* 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.


31 May 2007

Australia Mekong Resource Center (AMRC)

http://www.mekong.es.usyd.edu.au

4star
31 May 2007

AMRC, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Supplied note:
"On 26-27 September 2007, the Australian Mekong Resource Centre and AusAID will co-host an international conference on regional integration, integrated water resource management and development in the Mekong titled: "A Greater Mekong? Poverty, Integration and Development" [...] Participants and speakers at the conference will come from academic, government, NGO, international organisation and community backgrounds, from around Australia, from Mekong countries and elsewhere. The conference will include keynote speakers, case studies, panel discussions and breakout sessions. There is no fee for the conference, however prior registration is required to assist with catering and conference planning. [...] Yours sincerely, Philip Hirsch, Director, Australian Mekong Resource Centre."

Self-description:
"AMRC is a resource centre based at the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney. The Centre promotes research, discussion and debate on development and environment issues in the Mekong Region. Established in 1997, AMRC focuses on the role Australia plays in the region as a near neighbour, donor and major trading partner. The Centre is a focal point for information, dialogue and activities in support of an equitable and sustainable development path for the Region. [...]
What's new at the AMRC? AMRC-AusAID conference: "A Greater Mekong? Poverty, Integration and Development", September 2007 Conference Preliminary Announcement (pdf) [http://www.mekong.es.usyd.edu.au/AMRC-AUSAID%202007%20Conference%20Announcement.pdf]" "

Site contents:
* News; * Projects (Mekong Learning Initiative, Mekong Water Governance, Research Training NUOL, Agrarian Transition, Completed Projects, Charlie Pahlman memorial); * Publications (Working Papers, Mekong Update & Dialogue, CD-ROMs, CD-ROMs in AMRC Library, Mekong Briefs, Other, Archives); * Education; * Case Studies; * Events (Mekong Discussion Group, Upcoming Events, Past events, Mekong Jobs/Opportunities); * Links (including: Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, Bank Information Center, Asian Development Bank, Rivers Watch East and SE Asia (RWESA), Focus on the Global South, Japan-ESCAP Cooperation Fund (JECP), Probe, International Rivers Network (IRN), Nautilus, Towards Ecological Recovery and Regional Alliance (TERRA), MekongInfo, AID/WATCH, Global Association for People and the Environment (GAPE), Oxfam Mekong Initiative, Protected Areas Review, Mekong River Commission (MRC), The Water Page, Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University, South East Asia Rivers Network (SEARIN)); * About Us (Concept Paper, Staff, Associates, Visiting Scholars, Interns & Volunteers, Alumni, Contact).

URL http://www.mekong.es.usyd.edu.au/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mekong.es.usyd.edu.au/

Link reported by: Sandra Davenport (sandra.davenport--at--anu.edu.au),
forwarded by asia_news--at--anu.edu.au

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

29 May 2007

Mahatma Gandhi Research and Media Service

http://www.gandhiserve.org/

5star
29 May 2007

GandhiServe Foundation, Berlin, Germany

Self-description:
"GandhiServe, a charitable foundation registered in Germany, aims to spread the ethics of nonviolence by disseminating information about and popularizing Mahatma Gandhi's life and works.
GandhiServe Foundation hopes to help alleviate conflicts and inspire others through making available media and resources on Gandhi's life and thoughts."

Site contents:
* Events; * About Us; * Research; * Education; * Arts; * Travels; * Newsletter; * Donations; * Mahatma Gandhi News Digest (latest issue May 21 2007, Mahatma Gandhi News Digest Archive (2004 - present); * Subscribe Mahatma Gandhi News Digest); * The Archives (# At a glance - Who's Gandhi, # Audio - 140 hrs of Gandhi's voice, music, interviews, # Writings - 8.800 books, 200 writings, 35.000 letters [incl. online texts of (a) Books by M.K. Gandhi, (b) Compilations of Gandhi's writings, (c) Books on M.K. Gandhi, (d) Articles on M.K. Gandi - ed.], # Images - 15.000 photographs of Gandhi and India, # Video - 20 hrs footage, 120 hrs film of Gandhi and India, # Miscellaneous - Chronologies, Stamps, Coins, Medals, Banknotes, Cindrella, Gandhi Workshop, Genealogy, Q & A, Links, Addresses, Downloads, Gandhi Quiz)

