The categories under which web sites are arranged are intended only to point to the primary focus of each site. Many of the sites include information on broader geographic areas Thus, a site on Southeast Asia might be searched successfully for information on East Asia. Information on a particular country might be found under a geographic heading or a topical heading, such as "Journals" or "Dictionaries " Please send corrections and notices of additional sites to rlum@fas.harvard.edu

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-pacific-magazine
Online edition of academic-quality magazine from Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National Univ. Recent articles on Tiananmen, Panchen Lama, land management in Papua New Guinea, migrants in Malaysia.

http://www.chalidze.com/cam.htm
Tables of contents of all issues, 1992-1996, of Central Asian Monitor, a bi-monthly magazine on Central Asian republics since independence.

http://www.isop.ucla.edu/pacrim/pubs/korjournal.htm
The Journal of Korean Studies website; sample articles, subscription information, Korean studies links.

http://csf.colorado.edu/bcas
Website of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars; full text of selected articles; complete back-issue index, subscription information; links to Asian resources.

http://www.isop.ucla.edu/pacrim/pubs/chisci/chisci1.htm
List of contents of all issues of Chinese Science; some issues online; subscription information.

http://www.asia-inc.com
Site of Asia, Inc., with contents of the business magazine.

http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d94-fsi/dictionary
Online English-Urdu dictionary.

http://www2.gol.com/users/acmuller/cjkdic/CJKDictIntro.htm
A CJK-English dictionary database of traditional/classical/pre-modern characters and compounds with pronunciation and semantic information; downloadable; allows users to make their own additions.

gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:70/11/internet/hytelnet/sites1
Online access to libraries world-wide, arranged by geographic area, country, type of library.

http://www.uq.edu.au/~mljeast
Pointers and login instructions to national library catalogs in 38 countries; from University of Queensland.

http://www.library.yale.edu/eastasian/eac.htm
History of the East Asian library at Yale, bibliographic access to the collections, links to publisher/vendor catalogs, library associations.

http://www.uni-kiel.de/easl/easl.html
The European Association of Sinological Librarians; includes a link to the Association's Bulletin; resources on East Asian culture; bibliographies; academic institutions; list of booksellers.

http://www.cgiar.org/irri/index.htm
International Rice Research Institute, Philippines.

http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/ipc/www/idbnew.html
A computerized data bank, from the U.S. Census Bureau, of statistical tables of demographic and socio-economic data for all countries; searchable and downloadable; covers 26 demographic, ethnic, and economic variables.

http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/
Statistics from the United Nations searchable by 37 variables covering demographic, economic, geographic, and social indicators.

http://www.connections.com.hk/as/index.html
Salary data for Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, China, classified by cities, professions, industries; useful for job seekers.

http://www.subcontinent.com/1971war/1971war.html
On the 1971 India-Pakistan war.

http://www.tamilweb.com/ita/
The International Tamils' Archive, founded 1956 "to collect and preserve historical documents on Tamils in Sri Lanka and elsewhere."

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/pak/
The Pakistan virtual library with information on a wide range of subjects, e-mail lists; nearly comprehensive.

http://www.bangladesh-web.com/ga/
From the Academy of Media and Information Technology, Bangladesh, with daily news on Bangladesh and the region; access to statistics from government statistics office will be available later;newsgroups postings; free Fax-to-Dhaka service.

http://www.ttu.edu/~vietnam/archive.htm
Douglas Pike's archive of the Vietnam Conflict, at Texas Tech Univ.; manuscript collection of personal papers of people involved in the conflict; U S Air Force POW oral history collection.

http://www.yale.edu/cgp
Site of the Cambodia Genocide Program, with bibliographic, biographic, geographic, and photographic databases.

http://www.thaiindex.com
Business and cultural information on Thailand, including travel, transportation guides (bus, air, train), timetables; media guide.

[Dead?] http://www.dra.nl/~broeke/
Dutch web sites related to India and Indonesia; guide to information on the Eurasian culture of the Netherlands; numerous links to information on books, movies, web sites on Indonesia.

[Dead?] http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/hap.brc.html
[Try...] http://ftp.sarawak.com.my/org/BRC/
1 Tables of contents of the Borneo Research Bulletin; list of publications and directory of members of Borneo Research Council.

http://www.jaring.my/sphere/web/
Extensive list of links to Malaysian and Malaysian-related web sites.

[Dead?] http://darkwing.oregon.edu/~felsing/kstuff/yr2.html
[Try ...] http://www.ifcss.org/china/lunar.html [Or. . .] http://www.sinica.edu.tw/ftms/luso.htm
Conversion tables from Western dates to Chinese, Japanese, and Korean dates for the years 1860-1996.

http://home.ust.hk/~bolupin/china
A list of academic and educational web sites in China; URLs of universities, colleges, research institutes, high schools.

http://www.rom.on.ca/ebuff/unicorn.html
Information "intended to finally prove...that the mythic Chinese unicorn was not the qilin but a one-horned goat-like beast called the zhi."

http://plue.sedac.ciesin.org/china/
Provides access to China national- and local-level data collections on natural history socioeconomics education: downloadable maps.

http://coco.ihi.ku.dk/~dbwagner
Publications by Don Wagner on the history of science and technology in China, particularly metallurgy and mathematics, including some texts, references, notices of reviews; Scandinavian library holdings on East Asia.

http://www.nmjc.org/jiap
The Japan Information Access Project_an independent, non-profit research center designed to strengthen international understanding of Japanese science, technology, industry, security, and policy; list of publications on patents, policy, electronic information, etc.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2365
Hong Kong journalists site; links to text of the Basic Law, to Hong Kong English newspapers, Far Eastern Economic Review, cartoons of Larry Feign.

http://www.hongkong.org
From the Hong Kong Government Economic and Trade Office, San Francisco; government and economic information; recent speeches by officials; information on Hong Kong's new airport.

http://www.hk1997.china.com/english/front/front.html
Chinese government-sanctioned site in Chinese or English; includes Hong Kong Encyclopedia, with some documents.

http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~cb863/china.html
Primarily links to China news sites, including the Chinese Consulate in New York, Chinese and English newspapers, human rights organizations.

[This site works but quickly turns into http://www.netvigator.com/!] http://www.reunification.org.hk
Site of the Association for Celebration of Reunification of Hong Kong with China, an official site on government and non-government activities planned for the transfer ceremonies.

http://www.hongkong97.com.hk/
The South China Morning Post's Countdown to History site, with timeline, documents, business issues, and frequently-asked questions list searchable by subject.

http://www.amcham.org.hk/
From the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong; long list of links to topics of importance to the Chamber's members, such as books. committees, textiles. financial services, taxation.

http://info.gov.hk/
Hong Kong Government Information Center site, with statistics, Hong Kong facts, Hong Kong in pictures, list of position papers, links to overseas Hong Kong Government offices

http://korea.emb.washington.dc.us/
Korean Embassy in the U.S.; list of consulates; Korean Information Center; business, media, travel, links to related sites.

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Flats/3523/
Not on Tokyo, but on Korea, from the Defense Language Institute Foreign Languages Center, USA; information on radio, television, popular songs, academic institutions, etc.

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*See the print copy of this list in the Asian Studies Newsletter, Summer Issue 1997, p. 21-22 , published by the Association for Asian Studies, Inc.
[On 22 Dec 1997, all sites checked; some updated or added by Philip McEldowney, University of Virginia.]