* 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 December 2007

Lingua Mongolia - Uighur-script Mongolian Resources

http://www.linguamongolia.co.uk/

5star
Lingua Mongolia, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK

Self-description:
"Lingua Mongolia is a web site [est. Dec 2004] which aims to help people learn written Uighur-script Mongolian. All the resources are provided free of charge in the interest of furthering this particular field of Mongolian studies."

Supplied-note:
"We thought you might be interested to know that we will shortly be releasing a new Mongolian-English Dictionary, focussing solely on Uighur-script Mongolian, which will be available from 1st January 2008 from www.linguamongolia.co.uk. The dictionary is the first of its kind in the world and has taken over four years to produce and brings the study of Classical and Uighur-script Mongolian into the twenty-first century.

The dictionary includes the following features:
* Over 23,000 headwords; * Thousands of usage examples; * Ability to search using Uighur-script Mongolian; * Ability to search using standard transliteration (Vladimirtsov-Poppe-Mostaert-Cleaves); * Ability to search for English words; * Wildcard searches; * Regular Expression searches; * Intelligent VirtualKeyboard for entering Mongolian. - erep."

Site contents:
* Home; * Script; * Grammar; * Translation; * Software; * Resources (Interactive Exercises, Poetry, Literature, Digitised Books); * [Online] Dictionary [Mongolian, English]; * Bibliography (Learning Mongolian, Dictionaries and Phrasebooks, Language, Books in Mongolian, Primary Sources and Works in Translation, Mongolian History, Mongolia - General, Genghis Khan); * Links (Universities and Professional Institutions, Independent Language Resources, Bookdealers, Miscellaneous Resources, Manchu Resources); * What's new; * Contact.

URL http://www.linguamongolia.co.uk/

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.linguamongolia.co.uk/

Link reported by: Emyr R. E. Pugh (linguamongolia--at--bluebottle.com)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - 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 1000 [in fact, 429]

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 December 2007

Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue Dec 03, 2007

http://japanfocus.org

5star
03 Dec 2007

japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US

Supplied note: "The following articles were posted on Dec 03, 2007 at Japan Focus.

* Chisato ("Kitty") O. Dubreuil, The Ainu and Their Culture: A Critical Twenty-First Century Assessment
* Mark Morris, The Question of the Other: Kara Juro and Letters from Sagawa
* The Asahi Shinbun, Ramesh Thakur, Richard Tanter & Robert Ayson, Power Shift? Australia and the Asia Pacific
* Yoshizawa Tatsuhiko, The Manchurian Incident, the League of Nations and the Origins of the Pacific War. What the Geneva archives reveal
* Noam Chomsky, Kevin Hewison, From Indochina to Iraq: At War With Asia

Find them at http://japanfocus.org - m.selden."

URL http://japanfocus.org

Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://japanfocus.org

Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44--at--cornell.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]: over 3,000 [in fact 8,280]

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