Asia Resources on the World Wide Web
by Raymond Lum - Winter 1998 (Print
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[Asia & General]
[East Asia]
[Southeast Asia]
[South Asia]
ASIA & GENERAL
Asian Educational Media Service
http://www.aems.uiuc.edu
A searchable database of educational media about Asia, including films and
slides, videos, audio cassettes, curriculum units. Includes annotation and
sources for purchasing or renting. From the Center for East Asian and Pacific
Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
AAR Syllabi Project
http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwaar/home.html
A growing collection of syllabi in the academic study of religion; covers
numerous topics, such as "Islam in the Modem World," "Buddhist Traditions,"
and"Women in Chinese Religion."
Scholarly Articles Research Alerting
http:/www.carfax.co.uk
Provides information on obtaining free subscriptions to Carfax Publishing's
article alert service for its 200+ journals. Subscribers are e-mailed full biblio-
graphic information about forthcoming articles in journals that they select by
title or subject area.
RSPAS Print News
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/rspas-print-news.htm
A current-awareness bulletin from Coombs Academic Publishing at The
Australian National University. Provides online summaries and
announcements of recent research publications by members of and visitors to the
Research School of Pacific Studies and Asian Studies. Includes lists
from publishing groups within RSPAS: Australia-Japan Research
Centre, Contemporary China Centre, Australia-South Asia Research Center,
Division of Pacific and Asian History.
Inner Asian and Uralic Resource Center
http://www.indiana.edu/~iaunrc
The Center, at Indiana University, is affiliated with the Research Institute for
Inner Asian Studies. Site has information on faculty, students, resources,
exchange programs; links to student groups, related departments at other
universities, websites on Eastern and Central Europe, Central Asia, Mongolia,
Iran, etc.; includes list of the Center's publications.
Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context
http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/hum/as/intersections/
A "refereed electronic journal conceived as an interactive forum for
new research and teaching in the area of Gender Studies In the Asia-
Pacific region." Inaugural issue (Sept. 1998) includes"The Language of
Liberation: Gender and Jiefang in Early CCP Discourse," *Ethnography
and Video: Researching Women in China's Floating Population,* other
articles, and reviews.
Meta-Archive of Non-Roman Fonts
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mittenth/fontarch.html
Links to websites with downloadable non-Roman fonts.
EAST ASIA
Chinese Contemporary Art
http://www.chinese-art.com/
A bimonthly web magazine on contemporary art in China. Features articles,
notes on collections, reviews, bookshop, back issues, and numerous images.
Interactive Dunhuang Database
http://idp.bl.uk
"The database is recreating in virtual form the contents of a Buddhist library
cave discovered in 1900 near the Silk Road oasis town of Dunhuang. The
database is both catalogue and image bank, with details of over 20,000
manuscripts in Chinese, Tibetan, and other Central Asia languages, and over
1000 high-quality colour images." Also includes online version of the
International Dunhuang Project Newsletter.
Hong Kong WWW Virtual Library
http://www.asiawind.com/hkwwwvl/
A subsection of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library. Contains general
information, including a history of Hong Kong, a map, links to related sites;
government finance & economy, business & industry, law, health &
education, science & technology, art & music, media (with links to newspapers),
internet, tourism & recreation, etc.
Computer Terminology In Chinese
http://ccts.cs.cuhk.edu.hk/
An interactive online database of Chinese computer terminology: key in an
English term and the corresponding Chinese term (in characters) is searched
for. Use with Chinese-language software.
Transnational China Project
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~tnchina/
The project "seeks to expand the study of the influence of the transnational
circulation of people, technologies, commodities, and ideas in Chinese
societies by sponsoring original commentary and analysis, developing curriculum
materials, and fostering networks of scholars." Contakaselected course
syllabi from Harvard, Rice, Duke, UCLA. Listen, via Read Audio, to lectures by
Wei-mingTu, Wang Meng, Lee Kuan Yew. Includes texts of other lectures.
Sun Yat-sen In Hawaii
http://library.kcc.hawaii.edu/sun/
A non-political site that collects and presents materials on Sun Yat-sen's links
to Hawaii: his Hawaii roots (family, visitors, supporters), research materials
(English and Chinese citations), scones of Hawaii at the time he was there.
From the Sun Yat-sen Hawaii Foundation and Kapiolani Community College
Library.
Peking University Library
http://www.lib.pku.edu.cn
Oilers online searching of the nearly 5 million items in the library; both
Chinese and English versions. Numerous links to other, mostly foreign, resources,
such as BBC, CNN, Canadian and U.S. universities, U.S. newsapers,
Discovery Channel.
