Asian Studies WWW Monitor
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html

Annotated Guide to WWW Search Engines
http://www.ciolek.com/Search Engines.html
Leading information retrieval facilities of value to researchers in Asian Studies and the social sciences. Part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library.

Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art
http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/
The John C. and Susan L. Huntington Archive at Ohio State University. Includes list of lost and stolen art from Afghanistan and Nepal; art of Newar Buddhism; exhibitions of Asian art; maps of Asia; guide to photographic documentation of Buddhist art. Plans to include 200,000 to 300,000 photographs online.

Asian Pacific American Calendar
http://www.pafb.af.mil/deomi/research/rpub.htm
A comprehensive calendar of Asian Pacific Islands American events, people, activities. Researched and produced by the Library of Congress's Federal Research Division for the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute. Select "Ethnic Resources," then "Asian Pacific American Heritage Calendar."

Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges for Asian Studies
http://www.asianetwork.org
ASIANetwork, an AAS affiliate, is a consortium of over 100 colleges in North America that promote the study of Asia. Links to mailing lists, teaching resources, its newsletter, membership information.

The Asia Society
http://www.asiasociety.org
Relaunching of an earlier site, much expanded. Features Asia Society publications list, special reports, speeches and transcripts from Asia Society events, over 750 links to "the best professional, educational, political, and cultural resources on the Web," catalog of items in its shop in New York, text of its new publication Hong Kong: Challenges of Change.

Maps of Asia
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/asia.html
Political and shaded relief maps from most Asian countries, all from the Perry- Casteneda Library Map Collection at Univ. of Texas at Austin. Most of the maps date from the 1990s, but some historical maps are included.

Power, Democide, and War
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~rummel/
Online version of R. J. Rummel's book, The Miracle That Is Freedom: The Solution to War, Violence, Genocide, and Poverty Covers democide (genocide and mass murder) through data, sources, statistical analyses, books, articles. Data cover major pre-20th century episodes of democide, "and all democide for all nations, 1900-1987." Includes coverage of Asia in individual chapters, charts, tables, statistics.

Best 65 Universities in Asia
http://www.pathfinder.com/asiaweek/98/0515/cs5.html
"Asiaweek's second annual survey of the region's best schools focuses on research and the ravages of the [current) economic crisis." Also available in the 15 May 1998 issue of the news weekly.

National Geographic Maps
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/maps/atlas/asia/asia.html
Maps of Asia from National Geographic Society's Cartographic Division. Maps include some text from 6th ed. of National Geographic Atlas of the World.

SOUTHEAST ASIA
Tay Son Resource Page
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~gdutton/Tay_Son.html
"A site containing information about the Tay Son peasant uprising (1771- 1802) in Vietnam." Includes an essay, chronology, bibliography (including selected Vietnamese- and Chinese-language sources), brief biographies of key figures.

Conflict and Ethnicity in Indonesia
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/indonesia.html
"A site dedicated to intemet sources on conflict and ethnicity in Indonesia." Links to news groups, NGOs, academic journals, maps. Provided by INCORE (Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity) in Northern Ireland. Also links to sites for every country of the world, such as Human Rights Watch, etc.

Philippine-U.S. Women's Solidarity Organization
http://www.gabnet.org
On issues arising from U.S. policy decisions that impact negatively on women and children of the Philippines. The organization has launched educational campaigns on militarism, prostitution, labor export, the sex trade, the mail- order bride industry.

Books on Vietnam
http://www.destinationvietnam.com/home.htm
Online version of the books and artifacts catalog of Global Directions, Inc., in San Francisco, source of the Vietnam travel magazine, Destination: Vietnam, English-language publications from Vietnam and the West, and music CDs.

White Lotus Press, Bangkok
http://thailine.com/lotus
A supplier of Western- language books on Southeast Asia, including numerous reprints of earlier publications.

Singapore University Press
http://www.nus.edu.sg/SUP/97/
The press publishes the research work of the University's academic staff, and scholarly books of local and regional importance, all in English.

SOUTH ASIA
Bangladesh News
http://www.dhaka-bangladesh.com
A composite news source provided by Bangladeshis in the U.S. Contains articles culled from the daily press in Bangladesh, covering politics, business, and the arts.

