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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.


30 January 2007

Bibliography: [Western Early] Books on China in Vienna, Austria

http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/China-Bibliographie

5star
25 Jan 2007

Institut of History, The University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Supplied note:
"The bibliography 'Books on China' aims to provide on-line information on the China-related holdings of Western-language books in major libraries at Vienna, Austria (Vienna University Library, Austrian National Library, Library of the Austrian State Archives). So far, about 3100 titles from the period 1477-1939 have been located in the various catalogues of these collections. Work on this bibliography is still in progress. - gl."

Self-description:
"Over centuries, Viennese libraries acquired - among many other treasures - rich materials on China: Dictionaries, early translations of Chinese classics, travelogues, maps, atlanti. The earliest examples for materials dealing with China date from the late 15th century (first printed edition of a German version of Marco Polo's account). Over four centuries - until the 1850s - Viennese libraries collected books on China (and on Asia in general), in a variety of languages. The existence of these treasures in Vienna is widely unknown to the scientific community. This project intends to list all China-related holdings of printed books (published up to 1939) held in the Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek (Austrian National Library), the Universitaetsbibliothek Wien (Vienna University Library; including the main library and the holdings of the various department libraries as well), and the Library of the Austrian State Archives. All copies existing in the holdings of these libraries [... are] included in this bibliography."

Site contents:
* Books published until 1500 (A-Z  N.N.); * 1501-1600 (A-E   F-J   K-O   P-T   U-Z   N.N.); * 1601-1700 (A-E   F-J   K-O   P-T   U-Z   N.N.); * 1701-1800 (A-E   F-J   K-O   P-T   U-Z   N.N.); * 1801-1900 (A-E   F-J   K-O   P-T   U-Z   N.N.); * 1901-1939 (A-E   F-J   K-O   P-T   U-Z   N.N.); * Documentation; * News.

This preliminary version of the bibliography gives titles in plain lists, sorted by names of authors/editors. In case no author/editor was given, books can be found under "N.N."

Extract: "Books 1501-1600 A-E
* Giovanni Lorenzo d'Anania: L'vniversale fabrica del mondo. (Venetia: 1576)
* Lodovico Arrivabene: Il magno Vitei [...] primo Re della China e del valoroso Iolao, si ha nella persona di Ezonlom, von ritratto di ottimo Prencipe, & di Capitano perfetto. Appresso si acquista notitia di molti paesi, di varij costumi di popoli, di animali, si d terra, & si de acqua, di alberi, di frutti, & di simiglanti cose moltissimo (Verona: Discepolo 1597)
* Joao de Barros: Asia .. dos fectos que os Portugueses fizeram no descobrimento e conquista dos mares e terras do Oriente (Lisboa: Germao Galharde 1552)
* Joao de Barros: L'Asia (Venetia: Vinc. Valgrisio 1562);
* Giovanni Botero: Theatrum oder Schawspiegel, Darinn alle Fuersten der Welt, so Kraeffte und Reichthumb halben namhafft sind, vorgestellt werden etc. in vier Theil etc. (Coelln: Lambertus Andree 1596) [...]."

URL http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/China-Bibliographie

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.univie.ac.at/Geschichte/China-Bibliographie

Link reported by: Georg Lehner (georg.lehner--at--univie.ac.at),
forwarded by h-net list for asian history and culture (h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu)

* Resource type [news/comments - 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 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

25 January 2007

Central Asian Voices Portal

http://www.centralasianvoices.org

4star
24 Jan 2007

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC, US

Supplied note:
"The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace announced the launch [on 17 Jan 2007 - ed.] of the Central Asian Voices Portal -- a web site featuring timely analysis of regional issues, and a forum enabling the exchange of ideas among policymakers, analysts, journalists, bloggers, and informed readers across the globe.

Written in English and Russian, Central Asian Voices consistently features top stories from the region, and currently showcases such topics as: the appointment of the new Kazakh government and the prospects for political change in Uzbekistan. The Portal will also provide links to official primary source documents, and analysis of the regional and geopolitical implications of current events. One of the Portal's unique features is its compilation of blogs and media resources from Central Asia, enabling visitors to view press coverage from the region and read first-hand accounts of life in Central Asia from its burgeoning civil society. This direct access to the opinions and perspectives of Central Asians marks a new development in a region often characterized by government-controlled media and a lack of openness. - dz."

