Asia Resources on the World Wide Web
by Raymond Lum - Fall 1997 (Print source*)

[Asia, General] [Dictionaries] [Art] [South Asia] [Southeast Asia] [East Asia Japan, Korea] [Journals]


The quickly-expanding universe of WWW sites devoted to Asia is making it both easier and more difficult to find information on East,South, Southeast, and Central Asia. The increasing number of sites makes it more likely that at least one site will have the informationyou seek. But now there are more and more sites to wade through without first knowing their limitations. Readers who are interestedin ratings of new sites (from "marginal" to "essential") can subscribe to a mailing list that rates them as information is received about them. To subscribe to the mailing list, read the instructions on the web site of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library:http://coombs.anu.edu.au WWWVL-AsianStudies.html.

Please continue to send information about new sites to be included in this column to rlum@fas.harvard.edu

Asia, General
http://www.agora.stm.it/politic
Listings of political sites available on the Internet with links to political parties, organizations, governments. Searchable by geographic regions and by countries. Extensive.

http://nias.ku.dk/diary/search/find.html
Site of Agenda Asia, a database of Asian Studies conferences, workshops, seminars. Search by date, country, region, institution, city, title. Not yet comprehensive.

http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/COE/index.html
Asian Historical Statistics Project site.The Project's purpose is to compile complete modern economic statistics on all of Asia except Japan; includes the Middle East and North Africa; records from ca. 1850; list of researchers; announcements; newsletter.

http://www.ercomer.org/wwwvl/index.html
Virtual library on migration and ethnic relations; some 400 online resources; keyword searching.

Dictionaries
http://China-a2z.com/cgi-china-a2z/dict.cgi?language=en
Online English-Chinese dictionary with 220,000 entries; can be moved to a mini-window for side-by-side use with a WWW browser. From China Information Center, Denmark.

http://www.kkbn.com/diction/diction.htm
Tibetan-English dictionary of Tibetan Buddhist teaching and practice; 65,000 entries; includes information on literary figures, sacred sites, titles of scriptures.

Art
http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/anu/tib-art.html
Tibetan art, theater, music, architecture; online guide to links to information, images, shops and galleries.

http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/anu/buddhart.html
From the Huntington Archive, Dept of History and Japanese art.

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/rc/
Online exhibition of folk paintings by women artists of Madhubani district in northern India.

http://www.chinese-furniture.com
Information on decoration and style, materials, dating, joinery, history, conservation and restoration, museum collections; bibliography of books articles; links to related sites.

South Asia
http://air.kode.net/index1.html
Access to the All-lndia Radio web page.

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~vdk/india/indianew.html
Links to sites on India, organized by category: art & culture, business, computers, education, environment, history, humor, matrimonial, news, religion, sports, etc.

http://www.timesofindia.com/
The Times of India newspaper, including two-months' archive.

http://www.economictimes.com/
Daily edition of the Economic Times newspaper, New Delhi; two months' archive.

http://www.calonline.com/
Calcutta Online. Daily news; cybertour of 1997 Calcutta bookfair; cybertour of 1996 Durga Puia pandal.

http://is.rice.edu/~riddle/play/sasialit/
On literature of South Asia and the Indian diaspora; South Asia literature online resources; E-journals; bibliographies of books by South Asian women, South Asian diaspora in English-language fiction, South, Asian literature with gay/lesbian/bisexual themes, and much more.

http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/ses/basas1.html
Homepage of the British Association for South Asian Studies.

http://www.une.edu.au/~arts/SouthAsiaNet/san.html
Homepage of SouthAsiaNet, the international community of scholars of South Asia, headquartered at the Univ. of New England in Australia. Prizes, book reviews, directory of Australian South Asianists, South Asia Journal, South Asian Studies Association, National Centre for South Asian Studies.

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/India97/index.html
CNN page on Indian and Pakistani anniversaries of independence; timeline from 1947 on; quick-time movies of Partition.

Southeast Asia
http://www.vncb.com/
Site of the Vietnamese Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Toronto. In Vietnamese.

