Asia Resources on the World Wide Web
by Raymond Lum - Winter 1998 (Print source*)
The online version of links of this column can be found on
the AAS website: http://www.aasianst.org/asiawww.htm
Please send corrections, recommendations, and comments to
rlum@fas.harvard.edu

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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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*See the PRINT copy of this list in the Asian Studies Newsletter, Winter Issue, V. 43, No. 5, p. 25-26, published by the Association for Asian Studies, Inc. Webbed by Philip McEldowney. December 1998.


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