[A multilingual site [ENG, ES, RU, CN, Esperanto, DE]

URL http://www.gandhiserve.org/

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

Link reported by: gandhiserve--at--listi.jpberlin.de

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info./Study/Documents/News
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - 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]: over 3,000 [in fact, 21,700]

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

26 May 2007

Al-Qaeda Illustrated Torture Manual

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0524072torture1.html


4star
26 May 2007

Courtroom Television Network LLC, New York, NY, US

Self-description:
"May 24 [2007] -- In a recent raid on an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq, U.S. military officials recovered an assortment of crude drawings depicting torture methods like "blowtorch to the skin" and "eye removal." Along with the images, which you'll find on the following pages, soldiers seized various torture implements, like meat cleavers, whips, and wire cutters. Photos of those items can be seen here [i.e. at http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0524072torture7.html - ed.].
The images, which were just declassified by the Department of Defense, also include a picture of a ramshackle Baghdad safe house described as an "al-Qaeda torture chamber. It was there, during an April 24 raid, that soldiers found a man suspended from the ceiling by a chain. According to the military, he had been abducted from his job and was being beaten daily by his captors. In a raid earlier this week, Coalition Forces freed five Iraqis who were found in a padlocked room in Karmah [a town some 70 km NW of Baghdad - ed.]. The group, which included a boy, were reportedly beaten with chains, cables, and hoses. Photos showing injuries sustained by those captives can be found here. (12 pages)."

Site contents:
Drawings found in an Al-Qaeda safe house, in pencil and colour, of the following torture techniques: (1) Drilling hands; (2) Severing limbs; (3) Dragging vicitims behind cars; (4) Eye removal; (5) [applying] Blowtorch to the skin; (6) Suspension from ceiling and electrocution; (7) Braking limbs and restricting breath; (8) Binding and beating; (9); Suspending and whipping; (10) [applying] Clothes iron to skin; (11) [crushing] Victim's head in a vice. Also, the site publishes: (a) a colour photograph of Al-Qaeda torture implements; (b) a colour photograph of the Al-Qaeda torture chamber; (c) several colour photographs of damaged bodies of the Iraqi kidnap and torture survivors freed in Karmah on 21 May 2007.

[Acc. to Wikipedia "The Smoking Gun is a website that posts legal documents, arrest records, and police mugshots on a daily basis. The intent is to bring to the public light information that is damning, shocking, outrageous, or amazing, yet also somewhat obscure or unreported by more mainstream media sources." The Smoking Gun website, is owned by The Courtroom Television Network (aka. Court TV), an American cable television network solely owned by Time Warner - ed.]

URL http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0524072torture1.html

Internet Archive (www.archive.org)
[the site 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.thesmokinggun.com]

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

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - 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 3,000 [in fact, 1040]

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

17 May 2007

Mongolian & Pashto Learning Materials Online

http://www.indiana.edu/~celcar/intermediate.php

5star
17 May 2007

Center for the Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, US

Supplied note:
"We would like to draw your attention to the launch of important new language resources for students of Pashto and Mongolian languages. The Center for the Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR) has developed online, web-based reading and listening materials for these languages, and beginning today, we will be placing these on our website alongside the Uyghur and Tajik materials. The modules can be accessed on our main website: The modules can be accessed on our main website: [see the URL below] Please note that we ask all users to register, so as to better track the usage and efficacy of the modules. Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues and all those interested in Central Asian languages. - Paul M. Foster, Jr. Director."

Self-description:
"The goal of the Intermediate Reading/Listening Exercises is to produce listening and reading exercises for students of Central Asian languages at the intermediate level to help build their listening and reading skills, broaden their vocabulary, enrich their appreciation of grammar, and deepen their understanding of the cultures of the region. Each module features original or adapted written and spoken texts that present language structures in authentic cultural contexts. The texts are accompanied by a series of multimedia exercises developed by our native-speaker developers. Please feel free to explore the modules at your leisure."

