* 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.


28 April 2006

The '1421' Myth exposed: Chinese admiral Zheng He did not discover the world in 1421

http://www.1421exposed.com/

4star
24 Apr 2006

www.1421exposed.com, Singapore

Supplied note:
"Dear H-Asia Listers, As has probably been apparent to some on the list, a number of persons around the globe have become a trifle upset with the fabrications of Mr. Gavin Menzies, his publishers and his co-conspirators. Rather than rebutting each claim repeatedly and diversely, it has been decided to create a website where rebuttals and criticisms can be mounted alongside the original claims. Persons interested in the issues can then access these at will.

The new website can be found at: [at the URL below] and http://www.1421exposed.tv/

I urge anyone who has applied their scholarship to the 1421 issue, the associated Liu Gang fake 1418/1763 map or the upcoming 'Island of Seven Cities' volume to share their findings on the website. If anyone has any queries on the site or aspects of it, please do let me know. Best wishes, Geoff Wade, National University of Singapore (arigpw--at--nus.edu.sg)

Self-description:
"The http://www.1421exposed.com and http://www.1421exposed.tv joint websites have been set up by an international group of academics and researchers who are greatly concerned about the myths being created and perpetuated by Gavin Menzies, his group and his publishers. In his book '1421: The Year China Discovered the World' Menzies claimed Chinese admiral Zheng He had circumnavigated the globe, in the process 'discovering' most of the world. Subsequent media coverage has failed to accurately present to the public the large body of evidence that Menzies' claim is a fabrication, without any basis in fact. The purpose of this website is to present that evidence, and ensure that history is not rewritten by publishers more interested in short-sighted marketing campaigns that ensure their financial security, rather than intellectual integrity and public enlightenment."

Site contents:
* About; * 1421 Myth (News, Useful links, Expert comment); *1763 Map (Liu Gang - owner of the 1763 Map, Useful links, Expert comment); * New Myths ('Island of Seven Cities' [a fortcoming, in May 2006, book by Paul Chiasson who claims that a large Chinese colony existed and thrived in Nova Scotia, Canada well before the European Age of Discovery - ed.], Expert comment); * Menzies (Menzies' Circus, Expert comment); Zheng He (Some Sources for the Zheng He Voyages - Original Sources, Academic Studies, Popular Media representations); * Media; * Contacts; * Links; * Petition ("it is proposed that a petition be created requesting that public libraries and other repositories of public knowledge re-classify '1421' as fiction, in the same vein as the 'Da Vinci Code' is so classified"); * Contribute (Evidence? Expertise? Analysis?); * Discussion [rules and subscription details of the '1421exposed --at--1421exposed.com' mailing list - ed.]

[Menzies' book '1421: The Year China Discovered America' is discussed and evaluated in a Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1421_hypothesis address - ed.]

URL
http://www.1421exposed.com/

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

Link reported by:
Geoff Wade (arigpw--at--nus.edu.sg), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study/News/Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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 the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

20 April 2006

Asian Studies WWW Monitor - 12th Anniversary

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html

999star
20 Apr 2006

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Supplied note:
"The Asian Studies WWW Monitor (ISSN 1329-9778) was first published on the 21st April 1994, originally under a title 'What's New in WWW Asian Studies Online Newsletter.' The electronic journal forms a key part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (AS WWW VL) Project (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) which itself was established only one month earlier. The Journal tracks the current developments in the Asian Studies' cyberspace and provides timely and impartial summaries and evaluations of the latest web sites and other online information resources relevant to research of Asia and the Pacific region.

During the 12 years of operations (= 248 issues) the journal has published details (i.e. TOCs and short summaries of the content, resource's general type/category, details of its publisher, evaluation of its scholarly usefulness, and the count of external hyperlinks leading to it) of 4,813 web, gopher, ftp and email resources (= approx. 33.4 abstracts/month). All past issues of the Monitor are freely accessible online in the form of archived web pages, as well as a database, and provide a rich record of the key developments in online Asian Studies from the early 1994 till today. (See also 'Asian Studies Online - a Timeline of Major Developments', http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asian-studies-timeline.html). Since Oct 2005 the most valuable online scholarly materials revieved by the Monitor are also listed in a blog THE BEST OF THE ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR (http://asia-www-monitor.blogspot.com).

