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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.


25 November 2010

Denki Etcetera! [a database of late Tokugawa period Japanese intellectual biographical profiles]

http://www.denki-etcetera.nl/
4star
25 Nov 2010

www.denki-etcetera.nl, The Netherlands.

Self-description:
"This website [est. May 2008 is] a continuation of [Anna Beerens'] PhD research project [...] entitled 'Friends, Acquaintances, Pupils and Patrons, Japanese intellectual life in the late eighteenth century: a prosopographical approach' (ISBN 9789087280017) [2006 Leiden University Press]. [...] [... The site publishes] biographical data concerning 173 individuals, who in the late 18th century were part of an extensive network of personal contacts. [...] The aim is to discover patterns and/or common characteristics. Generally, it is about setting side by side data about years of birth and death, gender, place or region of birth, social status, education, career, sources of income, choice of spouse, and personal contacts. The 173 individuals [... that Anna Beerens'] PhD thesis deals with were all intellectuals, persons involved in the scholarly, literary and/or artistic discourse of their time."

Site contents:
* Search the database by
(# PERSON: 173 names;
# STATUS: commoner, kuge, member of the imperial family, retained physician, retained scholar, ronin, samurai, samurai daimyo, shinto priest, unclear, unknown;
# INCOME: administration Bakufu, administration court, administration domanial, administration kuge, administration rural, administration temple, book illustration, botany, calligraphy, Chinese studies, commerce, domestic service, haikai, Japanese studies, kanshikyoka, manufacturing, medicine, music, painting, popular fiction, pottery, priesthood buddhist, priesthood shinto, priesthood shugenja, print making, publishing, seal carving, therapy, unclear, unknown, waka, Western studies;
# ACTIVITY: astronomy/calendrical sciences, book illustration, botany, Buddhist studies, calligraphy, Chinese studies, collecting culinary studies/cooking, epigraphy/kanji, etymology, gardening, haikai, Japanese studies, kanshikyoka, mathematics, medicine, military studies, music painting, political, economic and administrative studies, popular fiction, pottery, print making, publishing, seal carving, sencha, senryu, vernacular Chinese, waka, Western studies;
# YEAR: 1700, 1705, 1710, 1715 ... 1860).

URL http://www.denki-etcetera.nl/

Internet Archive (web.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 - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Other
* Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful

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

22 November 2010

Inventory of the South Asian Pamphlets Collection, 1920-2005

http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/southasianpams/inv/
4star
22 Nov 2010

Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

Supplied note:
"Announcement of a new archival Asian Studies resource at Duke University Libraries:
The results of a collaborative five-year effort to provide title-level access to a collection of over 7,500 hard-to-find 20th century South Asian pamphlets is now available in the form of a detailed online finding aid at Duke University. For more details, see [the URL below]
Staff of the South Asian Studies in the International Area Studies Department of Perkins Library and from the Special Collections Library at Duke created title-level descriptions for the South Asian Pamphlets Collection, which spans the years 1920-2005. Each entry includes title, author, date, and other notes. Access to the pamphlets themselves is through the Special Collections Library reading room, or through remote services such as scanning. Please contact a reference archivist for details.
The bulk of the material dates from the 1950s to the 1990s, with only a few items from the 1920s-1940s. The publications were received by Duke University's Perkins Library over four decades, roughly from 1960-1990, through the Library of Congress South Asia Cooperative Acquisition Program (SACAP), formerly called the "PL-480 Program," and are arranged according to their country of publication: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The pamphlets are all published in the English language. The largest group houses publications from India (177 boxes), followed by Pakistan (58 boxes), Bangladesh (15 boxes), and Nepal (8 boxes). For the smallest groupings of Afghanistan and Sri Lanka, the pamphlets are organized alphabetically by title without any further subdivisions. For the larger country series, the pamphlets are arranged by topical headings, in alphabetical order, and within, alphabetically by title. Each country series is followed by a more detailed description of its contents; each topical division is also followed by a description which includes the number of boxes and number of items in that subdivision.
While the majority of the pamphlets were published by organizations and agencies and do not list individual authors' names, there are also pamphlets with individual authors listed. Topical divisions common to the larger country series include but are not limited to Agriculture, Arts, Economic Development, Education, Industry and Commerce, International Relations, Politics and Government, Religion and Philosophy, Rural Development, Tourism, and Women. Many of the publications across the entire collection discuss ethnic and political conflict, as well as the effects of wars, poverty, and mass education, and issues regarding Islam and other religious traditions. Particular countries may have unique topical headings. In the case of India, each major Indian political party has its own subdivision under the larger Political Parties series; there is also a section for biographical works, and one for works on libraries and museums, and a division was also established to house pamphlets related to Kashmir. [...] - pm."

