Interesting and Useful Web
Sites
EAST ASIA (GENERAL)
Council on East Asian Libraries (http://www.sois.uwm.edu/jeong/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.
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, vice-president of the World Bank,
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 29th,
1999. Anyone interested in the economic health of East ought to take a look at
this article.
Asian Maps in the Perry-Castaņeda Library Map Collection (UT-Austin)(http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/asia.html)
A very useful collection of on-line maps for personal reference.
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.
2004 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.
W3C/ANU/Vienna University- Internet Guide for China Studies (http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)
This web site, maintained by Australia National University and Vienna
University, contains an enormous amount of material on China and Chinese
studies. I must provide a word of warning, however, for those persons accessing
this site on slower connections. The search engine for this site is slow and
often inaccurate. Trying the U. of O. "Darkwing" sites first might be
your best bet.
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."
North Korea Subject Page from the World-Wide Web Virtual Library (http://www.duke.edu/~myhan/s-nk.html)
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library has provided a subject page for North
Korea that is filled with interesting links for anyone wishing to explore this
rarely-visited corner of East Asia.
VIET NAM
WC3/ANU- Vietnam WWW VL (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/VietPages/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 was created by Suzanne 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. However, at some point, the researcher may
wish to access the meta-list, Buddhist Resources File' HTML Version,
maintained by the Center for Buddhist studies at National Taiwan University at http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/DBLM/database/bir/bir.htm
. This site has it all!
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.