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Religion and Rebellion In China
http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/pub/aglms1.html
A revised version of Andrew Gosling's article "Religion and Rebellion in China:
the London Missionary Society Collection," published in National Library of
Australia News, v. 8, no. 10 (July 1998).
East Asia WWW Virtual Library
http://www.icg.fas.harvard.edu/~wwwvl-ea/index.html
This is a new URL for this regional component of the Asian Studies WWW
Virtual Library. Catalogs online resources for the whole of East Asia.
Taiwan Security Research
http://www.taiwansecurity.org
Current news, papers, websites, and conference information about Taiwan's
security in the categories of Taiwan, PRC, Cross-Strait, U.S. Policy, Japan
Policy, Asia-Pacific, media (links to newspapers and news services); pro-
vides text of Taiwan Perspective Newsletter.
Korean American Historical Society (KAHS)
http://deestudios.com/kahs/
A non-prof it organization "dedicated to enriching the collective memory of
Korean Americans through collecting, maintaining, and transmitting the
heritage and achievements of Koreas living in the United States and abroad."
Includes text of KAHS Occasional Papers (annual); links to Korean-American
and other Asian-American organizations.
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Books from the Philippines
http://www.reflectionsofasia.com
An online bookshop that also sells videos, maps, music.
Southeast Asia Collection at Ohio University
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/libinfo/depts/SEA/SEA.htm
Information on the collection, the Malaysian Resource center, the Tun Abdul
Razak Chair, the Dr. You Bao Shao Overseas Chinese Documentation and
Research Center, bibliography of reference works on Southeast Asia;
annotated list of internet resources on Southeast Asia.
Singapore & Malaysia Human Rights Association
http://www.pactok.net/docs/singapore/
Notes on conferences on Singapore and Malaysia, materials from 1987/88
ISA arrests, selected articles from Aliran, wire-service news reports on
Malaysia, online bookshop, etc.
Mekong Research Network
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/mai/mekong/mekong.html
An international and interdisciplinary research network covering the six
countries that are touched by the Mekong River. Includes moderated e-mail
discussion list, quarterly newsletter, conference announcements, links to the Asian
Studies Research Library at Monash University.
Rajah Brooke and Nineteenth Century Sarawak
http://www.library.ohiou.edu/libinfo/depts/sea/sarawak/news.html
A new URL for this site. Provides information on the history of Sarawak and
the Brooke family, bibliographies of books and articles, links to
related websites, discussion group.
Music of Indonesia from Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/folkways/Indonesia/indonesia_start.htm
Descriptions of the CDs in the 20-volume Music of Indonesia Series, including
song texts, additional bibliography, amplifications and corrections of the
album commentaries, audio samples. The CDs can be ordered online.
Atrocities Against Chinese in Indonesia
http://www.huaren.org/body.shtml
Summary of protests around the world; information on human rights violations
by the Indonesian government; pictures and accounts of attacks on ethnic
Chinese (searchable by location within Indonesia).
SOUTH ASIA
Pali Canon Text
http://jbe.la.psu.edu/palicanon.html
Full text of the Sri Lankan version of the Pali canon, based on the Buddha
Jayanti Tripitaka Series. The "semi-proof read" text can be downloaded, as
can a Pali font with diacritics. Site also contains information on activities of the
International Buddhist Research and Information Center.
Tibet Current Affairs
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/TibPages/TIN/tin-bulletins.html
Current affairs analyses and news bulletins prepared since 1988 by
Tibet Information Network in the U.K. Part of the Asian Studies WWW
Virtual Library.
South Asian Children's Books and Software
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/kidsbooks.html
Annotated list of children's books about South Asian topics, by both Asian
and Western authors. Link to source of Islamic books for children and to Book
India and the National Book Trust (India).
Tamil Eelam Home Pages
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/liberation/
The Tamil separatist organization in Sri Lanka. Consists entirely of links: Tamil
Tigers, Tamil Forum, Tamil Nation, Tamil Radio & TV, Tamil Eelam news in
English, Tamil Canadian News Room, Human Rights & Tamil People, etc.
Library of Congress, New Delhi
http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi
The Office is administered by the African/Asian Acquisitions and
Overseas Operations Division of the Library of Congress. Site contains
information about the Cooperative Acquisitions Program (with list of
participants, how to join); list of serials supplied to participants; list of
newspapers, gazettes, and journals filmed by the off ice, information on
preservation microfilming programs.
Ancient India and Iran Trust
http://members.aol.com/indiran
The Trust is an educational charity in England that promotes public inter-
est and education in the study of the cultural heritage of ancient India and
Iran. Maintains a library open to the public, and programs of lectures,
grants, and publishing.
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