* tmc * in patientia vestra habetis animam vestram * tmc *

Dear Reader,

The ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR
(including all its subsidiary (and/or sister) pages on "coombs.anu.edu.au" server) has permanently ceased its publishing operations on Friday 21st January 2011.

All of the online resources reported here have been thoroughly checked at the time of their listing. However, it is possible that, with the with the passage of time, many of the originally reported materials might have been removed from the Internet, or changed their online address, or varied the scope and quality of their contents.

Fortunately, in several cases it is possible to access many of the older versions of the resources listed in the MONITOR. This can be easily done via the free services of the "The Internet Archive" http://web.archive.org/, a remarkable brainchild of Brewster Kahle, San Francisco, CA.

- with warm regards -

Editor, Dr T. Matthew Ciolek.

Canberra, 21 January 2011.


14 May 2004

Women's Magazines from the [China's] Republican Period

http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/womag/

4star
Barbara Mittler, Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany

Self-description:
"Women's magazines, the first of which appeared in China in 1898, were a significant side-product from the rise of a free press based on the foreign model in late 19th century treaty port China. As public fora of discussion explicitly catering to women, they were of and by themselves indicators of some of the rapid changes in Chinese society at the time: during the first decades of the twentieth century, women from all strata of society would gradually be accepted into a reading and writing community that worked within and, more importantly, also without the confines of the home. [...]. "

Site contents:
(1) Women's Magazines (Funu shibao, 1911-1917; Shenzhou nubao, 1913; Funu zazhi, 1915-1931; Xin funu, 1920-1921; Xin nuxing, 1927-1929; Nuguang zhoukan, 1930; Linglong, 1932-1937; Nuxing texie, 1936; Zhongguo funu, 1939-1941); (2) Bibliography: (a)Women's Magazines in China; (b) Women's Magazines abroad; (c) Women in Republican China.

URL
http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/womag/

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/womag/

Link reported by:
Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study

* 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 30

Please note that the above details were correct on 17 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

08 May 2004

Alan Wood's Unicode Resources

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/

5star
Alan Wood, London, UK.

Self-description:
"On this Web site, I have tried to gather together practical information about Unicode and the increasing number of applications and fonts that support it, intended to help people who are trying to use Unicode to produce standardised multilingual and technical documents."

Site contents:
(1) Introduction; (2) Characters; (3) Fonts; (4) Browsers; (5) Applications and utilities; (6) Word 97, Word 2000 and Word 2002; (7) Creating multilingual Web pages; (8) Links; (9) Copyright, Terms and Conditions.

URL
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.alanwood.net/unicode/

Link reported by:
Matthias Arnold / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents/Study

* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Other

* 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 1,000

Please note that the above details were correct on 17 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

Bibliographien zur Taiwanforschung/Bibliographies of Taiwan Studies

http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/slc/taiwan/biblio1.html

5star
Bibliographien zur Taiwanforschung/Bibliographies of Taiwan Studies

Department of Chinese Language and Culture, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

Self-description:
"A comprehensive annotated bibliography of Chinese and Western sources on Taiwanese culture and literature."

Site contents:
(1) Taiwanese Literature, Literary History and Literary Criticism; (2) Selected Bibliography: Taiwanese Literature in German Speaking Countries 1970-2000; (3) The PRC and its neighbours: Taiwan; (4) Selected Bibliography: The Southern Min Language of Taiwan and Related Dialects.

URL
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/slc/taiwan/biblio1.html

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/slc/taiwan/biblio1.html

Link reported by:
Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study

* 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

Please note that the above details were correct on 17 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

03 May 2004

Birth of the Constitution of Japan

http://www.ndl.go.jp/constitution/e/index.html

5star
National Diet Library, Tokyo, Japan

Supplied note:
"The National Diet Library's online exhibition, 'Birth of the Constitution of Japan' presents the major events and important documents involved in the framing and enactment of Japan's Constitution. The exhibition was updated on May 3, 2004 with the addiction of 81 new documents and a new section of main issues.
This Web's exhibition includes not only the basic documents such as Imperial Rescript on the Signing of the Instrument of Surrender, September 2, 1945, but also main issues such as Popular Sovereignty and the Emperor System. - mm."

[A bi-lingual (JP, EN) site - ed.]

Site contents:
* Birth of the Constitution; * Outline; * Documents with Commentaries; * Part 1: Military Defeat and Efforts to Reform the Constitution; * Part 2: Creation of Various Proposals to Reform the Constitution; * Part 3: Formulation of the GHQ Draft and Response of the Japanese Government; * Part 4: Deliberations in the Imperial Diet; * Part 5: Enactment of the Constitution of Japan; * Main Issues; * Archives; * Historical Figures; * Glossary and Abbreviations; * List of Documents; * Chronological Table; * The Constitution and Other Documents ; * Links; * Bibliography; * About This Site.