Site contents:
* Featured links; * Government Voices (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, International Sites); * Media Voices (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, General Central Asian); * Blogger Voices (Alexandr Bosih, Alisher Navoi, Akunamatata, Ashghabat Gazette, Baisalov's Live Journal, BAK, BukharaInfo, Bukharian Jewish Global Portal, Carpetblog, Carrie Eurasia Foundation, Coming Anarchy, Dialog, Forum UZ, From Those Who Traveled to Central Asia, Global Voices Online, Global Voices Online, Central Asia and Caucasus, Hulegu's Campaign, Karakum, KUB Blog, Kyrgyzstan Students Blog, My Live Page Nachnyom Neweurasia Blog, Neweurasia Kazakhstan Blog, Neweurasia Kyrgyzstan Blog, Neweurasia Tajikistan Blog, Neweurasia Turkmenistan Blog, Neweurasia Uzbekistan Blog, Nukus 70 Years Anniversary, Pajamas Blog, Peace Corps Kyrgyzstan, Poverty and Growth Blog, Europe and Central Asia, Registan, Reklamniy Komsomolets, Roberts Report, Ryan Giordano's Blog, Samarkand Youth Blog, Sibnet Blog, Stories from Central Asia, Theai Blogspot, The Golden Road to Samarqand, The Internet Writing Journal, The Koreans of Central Asia, Turkmen Opposition Blog, Turkmenistan Blog, Uchkuduk, Uyghur Language, Uzbek Literature, Uzbeki Judges, Western Resistance, Women's Blog); * Documents in the News [incl. Uzbekistan - 2007 Address of the President to the people of Uzbekistan 01/04/2007- ed.]; * Research and Analysis [incl. The Roots of Radical Islam in Central Asia 01/17/2007 - ed.]; * Search; * Live stories [incl. Briefing on Prospects for Political Change in Uzbekistan Is China A Reliable Stakeholder in Central Asia? - ed.] * About Us; * Archives; * Carnegie Home.

URL http://www.centralasianvoices.org

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

Link reported by: Diora Ziyaeva (dziyaeva--at--carnegieendowment.org), forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu

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

19 January 2007

Asia Reconstructed: Proceedings of the 16th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, 2006, Wollongong, Australia.

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/biennial-conference/2006/proceedings.htm

4star
19 Jan 2006

Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Inc. & Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS), ANU, Canberra, Australia.

Self-description:
"Asia Reconstructed: Proceedings of the 16th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, 2006, Wollongong, Australia. ISBN 978-0-9580837-3-7. edited by Vickers, Adrian, and Margaret Hanlon University of Wollongong 2006. Table of Contents: 1. About these Conference proceedings 2. Editorial board 3. Suggested citation format for papers published in this online volume 4. Acknowledgments 5. Peer-reviewed ASAA 2006 Conference papers (PDF format). [...]

The 16th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), entitled "Asia Reconstructed: from critiques of development to postcolonial studies", was held at the University of Wollongong, Australia from 26 - 29 June 2006. In order to make the information and ideas presented at the conference promptly and widely available, participants in the conference were invited to submit written papers based on their presentations for inclusion in refereed conference proceedings to be published on the Web. Each paper submitted for consideration was peer-reviewed [...]."

