Shakespeare Performance in Asia (SPIA)

http://web.mit.edu/shakespeare/asia/


13 Jul 2009

Shakespeare Electronic Archive, MIT Shakespeare Project, MIT, Cambridge, MA, US

Self-description:
"The center of creativity in Shakespeare performance is shifting from Europe and the U.S. to Asia, where directors such as Ninagawa Yukio, Suzuki Tadashi, Ong Keng Sen, Wu Hsing-kuo, and many others experiment with combinations of traditional and contemporary theatre, new strategies for working across languages and genres, new ways of reaching diverse audiences. [...]
Showcased here on Shakespeare Performance in Asia (SPIA) are video highlights with English subtitles, photos, and texts from Asia, the U.S. and Europe. This database is intended to promote cross-cultural understanding and serve as a core resource for students, teachers, and researchers.
* Current features of the archive include: * A catalogue of more than 200 productions compiled by Alex Huang, which will be continuously updated. * A collection of video clips from major productions. * Interactive maps and timelines. * Interviews and biographies of directors and actors. * Essays on Asian Shakespeare by major scholars.
Regular updates will greatly expand the above resources, and introduce new features, including glossaries of key terms and full videos of many productions."

Site contents:
* About
(About SPIA, About A S I A [Asian Shakespeare Interactive Archive, http://web.mit.edu/shakespeare/asia/about/asia.html] Collaborators MIT Team Contact);
* Productions
(Catalogue (241 titles) [films, stage productions, TV series, and cartoons produced on the Indian Subcontinent, in South Asia, SE Asia, East Asia, Pacific Islands, New Zealand (in Maori), Europe, and in the U.S. - ed.], Video clips (22));
* Commentary
(Essays (# Shakespeare, Asian Actors and Intercultural Spectatorship by Li Lan Yong, National University of Singapore # Shakespeare, Performance, and Autobiographical Interventions by Alexander Huang, Pennsylvania State University, # Hamlet in China: Translation, Interpretation and Performance by Ruru Li, University of Leeds), Interviews [Directors, actors, and other theater artists speak about their work - ed.], Artist bios (DEGUCHI, Norio; KURITA, Yoshihiro; LIN, Zhaohua; MIYAGI, Satoshi; NINAGAWA, Yukio; NOMURA, Mansai; ONG, Keng Sen; SUZUKI, Tadashi; TSE, David Ka-Shing; WU, Hsing-kuo), Companies (Beijing People's Art Theatre, Contemporary Legend Theater, Lin Zhaohua Drama Studio, Ku Na'uka Theatre Company, Ryutopia Noh Theater Shakespeare, Subaru Theater Company, TheatreWorks), Bibliography (Sources on Asian and International Shakespeare, Key Online Resources).

URL http://web.mit.edu/shakespeare/asia/

Link reported by: Alexander Huang (acyhuang05--at--gmail.com), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents/ Study/ Corporate info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
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

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World Uyghur Congress (WUC)

http://www.uyghurcongress.org/


13 Jul 2009

World Uyghur Congress, Munich, Germany.

Self-description:
"The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) is an international organization that represents the collective interest of the Uyghur people both in East Turkestan and abroad. WUC was established on April 16, 2004 in Munich Germany after the East Turkestan National Congress and the World Uyghur Youth Congress merged into one united organization. The main objective of WUC is to promote the right of the Uyghur people to use peaceful, nonviolent, and democratic means to determine the political future of East Turkestan.
The Third General Assembly of the World Uyghur Congress was convened in Washington, DC on May 21-25, 2009. Delegates and observers from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Norway, Sweden, Turkey and the United States have attended the Assembly. Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, the leader of the international Uyghur human rights and democracy movement, once again elected as the president of the WUC unanimously by all delegates."