Site contents:
* Descriptive Summary (Repository, Creator, Title, Language of Material, Extent);
* Administrative Information (Access Restrictions, Copyright Notice, Preferred Citation, Provenance, Processing Information);
* Collection Overview;
* Subject Headings ["These are searchable subject entries for each country division in this collection. Performing a search on these subjects in the Duke University Libraries online catalog will bring up other related research materials."];
* Detailed Description of Collection [Details of: # Afghanistan Pamphlets, 1970s-1993 (2 boxes), # Bangladesh Pamphlets, 1957-2002 (15 boxes), # India Pamphlets, 1920-2005, bulk 1960-1990 (177 boxes), # Nepal Pamphlets, 1960s-1998 (8 boxes), # Pakistan Pamphlets, 1948-2005, bulk 1960s-1990s (58 boxes), # Sri Lanka Pamphlets, 1950-1988 (1 box)].
* Search the website.

URL http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/rbmscl/southasianpams/inv/

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

Link reported by: Paula Mangiafico (paula.mangiafico--at--duke.edu)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Library
* Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful

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

15 November 2010

One Free Korea [Blog]

http://freekorea.us/
4star
15 Nov 2010

www.kpajournal.com, USA.

Self-description:
"Why blog about North Korea? North Korea's nuclear program and the diplomacy that has attempted to end it for decades are widely covered in the media, but the media has done a poor job reporting the wider North Korea story: its people and their suffering, the society in which they live, and what these things say about the failure of the international community to respond to a grave humanitarian crisis. Those missing pieces of the story are the pieces that put the nuclear issue and every other part of the North Korean tragedy in context."

Site contents:
* FAQ;
* About [the Blog's editors];
* News [Korea/Asia News Headlines];
* Blogs (Best of the Korea Blogs, incl.: "DPRK Studies", "ROK Drop", "The Marmot's Hole", "Are You NK?");
* Plan B ["Plan B: How to Disarm Kim Jong Il Without Bombing Him"];
* The Camps ["North Koreas' Largest Concentration Camps on Google Earth - The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea estimates that North Korea holds approximately 200,000 people in its system of concentration and detention camps";
* Interviews (incl. interviews with: # Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Scholar on Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute; # Prof. Jae Ku, then-North Korea Program Director, Freedom House; # Mr. Chuck Downs, private consultant, former senior Pentagon official, and former Chair of the North Korea Working Group; # Han Ki Hong, President, The Daily NK, An online news site focusing on North Korea; # L. Gordon Flake, Executive Director, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation; # Dr. Norbert Vollertsen, human rights activist; # Dr. Marcus Noland and Dr. Stephan Haggard, co-authors, "Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform"; # Prof. Andrei Lankov, author of "North of the DMZ.");
* Google Earth (North Korea's Secrets, Revealed by Google Earth: # The Camps, # New Discovery: Camp 12, # Camp 16: Mass Escape, # Camp 22: Holocaust Now, # The North Korean Air Force, # Pyongyang Airport, # Wonsan, # Ghost Cities, # Kim Jong Il's Largest Palace, # North Korea's Nuclear Sites, # Camps 14 & 18, # More of Kim Jong Il's Palaces). * Search;
* Recent Comments;
* Advocacy Sites;
* Clandestine Reporting from North Korea;
* Favorite Columnists;
* Iraq Blogs;
* Korea Blogs;
* Non-Korea Blogs;
* U.N. Documents;
* U.S. Statutes, Regulations, and Executive Orders;
* Categories [blog tags incl.; Human Trafficking, Russia, "United" Nations, Drugs & N Korea, Proliferation, Islam, Axis of Evil, History, The Fifth Column, Religion, Reconstruction, Money Laundering, Deprogramming, U.S. Politics, Anju Links]
* Recently Posted (incl: Is Kim Jong Eun Already the Most Hated Man in North Korea?, U.N. Shocker! China Helps North Korea Cheat on Sanctions, China the Predator, Obama: Bush Wimped Out on Kim Jong Il, Get Your Goose Step P??n Here, The Reaper Comes for Cho Myong Rok, Rimjingang Takes Covert Journalism to the Next Level, NKDB Seminar in DC Nov. 11, NKnet DC Conference Wrap-up, Congressional Research Service: China Ignoring U.N. Sanctions, Open News on North Korea's Drug Problem, Plan B Watch);
* Blog Monthly Archives (since Jan 2000);
* Korean Newsfeeds.

