* 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.


30 January 2005

Chinese Digital Archive 1966-1976

http://images.anu.edu.au/china.html

5star
Scholarly Information Services/The Library at ANU, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Self description:
"[...] The material selected for inclusion in this database have been in the first instance from the Cultural Revolution period. However, additional materials from outside this time-frame which are relevant to the events of the Cultural Revolution are also being included. Although most of the material is held in the Library, some material is held in private collections by academic staff at the ANU, who have been willing to have their materials included in the database. As part of its on-going committment to this project, Scholarly Information Services/The Library is working towards seeking additional international contributing partners who also hold relevant material on the Cultural Revolution period."

Supplied note:
"Language: Chinese (GB), English (Metadata). This interesting database currently (29 Jan 2005) contains 226 documents, comprising text documents and about 30 photographs, mostly from the Menzies Asian Special Collection. The documents are pdf scans of speeches and addresses, many hand-written. This is probably why no text is available in full-text, a major draw back of the database. Consequently, the search is limited to the metadata, which one would wish to be even more detailed. 'Title' (in pinyin), 'Subject', 'Description', and 'Creator' are the searchable fields, with each word in the Description field linked to the search-function. Users can mark single items as Favourite, lists of these Favourites are generated in html and may be mailed or put online. Note: Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing PDF files needed. - ma."

Site contents:
(1) Home (with 'General information about this site'); (2) Browse; (3) Search (All fields; Title field; Subject field; Description field); (4) My Favourites; (5) Help.

URL
http://images.anu.edu.au/china.html

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/images.anu.edu.au/china.html

Link reported by:
Matthias Arnold, forwarded by Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (h.e.lecher@let.leidenuniv.nl)

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

* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
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 13 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

26 January 2005

Indonesia Backgrounder: A Guide to the 2004 Elections

http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm?id=2425&l=1

5star
The International Crisis Group (ICG), Brussels, Belgium

Self-description:
"Indonesia Backgrounder: A Guide to the 2004 Elections Asia Report No. 71, 18 December 2003
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Indonesia faces at least two and probably three national elections in 2004, including a presidential vote, but they are unlikely to bring fundamental change. Citizens are increasingly disillusioned with the half-decade of democracy and 'money politics' they have experienced since the collapse of Soeharto's authoritarian New Order.
The first election, on 5 April 2004, will fill almost 16,000 seats in legislatures at the national, provincial and district levels. The second, on 5 July 2004, will be its first direct presidential vote ever. If, as is almost certain, no candidate meets the criteria for election in the first round, a run-off between the top two vote-getters will take place on 20 September. The process needs to be completed before President Megawati Soekarnoputri's term expires on 20 October.
Public disillusionment with the performance of democratic government since the first post-authoritarian election in 1999 has been spreading rapidly. [...] Six months ahead of the first round of the presidential election, four possible scenarios suggest themselves. [...] Whatever the result of the presidential election, the next government will be based on a coalition of rival parties. In the absence of a strong leader capable of imposing cohesion on such a government, its performance will be hamstrung by many of the problems that hampered the previous three.
Jakarta/Brussels, 18 December 2003."

[The backgrounder is published as a PDF file in A4 format. It is released by The International Crisis Group (ICG), an independent, non-profit, multinational organisation, with over 90 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.- ed.]

URL
http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm?id=2425&l=1

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm?id=2425&l=1

Link reported by:
Christine Susanna Tjhin (xtine@csis.or.id), forwarded by h-seasia@h-net.msu.edu

* 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]:
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

20 January 2005

Kidnapping of Chinese in Iraq, 2005

http://www.saag.org/papers13/paper1225.html

4star
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India

Supplied note:
"The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, on the above subject is now available at the web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below] - br."

Extract:
"Eight Chinese workers from Fujian, who were travelling to Jordan from Najaf in Iraq by a car after having worked in a Chinese-aided power project there for catching a flight to China, were detained by an Iraqi resistance group on January 18, 2005, to protest against the Chinese involvement in the project. [...] 5.While a Chinese Government spokesman claimed that the men had gone to Iraq individually in search of work and, having failed, were travelling by car to Jordan in order to return home, the official Xinhua news agency quoted sources as saying that the men had been working in a Chinese project to rebuild a factory in Najaf - a project which Xinhua said had nothing to do with the US-led multinational forces. [...] 8.China had pledged US$25 million of humanitarian assistance to Iraq in October, 2003, in addition to reportedly promising that the Chinese enterprises would play an active role in the reconstruction of Iraq." - b.raman

[The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Distinguished Fellow and Convenor, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Chennai Chapter - ed.]