Site contents:
* East Turkistan (People, Uygur Language, History, Geography);
* WUC (Leadership of WUC, Mission Statment, Former Leadership of WUC, Organization);
* Human Rights;
* Latest News [About East Turkistan ] for Monday, July 13, 2009:
# Muslims decry violence against Uighurs - July 12, 2009 # China reimposes curfew in Urumqi - July 12, 2009 # A Strongman Is China's Rock in Ethnic Strife - July 11, 2009 # China's flood of fortune seekers unsettles Xinjiang - July 11, 2009 # China plans massive change in Uyghur cultural capital - July 11, 2009 # Urumqi: a Quiet "Open Prison" - July 11, 2009 # China's leaders reap instability - July 11, 2009 # Beijing's wages of intolerance - July 11, 2009 # A rude lesson on unity and stability for Muslims and Chinese Government - July 10, 2009 # Delahunt Urges Administration To Condemn China's Uighur Crackdown - July 10, 2009 # Uighur plight in China leads to protests, Muslim condemnation - July 10, 2009 # In Wake of Turmoil In China, Minorities Face Painful Options - July 9, 2009 # A Tibetan's Perception of the Uyghur Protests - July 9, 2009 # Tragedies in Xinjiang, in Tehran, in Darfur, in Gaza - July 9, 2009 # Why Urumqi Has Frightened the CCP - July 9, 2009 # China riot city 'under control' - July 8, 2009 # China Official Threatens Death Penalty After Riots - July 8, 2009 # Xinjiang Authorities Forcefully Suppress Demonstration, Restrict Free Flow of Information - July 8, 2009 # China's Hu says maintaining stability paramount - July 8, 2009 # Angry Uighurs defy Chinese police - July 7, 2009 # Deadly Ethnic Riots Pose Fresh Crisis for Beijing - July 7, 2009 # US must act to prevent Uighur Tiananmen - July 7, 2009 # Rebiya Kadeer: exiled champion of China's Uighurs - July 7, 2009 # U.N. urges China, ethnic groups to halt violence - July 7, 2009 # 140 killed in western China after Uighur riots and security crackdown - July 6, 2009 # China Locks Down Restive Region After Deadly Clashes - July 6, 2009 # Witnesses says China protest spreads to 2nd city - July 6, 2009 # China's Xinjiang hit by violence - July 5, 2009 # Violence erupts in China's Xinjiang region; 2 killed - July 5, 2009 # Massacre In East Turkistan - July 5, 2009 # Local Uighurs skeptical about Gul's China visit - June 30, 2009 # Rep. Dana Rohrabacher on the Uighurs - June 30, 2009 # 'No Rapes' in Riot Town - June 29, 2009 # Ethnic tensions spark brawl at China factory-report - June 27, 2009 [...];
* Press Releases (Press Releases About WUC, Press Releases About East Turkistan);
* Events;
* Media Files;
* Links (East Turkistan (Uyghur) Organization, International Organization, Uyghur Radio-Televizor, Uyghur Shehsi Tor Betliri, Uyghur Tijaretchiler Betliri, Uyghurlargha Munasiwetlik Tor Betliri);
* Contact.

[A multilingual site in Uyghur, English, German, Chinese and Japanese]

URL http://www.uyghurcongress.org/

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.uyghurcongress.org/

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate info./ News/ Study/ Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Other
* 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 1,000

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Blog Search of 8 July 2009 for "Urumqi" / "Urumchi"

http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=urumqi


08 Jul 2009

blogsearch.google.com, US.

Self-description:
"Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our users to explore the blogging universe more effectively, and perhaps inspire many to join the revolution themselves. Whether you're looking for Harry Potter reviews, political commentary, summer salad recipes or anything else, Blog Search enables you to find out what people are saying on any subject of your choice.
Your results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger; our blog index is continually updated, so you'll always get the most accurate and up-to-date results; and you can search not just for blogs written in English, but in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Swedish, Malay, Polish, Thai, Indonesian, Tagalog, Turkish, Vietnamese and other languages as well."

