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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 December 2005

Economics Info: Structured Lists of Commonly Used Websites

http://home.earthlink.net/~harstadm/econhome1.htm

5star
home.earthlink.net, Honolulu, HI, US

Supplied note:
"Based on research of Asia-Pacific economies, [... the site] collects weblinks in a cookie-cutter framework. Each page refers to the mode of research being used: reading reports, grabbing data, browsing home pages, wielding tools, etc. A common framework is generally used: rows represent topics, columns indicate the scope (World/ Region/ United States). The site points to commonly-used, recurring information that is often of an official nature. For parsimony's sake, one-time articles are avoided. - mgh."

Site contents:
* Macro Economics; * Financial Economics; * Defense Economics; (Incl. Missile Defense, Arms Transparency); * Security Economics (Incl. Multiple Topics, Stabilization/ Reconstruction, Info Operations, Terrorism, WMD, Maritime, Energy, Environment, Forecasting the Future, Food); * Institutional Economics.
*Reports; *Data; *Charts; *Organizations; *Link Lists; *Search by Country, *Tools.

URL
http://home.earthlink.net/~harstadm/econhome1.htm

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

Link reported by:
Mark G Harstad (harstadm--at--earthlink.net)

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

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

09 December 2005

Reevaluated Democide Totals for 20th C. and China

http://www.ciolek.com/SPEC/rummel-on-democide-2005.html

4star
Asia Pacific Research Online, Canberra, Australia

Rummel, Rudy J. 2005. Reevaluated democide totals for 20th C. and China (a note sent to 21,000 email addresses on Tue, 29 Nov 2005). Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, US.

Extract:
"Many scholars and commentators have referenced my total of 174,000,000 for the democide (genocide and mass murder) of the last century [Rummel, Rudy J. 1991. China's Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900. Transaction Publishers. ISBN: 088738417X - ed.].

I'm now trying to get word out that I've had to make a major revision in my total due to two books. One is Wild Swans: Two Daughters of China by Jung Chang, and the other is Mao: the Unknown Story that she wrote with her husband, Jon Halliday. I'm now convinced that that Stalin exceeded Hitler in monstrous evil, and Mao beat out Stalin. [...]

Now, I have to change all the world democide totals that populate my websites, blogs, and publications. The total for the communist democide before and after Mao took over the mainland is thus 3,446,000 + 35,226,000 + 38,000,000 = 76,692,000, or to round off, 77,000,000 murdered. [...] This exceeds the 61,911,000 murdered by the Soviet Union 1917-1987, with Hitler far behind at 20,946,000 wiped out 1933-1945.

For perspective on Mao's most bloody rule, all wars 1900-1987 cost in combat dead 34,021,000 -- including WWI and II, Vietnam, Korea, and the Mexican and Russian Revolutions. Mao alone murdered over twice as many as were killed in combat in all these wars.

Now, my overall totals for world democide 1900-1999 must also be changed. I have estimated it to be 174,000,000 murdered, of which communist regimes murdered about 148,000,000. Also, compare this to combat dead. Communists overall have murdered four times those killed in combat, while globally the democide toll was over six times that number. - r.j.rummel."

URL
http://www.ciolek.com/SPEC/rummel-on-democide-2005.html

Internet Archive (web.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

* 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 30

Please note that the above details were correct on 9 December 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

01 December 2005

VOAHA The Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive

http://salticid.nmc.csulb.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/OralAural.woa/

4star
California State University, Long Beach, CA, US

Supplied note:
"Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive has three sub components of interest 1. Asian American History; 2. Southeast Asian Communities; 3. Asian American Women's Movement Activists. You can listen to oral histories of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Cambodian and Hmong who have settled in the vicinity Long Beach and San Pedro (California) areas. Histories range from discussions of the 1920s to the 1980s. Topics include the Japanese fishing village on Terminal Island (in Long Beach); Japanese relocation during World War II; Cambodian refugee settlement in Long Beach in the 1980s. - ga."

URL
http://salticid.nmc.csulb.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/OralAural.woa/

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://salticid.nmc.csulb.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/OralAural.woa/

Link reported by:
Greg Armento (garmento--at--csulb.edu)

* 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]:
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 1 December 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com