[Dead ?] http://www.aseansec.org
ASEANWEB, homepage of the ASEAN Secretariat; overview, political and security issues, economics and trade statistics, country profiles, publications, acronyms, ministerial meetings.

http://www.ndio.co.id/
National Development Information Office, Indonesia; Indonesia Sourcebook annual; economic briefs, fact sheets, monthly statistical bulletins.

http://www.library.wisc.edu/databases/SEAvideo/
New URL for Wisconsin's South and Southeast Asian Videos Archive; videos are available on loan.

East Asia
http://www.oakton.edu/~friend/chinajews.html
Homepage of the China Judaic Studies Association. Notes publications, seminars, conferences; list of recently published books onChinese Jews; text of Association's newsletter; articles on Jews of Kaifeng, anti-semitism, etc.

http://www.friends-partners.org/fpchina/
"Friends and Partners, China, is designed to explore use of the Internet as a means of promoting understanding and exchange with the culture and people of China." Covers culture, environment, exchange, funding sources, commerce, community, etc.

http://www.brokersys.com/~kcyong/
Intended to promote understanding of Chinese cultures throughout the world. Features information on reading Chinese on the Internet, art, food and festivals, Chinese newsgroups, magazines and periodicals, radio and entertainment, indices to Chinese publications. Links are in both English and Chinese (GB and BIG5).

http://www.unive.it/~dsie/vl/biblio.html
Part of the Internet Guide for China Studies and the Asian StudiesWWW Virtual Library. Has 38 links to electronic bibliographies of reference works, history, religion and philosophy, art, medcine, dictionaries, women in Chinese history, education, inscriptions and oracle bones, etc.

http://politics.law.ntu.edu.tw/TSR.html
A comprehensive site on Taiwan's security issues.

http://china-a2z.com/cgi-china-a2z/news.cgi
[?] From the China Information Center, Denmark. A China-related news archive updated daily with over 1000 new entries; database searchable by Chinese and English keywords.

Japan
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/jdc/
The Japan Documentation Center at the Library of Congress specializes in Japanese public policy information, provides current souce materials on economics, commerce and industry, law, politics, environment, social conditions. Searchable bibliographic database; document delivery service.

http://www-japan.mit.edu/MatSciEng/
Japanese Materials Science and Engineering web site at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Annotated links to Japanese patent organizations, translator databases, major Japanese corporate labs, searchable database on materials science; access to professional materials science journals with links to English-language tables of contents; links to document delivery and translation sevices.

http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/ieplatform/lang/lang.htm
Download page for the Microsoft Japanese language support kit for use in browsing theWWW CJK-English Character Dictionary.

Korea
http://www.koreanpolitics.com
Information about South Korean politics, including government, National Assembly, elections, statistics. Index is labelled " Site Map." Numerous links, including Koreagate, Korea Web Weekly.

http://www.dur.ac.uk/~dmu0rcp/akmrbib2.htm
On traditional Korean music.

http://www.koreasociety.org/KoreanStudies/ReadingList.html
Mark Peterson's reading list for Korea studies.

http://www.koreanwar.org/
Homepage of the Korean War Project.

Journals
http://www.anu.edu.au/RSPAS/ccc/journal.htm
Site of The China Journal, a refereed, scholarly journal on China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, published by the Contemporary China Center, Australian National University; until July 1995 the journal was called Austalian Journal of Chinese Affairs. Site contains text of current issue, and author and topical indexes to earlier issues.

http://china-a2z.com/cgi-china-a2z/periodic.cgi?language=en&new=yes
Searchable database of over 6000 periodicals, newspapers, and journals published in China. Supports search on title, publisher, and vast array of categories, by GB or pinyin.

http://kowin.kois.go.kr/koreanstudies/s-journal.html
Site of the Seoul Journal of Korean Studies.

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*See the print copy of this list in the Asian Studies Newsletter, Fall Issue 1997, p. 22-23, published by the Association for Asian Studies, Inc. [Some sites updated by Philip McEldowney Dec. 1997]


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