (264) Catalogs (246) TOPIC History (930) Architecture (566) Ethnography (484) Indigenous Peoples (484) Antiquities (395) Botany (326) Portrait (321) Description and travel (304) Civilization (286) Art, Indic (237) NAME Underwood & Underwood (897) H. C. White Co (413) Ponting, Herbert George (344) Gridwood (318) Sorenson, E. Richard (254) Zoological Survey of India (214) India (125) Larrabee, Constance Stuart (102) Bourne and Shepherd (81) Hrdli?ka, Ale? (77) CULTURE India (764) Tibetans (261) Hindus (178) Muslims (145) Tamil (56) Portraits (30) Assamese (29) Indian (29) Britain ? (27) British ? (27) LANGUAGE English (6594) French (223) German (172) Spanish (163) Sanskrit (73) Latin (66) Japanese (49) Hindi (48) Portuguese (42) Italian (35) PLACE India (6847) South Asia (568) Ladakh (India) (266) Africa (186) Asia (165) China (124) South Africa (112) Cape Town (South Africa) (102) Japan (100) Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa) (97) DATE 1980s (1699) 1990s (1501) 1900s (1375) 1910s (1213) 1970s (1117) 1870s (1039) 2000s (971) 1960s (784) 1880s (717) 1860s (710) 3,258 records matching keyword: "Indonesia" ONLINE MEDIA Images (361) Electronic resource (40) Finding aids (17) Transcripts (1) TYPE Books (2332) Archival materials (439) Photographs (419) Exhibitions (events) (107) Periodicals (87) Collection descriptions (59) Conferences (49) Dictionaries (46) Microforms (40) Catalogs (39) TOPIC History (241) Ethnology (184) Social life and customs (163) Description and travel (139) Indonesian language (133) Antiquities (81) Civilization (78) Politics and government (76) Dictionaries (72) Botany (70) NAME Abbott, William Louis (149) Indonesia (122) Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah (61) Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa (59) Cornell University (43) Proyek Penerbitan Buku Bacaan dan Sastra Indonesia dan Daerah (38) United States (35) Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands) (31) Borobudur (Temple : Magelang, Indonesia) (25) Lembaga Kebudajaan Indonesia (25) CULTURE Javanese (Indonesian people) (105) Dayak (Indonesian people) (64) Land Dyak (57) Borneo (22) Batjan (18) Ambon (16) Buru (14) Moluccans (14) Ternate (14) Toraja (Indonesian people) (13) LANGUAGE English (1539) Indonesian (766) Dutch (519) German (166) French (103) Austronesian (Other) (44) Javanese (40) Japanese (31) Latin (27) Undetermined (17) PLACE Indonesia (1955) Java (256) Java (Indonesia) (126) Sumatra (82) Bali Island (Indonesia) (80) Bali Island (63) Papua (Indonesia) (63) Netherlands (48) Asia (46) Sumatra (Indonesia) (44) DATE 1990s (540) 1980s (528) 1970s (409) 1950s (331) 1960s (301) 1920s (195) 1940s (193) 2000s (193) 1930s (184) 1900s (174) 2,903 records matching keyword: "Korea" ONLINE MEDIA Images (491) Electronic resource (45) Finding aids (6) Transcripts (6) TYPE Books (1476) Exhibitions (events) (587) Archival materials (533) Photographs (374) Works of art (160) Catalogs (111) Periodicals (88) Pictorial works (53) Biographies (48) Sculptures (34) TOPIC History (392) Antiquities (197) Art, Korean (194) Civilization (144) Painting, Korean (107) Social life and customs (97) Korean War, 1950-1953 (95) Porcelain, Korean (66) Description and travel (60) Pottery, Korean (54) NAME Kungnip Chungang Pangmulgwan (Korea) (92) Kisan (84) United States (80) NMNH (77) Korea (South) (59) Jenings, F. H (51) JAC Project (47) Kungnip Minsok Pangmulgwan (Korea) (47) ?? ?? ??? (Korea) (36) ??????? (Korea) (32) CULTURE Koreans (384) Korean (77) Americans (9) Japanese (6) Korea (3) Chinese (2) Hupa (2) Indians of North America (2) Mohave (2) Prehistoric peoples (2) LANGUAGE English (1606) Korean (1122) Japanese (332) German (48) French (46) Chinese (41) Latin (15) Dutch (5) Russian (5) Undetermined (4) PLACE Korea (1365) Korea (South) (392) Japan (154) China (95) United States (93) East Asia (42) Seoul (40) Korea (North) (32) Asia (30) Taiwan (18) DATE 1990s (828) 1980s (474) 2000s (471) 1900s (409) 1880s (283) 1910s (193) 1970s (191) 1950s (173) 1890s (170) 1390s (167). URL http://collections.si.edu/search/ Link reported by: Pam Wintle (wintlep--at--si.edu) Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [The page "collections.si.edu/search/" was not archived at the time of this abstract] * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Museum/Academic * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30 03 Jul 2009 Tigre de Papier [publishing house] Tigre de Papier, Lyon, France Self-description: "Maison d'edition et librairie en ligne specialisee dans les livres sur l'Asie et ses langues / Online bookshop and publishing house specialising in books about Asia and Asian Languages." Site contents: * Librairie / Bookshop [the latests books from 'Tigre de Papier'] * Livres choisis/Selected titles [books from other publishing houses] (Livres Anciens, Histoire, Philosophie, Art, Litterature, Theorie Critique, Langues - Dictionnaires, Manuels). [A site in French, with some information in English and Chinese - ed.] URL http://www.tigredepapier.org/ Link reported by: Florent Villard (florentvillard--at--hotmail.com), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.tigredepapier.org/ * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info. * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 10 02 Jul 2009 Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Self-description: "RegNet [est. 2000] is a large research group within the College of Asia and Pacific. It is also a network of institutions, practitioners and academics involved in exploring and understanding critical domains of regulation. Members of the network differ in their approaches to regulation but their work is interconnected. The key motivation driving RegNet is to advance current understanding and approaches to issues such as human security, policing, environment, cyber crime, illicit organisations and markets, intellectual property and the governance of knowledge, development, peacebuilding, human rights, international law, micro foundations of democratic governance, health and occupational health and safety through a regulatory framework that develops evidence-based theory, policy and practice." Site contents: * About Us; * People; * Centres and Groups (ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS), Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development (CGKD), Centre for