Asia Resources on the World Wide Web
by Raymond Lum - 1998 (Print source*)

[Asia] [East Asia [Southeast Asia] [South Asia]


Prepare for the 1998 AAS meeting in Washington, D. C. by checking out the Association's relocated web site at http://www.aasianst.org, and the Geocities cite for Washington at http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Towers/1295/washington_dc.html, which includes tourist information and current weather reports. Please continue to send information about new sites to be included in this column to rlum@fas.harvard.edu

Asia
http://www.asiasociety.org/publications/asianupdates.html
The Asian Updates reports provide background and analysis of issues and events in Asia and on U.S.-Asia relations for businessmen, scholars, policy makers, educators, journalists. Links to two separate lists of publications for sale on education and art.

http://www.inesmedia.com
Links to 150 online newspapers from Asia and the Middle East.

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
The Asian Studies WWW Monitor, an electronic journal that monitors new developments in Asian studies cyberspace. "Compiles summaries and evaluations of the latest networked sites relevant to social sciences research of the Asia and Pacific region." Part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library.

http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/AsiaPages/VLBookshops.html
Web links to leading bookshops/publishers with online information about their Asian studies publications. This register is a subsection of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library maintained by the Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, Australian National University.

http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies
A page that lists Asia-related web sites at the Australian National University. Includes Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library, Australia South Asia Research Centre, Australia-Japan Research Centre, East Asian Collection of the ANU library, Indonesian Project of the Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, Malay Concordance Project, Centre for Middle East and Central Asia Studies, etc.

http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/gateway/institutional/booksell.html
Links to numerous book dealers in the U.S., Asia, and Europe who specialize in Asia. List maintained by the International Institute for Asian Studies, at Leiden University.

http://www.nwlink.com/~bokai/index.html
Information and ordering instructions for XenoType Technologies's Asian language kits for the Mac. To date, includes Burmese, Georgian, Khmer, Lao, Tibetan, Mongolian (to be released in summer 1998).

http://csf.colorado.edu/bcas/sympos/current.htm
Contains the complete text of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars' symposium on "Asia, Asian Studies, and the National Security Debate."

http://www.bids.ac.uk/ibss
The full back set of the 600,000 citations of the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences from 1951 to 1980. An additional 30,000 records will be added annually. Restricted usage,- not yet available to users outside the UK.

East Asia
http://www.psc.lsa.umich.edu/~jtrap/index.html
Discussion site of the East Asian Anthropology Interest Group. Links to library resources, statistical data sources, booksellers, online maps.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/eastasiatoday
Access to current program information and archives of the BBC World Service's news and current affairs program for East Asia. Audio and movie access available on software that is downloadable from links.

http://www.afn.org/~afn20372/pol/bp.html
"China's Public Relations Strategy on Tibet: Classified Documents from the Beijing Propaganda Conference in March 1993." The documents were prepared for a meeting of Chinese government officials to review an external propaganda strategy on Tibet, and were acquired and translated by the International Campaign for Tibet, in Washington, D.C.

http://www.redfish.com/USEmbassy-China/sandt/sandt.htm
Seven reports on AIDS in China, part of the web page of the Environment, Science and Technology Section of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.

http://pages.nyu.edu/~boc7379/
Created by Nixi Cura of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, this site on Chinese and Japanese art history news provides notices of symposia, conferences, grants, and other information. Links to other Asian art web sites (calendars of events, books, reference resources, museums and exhibitions).

http://www.angelfire.com/biz/mrtv/index.html
Site of the Voice of Mongolia Broadcasting Service. The Service is Mongolia's only overseas broadcasting service; operated by Mongolian Radio & Television, a public service broadcaster of the Mongolian government. Provides, in Mongolian, English, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese, information about Monglia and the history, culture, and traditions of the country.

http://www.mof.go.jp/english/index.htm
Site of the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan, available in English and Japanese versions. Statements by the Minister of Finance, features, general administrative information, leading financial and economic indicators, Bank of Japan, Japan Development Bank, etc.