On the eve of its twelfth anniversary, the e-mail edition of the journal (asia-www-monitor@coombs.anu.edu.au) had 5,323 subscribers. Selected portions of the Monitor are frequently republished by other scholarly mailing lists, including the prestigious H-ASIA@h-net.msu.edu. On the 20th April 2006 the Monitor's web site had the Google (www.google.com) rank #4 among about 147,000,000 online documents dealing with 'asian studies.' According to Altavista (www.altavista.com) the Monitor is linked to from over 723 external web pages - tmc."

URL
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html

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

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
rating not available
* 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 the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

19 April 2006

CAEI Working Papers on CIS and Baltic Countries

http://www.caei.com.ar/es/programas/cei/working.htm

4star
18 Apr 2006

CIS and Baltic Countries (ex USSR) Program, Argentine Center of International Studies (CAEI), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Self-description: "Con este amplio temario, el CAEI inicia una discusion que puede ser compartida por todos aquellos estudiantes, profesionales y academicos que deseen incorporarse a ella. La misma se manifestara; a traves de la publicacion de todos aquellas Investigaciones, papers, monografias, tesis y tesinas que -ajustados en los criterios de publicacion del CAEI- sean aportados al Area CEI y Paises Balticos."

Site contents (all papers are in English):
* Working Paper #30 "Chechnya and Russia: the significance of the Chechen problem for contemporary Russia" - Maciej Falkowski, Centre for Eastern Studies (Varsovia, Polonia) (11/04/06); * Working Paper #29 "Policy paper on freedom of expression in Tajikistan" - Nigina Zaripova, International Policy Fellowships (Budapest, Hungria) (11/04/06); * Working Paper #28 "Belarus as a gas transit country" - Institute for Privatization and Management, IPM (Minsk, Bielorrusia) (11/04/06); * Working Paper #27 "Developing a national security concept for Georgia" - Center for Peace and International Relations Studies, CPIRS (Tiflis, Georgia), (11/04/06); * Working Paper #26 "Decentralization in the Russian Federation" - Elena Andreeva y Natalia Golovanova, Center for Fiscal Policy (Moscœ, Federacion Rusa), (11/04/06); * Working Paper #25 "Democratic accountability of Russian regional governments: do elections matter?" - Aitalina Azarova, Central European University / Open Society Institute (Budapest, Hungria), (11/04/06); * Working Paper #24 "Uzbekistan: the major source of instability in Central Asia?" - Grzegorz Zasada, Centre for Eastern Studies (Varsovia, Polonia) (11/04/06); * Working Paper #23 "Lost potential in the South Caucasus: aspects of interstate trade" - International Center for Human Development, ICHD (Erevan, Armenia) (11/04/06); * Working Paper #22 "Bicameralism and Democracy in the Republic of Tajikistan" - Naira Zavrabyan, MA, Central European University (Budapest, Hungria) (21/03/06); * Working Paper #21 "Privatisation and Economic Development Strategy in Russia" - Prof. Ram Kumar Mishra, Conflict Studies Research Centre, Institute of Public Enterprise (Andhra Pradesh, India), (20/03/06); * Working Paper #20 "Putin's foreign policy toward Syria" - Mark N. Katz, Conflict Studies Research Centre, George Mason University (Virginia, Estados Unidos), (20/03/06); * Working Paper #19 "The End of Ichkeria?" - Charles W. Blandy, Conflict Studies Research Centre, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (Wiltshire, Reino