URL http://www.indiana.edu/~celcar/intermediate.php

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

Link reported by: Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center (iaau--at--indiana.edu),
forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.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 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

08 May 2007

Elman, Benjamin A. - Selected online papers on Chinese intellectual and cultural history

http://www.princeton.edu/~elman/

5star
08 May 2007

Program in East Asian Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, US

Site-contents:
[in early May 2007, all documents in PDF format] * China and the World History of Science; * The Chinese Prize Essay Contest and the Late Qing Promotion of Modern Science; * Comparing and Classifying: Ming Dynasty Compendia and Encyclopedias (Leishu); * Criticism as Philosophy: Conceptual Change In Ch'ing Dynasty Evidential Research; * Early Modern Classicism and Late Imperial China; * Education in Song China--A Review; * The Emergence of Phonology; * From Pre-modern Chinese Natural Studies to Modern Science in China; * Imperial Politics and Confucian Societies; * ISIS Review of "On Their Own Terms"; * Ming-Qing Border Defense and the Inward Turn of Chinese Cartography; * Nietzsche and Buddhism; * Nietzsche and Buddhism--Errata; * Philology and Its Enemies; * Philosophy Versus Philology; * Reply to a Recent Review; * Reproduction via Civil Service Examinations; * Rethinking the Twentieth Century Denigration of Chinese Science in the Twenty-First Century; * The Unraveling of Neo-Confucianism: From Philosophy to Philology In Late Imperial China * [See also an online book: Elman, Benjamin A. Classicism, Politics, and Kinship: The Ch'ang-chou School of New Text Confucianism in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1990. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6g5006xv/ - ed.]

[Dr Benjamin A. Elman is the Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University. His teaching and research interests include late imperial and modern Chinese intellectual and cultural history, history of education in China, and history of science in imperial and modern China. - ed.]

URL http://www.princeton.edu/~elman/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.princeton.edu/~elman/

Link reported by: Benjamin A. Elman (elman--at--princeton.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 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

Classical Historiography for Chinese History

http://www.princeton.edu/~classbib/

5star
08 May 2007

Program in East Asian Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, US

Supplied note:
"[The site has been] updated as follows: 1) all entries are alphabetized within each section; 2) the romanization has been switched to Pinyin. Although this website uses Pinyin, it splits up words into phonemes, making Chinese appear to be a monosyllabic language. The Library of Congress has preferred a character-by-character romanization, and thus we follow LOC guidelines. But users of this website should note that the division into words (ci) as opposed to characters (zi) is still the usual basis for the Pinyin romanization of Chinese in China and most libraries there; 3) the entire site is now equipped with a Google internal and global search engine, in addition to the guided Table of Contents. 4) the guided Table of Contents for the Electronic Resources part has been enhanced and reclassified to be intuitively clearer. - bae."

Site-contents:
1. Introduction to Classical Chinese Historiography; 2. Relevant Electronic Resources for Chinese Studies; 3. Dictionaries; 4. Selected List Of Bibliographical & Geographical Aids; 5. Biographical Aids; 6. Some Aids For Translating Chinese Official Titles & Institutions; 7. Reference Guide to Classical Book Titles; 8. The Four Parts of the Imperial Library 'Sibu' [...]; 9. Bibliography of Chinese Classics & Literature In Translation With Recent Related Histories; 10. Selected English Bibliography For Chinese Civilization: A Brief Topical and Historical Survey to Ming Times; 11. Sources For The Ming Dynasty; 12. Sources For The Qing Dynasty; 13. Civil and Military Examination Bibliographies; 14. Epigraphy.

[This information system is an official Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library Associate (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) site. It was originally created at the Wesleyan University, and later on developed at the UCLA (www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib/) address - ed.]

URL http://www.princeton.edu/~classbib/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.princeton.edu/~classbib/

Link reported by: Benjamin A. Elman (elman--at--princeton.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

07 May 2007

Tajik and Uyghur Language Learning Materials Online

http://www.indiana.edu/~celcar/intermediate.php

5star
07 May 2007

Center for the Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, US

Supplied note:
"We would like to draw your attention to the launch [on 23 Apr 2007 - ed.] of important new language resources for students of Central Asian languages. CeLCAR has developed online, web-based reading and listening materials for all of our languages, and beginning today, we will slowly be placing these on our website. As usual, we begin with Tajik and Uyghur languages, which represents the continued hard work and dedication of Dr. Gulnisa Nazarova, Uyghur language specialist and Dr. Nasrullo Khojayorov, our Tajik specialist. Nasrullo is the person who is most responsible for the design and programming of these important modules and CeLCAR is especially indebted to his selfless dedication. The modules can be accessed on our main website: [see the URL below] Please note that we ask all users to register, so as to better track the usage and efficacy of the modules. Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues and all those interested in Central Asian languages. - Paul M. Foster, Jr. Director."

