* 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.


24 August 2004

APEC Economies Newsletter

http://apseg.anu.edu.au/publish/apseg_news.php

4star
Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government (APSEG), The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Self-description:
"APSEG Newsletter (APEC Economies). ISSN 1441-063X"

Site contents:
[monthly issues of the journal, a continuation of a paper publication, in PDF format] * APEC Economies Newsletters 2004 (Vol 8); * APEC Economies Newsletters 2003 (Vol 7); * APEC Economies Newsletters 2002 (Vol 6); * APEC Economies Newsletters 2001 (Vol 5).

URL
http://apseg.anu.edu.au/publish/apseg_news.php

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/apseg.anu.edu.au/publish/apseg_news.php

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

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

* 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 15 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

20 August 2004

'Weilue': 'The Peoples of the West' by Yu Huan

http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/weilue/weilue.html

5star
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, US

Supplied note:
"I am very happy to announce that my draft annotated translation of the 3rd century Chinese account of the Silk Routes, The Weilue, is now freely available on the University of Washington's 'Silk Road Seattle' website. It can be accessed by going to their site at: http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/index.html, clicking on 'Historical Texts' and then on 'Weilue'. The whole may be downloaded (if all the files are kept in one folder the hyperlinks should continue to work on your computer) [...] I would be very grateful for any comments, queries, suggestions, or criticisms as my hope is to keep updating the work until it is as reliable and accurate as possible. - jh."

Self-description:
"'The Peoples of the West' from the 'Weilue' by Yu Huan. A Third Century Chinese Account, Composed between 239 and 265 CE, Quoted in zhuan 30 of the 'Sanguozhi,' Published in 429 CE. Draft English translation [from the five volume 'Sanguozhi', New China Bookstore Publishing House, Beijing, 1975. - ed.] by John E. Hill, June, 2004.

Site contents:
Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; About this Translation; About Fonts and Characters; About the Text; Translator's Notes; About the Dating and Background of the Text; Background Reading; About Measurements and Administrative Divisions;
The Text: Section 1. The Di Tribes; Section 2. The Zilu Tribes; Section 3. The Qiang Tribes; Section 4. The three main overland routes to the Western Regions; Section 5. The Southern Route; Section 6. The Kingdom of Linni (Lumbini); Section 7. The Kingdom of Juli (the 'eastern Division' of the Kushan empire); Section 8. The Kingdom of Panyue (Pandya); Section 9. The Central Route; Section 10. Previous Misconceptions; Section 11. Da Qin (Roman territory/Rome); Section 12. Products of Da Qin (Roman territory) - Product List; Section 13. The Sea Route to Da Qin (Roman territory); Section 14. Roman Dependencies; Section 15. The Kingdom of Zesan (Azania); Section 16. The Kingdom of Lufen (Leuke Kome or modern Al Wajh); Section 17. The Kingdom of Qielan (Wadi Sirhan); Section 18. The Kingdom of Xiandu ('Aynunah = Leukos Limen?); Section 19. The Kingdom of Sifu (Petra); Section 20. The Kingdom of Yuluo (Karak); Section 21. The Kingdom of Siluo; Section 22. The Far West; Section 23. The New Route of the North; Section 24. The Kingdom of Northern Wuyi (Khujand); Section 25. The Kingdoms of Liu, Yan, and Yancai (the Alans); Section 26. The Kingdom of Hude; Section 27. The Kingdom of Jiankun (Khirgiz); Section 28. The Kingdom of Dingling; Section 29. The Kingdom of Duanren ('Pygmies'); Section 30. The Author's Comments;
Abbreviations and Bibliography;
* Appendices A. The Main Caravan Routes; B. The territories of Haixi, Haibei and Haidong; C. The "Great Seas" and the "Western Sea."; D. Sea Silk; e. Wild Silks; F. Maritime Commerce and Shipping during the Han Period; G. The Water Cisterns on the Route between Petra and Wadi Sirhan; H. The Identification of the City of Angu with Ancient Gerrha and Modern Thaj; I. The Spread of Ideas and Religions along the Trade Routes; J. Climate and other Changes along the Silk Routes; K. The Identification of Jibin as Kapisha-Gandhara; L. The Introduction of Silk Cultivation to Khotan in the 1st Century Ce; M. The Canals and Roads from the Red Sea to the Nile; N. Kanishka's Hostage in History and Legend.

URL
http://depts.washington.edu/uwch/silkroad/texts/weilue/weilue.html

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

Link reported by:
John Hill (wynhill@tpg.com.au), forwarded by trade-routes@mm.isu.edu

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents/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 15 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

13 August 2004

Focus: e-newsletter of The Japan External Trade Organization

http://www.jetro.go.jp/usa/newyork/focusnewsletter/focus35.html

4star
Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), Tokyo/New York, Japan/USA

Supplied note:
"NEW YORK - August 10, 2004 -- The Japan External Trade Organization New York (JETRO NY) released a newsletter today highlighting the trend toward greater entrepreneurship in Japan. It can be viewed at [the URL below - ed.] - kwrintl."

Self-description:
"The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) is a Japanese government organization that promotes mutually beneficial investment and trade relations between Japan and other nations. JETRO was established in 1958, and has a worldwide network of 38 offices in Japan and 76 offices overseas."