Unido), (15/02/06); * Working Paper #18 "The Bear, the Peacock, the Eagle, the Sturgeon and the Black, Black Oil: Contemporary Regional Power Politics in the Caspian Sea" - Dr. Steven J. Main, Conflict Studies Research Centre, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom (Wiltshire, Reino Unido), (15/02/06); * Working Paper #17 "Civil Control over "Enforcement" structures in Ukraine: challenges and prospects" - Olexiy Poltorakov, PhD, Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Ucrania (Kiev, Ucrania), (15/02/06); * Working Paper #16 "Domestic sources of Post-Communist Foreign Policy. Institutional analysis of Hungary and Romania 1990-2000" - Sebastian Huluban, Ministerio de Defensa de Rumania (Bucarest, Rumania), (11/01/06); * Working Paper #15 "The Collapse of the USSR and International System: Proposal for a Theoritical Solution" - Fatih Seyhanoglu, MA, Fatih University (Estambul, Turquia) (11/01/06); * Working Paper #14 "Chechnya, Wahhabism and the invasion of Dagestan" - Dr. Emil Souleimanov, Charles University (Praga, Republica Checa), (17/12/05); * Working Paper #13 "Azerbaijan: Islam in a post-soviet republic" - Anar Valiyev, University of Louisville (Louisville, Estados Unidos), (03/12/05); * Working Paper #12 "Ten Myths About Russia: Understanding and Dealing with Russia's Complexity and Ambiguity" - David Foglesong, PhD, University of California (Berkeley, Estados Unidos), Dr. Gordon M. Hahn, Stanford University (Stanford, Estados Unidos), (03/12/05); * Working Paper #11 "Russia and the West: problems and oportunities" - Dr. Bobo Lo, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Londres, Reino Unido), (03/12/05); * Working Paper #10 "Azerbaijan's 2005 Elections: Lost Opportunity" - Europe Briefing #40 The Ankara Center for Turkish Policy Studies / International Crisis Group (Ankara, Turquia), (28/11/05); * Working Paper #09 "Azerbaijan's Parliamentary Elections: A Step Forward" - Svante Cornell, Johns Hopkins University-SAIS / Uppsala University (Washington DC, Estados Unidos), (28/11/05); * Working Paper #08 "Black Soil. Oil and Ethnicity in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict" - Morten Anstorp Rosenkvist, MA, Oslo University (Oslo, Noruega), (28/11/05); * Working Paper #07 "Improving the OECD's Istanbul Anti-Corruption Action Plan" - Bryane Michael, Linacre College, University of Oxford (Oxford, Reino Unido), Donald Bowser, University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia) (28/11/05); * Working Paper #06 "Armenian Genocide. What it means to the US and the EU" - Mehmet Kalyoncu, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies Georgetown University (Washington DC, Estados Unidos) (15/11/05); * Working Paper #05 "The Stakes of the Opening of Turkish-Armenian Border - The cross-border contacts between Armenia and Turkey" - Dr. Burcu Gultekin, French Institute of Anatolian Studies (Estambul, Turquia), (14/11/05); * Working Paper #04 "Islamic "threat": the case of Uzbekistan" - Yazmin Masood, University of World Economy and Diplomacy (Tashkent, Uzbekistan), (31/10/05); * Working Paper #03 "The US and democratization in Central Asia. The impact of 9/11 and call for change" - Yazmin Masood, University of World Economy and Diplomacy (Tashkent, Uzbekistan), (31/10/05); * Working Paper #02 "NATO eastward enlargement: Strategic implications for Eurasia" - Antonina Habova, University St. Kliment Ohridski (Sofia, Bulgaria), (10/10/05); * Working Paper #01 "What to do about Russia" - James M. Goldgeier, George Washington University (Washington DC, Estados Unidos), Michael McFaul Stanford University (Stanford, Estados Unidos) (10/10/05).