Site contents
[http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=urumqi on 8 July 2009, 11 am Eastern Australia Time Zone - ed.]:

* Global Voices Advocacy - Information on riots in Urumqi slow to ... 4 hours ago - by Bhumika Ghimire - "Twitter and YouTube appeared to be blocked in China late on Monday afternoon, while leading Chinese search engines would not give results for "Urumqi", the city in Xinjiang where the riots occurred. Urumqi residents also said the ... http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/
* Shanghai Scrap - Tweeting Urumqi - 14 hours ago - by Adam - There are, of course, many correspondents in Urumqi who are not tweeting (several of whom are my friends), and who are doing important and brave work. Here's hoping everybody's safe. [UPDATE 7/7: For blog -based coverage of the unrest, ... http://shanghaiscrap.com/
* China Tries to Calm Urumqi as Mobs Take to Streets - 7 hours ago - Hundreds of Chinese from rival ethnic groups fought each other with machetes, metal pipes and bricks in the northwestern city of Urumqi, overcoming police attempts to quell the deadliest clashes in decades. http://www.prisonplanet.com/
* Amnesty Blogs: Countdown for China : Urumqi Massacre - 20 hours ago - The CCP produced another Massacre in Urumqi immediately after it incited bloody incident against Uighur in Guangdong. Meanwhile the Communist regime via official propaganda CCTV claimed that Rebiya Kadeer, exiled Uighur in the US, ... http://blogs.amnesty.org.uk/
* Hundreds of armed Han Chinese march in Urumqi - Democratic Underground - 13 hours ago - Police fired tear gas Tuesday to try to restore order as hundreds of Han Chinese armed with clubs marched through the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi, smashing shops and knocking over food stalls run by Muslims. ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/
* Hundreds Die In Urumqi. Does The World Care? - 19 hours ago - by Rebecca Byerly - According to the latest news reports from Urumqi, a far-flung city in western China, http://www.allfacebook.com/
* Harry Clarke - Urumqi fighting - 14 hours ago - by hc - Urumqi fighting. The current fighting in northwest China constitutes the biggest civil disturbances in China since Tiananmen in 1989 with at least 156 dead in the current violence - the most dead being Han Chinese. ... http://www.harryrclarke.com/
* Blood & Treasure: Urumqi MGI update - 9 hours ago - by jamie k - A couple more things on Xinjiang: During the Tibetan rioting last year, China Central television lead heavily on the fact that Han Chinese civilians had been targeted by Tibetans and some killed. This was acknowledged by foreigners who ... http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/
* Neweurasia.Net - Riots in Urumqi - 18 hours ago - by Arseny - 156 people have been killed and 1080 wounded in Urumqi during massacre. Hundreds of vehicles and stores were burnt, and dozens of dwelling houses damaged. The government accuses foreign terrorists of inflicting the riots, ... neweurasia.net - http://www.neweurasia.net/
* The New Dominion - Images from Tuesday Urumqi Demonstrations - 2 hours ago - by OpkeHessip - Images from Tuesday Urumqi Demonstrations,china,culture,language,news,uighur,uighurs,uyghur,uyghurs,xinjiang. http://www.thenewdominion.net/

Site contents
[http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=urumchi on 8 July 2009, 11 am Eastern Australia Time Zone - ed.]:

