Interesting and Useful Web Sites

EAST ASIA (GENERAL)

Council on East Asian Libraries (http://purl.oclc.org/net/ceal)  This is a nearly comprehensive list of academically oriented sites on East Asia. You will find a number of useful charts and maps in the History section. This site is a good starting point from which to beginning browsing. The University of Oregon maintains this site.

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html) This site covers a wide variety of topics covering Asia and Asian history. Materials regarding Korea, Vietnam, and Taiwan may be accessed through this site.

World Bank Report on Post-Currency Crisis East Asia (http://www.worldbank.org/knowledge/chiefecon/articles/bangkok.htm) Here is an article by, Joseph Stiglitz, titled "Back to Basics: Policies and Strategies for Enhanced Growth and Equity in Post-Crisis East Asia" This article began as a speech presented to a World Bank gathering at Shangri-La Hotel (Bangkok, Thailand) on July 29^th, 1999. Anyone interested in the economic health of East ought to take a look at this article.

SOUTHEAST ASIA (GENERAL)

Southeast Asia Web: General Resources on Southeast Asia (http://www.gunung.com/seasiaweb/general.html) This site is a good place to look for general information on a variety of Southeast Asian topics. Here you will also find links to research collections around the world. Such information is not too useful for our intensive course (you won't have enough time to borrow many of these materials). However, for those of you who are interested in continuing your study of Southeast Asia, this site will point in the direction of good universities and other institutions to visit. Our own growing SEA collection, maintained by Judith Henchy, receives mention.

1997 World Factbook (CIA) (http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html) Not surprisingly, the CIA maintains a web-site containing current facts on countries around the globe. Check here for current information on SEA nations.

CHINA

Chinese Cultural Studies: Bibliography (http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/chinbib.html) This is a useful on-line bibliography with several direct links to on-line texts.

Classical Historiography for Chinese History (http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/elman/ClassBib) This site was started by Benjamin Elman, a professor of Chinese intellectual history at UCLA. It is the most useful research-oriented sites on Chinese History available on the Web today. Unfortunately, the text requires a Chinese text reader (Big5 code) to be legible.

JAPAN

Stanford Guide to Japan Information Services (http://fuji.stanford.edu/JGUIDE/) This site contains an interesting array of links to newspapers and employment listings, as well as more scholarly sites.

Feudal Japan SIG Newsletter (http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/8353/index.html) Here is a site maintained by Lisa Shea from somewhere in New England. Her newsletter is filled with tidbits of information pertaining to Japanese history and society.

Matsuda Film Productions (http://www.infoasia.co.jp/subdir/matsuda/d_pages/d_de.html) This site contains film clips from several silent movies, as well as footage shot at the beginning of the century in urban Japan. For easy "downloading," one should use a computer with a quick connection.

KOREA

Korean Historical Connection (http://www.hongik.ac.kr/~khc/khc-eng.htm) Instructors and students in the Department of History Education at the Hong-Ik University (Seoul, South Korea) maintain this Web page. As mentioned in this Web-site's introduction, " The KHC aims to be a connecting point between Korean historians and scholars of the world."

"Koreaweb" Page (http://koreaweb.ws/) A useful site maintained by Frank Hoffmann. This site is affiliated with the Korean Institute, a non-departmental research center at Harvard University.

VIET NAM

A quick note: When searching for materials on Viet Nam, the majority of materials you will come across on the Web are concerned with the Viet Nam War (ca. 1954-1975). However, with some persistent searching, you will be able to track down some very useful pre-modern sources. Highly polemical sites also abound. Surf carefully!

WC3/ANU- Vietnam WWW VL ( http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-Vietnam.html  ) This is an extremely useful, and nearly comprehensive list of resources pertaining to the study of Viet Nam. The home site for this page is Australia National University in Canberra, AU. A search of these resources will turn up practically anything you could want to find.

Viet Nam (http://www.viettouch.com) This site is designed and maintained by Chi D. Nguyen, who has included a number of very interesting essays on Vietnamese history, the arts, architecture, poetry and culture. It is a visually stunning site that may not translate well on text-only browsers.

Buddhism in Vietnam (http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/vb/) This site is maintained by Suzanne Brown and Laura Clark, who both seem to take great care in presenting these resources for public use. This is a good place to start any search for materials concerned with Buddhism's spread in Viet Nam.

 Vietgate: Gateway to the On-line Vietnamese Community (http://www.vietgate.net) This is a colorful and well-designed site for resources pertaining to modern-day Viet Nam, as well as various overseas Vietnamese communities world-wide.

Asian Media:

Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library - Newsfeeds (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLAsian/VLAsiaNewsfeeds.html) This site has something for news junkies everywhere!