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/
Site of the Japanese Text Initiative of the University of Virginia Library Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian Library~ Purpose is to make texts of classical Japanese literature available on the web. Interactive search interface allows for searching of any characters or words, in Japanese or English, in individual texts and in all texts.

http://www.mofa.go.jp/mail/index.html
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, website; daily bulletins are available automatically by registering your email address.

http://www2.dgsys.com/~jusfc/
Web pages of the Japan-US Friendship Commission and the U.S. half of CULCON. The Commission is an independent federal agency promoting mutual understanding; its homepage contains its history, program guidelines, reports, topics of current priority and concern, newsletter, etc. CULCON is a binational advisory panel to the U.S. and Japanese governments on educational and cultural exchange; its homepage includes information on current activities and a media directory of Japan specialists.

http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jjs/
Web page of the Journal of Japanese Studies, published twice yearly. Includes guidelines for submissions, stylesheet, subscription information, table of contents (no text) of current issue, list of other publications of The Society for Japanese Studies.

http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/korealaw
Site for the Center for Korean Legal Studies, Columbia University School of Law. Covers numerous topics on Korean law and legal education; North-South Korean relations, information on Center-sponsored talks and conferences.

http://www.justice.gov.hk
The Hong Kong Bilingual Laws Information System of Hong Kong's Dept. of Justice. It is the official database of the statutory laws of Hong Kong and selected constitutional documents, and will include a bilingual glossary of terms used in the laws. Includes Sino-British Joint Declaration, Basic Laws of Hong Kong SAR, national [Chinese] laws applying to Hong Kong.

Southeast Asia
ftp://asia.anu.edu.au/pub/seac.sit
Southeast Asian calendrical software; site for a Macintosh program designed by Chris Eade and Lars Gislen "to generate the calendrical and astronomical data required to verify the historical records of mainland Southeast Asia." The reference manual for the software is at ftp://asia.anu.edu.au/pub/mannov97.sit

http://www.nationmultimedia.com
Site for downloading Thailand's sixteenth (and most recent) Constitution. To read it without downloading, use: http://www.nationmultimedia/nation/constitution/draft.html

http://tukang.access.net.id
Comprehensive data on the Indonesian Internet Network.

http://www.ecpat.or.id
Information for anyone planning on taking up residence in Indonesia.

http://www.caa.org.au/world/asia/indonesia/index.html
Articles, publications, and links on development and human rights in Indonesia.

http://www.technofind.com.sg
Largest resource and search engine on Singapore web sites, updated daily. Searchable; arranged by categories: business, education, entertainment, government, internet, organizations, services, tourism.

South Asia
http://bhutan.org
Homepage of the Bhutan WWW Virtual Library. Numerous links to information on Bhutan on web search engines, USAID in Bhutan, newspapers, refugees, photographs, travel agencies, stamps, art, government, bibliographies on Bhutan, sources of publications, language resources, religion, history, science

http://www.kuensel.com
Site for the online edition (and archives) of Kuensel, Bhutan's weekly English-language newspaper.

http://www.bengali.org/mailing-list.html
A mailing list to discuss anything and everything about Bengal; moderated and managed by Sanhita Mallick, Univ. of Tokyo.

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/ijhs/
Homepage of the International Journal of Hindu Studies, a refereed journal on Hindu religion and culture, published three times a year. Site includes tables of contents of each issue and abstracts of articles.

http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/countries/bangla/
Keeps track of leading information facilities of the Bangladesh section of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library and the South Asia WWW Virtual Library. General information, virtual tour, geography, economy, environment, history and politics, oral history project, ethnic issues, conference papers, search index, clubs, organizations, newsgroups, etc.

http://www.bjp.org/
Homepage of the Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party); includes Media Watch, current news related to the BJP.

[ Election Commission] [India Elections 1998 and Political Parties]

http://www.meadev.gov.in
Government of India homepage, with a cross-section of information on the workings of government.

http://alfa.nic.in
Web site of the Indian Parliament, with transcripts of parliament debates, email address of members, text of the Constitution, etc.

http://www.india-today.com/jain/index.html
Full text of the interim report of the Jain Commission formed to investigate the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi; searchable by keyword.


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*See the print copy of this list in the Asian Studies Newsletter, Annual Meeting Issue 1998, p. 15-16, published by the Association for Asian Studies, Inc. Some links updated or added - Philip McEldowney. March 1998.


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