* Update on Urumchi | UN Dispatch - 11 hours ago - by Alanna Shaikh - Urumchi is now under martial law. The death toll is at 156 and rising; no one has a clear breakdown on how many deaths were caused by police and how many by the rioters. 1400 people have been arrested. The UK's Telegraph newspaper has a ... http://www.undispatch.com/
* Statement of Rebiya Kadeer on unrest in Urumchi - EUROPE TURKMEN ... 6 Jul 2009 by merryabla64 - Yesterday, in the regional capital of Urumchi, Chinese police and paramilitary forces cracked down on thousands of Uyghur demonstrators, killing hundreds and injuring hundreds more in a massacre that is unprecedented in East Turkestan ... http://merryabla64.wordpress.com/
* Mass Arrests and More Demonstrations in Urumchi - Tibettruth's Blog - 15 hours ago - by tibettruth - Local witnessses, reported on the newswire, described Chinese security forces sweeping through areas of Urumchi making house-to-house arrest. One woman, Maliya, said: "My husband was taken away yesterday by police. They didn't say why. ... http://tibettruth.wordpress.com/
* Uyghur Blog: Protest in Urumchi violently suppressed by Chinese ... 5 Jul 2009 by Uyghur News - On Sunday, July 5, 2009, Uyghur students organized a protest in Urumchi to express discontent with the Chinese authorities' response to the mob killing and beating of Uyghur workers at a toy factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong on June 26, ... http://memettohti.blogspot.com/
* The New Dominion - Riots in Urumchi - Video - 5 Jul 2009 by OpkeHessip - Riots in Urumchi - Video,china,culture,language,news,uighur,uighurs,uyghur,uyghurs,xinjiang. The New Dominion - Commentary, News, and... - http://www.thenewdominion.net/
* Rebiya Kadeer's statement on the Urumqi unrest - Hot Doughnut's Blog - 4 hours ago - by hotdoughnut - At the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. today, Uyghur democracy leader Rebiya Kadeer delivered a statement to the press regarding recent unrest in Urumchi and other cities in East Turkestan: Statement of Rebiya Kadeer ... http://hotdoughnut.wordpress.com/
* At the back of the hill: Shoot Them All, G -d Will Know His Own - 6 Jul 2009 by The back of the hill - Urumchi is in no way a Dutch 'aangelegenheid'. Wy hebben niks met Oeroemdjie te doen, echt. In most cultures, except perhaps that of the eastern Turks, it is considered extremely bad form to throw stones at your hosts. ... http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/
* Tension mounts in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on Sunday - 5 Jul 2009 by BayBak, Azerbaijan - Urumchi, the capital of Uyghur Autonomous Region in China, has seen the clash of protesters with the police. Official news agency Xinhua said that angry demonstrators blocked the traffic and set the vehicles on fire at several spots in ... http://en.baybak.com/

URL http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=urumqi

Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the blog sites were not archived at the time of this abstract]

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
NGO/Other
* 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]: info. not available

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IDP [The International Dunhuang Project] Archives: Papers

http://idp.bl.uk/pages/archives_papers.a4d


08 Jul 2009

International Dunhuang Project, British Library, London, UK.

Self-description:
"IDP keeps a paper archive of its activities which will accessible in the future at the British Library. This is supplemented by various electronic archives, including details of the web site in various incarnations, early digitised images, newsletter and papers. This is intended as a record of the founding and development of an early digitisation and internet based project and it is hoped that it will be of use and interest to others working on such projects both now and in the future."

Site contents:
* Technical papers (# The IDP Database - Susan Whitfield, # Navigating Through Uncharted Territory - Susan Whitfield);

* Research Papers (# Enjoy It While it Lasts: A Brief Golden Age of Freedom of Scholarly Information? - Susan Whitfield, # The Question of Forgeries - Susan Whitfield, # Suvarnaprabhasottamasutra - Radha Banerjee, # A Review of Tangut Buddhism, Art and Textual Studies - Saren Gaowa, # Introduction to Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Manuscripts from Tunhuang in the British Museum - Lionel Giles, # Medecine, societe et religion dans la Chine medievale Manuscrits de Dunhuang et pratiques de sante - Catherine Despeux, # Abstracts of the medical manuscripts from Dunhuang - Wang Shumin, # A Chinese Medieval Treatment for Angina - Anthony Butler and John Moffett, # Proceedings (Extract) of XII International Congress of Orientalists, Rome, October 1899 - Lia Genovese, # Otani Kozui's 1910 visit to London - Imre Galambos, # Orthography of Early Chinese Writing: Evidence from Newly Excavated Manuscripts - Imre Galambos, # A Tenth Century Manuscript from Dunhuang Concerning the Gantong Monastery at Liangzhou - Imre Galambos, # Current status and future prospects of the Hanzi Normative Glyphs (HNG) Database - ISHIZUKA Harumichi);

* Conservation Papers (# When Objects are Beyond Conservation: Recovering Visual Information from Damaged Artifacts - Sanchita Balachandran and Glenn Gates, # Fibre Analyses of Dunhuang Documents in the British Library - Agnieska Helman-Wazny).

URL http://idp.bl.uk/pages/archives_papers.a4d

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://idp.bl.uk/pages/archives_papers.a4d

Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Library
* 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 30

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