URL
http://www.saag.org/papers13/paper1225.html

Internet Archive (www.archive.org)
[the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]

(NOTE: For a number of years the SAAG site operated at its original "www.saag.org" address. In late Dec 2007 the original address was highjacked by some unknown operator(s) and thus the SAAG was forced to establish the "www.southasiaanalysis.org" address)

Link reported by:
B. Raman (corde(at)vsnl.com)

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

* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - 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 13 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

Official Document System of the United Nations

http://documents.un.org/

4star
United Nations, Secretary Office: New York, NY, US

Self-description:
"ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases, UN sales publications, the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information."

Supplied note:
"Language: English, Chinese (UTF-8, Simplified), Arabic, French, Russian, Spanish. This database used to be available only by subscription but was now made accessible for free. Currently (Jan 2005) the database contains about 800,000 documents, some 100,000 will be added every year. Almost all documents are available in each of the UN's six official languages. The database features a simple and a very useful advanced search."

URL
http://documents.un.org/

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/images.anu.edu.au/china.html

Link reported by:
Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (h.e.lecher(at)let.leidenuniv.nl)

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

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

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

19 January 2005

China Digital News (CDN)

http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/chinadn/en/

5star
Qiao Xiang, Berkeley China Internet Project, University of California, Berkeley, CA, US

Self-description:
"[...] a collaborative news weblog about emerging information and communication technologies and their impact on Chinese society. Our mission is to advance the understanding of the ongoing information revolution in China by serving as a news aggregator, public forum and on-line resource center.' [Mission statement 2.0, Sep 2003]."

Supplied note:
"A very up-to-date blog run by human rights activist Qiao Xiang. Formerly called 'China NetXing' (China Net Crossing) the latest news are mentioned or discussed in very short notes and the link to the original source is given. A simple 'Search' and a 'Browse by Category' function are available, as well as a subscription for daily email news. All postings are archived (starting in September 2003), however, the original documents cited are not archived. A Chinese version is in Beta mode (http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/chinadn/cn/). - hl."

Site contents:
(1) [News]; (2) Editor's Pick; (3) Search Contents; (4) Browse by Category; (5) Subscription; (6) Recent Comments; (7) About China Digital News; (8) Blog Roll; (9) Resources; (10) Archives; (11) Recent TrackBacks.

URL
http://journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/chinadn/en/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/journalism.berkeley.edu/projects/chinadn/en/

Link reported by:
Nico Volland, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany and by Michel Hockx, SOAS, London, UK; forwarded by Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (h.e.lecher(at)let.leidenuniv.nl)

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

* 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]:
over 3,000

Please note that the above details were correct on 13 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

Danwei: Media and Advertising in China

http://www.danwei.org/

4star
Jeremy Goldkorn, Standards Group International, Hong Kong, China

Self description:
"A frequently updated website about media, advertising and urban life in China."

Supplied note:
"A well informed Web blog in English, very useful to keep up-to-date on ongoing currents in Chinese society - hl."

Site contents:
(1) Top Stories; (2) Advertising and Marketing; (3) Books; (4) Danwei Review; (5) Events; (6) Film; (7) Intellectual Property; (8) Internet; (9) Jobs available; (10) Magazines; (11) Media business; (12) Newspapers; (13) Other; (14) People; (15) Sports; (16) TV; (17) Archive by date; (18) Search Danwei archives; (19) What is Danwei.

URL
http://www.danwei.org/

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

Link reported by:
Michel Hockx, SOAS, London, UK; forwarded by Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (h.e.lecher(at)let.leidenuniv.nl)

* 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]:
V.Useful

* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]:
over 3,000

Please note that the above details were correct on 13 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

18 January 2005

Yangtze Patrol: American Naval Forces in China - A Bibliography

http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/bibs/yangtzetoc.htm

5star
Mike Hanson, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, US

Self-description:
"Yangtze Patrol: American Naval Forces in China. A Selected, Partially-Annotated Bibliography [...] For nearly a hundred years, from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, the United States Navy patrolled the river, protecting American citizens and interests. [...] Now, the Yangtze River Patrol Memorial Foundation has honored the Naval Postgraduate School's Knox Library by selecting it as a repository for their book collection, records, and memorabilia. [...] An attempt was made to select cogent snippets from the comments and works of others that would, when taken together, provide a sort of broad overview of the times, the issues, and the events."

Site contents:
(1) Introduction; (2) Books / Monographs; (3) Magazines / Journals; (4) Private Papers / Manuscripts; (5) Internet / WWW Sites; (6) Oral Histories / Interviews; (7) Maps / Atlases; (8) Photographs / Iconographs; (9) Newspaper Articles; (10) Film / Video; (11) Newsletters; (12) Government Reports / Documents.