URL
http://www.ndl.go.jp/constitution/e/index.html

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ndl.go.jp/constitution/e/index.html

Link reported by:
Mizuno Mitsuaki (mizuno-m@sa.starcat.ne.jp)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents/Study

* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Library/Government

* 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

Please note that the above details were correct on 17 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

02 May 2004

State Control of the Internet in China - 2004 update

http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA170012004?open&of=ENG-2S2

5star
International Secretariat, Amnesty International, London, UK

Self-description:
"This document updates Amnesty International's first major reports on the Internet in China, People's Republic of China: State Control of the Internet in China, ASA 17/007/2002 and People's Republic of China: State Control of the Internet in China: Appeal Cases, ASA 17/046/2002, both published in November 2002."

Supplied note:
"This is the current (2004) Amnesty report on the Internet in China. (Single page document, AI INDEX: ASA 17/001/2004, 28 January 2004) - ma."

Site contents:
(1) Introduction; (2) Increased detentions of Internet activists - the cost to the individual; (3) Detention of Internet users in connection with SARS; (4) Increased controls and surveillance of Internet users; (5) Corporate responsibility and Internet freedoms; (6) Appeal cases; (7) APPENDIX 1: Amnesty International recorded a total of 54 people believed to be in detention for Internet-related offences as of 7 January 2004; (8) APPENDIX 2: List of those who have been detained for Internet-related offences and died in custody; (9) Related documents.

URL
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA170012004?open&of=ENG-2S2

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA170012004?open&of=ENG-2S2

Link reported by:
Matthias Arnold / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/), forwarded by Hanno Lecher.

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study

* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
NGO

* 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

Please note that the above details were correct on 17 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

Database of Early Chinese Manuscripts

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/earlychina/res/databases/decm/

5star
Society for the Study of Early China, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US

Self-description:
"This is the full and most updated version [last update: Jan 2000 - HL] of [...] database [by Enno Giele, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan - ed.] that in an abbreviated format accompanies [...his] review article 'Early Chinese Manuscripts: Including Addenda and Corrigenda to New Sources of Early Chinese History: An Introduction to the Reading of Inscriptions and Manuscripts'; Early China 23-24 (1998-99), 247-337. It tries to assemble basic information on all known manuscripts - fully published or not - written in Chinese on bamboo, wood, and silk from the pre-imperial to the early imperial period, i.e. roughly from the -3rd to the 3rd c. However, a few other manuscripts written on or inscriptions engraved in stone, bone, or paper from adjacent periods have also been included."

Supplied note:
"An annotated bibliographic database in two parts. The first part,'Sites', is a list of 158 sites where manuscript materials have been found. Entries in this part contain the following information: Serial Number; Site; Report; Discovery date; Period; Whereabouts; Distribution; Total pieces; Total graphs. The second part, 'Manuscripts', give more details about the 287 objects themselves: Serial Number; Site contents; Material; Pieces; Size; Graphs; Script; Reproductions/Transcriptions; Remarks. - ma."

URL
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/earlychina/res/databases/decm/

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.lib.uchicago.edu/earlychina/res/databases/decm/

Link reported by:
Matthias Arnold / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/), forwarded by Hanno Lecher.

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents

* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic/Library

* 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

Please note that the above details were correct on 17 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

Maritime [Archaeology] Asia

http://maritimeasia.ws/

4star
maritimeasia.ws, ?Malaysia

Supplied note:
"A website devoted to trade-ships that came from China to Malaysia. One part contains the online exhibition of 7 wrecks, 'Discovering Asia's ceramic development over half a millennium - through shipwrecks of the 14th to 19th centuries' (part of the exhibition 'Maritime archaeology Malaysia' which opened in November 2001 at Muzium Negara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). The website also includes all the content of an article by Sten Sjostrand and Claire Barnes, 'Turiang: a fourteenth century Chinese shipwreck, upsetting Southeast Asian ceramic history,' that has been published in: Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol LXXIV part 1 (no. 280), 2001, p. 71-109. Topic pages are supplementary to the principal sections of the site: the Chronology provides an overview of Asian maritime trade up to 1700, drawing on historical sources from many countries and new archaeological evidence. 'Malaysia at the crossroads' explains the wealth of historic shipwrecks around the country. - ma."
"The site provides links also to a sister site Maritime Lanka (cf.hum.uva.nl/galle/) which at present deals mostly with stone anchors and a wreck of 'Avondster ' (1659), a Dutch East Indiaman, in the port of Galle. - tmciolek."

Site contents:
(1) Exhibition: Seven shipwrecks; (2) Specific ships - Tg.Simpang (C10-12), Turiang (c.1370), Desaru (c.1845); (3) Topic pages (Chronology; Malaysia; Ship types; Iron; Compass; Soundings; Tioman); (4) What's new; (5) People/contacts.

URL
http://maritimeasia.ws/

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/maritimeasia.ws/

Link reported by:
Matthias Arnold / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/), forwarded by Hanno Lecher.

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info./Documents/News

* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
?NGO

* 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

Please note that the above details were correct on 16 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com