Site contents: 78 papers (In PDF format)
* Allender, Tim: Instructing the Women: Changing State Agendas in Colonial India, 1854-1924.; * Alves, Ana Cristina: Emerging Postcolonial Solidarities: China's New Economic Diplomacy Towards Subsaharan Africa.; * Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar: The Communists in post-colonial Bengal, 1948-52: The untold story of 'second' Tebhaga.; * Barker, Thomas: VCD Pornography of Indonesia.; * Bicego, Barbara: ' Hybrid subjectivity in the writing, thought and lived experience of two Australian women in Bali - medical anthropologist, Dr. Barbara Lovric, and author and business woman Janet De Neefe.; * Breyley, Gay: Reconstructing Central Asian Imaginaries: Wedding Music in Iranian Migrant Communities.; * Brown, Colin: The Indonesian National Games of 1951 and 1953: Identity, Ethnicity and Gender.; * Brown, Mark: Before citizenship: Liberalism's colonial subjects.; * Brown, Stephen and Konstantin Sheiko: The Soviet Legacy and Leader Cults in Post-Communist Central Asia: the example of Turkmenistan.; * Burford, Suzanne: An increasing role for the TNI in Indonesian security policy.; * Chalmers, Ian: The Dynamics of Conversion: the Islamisation of the Dayak peoples of Central Kalimantan.; * Chang, Jui-shan: Familism and Modernity amongst Young Chinese: An Exploration into Multiple Modernities.; * Chen, Minglu: Who is the Boss: the Husband or the Wife? An Analysis of Women Entrepreneurs' Roles in Private Enterprise, Jiaocheng County, People's Republic of China.; * Cincotta, Angela: Language Policy and Ethnic Minority Education in Lao PDR: Solidarity and power.; * Claremont,Yasuko: Irizawa Yasuo and his conception of narratives in prose poetry.; * Cottle, Drew and Angela Keys: 'The Dynamite to Bring Down the Old Building'?: The Maoist War in Nepal.; * Cribb, Robert and Li Narangoa: Hiding Borders, Skewing Perspectives and Reversing Time: Possibilities for a new generation of historical atlases.; * Crowley, Cheryl: Kanagaki no shi: Yosa Buson's Haishi.;
* de Matos, Christine: 'The Case of Nikko jiken: Occupation, reform, power and conflict'.; * Donaldson, Mike, Richard Howson, and Pam Nilan: Comparative Masculinities: Why Islamic Indonesian Men are Great Mates and Australian Men are Girls.; * Drakeley, Steven: In Search of Achmad Sukarno.; * Engel, Susan: Where to Neoliberalism? The World Bank and the Post-Washington Consensus in Indonesia and Vietnam.; * Fang, Yew-Jin: Designing Online Listening Comprehension Tasks for Learners of Mandarin Chinese as a Second/Foreign Languag.; * Firdaus: Ideology and Discourses in the Corby case.; * Flutsch, Maria: Murakami Haruki's teenage murderer: a Zizekian View.; * Freedman, Craig and Luke Nottage: The Chicago School of Economics and (Japanese) Law: resisting the Invasion by Stigler and Ramseyer.; * Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira: Neoliberal Development and its Implications for the Garment Industry and its Workers in India: A case study of West Bengal.; * Genn, Celia: From Chishtiyya Diaspora to Transnational Sufi Movement.; * Hannan, Kate: China: A Low Cost Workshop of the World? Quotas and Policy Choices After the MFA.; * Harada, Yoko: The Occident in the Orient or the Orient in the Occident?: Reception of Said's Orientalism in Japan.; * Hatley, Barbara: Recalling and Re-presenting The 1965/1966 Anti-communist Violence in Indonesia.; * Healey, Madelaine: 'I'm the gal that can do it if they let me': International Nurse Advisers and Notions of Professionalism in Indian Nursing, 1947-1965.; * Hermanns, Heike: The Korean Nationalist Discourse Online An Example of Public Diplomacy in the Internet Era?; * Hossain, Shahadat: Rapid Mass Urbanisation and Its Social Consequences in Bangladesh: The Case of the Megacity of Dhaka.; * Hudson, Chris: Peeling Prawns: Singapore Media and the Recovery of the Asian Feminine.; * Hulsbosch, Marianne: Of Brutes and Brides: Displaying a Distinct Ethnic Identity in a Colonial Contex.;
* Kaur, Amarjit: Managing the Border: Regulation of International Labour Migration and State Policy Responses to Global Governance in Southeast Asia.; * Kitley, Philip: Between the Lines: An Analysis of the Language of Indonesian Reporting of Military Clashes in Aceh.; * Kolesova, Elena: Suterareta - Ko -- 'Thrown Away Kids' : Reflections on Contemporary Japanese Education in the New Zealand Environment.; * Kusumarasdyati: The Use of Movie Videos to Enhance Cross-cultural Understanding.; * Lowrie, Claire: Sold and Stolen: Domestic 'slaves' and the rhetoric of 'protection' in Darwin and Singapore during the 1920s and 1930s.; * Mahony, Inez: Australia and Indonesia: A Neighbour's Perspective.; * Martinez-Julia: The Chinese traders in French Indochina: Partners or rivals?; * Mayer, Peter: The South Asian Arc of Instability: In Search of Explanations.; * Morris, Brian: Un/Wrapping Shibuya: The Changing Texture of Place.; * Nanri, Keizo: Asahi's Fuhenfuto Principle.; * Olle, John: The Campaign against 'Heresy' - State and Society in Negotiation in Indonesia.; * Ooi, Can-Seng: Bounded Creativity and the Push for the Creative Economy in Singapore.; * Otomo, Rio: A Girl with the Amoebic Body and her Writing Machine.; * Paton, Michael: Is Traditional Chinese Medicine Science? What Chinese Scientists Think.; * Quilty, Mary and Elizabeth St. George: [title to be provided].; * Ramzan, Yuko: NSW High School Student's Construction of Democratic Citizenship Through Language Learning: A Case Study of Japanese Language Learning Experience.; * Rosenbaum, Roman: True Survivors: the 'yakeato sedai' in contemporary Japanese literature ? towards a definition.; * Rosenbaum, Roman: Historical Revisionism in contemporary Manga Culture: From Subculture to Mainstream Art.; * Ross, Kaz: Remembering Nanjing: Patriotism and/or Peace in Architecture.; * Rushton, Beth: Volunteers not pay rises: the construction of health sector problems in Cambodia.;
* Sabhlok, Smita G.: Self-help as a Strategy for Women's Development in India.; * Saito, Ritsuko: Getting to know others: An experience of students of Japanese through online chat sessions.; * Sakai, Minako and Elizabeth Morrell: Reconfiguring the region and challenging the State? New socio-economic partnerships in the outer islands of Indonesia.; * Sales, Peter: "If You Can Keep Your Head when All about You are Losing Theirs"! The Role of the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Campaign against Islamic Separatism in Mindanao.; * Scrase, Tim: The 'New' Middle Class in India: A Re-assessment.; * Sharma-Brymer, Vinathe: Educated women's ways of knowing on gender, education and social transformation: Exploring Actionable Space.; * Sharrad, Paul: Re/constructing South Asia.; * Shome, Anthony: A Case Study of Positive Interventionism.; * Sigley, Gary: From 'Jihua' to 'Guihua': A Preliminary Critique of Approaches to Understanding 'Governance' in the Chinese Context.; * Sobocinska, Agnieszka: The Role of the 'Asia-educator' in the Post-War Period: The Case of Frank Clune.; * Southwell-Lee, Meiling: Campus Courtship in China: A View into Modern Marriage Practices and the Reach of the State.;
* Takayashiki, Masahito: Scepticism towards Kotoba (Language): Betsuyaku Minoru and the 'Small Theatre Movement' (Shogekijo Undo) in the 1960s.; * Tann, Ken: Beyond the Dichotomy of Historicism and Instrumentalism: Nihonjinron as Trajectories of Negotiation.; * Thai, Bao Duy: Separate language -- separate identity? The politics of diasporic Vietnamese through code-switching and code mixing.; * Thomson, Elizabeth and Motoki Sano: Mapping the Factual Genres of the Japanese Workplace.; * Tokita, Alison: Kirogi omma and Korean overseas students in Melbourne.; * Tripasai, Pornsawan: Anna Leonowens and Imaginative Colonisation of Thailand.; * Umesh, Rashmi: Economic Reforms and the Less Developed Regions: A Study of Uttar Pradesh in India.; * Wehrli, Angelica: Household Livelihhod Strategies in the Context of Socio-Economic Transformation in Nam Dinh City, Vietnam.; * Williams, Philip: Maoist Thought Remoulding as a Variety of 20-century East Asian Fundamentalism.; * Wright Webster,Tracy: Strategic Communities: The Notion of Keluarga in Indonesia and among Females of Same-Sex Attraction in Yogyakarta.; * Yasumoto, Seiko: The Impact of the 'Korean Wave' on Japan: A case study of the influence of trans-border electronic communication and the trans-national programming industry.

