Information about BAS online Demo.

Asian Spatial Information and Analysis
http://www.asian.gu.edu.au
"The Australian Centre of the Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network has produced a large amount of spatial data (digital cartography) ... for all the countries of East, Southeast, and South Asia, as well as the entire former Soviet Union."

What Caused Asia's Economic Crisis?
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/-nroubini/asia/AsiaHomepage.htmI
A compendium of links to web resources and articles addressing the question "What Caused Asia's Economic and Currency Crisis and Its Global Contagion?" Basic readings and references, proposed policy solutions, global effects, country analyses, sources of official data and reports, chronology of the crisis, political and historical background.

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
http://www.gii.getty.edu/tgn_browser
An effort to create a unified source for geographic name information around the globe. Some 900,000 names arranged in a hierarchical structure. Gives names in vernacular and English, variants in other languages, historical names, geographical coordinates, important dates and notes. The database is expanding.

Security, Environment, Sustainability
http://www.nautilus.org
Homepage of the Nautilus Institute: Resources on Security, Environment, Sustainability in the Asia-Pacific Region. Includes "Policy Forum Online," environmental human rights, energy and security in Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia peace and security.

Asian Studies Syllabi
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~asia/syll/
Submitted to H-Asia by their creators, these syllabi cover graduate, survey, and thematic courses on a wide range of topics in Asian studies.

History Departments Directory
http://chnm.gmu.edu/history/depts/
URLs for over 900 history departments' web pages around the world; searchable by university name and location (U.S. and non-U.S.). Will be searchable by city and state in the near future.

National Library of Australia Asian Collections
http://www.nla.gov.au/1/gencoll/guides/31.html
Guide to general and special collections in both Western and Asian languages.

Study Abroad Asia WWWVL
http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/stdyabrd/StdyabrdAsia.html
"This page is mainly set up to help scholars find suitable programs, resources, and other information for studying abroad in Asia. It provides original sources as well as links to other pages related to Study Abroad Asia." Organized geographically. Has an in-progress list of U.S. college and university courses in Asian languages, arranged by language. Part of the Asian Studies World Wide Web Virtual Library.

PIER Teaching Resource Collection
http://www.cis.yale.edu/pieris/p_res.html
An online database of 2000 films, videos, slide sets, books, maps, curriculum guides, etc., in international and area studies, for grades K-12 and college level. Materials can be reserved and borrowed for two-week periods for a nominal shipping fee.

Journals & Newspapers
AsianDoc Electronic Newsletter
http://asiandoc.lib.ohio-state.edu/v1nl/
An online publication that "supports scholars, librarians, and researchers world-wide who are developing text or image databases in the various fields of Asian/EurAsian studies or who are incorporating materials in Asian languages into larger databases."

Asian Arts E-Journal
http://www.asianart.com
All aspects of Asian art; offers a forum for scholars, museums, commercial galleries. Covers associations, exhibitions, galleries, classifieds, calendars, Asian Arts Bookstore, user guide, links.

Asahi Shimbun, Japan: http://www.asahi.com/english/english.html

Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan: http://satellite.nikkei.co.jp/enews/

Chosun Ilbo, Korea: http://twww.chosun.com/g__.html

Pakistan: http://www.dawn.com. Also Weekly Dawn
India: http://www.telegraphindia.com
Times of India: http://www.timesofindia.com

Economic Times, India: http://www.economictimes.com

Star, Malaysia: http://www.jaring.my/~star/

Straits Times, Singapore: http://straitstimes.asia1.com

Bangkok Post, Thailand: http://www.bangkokpost.net

http://www.bisnis.com

Sydney Morning Herald, Australia: http://www.smh.com.au

South Asia
Indian Elections
Information on the recent elections can be found at the following sites:
http://www.electionindia.com/
http://www.indiaelection.com/
http://www.expressindia.com/election/index.htm
http://www.univall.com/results.htm
http://www.eci.gov.in (website of the Election Commission of India)

British Voices from South Asia
http://indigo.lib.lsu.edu/special/india/hmpg.htm
An online reproduction of an exhibition on British India as a colonial subculture and on the cultural implications of the British-Indian connection. Many annotated illustrations from postcards, photographs, etc.

Japanese Network for South Asian Studies
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~BS8M-FKNG/e-index.html
Enables South Asia scholars whose major language is not Japanese to easily communicate with South Asia scholars in Japan. Reports on current research and activities in Japan, information on conferences and meetings, publications by Japanese scholars writing in languages other than Japanese, contents of Japanese journals on South Asia.

Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India
http://www.indiagov.org
Information on culture, economy, sports, social issues, foreign relations, Election Commission, tourism.

American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS)
http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/aiis/aiishomepage.htm
AIIS is a consortium of Universities and colleges in the U.S. at which scholars engage in teaching and research about India. Information on programs, membership, member institutions, research centers.

Theatre of the Oppressed, India
http://unet.univie.ac.at/~a8702482
On Dalit Rangabhumi, the Theatre of the Oppressed, with an annotated translation of one play; link to information on the Dalit Movement. Both English and German version of the site here.