Self-description:
"The goal of the Intermediate Reading/Listening Exercises is to produce listening and reading exercises for students of Central Asian languages at the intermediate level to help build their listening and reading skills, broaden their vocabulary, enrich their appreciation of grammar, and deepen their understanding of the cultures of the region. Each module features original or adapted written and spoken texts that present language structures in authentic cultural contexts. The texts are accompanied by a series of multimedia exercises developed by our native-speaker developers. Please feel free to explore the modules at your leisure."

URL http://www.indiana.edu/~celcar/intermediate.php

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

Link reported by: Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center (iaau--at--indiana.edu),
forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.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 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

06 May 2007

Chennai Centre For China Studies

http://www.c3sindia.org

4star
06 May 2007

CCCS, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Self-description:
"The Chennai Centre for China Studies (CCCS) [est. Mar 2007 - ed.] is a non-profit public policy think-tank, with the following objectives: # Carry out in-depth study of developments relating to China with priority to issues of concern to India like * the Sino-Indian border problem. * China-Pakistan nexus. * Prospects of Sino-Indian economic and trade relations. * Future evolution of China's politics and its impact on India and the world. * China-India-ASEAN relations. * Scenarios on China's new found role in SAARC. * Growing importance of Southern India for Chinese interactions, investments etc. * India-China-Southeast Asia cultural links. # Offer workable solutions/ policy alternatives on the basis of studies, to the strategic planners and decision makers in India, on questions of bilateral, regional and global importance. [...]"

Site contents:
* About Us; * [Papers published online till 6 May 2007]: India-China Relations: Challenges And Opportunities April 28, 2007 by R.Swaminathan; India, Japan and China April 28, 2007 by B.Raman; Confusion Over Myanmar-China Gas Supply Talks April 16, 2007 by B.Raman; Chinese Quest for Soft Power April 15, 2007 by B.Raman; 2008 Olympics-in-China Security Threat Assessment April 13, 2007 by B.Raman; India's Foreign Policy: Emerging Trends in the 21st Century April 2, 2007 by R. Swaminathan; China's Oil Quest Across India's Cauvery Basin March 26, 2007 by B.Raman; Stock Market - The Chinese Puzzle March 14, 2007 by K.Subramanian; Sinology: Issues and Trends March 14, 2007 by Prof.S.Ramachandran; Gwadar, Hambantota and Sitwe: China's Strategic Triangle March 6, 2007 by B.Raman) * Team; * Projects (China's Border Disputes, A Comparative Study; India-China Border Trade Aspects; India-Myanmar-China Relations); * Events; * Links; * Search; Contact Us.

[CCCS works in close collaboration with the SAAG - South Asia Analysis Group (http://www.saag.org/) - ed.]

URL http://www.c3sindia.org

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

(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/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* 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 100

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 May 2007

Investigating the Grey Area of the Chinese Communities in Southeast Asia (seminar proceedings) [Free E-Book]

http://www.irasec.com/en/documents.php

4star
03 May 2007

Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia (IRASEC), Bangkok, Thailand.

Supplied note: "Investigating the Grey Area of the Chineses Communities in Southeast Asia (seminar proceedings) [ IRASEC, Occasional Papers, no 1, 2007, 168 pages, ISBN 978 974 7709 40 7, 4.27 Mb, PDF format - ed.] By LEVEAU Arnaud (eds) The French Research Institute on Contemporary Southeast Asia has launched a series of Occasional Papers in order to facilitate the diffusion of seminar proceedings and short monography. It can be downloaded for free on our website : [at the URL below]."

Self-description:
"The presence of mafia groups and gangs of Chinese origin and their collu- sion with the world of finance and politics are historical facts in the [SEAsian] region and could represent today a real threat for its stability. These criminal networks tend to forge business link with their Japanese, Russian, Korea, Italian or South American counterparts and sometimes could interfere with the process of political decision making."