URL
http://library.nps.navy.mil/home/bibs/yangtzetoc.htm

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/library.nps.navy.mil/home/bibs/yangtzetoc.htm

Link reported by:
Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (h.e.lecher(at)let.leidenuniv.nl)

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

17 January 2005

Global Price and Income Project: Prices and Wages

http://www.iisg.nl/hpw/data.html

5star
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Site contents:
* Index to datafiles - ASIA General level of wages in Asia; INDIA Monthly cost of living product prices and index in Bombay, 1921-1940; KOREA Labour cost, land prices, land rent, and interest rates in the southern region of Korea (1690-1909); SINGAPORE Commodity Price Data Singapore; EUROPE General level of wages in Europe; BELGIUM Prices of the Sint-Donatiaanskapittel in Brugge, 1348-1800; ITALY Wheat prices in Tuscany, 1260-1860 (annual averages), Grain prices and prices of olive oil in Pisa, 1548-1818 (monthly averages); THE NETHERLANDS Wages and prices from the convent Leeuwenhorst, 1410-1570; OTTOMAN EMPIRE Prices and wages in Istanbul, 1469-1914; SPAIN Spanish consumer prices indices 1815-1936, Monthly Spanish wheat prices 1814-1883, Civil / Agricultural year Spanish wheat prices 1814-1883, Exchange rate 1821-1883; SWEDEN Prices in Stockholm 1539-1620; UNITED KINGDOM Wages and the cost of living in Southern England (London) 1450-1700.

* Index to websites [with statistical data] - WORLD; AFRICA (Egypt); ASIA (General, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam); EUROPE (General, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Ottoman Empire, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Vatican City); NORTH AMERICA (General, Canada, United States); SOUTH AMERICA (General, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru)

URL
http://www.iisg.nl/hpw/data.html

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.iisg.nl/hpw/data.html

Link reported by:
S.H Jun (phill9(at)chollian.net)

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

* 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 300

Please note that the above details were correct on 13 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

16 January 2005

TheZensite [Zen essays, teachings and book reviews]

http://www.thezensite.com/

5star
www.thezensite.com, Sydney, Australia

Self-description:
"This is thezensite home page. Here you will find links to various materials about Zen. There are also some links and writings about non-Zen topics which may be of interest to Zennists.
The Zen essays page is heavily into academic essays about Zen. If you would like to read some non-academic texts, try the link to Zen teachings. I make no claim as to the worth of these Zen teachings."

Site contents:
ZEN ESSAYS (* Critical Zen [Essays by:] William Bodiford, John H. Crook, James Ishmael Ford, Nelson Foster, Sueki Fumihiko, Ralf Halfmann, Steven Heine, Namlin Hur, Christopher Ives, Ken W. Jones, Kirita Kiyohide, Ken Knabb, Stuart Lachs, Dan Lusthaus, Mike Port & Kyogen CarlsonSensei, Hirata Seko, Jiun Kubota, Robert H. Sharf, Yamada Shoji; * Miscellaneous Writings [Essays by:] Robert Aitken, Mark S. Ferrara, Jack Kornfeld, Andrew Rawlinson, Amy Samy, Matsumoto Shiro; *Historical Zen [Essays by:] Carl Bielefeldt, T. P. Kasulis, Douglas K. Mikkelson, Gudo Nishijima, Shohaku Okumura, David Putney, Kevin Schilbrack, Martin Baumann, Henry Cruise, Heinrich Dumoulin, Victor Soren Hori, Whalen Lai, Charles Luk (Upasaka Lu K' uan), John McRae, Eshin Nishimura, Kangnam Oh, Ven. Shengyen, Paul Swanson, Albert Weller, Robert B. Zeuschner; *Nagarjuna and Madhyamika [Essays by:] Anthony Birch, HsuehLi Cheng, William Edelglass, Alan Fox, Vladimir Keremidschieff, MingWood Liu, Frederivk J. Streng, C. W. Huntington Jr; * Dogen Studies [Essays by:] Carl Bielefeldt, Griffith Foulk, Zenkei Blanche Hartman, John Daido Loori, Yasuaki Nara, Shohaku Okumura, Otani Tetsuo, Hozan Alan Senauke, Sojun Mel Weitsman; * Philosophical Zen [Essays by:] ChungYing Cheng, Sungtaeik Cho, Edward Conze, Robert Ellis, Toby Avard Foshay, Philip Goodchild, Peter D. Hershock, Yunhun Jan, T. P. Kasulis, Stephen W. Laycock, Shiro Matsumoto, Stephen McCarthy, Fabio Rambelli, James D Sellman, Robert H. Sharf, Koun Yamada Roshi)

ZEN TEACHINGS ([several religious texts organised in the following categories:] Translations & Sutras; Commentaries & Teishos; Miscellaneous; Koan Collections)