Indexed South Asian Journals
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/sarai/bas-cur.html
A list of South Asian journals that are completely indexed in the online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies. All issues from 1972 onwards are indexed. Updates will be posted at this site. A product of BAS indexing and the cooperative indexing project of the Committee on South Asian Libraries and documentation.

East Asia
East Asian Language and Thought
http://www.acmuller.gol.com/index.html
Textual and lexicographical resource for the study of East Asian language and thought. Contains WWW CJK-English dictionary database; dictionary of CJK Buddhist terms; Korean Buddhist page; electronic Buddhist text initiative; scholarly web resources on Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, etc.

Chinese Biographical Database
http://exodus.lcsc.edu/cbiouser/
This is "an interactive, scholarly, moderated online research and educational tool open to anyone who feels they can use the information." It is interdisciplinary and multilingual. In addition to the over 1000 biographies already searchable in the "Reports" section, it invites scholars to submit documented biographical information via an online submission form, thereby expanding the database.

China's Environment
http://environment.harvard.edu
The China section of this guide to environmental resources provides information on selected resources at Harvard and on the Internet related to environmental science and public policy in China; searchable by keyword. Numerous links.

Harvard Asia Center
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~asiactr/
The Asia Center was inaugurated in early 1998. Contains information about the Center, calendar of Asia-related events at Harvard, over- view of Asia programs at Harvard.

Temple of Culture
http://www.hamilton.edu/academic/Asian/TempleCulture.html
"Images of the Temple of Culture" includes a chronology of the changing status of Confucianism as the official teaching of the Chinese state, a list of key dates for enshrinement in the temple, Confucius's posthumous titles, photographs of Confucius temples in Beijing, Qufu, Hangzhou, and Quzhou. Also a long bibliography of sources on Confucianism.

New PRC Internet Regulations
http://www.redfish.com/USEmbassy-China/sandt/netreg.htm
On Dec. 30, 1997, China's Ministry of Public Security promulgated new regulations for the security and management of computer information networks and the Internet, a codification of existing practices. English translation provided by the U.S. Embassy, Beijing.

ChinaLaw Web
http://www.qis.net/chinalaw/
Provides information about Chinese law and the legal system in greater China (mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong). Includes translations of laws of China and Taiwan and links to Hong Kong laws and to related sites.

Chinese Movie Database
http://www.asiaonline.net.hk/~dianying
Covers Chinese films made from 1905 to the present, in China, Tai- wan, Hong Kong, and other regions; English and Chinese versions.

Network Pacific Asia
http://law.rikkyo.ac.jp/npa/indx.htm
Dedicated to the exchange of ideas in the areas of Asian politics, diplomacy, economics, society, modern history; book reviews.

Traditional Chinese Culture in Taiwan
http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/culture/culture.html
A fragment of a multilingual (Chinese Big5, English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish) site. In addition to traditional culture (folk arts, calligraphy, dance, food , architecture, etc.), includes information on Republic of China today, news, mainland affairs, etc.

Korean War Reference Library
http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/1953
Contains documents relating to Korean War and earlier, such as the 1905 Korean Protectorate Treaty with Japan, the 1950 UN Resolution on Korea, 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement.

The Korea Society
http://www.koreasociety.org
Calendar of events, the journal U.S. Korea Review, and Access Korea, an online informational and educational outreach initiative.

Korea Tourism
http://www.knto.or.kr
Homepage of the Korea National Tourism Organization; Korea at a Glance, services, travel within Korea, Korean statistics, photo gallery.

North Korean Affairs
http://www.koreascope.org
Site of the Research Institute for North Korean Affairs. Recent reports from North Korea, unification issues; versions in Korean and English.

Southeast Asia
Cambodian Embassy, Washington
http://www.embassy.org/cambodia

Lao Embassy, Washington
http://laoembassy.com
Tourism, government, news, visa process; links to Lao Mission at the U.N., Laos at ASEAN, Vientiane Times newspaper.

Vietnam Embassy, Washington
http://vietnamembassy-usa.org
Tourism, government, news, press releases, visa application form, Vietnam-U.S. Relations Past and Present.

The Wars for Vietnam, 1945-1975
http://vassun.vassar.edu/~vietnam
Site developed for a course at Vassar College. Includes an overview of the war, original documents, links to over 50 sites on the war, Vietnam today, culture and travel, U.S. National Archives, Kennedy Library, NGOs operating in Vietnam, Vietnamese-language software, etc.

Spanish-American War
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/sawhome.html
Part of the Library of Congress National Digital Library; motion pictures viewable in Quicktime and MPEG formats. Fifty-three films made from 1898 to 1901 of the war and the Philippine Revolution.

[ UPDATE: See http://www.library.ohiou.edu/libinfo/depts/sea/sarawak/index.htm]
Rajah Brooke & Sarawak
http://web.chem.ucla.edu/~scw/james/index.html
On Sarawak's first White Rajah. Chronology, extensive bibliography searchable by topic, list of resources in archives; link to "Michael Palin Visits Sarawak" [PBS travel show].

Indonesia Today
http://www.indonesiatoday.com
Informational publication from the government. Travel and culture, business, environment, international relations, archived newsletter.