[The editor of the "One Free Korea" blog, Joshua Stanton is an attorney practicing in Washington, DC. and a former U.S. Army Judge Advocate in Korea, 1998-2002. - ed.]

URL http://freekorea.us/

Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [access to http://freekorea.us/ has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt]

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

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study / Documents / News / Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Other
* Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V. Useful

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

14 November 2010

KPA [North Korean Army] Journal

http://www.kpajournal.com/
4star
14 Nov 2010

www.kpajournal.com, USA.

Self-description:
"[W]elcome to KPA Journal. The goals of this modest publication are to allow myself and others to freely share new, interesting or updated information concerning: all aspects of the Korean People's Army (KPA, more commonly known as the North Korean Army) from its birth until present; ballistic missile development; intelligence operations (e.g., seaborne infiltration operations, etc.); and other defense and intelligence related issues concerning the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, more commonly known as North Korea)."

Site contents:
* About KPA Journal;
* Mailing List;
* Previous Issues ((# Vol. 1, No. 9 - Sep 2010 (Mi-2 HOPLITE in KPAF Service; KPA Lessons Learned from Foreign Conflicts, Part I; Biography: Vice Marshal Jo Myong Rok; Biography: Vice Marshal Yi Tu-ik), # Vol. 1, No. 8 - Aug 2010 (KPA Engineer River Crossing Forces, A Look Inside a DPRK 'Mother Ship', Correction: BTR-60 in KPA Service, Additional Material - Editor's Notes and detailed Endnotes), # Vol. 1, No. 7 - Jul 2010 (The KPA Mechanized Infantry Battalion, BTR-60 in KPA Service, Addendum: Han-gang Bridges, Addendum: P'okpoong Main Battle Tank, Additional Material - Editor's Notes and detailed Endnotes), # Vol. 1, No. 6 - Jun 2010 (DPRK Intelligence Agencies, 1967-1971, Part 3; Addendum: P'okpoong Main Battle Tank; Additional Material - Editor's Notes and detailed Endnotes), # Vol. 1, No. 5 - May 2010, # Vol. 1, No. 4 - Apr 2010, # Vol. 1, No. 3 - Mar 2010, # Vol. 1, No. 2 - Feb 2010, # Vol. 1, No. 1 - Jan 2010);
* Declassified Documents (# Leaflet Dropping in Korea by the Far Eastern Air Force (3 January 1951);
* Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. (About, Published Works, Forthcoming Works);
* Support (Search, Contact);
* Contributors.

["Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. is an internationally recognized analyst, award winning author and lecturer on North Korean defense and intelligence affairs and ballistic missile development in the Third World. He is currently a senior analyst and author for IHS Jane's (formerly the Jane's Information Group)."]

URL http://www.kpajournal.com/

Internet Archive (web.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 - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Other
* Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V. Useful

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 November 2010

South Asian Legal History Resources

http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/sharafi/
5star
03 Nov 2010

UW Law School, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.

Supplied note:
"I have started a South Asian Legal History Resources website: [at the URL below] It includes a number of research tools on the history of law in South Asia, particularly for the colonial period.
Among these are: * a research guide to using case law from colonial South Asia (written for non-lawyers), * a list of abbreviations used in South Asian case law citation, * a list of published primary sources (including legislation, case digests, law reports and law journals), * a list of titles held in the library of a colonial solicitors' firm in Bombay, c.1911, * a list of titles of articles in seven leading colonial law journals, 1891-1947 (none of these journals is available electronically), * admission register entries of South Asian law students at the Inns of Court in London, 1863-1947 (including demographic information) - Mitra Sharifi."

Self-description:
"The aim of this website is to share tools and resources for the historical study of law in South Asia."