Site contents:
* An article 'An Entrepreneurial Spirit Begins to Emerge in Japan' [Focus no. 35, Aug 2004]; Links to the issues no. 1 -34: * Consumer Demand [Focus no. 34, Jun 2004]; * Asia; * Gross National Cool;
* Regional Development ; * New Policy Challenges; * Investment Japan IV; * Investment Japan III; * Biotechnology; * Investment Japan II; * Investment Japan; * Foreign Direct Investment; * Mergers & Acquisitions; * Entrepeneurship; * Economic Revitalization; * Industrial Revitalization; * Foreign Investment [Focus no. 19, Jul 2002].; * Bush Visit; * Koizumi Visit; * Economic Rebirth; * Hiranuma Plan; * Foreign Direct Investment; * Emergency Economic Package; * Action Plan; * Economic Reform; * Okinawa Summit; * Small Business Development; * New Enterprise Development; * Industrial Revitalization; * Economic Recovery 4; * Steel; * Economic Recovery 3; * Economic Recovery 2; * Economic Recovery [Focus no. 1, Nov 1998].

URL
http://www.jetro.go.jp/usa/newyork/focusnewsletter/focus35.html

Internet Archive
[only the issues number 1-31 were archived at the time of this abstract.
e.g. http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.jetro.go.jp/usa/newyork/focusnewsletter/focus31.html]

Link reported by:
KWR International for JETRO NY (kwrintl@kwrintl.com)

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

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

* 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 15 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

12 August 2004

Meta-Guide to Indonesia: Annotated Bibliography of post-1990 Bibliographies on Indonesia

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/IndonPages/Meta-Bibliography.html

5star
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Self-description:
"Meta-Guide to Indonesia: Annotated Bibliography of post-1990 Bibliographies on Indonesia by George Miller [final version, completed 12 Aug 2004 - ed.].
* Purpose: This work is an update of Herman C. Kemp's 1990 publication, Annotated Bibliography of Bibliographies on Indonesia (Leiden, KITLV Press) which is the most comprehensive published guide to Indonesian studies to that point in time. It is hoped that this present work, in its electronic form a part of the Indonesian Studies WWW VL [a sub-section of the Asian Studies WWW VL (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) - ed.], will be a first-stop entry to the increasingly wide range of current research material on Indonesia published since 1990. Reader's comments and suggestions for improvements and addenda to this meta-bibliography are warmly invited.
* Scope: The work lists bibliographies and catalogues on Indonesia published [in print and electronically - ed.] since 1990, attempting in general terms to follow the selection criteria and arrangement set out by Kemp, with the exception that it includes bibliographies in electronic form. The main source for the material has been the Library of The Australian National University, and the National Library of Australia, Canberra. Works have been limited to those in English, Indonesian and Dutch.
* Structure: The entries for each bibliography are arranged alphabetically by author. Each entry consists of eight data fields, namely, ID number, Author, Title (including imprint, collation, serials title and ISBN/ISSN), Coverage, Number of items, Structure, Evaluation and Location. [...]
* Compiler and copyright holder: George Miller has worked in the field of Indonesian bibliography and librarianship for many years. He set-up the National Library of Australia's Jakarta office in 1969, was Southeast Asian Librarian at the ANU between 1974 and 1997 and was editor of the monthly email list, 'Recent Indonesian Publications' between 1998 and 2002."

Site contents:
Bibliography [204 records - ed.]; a Database.

URL
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/IndonPages/Meta-Bibliography.html

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/IndonPages/Meta-Bibliography.html

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

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

* 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 15 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

09 August 2004

The Nanking Atrocities (Online Documentary)

http://www.geocities.com/nankingatrocities/

5star
www.geocities.com, US

Supplied note (9 Aug 2004):
"The address of the Nanking Atrocities website has been moved to [see the URL below]. It is due to the University of Missouri's administrative decision not to host its alumnus project on their server any longer. Thus I have migrated the entire project to the [... new] URL. I would appreciate it if you could change the link accordingly. - mk."

Supplied note (12 Aug 2000):
"[C]omprehensive accounts of the Nanking Atrocities that took place 1937-38 Nanking, China during the early stage of the Second Sino-Japanese War. It includes interviews with leading historians in this field as well as historical photographs and a number of other documented materials such as newspaper articles, diaries of former Japanese soldiers and American missionaries who were in Nanking when the incident took place, and the judgment of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial. - mk."

Site contents:
Introduction: I. From Marco Polo Bridge to Nanking, II. Focal Points of the Nanking Atrocities Today, III. (Video) China Invaded;
The Fall of Nanking: I. What Foreign Journalists Witnessed II. (Reference) The New York Times Articles III. (Video) The Battle of China;
The Reign of Terror: I. What Japanese Journalists Witnessed, II. The Safety Zone and American Missionaries, III. (Reference) What Westerners Witnessed, IV.(Video) China Invaded
Confessions of Former Soldiers: I. Killing Prisoners of War, II. The Yamada Detachment, III. Rape and Pillage , IV.(Video) The Battle of China;
Psychological Warfare: I. Chinese Propaganda, II. Japanese Propaganda, III. (Video) Nanking
The Postwar Judgment: I. International Military Tribunal for the Far East, II. Nanking War Crimes Tribunal, III. (Reference) The Judgment of the IMTFE, IV. (Photo Gallery) The Tokyo Trial;
The Nanking Atrocities in the 1990s: I. The Death Toll - Early Estimates, II. The Death Toll - Current Estimates, III. The Controversy in Japan, IV. (Photo Gallery) Nanking City;
Works Cited: Selected bibliography of books, journals, newspapers, and films / List of interviewees / Other references / Military Postcards.
[An August 2000 thesis (http://journalism.missourI. edu/~jschool/nanking/index.htm), by Masato Kajimoto, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Journalism in the Graduate School of Journalism of the University of Missouri-Columbia - ed.]

URL
http://www.geocities.com/nankingatrocities/

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.geocities.com/nankingatrocities/

Link reported by:
Masato Kajimoto (nankingatrocities@yahoo.com)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
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 30

Please note that the above details were correct on 15 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com