Site contents:
The Papers * Introduction by Arnaud LEVEAU (Irasec) * The Ang-yi or Chinese Secret Societies of Thailand. Understanding a Total Social Phenomenon by Jean Baffie (CNRS-University of Provence) * The Triads: Past and Present by T. A. Bancroft, BSc (Hons), MSc * Political influences of the Chinese communities in Thailand and Myanmar by Ratanaporn Dhammakosol, Politic Counscellor * Grey Side of Chinese Community in Indonesia by Frans Hendra Winarta, S.H., M.H. * Triad Involvement in the Sex Service Industry in Hong Kong and Its Impacts on Southeast Asia by Dr CHU Yiu Kong, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Hong Kong * The Chinese diaspora and prostitution at the Thai-Malay frontier (Hat Yai, Sadao- Dannok, Betong and Sungai Kolok) by Dr. Emmanuel DIALMA, Jurist, AFESIP Campaign Director and Dr. Pierre LE ROUX, Ethnologist, AFESIP Research Unit Director * Triads : From street level to transnational crime by Peter Michael, Journalist * Notes on the Chinese communities in Burma and Thailand by Guy Lubeigt (CNRS-PRODIG) * Notes on the foreign mafias in Thailand by Jean Baffie (CRNS University of Provence) * Historical note on the Chinese communities in South- East Asia by Alain Forest (University of Paris VII, CNRS) * Links between Organized Crime and terrorist networks by Philippe Migaux, Chief police superintendent, French Embassy in Malaysia

URL http://www.irasec.com/en/documents.php

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.irasec.com/en/documents.php

Link reported by: Publications (publications--at--irasec.com)

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

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

02 May 2007

Chinese Archives [An Online Guide]

http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/chinese_archives.htm

5star
02 May 2007

Modern Chinese History program, University of California, San Diego, CA, US

Self-description:
"This site [est. 1999 - ed.] has two purposes: to serve as a place to collect and exchange information on actual experience doing research in Chinese archives, and to provide information on Chinese local archives."

Site contents:
* Archive Users' Experiences - General Comments; * Archive Users' Experiences - National Archives (1. Libraries and Archives in China, 2. The Schedule of Chinese Libraries and Archives, 3. The Sensitivity of Research Topics, 4. About Ordering and Borrowing, 5. Copying and Charges); * Archive Users' Experiences - Provincial And Municipal Archives (1. Beijing Municipal Archives, 2. Chongqing Municipal Archives, 3. Chongqing Municipal Historical Library Archives, 4. Guangdong Provincial Archives, 5. Hebei Provincial Archives, 6. Heilongjiang Provincial Archives, 7. Jiangsu Provincial Archives, Nanjing, 8. Shanghai Municipal Archives, 9. Sichuan Provincial Archives, 10. Yunnan Provincial Archives); * Archive Users' Experiences - Local Archives (1. General Comments, 2. Baxian County Archives (also called Chongqing Municipal Banan, District Archives -- Sichuan), 3. Beijing Municipality: Dongcheng District Archives, 4. Changshu Municipal Archives (Jiangsu), 5. Chuxiong Prefectural Archives (Yunnan), 6. Guangzhou Municipal Archives, 7. Nanjing City Archives, 8. Shanghai Municipality: Xuhui District Archives, 9. Wujiang County Archives (Jiangsu), 10. Xiangshan County Archives (Zhejiang), 11. Yibing County Archives (Sichuan), 12. Yixing County Archives (Jiangsu), 13. Yongchuan Municipal Archives (Sichuan)) ; * Local Chinese Archives (Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Jiangxi); * Chinese Archives Information on the Web [compiled by Professor Li Huaiyin of the U. of Missouri - ed.].

[The site is a part of a larger resource 'Chinese History Research Site' (http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/) with information on: (a) Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976; (b) English and Chinese materials relating to historical research on modern China; (c) The archives; (d) English-language works on Qing, Republican, and PRC history; (e) China- and East Asia-related web sites; (f) Critical essays by UCSD undergraduate students on Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's 2005 book 'Mao: The Unknown Story' - ed.]

URL http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/chinese_archives.htm

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/chinesehistory/chinese_archives.htm

Link reported by:
Thomas Dubois (histdd--at--nus.edu.sg), forwarded by 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 100

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