URL
http://www.caei.com.ar/es/programas/cei/working.htm

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

Link reported by:
Argentine Center of International Studies (cei--at--caei.com.ar),
forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu

* 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 the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

12 April 2006

European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (EBHR)

http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/workgroups/ebhr/ebhr.php

5star
10 Apr 2006

Dept. of Ethnology, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

Supplied note:
"The European Bulletin of Himalayan Research (EBHR) ISSN 0943 8254 is one of the major scientific periodical on the Himalayan region. It was founded in 1991 and has appeared twice yearly ever since. It is edited on a rotating basis between France (CNRS), Germany (South Asia Institute) and the UK (SOAS). We take the Himalayas to mean: Karakorum, Hindukush, Ladakh, southern Tibet, Kashmir, north-west India, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, and north-east India. The subjects we cover range from geography and economics to anthropology, sociology, philology, history, art history, and history of religions. In addition to scholarly articles, we publish book reviews, reports on research projects, information on Himalayan archives, news of forthcoming conferences, and funding opportunities. - pr.]

Site contents:
Subscription Form; Information for Authors; Content of Recent Issues; News; Back Issues for Download.

EBHR Back Issues in PDF format archived online:
[access via http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/collections/journals/ebhr/ Alternative access via http://www.thdl.org/texts/reprints/ebhr/] #1 - 1991 [4.1 MB]; #2 - 1991 [7.8 MB]; #3 - 1992 [10.7 MB]; #4 - 1992 [11.2 MB]; #5 - 1993 [10.6 MB]; #6 - 1994 [9.1 MB]; #7 - 1994 [8.7 MB]; #8 - 1995 [9.2 MB]; #9 - 1995 [8.3 MB]; #10 - 1996 [8.6 MB]; #11 - 1996 [11.2 MB]; #12 & 13 - 1997 Double Issue [29.8 MB]; #14 - 1998 [14.9 MB]; #15 & 16 - 1999 Double Issue [36 MB]; #17 - 1999 [19.4 MB]; #18 - 1999 [19MB]; #19 - 2000 [2 MB]; #20 & 21 - 2001 Double Issue [2.2 MB]; #22 - 2002 [19 MB]

URL
http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/workgroups/ebhr/ebhr.php

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/workgroups/ebhr/ebhr.php

Link reported by:
Philippe Ramirez (pramirez--at--vjf.cnrs.fr)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info./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 the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

05 April 2006

Ellen Bruno Films: Documentaries on Tibet, Cambodia and Burma

http://www.brunofilms.com/

4star
05 Apr 2006
Bruno Films, San Francisco, CA, US

Supplied note:
"[I have produced] films about human rights issues in [Tibet,] Burma/Thailand, Cambodia and Nepal. Below are some descriptions as well as direct links to five minute clips of the films.

SAMSARA: Death and Rebirth in Cambodia
Documents the Cambodian's efforts to reconstruct a shattered society in a climate of war, bringing a humanistic perspective to a country in deep political turmoil.
To view a clip: http://www.brunofilms.com/samsara.html

SATYA: A Prayer for the Enemy
Documents human rights abuses in Tibet, focusing on the non-violent activism of Tibetan Buddhist nuns in the struggle for basic human rights and religious freedom.
To view a clip: http://www.brunofilms.com/satya.html

SACRIFICE: The Story of Child Prostitutes from Burma
Examines the political and economic forces at work in the trafficking of Burmese girls into prostitution in Thailand.
To view a clip: http://www.brunofilms.com/sacrifice.html

LEPER: Life Beyond Stigma
Offers a rare and intimate glimpse into a village of lepers in rural Nepal. Villagers speak openly and emotionally about the myriad stigmas and misunderstandings that surround the disease that has marked their bodies and their lives.
To view a clip: http://www.brunofilms.com/leper.html

SKY BURIAL
Documents a common burial custom in Tibet where the bodies of the dead are offered to the vultures as a final act of kindness to living beings... the ultimate gesture of generosity. To merge with the sky is a holy event, one that replaces the sufferings of this world with peace.
To view a clip: http://www.brunofilms.com/sky.html - eb."

[The filmaker, Ellen Bruno, completed a masters degree in documentary film at Stanford University in 1990. She held a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1997, Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998, fellowships from the Western States Media Arts and a Shenkin Fellowship from Yale University School of Art. - ed.]

URL
http://www.brunofilms.com/

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

Link reported by:
Ellen Bruno (ellen--at--brunofilms.com)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Business
* 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 300

Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

Tibskrit - A Bibliography of Tibetan Philology

ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/coombspapers/otherarchives/asian-studies-archives/tibetan-archives/tibet-culture/

4star
05 Apr 2006

Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Supplied note:
"Dear Tibet List [i.e. Tibetan-Studies--at--coombs.anu.edu.au - ed.], [... Tibskrit is] a bio-bibliographical work that may be found useful for anyone who can make use of it critically, which I think might include persons doing research in areas in some way related to Indian and Tibetan religion, philosophy, grammar, literature and so forth. Tibskrit [TibskritRTF.rtf file is 3.6MB long - ed.] was compiled (and typed) by myself over a number of years. Earlier this year it was edited by Alexander Cherniak of Jerusalem.

It is 'open' and freely available to anyone who would like to have it (and if you know of anyone who might like to have it, please forward this message to them right away). Its remaining imperfections can be fixed. It can be used in any way you find useful.

[...] Another warning - If you do not have a fairly recent computer setup, it is possible you may not be equipped to handle Unicode fonts (Mac systems starting with OS X do support Unicode, as do recent PCs). Tibskrit is being made available, at present, only in Unicode fonts. Kindly let me know if you need a pre-Unicode font version. Perhaps this could be made available, too. [...] Yours sincerely, Dan Martin, Jerusalem."