URL
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/biennial-conference/2006/proceedings.html

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

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

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

16 January 2007

Malaysia WWW Virtual Library

http://vlmy.geneva21.biz

4star
15 Jan 2007

Malaysia WWW VL, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Supplied note: "Just to inform you that the WWW VL Malaysia has been completely revamped. One improvement is the enlarged News section. The News section now covers more topics & is more comprehensive than most online newspapers in Malaysia itself. Do feel free to check it out at: http://vlmy.geneva21.biz/news.htm - nw."

Site contents: * Art & * History; * Blogs; * Directories; * Education; * Facts & * Figures; * Government & * Politics; * Lifestyle; * Money & * Business; * Natural Resources; * Professional; * Science & * Technology; * News; * What's New; * Site Map.

[Since Dec 1996 Malaysia WWW VL, founded and edited by Mr Nelson Wong, is a member of the Asian Studies WWW VL (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) archipelago of scholarly web sites. - ed.]

URL http://vlmy.geneva21.biz

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

Link reported by: Nelson Wong (nelsonyswong--at--gmail.com)

* Resource type [news/comments - 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]:
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

03 January 2007

Classified Bibliography of Reference Works on Chinese Historical Geography

http://www.gatheringmountains.net/Geoweb/

5star
03 Jan 2006

Thomas H. Hahn, Ithaca, NY, US

Self-description:
"This classified bibliography represents an effort to catalog and classify reference works on Chinese historical geography (which traditionally overlapped with geology). On the right hand side you see an overview over the employed (self-made) classification. Click on any link and a list of titles will appear given detailed information an each item. Note that the contents of some of the 13 "classes" employed here like MAPS and CARTOGRAPHY overlap."

Site contents:
Bi-lingual (in English, with several elements in Chinese) entries describing: * General Works; * Bibliographies; * Concordances; * Indices; * Catalogues; * Dictionaries; * Cartography; * Maps; * Atlases; * Toponymical Dictionaries; * Gazetteers; * Special Gazetteers; * Dictionaries of Scenic Sites; * Translations; * Biographical overviews.

Also, a list of selected links, including Database of Antique Maps of China (Hong Kong), Historical Geography Research Group (Ireland), Historical Geography Speciality Group (USA), China Historical GIS (USA), Map History / History of Cartography (Subject gateway) (UK), Asia-related cartography on the web (Subject gateway) (UK).

URL http://www.gatheringmountains.net/Geoweb/

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

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

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