ZEN BOOK REVIEWS [by Vladimir Keremidschieff and others] * Cave Of Tigers: Modern Zen Encounters - John Daido Loori, * Land of No Buddha: reflections of a sceptical Buddhist - Richard P. Hayes, * How the Swans Came to the Lake - Rick Fields, * Seeing Through Zen - John R. McRae, * Zen Pivots - Sokei-An, * Not Always So: practicing the true spirit of Zen - Shunryo Suzuki, * Secrets of the Blue Cliff Record: Zen Comments by Hakuin and Tenkei - Thomas Cleary, * Master Dogen' s Shinji Shobogenzo: 301 Koan Stories - Gudo Nishijima, * Zen Sand: The Book of Capping Phrases for Koan Practice - Victor Sogen Hori, * The Art of Just Sitting - John Daido Loori (ed), * The Eminent MonkBuddhist Ideals in Medieval Chinese Hagiography - John Kieschnick, * Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism - Dale S. Wright, * The Zen Poetry of Dogen: verses from the mountain of eternal peace - Steven Heine, * Dogen' s Manuals of Zen Meditation - Carl Bielefeldt, * Instructions to the Cook - Bernard Glassman & Rick Fields, * Re-inventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age - Peter D. Hershock, * The White Buddhist: The Asian Odyssey of Henry Steel Olcott - Stephen Prothero, * The Book of Enlightened Masters: Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions - Andrew Rawlinson, * Buddhism in a Foreign Land - Robert Mann * Buddhism Without Beliefs: a contempory guide to awakening - Stephen Batchelor, * Nagarjuna' s Twelve Gate Treatise. Translated by Hsueh-Li Cheng, * The Emptiness of Emptiness: An introduction to Early Indian Madhyamika - C. W. Huntington, Jr, * The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nagarjuna' s Mulamadhyamakakarika - Jay L. Garfield, * Emptiness Appraised: a critical study of Nagarjuna' s philosophy - David F. Burton, * Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation. Edited by Carole Tonkinson, * American Buddhism. Edited by D.R. Williams and C.S.Queen; * Healing Deconstruction: Postmodern Thought in Buddhism and Christianity. Edited by David Loy, * Zen at War - Brian (Daizen) A. Victoria, * Zen War Stories - Brian (Daizen) A. Victoria, * Pruning the Bodhi Tree: The Storm Over Critical Buddhism - Jamie Hubbard & Paul L. Swanson, * Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center - Michael Downing, * Buddhism Without Beliefs - Steve Batchelor, * Miscellaneous (recommended reading lists).

ZEN LINKS; NON-ZEN TOPICS; SITE CHANGES

Note:
The www.thezensite.com is a sub-section of Zen Buddhism WWW Virtual Library (www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Zen.html) - ed.

URL
http://www.thezensite.com/

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

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

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

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

15 January 2005

Chinese, Japanese and Western Research in Chinese Historical Metrology: A Classified Bibliography

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/sinologie/sino/personal/vogel/bibliography_metrology.pdf

5star
Ulrich Theobald and Hans Ulrich Vogel, Institute for Sinology and Korean Studies, Univ. Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany

Self-description:
"The historical subjects covered by this bibliography span from the origin of the Chinese civilisation until the Qing period (1644-1911), with the inclusion of some entries referring to the Republican Period and the PRC as well as to music, as far as it focuses on metrological problems. We have tried to be as inclusive as possible in the collection of materials and the compilation of the entries, but given the output of publications nowadays and the often very marginal character of publications dealing with historical metrology this can only be a first attempt at providing historians, especially those investigating economic and institutional history, with a reference tool that may prove helpful for their research. We have not only included articles and books written in Chinese and English, but also such in Japanese, French, German, Russian, and even Korean."

Supplied note:
"This is an impressive list of both monographs and articles on the topic, although annotations to the works listed (or at least to the more important ones) are dearly missing, as are introductory remarks on each chapter. - hl."

Site contents:
(1) General Surveys on the History of Weighing and Measuring in China; (2) The Pre-Zhou Period; (3) Histories of Length Measuring from the Zhou to the Qing Period; (4) History on Capacity Measuring from the Zhou to the Qing Period; (5) History of Weighing from the Zhou to the Qing Period; (6) History of Area Measuring from the Zhou to the Qing Period; (7) Chinese Music (selected bibliography concerning measuring in music); (8) Varia Concerning Weights and Measures.

Note:
Large file (640 KB) in Adobe PDF format. - hl.

URL
http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/sinologie/sino/personal/vogel/bibliography_metrology.pdf

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

Link reported by:
Hanno Lecher / Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (h_e_lecher(at)let.leidenuniv.nl)

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