International Governance & Justice (CIGJ), Centre for Restorative Justice (CRJ), Micro Foundations of Democratic Governance, National Research Centre for OHS Regulation (NRCOHSR), RegHealth); * Reports/Reviews (Annnual reports 2007, 2008. Reviews 2004, 2006); * Publications (Publications by Year [2001-2007], Publications by Author [77 names]); * Teaching Program; * Membership; * RegNet in the News; * Newsletter [Regnet.News 1-3 issues a year, since 2000 till present]; * Current events; * Links [Australian and Overseas] (Network Centres, Academic Institutions, Organisations); * Contact * RegNet Membership Form * Current Events * Search. URL http://regnet.anu.edu.au Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://regnet.anu.edu.au * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info. * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1,000 02 Jul 2009 Society for South-East Asian Studies / Gesellschaft fuer Sueddostasienwissenschaften (SEAS) SEAS, Vienna, Austria Self-description: "Welcome to the homepage of the Society for South-East Asian Studies (SEAS) Austria. We aim to provide educational and networking services, within the scope of South-East Asian studies, to researchers, students and the interested general public. On this webpage you will find information on events, job postings, call for papers etc. concerning South-East Asia in Austria and elsewhere as well as about the activities of the Society for South-East Asian Studies." Site contents: * SEAS (Activities, Team, Mitgliedschaft / Membership, Mission Statement, Get involved, Newsletter, Kooperationspartner / Cooperations, * ASEAS [Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies] (Current Issue (ASEAS VOL 1(2) 2008), Previous Issues (ASEAS VOL 1(1) 2008), Submissions, Order, Editorial Contacts); * Study & Go Abroad; * viennasian [a photographic competition runninmg from December 2008 to Autumn 2009, which deals with themes of migration, integration, fine arts and cultural representation, and which involves Viennese adolescents with or without an "Asian background" - ed.]; * Downloads [SEAS annual reports, selected research papers on Cambodia, China, Indonesia, and Thailand - ed.]; * Links [SouthEast Asia studies in Austria, Germany, andf other countries]; * Kontakt / Info; * Conference 09; * SEAS Service (Aktuelles / News, Artikel / Articles, Call for Papers, Konferenzen / Workshops, Praktika / Internships, SOA Lehrangebot / Courses, Stellenangebote / Jobs, Stipendien / Grants) [A bi-lingual web site in English and German (i.e. 'Austrian', as per President B. Obama press conference of 4 April 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr7zhnctF4c ) - ed.] URL http://www.seas.at/ Link reported by: Christian Bothe (christian.bothe--at--seas.at) Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.seas.at/ * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info. * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 100 01 Jul 2009 South Asia Research Unit (SARU) Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia Self-description: "The South Asia Research Unit (SARU), which was established in 1991, coordinates and provides a focus for teaching and research on South Asia in the humanities and social sciences, within the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. Its broad interests include cultural, economic, political and social change in those countries that comprise the South Asian region." Site contents: * Function and Research Activities [incl. maintenance of the essential, five star online database of South Asian materials in Australian libraries with over 120,000 records and 150,000 of known non-Australian records, namely the "South Asia Resources Database (SARD)" at http://recall.curtin.edu.au/ics-wpd/docssaru/sard.htm - ed]; * Courses; * Conferences; * Grants & Publications; * Exchange & Cooperation; * Contact Us; * Search. URL http://saru.curtin.edu.au/ Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://saru.curtin.edu.au/ * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info. * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300 01 Jul 2009 The Australia-India Council (AIC) Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra, ACT, Australia Self-description: "The Australia-India Council (AIC) was established on 21 May 1992, in response to a recommendation by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, following an inquiry into Australia's relations with India. The Council's purpose is to broaden the relationship between Australia and India by encouraging and supporting contacts and increasing levels of knowledge and understanding between the peoples and institutions of the two countries. The Council initiates or supports a range of activities designed to promote a greater awareness of Australia in India and a greater awareness of India in Australia, including visits and exchanges between the two countries, development of institutional links, and support of studies in each country of the other. The Council offers support, in the form of funding, for projects likely to contribute to the development of the relationship, within the context of AIC objectives and guidelines." Site contents: * About the Australia-India Council; * Australia-India Council - Board Members; * Australia-India Council - Annual Activity Reports; * Australia-India Council - Discretionary Grants; * Australia-India Focus Newsletter [in PDF format, published 3 times a year, from May 2003 till present]; * AIC Grant Funding (The Australia-India Council (AIC) welcomes funding applications from Australian individuals and organisations for projects which are likely to promote long-term contact and cooperation between Australia and India. The Australia-India Council is now inviting applications for 2009-2010 financial year. The closing date for applications is COB Monday 3rd August [2009]); * Understanding Australia [information in English and Hindi for international students and visitors]; * Australia India Business Council (AIBC). URL http://www.dfat.gov.au/aic/ Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dfat.gov.au/aic/ * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info. * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Government * Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1,000 Copyright (c) 2009 by T. Matthew Ciolek URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html