Site contents:
* Citation Abbreviations;
* Colonial Law Journals (incl.: PDF copies of Allahabad Law Journal, vol.1 (1904)-45 (1947), Bombay Law Journal, vol.1 (1923-4)-24 (1946), Bombay Law Reporter (journal section), vol.2 (1900)-49 (1947), Calcutta Law Journal, vol.1 (1905)-82 (1947), Criminal Law Journal of India, vol.1 (1904)-45 (1944), Madras Law Journal, vol.1 (1891)-93 (1947), Travancore Law Journal, vol.1 (1911)-34 (1944));
* Colonial Law Library [a list of books owned by Bombay Solicitors' Firm, Wadia Ghandy & Co., circa 1911];
* Images (incl.: Bombay High Court, Calcutta High Court (Kolkata), Formerly Rangoon' s Chief Court of Lower Burma (Yangon), Lincoln' s Inn (London), Lincoln' s Inn Great Hall (London));
* Mitra Sharafi' s Publications (Links to online articles and papers on: South Asian Legal History, History of the Legal Profession, Zoroastrian Legal Studies, Legal Pluralism, Slavery);
* Published Primary Sources ["This list identifies a set of materials that, while often rare, are more accessible than unpublished, archival sources. It covers legislation, case digests, law reports and journals."];
* Research Guide to Case Law ("The purpose of this guide is to help historians develop productive research strategies for the study of law in colonial South Asia. Its main focus is one particular type of legal source: case law." 1. Background: The Role of Precedent; 2. Published Sources: Law Reports, Case Digests, Newspapers & Legislation; 3. Unpublished Sources: Case Papers, Judges' Notebooks, Private Papers & Oral History; 4. Format: Organizing and Citing Cases);
* South Asians [Asian law students 1861-1947 learning to become barristers] at the Inns [of Court]];
* Links to useful [online] materials & catalogues: (incl.: A2A (UK), British Library: Asia, Pacific & Africa, British Library Integrated Catalogue, Cambr. Oral History Collection, Cooperative Hindu Law Bibliography, Digital South Asia Library, Heinonline, India: A Legal Research Guide, Indlaw, Inner Temple Database (UK), Inst. for Adv. Legal Studies Library (UK), JUSTIS (UK), LawNet (Sri Lanka), Making Britain, Making of Modern Law, Manupatra, National Archives (UK), Ox. Int'l Encyc. of Legal History, Parliamentary Papers, Scott MS: Indians at Inns, 1859-1927, SOAS Library (UK), Times Dig. Archive (UK), Wharton' s Law Lexicon (1892), Worldcat);
* Links to useful organizations, networks & opportunities (incl.: American Institute for Indian Studies, American Society for Legal History, Bombay High Court, Calcutta High Court, K.R. Cama Institute (India), LASSNet (India), National Archives of India, National Library of India).

URL http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/sharafi/

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

Link reported by: Mitra Sharifi (sharafi--at--wisc.edu), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study / Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Academic
* Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential

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

01 November 2010

Asia Deposit Rates - Top Bank Deposit Accounts in Asia

http://asia.deposits.org
5star
01 Nov 2010

Asia Deposit Rates - Top Bank Deposit Accounts in Asia

International Deposit Rates Exchange (IDRE), Australia / UK / USA.

Supplied note:
"Dear Asia Studies WWW Virtual Library, My name is Peter Fiasco and I would like to suggest the following free international financial information web resource
http://www.deposits.org & http://asia.deposits.org
It provides international bank deposit comparison information highlighting best return yields around the world, including country and political risk factors to consider including Asia. It also includes a glossary/dictionary for banking and deposit terms. - pf."

Self-description:
"The International Deposit Rates Exchange (IDRE) was formed in 2009. Our website showcases and compares the leading banking and financial institutions deposit and savings rates. We provide data on various types of deposits by country including but limited to term deposits, fixed deposits, time deposits and certificate of deposit. [ ...] All rates and associated information is provided by our providers and companies from publicly available data on their websites and at local regional branches. We use this data to provide country market, regional and worldwide comparisons to be the one-stop comprehensive reference for deposit rates. [...]."

Site contents:
* Top Bank Deposit Accounts in Asia (Bank, Type of Deposit, Account Details, Currency, Rate p.a./APR);
* Rates By Deposit Type (Time Deposits, Term Deposits, Certificates of Deposits, Fixed Deposits);
* By Asian Country (Brunei, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand);
* By Asian Companies (Axis Bank, Baiduri Bank, Bangkok Bank, Bank Mandiri, Bank of China, Bank of India, BPI, Citibank Japan, Habib Bank, Hong Leong Bank, HSBC Hong Kong, IDBI Bank, Industrial Bank, Maybank, OCBC);
* World Deposit Rates - Top Deposit Rates by Country (# Country, # Country Risk Rank [calculated from the Euromoney Bi-Annual Country Risk survey], # Political Risk Score [calculated from a weighted score of 30 across six categories - government stability, regulation/regulatory environment, non-pyament of loans/dividedends/trade-related finance.non-repatriation of capital, corruption perception, information access/transparency and judicial system], # GDP PPP [purchasing power parity] Per Capita [using 2009 IMF figures], # Currency, # Current Max Rate P.A./APR, # Change from last month);
* Regional Deposit Rates (Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, Australia/Oceania, South America).

URL http://asia.deposits.org

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

Link reported by: Peter Fiasco (peterfiasco--at--financialadvisory.com)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Business
* Scholarly usefulness of the online resource [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential

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