URL
ftp://coombs.anu.edu.au/coombspapers/otherarchives/asian-studies-archives/tibetan-archives/tibet-culture/

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

Link reported by:
Dan Martin (msyben--at--mscc.huji.ac.il)

* 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 the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

H-Asia Discussion List - 12th Anniversary

http://www.h-net.org/~asia/

5star
01 Apr 2006

H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State University, US

Self-description:
"The primary purpose of H-ASIA is to enable historians and other Asia scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching interests; to discuss new articles, books, papers, approaches, methods and tools of analysis; to test new ideas and share comments and tips on teaching. H-Asia is especially committed to discussing region wide, comparative and professional issues important to scholars of Asia."

Site contents:
* General Information: (Subscribe!, Manage Subscription, Subscription Help, About H-Asia, Welcome Message Editors & Board); * H-Asia Resources (Discussion Logs, Discussion Threads, Resources, Links, Electronic Journals, KIAPS); * Related Lists: (H-Japan, H-USJapan, H-ANZAU, H-SEASIA); * Search H-Asia Logs; *Search all H-Net Logs; * Recent Book Reviews published by H-Asia; * Recent messages posted by H-Asia.

Supplied note:
"H-ASIA is twelve years old! Editors, volunteers and other H-ASIA News. From: Frank Conlon. Members of H-ASIA may be interested to know that this project commenced in a formal way on April 1, 1994 (the date was accidental not intentional). When Steven Leibo and I launched H-ASIA I don't think either of us could have imagined that it would grow into such an expansive world-wide community. [...] Our membership roster today numbers 3911 in 74 countries. We are not the most active H-Net list, but over the years we have had considerable traffic. As of last night we have handled 26,950 posts. Our model is one followed by all of the constitutent networks of H-Net: volunteer editors who give their time and effort toward sustaining the conversation among members as well as posting announcements of jobs, of conferences and other calls for papers. [...] Long-term members of H-ASIA, particularly outside North America, who would be interested in discussing the possibility of service on the Advisory Board, should contact me at their convenience in the next few weeks. [... There is] the possibility of adding a Book Review editor for East Asia. [...] Interested parties should contact me [i.e. Frank Conlon] with their curriculum vitae. It is necessary that any review editor have a fairly well-developed set of contacts for soliciting reviewers. There are also opportunities for service as line editors (working with me, Ryan Dunch, Kate Brittlebank and Linda Dwyer in a rotation on editing and posting) and for a person willing to alternate with our heroic Subscription Editor Ming-te Pan [...]. As a historical note, our editorial crew began with Steven Leibo and me, Frank Conlon in 1994. Steven retired from the editing in 2004, while I still soldier on--mostly because I really enjoy keeping in touch with what's happening in Asian Studies. In 1996 Marilyn Levine joined us as an editor. Other co-editors included Christiane Reinhold (1997-2001), Richard A. White (1997-2000) and T. Matthew Ciolek (2001-2003). More recently we have been joined by Linda Dwyer (2001- ), Ryan Dunch (2004- ) and Kate Brittlebank (2004- ). And since 1997, Ming-te Pan has presided as Subscriptions Editor. Robert Entenmann served as East Asia Review editor (1997-2003), Patrick Peebles was South Asia Review editor (1997-2000) and we continue to enjoy the contributions of Sumit Guha (South Asia Review Editor since 2001) and William Cummings (Southeast Asia Review Editor since 2005). Remember, we don't do this all by outselves. We have counted on the responsive and helpful advice and maintenance by H-Net officers and staff at Michigan State University where H-Net is hosted by the MSU Matrix project. Without the MSU support there would be no H-ASIA! - f. conlon."

[The list, initially addressing no more than 12 readers, was first conceived and created by Steven A. Leibo of the Sage Colleges & Suny-Albany and Frank F. Conlon of the University of Washington. (See also "Asian Studies Online: a Timeline of Major Developments", coombs.anu.edu.au/asian-studies-timeline.html) The fledgeling H-Asia underwent a series of tests from the 15th of March 1994 onwards, and it went fully public on the 31st March of that year. H-Asia continues to be the single most valuable, most useful and most seminal Asian Studies' resource available on the Net. - tmciolek]

URL
http://www.h-net.org/~asia/

Internet Archive
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.h-net.org/~asia/

Link reported by:
Frank Conlon (conlon--at--u.washington.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News
* 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 3,000 [in fact, 1610]

Please note that the above details were correct on the day of their publication. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com