Dharam Hinduja Indic Research Center
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/dhirc/
The purpose of the Center, at Columbia University, is to study Indian traditions of knowledge f rom the Vedas up to modern times and to promote research. Includes the Center's newsletter, information on post-doctoral fellowships, publications, University Seminar on Indology, Ayurveda and Indic traditions of healthcare, online manuscript project, related links, more.

Daily Star, Bangladesh
http://www.dailystarnews.com
Online edition of the English-language newspaper, with archives back to August 1997.

Voice of Tibet
http://www.vot.org/
Voice of Tibet, from Dharamsala, broadcasts thirty minutes daily on short- wave radio. Its programs, in Tibetan, are produced byTibetan exile journalists in Europe and the U.S. and elsewhere. (Broadcasts can be heard with RealAudio software, downloadable free from http://www. real.com/players/)

Tamil Electronic Library
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5180/index.html
A site devoted to Tamil language, its culture and literature. Distributes Tamil fonts (free), provides information on fonts, software, guidelines for setting up webpages in Tamil, e-texts of ancient literary works, lists of books, research centers, publishers, links to numerous related sites.

Indian Nuclear Tests
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~BS8M-FKNG/english/e-index-1.html
Prepared by the Japanese Network for South Asian Studies.

BJP Government Watch
http://www.bjpgovernmentwatch.com
"As soon as the coalition government headed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed off ice in India in March 1998, a group of concerned South Asian scholars formed an informal international team to monitor the BJP Government's socioeconomic-political decisions, public policy initiatives and reversals, key appointments, and other such moves that have both short- term and long-term effect on the Indian polity." Includes links to related sites.

EAST ASIA
Modern Chinese Literature and Film
http://deall.ohio-state.edu/denton.2/biblio.htm
Author studies, catalogs, Chinese-language electronic texts, references (dictionaries, bibliographies, biographies, journals, howto locate material); online references (links to journals, texts, references, modem Chinese culture, literary studies); translations; film resources (links to general information, early films, films of 1950s to 1970s, post-Mao era films, directors, references).

Library Resources for Chinese Studies
http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/netguide.htm
This site includes a section on "Libraries and Library Resources for Chinese Studies."It will be developed as asystern containing pages on libraries in Asia and the West, library associations, book dealers in Asian studies, conferences, reports and guides, and media. Links are annotated and will contain information on holdings of individual libraries. Part of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library.

Chinese Military History Group
http://www.fau.edu/divdept/hist/Chinese.Military.History.htm
The Group seeks to establish contacts with European scholars interested in any aspect of Chinese or East Asian military history and "aims to encourage communication and exchange of ideas between scholars working in different disciplines and studying different historical periods who share a common interest in armed conflict and the role of the military in China." Website contains member information, research notes, bibliography, book reviews.

Feng Shui Gate
http://home.earthlink.net/~fieldwork/Fengshui_Gate.html
Scholarly essays on the origin and early history of the Chinese art of dwelling orientation, by Stephen L. Field, an associate professor of Chinese at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas

Hong Kong Government Publications
http://www.info.gov.hk/isd/index_e.htm
Monthly lists of new publications from the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Last updated January 1998.

Chinese Information & Culture Center
http://www.taipei.org
Much information about Taiwan, provided by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York.

Silk Road Foundation
http://www.silk-road.com/
Site of a non-profit organization established to promote the study and preservation of cultures and art in Inner Asia and the Silk Road. Contains chronology, Xinjiang Studies, Dunhuang Studies, travel, conferences, bibliography, music, etc.

Reischauer Institute at Harvard University
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7erijs
English- and Japanese-language site of annotated resources in academic Japanese studies. Includes schools, research institutes, libraries, reference tools, news media, government and legal sites, history archives, teaching and language learning sites, scholarships, jobs, etc. Frequently updated.

Japan-Related Internet Resources
http://www.daiwa-foundation.org.uk/
An annotated index, covers academics, arts, bookshops, companies, computing, economy, environment, law, language, government, living in Japan, museums, travel, technology, voluntary organizations, etc. Provided by Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation in the U.K.

Okinawa: The American Years, 1945-72
http://www.tamu-commerce.edu/coas/history/sarantakes/Okinawa.html
Electronic version of a forthcoming book; documents the 27-year American military occupation. Contains chronology, photos, biographical essays, annotated bibliographies of books, f ilms, newspaper articles, oral histories), links. Created at Dept. of History, Texas A&M University, Commerce, Texas.